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8th Grade Gold

Short Stories
Recognizing Plot

Arthur Gordon
Paul Annixter
O. Henry
MacKinlay Kantor
   The Sea Devil
Accounts Settled
The Last Leaf
A Man Who Had No Eyes

Defining Character

Richard Y. Thurman

Shirley Jackson
Kurt Vonnegut
Georges Carousso
Bill Meissner
   The Countess and the Impossible
Charles
The No-Talent Kid
The Warden
In the Middle of a Pitch

Exploring Setting

Jack London
Jesse Stuart
Ray Bradbury
John D. MacDonald
Elsie Singmaster
   To Build a Fire
This Farm for Sale
The Drummer Boy of Shiloh
Fire!
Mr. Brownlee's Roses

Point of View

George and Helen Papashvily
Rumer Godden
Guy de Maupassant
Lois Phillips Hudson
Roald Dahl
   The First Day

You Need to Go Upstairs
The Piece of String
Children of the Harvest
The Wish

Understanding Theme

Paul Laurence Dunbar
Edward Everett Hale
George P. McCallum
D. H. Lawrence
Ernest Hemingway
   The Finish of Patsy Barnes
The Man Without a Country
The Song Caruso Sang
Adolf
Old Man at the Bridge

Pulling it All Together

Robb White
Hugh Pentecost
   Fetch
The Day the Children Vanished

Novella

Alexander Key    The Forgotten Door

Poetry
Poetic Diction

Don Marquis
Edwin A. Hoey
   Takes Talent
Foul Shot


Poetic Images

Babette Deutsch
Elizabeth Bishop
Deloras Lane
Louis Untermeyer
Joseph Bruchac
   Fireworks
The Fish
Keepsakes
Dog at Night

Ellis Island

Poetic Sound

John Masefield
Shel Silverstein
Walt Whitman
Deborah Austin
   The West Wind
The Garden
O Captain! My Captain!
Dandelions

Poetic Patterns

John Godfrey Saxe
Walt Whitman
Leroy V. Quintana
   The Blind Men and the Elephant
When I Heard The Learn’d Astronomer
Legacy II

Poetic Form

Hal Summers
Lewis Carroll
   The Rescue
The Walrus and the Carpenter

Lyric Poetry

Richard Garcia
Richard LeGallienne
   The Clouds Pass
I Meant to Do My Work Today

Poetic Theme

Elder Olson
Robert Frost
Naoshi Koriyama
   Directions to the Armorer
A Time to Talk
Unfolding Bud

Pulling it All Together

Langston Hughes
Robert Frost
   As I Grew Older
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Drama

Gordon Daviot    The Pen of My Aunt

Nonfiction

Richard Lederer
Ralph Helfer
Roald Dahl
Rita Dove

Bruce Brooks
James Herriot
James Thurber
Santha Rama Rau
Ben Logan
   The Case for Short Words
Fly Away
The Green Mamba
I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like
Animal Craftsmen
The Recital
The Day the Dam Broke
By Any Other Name
Drouth

Novel

Jack Bennett    The Voyage of the Lucky Dragon

Glossary




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