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7th Grade Jade
Short Stories Recognizing Plot		Poetic Form
Joan Aiken Rudyard Kipling Ernest Hemingway Mike Miller Betsy Byars Mark Twain	All You’ve Ever Wanted Rikki-tikki-tavi A Day’s Wait Kid at the Stick Look Back at the Sea The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County	Woody Guthrie Robert Frost Robert Louis Stevenson John Ciard e. e. cummings Haiku: Basho Shiki Richard Wright John Updike Limerick: Edward Lear Anonymous Anonymous	This Land Is Your Land The Pasture The Vagabond The River Is a Piece of Sky in Just– Bamboo Grove The New and the Old A Balmy Spring Wind Pendulum The Bearded Man A Mouse in Her Room There was an Old Man of Peru
Defining Character
Sherwood Anderson Ambrose Flack Laura Benét Quentin Reynolds Charles L. Sander	Stolen Day The Strangers That Came to Town Barnum’s First Circus A Secret for Two My Journey Is Still Long
Exploring Setting		Poetic Theme
Mona Gardner Jack Finney Washington Irving James Ramsey Ullman William Saroyan	The Dinner Party The Third Level Rip Van Winkle A Boy and a Man The Hummingbird That Lived Through Winter	Robert Frost Old English Ballad Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Vachel Lindsay Edna St. Vincent Millay Emily Dickinson Shel Silverstein	The Road Not Taken Robin Hood and Little John Paul Revere’s Ride Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight The Courage That My Mother Had I’m Nobody! Who Are You? Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out
Understanding Theme		Pulling it All Together
Ivan Turgenev Edward D. Hoch Jesse Stuart B. J. Chute Ray Bradbury	The Sparrow Zoo The Clearing Home on the Range The Sound of Summer Running	John Masefield Rachel Field Robert Louis Stevenson Theodore Roethke	Roadways Something Told the Wild Geese The Wind The Sloth
		Nonfiction Human Interest
Pulling it All Together		James Herriot James Thurber	Cat on the Go The Night the Bed Fell
Francisco Jiménez Gwendolyn Brooks Honoré Willsie Morrow Jane and Paul Annixter O. Henry	The Circuit Home Child Pioneer The Runner After Twenty Years	Biographies and Autobiographies
Poetry Poetic Sound		Ernesto Galarza Van Wyck Brooks Jerry Izenberg	Barrio Boy Helen Keller Roberto Clemente: A Bittersweet Memoir
Vachel Lindsay Louise Bogan Carmen Tafolla	The Flower-Fed Buffaloes Train Tune Voyage	Historical Essays
Dinka Traditional Amy Lowell Eleanor Farjeon James Whitcomb Riley Christopher Morley	he Magnificent Bull Sea Shell Cat When the Frost is on the Punkin Smells	Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas Anne Morrow Lindbergh	Florence Nightingale Morning – “The Bird Perched for Flight”
		Adventure Essays
Poetic Language		Marjorie K. Rawlings Harry Earl Rieseberg	Rattlesnake Hunt Beneath the Crags of Malpelo Island
William Blake Henry Wadsworth Longfellow William Wordsworth Carl Sandburg Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert Francis Walt Whitman Walter de la Mare	Laughing Song The Children’s Hour I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Fog from The Cloud Seagulls Miracles The Listeners	Drama
		Thelma Feld Arthur Miller	Penicillin & Company Grandpa and the Statue
		The Novel
		Hugh Lofting	The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle Glossary

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