Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Recommended Class Resources

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Q = quarter 
Q1 would mean the students need the title for quarter 1. Q2 would be quarter 2, etc.


7th grade Social Studies:


Q2  Alamo Allstars by Nathan Hale

Q3  Dark Water Rising by Marian Hale


Language Arts


7th-grade College-Ready (on-level)

Q1  Students will be assigned ONE of the following:
            Legend by Marie Lu
            Lifeboat 12 by Susan Hood 
            Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess by Shari K. Green
            Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz

Q3  Students will be assigned ONE of the following:
            Focused by Alyson Gerber
            The Girl I Used To Be by April Henry
            A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen
            Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin
Q4   The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

7th-grade Pre-AP

Q1   Students will be assigned ONE of the following:
            Cinder by Marissa Meyer
            The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

Q2   A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Q3  
 Students will be assigned ONE of the following:
            Forget Me by Kim Harrington

Q4  The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

7th-grade GT


Q2   Students will be assigned ONE of the following:
            The Hobbit by J. R. Tolkien
            Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
            The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Q3  The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

Q4  
 Students will be assigned ONE of the following:
            The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
            Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salmon Rushdie
            Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
            Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

8th-grade College-Ready (on-level):

Q2   Students will be assigned ONE of the following:
            Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
            Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
            Legend by Marie Lu
            Zero Day by Jan Gangsei

8th-grade Pre-AP

Q2   Students will be assigned ONE of the following:
             Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
             Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
             Legend by Marie Lu
             Night by Elie Wiesel
             Zero Day by Jan Gangsei

8th-grade GT

Q2  Night by Elie Wiesel

Q4   Students will be assigned ONE of the following:
            All Fall Down by Ally Carter
            The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century by Sarah Miller
            Death Cloud by Andrew Lane
                   Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
                    Last Shot by John Feinstein
                 When by Victoria Laurie