Course 2 - Table of Contents Guide

Unit 1 - Whom Can You Count On?

Part

Title
Fish Cheeks

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Friends and Family

The Wise Old Woman
Amigo Brothers
Grammar Workshop: Sentence Combining
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
The Highwayman
Vocabulary Workshop: Context Clues
Me, Myself, and I
The Good Samaritan
Genre Focus: Fiction
The Lark and Her Children
The Travelers and the Bear
The Force of Luck
Rosa
Social Perspective: from Rose Parks: My
Story
Extraordinary Individuals
Seventh Grade
Thank You, M'am
We Are All One
TIME: Fireproofing Forests
The Rider
I'll Walk the Tightrope
Writing Workshop: Narrative
Speaking, Listening, and Viewing
Workshop: Narrative Presentation
Unit Challenge: On Your Own Activity:
Create a Chart
Unit Challenge: Group Activity: Write a
Handbook
Independent Reading
Assessment
from The Old Demon

Amy Tan

Author(s)

Genre
Autobiography

Yoshiko Uchida
Piri Thomas

Folktale
Short Story

Rudyard Kipling
Alfred Noyes

Short Story
Poem

Rene Saldana Jr.

Short Story

Aesop, retold by Jerry Pinkney

Aesop, retold by Jerry Pinkney
Rudolfo A. Anaya
Rita Dove
Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins

Fable
Fable
Folktale
Poem
Autobiography

Gary Soto
Langston Hughes
Laurence Yep
J. Madeleine Nash
Naomi Shihab Nye
Margaret Danner

Short Story
Short Story
Folktale
Magazine Article
Poem
Poem

Pearl S. Buck

Short Story

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Unit 2 - Why Do You Read?
Part

Part 1

Part 2

Title
Brer Rabbit and Brer Lion
For Fun
Charles
Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take
the Garbage Out
After Twenty Years
Slam, Dunk, & Hook
Grammar Workshop: Sentence Fragments
For Information
What Is a Knight?
Genre Focus: Informational Text
from When Plague Strikes
TIME: Miracle Hands

Author(s)
Folktale

Shirley Jackson
Shel Silverstein

Short Story
Poem

O. Henry
Yusef Komunyakaa

Short Story
Poem

John Farman

Nonfiction

James Cross Giblin

Christina Cheakalos and Matt
Birkbeck

Nonfiction
Magazine Article

Functional Documents: Getting There: Train

Schedule and Stadium Map
Media Workshop: Media Elements
The Story of an Eyewitness
Jack London
Vocabulary Workshop: Word Parts
Part 3

For Understanding
An Hour with Abuelo
A Day's Wait
The Monkey Who Asked for Misery
Do Animals Lie?
One's Name is Mud
Tending Sir Ernest's Legacy: An Interview
with Alexandra Shackleton
Historical Perspective: Shipwreck at the
Bottom of the World
Aunty Misery
Strawberries
Writing Workshop: Functional Document
Speaking, Listening, and Viewing
Workshop: Informative Presentation
Unit Challenge: On Your Own Activity: Make
an Advertising Brochure
Unit Challenge: Group Activity: Create a TV
Commercial
Independent Reading
Assessment
from Violent Vesuvius
from The Stone

Genre

Julius Lester

Nonfiction

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Ernest Hemmingway
Diane Wolkstein
Mary Batten
Leonard Mann
Kelly Tyler-Lewis

Short Story
Short Story
Folktale
Magazine Article
Nonfiction
Web site

Jennifer Armstrong

Nonfiction

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Gayle Ross

Folktale
Myth

Lloyd Alexander

Magazine Article
Short Story

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Unit 3 - What Makes Life Good?
Part

Title
The Pasture

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Author(s)
Robert Frost

Appreciating Nature
From Blossoms
Li-Young Lee
Glory, Glory; Birds Circling at Dusk; Bamboo Raymond R. Patterson, Ann Atwood,
Grove
Basho
Where Mountain Lion Lay Down with Deer Leslie Marmon Silko
Vocabulary Workshop: Multiple-Meaning
Words
Why the Waves Have Whitecaps
Zora Neale Hurston

Genre
Poem

Poem
Haiku
Poem

Folktale

Finding Humor and Delight

from An American Childhood
TIME: The Giggle Prescription

Annie Dillard
Memoir
Tracy Eberhart and Robert A. Barnett Magazine Article

Genre Focus: Poetry

Summer
Dreams
Miracles
The tale of 'Kiko-Wiko

Walter Dean Myers

Langston Hughes
Walt Whitman
Mark Crilley

Poem
Poem
Poem
Graphic Story

Edgar Allen Poe

Cynthia Rylant
Lucille Clifton
Sherman Alexie
Nikki Giovanni

Poem
Short Story
Short Story
Essay
Poem

Jack Prelutsky
A. E. Housman
Afternoon on a Hill

Poem
Poem
Poem

Love and Friendship

Annabel Lee
A Crush
The Luckiest Time of All
Superman and Me
My First Memory (of Librarians)
Writing Workshop: Response to Literature
Speaking, Listening, and Viewing
Workshop: Oral Response to Literature
Unit Challenge: On Your Own Activity: Make
a Collage
Unit Challenge: Group Activity: Create a
Character Study
Independent Reading
Assessment
Ankylosaurus
XXXVIII
Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Unit 4 - What Influences You?
Part

Title

Author(s)
Barbara Jordan

Speech

Marta Salinas
Clifton Davis
Julia Alvarez
Francisco X. Alarcon

Short Story
Essay
Autobiography
Poem

Toni Cade Bambara

Toni Cade Bambara

Short Story
Article

TIME: Oprah Winfrey

old age sticks

Sidney Poitier
E. E. Cummings

Magazine Article
Poem

Persuasive Ideas

Genre Focus: Argument and

Persuasion
John Yinger and Matthew Spalding

Essay

Alice Walker
Lavendhri Pillay
Erma Bombeck

Poem
Essay
Essay

Carl Sandburg
Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones
Little
Gwendolyn Brooks

Poem
Essay

All Together Now

Part 1

Life Experiences
The Scholarship Jacket
A Mason-Dixon Memory
Names/Nombres
In a Neighborhood in Los Angeles
Vocabulary Workshop: Idioms
The War of the Wall
Cultural Perspective: Outdoor Art in America

Part 2
Should Naturalized Citizens Be President?
Functional Documents: Voting Sign and
Technical Directions
Without Commercials
Toward a Rainbow Nation
Heroes
Media Workshop: Propaganda
Primer Lesson
Langston Terrace

Home
Writing Workshop: Persuasive Essay
Speaking, Listening, and Viewing
Workshop: Persuasive Speech
Unit Challenge: On Your Own Activity: Write
a Poem or a Song
Unit Challenge: Group Activity: Make a
Poster
Independent Reading
Assessment
from A Glimpse of Home
Kathryn Sullivan
from Rip Van Winkle
Washington Irving

Genre

Short Story

Essay
Short Story

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Unit 5 - How Can You Become Who You Want to Be?
Part

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Title
from Tony Hawk: Chairman of the Board
Positive Actions
If I can stop one heart from breaking
I stepped from plank to plank
Hollywood and the Pits
Media Workshop: Media Ethics
Young Arthur
Historical Perspective: Medieval England,
from Catherine, Called Birdy
from The Autobiography of Malcolm X
New Directions

Author(s)

Genre
Biography

Emily Dickenson
Emily Dickenson
Cherylene Lee

Poem
Poem
Short Story

Robert D. San Souci

Karen Cushman

Legend
Nonfiction

Malcolm X with Alex Haley

Maya Angelou

Biography
Nonfiction

Courage and Confidence

Vocabulary Workshop: Dictionary Skills
Your World
One
Four Skinny Trees
Chanclas
Genre Focus: Biography and Autobiography

Almost Ready

Poem

Georgia Douglas Johnson

James Berry
Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros

Poem
Poem
Short Story
Short Story

from Zlata's Diary

from The Adventures of Marco Polo

Zlata Filipovic
Russell Freedman

Journal
Biography

Jane Yolen
Frank Horne
Ericka Souter and Dietlind Lerner
Nicholas Gage
Ernesto Galarza
Gregory Djanikian

Short Story
Poem
Magazine Article
Personal Essay
Memoir
Poem

Paul Zindel

Autobiography

People Who Lend a Hand

Birthday Box
To James
TIME: Message of Hope
The Teacher Who Changed My Life
from Barrio Boy
How I Learned English
Writing Workshop: Research Report
Speaking, Listening, and Viewing
Workshop: Oral Report
Unit Challenge: On Your Own Activity:
Create a Web Diagram
Unit Challenge: Group Activity: Write a
Letter of Advice
Independent Reading
Assessment
from The Day It Rained Cockroaches

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Unit 6 - Why Share Stories?
Part

Part 1

Part 2

Title
Big Yellow Taxi

Joni Mitchell

Genre
Song Lyrics

Entertainment
TIME: Ah, Wilderness
The Miraculous Eclipse
Vocabulary Workshop: Word Origins

Amanda Hinnant
Joellen Bland

Magazine Article
Drama

Rod Sterling

Teleplay

Rod Sterling

Teleplay

Dorothy West
Ray Bradbury
Clair Miller
Joseph Bruchac
Roger Lancelyn Green
Olivia Coolidge

Short Story
Short Story
Web Article
Poem
Myth
Myth

Neal Marlens and Carol Black

Teleplay

Messages and Lessons

Genre Focus: Drama
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, Act
I
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, Act
II
The Bird Like No Other
There Will Come Soft Rains
Missing
Birdfoot's Grampa
Echo and Narcissus
Orpheus, the Great Musician
Writing Workshop: Expository Essay
Speaking, Listening, and Viewing
Workshop: Active Listening and Note
Taking
Unit Challenge: On Your Own Activity:
Assemble a Multimedia List
Unit Challenge: Group Activity: Write a Story
Review
Independent Reading
Assessment
from The Wonder Years

Author(s)