Lucy Caulkins Reading/Writing 

 

Units of Study:

 Reading Workshops

•  A Deep Study of Character
• Tapping the Power of Nonfiction
• Historical Fiction Book Clubs
• Social Issues Book Clubs

 

7th Grade Novels:

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass

Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

 

 

 8th Grade Novels:

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Ashes by   Laurie Halse

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by AVI

 

 

 

 

Writing Workshops

 

• Writing Realistic Fiction
• Writing About Reading
• The Art of Argument

 

Informational Text and Text Structures

Vocabulary

Grammar

 

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