8th+Grade+Unit+Resources

Unit 1 - It Happened in the City
Short Stories
 * "The Landlady" by Roald Dahl (Holt Elements of Literature p. 71)
 * "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs (Holt Elements of Literature p. 85)
 * "The Third Wish" by Joan Aiken

by Stephen T. Johnson by Stephen T. Johnson

[|Manhattan on the Web] - a source of historical documents on the founding and development of the NYC borough.

Poems about City Life
 * [|Chicago] by Carl Sandberg
 * [|Atlantic City Sunday Morning] by Gregory Pardlo
 * [|Block City] by Robert Louis Stevenson
 * [|He Dreams of Falling] by Ruth Ellen Kocher
 * [|The Chicago Poem] by Jerome Rothenberg

//The Evolution of Useful Things// by Henry Petroski
 * [|Evolution of the Dinner Fork]

//September 11, 2001: Attack on New York City: Interviews and Accounts// by Wilborn Hampton
 * Bob Fox
 * [|The Attack]
 * [|Flight]
 * [|Aftermath]

[|O Captain! My Captain!] by Walt Whitman [|I Saw Old General at Bay] by Walt Whitman

[|Cloud Gate in Millennium Park] [|Chicago's Picasso scultpture]

**Unit 2 - "It Happened In the Country"**
Literature Suggestions: Excerpts from:
 * //Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry// by Mildred Taylor
 * //Out of the// //Dust// by Karen Hesse
 * //Sounder// by William Armstrong
 * //Where the Red Fern Grows// by Wilson Rawls

Poetry [|"Mending Wall"] by Robert Frost [|"The Railway Train"] by Emily Dickinson - Audio Download [|Poems of Country Life]- eBook

Non-Fiction " By [|C]raig Lesher [|"What School Days Were Like in Depression Rural America"]

Artwork [|"American Gothic"] by Grant Wood [|Selected Works] of Edward Hopper [|Selected Works] of Norman Rockwell

Unit 4 - Authors and Artists
Week 1
 * [[file:Janitor Who Paints Quadrants.PDF|Janitor Who Paints - Quadrants]]
 * Janitor Who Paints - Link to Painting
 * [[file:Palmer Hayden Biography.docx|Palmer Hayden Biography]]
 * [[file:Inspiration Concept Development.pptx|Inspiration Concept Development Power Point]]

Week 2
 * [[file:Gwendolyn Brooks Bio.pdf|Gwendolyn Brooks Biography]]
 * [[file:TP-CASTT.pdf|TP-CASTT]]
 * [[file:How to Analyze a Poem in 10 Easy Steps.docx|How to Analyze a Poem in 10 Easy Steps]]

Week 3
 * [[file:Three Cs of Research.pdf|Three C's of Research]]
 * [[file:Content Frames for Note Taking on Artist or Author.docx|Content Frames for Note Taking ]]
 * Cezanne - [[file:Cezanne 940L.pdf|940L]], [[file:Cezanne 1110L.pdf|1110L]], [[file:Cezanne 1240L.pdf|1240L]], [[file:Cezanne Spanish.pdf|Spanish]]
 * Monet - [[file:Monet 990L.pdf|990L]], [[file:Monet 1140L.pdf|1140L]]
 * [[file:Transitions.docx|Transitions and Key Words List]]

Week 4
 * [[file:SGA Task.docx|Unit 4 Sample SGA Task]]