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PRENTICE HALL LITERATURE: BRONZE <>ASSIGNMENTS
<>*Our Literature class will cover each of the sections shown below, but we will not have time to cover all of the stories in each section. <>*The first class book is Holes by Louis Sacher. <>*The next class book for the second trimester is Crispin: Cross of Lead by Avi |
| SHORT STORIES | Reading Actively Model, Lather and Nothing Else |
| PLOT | Rikki-tikki-tavi
The Ransom of Red Chief A Boy and a Man The Mouth-Organ Zoo |
| CHARACTER | Last Cover
Broken Chain The Luckiest Tim of All Amigo Brothers Two Kinds |
| SETTING | All Summer
in a Day
Song of the Trees The Third Level Rip Van Winkle |
| THEME | Utzel and
His Daughter,
Poverty
The Old Demon Jumaweepi, the Warrior Priest Home Hallucination Reading and Responding Model, A Day's Wait |
| DRAMA | Reading
Actively,
The Flying Tortilla Man
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley |
| NONFICTION | Reading Actively Model, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens |
| BIOGRAPHIES AND PERSONAL ACCOUNTS | Eugenie
Clark and the Sleeping Sharks
No Gumption Barrio Boy A Time of Beginnings |
| ESSAYS FOR ENJOYMENT | Cat on the Go
The Night the Bed Fell Rattlesnake Hunt How to Enjoy Poetry I Am a Native of North America |
| ESSAYS IN THE CONTENT AREAS | Endlessness
Winslow Homer: America's Greatest Painter The Case for Short Words Circle of the Seasons These Were the Sioux Reading and Responding Model An American Childhood |
| POETRY | Reading Actively Model, The Village Blacksmith |
| NARRATIVE POETRY | The
Highwayman
The Cremation of Sam McGee Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out Annabel Lee Oranges |
| FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE AND IMAGERY | The
Magnificent
Bull
Fog Loo-Wit The Bat The Pasture Sugarfields Seal Three Haiku Three Haiku |
| LYRIC POETRY | Washed in
Silver
Feelings About Words The Flower-Fed Buffaloes The Courage That My Mother Had My Mother Pieced Quilts |
| THE CHANGING SEASONS | in Just
Winter Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Season at the Shore When the Frost is on the Punkin |
| PEOPLE IN THEIR VARIETY | Mother to Son
A Song of Greatness I'm Nobody Life Martin Luther King Father William Two Limericks Song of Orpheus Reading and Responding Model Miracles |
| MYTHS AND FOLK TALES AROUND THE WORLD | . |
| ANIMAL FABLES | The Town
Mouse and
the Country Mouse
The Fox and the Crow The Mice That Set Elephants Free How the Animals Kept the Lions Away The Wicked Weasel |
| TRICKSTERS, RASCALS, AND FOOLS | All
Stories
Are Anansi's
Coyote and Little Turtle The Pointing Finger The Little Lizard's Sorrow Djuha Borrows a Pot Let's Steal the Moon |
| TRANSFORMATIONS AND ORIGINS | Demeter
and Persephone
Phaethon, Son of Apollo Ojeeg, the Hunter, and the Ice Man Popocatepetl and Ixtlaccihuati The Legend of the Hummingbird Icarus and Daedalus Children of Wax |
| THE NOVEL | Bearstone |