Need suggestions 7th and 8th grade class

Smtih&co · August 2013

Help me out, ladies. I have been assigned a combo class of 7/8 grade English. I have been teaching 10-12 for the last nine years. I need to finish my syllabus, but I don't know what literature to pick. Any suggestions for books would be greatly appreciated!

mrsvedo · August 2013

I'm trying to remember what I read for school those years, and the only book I can remember with certainty is The Diary of Anne Frank. I feel like I maybe read The Giver for school around this time too, but that may have been 5th grade.

quiltedinky · August 2013

I also remember reading the Diary of Anne Frank and Huckleberry Finn (?) or was it the Adventures of Tom Sawyer? I remember all the giggling about the description of the slave's hands as being "horny".

I remember having read one of Anne McCaffrey's "Pern" books for a book report. I had to be a science fiction book. I remember it being well written, but not quite my cup of tea. I also remember reading a Katherine Hepburn book for an autobiography.

krispy83 · August 2013

I teach 6th grade English, but this is what the 7th and 8th graders in my school read:

The Giver

Night (we do a full quarter on WWII and the Holocaust)

The Pearl

Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

Romeo and Juliet

To Kill a Mockingbird

Out of the Dust

Of Mice and Men

Fahrenheit 451

aggiebug · August 2013

Where the Red Fern grows.
The giver

sneetches · August 2013

If you can, I strongly suggest that you find out what they read in 5th and 6th as well as in high school. What @KrsCrp83
listed as taught in 7th and 8th at her school we teach in 9 (Night, R and J, F451), 10 (TKAM), and 11 (OMAM).

myJunegirls · August 2013

My daughter's class read this in 6th grade but the age range includes higher if you look at the book. It was a great book. She made me read it after her!

Fever 1793

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fever-1793-anderson/1100534089?ean=9780689848919

Young_Love · August 2013

Agree - check to see what they teach in the HS. My district teaches Night, TKAM, and R&J at the HS level and I would have been PISSED if all of my kids came into my class having already read it all of a sudden one year.

Last year for 8th grade I taught The Giver and Wonder by RJ Palacio.

courtneyjilll · August 2013

I teach 7-8, but not in a combo class. I usually change it up depending on my preferences, but always do The Giver in 8th, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief in 7th to go with my mythology unit.

I have done the following: The Graveyard Book

Holes

Among the Hidden

A Wrinkle in Time

HPSS

The Contender

Coraline

The Book Thief

Number the Stars

I'm sure there are others, but I can't think of them right now.....

RevJen · August 2013

I don't remember back that far.

booknerd226 · August 2013

I remember reading Holes, Number the Stars, Where the Red Fern Grows, and Fahrenheit 451. I think TKAM could be done too, but I read that in HS so you might want to double check with the HS English teachers.

sonore32 · August 2013

My best friend teaches 8th grade and she uses "Hunger Games" in one of her units. After they read it she then has them do a really creative "art" based project. In past years some of her students have submitted fashion sketches of outfits they've designed for the characters, some of them have written novellas based around the characters, one group pieced together clips from the movie to make their own trailer complete with an originally written soundtrack, etc...

SRodi811 · August 2013

I taught Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for my minor practicum during my student teaching.

Our high schools also teach TKAM, OMAM, Night, Animal Farm, so definitely check before teaching any of those.

MrsC7 · August 2013

Stephen King

j/k

ewill7911 · August 2013

Most of what I remember reading was already mentioned, here is what I didnt see that was also on my reading lists:
Martian Chronicles
Other side of the Mountain/My Side of the Mountain
Enders Game
Lord of the Flies (hated it but it was on the list...)

A couple of others that I read sometime between 8-9:
Catch 22
Wuthering Heights

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