• English Language Arts Curriculum – Grades K-12

English Curriculum

• Grades K-5
• Grades 6-12

Novel Rationales

• Grade 6
  • A Wrinkle In Time
  • Bridge to Terabithia
  • Journey
  • Julie of the Wolves
  • Tuck Everlasting
  • Watsons Go to Birmingham
• Grade 7
  • Brian’s Winter
  • Catherine, Called Birdy
  • Hoot
  • Missing May
  • The Cay
  • The Giver
  • The Westing Game
  • There’s a Girl in My Hammerlock
  • Where the Red Fern Grows
  • Winter Thunder
• Grade 8
  • Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl
  • I Have Lived a Thousand Years
  • Letters from Rifka
  • No Promises in the Wind
  • Nothing But the Truth
  • Out of the Dust
  • Rain is not my Indian Name
  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
  • The Call of the Wild
  • The Hanging Tree
  • The Martian Chronicles
  • The Outsiders
  • The Slave Dancer
  • Who Will Tell My Brother
  • Before We Were Free
  • Colibri
  • Crazy Loco
  • Crossing the Wire
  • Red Midnight
  • Tales Our Abuelitas Told
  • The Color of My Words
  • The Tree is Older Than You Are
• Grade 9
  • A Christmas Carol
  • A River Runs Through It
  • Animal Farm
  • Fallen Angels
  • Jacob Have I Loved
  • Picture Bride
  • Runner in the Sun
  • Speak
  • Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
  • The Chocolate War
  • The Crystal Cave
  • The Eyre Affair
  • The Giver
  • The Little Prince
  • The Pearl
  • The Red Pony
  • The Three Musketeers
  • The Wave
  • Touching Spirit Bear
  • Two Old Women
  • When the Legends Die
• Grade 10
  • Absolutely True Diary
  • A Lesson Before Dying
  • A Separate Peace
  • A Tale of Two Cities
  • Fallen Angels
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Fools Crow
  • I Heard the Owl Call My Name
  • Lord of the Flies
  • Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
  • The Green Mile
  • The Little Prince
  • The Pigman
  • The Poisonwood Bible
  • Twelve Angry Men
  • Winter Wheat
• Grade 11
  • A Raisin in the Sun
  • A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Fools Crow
  • Jonathan Livingston Seagull
  • My Antonia
  • Of Mice and Men
  • Pudd’nhead Wilson
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • The Big Sky
  • The Crucible
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • The Grass Dancer
  • The Great Gatsby
  • The House on Mango Street
  • The Ox-bow Incident
  • The Scarlet Letter
  • The Things They Carried
  • The Way to Rainy Mountain
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • Ethan Frome
  • Inherit the Wind
  • The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
  • The Dispossessed
  • The Glass Castle
• Grade 12
  • Alice in Wonderland
  • As I Lay Dying
  • A Long Way Gone
  • A Time to Kill
  • Ceremony
  • Frankenstein
  • Hamlet
  • Helter Skelter
  • Heart of Darkness
  • In My Hands
  • In the Time of the Butterflies
  • Invisible Man
  • Love in the Time of Cholera
  • Murder on the Orient Express
  • Night
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  • Perma Red
  • Rena’s Promise
  • Sacred Clowns
  • Siddhartha
  • The Alchemist
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
  • The Haunting of Hill House
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • The Journey of Crazy Horse
  • The Secret Life of Bees
  • The Swallows of Kabul
  • Things Fall Apart
  • Persepolis
  • Catch 22
  • The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven