Language Arts/English Curriculum Frameworks - Albemarle County ...

7 th -Grade Concept Requirements & Suggested Texts
Concepts & Reading Requirements
Universality: Coming of Age
Requirement: All students will analyze a
novel focusing on a coming of age theme.
Universality: Honoring the Historical &
Cultural Past
Universality: Cooperation vs. Isolation
Universality: Tolerance of the Atypical
Requirement: All students will read a novel
and a piece of nonfiction that addresses the
theme of honoring the historical past in
relation to human rights/civil rights.
Teachers should select texts appropriate for their students.
• Education of Little Tree* (Carter)
• Crash (Spinelli)
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham (Curtis)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain)
• Wish You Well (Baldacci)
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Taylor)
• The Cay (Taylor)
• The Giver (Lowery)
• Star Girl (Spinelli)
Historical Fiction
• Devil’s Arithmetic (Yolen)
• Number the Stars (Lowry)
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Taylor)
• Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (Gaines)
• Nothing to Fear (Koller)
• Out of the Dust (Hesse)
• The Watsons go to Birmingham (Curtis)
• Summer of My German Soldier (Greene)
Nonfiction
• Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary (Myers)
• Rosa Parks: My Story (Haskins)
• Children of the Dust Bowl (Stanley)
• Hiroshima (Hershey)
• Immigrant Kids (Friedman)
• Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery (Freedman)
Systems: Genre: Myth
Requirement: All students will compare and
contrast myths from various cultures, with
an emphasis on the ancient Greek myths.
• Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths (Evslin)
• Greek Gods (Evslin)
• Troy (Geras)
• The Trojan War (Evslin)
• The Lightning Thief (Riordan)
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