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Reading Success Begins with Great Literature
Starting with outstanding selections and thought- provoking questions, Connections: English Language Arts motivates and supports students as they read for meaning, organize their thinking, and share responses in an inclusive, collaborative environment.
When I look back,
I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young
—Maya Angelou
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CONNECTIONS ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
GRADE 6
Unit 1
How are friendships built and broken?
Authors: Christopher Paul Curtis, Gary Paulsen, Lori Chandler, Andrew O’Hagan, Fan Kissen
Unit 2
How do people deal with difficulties?
Authors: Langston Hughes, Frederick Douglass, Winston Churchill, Leonard Pitts Jr.
Unit 3
What power do words have?
Authors: Pat Mora, Sharon Draper, Ji-li Jiang, Gloria W. Lannom, Linda R. Monk
Unit 4
Why should you protect Earth and its creatures?
Authors: Carl Hiaasen, Elizabeth Preston, Linda Hogan, Stephen Ornes, Rachel Carson
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CONNECTIONS ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
GRADE 7
Unit 1
How do you know right from wrong?
Authors: Leo Tolstoy, Kathryn Hulick, Katherine Mansfield, Matthieu Ricard
Unit 2
Can you trust what you hear, see and read?
Authors: Frank Abagnale Jr., Guy Harrison, Glenn Kessler, John Grant, Lois Lowry
Unit 3
How is technology shaping society?
Authors: Clive Thompson, Rudyard Kipling, Olivia Solon, M.T. Anderson, Rachel Becker
Unit 4
What does history tell us about ourselves?
Authors: Ray Bradbury, Kristin Levine, Walter Dean Myers, Cynthia Mercati
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CONNECTIONS ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
GRADE 8
Unit 1
What are the benefits and challenges of living in a diverse society?
Authors: Thannha Lai, Sandra Cisneros, Barack Obama, Ed Feulner, Alex Nowrasteh
Unit 2
What does humanity’s future hold?
Authors: Cory Doctorow & Charles Stross, David Brin, Marianne Lavelle, Edmund Contoski
Unit 3
Why do we tell stories?
Authors: Walter Dean Myers, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Renée Ahdieh
Unit 4
What informs your decisions?
Authors: Jerry Spinelli, Nikki Giovanni, Richard M. Nixon, John Herbers, Malcolm Gladwell
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