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 * WELCOME Everyone! Let's get the ideas generating. Initial lists are due by Feb. 1st.**
 * Click on the EDIT pencil button above to put your own **NEEDS/IDEAS** on this main page for 6th, 7th, and 8th.
 * Click on the grade level **ORDERING LISTS** in the navigation box on the right to add your ordering decisions/ideas for others to access and borrow.

__**General Ideas**__
Speaking of online textbooks - here's another option. Jim Burke's English Companion Digital Textbook for high school Lang Arts classes. Interesting concept - many links in various categories to online information. He says he wants kids to be able to read a variety of texts, not just static words on paper. Another way to create your own text that looks pretty interesting to me. Kim [|http://www.englishcompanion.com/classroom/digitalTextbook/index.htm#readworld]

Here is a website for Scholastic materials aligned to common core: http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/english-language-arts-program/expert-21/common-core-state-standards.htm and Apple's e-textbooks []

(made by Alizzy)
High Interest Non-Fiction Poetry Current Social Issues __**6th Grade**__ > Unit Three - Persuasion - write critique of persuasive essay and write persuasive essay - LOOKING FOR GOOD PERSUASIVE WRITING FOR 6TH GRADE READING/THINKING LEVEL > Unit Four - Procedural reading/writing - LOOKING FOR GOOD MODELS OF HOW TO/PROCEDURAL WRITING FOR 6TH GRADE READING AND INTEREST LEVEL - BEYOND HOW TO MAKE ORIGAMI OR HOW TO MAKE PAPER AIRPLACE - CONCRETE > Unit Five - Factual/informational report - LOOKING FOR ENGAGING RESOURCES BEYOND ENCYCLOPEDIA ON A VARIETY OF TOPICS AT 6TH GRADE READING LEVEL > Unit Six - Choice writing - probably pretty good here
 * Persuasive text with emotional appeal
 * Informational/Procedural books that appeal to teens
 * Books for boys
 * High interest/lower lexile
 * **I SENT INFO BELOW TO MACKIN REP:**
 * [[file:Realistic Fiction 6th.pdf]]

__**7th Grade**__ Unit One - Narrative writing/fantasy - LOOKING FOR SHORT (NOT NOVELS) MODELS OF FANTASY WRITING APPROPRIATE FOR 7th GRADE Unit Two - Poetry - LOOKING FOR POETRY COLLECTIONS ENGAGING TO 7TH GRADERS BUT STILL MEATY FOR ANALYSIS - ALSO, 7TH GRADE APPROPRIATE NOVELS WRITTEN IN VERSE Unit Three - Persuasive essay - LOOKING FOR ENGAGING PERSUASIVE WRITING FOR 7TH GRADE READING/THINKING LEVEL Unit Four - Persuasive speech - EXAMPLES OF PERSUASIVE SPEAKING - RELEVANT AND INTERESTING TO 7TH GRADERS Unit Five - How to/explanation paper and demonstration - LOOKING FOR HOW TO/PROCEDURAL RESOURCES - MAYBE A LITTLE MORE ABSTRACT THAN AT THE 6TH GRADE LEVEL
 * Narrative Fantasy
 * Science Fiction
 * Fun Non-Fiction for classroom libraries
 * Non-Fiction that reads more like a novel
 * Books that spark Socratic seminar i.e. "7 Highly Habits" type books
 * Multicultural novels [[file:Multicultural Lit.pdf]]
 * POETRY - reference and/or picture books for minilessons - Poetry 180 is great resource
 * Debate/Speaking skills reference & topical books
 * Books for boys
 * High interest/lower lexile
 * INFO BELOW SENT TO MACKIN REP:

__**8th Grade**__ > Unit Two - Narrative/slice of life/memoir - LOOKING FOR GOOD EXAMPLES OF MEMOIR WRITTEN BY/ABOUT TEENS - APPROPRIATE FOR 8th GRADE > Unit Three - Opposing viewpoints - LOOKING FOR TEXTS APPROPRIATE FOR GRADE LEVEL THAT ARE EXAMPLES OF HOW HISTORICAL CONTEXT IMPACTS WHAT IS BEING WRITTEN AT THE TIME, IMPACTS THE WAY SOMETHING IS WRITTEN > Unit Four - Persuasive essay - LOOKING FOR ENGAGING PERSUASIVE WRITING FOR 8th GRADE READING/THINKING LEVEL > Unit Five - Research report - pretty good here > Unit Six - Inquiry project - NOT SURE WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE YET - OPEN - SO CAREER INTEREST MATERIALS, PERHAPS?
 * Current high interest memoir [[file:Memoir Current High Interest.pdf]]
 * Books with opposing viewpoints or controversial issues/conflicts that get kids talking for Socratic seminar (SEE ABOVE ON CURRENT SOCIAL ISSUES)
 * Drama seems to be new - great suggestions on the Core Standards page - Appendix B
 * Books for boys
 * High interest/lower lexile
 * INFO BELOW SENT TO MACKIN REP:
 * Unit One - Response to literature - pretty good here
 * [[file:Lo Historical Fiction.pdf]]