Grade 7 2008-2009 Literature Schedule

*There will be an assigned book report approximately every 3-4 weeks.

I.  Review summer reading

II.  Short Stories: 

“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe

“The Purloined Letter” by Edgar Allan Poe

“The Necklace” by Guy De Maupassant

“Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber

III.  THE CALL OF THE WILD

IV.  Poetry: 

“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes

“Harlem” by Langston Hughes

“Life is Fine” by Langston Hughes

“Heritage” by Countee Cullen

“This is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams

“The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams

“The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake

“Annabel Lee” by Edgar AllAn Poe

“Auld Lang Syne” by Robert Burns

“The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Dulce et Decorum Est” by William Owen

“Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost

“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost

“Because I Could Not Stop For Death” by Emily Dickinson

“The Cremation of Sam McGee” by Robert Service

“Macavity:  The Mystery Cat” by T.S. Eliot

V.  THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER

VI.  HAMLET      

VII.  Essays and Speeches:               

“Shooting and Elephant” by George Orwell

“The Night the Bed Fell” by James Thurber

“Declaration of War on Japan” by Franklin D. Roosevelt

VIII.  ANNE FRANK:  DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL

IX.  TALES FROM THE SECRET ANNEX

X.  CYRANO DE BERGERAC          

XI.  Year review comparing and contrasting the novels, poems, and short

stories read throughout the year.