Grade 8 2008-2009 Literature Schedule

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

I.  Review summer reading

II.  Short Stories:

“Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane

“An Honest Thief” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“God Sees the Truth But Waits” by Leo Tolstoy

“The Bet” by Anton Chekov

III.  Novels: 

ANIMAL FARM

THE GOOD EARTH

IV.  Poetry:

Sonnet 18 ~ “Shall I compare thee” by William Shakespeare

“Lucy Gray” by William Wordsworth

“My Heart Leaps Up” by William Wordsworth

“Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley

“How do I love thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Spring and Fall” by Gerald Manley Hopkins

“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by William B. Yeats

“Buffalo Bill’s” by e.e. cummings

“Mending Wall” by Robert Frost

“The Gift Outright” by Robert Frost

“Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes

“We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks

“Chicago” by Carl Sandburg

“Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas

“How They Brought the Good News From Ghent to Aix” by Robert Browning      

V.  Essays and Speeches:                  

“Ask not what your country can do for you” by John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address

“I have a dream” by Martin Luther King Jr.

“Letter From Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr.

VI.  Novels:

 WARRIORS DON’T CRY

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

VII.  Drama:

KING LEAR

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

stories read throughout the year.