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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, taking a look at varios teams at  Deal they are reading:

6th: 
Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry
Tuck Everlasting
Inside out and Back Again
Beowulf

7th:
Poetry 
Boy by Roald Dahl
Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Patillo Beals
Call of the Wild by Jack London
Choice of novels
The Ear, The Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer

8th
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Raisin in the Sun
Chains
145th Street

I wouldn't mind some Shakespeare in here, but its still got Beowulf so that's something. [/quote]

Here's the curriculm a private school which focuses on African history in 6th, early US history in 7th and democracy and immigration in 8th as core themes. Some overlap... but a whole lot more, and not just about the white and AA experience.

6th:
Tuck Everlasting, Babbitt
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Taylor
The Giver, Lowry
An African Child, Laye
Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
Locomotion, Woodson
Home of the Brave, Applegate
Mzungu Boy, Mwangi
A Long Walk to Water, Park
The Ear, The Eye And the Arm, Farmer
The African Mask, Rupert, and other works of African fiction.

7th
The World Made New, Aronson
Braving the New World, Nardo
The Crucible, Miller
The Martian Chronicles, Bradbury
Chains, Anderson
Colonial Comics New England:1770-1775, Rodriguez
To Spoil the Sun, Rockwood, Blood on the River, Carbone
Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution, Woelfle
The Winter People, Bruchac
Rules of the Game 2, Page et al.
Classical Roots B, Fifer & Flowers

8th
Seedfolks, Paul Fleischman
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
When the Emperor Was Divine, Julie Otsuka
A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
The Tempest, William Shakespeare, selected poems and short stories.[/quote]

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