The Junior Great Books® Series 7 Student Materials include a Student Book and a Reader's Journal.
Junior Great Books Series 7 contains 20 outstanding works of literature—including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry—that sustain interpretive reading and discussion. Among the selections are beloved classics by well-known authors, as well as contemporary writing by new voices that you won’t find in any other anthology. The Student Book also features a brief introduction to each genre and an introductory headnote for each selection. The Reader’s Journal includes:
- Pages for each Shared Inquiry™ activity, allowing students to record and process their thinking at each stage of work on a text
- Three complete sets of essay writing materials, which guide students through planning, organizing, drafting, and revising an essay
- Three discussion reflection forms to help students determine their strengths and areas for growth through self-assessment
FICTION
- The Friday Everything Changed
- The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
- I Go Along
- The Necklace
- How to Transform an Everyday, Ordinary Hoop Court into a Place of Higher Learning and You at the Podium
- The Lie
- Twenty-Seven Days
- Two Kinds
- The Red Room
- How Auto-Tune Saved My Life
NONFICTION
- The Secret Life of Bees
- I Am Malala (excerpt)
- The Matthew Effect (excerpt)
- Texts from Strangers
- How Rats Became an Inescapable Part of City Living
- Names/Nombres
- Quiet Power (excerpt)
- Friends of the Hide (excerpt)
POETRY
- My Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sears
- Boy at the Window