Junior Great Books® Series 8 Student Materials Reader's Journals (Package of 10)
Junior Great Books Series 8 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 Other Side of the Reservoir
- Eraser Tattoo
- The Doll's House
- Klaus Vogel and the Bad Lads
- The Pose
- A Hundred Hundred Daisies
- Blues Ain't No Mockin' Bird
- Batrachophiles and Batrachophobes
- You
- The Veteran
NONFICTION
- Dining with the Snakes (excerpt)
- The Test (excerpt)
- Cause of Death: Selfie
- Why We Forget Most of the Books We Read
- Where Did You Get That Name? (excerpt)
- Why Mathematics Is a Language
- Starvation Under the Orange Trees
- Everything Will Be Okay
POETRY
- Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!
- Catalog Army