Middle School Writing
Middle school writing will focus on writing strategies and processes that will enable students to write in an engaging and focused manner. Students will write for a variety of audiences in non-fictional and fictional formats. Methods will include the writing process, the six traits of writing (voice, ideas, organization, word choice, sentence fluency and convention/grammar), writer’s workshops, peer collaboration, journaling and writing across the curriculum.
Middle School Literature
Middle school literature will focus on literary theory, and analysis. Students will explore interpretation strategies enabling them to determine literary value and respond to multiple genres with critical thinking skills. Class collaboration and discussion will explore literature-to-self and world connections. A variety of classical, fiction, non-fiction and cross-curriculum works will be studied.
Reading Lists
6th Grade Reading
· The Cay (Theodore Taylor)
· Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
· A Single Shard (Linda Sue Park)
· Esperanza Rising (Pam Munoz Ryan)
· The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry)
· Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Edgar Allan Poe)
· The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
· The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
· A Wizard of Earthsea (Ursula K. LeGuin)
7thGrade Reading
· The Giver, Messenger, Gathering Blue (Lois Lowry)
· The Gift of the Magi
· Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
· Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper)
· To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
· Night (Elie Wiesel)
· The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
· The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexander Dumas)
· Call of the Wild (Jack London)
· Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie)
· The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan)
· The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
· Langston Hughes poetry collection
8thGrade Reading
· The Iliad (Homer)
· The Pearl (John Steinbeck)
· Animal Farm (George Orwell)
· Romeo & Juliet (William Shakespeare) with sonnets
· The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
· Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
· The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)
· The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
· Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
· Flatland (Edwin Abbott)
· Poetry (Robert Frost)
· Short Stories (William Faulkner)
· The Chosen (Chaim Potok)
· The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan)
· The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
· Langston Hughes poetry collection
To contact Mrs. Frye
sfrye@thesummitprep.org
Pooja P.
