Required Texts

  • SightLines 8

  • ResourceLines 7/8

  • Tutorials and Audio files: These are materials that you have to review in order to complete the assignments. These resources are hyperlinked throughout the course.
  • A dictionary / thesaurus
  • Access to one of the following novels/graphic novels:

One of your first tasks is to select a novel because you will want to have read it before you get to Unit 5.


Novels approved for LA 8:

A Single Shard (Linda Sue Park)

Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant (Tony Cliff)

Freak The Mighty (Rodman Philbrick)

I am Malala (Malala Yousafzai with Patricia McCormick)

Invitation to the Game (Monica Hughes)

Pirate's Passage (William Gilkerson)
 
The Tuesday Cafe (Don Trembath)

Wonderstruck (Brian Selznik)


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For help to select a novel, ...

  • Click the links above to preview novel covers and images of significant quotations and events.

  • Read Novel Summaries.


  Please contact your teacher if you have questions.