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COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS SEVENTH GRADE

English Language Arts & Literacy in History/
Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects

The following standards offer a focus for instruction in Seventh Grade and help ensure that students gain adequate expo-
sure to a range of texts and tasks. Rigor is also infused through the requirement that students read increasingly complex texts
through the grades. Students advancing through the grades are expected to meet each year’s grade-specific standards and
retain or further develop skills and understandings mastered in preceding grades.

Reading Literature Reading Informational Texts

KEY IDEAS AND DETAILS KEY IDEAS AND DETAILS

RL.7.1 Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support RI.7.1 Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support
analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences
drawn from the text. drawn from the text.

RL.7.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and RI.7.2 Determine two or more central ideas in a text and
analyze its development over the course of the text; provide analyze their development over the course of the text; provide
an objective summary of the text. an objective summary of the text.

RL.7.3 Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama RI.7.3 Analyze the interactions between individuals, events,
interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot). and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or
events, or how individuals influence ideas or events).
CRAFT AND STRUCTURE
CRAFT AND STRUCTURE
RL.7.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they
are used in a text, including figurative and connotative RI.7.1 Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support
meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences
of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of drawn from the text.
a poem or section of a story or drama.
RI.7.2 Determine two or more central ideas in a text and
RL.7.5 Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure analyze their development over the course of the text; provide
(e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning an objective summary of the text.

RL.7.6 Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the RI.7.3 Analyze the interactions between individuals, events,
points of view of different characters or narrators in a text. and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or
events, or how individuals influence ideas or events).
INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND IDEAS
INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND IDEAS
RL.7.7 Compare and contrast a written story, drama, or poem
to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia version, analyzing RI.7.7 Compare and contrast a text to an audio, video, or
the effects of techniques unique to each medium (e.g., lighting, multimedia version of the text, analyzing each medium’s
sound, color, or camera focus and angles in a film). portrayal of the subject (e.g., how the delivery of a speech
affects the impact of the words).
RL.7.8 (not applicable to literature)
RI.7.8 Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in
RL.7.9 Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the
place, or character and a historical account of the same period evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims.
as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or
alter history. RI.7.9 Analyze how two or more authors writing about the
same topic shape their presentations of key information by
RANGE OF READING AND LEVEL OF TEXT COMPLEXITY emphasizing different evidence or advancing different
interpretations of facts.
RL.7.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend
literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades RANGE OF READING AND LEVEL OF TEXT COMPLEXITY
6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as
needed at the high end of the range. RI.7.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary
nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently,
with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

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English Language Arts & Literacy in History/
Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects

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Writing W.7.5 With some guidance and support from peers and
adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning,
TEXT TYPES AND PURPOSES revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing
on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.
W.7.1 Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons
and relevant evidence: a. Introduce claim(s), acknowledge W.7.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and
alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and publish writing and link to and cite sources as well as to
evidence logically; b. Support claim(s) with logical reasoning interact and collaborate with others, including linking to and
and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and citing sources.
demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text;
c. Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and RESEARCH TO BUILD AND PRESENT KNOWLEDGE
clarify the relationships among claim(s), reasons, and evidence;
d. Establish and maintain a formal style; e. Provide a W.7.7 Conduct short research projects to answer a
concluding statement or section that follows from and question, drawing on several sources and generating
supports the argument presented. additional related, focused questions for further research
and investigation.
W.7.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic
and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the W.7.8 Gather relevant information from multiple print
selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content: a. and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess
Introduce a topic clearly, previewing what is to follow; organize the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or
ideas, concepts, and information, using strategies such as paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding
definition, classification, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect; plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts,
tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension; W.7.9 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to
b. Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete support analysis, reflection, and research: a. Apply grade 7
details, quotations, or other information and examples; reading standards to literature (e.g., “Compare and contrast a
c. Use appropriate transitions to create cohesion and clarify fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical
the relationships among ideas and concepts; d. Use precise account of the same period as a means of understanding
language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or how authors of fiction use or alter history”); b. Apply grade 7
explain the topic; e. Establish and maintain a formal style; reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g. “Trace and
f. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing
and supports the information or explanation presented. whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant
and sufficient to support the claims”).
W.7.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences
or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, RANGE OF WRITING
and well-structured event sequences: a. Engage and orient
the reader by establishing a context and point of view and W.7.10 Write routinely over extended time frames (time for
introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames
sequence that unfolds naturally and logically; b. Use narrative (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-
techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
develop experiences, events, and/or characters; c. Use a variety
of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence Speaking and Listening
and signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another;
d. Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, COMPREHENSION AND COLLABORATION
and sensory language to capture the action and convey
experiences and events; e. Provide a conclusion that follows SL.7.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions
from and reflects on the narrated experiences or events. (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners
on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas
PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF WRITING and expressing their own clearly: a. Come to discussions
prepared, having read or researched material under study;
W.7.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence
development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, on the topic, text, or issue to probe and reflect on ideas
purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for under discussion; b. Follow rules for collegial discussions, track
writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.) progress toward specific goals and deadlines, and define
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elaboration and respond to others’ questions and comments KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGE SEVENTH GRADE
with relevant observations and ideas that bring the discussion
back on topic as needed; d. Acknowledge new information L.7.3 Use knowledge of language and its conventions
expressed by others and, when warranted, modify their when writing, speaking, reading, or listening: Choose
own views. language that expresses ideas precisely and concisely,
recognizing and eliminating wordiness and redundancy.
SL.7.2 Analyze the main ideas and supporting details present-
ed in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, VOCABULARY ACQUISITION AND USE
orally) and explain how the ideas clarify a topic, text, or issue
under study. L.7.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and
multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 7
SL.7.3 Delineate a speaker’s argument and specific claims, reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strate-
evaluating the soundness of the reasoning and the relevance gies: a. Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or
and sufficiency of the evidence. paragraph; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a
clue to the meaning of a word or phrase; b. Use common,
SL.7.4 Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to
in a focused, coherent manner with pertinent descriptions, the meaning of a word (e.g., belligerent, bellicose, rebel);
facts, details, and examples; use appropriate eye contact, c. Consult general and specialized reference materials (e.g.,
adequate volume, and clear pronunciation. dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to
find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its
SL.7.5 Include multimedia components and visual displays precise meaning or its part of speech; d. Verify the preliminary
in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by
salient points. checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).

SL.7.6 Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, L.7.5 Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word
demonstrating command of formal English when indicated relationships, and nuances in word meanings: a. Interpret
or appropriate. figures of speech (e.g., literary, biblical, and mythological
allusions) in context; b. Use the relationship between particular
Language words (e.g., synonym/antonym, analogy) to better understand
each of the words; c. Distinguish among the connotations
CONVENTIONS OF STANDARD ENGLISH (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions)
(e.g., refined, respectful, polite, diplomatic, condescending).
L.7.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard
English grammar and usage when writing or speaking: a. L.7.6 Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate gener-
Explain the function of phrases and clauses in general and their al academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather
function in specific sentences; b. Choose among simple, vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase
compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to important to comprehension or expression.
signal differing relationships among ideas; c. Place phrases and
clauses within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced © Copyright 2010. National Governors Association Center for Best Practices
and dangling modifiers. and Council of Chief State School Officers. All rights reserved.

L.7.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard
English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing:
a. Use a comma to separate coordinate adjectives (e.g., It was a
fascinating, enjoyable movie but not He wore an old[,] green
shirt); b. Spell correctly.

COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS

Common Core Curriculum Maps –
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Unit 3 EIGHTH GRADE

Theme: Looking Back on America

Essential Question: How does learning history through literature differ

from learning through informational text?
Suggested Pacing: 8 weeks
Standards Addressed in Lesson: RL.8.9, RI.8.3, RI.8.9, W.8.7, SL.8.5, L.8.3

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33 Things Every Girl Should Know About Women’s 1000L Informational Texts I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 840L Literary Texts (Poetry)
History 610L Informational Texts (Biographies) Johnny Tremain V / 1110L Literary Texts (Stories)
Literary Texts (Stories) Lincoln: A Photobiography Informational Texts
America’s Paul Revere Z Literary Texts (Stories) Paul Revere’s Ride 1220L Informational Texts
Informational Texts Paul Revere's Ride (E) Literary Texts (Poetry)
Cast Two Shadows: The American Revolution in X / 1110L Informational Texts Poetry For Young People: Langston Hughes ( E ) Literary Texts (Poetry)
the South Informational Texts The American Revolutionaries: History Own Words
Informational Texts (Biographies) 1750-1800 Informational Texts
Code Talker: Novel about Navajo Marines of World The Boys' War: Confederate/Union Soldiers Talk
War Two Civil War V / 1060L Informational Texts
The Words We Live By: Your Ann. Guide to
Day of Infamy: Classic Account of Bombing of Constitution (E) 1340L Informational Texts
Pearl Harbor The Year of the Hangman Literary Texts (Stories)

Freedom Walkers: Story of the Montgomery Bus
Boycott (E)

George vs. George: American Revolution from
Both Sides

George Washington, Spymaster: How Outspied
the British

Unit 4

Theme: Authors and Artists
Essential Question: How are artists and authors similar?
Suggested Pacing: 4 weeks
Standards Addressed in Lesson: RL.8.2, RI.8.5, RI.8.8, W.8.2, SL.8.2, L.8.5, L.8.5 (b), L.8.5 (c)

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Level / Lexile Level / Lexile
Pablo Picasso: Breaking All the Rules
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East Literary Texts (Poetry) Sparky: The Life and Art of Charles Schulz U / 960L Informational Texts (Biography)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Literary Texts (Stories) The Lives of the Artists: Volume 1 NP Informational Texts (Biography)
Andy Warhol, Prince of Pop Informational Texts (Biography) The Poet Slave of Cuba Informational Texts (Biography)
Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children X Informational Texts Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist (E) Informational Texts (Biography)
Astonishing Women Artists Informational Texts (Biography) Vincent Van Gogh: Sunflowers and Swirly Stars Informational Texts (Biography)
Edgar Allen Poe Z Informational Texts (Biography) Ledgerbook of Thomas Blue Eagle Informational Texts (Biography)
From the Mixedup Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler U / 1070L Literary Texts (Stories) The Buffalo and the Indians: A Shared Destiny Informational Texts
Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors Informational Texts (Biography) Leaving Eldorado Informational Texts
Invincible Louisa: Story of the Author of Little 1340L Mythmaker: The Life of JRR Tolkien Literary Texts (Stories)
Women Informational Texts (Biography) Lives of the Writers Informational Texts (Biography)
Marc Chagall 980L HG Wells: First Citizen of the Future Informational Texts (Biography)
Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon Y Informational Texts (Biography) Celebrated AfricanAmerican Novelists Informational Texts (Biography)
Informational Texts (Biography) Diego Rivera: An Artist For the People Informational Texts (Biography)
Museum ABC Informational Texts (Picture The Mad Potter Informational Texts (Biography)
Books) Informational Texts (Biography)
Norman Rockwell: Storyteller With A Brush Informational Texts (Biography)
Okay For Now Literary Texts (Stories)

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COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS

Common Core Curriculum Maps –Suggested Readings

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Unit 5

Theme: Dramatically Speaking
Essential Question: How is reading a speech, poem, or script for a play different from performing it?
Suggested Pacing: 4 weeks
Standards Addressed in Lesson: RL.8.3, RL.8.6, RL.8.7, W.8.1, SL.8.3, L.8.5, L.8.5 (a), L.8.5 (b)

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A Midsummer’s Night Dream Literary Texts (Drama) Who Was William Shakespeare? N / 690L Informational Texts (Biographies)
A Raisin in the Sun Informational Texts (Biographies) Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare Literary Texts (Poetry)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt NP Informational Texts (Speeches) Acolytes: Poems ( E ) Literary Texts (Poetry)
Great Speeches of the Twentieth Century W / 1070L Literary Texts (Stories) Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats Literary Texts (Drama)
King of Shadows Informational Texts (Biographies) The Colored Museum Literary Texts (Drama)
Memoirs 1040L Informational Texts (Biographies) Sorry, Wrong Number (E) Literary Texts (Drama)
Sorrow's Kitchen: Life/Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston P / 780L Media A Doll's House Literary Texts (Drama)
Sorry, Wrong Number (E) Literary Texts (Poetry) The Importance of Being Earnest Literary Texts (Drama)
The Book of Questions (E) Informational Texts (Biographies) Short Plays Building Fluency: Famous Americans,
Who Was Ronald Reagan? Informational Texts (Biographies) Gr 4-8

Unit 6

Theme: “The Road Not Taken”
Essential Question: Can literature help us to define the greater good?
Suggested Pacing: 6 weeks
Standards Addressed in Lesson: RL.8.7, W.8.3, SL.8.4, L.8.3, L.8.3 (a)

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Amos Fortune, Free Man
Children of the River 1090L Literary Texts (Stories) The Color of My Words Literary Texts (Stories)
Gulliver's Travels X / 700L Literary Texts (Stories)
I, Juan de Pareja Literary Texts (Stories) The Old Man and the Sea Z+ / 940L Literary Texts (Stories)
Little Women (E) Y / 1100L Literary Texts (Stories)
Lord of the Flies 630L Literary Texts (Stories) The Outsiders Z / 750L Literary Texts (Poetry)
Rebecca 770L Literary Texts (Stories)
Stargirl 880L Literary Texts (Stories) The Road Not Taken: A Selection of Robert Frost's Poems Literary Texts (Stories)

The Sea Wolf Literary Texts (Poetry)

Things I Have to Tell You: Poems/Writing Teenage Girls Z / NP Literary Texts (Poetry)
Walking On Earth/Touching the Sky: Poetry/Prose Lakota Informational Texts

V / 590L Literary Texts (Stories) Math Trek: Adventures in the Math Zone

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COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS EXEMPLARS

Text Exemplar Classroom Libraries

These text exemplars exemplify the level of complexity and quality that the Standards require all students in a given grade band
to engage with. Sets include all text exemplars for a given grade range and storage bins.

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Sixth–Eighth Grade

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A Night to Remember: Math Trek: Adventures In the Math Zone The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
A Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The Book of Questions
A Wrinkle in Time an American Slave: Written by Himself The Building of Manhattan
Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill’s The Dark is Rising
Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction Speeches The Diary of Anne Frank: A Play
Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 Paul Revere’s Ride The Great Fire
(includes poems suggested in curriculum maps) Poetry for Young People: Carl Sandburg The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure
Dragonwings (includes poems suggested in curriculum maps) The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Poetry for Young People: Emily Dickinson The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks
Boycott (includes poems suggested in curriculum maps) The Words We Live By:
Gary Soto: New and Selected Poems Poetry For Young People: Langston Hughes Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution
(includes poems suggested in curriculum maps) (includes poems suggested in curriculum maps) This Land Was Made for You and Me:
Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Poetry for Young People: Walt Whitman The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie
Idaho (includes poems suggested in curriculum maps) Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Poetry for Young People: William Butler Yeats Woman Hollering Creek: And Other Stories
Railroad (includes poems suggested in curriculum maps) (includes short story suggested in the curriculum maps)
Jabberwocky Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Text Exemplars 9-12
Little Women Sorry, Wrong Number

Ninth–Tenth Grade

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100 Best-Loved Poems Great Short Poems Rhinoceros and Other Plays: Includes: The Leader; The
African-American Poetry: An Anthology, 1773-1927 Great Speeches Future Is in Eggs; It Takes All Kinds to Make a World
American Heritage Book of Great American Speeches Great Speeches by American Women Selected Poems
for Young People The Hot Zone Selected Poems (Revised)
Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn
The Book Thief In the Time of the Butterflies The Story of Art - 16th Edition (Revised)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of The Joy Luck Club The Story of Science: Newton at the Center
the American West The Killer Angels The Theban Plays: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and
Candide, Zadig and Selected Stories Life by the Numbers Antigone
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World Loud and Clear Things Fall Apart
A Doll's House and Other Plays Macbeth A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin
Fahrenheit 451 Master Harold ...and the Boys Luther King, Jr., for Students
Fathers and Sons: 150th Anniversary Edition Metamorphoses (Revised) To Kill a Mockingbird
The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories The Metamorphosis (Special)
The Glass Menagerie The Odyssey
The Grapes of Wrath The Overcoat and Other Short Stories (Revised)
The Great Composers The Race to Save the Lord God Bird

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Can We Save Them?; Children of the Dust Bowl; Children of the Great Depression; Jake Drake, Bully Buster; Miss Nelson Is Missing!; Molly’s Pilgrim; More Spaghetti,
Clothing; Disasters: Natural and Man-Made Catastrophes Through the Centuries; I Say!; More Stories Julian Tells; My Little Sister Ate One Hare; Piggie Pie!; Pom-
Earrings!; EARTH Book; Endangered Komodo Dragons; Escaping the Giant Wave; peii...Buried Alive!; Smoky Night; Snowshoe Thompson; Supporting Struggling
Everybody Needs a Rock; Experiments with Rocks & Minerals; Exploding Ants: Readers And Writers: Strategies For Classroom Intervention 3 – 6;The Important
Amazing Facts About How Animals Adapt; Faux Paw’s Adventures in the Internet: Book;The Magic Finger;The Most Beautiful Place In The World;The Mystery Of The
Keeping Children Safe Online; First Thanksgiving; Food Chain Frenzy; Friends:True Pirate Ghost;The Night Crossing;The Stories Julian Tells;The Wall;The Way To Start
Stories of Extraordinary Animal Friendships; Greedy Triangle; Hanging Off Jefferson’s A Day;The Wednesday Surprise;Weslandia;When I Was Young In The Mountains;
Nose: Growing Up On Mount Rushmore; If You Find a Rock; If You Were At The First
Thanksgiving; It’s Earth Day!; Jesse Bear,What Will You Wear?; Knight and the Drag- 1499490 TEACHING FOR DEEP COMPREHENSION
on; Let’s Go Rock Collecting; Mammoths and Mastodons; Mammoths on the Move; 26 Fairmount Avenue;A Million Fish...More Or Less;A Taste Of Blackberries;A Year
Many Biomes, One Earth; Mites to Mastodons:A Book of Animal Poems; Mount Down Yonder;Abel’s Island;Adelita;Aesop’s Fables;Alexander And The Terrible,
Rushmore; My America:A Poetry Atlas of the United States; Nana Upstairs and Horrible, No Good,Very Bad Day;All The Small Poems And Fourteen More;Amos
Nana Downstairs; Natural Disasters; Navigating the Information Tsunami: Engaging & Boris;An Angel For Solomon Singer; Because Of Winn-Dixie; Bigmama’s; Bubba,
Research Projects That Meet the Common Core State Standards, K-5; Never Smile at The Cowboy Prince; Dusty Locks And The Three Bears; Fables; Greek Myths For
a Monkey:And 17 Other Important Things to Remember; Our 50 States; Pandas and Young Children; Hailstones And Halibut Bones; Hank Aaron: Brave In Every Way;
Other Endangered Species; Presidents; Rain; Recycle!:A Handbook for Kids; Rocks Holes; John Henry; Little House In The Big Woods; Lon Po Po; Mailing May; Mike
and Minerals; Shape; Shape Up!; Shapes, Shapes, Shapes; Smart About the Fifty Fink; Nothing But The Truth; Paul Bunyan; Poppy; Possum Magic; Rumpelstiltskin;
States; Smart About the Presidents; Stagestruck; Surviving Hurricanes;Thank You, Sable; Sarah, Plain And Tall; Seven Blind Mice; Sounder;Teaching For Deep
Sarah:The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving;The Dust Bowl Through the Lens;The Comprehension (A Reading Workshop Approach);The Ants And The Grasshopper;
Jacket I Wear in the Snow;Tomie dePaola ;Tsunamis and Other Natural Disasters; The Borrowers;The Chocolate Touch;The Dinosaurs Of Waterhouse Hawkins;The
United States of America:A State-by-State Guide; United Tweets of America: 50 Dream Keeper And Other Poems;The Golden Sandal;The Graduation Of Jake
Moon;The Magic Fish;The Rough-Face Girl;The Twelve Dancing Princesses;The
Very Hungry Caterpillar;Walk Two Moons

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ANGELAS ASHES 1499569 $ 14.39 1499570 $ 66.99
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GRAPES OF WRATH 1499573 $ 14.39 1499574 $ 142.89
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INVISIBLE MAN 1499577 $ 14.39 1499578 $ 133.99
JANE EYRE 1499579 $ 14.39 1499580 $ 37.89
LIFE OF PI 1499581 $ 14.39 1499582 $ 133.99
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NIGHT 1499585 $ 14.39 1499586 $ 83.59
OUR TOWN 1499587 $ 14.39 1499588 $ 125.99
PEACE LIKE A RIVER 1499589 $ 14.39 1499590 $ 134.49
PYGMALION 1499591 $ 14.39 1499592 $ 16.89
RAISIN IN THE SUN 1499593 $ 14.39 1499594 $ 62.99
SCARLET LETTER 1499595 $ 14.39 1499596 $ 37.89
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THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW 1499599 $ 14.39 1499600 $ 83.99
THE CHOSEN 1499601 $ 14.39 1499602 $ 66.99
THE COLOR OF WATER 1499603 $ 14.39 1499604 $ 134.49
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70UESIGHIHSTTHORGYR SAEDTES US HISTORY SETS

COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS Five Journeys to Freedom, The Earth Under Sky Bear’s Feet, Frederick
Douglass: From Slavery to Statesman, The Girl Who Helped Thunder
U.S. History Sets and Other Native American Folktales, Who Was Harriet Tubman?,
Tikta’liktak, No More! Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance, Native
Common Core US History Set, K-2 Americans, A Civil War Scrapbook: I Was There Too!, Exploration and
Conquest: The Americas after Columbus, 1500-1620, War, Terrible War:
Set Item Number # of Items List Price 1855-1865, Where Do You Think You’re Going, Christopher Columbus? ,
$1285.69 Abe’s Honest Words, Explorers News: 1500 BC to Today, Bull Run, Who
1499619 90 Discovered America?, Civil War Sampler, Around the World in a Hundred
Years, Lincoln and His Boys, The World Made New, Pink and Say, We
1499619 COMMON CORE US HISTORY SET, K-2 the People: The Thirteen Colonies, Civil War, The New Americans:
Colonial Times, 1620-1689, What Was the Battle of Gettysburg?, Our
Native Homes, Abe Lincoln’s Hat, Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall, Ben Strange New Land: Elizabeth’s Jamestown Colony Diary, Reconstructing
and the Emancipation Proclamation, Native North Americans: Dress, Eat, America: 1865-1890, Our Starving Time: Elizabeth’s Jamestown Colony
Write, and Play Just Like the Americans, Mr. Lincoln’s Whiskers, Raven: a Diary, Liberty, Making Thirteen Colonies: 1600-1740, The Ledgerbook
Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest, Thank You, Sarah: the Woman of Thomas Blue Eagle, Early American Culture, Thomas Edison, The
Who Saved Thanksgiving, Follow the Dream: The Story of Christopher Matchlock Gun, Ellis Island, A History of US: From Colonies to Country:
Columbus, The Last Brother: A Civil War Tale, Encounter, The Silent Wit- 1735-1791, At Ellis Island: A History in Many Voices, George vs George,
ness, The Story of, Columbus, When Abraham Talked to the Trees, The First An Age of Extremes: 1880-1917, Can’t You Make Them Behave, King
Thanksgiving, Journey of a Pioneer, Samuel Eaton’s Day, Liberty Rising: George?, Coming to America: The Story of Immigration, Colonial Voices:
the Story of the, Statue of Liberty, Sarah Morton’s Day, Cheyenne Again, Hear Them Speak, Hannah’s Journal: The Story of an Immigrant Girl,
Squanto’s Journey, Dakota Dugout, Tapenum’s Day, Dandelions, Three When Washington Crossed the Delaware, One Fine Day: A Radio Play,
Young Pilgrims, Naming Liberty, If You Lived in Colonial Times, Prairie And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?, George Washington Carver
School, Our Colonial Year, The Statue of Liberty, The Courage of Sarah No- and Science and Invention in America, What’s the Big Idea, Ben Frank-
ble, A Weed is a Flower: The Life of George Washington Carver, A Picture lin?, Titanic: The Disaster That Shocked the World!, Where Was Patrick
Book of Paul Revere, All Aboard!, Elijah McCoy’s Steam Engine, American Henry on the 29th of May?, Henry Ford: Putting the World on Wheels,
Revolution, In the Garden With Dr. Carver, Boston Tea Party, More Than Why Don’t You Get a Horse, Sam Adams?, War, Peace, and All That
Anything Else, Revolutionary War on Wednesday, The Camping Trip That Jazz: 1918-1945, Will You Sign Here, John Hancock?, The Letter Home,
Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National The Journey of the One and Only Declaration of Independence, Voices
Parks, The Ride: The Legend of Betsy Dowdy, Bessie Smith and the Night of World War I: Stories From the Trenches, For Liberty: The Story of the
Riders, D is For Democracy, Hanging off Jefferson’s Nose: Growing Up on Boston Massacre, Franklin and Winston: A Christmas That Changed the
Mount Rushmore, Now and Ben, Knit Your Bit: A World War I Story, Unite World, Write On, Mercy! The Secret Life of Mercy Otis Warren, Boys
or Die, Rudy Rides the Rails: a Depression-Era Story, George Washington: of Steel: The Creators of Superman, We the People: The Story of Our
Soldier, Hero, President, Born and Bred in the Great Depression, George Constitution, Eleanor Roosevelt: An Inspiring Life, Electric Ben, Out of
Washington and the General’s Dog, Jazz Age Josephine, George Washing- the Dust, We the Kids, Rose’s Journal: The Story of a Girl in the Great
ton’s First Victory, Lily’s Victory Garden, The House That George Built, Sea- Depression, The New Nation: 1789-1850, When Marian Sang, So Said
biscuit, How We Crossed the West, Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire Ben, Why Did the Whole World Go to War? And Other Questions about
State Building, Pioneer Days, The Unbreakable Code, Seaman’s Journal, World War II, The Revolutionary John Adams, World War II For Kids,
Wind Flyers, The Listeners, Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot, The Bobbin Fever, 1793, The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, Tricking the
Girl, Finding Lincoln, Andrew Jackson: Seventh President, Testing the Ice: Tallyman: The Great Census Shenanigans of 1790, Breaking Stalin’s
A True Story About Jackie Robinson, Dolley Madison Saves George Wash- Nose, George Washington, Rebekkah’s Journey: A World War II Refugee
ington, Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington, Marching Story, The Journals of Lewis and Clark, Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo
With Aunt Susan, Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins, Susan B. 11, Lewis and Clark: Blazing a Trail West, Cracker! The Best Dog in
Anthony, Martin’s Big Words, The Flag Maker, My Brother Martin: A Sister Vietnam, Heading West: Life With the Pioneers, Destined for Space: Our
Remembers, The Town That Fooled the British, Riding to Washington, Hen- Story of Exploration, The Amazing Impossible Erie Canal, John F. Ken-
ry’s Freedom Box, Ruby Bridges Goes to School, Friend on Freedom River, nedy: The Making of a Leader, Elizabeth Leads the Way, Little Rock Girl
The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights, Moses: When Harriet Tubman 1957: How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration, I Could Do
Led Her People to Freedom, The Story of Ruby Bridges, The Patchwork That! Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote, Martin Luther King, Jr., Only
Path, America’s White Table, Unspoken, Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the Names Remain: The Cherokees and the Trail of Tears, September
the John J. Harvey, Abraham Lincoln: Lawyer, Leader, Legend, The Brothers Eleventh, The Trail of Tears, All the People: Since 1945, You Want Women
Kennedy, A. Lincoln and Me, The Wall to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?, America is Under Attack: The Day the Towers
Fell, Rightfully Yours: How Women Won the Vote, Barack Obama, A is
Common Core US History Set, 3-5 for Abigail, Who Was Ronald Reagan?, Words Set Me Free: The Story of
Young Frederick Douglass
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The Discovery of the Americas: From Prehistory through the Age of
Columbus, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,
The First Americans: Prehistory-1600, Liberty For All? 1820-1860, First
People: An Illustrated History of American Indians, Escape From Slavery:

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Discovery in the CaveCastle: How It Works, There Was an Old Man Who Early Humans, The Renaissance, Adventures in the Ice Age, The Ancient
Painted the Sky, Mario’s Angels: A Story about the Artist Giotto, Tut’s Maya, Ice Mummy: The Discovery of a 5,000-Year-Old-Man, Aztec, Inca,
Mummy: Lost…and Found, Leonardo da Vinci, Fun with Hieroglyphs, and Maya, Mesopotamia, Aztec, Inca, & Maya, Ancient Egyptian Culture,
Monday With a Mad Genius, I Wonder Why Pyramids Were Built, Lost Birth of the Fifth Sun and Other Mesoamerican Tales, Ancient Egyptians,
City: The Discovery of Machu Picchu, We’re Sailing Down the Nile: A Jour- Mesoamerican Myths, Ancient Mesopotamia, The Ancient Maya, Com-
ney Through Egypt, The Chocolate Tree: A Mayan Folktale, Ancient Greece munication in the Ancient World, The Honey Jar, The Egyptians, Hernando
and the Olympics, The Race of Toad and Deer, Ancient Greeks: Dress, Eat, Cortes: Spanish Invader of Mexico, Life in Ancient Africa, LaMalinche: The
Write, and Play Just Like the Greeks, Pirates, Aesop’s Fables, I Wonder Princess Who Helped Cortes Conquer the Aztec Empire, Gilgamesh the
Why Columbus Crossed the Ocean, Pompeii…Buried Alive!, Tsunami, King, Magellan’s Voyage Around the World, The Revenge of Ishtar, Real
The Ancient Romans, What Do You Know about the Age of Exploration?, Pirates: Over 20 True Stories of Seafaring Sculduggery, The Last Quest of
Escape From Pompeii, Peter the Great, Gladiators , Louis Pasteur, I Won- GilgameshWho Was Ferdinand Magellan?, Ancient Israelites and Their
der Why Romans Wore Togas, So You Want to Be an Inventor?, What the Neighbors: An Activity Guide, Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei, Greek
Romans Did For the World, Vincent’s Colors, Hidden Army: Clay Soldiers Myths: Stories of Sun, Stone and Sea, Discovering Nature’s Laws: A Story
of Ancient China, Samurai, Ancient Chinese: Dress, Eat, Write, and Play About Isaac Newton, The Greeks, Galileo’s Telescope, Life in Ancient
Just Like the Chinese Yuki and the One Thousand Carriers, Little Eagle, Greece, I, Galileo, Tools of the Ancient Greeks, Isaac Newton, Roman Di-
The Donkey of Gallipoli: A True Story of Courage in World War I, You Are ary: The Journal of Iliona of Mytilini, Marie Antoinette: “Madam Deficit”,
in Ancient China, And the Soldiers Sang, We’re Riding on a Caravan: Alexander the Great, Journal of Discovery, Ancient Rome, Revolution
An Adventure on the Silk Road, On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert News, Ancient Rome: A Mighty Empire, The Slave Trade, Brave Cloelia,
Einstein, Going to Mecca, Surviving the Hindenburg, Golden Domes and Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun, Roman Numerals I to MM,
Silver Lanterns, Always Remember Me: How One Family Survived World Shipwrecked! The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy, Tools of the Ancient
War II, Muhammad, I Will Come Back For You: A Family in Hiding During Romans, The Tree of Life: Charles Darwin, Kubla Khan: The Emperor of
World War II, A Medieval Feast, Star of Fear, Star of Hope, A Year in a Cas- Everything, World War One British Poets, Ancient China, Where Poppies
tle, The Cats in Krasinski Square, Castles and Knights, The Little Ships: The Grow: A World War I Companion, Ancient China, In Flanders Field: The
Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in World War II, Brother William’s Year, Red Kite, Story of the Poem by John McCrae, Life in Ancient China, In the Trenches
Blue Kite, King Arthur’s Tale, Always With You, Knights, The Composition, in World War I, Marco Polo, One Boy’s War, Traveling Man: The Journey
Knights, Nasreen’s Secret School: A True Story From Afghanistan, Knights of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354, Breaking Stalin’s Nose, 1001 Inventions and
of the Round Table, Waiting for the Owl’s Call Awesome Facts from Muslim Civilization, Albert Einstein and Relativity
for Kids, Muhammad: Prophet of Islam, Bomb: The Race to Build and
Steal the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon, Tales Told in Tents: Stories
From Central Asia, Remember World War II: Kids Who Survived Tell Their
Stories, Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!, Irena’s Jars of Secrets, Barbarians,
Living through World War II, Castle, Rose Blanche, Days of the Knights:
A Tale of Castles and Battles, The Grand Mosque of Paris, Run Far, Run
Fast, The Greatest Skating Race, The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane,
The House Baba Built, The Middle Ages, World War II for Kids, The Sword
in the Tree, Journey to Jo’Burg , Michelangelo, Mao and Me, Cathedral ,
Red-Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution, Joan of Arc, The Wall,
Journal of Inventions, Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt’s Trea-
sured Books, Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer, Afghan Dreams: Young Voices
of Afghanistan, Leonardo da Vinci for Kids: His Life and Ideas, Nelson
Mandela, The Renaissance in Europe

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