8th Grade Literature

  Various short stories (From the Literature Book)    

  Link to the Language of Literature text books online  

http://www.classzone.com/literature.cfm  

A New York Times bestseller!  JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world . . .ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America . . .MAHMOUD is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe . . .All three kids go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers -- from drownings to bombings to betrayals. But there is always the hope of tomorrow. And although Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades, shocking connections will tie their stories together in the end.This action-packed novel tackles topics both timely and timeless: courage, survival, and the quest for home.

Scolastic Scope Magazine

https://scope.scholastic.com/ 

Flowers for Algernon   

Links to Bill Nye, The Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives and Neuroscience for Kids

http://faculty.washington.edu/ chudler/ neurok.html

http://www.dana.org/ brainweb/

http://www.billnye.com/ core.html?flashtarget=core.html& noflashtarget=noflash.html

The Diary of Anne Frank (play from the literature series)  

Links to The United States Holocaust Museum: Online Exhibits and other holocaust resources

http://remember.org/

http://www.wiesenthal.org

http://www.adl.org/ children_holocaust/ children_main1.html   

http://www.ushmm.org/ museum/ exhibit/ online/

The Westing Game - A novel

Links to Westing Game Jeopardy and WebQuest

http://216.92.166.119/Bryan/Literacy    

http://library.thinkquest.org/  

That Was Then, This is Now - A Novel

http://www.sehinton.com/books/