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KEIGWIN MIDDLE SCHOOL
LANGUAGE ARTS
SECOND SEMESTER
CURRICULUM SUMMARY

The Language Arts classes at Keigwin Middle School on all three teams will be reading different core novels for the second half of the year:

K TEAM: Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Canyons by Gary Paulsen

A TEAM: Canyons by Gary Paulsen
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

T TEAM: Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix

In addition to these core novels, students will also be reading a variety of supplemental novels as appropriate for each team. They will also be studying selected readings from the Treasury of Literature, a literary publication that includes short stories and plays. During the month of February, each team will study Black History and include many different readings and writing projects.

Students will write throughout the semester. Several pieces of formal writing will include at least four persuasive essays, Poetry, and Responses to Literature. Additionally, students write consistently in journals in response to a personal, learning or literature experience. Grammar, mechanics, and spelling are integrated into the lessons.

Keigwin Language Arts teachers

Mrs. Karin Thody Mr. Joe Tanasi Mrs. Kathy Feegel Mrs. Judy Turner

Mrs. Kathy Hubbard Mr. Richard Notarangelo Mrs. Francie Goodwin Mr. Rich Pestritto

ABOUT THE BOOKS (Information from www.Amazon.com )

Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Maddix, Dan Craig (Illustrator) Aladdin Paperbacks; ISBN: 0689812361
   What if the costumed workers at historical sites really lived there, and tourists watched them through hidden   cameras rather than from pathways? What if those workers and families were not allowed to leave, ever? Jessie lives in the 1840s, or so she believes until her mother sends her on an escape mission outside the fence, where it's 1996. The suspense and the cataloging of differences as they appear to Jessie are the best parts here. The resolution of the plot, which includes the revelation that the inhabitants have been used for scientific experimentation, comes too fast, but the quirky twist on time-travel fiction will keep the attention of readers.
Mary Harris Veeder Copyright© 1995, American Library Association. All rights reserved

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt    Farrar Straus & Giroux (Juv); ISBN: 0374480095
   Imagine coming upon a fountain of youth in a forest. To live forever--isn't that everyone's ideal? For the Tuck family,
eternal life is a reality, but their reaction to their fate is surprising. Award winner Natalie Babbitt (Knee-Knock Rise,
The Search for Delicious) outdoes herself in this sensitive, moving adventure in which 10-year-old Winnie Foster is
kidnapped, finds herself helping a murderer out of jail, and is eventually offered the ultimate gift--but doesn't know
whether to accept it. Babbitt asks profound questions about the meaning of life and death, and leaves the reader with a
greater appreciation for the perfect cycle of nature. Intense and powerful, exciting and poignant, Tuck Everlasting
will last forever--in the reader's imagination. --Emilie Coulter

Canyons by Gary Paulsen   Demco Media; ISBN: 0606048847
   Coyote Runs is a young Apache murdered by soldiers in the 1800s, and a century later, fifteen-year-old Brennan finds boy's skull while camping. Paulsen skillfully delineates the melding of the dead boy's spirit with Brennan's mind and presents a fast-paced story sure to please his readers. -- Copyright © 1991 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.
   More than a hundred years later, while camping near Dog Canyon, fifteen-year-old Brennan Cole becomes obsessed
with a skull that he finds, pierced by a bullet. He learns that it was the skull of an Apache boy executed by soldiers in
1864. A mystical link joins Brennan and Coyote Runs, and Brennan knows that neither boy will find any peace until
Coyote Runs' skull is retumed to an ancient sacred place. In a grueling run through the canyon to retum the skull,
Brennan faces the challenge of his life.

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Mrs. Karin Thody	Mr. Joe Tanasi	Mrs. Kathy Feegel	Mrs. Judy Turner
Mrs. Kathy Hubbard	Mr. Richard Notarangelo	Mrs. Francie Goodwin	Mr. Rich Pestritto

	Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Maddix, Dan Craig (Illustrator) Aladdin Paperbacks; ISBN: 0689812361 What if the costumed workers at historical sites really lived there, and tourists watched them through hidden cameras rather than from pathways? What if those workers and families were not allowed to leave, ever? Jessie lives in the 1840s, or so she believes until her mother sends her on an escape mission outside the fence, where it's 1996. The suspense and the cataloging of differences as they appear to Jessie are the best parts here. The resolution of the plot, which includes the revelation that the inhabitants have been used for scientific experimentation, comes too fast, but the quirky twist on time-travel fiction will keep the attention of readers. Mary Harris Veeder Copyright© 1995, American Library Association. All rights reserved
	Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt Farrar Straus & Giroux (Juv); ISBN: 0374480095 Imagine coming upon a fountain of youth in a forest. To live forever--isn't that everyone's ideal? For the Tuck family, eternal life is a reality, but their reaction to their fate is surprising. Award winner Natalie Babbitt (Knee-Knock Rise, The Search for Delicious) outdoes herself in this sensitive, moving adventure in which 10-year-old Winnie Foster is kidnapped, finds herself helping a murderer out of jail, and is eventually offered the ultimate gift--but doesn't know whether to accept it. Babbitt asks profound questions about the meaning of life and death, and leaves the reader with a greater appreciation for the perfect cycle of nature. Intense and powerful, exciting and poignant, Tuck Everlasting will last forever--in the reader's imagination. --Emilie Coulter
	Canyons by Gary Paulsen Demco Media; ISBN: 0606048847 Coyote Runs is a young Apache murdered by soldiers in the 1800s, and a century later, fifteen-year-old Brennan finds boy's skull while camping. Paulsen skillfully delineates the melding of the dead boy's spirit with Brennan's mind and presents a fast-paced story sure to please his readers. -- Copyright © 1991 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved. More than a hundred years later, while camping near Dog Canyon, fifteen-year-old Brennan Cole becomes obsessed with a skull that he finds, pierced by a bullet. He learns that it was the skull of an Apache boy executed by soldiers in 1864. A mystical link joins Brennan and Coyote Runs, and Brennan knows that neither boy will find any peace until Coyote Runs' skull is retumed to an ancient sacred place. In a grueling run through the canyon to retum the skull, Brennan faces the challenge of his life.