LITERATURE
7th Grade
The students will be reading and listening to chapters daily. They will have guided questions and quizzes throughout the book. There will be an accumulative test at the end. Al Capone Does My Shirts is a historical fiction novel for young adults by the author Gennifer Choldenko. In the book, Moose Flanagan and his family move from Santa Monica to Alcatraz Island when his father takes a new job as an electrician and a guard in the well-known Alcatraz prison. The book was named a Newbery Honor selection, and in 2007 it received the California Young Reader Medal. It has three sequels: Al Capone Shines My Shoes, Al Capone Does My Homework, and Al Capone Throws Me a Curve |
8th Grade
The students will be reading and listening to chapters daily. They will have guided questions and quizzes throughout the book. There will be an accumulative test at the end. The students will also be watching The Boy in the Striped Pajamas film and write a comparison paper on the book and film. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a 2006 Holocaust novel by Irish novelist John Boyne.[1] The plot concerns a German boy named Bruno whose father is the commandant of Auschwitz and Bruno's friendship with a Jewish detainee named Shmuel. |
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