Belleville Mennonite School Scope and Sequence

Middle School Literature

Grade level: 8

Flowers for Algernon	Reading comprehension; independent reading comprehension; reading log; foreshadowing; recognizing clipped words; characterization; irony; evaluate grammatical mistakes
American Folklore Strong but Quirky: The Birth of Davy Crockett (217); He Lion, Bruh Bear and Bruh Rabbit (278); How the Snake Got Poison and Strawberries (388); Paul Buynan Digs the St. Lawrence River (522); John Henery (524)	Reading comprehension; independent reading comprehension; tone; informal speech; hyperbole; personification; author style; predictions; inferences characterization; cause and effect; dialect; events in a story; Latin words; rhyme
To Kill a Mockingbird	Characterization; chronological order; flashback; narration; point of view; reading comprehension; independent reading comprehension; diction; foreshadowing; inferences; predictions;
Logic	Identifying logical or reasonable statements; constructing reasonable, logical arguments; identifying faulty logic