| World Literature |  | Reading: The teacher models reading strategies and provides guided practice to promote comprehension during prereading, during reading and postreading of a variety of genres.
Vocabulary: The teacher integrates vocabulary instruction with reading. Key vocabulary focuses on the need for students to understand the words both in the context of reading the selections and for the usefulness of the vocabulary beyond the selection. Some emphasis on prefixes, suffixes and roots is taught separately.
Literature: The teacher provides the means for students to develop background information about the selections read including the historical, cultural and biographical context. The teacher reinforces and further develops the students' skills in using literary terminology to respond to and analyze literature. Students are given opportunities to make connections to the literature including text to self, text to text and self to world. Besides the short stories, poetry and nonfiction selections, students are expected to read at least three longer works from novels or full length plays.
Writing: The teacher assigns both informal and formal writing assignments. Students respond to readings and other classroom instruction on an almost daily basis. The students keep a readers'/writers' notebook for informal responses to reading and other classroom activities and to use as a basis for more formal writing assignments. The teacher models and instructs students in the writing process including prewriting (idea generating), drafting (organizing, developing), revising and editing. Students receive feedback from both teacher and peers during the process. The teacher instructs students on consideration of audience and purpose for their writing. Spelling and grammar instruction is integrated with the teaching of writing.
Speaking, listening and viewing: The teacher provides instruction for both small group communication and more formal presentations. The teacher instructs students on consideration of audience and purpose for their speaking.
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| World Literature Novels | -The Accident
-All Quiet On the Western Front
-Brave New World
-The Canterbury Tales
-The Count of Monte Cristo
-Cry, the Beloved Country
-Dawn
-The Diary of Anne Frank
-Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
-84 Charring Cross Road
-Frankenstein
-The Good Earth
-Great Expectations
-Havelie (sequel to Shabanu)
-Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
-The Hobbit
-How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
-Interpreter of Maladies
-July's People
-Kaffir Boy
-The Kite Runner
-Maps
-Maru
-Metamorphosis
-Night
-Oliver Twist
-One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
-A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
-The Power of One
-Shabanu
-Shizuko's Daughter
-Siddhartha
-Things Fall Apart
-The Woman Warrior
-You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town
-Hamlet
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