8th grade humanities anthology, 2006-2007

This anthology was essentially a readings packet. Here's what was there, along with web links where available:

Short Stories/Essays/Speeches

Brackenbury, Rosalind “May 19, 1942"

Bradbury, Ray “The Veldt”

http://ingles.universidadarcis.cl/asignaturas/8/LitNorAm/textos/Bradbury_-_Short_Stories.pdf

http://www.veddma.com/veddma/Veldt.htm

Cisneros, Sandra “Eleven”

http://louisville.edu/a-s/english/subcultures/colors/blue/ammanu01/elevenhtml

Cofer, Judith Ortiz “Bad Influence”

Dybek, Stuart “Blight,”from The Coast of Chicago

Edwards, Kim “The Story of My Life”

Erdich, Louise “The Shawl”

Foner, Eric “The Reconstruction Amendments: Official Documents as History”

http://www.historynow.org/12_2004/historian.html

Henry, O. “The Gift of the Magi”

http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/magi.html

Jackson, Shirley “The Lottery”

http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lotry.html

Lincoln, Abraham “The Gettysburg Address”

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/al16/speeches/gettys.htm

Lincoln, Abraham “Second Inaugural Address”

http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/inaug2.htm

Maupassant, Guy de “The Necklace”

http://www.bartleby.com/195/20.html

Morrison, Toni “Recitatif”

O’Brien, Tim “The Things They Carried”

Peck, Richard “Priscilla and the Wimps”

Poe, Edgar Allan “The Masque of the Red Death”

http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/masque.html

Saki (H. H. Munro) “The Storyteller”

http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/Storyteller.html

Sears, Vickie “Dancer”

Sherman, Allan from A Gift of Laughter: The Autobiography of Allan Sherman

Sinclair, Upton from The Jungle

text: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/140

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Sinclair/TheJungle/

http://www.online-literature.com/upton_sinclair/jungle/

audio (mp3) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6556

Tan, Amy “Rules of the Game,” from The Joy Luck Club

http://ecr.lausd.k12.ca.us/staff/jfirestein/Rules%20of%20The%20Game.doc

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Poetry

Bishop, Elizabeth “The Fish”

http://www.simonhuggins.com/uricon/classic/bishop_elizabeth/fish.htm

Cummings, E.E. “In Just-“

http://www.web-books.com/classics/Poetry/anthology/cummings/InJust.htm

Dickinson, Emily “Hope is the thing with feathers”

http://www.online-literature.com/dickinson/827/

Dickenson, Emily “I dwell in Possibility”

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/ed-possibility.html

http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/emilydickinson/10609

Frost, Robert “Mending Wall,” in North of Boston (1915)

http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/frost-mending.html

http://www.bartleby.com/118/2.html

Frost, Robert “The Road Not Taken”

http://www.bartleby.com/119/1.html

Frost, Robert “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

http://www.online-literature.com/frost/751/

Harte, Bret “Chicago”

Holmes, John from “Map of My Country”

http://dca.tufts.edu/features/holmes/world/map/index.html

Hughes, Langston “A Dream Deferred”

http://www.cswnet.com/~menamc/langston.htm

http://www.poemhunter.com/i/ebooks/pdf/langston_hughes_2004_9.pdf

Hughes, Langston “I, Too”

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=1552

http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Langston-Hughes/2383

http://www.poemhunter.com/i/ebooks/pdf/langston_hughes_2004_9.pdf

Johnson, James Weldon “Lift Every Voice and Sing”

http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=37

Lazarus, Emma “The New Colossus”

http://www.libertystatepark.com/emma.htm

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/LIBERTY/lazaruspoem.html

http://www.sonnets.org/lazarus.htm

Lee, Li-Young “I Ask My Mother to Sing”

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-ask-my-mother-to-sing/

Levertov, Denise “The Secret”

http://www.poemhunter.com/i/ebooks/pdf/denise_levertov_2004_9.pdf

Little, Jean “After English Class” from Hey World, Here I Am!

Macleish, Archibald “Ars Poetica”

http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Archibald-MacLeish/391

Macleish, Archibald “Brave New World”

Merriam, Eve “How to Eat a Poem”

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/poetry/eatpoem.html

Nye, Naomi Shihab “Hidden”

http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Naomi-Shihab-Nye/7086

Okita, Dwight “In Response to Executive Order 9066"

http://www.nps.gov/archive/manz/ed_best_eo9066_response.htm

http://msavina.squarespace.com/ftm-files/FTM%20Reading%20-%20Dwight%20Okita%20poem.pdf

Sandburg, Carl “Chicago”

http://www.bartleby.com/165/1.html

Soto, Gary “Saturday at the Canal”

http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Gary-Soto/4352

Soto, Gary “That Girl,” from A Fire in My Hands

Stevens, Wallace “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”

http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Wallace-Stevens/1030

Tobias, John “Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle Received from a friend Called Felicity”

http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~hsiao/verse/watermelon.html

Updike, John “Player Piano”

Whittier, John Greenleaf from “Snow-Bound”

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/9571

Williams, William Carlos “This is Just to Say”

http://www.poemhunter.com/i/ebooks/pdf/william_carlos_williams_2004_9.pdf

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World War I Poetry

Brooke, Rupert “Peace”

http://www.poemhunter.com/i/ebooks/pdf/rupert_brooke_2004_9.pdf

http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/projects/jtap/tutorials/intro/brooke/ipeace.html

Brooke, Rupert “The Soldier”

http://www.poemhunter.com/i/ebooks/pdf/rupert_brooke_2004_9.pdf

http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/projects/jtap/tutorials/intro/brooke/vsoldier.html

McCrae, John “In Flanders Fields”

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/mccrae.html

http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/McCrae.html

http://www.greatwar.co.uk/poems/inflanders.htm

Owen, Wilfred “Anthem for Doomed Youth”

http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owen2.html

Owen, Wilfred “The Parable of the Old Man and the Young”

http://www.poemtree.com/poems/ParableOfTheOldMan.htm

http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jtap/warpoems.htm#5

Owen, Wilfred “Dulce et Decorum est”

http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owen1.html

Seeger, Alan “Rendezvous”

http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Alan-Seeger/17816

Rosenberg, Isaac “Break of Day in the Trenches”

http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/projects/jtap/rose/poem.html

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/break-of-day-in-the-trenches/

Rosenberg, Isaac “Louse Hunting”

http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/Anthology/Rosenberg/Louse.htm

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1745.html

http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/Louse.html

Peret, Benjamin “Little Song of the Maimed”

http://www.poems-world.com/Benjamin-Peret/little-song-for-the-maimed/1036

http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/30285-Benjamin-Peret-Little-song-for-the-maimed

Sensory integration disorder in today's NY Times

Check out today's New York Times for an article about SI disorder:

HEALTH / MENTAL HEALTH & BEHAVIOR | June 5, 2007
The Disorder Is Sensory; the Diagnosis, Elusive
By BENEDICT CAREY


My thoughts? Well, SI dysfunction is a tricky thing: I feel confident I've seen it in my own child, yet the scientific evidence on the disorder is practically nil, let alone evidence on effective treatments. In a previous post of LD-related resources (here), I posted a few items on this topic; I repeat them here:

Sensory Integration International (focus is the Ayres/OT view of SI)

Sensory Processing Disorder Network (lots of info about SI, treatment, options, etc.

The Out-Of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping With Sensory Integration Dysfunction, by Carol Stock Kranowitz and Larry B. Silver (original edition 1998; revised edition 2005). I thought the book was very helpful in understanding range of possible presentations of SI dysfunction; revised edition looks pretty similar to original.

Answers to Questions Teachers Ask About Sensory Integration, by Carol Stock Kranowitz, Deanna Iris Sava, Elizabeth Haber, Lynn Balzer-Martin, and Stacey Szklut, first edition 2000; second edition 2004.

The Sensory-Sensitive Child: Practical Solutions for Out-of-Bounds Behavior, by Karen A. Smith and Kren R. Gouze, 2004. I liked Chapters 2 (description of problems) and 6 (checklist-does your child have a problem?), but the best was Chapter 8 ("Surviving and Thriving at School", because preschool, grade school, and middle school were discussed separately (sorry, no high school discussion!).

We biked the drive....in the rain!