Literature Guides

All Core Classes

Split Lit only Gate
Shadow Spinner by Susan Fletcher
"There is another way of being a storyteller.  Like a spider, you can spin a fragile thread out of your own life - from the shadows of your dreams.  Then you weave it and snip it and stitch it.  At last, you put on the poor garment and wear it out into the world." page 60
 
Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
"I am bit by fleas and plagued by family." page 1
 
 
 
 
Anna of Byzantium by Tracy Barrett (second trimester)
              "For I am Anna Comnena, and I was born in the purple chamber where the heirs to the throne of the most powerful empire in the world first see the light." page 4
I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton De Trevino (second trimester)
"I, Juan de Pareja,  was born into slavery early in the 17th century."
 
 
 
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
 
Jackaroo by Cynthia Voight (mid 2nd trimester)
"Men did not come to the Doling Room.  The shame would be too great for a man to carry.  So the women carried it."  page 4
   
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
(3rd trimester)
" 'What is there about fire that's so lovely?  No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?' "  Beatty, page 115