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Thematic Text Set Ideas

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These lists were started in one of the Saturday institutes at the 2010 provincial conference.

Please add more titles, ideas, authors etc.

 

 

Rebels and Outsiders

Speak (Anderson)  - gr. 8-10

Stuck in Neutral - gr. 7-10

Tribes - gr. 8 (reading level) gr.12 (characters)

Da Funk (music video) (Jonze) gr. 9-12

The Gospel According to Larry  gr. 6-9

Stargirl (Spinelli) gr. 6-9

Skud gr. 7-12

Firegirl gr. 5-8

Rebel Without a Cause (movie)

 

 

Learning/Growth

Love that Dog (Creech)  gr. 4-7

Crazy Man (Porter) gr. 4-7

Willow and Twig gr. 7-8

Randall's Wall 

Maniac Magee (Spinelli)

Firegirl  gr. 5-8

 

 

Power, Control and Empowerment

Speak (Anderson)

Canterbury Tales (Chaucer) "The Franklin's Tale" (?- the one about Griselda?)

The Hunger Games Trilogy (Catching Fire and Mocking Jay) (Collins)

 

 

Change and Revolution

Three Questions (picture book) (Muth) gr. 5

Wild Swans

Midnight is a Place

The Grave

Streetchild

Iqbal

Crispen (Avi)

Oliver Twist (Dickens)

 

 

Family Relationships

Skellig

Flipped gr. 5-8

Stargirl (Spinelli) gr. 5-8

The Road

Glass Castle

The Uglies Trilogy (Pretties, and Specials) (Westerfeld)

"The Red Convertible" (short story) gr. 10-12

"Blood Red Barracuda" (short story) gr. 10-12

 

 

Oppression

In Search of April Raintree

Of Mice and Men

The Count of Monte Cristo

Night

The Boy in Stripped Pyjamas

The City of Theives

The Book Thief

 

 

Aboriginal *needs more focused category title(s)?

Touching Spirit Bear and sequel (Mikaelson) gr. 5-9

Skeleton Man and  Return of Skeleton Man

Bear Walker

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Alexie) gr. 6-9

Walkabout (Australia)

We Are All Related

Island of the Blue Dolphins

War of the Eagles (Walters) gr. 5-8

Ragged Company (Wagamese) gr. 12

Three Day Road (Boyden) gr. 12

Monkey Beach (Robinson) gr. 12

 

Aboriginal Content Picture Books *same as above

Frog Girl 

Mush Hole

Shin-Chi's Canoe

As Long as the River Flows

 

Diversity

Stuck in Neutral gr. 6 (teenage characters)

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (Haddon)

Stoner and Spaz

Tribes

Freak the Mighty gr. 5-9

Don't Laugh at Me (picture book)

Cruise Control gr. 6-8

 

 

Identity

Kiki's Delivery Service (novella and anime movie)

My Name is Sepeetza gr. 5-8

The tombs of Atuan

The Arrival (wordless) (Tan)

Autobiography of Malcolm X

Eva (Dickinson)

 

 

Multiple Personalities/ Perspectives

Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow (Card)

Heart of Darkness (Conrad)

Fight Club (Palaniuk)

The Matrix (movie) (Silverman)

Dr. Jeckel and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson)

Cruise Control gr. 6-8

Eyes of a .... (?- girl with autism, 1st person)

Flipped gr. 6-8

 

 

Other Worlds

Ender's Game and series (Card)

The Hunger Games Trilogy (Catching Fire and Mocking Jay) (Collins)

Unwind

C

"August 2002: Night Meeting" (short story) gr. 10

The Left Hand of Darkness

 

 

Coming of Age (gr. 9)

Bite of the Mango 

"Taste of Melon"

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Alexie) gr. 6-9

Will's Garden (Lee Maracle) 

Rushmore (movie)

 

 

Restitution (gr. 12)

Atonement (movie)

Twisted

Touching Spirit Bear (Mikaelson)

Shattered (Walters)

"Taste of Melon" (short story) (Borden Deal)

 

 

Courage

Inventing Elliot gr. 6-10

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Alexie) gr. 6-9, 10-11

Cockeyed

Glass Castle

 

 

Conflict (gr. 12)

Ender's Game (Card)

The Illiad (graphic novel)

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Water for Elephants

My Sister's Keeper (Picoult)

Snow Falling on Cedars

The Wars (Findlay)

Three Day Road (Borden)

Watchmen (Moore)

Maus I & II (Spiegelman)

Hatchet (Paulsen) gr. 9

Into Thin Air

The Golden Spruce (NF) (Vailent)

 

 

Growing Up

Parvana's Journey (Ellis)

Theories of Relativity

Fouling Out gr. 5-8

 

 

Relationships

The Beckoners (Mac) gr. 9

Theories of Relativity gr. 9

 

 

Adversity

Iqbal

Define Normal

Freedom Writer's Diary gr. 9-12

Glass Castle gr. 10-12

Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway)

Mixing It gr. 6-9

 

 

Heroes

Rosa Parks

Malcolm X

Solder X gr. 8-9

Three Cups of Tea (NF) (Mortenson) multiple editions: diff ages

Keeper (Peet)

Touching Spirit Bear (Mikaelsen)

9/11 (comic or picture book)

We All Fall Down (Walters) gr. 5-12

Safe as Houses (Walters) 5-12

Me to We (NF)(Keilburger)

myhero.com

 

 

Risk Taking/ Adventure

Acceleration gr. 7-12 (gr.7 reading level; teenage characters)

Soldier X gr. 8-9

 

 

Humanity

Shattered (Walters) gr. 7-10

Speak (Anderson)

A Long Way Gone (NF) (Beah) gr. 10-12

Soldier Boys gr. 8

Torn Pages gr. 5-8

The Arrival (wordless) (Tan)

Crazy Man (Porter) gr. 6-9

 

 

Displacement

The Boy int he Stripped Pyjamas

Hana's Suitcase

Courage of the Blue Boy (picture book) (Neubecker)

How to Steal a Dog

Parvana's Journey (Ellis)

Number the Stars

Teddy Bear (homelessness) (picture book)

Fly Away Home (homelessness) (picture book) 

Mush Hole (residential schools) (picture book)

Baseball Saved Us (Japanese internment) (picture book)

The Harmonica (holocaust) (picture book) 

Luba (picture book) 

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