Note: MetaMetrics® made changes to the Lexile® levels in June 2017 in order to provide more accurate measures for early readers. These changes affected 32% of all previously assigned Lexile® levels, including some texts for elementary and middle grade readers. The Lexile® levels listed on EL Education materials were added before this shift and do not reflect updated Lexile® levels.
Module 1
Texts to Buy
Texts that need to be procured. Please download the Trade Book List for procurement guidance.
| Text | Quantity | ISBNs |
|---|---|---|
| Inside Out & Back Again | One per student |
ISBN: 978-0061962790, 0061962791 |
Texts included in the module
Texts that are included in the lesson materials.| Text | Quantity | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Hard Times in Sarajevo: Cold Weather Comes Early to Bosnia’s War-Torn Capital, Bringing More Hardship, Death | ||
| Peace Patrol: U.S. Troops Will Stay at Least Another Year in Tense Bosnia | ||
| People Without A Land | ||
| Meet the Kurds | ||
| Town Mouse and Country Mouse | ||
| Welcome to Sarajevo | ||
| A Place of Her Own | ||
| I Escaped the Taliban | ||
| Bosnia: The Children of War | ||
| Refugee Writing on the Journey |
Recommended texts for independent reading
Optional texts for students to read on their own to learn more about the topic. You can also download a PDF of this list.| Text | Genre | Lexile Measure |
|---|---|---|
| Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan’s Rescue from War | Informational | 760 |
| All the Broken Pieces | Literature | 680 |
| A Million Shades of Gray | Literature | 700 |
| Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam | Literature | 730 |
| Why Vietnamese Immigrants Came to America | Informational | 750 |
| Noodle Pie | Informational | 770 |
| Goodbye, Vietnam | Literature | 810 |
| Year of Impossible Goodbyes | Literature | 840 |
| Echoes of the White Giraffe | Literature | 870 |
| The Lotus Seed | Literature | 880 |
| Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy | Biography | 930 |
| Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives | Informational | 930 |
| Vietnam Veterans Memorial | Informational | 940 |
| The Fall of Saigon | Informational | 940 |
| Vietnamese in America | Informational | 940 |
| Refugees & Asylum Seekers | Informational | 940 |
| Vietnam | Informational | 950 |
| The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam | Biography | 1 090 |
| Migration and Refugees | Biography | 1 090 |
| Vietnamese American | Informational | 1 100 |
| When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman’s Journey from War to Peace | Biography | 1 100 |
| The Vietnam War | Informational | 1 110 |
| Water Buffalo Days: Growing up in Vietnam | Literature | 1 112 |
| Refugees | Informational | 1 150 |
| 10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War | Informational | 1 210 |
| The Vietnamese Americans | Informational | 1 340 |
| The Vietnamese Boat People: 1954 and 1975-1992 | Informational | |
| Boat People: Personal Stories from the Vietnamese Exodus 1975-1996 | Informational | |
| Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans | Informational | |
| Voices of Vietnamese Boat People: Nineteen Narratives of Escape and Survival | Biography | |
| The Vietnamese | Informational | |
| Weeping Under This Same Moon | Literature |
Module 2A
Texts to Buy
Texts that need to be procured. Please download the Trade Book List for procurement guidance.
| Text | Quantity | ISBNs |
|---|---|---|
| To Kill a Mockingbird (Film Adaptation) | ||
| To Kill A Mockingbird | One per student |
ISBN: 978-0446314862, 0446314862 |
Texts included in the module
Texts that are included in the lesson materials.| Text | Quantity | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Equal Rights For Women | 1969 | |
| Incident | 1925 | |
| Solitude | 1883 | |
| The Great Society | 1964 | |
| Those Winter Sundays | ||
| "Ain’t I a Woman?” |
Recommended texts for independent reading
Optional texts for students to read on their own to learn more about the topic. You can also download a PDF of this list.| Text | Genre | Lexile Measure |
|---|---|---|
| The Little Rock Nine Stand Up for Their Rights | Informational | 590 |
| The Road to Memphis | Literature | 670 |
| A Lesson Before Dying | Literature | 750 |
| The Outsiders | Literature | 750 |
| Mississippi Trial, 1955 | Literature | 760 |
| Clover | Literature | 820 |
| Wish You Well | Literature | 840 |
| Let the Circle Be Unbroken | Literature | 850 |
| I Capture the Castle | Literature | 920 |
| Taking a Stand: Being a Leader & Helping Others | Informational | 925 |
| Cold Sassy Tree | Literature | 930 |
| The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 | Literature | 1 000 |
| Miles to Go for Freedom: Segregation & Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years | Informational | 1 060 |
| Birmingham 1963: How a Photograph Rallied Civil Rights Support‡ | Literature | 920 |
| Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High | Autobiography | 1 000 |
| Tell All the Children Our Story: Memoirs and Mementos of Being Young and Black in America | Informational | 1 130 |
| Cry, the Beloved Country | Literature | |
| A Time to Kill | Literature | |
| About a Boy | Literature | |
| The Summer We Got Saved | Literature |
Module 2B
Texts to Buy
Texts that need to be procured. Please download the Trade Book List for procurement guidance.
| Text | Quantity | ISBNs |
|---|---|---|
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream | One per student |
ISBN: 978-0743482813 |
| Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth & A Midsummer Night’s Dream |
ISBN: 978-0-671-76046-5 |
Texts included in the module
Texts that are included in the lesson materials.| Text | Quantity | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| "Pyramus and Thisbe" |
http://www.kundaliniawakeningsystems1.com/downloads/thomas-bulfinchs-mythology-age-of-fable-vols1&2.pdf, |
|
| The Harvest That Never Came |
Cricket, 1993 |
|
| Top Ten Reasons Shakespeare Did Not Write Shakespeare |
Amazon Digital Services, Inc., ISBN: B00BV7DVVG |
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| The Shakespeare Shakedown |
Newsweek, 2011 |
|
| The Lure of Shakespeare |
Calliope, 2005 |
|
| Shakespeare’s Universal Appeal Examined,” in DNA |
DNA, 2012 |
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| A Midsummer Night’s Dream, film | 1999 |
Recommended texts for independent reading
Optional texts for students to read on their own to learn more about the topic. You can also download a PDF of this list.| Text | Genre | Lexile Measure |
|---|---|---|
| “Top Ten Reasons Shakespeare Did Not Write Shakespeare” | Informational | |
| “The Shakespeare Shakedown,” in Newsweek (Vol. 158, Issue 17) | Informational | |
| "The Lure of Shakespeare,” in Calliope (Vol. 15, Issue 8) | Informational | |
| "Shakespeare’s Universal Appeal Examined,” in DNA | Informational | |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream, film | Literature | |
| Come Fall | Literature | 550 |
| Eight Keys | Literature | 590 |
| Lords and Ladies: A Novel of Discworld | Literature | 680 |
| William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Literature | 700 |
| William Shakespeare’s As You Like It | Literature | 725 |
| Magic Street | Literature | 800 |
| William Shakespeare & the Globe | Informational | 850 |
| Shakespeare: A Life | Biography | 920 |
| The Teen’s Guide to World Domination: Advice on Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Awesomeness | Informational | 950 |
| The Wednesday Wars | Literature | 990 |
| The Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare | Informational | 1 030 |
| The Plays of Shakespeare; A Thematic Guide | Informational | 1 220 |
| Symposium and Phaedrus | Literature | 1 430 |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Graphic Novel: Original Text Version | Literature | |
| A Theatergoer’s Guide to Shakespeare’s Themes | Informational | |
| Four Great Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Twelfth Night; The Tempest | Literature | |
| Living with Shakespeare | Informational | |
| Shakespeare A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Plays, His Poems, His Life and Times, and More | Informational | |
| Shakespeare: The World as Stage | Informational | |
| Understanding a Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents | Informational |
Module 3A
Texts to Buy
Texts that need to be procured. Please download the Trade Book List for procurement guidance.
| Text | Quantity | ISBNs |
|---|---|---|
| Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption | One per student |
ISBN: 9780812974492 |
Texts included in the module
Texts that are included in the lesson materials.| Text | Quantity | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| “Fourteen-Part Message” | 1941 | |
| “War in the Pacific” |
Cobblestone (Vol. 15, Issue 1), 1994 |
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| “Day of Infamy” speech, delivered Dec. 8, 1941, as found at http://history1900s.about.com/od/franklindroosevelt/a/Day-Of-Infamy-Speech.htm | 1941 | |
| The Report on Japanese on the West Coast of the United States (“the Munson Report”), Oct. 7, 1941. |
The Munson Report, 1941 |
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| “The Fifth Column on the Coast,” The Washington Post, Feb. 12, 1942. |
The Washington Post, 1942 |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Executive Order No. 9066,” Feb. 19, 1942. | 1942 | |
| “The Life of Miné Okubo,” written by Expeditionary Learning for instructional purposes. |
Expeditionary Learning, |
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| “Miné Okubo,” Voices from the Gaps, http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/okuboMine.php. |
University of Minnesota, 2004 |
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| “Riverside’s Miné Okubo,” http://splinters-splinters.blogspot.com/2011/08/riversides-mine-okubo.html. |
Splinters-Splinters (blog), 2011 |
Recommended texts for independent reading
Optional texts for students to read on their own to learn more about the topic. You can also download a PDF of this list.| Text | Genre | Lexile Measure |
|---|---|---|
| A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor | Literature | 530 |
| Citizen 13660 | Biography | 920 |
| Remember Pearl Harbor: American and Japanese Survivors Tell Their Stories | Collective Biography | 820 |
| Pearl Harbor: The U.S. Enters World War II | Informational | 900 |
| The War at Home: Japan During World War II | Informational | 930 |
| Up from the Ashes: Rebuilding Japan After World War II | Informational | 1 020 |
| Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference | Informational | 1 040 |
| Why Did Hiroshima Happen? | Informational | 1 170 |
| Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment | Informational | 1 040 |
| Air Raid—Pearl Harbor! The Story of December 7, 1941 | Informational | 1 070 |
| A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy (1941–1945) | Informational | |
| World War II | Informational | |
| Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment | Informational | |
| Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodore Seuss Geisel | Informational | |
| Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family | Informational | 1 280 |
Module 3B
Texts to Buy
Texts that need to be procured. Please download the Trade Book List for procurement guidance.
| Text | Quantity | ISBNs |
|---|---|---|
| A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School |
ISBN: 978-0-345-51101-0 |
|
| Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches |
ISBN: 978-0465027538 |
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| Little Rock Girl 1957: How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration |
ISBN: 978-0-756-54512-3 |
Texts included in the module
Texts that are included in the lesson materials.| Text | Quantity | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| The Editorial Position of the Arkansas Gazette in the Little Rock School Crisis |
http://scipio.uark.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/Civilrights/id/440/rec/1.,, |
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| “Life in the South after the Civil War” |
http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/life-in-the-south-after-the-civil-war.html#lesson, |
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| 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution | ||
| “Video Overview: Plessy v. Ferguson” |
https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/bf09.socst.us.const.plessy/plessy-v-ferguson/#.WtD3QYjwZPY, |
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| Jim Crow Laws |
http://www.nps.gov/malu/forteachers/jim_crow_laws.htm, |
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| “What Was Jim Crow?” |
http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm, 2000 |
|
| John Chancellor reports on the integration at Central High School |
http://www.nbclearn.com/portal/site/learn/finishing-the-dream/1957-showdown, |
|
| Brown v. Board of Education |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTGHLdr-iak, |
|
| Plessy v. Ferguson |
Recommended texts for independent reading
Optional texts for students to read on their own to learn more about the topic. You can also download a PDF of this list.| Text | Genre | Lexile Measure |
|---|---|---|
| Cracking the Wall: The Struggles of the Little Rock Nine | Informational | 540 |
| The Little Rock Nine Stand Up for Their Rights | Informational | 540 |
| The Lions of Little Rock | Literature | 630 |
| The Little Rock Nine and the Fight for Equal Education | Informational | 725 |
| Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories | Informational | 900 |
| Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary | Informational | 960 |
| Warriors Don't Cry: The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High | Literature | 1 000 |
| Students on Strike: Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Brown and Me: A Memoir | Informational | 1 030 |
| Miles to go for Freedom: Segregation & Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years | Informational | 1 075 |
| Today the World Is Watching You: The Little Rock Nine and the Fight for School Integration, 1957 | Informational | 1 110 |
| The Little Rock Nine: Struggle for Integration | Informational | 1 010 |
| Words of Protest, Words of Freedom: Poetry of the American Civil Rights Movement and Era | Poetry | |
| Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality | Informational | |
| Plessy v. Ferguson: A Brief History with Documents | Informational | |
| A Life Is More Than a Moment: The Desegregation of Little Rock’s Central High | Informational | |
| Beyond Central, toward Acceptance: A Collection of Oral Histories from Students of Little Rock Central High | Informational |
Module 4
Texts to Buy
Texts that need to be procured. Please download the Trade Book List for procurement guidance.
| Text | Quantity | ISBNs |
|---|---|---|
| The Omnivore’s Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat, Young Readers Edition | One per student |
ISBN: 9781101993835 |
Texts included in the module
Texts that are included in the lesson materials.| Text | Quantity | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Antibiotic Debate Overview | ||
| The Economic Impact of the Indiana Livestock Industries | ||
| Genetically Engineered Crops-What, How and Why | ||
| Understanding Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations and Their Impact on Communities | ||
| Interview with an Organic Farmer | ||
| Nitrogen fertilizer is bad stuff-and not just because it could blow up your town | ||
| Food Deserts | ||
| The Cultivation of Agricultural Subsidies | ||
| Lunch or Junk | ||
| Birke Baehr: What’s wrong with our food system | ||
| Organic Eggs vs. Conventional Farm Eggs, Free Range Chickens, & Ethical Animal Treatment Vital Farms |
Recommended texts for independent reading
Optional texts for students to read on their own to learn more about the topic. You can also download a PDF of this list.| Text | Genre | Lexile Measure |
|---|---|---|
| http://www.un.org/en/sustainablefuture/sustainability.shtml | Informational | |
| http://www.un.org/en/sustainablefuture/food.shtml | Informational | |
| http://www.gracelinks.org/264/genetic-engineering | Informational | |
| http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_bittman_on_what_s_wrong_with_what_we_eat.html | Informational | |
| http://www.challengebasedlearning.org/challenge/view/13 | Informational | |
| http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/water-h20-life | Informational | |
| http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/117568/icode/ | Informational | |
| “Wangari Maathai: Trees for Peace" | Informational | |
| “The Critical Role of Global Food Consumption Patterns in Achieving Sustainable Food Systems and Food for All." | Informational | |
| “Food around the World” | Informational | |
| “Global Groceries” | Informational | |
| “For Kids: Greener Diet” | Informational | |
| Food and Farming | Informational | 1 240 |
| Food: Ethical Debates in What We Eat | Informational | 1 190 |
| Feeding the World | Informational | 890 |
| What’s Cooking? The History of American Food | Informational | 1 120 |
| From Farm to Table | Informational | 1 120 |
| Feeding Relationships | Informational | 930 |
| Dairy: From the Farm to Your Table | Informational | 1 060 |
| Do you Know Where Your Food Comes From? | Informational | 980 |
| Food | Informational | 970 |
| Word of Mouth: The Food You Eat | Informational | 960 |
| Feeding the World | Informational | 890 |
| Seeds of Change | Informational | 820 |
| Avoiding Hunger and Finding Water | Informational | 720 |
| Food | Informational | 630 |