8th+Unit+2+It+Happened+in+the+Country

"Rural Settings in North America: It Happened in the Country"

http://commoncore.org/free/index.php/maps/grade_8_unit_2/

__Poetry__

 * Robert Frost "Mending Wall"
 * Lee Bennett Hopkins "My America: A Poetry Atlas of the United States
 * Edgar Lee Masters "Spoon River Anthony"
 * Emily Dickinson "The Railway Train"

__Short Stories__

 * //Of Mice and Men// (John Steinbeck) [CMS Class-set]
 * //The Daybreakers// (//The Sacketts)// Louis L'Amour [CMS Class-set]
 * //The Adventures of Tom Sawyer// (Mark Twain)
 * //Travels with Charley: In Search of America// (John Steinbeck)

__Informational Texts__

 * //Trail of Tears// (R. Conrad Stein)
 * //WIld Horses I Have Known// (Hope Ryden)