Themes by Topic
Maine A2 Students read fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry, within a grade appropriate span of text complexity, and analyze the characteristics noting how structural features and common literary devices help shape the reader's response.
A2.b Analyze the influence of the setting on the problem and its resolution.
- Literature: "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Literature: "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
- Literature: "Dear America" Native American Experience Books
- Literature: "Dear America: Christmas After All" by Kathryn Lasky
- Literature: "Dear America: Voyage on the Great Titanic" by Ellen Emerson White
- Literature: "Dovey Coe" by Frances O'Roark Dowell
- Literature: "Harriet the Spy" by Louise Fitzhugh
- Literature: "Hitler's Daughter" by Jackie French
- Literature: "Loser" by Jerry Spinelli
- Literature: "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" by Mildred D. Taylor
- Literature: "Sarah, Plain and Tall" and "Skylark" by Patricia Maclachlan
- Literature: "Scorpions" by Walter Dean Myers
- Literature: "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Literature: "The Watsons Go to Birmingham --1963" by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Literature: "Tonight on the Titanic" by Mary Pope Osborne
- Literature: "Tonight on the Titanic" by Mary Pope Osborne
- Literature: "We Beat the Street" by Drs. Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, and George Jenkins
