Themes by Topic
Oklahoma A.4.2 The student will demonstrate knowledge of literary elements and techniques and how they affect the development of a literary work.
A.4.2.b Identify and explain internal and external conflict in the development of a story.
- Literature: "Harriet the Spy" by Louise Fitzhugh
- Literature: "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
- Literature: "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
- Literature: "Misty of Chincoteague" by Marguerite Henry
- Literature: "Sarah, Plain and Tall" and "Skylark" by Patricia Maclachlan
- Literature: "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
- Literature: "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
- Literature: "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton
- Literature: "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Literature: "The Watsons Go to Birmingham --1963" by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Literature: "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
- Literature: "Thunder Rolling in the Mountains" by Scott O'Dell
- Literature: "True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle" by Avi
- Literature: "We Beat the Street" by Drs. Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, and George Jenkins