Text Exemplars Grades 6-8 Informational Texts: English Language Arts

Grade: 6-8

These texts exemplify the level of complexity and quality that the Common Core State Standards require all students in grades 6-8 to engage with.

Includes 5 English Language Arts texts:

• Blood, Toil, Tears & Sweat: Address to Parliament (included in Great Speeches of the 20th Century)
• Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad
• Letter on Thomas Jefferson (included in The Portable John Adams)
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
• Travels with Charley: In Search of America