Text Exemplars Grades 6-8 Informational Texts: History/Social Studies

Grade: 6-8

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

Includes 7 history/social studies texts:

• A Night to Remember
• Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Preamble and First Amendment to the Constitution (included in The United States Constitution)
• The Great Fire
• This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie
• Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist
• The Words We Live By