8th Grade Recommended Reading List: "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh"

Ray Bradbury is known for writing fantasy novels whose events could not happen in real life. But in a short story about a drummer boy, he creates characters that honor those who, despite their fears, faced down muskets and cannons at Shiloh (the site of an 1862 Civil War battle).

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 8 Unit 1's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: A Wrinkle in Time, The Drummer Boy of Shiloh, The Odyssey, A Man, Soldier home, Sonnet 116, Where I Find My Heroes, White House Funeral Sermon, O Captain! My Captain!, Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, A Definition of a Gentleman