Welcome to Mr. Crase's Success for All reading class. All Bert Corona Charter School students will be placed in a specialized reading program based on previous test scores. Students will remain in these classes for ten weeks, where they will have the opportunity to improve their reading skills. At the end of the ten week program, students will be retested and then placed in their new SFA class. During this class, students will be expected to participate in read alouds, team talk questions, and team talk written responses. All students will be expected to complete homework daily. Students can view the daily homework by clicking on the homework cycle link. For past SFA class statistics, please visit my class instruction page. |
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Catherine, Called Birdy provides an insider's look at the life of Birdy, 14, the daughter of a minor English nobleman. The year is 1290 and the vehicle for storytelling is Catherine's diary. She looks with a clear and critical eye upon the world around her, telling of the people she knows and of the daily events in her small manor house. Much of Birdy's energy is consumed by avoiding the various suitors her father chooses for her to marry. |
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Stanley Yelnats IV, a shy, overweight boy who always ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time, supposedly due to a family curse, has been wrongly accused of stealing the baseball player Clyde Livingston’s shoes from a charity auction to benefit a homeless shelter. |
| This novel explores life in Depression-era Mississippi as lived by an African-American family, the Logans. The Logans are fortunate; they own their own land in a time and place when many—black and white—are living as sharecroppers on various plantations and racially-motivated crimes are common. |  |
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Ponyboy Curtis and his brothers, Soda and Darry, belong to a gang called the Greasers in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1965. They often fight with the Socs, a group of wealthy, privileged boys. Ponyboy is a shy, quiet 14-year-old boy who gets good grades and likes to draw and read. Sodapop, the middle brother, is 16, handsome and popular. Darry, the oldest brother, has been caring for his brothers since their parents died in a car crash. |
| Brian Robeson is a 13 year old boy who is stranded alone in the Canadian wilderness after the pilot of the single-engine Reims-Cessna F406 bushplane in which he is traveling suffers a heart attack. Brian is forced to try to land the plane, but ends up crash-landing the plane into a lake. He just manages to escape as the plane sinks into the L-shaped lake. |  |
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This novel is based on the true story of Juana Maria, the "Woman of San Nicolas Island", a Nicoleño Indian left alone for 18 years on San Nicolas Island, one of the Channel Islands off the California coast, before being rescued in 1853. By this time Juana Maria was the last known member of her tribe, and was unable to communicate with anyone she met on the mainland. |
| Maniac Magee is a young adult fiction novel written by American author Jerry Spinelli and published in 1990. Exploring themes of racism and homelessness, it follows the story of an orphaned boy looking for a home in the fictional Pennsylvania town of Two Mills. He becomes a local legend for feats of athleticism and fearlessness, and his ignorance of sharp racial boundaries in the town. |  |
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