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Feedback Requested: ELA and Social Studies

The AASD ELA Director is reviewing instructional materials for their courses. As part of the adoption process, AASD staff members, students, parents, and residents are provided with the opportunity to examine and contribute feedback on the recommended instructional materials.

The feedback collected will be taken into consideration by the committee to determine the final list of instructional materials that will be recommended to the AASD Board of Education.

The Director requests feedback on the following:

Course

Materials Title

Publisher

Author

English Language Arts

6th Grade

Course #1060

  • Crash
  • Loser
  • Out of the Dust
  • Refugee
  • Restart
  • The Westing Game
  • Yearling
  • Scholastic Inc.
  • Scholastic Inc.
  • Scholastic Inc.
  • Scholastic Inc.
  • Puffin Books
  • Jerry Spinelli
  • Jerry Spinelli
  • Karen Hesse
  • Alan Gratz
  • Gordon Korman
  • Ellen Raskin
ELA - Grade 6 - Google Input Form

 

Course Materials Title Publisher Author

English Language Arts

7th Grade

Course #1070

&

Geography

7th Grade

Course #3740

  • Mud City
  • Parvana’s Journey
  • Tears of a Tiger
  • The Bus Ride That Changed History: The Story of Rosa Parks
  • Groundwood Books
  • Douglas & McIntyre
  • Atheneum Books for Young Readers
  • Sandpiper, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Deborah Ellis
  • Deborah Ellis
  • Sharon M Draper
  • Pamela Duncan Edwards
ELA & Geography - Grade 7 - Google Input Form

 

Course

Materials Title

Publisher

Author

English Language Arts

7th Grade

Course #1070

  • Artemis Fowl
  • Seedfolks
  • Soldier Boys
  • Zen and the art of faking it
  • Hyperion Books for Children
  • HarperCollins Publishers
  • Simon Pulse, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
  • Scholastic Press
  • Eoin Colfer
  • Paul Fleischman
  • Dean Hughes
  • Jordan Sonnenblick
ELA - Grade 7 - Google Input Form

 

Course

Materials Title

Publisher

Author

English Language Arts

8th Grade

Course #1080

  • Artemis Fowl
  • Seedfolks
  • Soldier Boys
  • Zen and the art of faking it
  • Hyperion Books for Children
  • HarperCollins Publishers
  • Simon Pulse, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
  • Scholastic Press
  • Eoin Colfer
  • Paul Fleischman
  • Dean Hughes
  • Jordan Sonnenblick

 

Course

Materials Title

Publisher

Author

English Language Arts

8th Grade

Course #1080

  • All American Boys
  • Ghost Boys
  • Summer of my German Soldier
  • The Graveyard Book
  • Antheneum Books for Young Readers
  • Little, Brown and Company
  • Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc.
  • HarperCollins Publishers
  • Jason Reynolds Brendan Kiely
  • Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • Bette Greene
  • Neil Gaiman

 

Course

Materials Title

Publisher

Author

US History

8th Grade

Course #3835

  • A Long Way from Chicago
  • Johnny Tremain
  • Mississippi Trial, 1955
  • Search and Destroy
  • The Devil’s Arithmetic
  • The Witch of  Blackbird Pond 
  • Puffin Books
  • Dell Publishing
  • Speak, Penguin Group
  • Simon Pulse, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
  • Puffin Books
  • Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc.
  • Richard Peck
  • Esther Forbes
  • Chris Crowe
  • Dean Hughes
  • Jane Yolen
  • Elizabeth George Speare
US History - Grade 8 - Google Input Form

Print and fill out a feedback form or fill out an online feedback form. Examination copies of each recommended instructional material and feedback forms are available at the following locations from Wednesday, April 23, 2025, until 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 4, 2025.

Questions regarding the AASD ELA Department recommendations may be directed to Kelly Leopold, leopoldkelly@aasd.k12.wi.us, Scullen Leadership Center, (920) 852-5320, ext. 60172.

**Please contact Kelly Leopold if additional time is needed in previewing these texts.

Examination copies of each recommended instructional material and feedback forms are available at

AASD Leadership Center 
131 E. Washington Street, 
Suite 1A Appleton, WI 54911

The Leadership Center is open Monday-Thursday from 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. and open Friday from 7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

AASD Welcome Center
2701 N. Oneida St, Suite C3 
Appleton, WI 54911

The Welcome Center is open Monday-Friday from 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. 

_ELAGeographyGrade7BookReviewDocument-4_23_2025 (PDF)
_ELAGrade8BookReviewDocument-4_23_2025 (PDF)
_USHistoryGrade8BookReviewDocument-4_23_2025 (PDF)
ELAGrade6BookReviewDocument-4_23_2025 (PDF)
ELAGrade7BookReviewDocument-4_23_2025 (PDF)
ELAGrade8BookReviewDocument-4_23_20252 (PDF)