Course 2 (grade 7) includes literature from authors such as Cynthia Rylant, Sinclair Lewis, Barbara Jordan, and Walt Whitman. The literary genres covered are:
- Unit 1:Â Fiction and Nonfiction
- Unit 2: Short Stories
- Unit 3: Types of Nonfiction
- Unit 4: Poetry
- Unit 5: Drama
- Unit 6: Themes in the Oral Tradition