Course 3 (grade 8) includes literature from authors such as Alice Walker, Jack London, Langston Hughes, Jackie Torrence, and Edgar Allen Poe. 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 American Literature