Middle School Classical Lit Sets | Bundle of 8 Adapted Text Versions

This bundle provides great value and allows teachers to save 40% and get eight complete, one-week classic literature mini-units you can drop into any quarter without blowing up your pacing guide.

This bundle includes adapted versions of:

1. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Baum, 1900) [FREE DOWNLOAD]
2. Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery, 1908)
3. The Secret Garden (Burnett, 1911)
4. The Call of the Wild (London, 1903)
5. Black Beauty (Sewell, 1877)
6. White Fang (London, 1906)
7. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Verne, 1870)
8. Robinson Crusoe (Defoe, 1719)
9. BONUS: A Christmas Carol (Dickens, 1843) [FREE DOWNLOAD]

Adapted Versions vs Traditional Paperback Comparison

Just a quick comparison, if you were to buy traditional paperbacks of these titles at about $7/book for 30 students, that is a $210 investment. For 8 complete lit sets for your classroom that would be over $1600!

What's the tradeoff of using adapted versions?

Pros:

• Reduces story to a fraction of its original length, fitting neatly into a one week lesson.
• Well suited for shorter attention spans to maintain student interest.
• Preserves core narrative elements, themes and character development.
• Better than omitting it completely due to time limits.

Cons:

• Omits some original language and details for brevity, potentially losing nuances of the author's style.
• Limits opportunities for in-depth literary analysis by excluding certain subplots or descriptive passages.

A Quick Look for Teachers

• Replace open-ended, hard-to-manage novel studies with a clearly chunked 5-day sequence, then finish with a whole-text final assessment.
• Read one adapted part per day with built-in, text-dependent discussion prompts so each day functions as its own mini-lesson with a clear objective and close reading opportunities.
• Use 5 individual 20-question self-grading Google Forms exit quizzes for each part as a daily formative check to see who is reading and understanding. No extra grading for you.
• Although assessments are setup for digital classrooms, print versions can be achieved. Just quickly delete the answer keys, print the quizzes and final worksheet, and use the same questions as pencil-and-paper exit tickets and assessments.

Each product includes a zip file consisting of:

Adapted Version Text 15,000~20,000 words (PDF, DOCX, Google Docs)

• Divided into 5 parts for easy daily reading sessions

Student Worksheet (PPT, Google Slides, PDF print)

• 10 Vocabulary Words
• 10 Short Answer Recall/Comprehension
• 5 Challenge Questions (synthesis, analysis, themes, real life connection)

Teacher’s Guide & Answer Key (PDF, DOCX, Google Docs)

• 5 Sets of Daily Discussion Questions (1 per part)
• 5 Sets of Self-Graded Exit Quizzes (1 per part, 20Qs each)
• Answer Keys for Vocab, Short Answer, and Challenge Questions
• Key Figures & Places reference sheets to help students track characters and settings

This 8-book adapted classics bundle gives you a complete, no-prep toolkit for teaching major works of literature in bite-sized, one-week chunks—so your students experience more classics, with less frustration and far more chances to actually finish the story.