TOG users.. has anyone combined 3 & 4 literature for Rhetoric?

[Pammy]

If so, do you mind sharing a bit about which books you chose and how long you scheduled them for? I am thinking that 9 from each year should be enough, and two weeks for reading and writing assignments for each book. Do you think that is feasible for an extremely busy HS senior? The reason I am not doing all of TOG is b/c she is taking dual credit US History at the CC this year and it would be overlap. She does need another English credit though and hasn't done much American Lit.

[Leanna Tomlinson]

I did this with my senior this past year because I wanted to expose her to both centuries of literature before she graduated. We didn't start TOG until her 10th grade year, and she had studied some American Lit in 9th grade. I looked at the documents from years 3 & 4 entitled "Teaching Rhetoric Lit". At the end of each document there is a chart describing how to cut selections. I used both years at the "bare bones" level, and cut out several more selections that she had already read. I intended to rent some decent movie adaptations to fill in the gaps, but never got around to it....it was a good idea though. ;)

 

Our goal was 18 books for the year, but by Jan. it was evident that it was too much. She had so many activities that we had to cut down to 12 novels and poetry. She is out of town right now, and I can't find her list, but I know Crime & Punishment was dropped, and so was All Quiet on the Western Front.

 

She did her Classical Comparison Paper on Orwell/Huxley and the worldviews in 1984 vs. Brave New World.

 

HTH,