Another Lynn Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 I'm thinking about choosing a handful of more important books to read aloud and discuss and then giving him a shelf of historical fiction, etc. to tear through at his own pace. I have All Through the Ages and plenty of catalogs to browse. I tried searching here, but didn't run across any lists for this time period. So, if you know of an older, similar thread for Early Modern please post the link. Obviously, there's no pressing need.... it's still 3 monts until the MidWest Homeschool Conf. but....because I'm bored, because I'm procrastinating taking down Christmas decorations.... because next week when we start back up we will be so busy we will be in shock.... so why not sit around and ponder next year's reading list? :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bugs Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 My son's list includes: Gulliver's Travels (Books I & II) Don Quixote (Abridged) Johnny Termain Wadsworth Poems Sign of the Beaver Legend of Sleepy Hollow Grimm's Fairy Tales Poems by Rosetti Amos Fortune, Free Man Alice in Wonderland Tom Sawyer Narrative of the Life of Frederrick Douglass Born in the Year of Courage As you see the list is a combination of challenging and simpler reads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Here are some we've used thus far this year: Don Quixote Gulliver's Travels (More informal reading for him: The Travels of Francisco Pizarro, Lara Bergen; I, Juan de Pareja, Elizabeth de Trevino; Lost Treasure of the Inca, Peter Lourie) Robinson Crusoe Pocahontas, Joseph Bruchac Beyond the Sea of Ice: The Voyages of Henry Hudson, Joan Goodman (The Broken Blade, William Durbin) The Samurai’s Tale, Erik Haggard Dark Frigate, Hawes (on tape) (The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn, Dorothy Hoobler) The Crucible, Miller (on CD) My Name is Not Angelica, Scott O’Dell The Favorite Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris (In the Hollow of Your Hand: Slave Lullabies, Alice McGill (with songs on CD); Brer Rabbit, Joel Chandler Harris; How Animals Saved the People, J. J. Reneaux; When Birds Could Talk and Bats Could Sing, Virginia Hamilton) A Treasury of Turkish Folktales for Children, Barbara Walker Mother Courage and Her Children: A Chronicle of the 30 Years‘ War, Bertoli Brecht (Shipwrecked! Rhoda Blumberg) Folktales from Simla: Stories from the Himalayas, Alice Dracott At the Sign of the Sugared Plum, Mary Hooper The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare The Language of Birds, Rafe Martin Russian Folk Tales, James Riordan Just So Stories, Kipling (Moser, illus.) Jungle Book, Kipling Gunga Din, Kipling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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