I jumped ahead to read Divine Comedy, too. Glad I did. I'm dreading the huge Russian novels. Don Quixote -- Miguel De Cervantes The Pilgrim's Progress -- John Bunyan Guiliver's Travels -- Jonathan Swift Pride & Prejudice -- Jane Austen Oliver Twist -- Charles Dickens Jane Eyre -- Charlotte Bronte The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne Moby Dick -- Herman Melville Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy The Return of the Native -- Thomas Hardy The Portrait of a Lady -- Henry James Huckleberry Finn -- Mark Twain Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad The House of Mirth- Edith Wharton The Great Gatsby -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf The Trail - Franz Kafka Native Son - Richard Wright The Stranger - Albert Camus 1984 -- George Orwell Invisible Man -- Ralph Ellison Seize the Day - Saul Bellow One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino Song of Solomon - Tony Morrison White Noise - Don Delillo Possession - A.S. Byatt

Just testing!

We got a dozen Ameraucana chicken eggs and incubated them. They hatched at the beginning of this month. February/March are hard months to get through, but this little hands-on project really helped us to get through it this year. We'll be building the coop next. Great project for homeschooling!