Oakblossoms Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 I still haven't figured out what to do for 7th grade reading. I do have the new TWTM. I guess I need to read that section today. While I do that... What are/have you done in 7th grade? Normally I let them read whatever they choose from the library. I keep a selection of topics and books around, as well. But, never assignments or anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kfamily Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 This is what we are reading for 7th grade: Literary Studies- King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and Ivanhoe (pulling from guides, worksheets, etc.) Vocabulary focus-Bulfinch's Mythology Inspectional Readings (from How To Read a Book)-Puck of Pook's Hill and Canterbury Tales (retold) Difficult Readings (for stretching and exposure-these will be read aloud)-Joan of Arc and Daughter of Time Foundational-English Literature for Boys and Girls Shakespeare-Henry V +poetry and independent readings HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyNellen Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 Here's our list for this coming year: Perrault, Charles: The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver’s Travels Bunyan, John: The Pilgrim’s Progress Wordsworth, William: “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey†“Lucy Gray†“Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802†“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud†Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner†Irving, Washington: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Rip Van Winkle Franklin, Benjamin: Autobiography Franklin, Benjamin: Way to Wealth Penn, William: Maxims Henty, G.A.: In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy Melville, Herman: Bartleby Cooper, James Fennimore: The Deerslayer Rosetti, Christina: “A Birthday†Carroll, Lewis: Through the Looking Glass Ellis, Joseph: His Excellency: George Washington Austen, Jane: Sense and Sensibility Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein Twain, Mark: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Pope, Alexander: Essays on Men and Other Poems Dickens, Charles: Oliver Twist Tennyson, Alfred Lord: “The Lady of Shalott†“Tears, Idle Tears†(TF 649 – read note re: Tinturn Abbey) Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: “How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways.†McCullough, David: 1776 Poe, Edgar Allan: “The Raven†“Annabel Lee†Asbjrnsen, Peter Christen: East o’ the Sun and West o’ the Moon Douglass, Frederick: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Harris, Alex and Brett: Do Hard Things MacArthur, John: The Gospel According to Jesus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakblossoms Posted August 24, 2009 Author Share Posted August 24, 2009 Do you attach any other assignments? I just read TWTM section. It says a one page summary or book report. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyNellen Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 I am going to have him keep a journal with questions, vocab., and summaries as we go. We will spend an hour or so every Monday discussing his reading from the previous week. He is already doing quite a bit of writing in history (Teaching Co's High School Am. History) and Classical Writing: Diogenes Maxim, so I don't want to overload him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brindee Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 I am going to have him keep a journal with questions, vocab., and summaries as we go. We will spend an hour or so every Monday discussing his reading from the previous week. He is already doing quite a bit of writing in history (Teaching Co's High School Am. History) and Classical Writing: Diogenes Maxim, so I don't want to overload him. That's a good idea. My dd has lots of writing also, so this seems like it would work well! Thanks for sharing! My dd is doing the TTC's Early American History. I did it with her brothers 3 or 4 years ago, and she asked me if she could do it this year. She really likes the guy! :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyNellen Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 Glad I could help, Brindee. Thanks for the thumbs up on the TC course. I don't know anyone who has used it, but we thought the first lecture was pretty neat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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