Hedgehog Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 (edited) I would love to know :001_smile: especially if you have a girl! ETA: Scrub the bit about girls - it won't be so long before I'm looking for reading ideas for my ds! Edited January 26, 2011 by Hedgehog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patchfire Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Dd's assigned books so far: Mythology (Hamilton) Tales of Ancient Egypt (Green) Aesop's Fables (ancient version that once belonged to my parents) Gilgamesh (Zeman's picture-book retelling) The Children's Homer Tales from India Tales from China Heroes and Heroines, Monsters and Magic The Golden Fleece Tales of the Greek Heroes Oedipus the King The Last Days of Socrates The Aeneid for Boys and Girls Caesar's Gallic Wars Julius Caesar Tales from the Mabinogion Song for a Dark Queen Still coming up Beowulf Sir Gawain and the Green Knight The Canterbury Tales (McCaughrean) Tales from Africa Song of Roland Dante's Divine Comedy for Young People St George & the Dragon The Adventures of Robin Hood The Children of Odin Tales from Japan maybe King Arthur stories maybe more Shakespeare On her own this year, she's been reading The Hunger Games trilogy, Un Lun Dun, Rick Riordian books, Animal Farm, Matilda – really a wide range. I am trying to come up with a sneaky way for her to choose books like My Side of the Mountain & Julie of the Wolves during her free reading time. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narrow Gate Academy Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 For 6th grade so far DD has read The Return of the King by Tolkien The Canterbury Tales by McCaughrean The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Pyle Otto of the Silverhand by Pyle The Red Keep by French The Lost Baron by French A Proud Taste of Scarlet and Miniver by Konigburg The Striped Ships by McGraw The Two Towers by Tolkein The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow by French The Fellowship of the Ring by Tolkein Sword in the Stone by White King Arthur trilogy by Sutcliff Lantern Bearers by Sutcliff Beowulf: A New Telling by Nye Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithManor Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 My required list would be the same even if ds was a dd: Beowulf - this a read aloud to all three boys, 5th, 7th, and 8th. Unabridged Galen and the Gateway to Medicine St. Augustine of Kent Son of Charlemagne Bjorn the Proud Rolf and the Viking Bow excerpts from the Usborne World History Encyclopedia The Hobbit - unabridged Song of Roland - All three boys A Children's Biography of Hans Christian Andersen Galileo Galilei: First Physicist (Portraits in Science - Oxford) Who was Leonardo Da Vinci (from the Who Was series) Who was Marco Polo (from the Who Was series) Archers, Alchemists, and 98 Other Medieval Jobs You Would Have Loved or Loathed The Everyday Life of Celts (Uncovering History) The Canterberry Tales as a Read Aloud Martin Luther: A Man Who Changed the World - also a read aloud The Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare The Children's Shakespeare by Nesbitt And selected stories from "A Story of Art" - as read alouds The Shakespeare, Da Vinci etc...Renaissance reading will come late in the year was we bridge the gap from Medieval to Early Modern. As for fun reading, he's making his way through the "How to Train a Dragon" series and "A Wrinkle in Time". Oh, and for complete and utter silly twaddle, he's immersed himself in Dilbert comics plus Calvin and Hobbes. Faith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth in MN Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Free Reading, Assigned Reading or both? My daughter is almost ten and a half if that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiegirl Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 This list is assigned reading. She is in Gr.6. We are doing Ancient History this year. Mara, Daughter of the Nile The Golden Goblet Children of Homer Wandering of Odysseus The Tale of Troy Detectives in Togas Eagle of the Ninth Where the Red Fern Grows The Hobbit Animal Farm Huck Finn 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea School of the Woods Swiss Family Robinson Call of the Wild Jack and Jill Little Men Eight Cousins For free reading, she reads any horse book she can get her hands on--fluff or other wise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HollyDay Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Little House on the Prairie series Swiss Adventure American Girl series Thomas Alva Edison Bully for You Teddy Roosevelt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Hobbes has been working his way through all the Puffin Classics. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehog Posted January 25, 2011 Author Share Posted January 25, 2011 Free Reading, Assigned Reading or both? My daughter is almost ten and a half if that helps. Either - any ideas appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehog Posted January 25, 2011 Author Share Posted January 25, 2011 Thanks, ladies.. lots to research already.. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth in MN Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 4th Grade Assigned (they all sit on a book shelf and she can choose from them) 1. Abraham Lincoln by Ingri D'Aulaire (also George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Columbus) 2. Bambi by Felix Salten 3. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell 4. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White 5. Heidi by Joanna Spyri 6. Johnny Tremain 7. Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling 8. Little House Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder 9. Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett 10. Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater 11. The Good Master and its sequel The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy 12. The Jungle Books 13. The Moffats series by Eleanor Estes 14. The Peterkin Papers by Lucretia Hale 15. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 16. Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright The books she picks up has changed a lot over the year. She had been on a huge Manga kick, mostly the Magical Girl type. Now she is all about Harry Potter and the Percy Jackson books. One Manga she has to have read a dozen or more times is "Youtsuba&!", which we LOVE. It's funny and rated all ages. I just put together the 5th Grade list - · Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling · The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain · Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson · Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery · Little House Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder · Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin Hope this helps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skadi Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Here are our lists of required reading... Fifth Grade Ancient Greece by Peter Connolly Ancient Rome by Peter Connolly In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton Zeus: King of the Gods by George O'Connor (series) Gilgamesh the King by Ludmila Zeman (trilogy) (1300 BC) Black Ships Before Troy: Story of the Iliad by Rosemary Sutcliff (800 BC) The Wanderings of Odysseus by Rosemary Sutcliff (800 BC) The Ancient Greece of Odysseus by Peter Connolly (800 BC) Herodotus and the Road to History by Jeanne Bendick (484 BC) Aristotle and Scientific Thought by Steve Parker (335 BC) Alexander the Great by John Gunther (336 BC) The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky (200 BC) City: Story of Roman Planning & Construction by David Macaulay (200 BC) Archimedes and the Door of Science by Jeanne Bendick (200 BC) Cleopatra by Diane Stanley (51 BC) In Search of a Homeland: Story of the Aeneid by Penelope Lively (29 BC) Detectives in Togas by Henry Winterfield Mystery of the Roman Ransom by Henry Winterfield The Trouble with Wishes (Pygmalion) by Diane Stanley (8) Augustus Caesar's World by Genevieve Foster (14) Bodies from Ash: Life & Death in Ancient Pompeii by James Deem (79) Roman Mysteries #1: Thieves of Ostia by Carolina Lawrence, series (100) Galen and the Gateway to Medicine by Jeanne Bendick (150) The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius by M.D. Usher The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff (200) Sixth Grade Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by L. Schiltz Beowulf: Dragonslayer by Rosemary Sutcliff (400) The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White (500) King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Benedict Flynn (audiobook with Sean Bean) (500) The Lives of Charlemagne by Einhard (750) A Viking Town by Fiona MacDonald (800) The Strongbow Saga, Book One: Viking Warrior by Judson Roberts (800) In the Days of Alfred the Great by Eva March Tappan (871) 1066: The Year of the Conquest by David Howarth (1066) Anna of Byzantium by Tracy Barrett (1100) Queen Eleanor: Independent Spirit by Schoyer Books (1137) Medieval Cathedral by Fiona MacDonald The Magna Carta by James Daugherty (1215) Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle (1273) Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman (1290) The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (1300) In Freedom's Cause: A Story of Wallace and Bruce by G.A. Henty (1305) Dante's Divine Comedy: As Told for Young People by Tusuiani (1321) The Canterbury Tales by Marcia Williams (1372) Men of Iron by Howard Pyle (1400) The Black Arrow: A Tale of Two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson (1400s) Beyond the Myth: The Story of Joan of Arc by Schoyer Books (1431) Wives and Daughters: The Women of the 16th Century by Emerson (1500s) Doomed Queen Anne (Young Royals) by Carolyn Meyer (1520) Mary, Bloody Mary (Young Royals) by Carolyn Meyer (1527) Patience, Princess Catherine (Young Royals) by Carolyn Meyer (1553) Nine Days a Queen: The Short Life and Reign of Lady Jane Grey by Ann Rinaldi (1553) Queen's Own Fool by Jane Yolen (1559) Along Came Galileo by Jeanne Bendick (1589) The Renaissance in Europe by Lynne Elliott (1400 - 1600) Exploration in the Renaissance by Lynne Elliot Science in the Renaissance by Lynne Elliot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcross222 Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Wow you guys read a lot of books! Here is our list of fiction for the year. We generally read one novel a month and discuss, follow rabbit trails, do related activities, etc. We also seem to read a lot of non-fiction both as assigned reading and free reading in our house. My 6th grade DD is reading this year: Tuck Everlasting Natalie Babbitt Remote Man Elizabeth Honey Destination Bethlehem ( An Advent Adventure) Sharon Altman Holes Louis Satchar The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis The Westing Game Ellen Raskin George's Secret Key to the Universe Lucy and Stephen Hawking Journey to the Moon Jules Verne The Boy in the Striped Pajamas John Boyne For free reading, she has just finished number 8 of 10 in the series Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot. She LOVES these! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanceXToo Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 This is my fifth grade daugher's book log so far this year: http://nancextoo.livejournal.com/122233.html It's categorized according to books she read independently for fun, for optional/supplemental reading for our curriculum, and for book club. And then by books we read aloud together for fun, for SOTW, for our curriculum (either assigned or optional/supplemental), and then books used for texts, resources/reference, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSMom2One Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 On her own and for fun, my 11 yo, 6th grade dd reads Rick Riordin's books passionately, the Dragon Keepers Series, Nancy Drew and any horse books she can get her little hands on. As TOG users, we do a lot of reading of history books, but I guess that isn't what you're looking for - so I won't list those titles. For literature studies, I'm posting our list for this year below. We started up studying Roman history at the beginning of the year and will end up with the explorers, so our reading reflects this. 6th Grade Reading List Aladdin and Other Tales from The Arabian Nights The Adventures of Robin Hood The Bronze Bow By Right of Conquest: With Cortez in Mexico Canterbury Tales (Cohen) Dangerous Journey The Door in the Red Wall Galen: My Life in Imperial Rome Good Masters, Sweet Ladies The Ides of April King Arthur Medieval Myths, Legends, and Songs Men of Iron Morning Girl Mystery of the Roman Ransom Poetry for Young People: William Shakespeare The Second Mrs. Giaconda Stories of Beowulf Told to the Children (Marshall) The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Lacie) A Triumph for Flavius Twice Freed ------------------------------------------ Blessings, Lucinda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehog Posted January 26, 2011 Author Share Posted January 26, 2011 Fantastic - thanks so much for the lists, everyone! I'm not a very adventurous reader myself and we don't have a great deal of variety on our bookshelves so it will be great to have some completely different books for my dc to try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sara in WA Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 My dd10 is reading The Phantom Tollbooth for her school work. When the "assigned" portion is over, she told me she plans to read it again for fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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