AustinTea Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 My dd is in 9th grade and we are considering using a diploma program. One of the requirements is for some combination of literature in the form of an anthology or so many books plus 3 classics. I'm not sure what type of books will work. Beverly Lewis? Nancy Drew (probably not)? Tim LaHaye? Harry Potter? you get the idea. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liza Q Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 I would not give credit for any of those authors/books. Pride and Prejudice, Huckleberry Finn, The Three Musketeers and plays by Shakespeare are the kind of books they are looking for, I am sure. Here is a good list from the College Board that may give you some ideas - http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/boost-your-skills/23628.html hth :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anne/Ankara Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 We've just signed up for the PA Homeschooler's Diploma program for high school, and it looks like you have to read 25 titles per year (can be fiction or non-fiction) and at least 3 classics. A literature anthology or ten books of the Bible can count for 10 of the required books. Here is some of their recommendations of classic books: Alcott: Little Men, Little Women Austin: Pride and Prejudice Bronte: Jane Eyre Buck: The Good Earth Crane: Red Badge of Courage Defoe: Robinson Crusoe Dickens: Oliver Twist Dostoyevesky: Crime and Punishment Eliot: Middlemarch Franklin: Autobiography Haley: Roots Hawthorne: Scarlet Letter Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls Homer: Odyssey, Illiad Ibsen: Doll's House Kipling: Kim Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird London: Call of the Wild Melville: Billy Budd Michener: The Source Orwell: Animal Farm Potok: The Chosen Shakepeare: Hamlet Sophocles: Oedipus Rex Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin Swift: Gulliver's Travels Tolstoy: War and Peace Thoreau: Walden Twain: Huckleberry Finn Uris: Exodus Washington: Up from Slavery Wilder: Our Town Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liza Q Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 OK - ignore me - they want books read PLUS 3 classics! Sorry:001_huh: Well, the link I gave you is still good for choosing classics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anne/Ankara Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 And I should mention that this is the list I am developing for our ninth grade year (Ancients): Epic of Gilgamesh Bible, Genesis-Job Homer: Illiad, Odyssey Herodotus: Histories, Landmark Edition Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, Landmark Edition Sophocles: Oedipus Rex Euripides: Medea Aristophanes: The Frogs Plato's Republic Virgil: Aeneid Bible: Corinthians Other WTM ideas probably will be used as selections from World Lit anthologies, not full books (Ovid, Josephus, Plutarch, Cicero, Lucretius). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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