mom4sons Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 I will be teaching at a home school coop. I will be teaching 5th - 7th grade students literature. I am hoping to focus on American literature. Can some of you share your suggestions for books and short stories? Right now I have: Adventures of Tom Sawyer setting 1836 - 1846 - St. Petersburg (southern town) Mama's Bank Account setting 1900 - San Francisco, CA I would like pieces set during colonial america, the great depression, and exploring west. Short stories would be nice too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom4sons Posted March 3, 2013 Author Share Posted March 3, 2013 I am considering My Indian Boyhood by Luther Standing Bear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahW Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Hawthorne wrote some short stories, which are easier to get through than trying to do the full-blown Scarlet Letter. Walden (yeah...it's annoying, but a good exemplar of numerous things). A Norton Anthology should give some good ideas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue G in PA Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Almost Home by Wendy Lawton, Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates, The Sign of the Beaver by George Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harriet Vane Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 A Long Way From Chicago, by Richard Peck (or any of the Grandma Dowdel stories) Rip van Winkle Man of the House, by Ralph Moody stories by O. Henry Hope Was Here, by Joan Bauer The Giver Swift Rivers A Wrinkle in Time poetry of Robert Frost, Walt Whitman Little Women Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harriet Vane Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Hawthorne wrote some short stories, which are easier to get through than trying to do the full-blown Scarlet Letter. Walden (yeah...it's annoying, but a good exemplar of numerous things). A Norton Anthology should give some good ideas. I did Walden with a group of high school sophomores and juniors this year. I would not try to tackle this one for 5th-7th grades. Same with Scarlet Letter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmos Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Are you looking for literature *from* those time periods or *set in* those time periods? Little Britches -- western ranching in early 1900s By the Great Horn Spoon -- California gold rush Sarah, Plain and Tall -- settlers in the West Old Yeller -- post-Civil War, in the west (I think) Except for Little Britches, which is autobiographical, these are modern historical fiction books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amsunshine Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahW Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 I did Walden with a group of high school sophomores and juniors this year. I would not try to tackle this one for 5th-7th grades. Same with Scarlet Letter. Um, yeah, that's why I suggested something by Hawthorne that wasn't Scarlet Letter. Walden isn't difficult. He talks about buying boots and watching his pond when he falls asleep. You don't have to read the whole thing to get the point. I found Emerson much more obtuse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom4sons Posted March 3, 2013 Author Share Posted March 3, 2013 thank you to all for clarity, I am looking for literature "set in" these time periods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahW Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 thank you to all for clarity, I am looking for literature "set in" these time periods. Oh, ok. I don't agree. Just letting you know. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmos Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 for clarity, I am looking for literature "set in" these time periods. Oh, ok. I don't agree. Just letting you know. :) Huh? You don't agree that that's what she's looking for? How can that possibly be something to agree or disagree with? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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