HappyGrace Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 Trying to put my language arts together for the fall-thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kfamily Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 I'm still working on my rising 5th graders list...and much depends on how much we finish before the fall gets here. I can share what I think we may read...lol:) "Rip Van Winkle" and "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by W. Irving The Arabian Nights Entertainment by Andrew Lang Robin Hood by Roger L. Green The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald (and his Complete Fairy Tales and maybe The Princess and the Curdie...she's read The Princess and the Goblin) Faerie Gold: Treasures From the Land of Enchantment by Hunsicker and Lindskoog Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff Complete Tales From Shakespeare C. & M. Lamb The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Treasure Island by Robert L. Stevenson The Wanderings of Odysseus by Rosemary Sutcliff Watership Down by Richard Adams I can't decide which poets we'll study this year. She's a big reader and likes to have a few challenging books to read with me. I have these so far... Ivanhoe by Scott North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 Trying to put my language arts together for the fall-thanks! I've been hearing good things about the Memoria Press lit. guides... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 What elements are you looking for? As far as I remember, LL contains reading (mostly just 'read the next chapter and answer these comprehension questions'), analysis of the structure of works, some work on prosody, fun quizzes and writing topics. Calvin was well prepared for these things by using Galore Park English. We were using that in 5th grade, then for sixth grade did Galore Park plus the first half of Lightning Literature 7. Seventh grade was Galore Park plus the second half of LL7. In eighth grade, we used Galore Park plus a variety of individual text studies (I remember a fascinating investigation of The Merchant of Venice using various study guides). Obviously, it depends on reading level, but this was a pattern that worked very well for us and that I was planning on repeating for Hobbes. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freerange Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 I'm using LL7 for my 5th (alongside SYRWTL English 1) & 7th grader (alongside SYRWTL English 3). Both are keen to do LL8 next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyGrace Posted April 14, 2013 Author Share Posted April 14, 2013 We did use the Memoria Press this yr for one book and it was great. I will prbly use one or two next yr. I was hoping to do a mix of books/lit guides, etc. Maybe I will do something out of LL7 too. I will ck out the Galore Park-any other ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 ... I was hoping to do a mix of books/lit guides, etc.... any other ideas? You might like some of the individual guides by Garlic Press Publishers (Discovering Literature series); these are perfect for grade 5-7 (see table of contents and sample pages at Rainbow Resource) -- an advanced 5th grader could probably handle any of these: 5th grade Island of the Blue Dolphins Where the Red Fern Grows Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 6th grade Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Bridge to Terebithia The Hobbit (challenger level) Redwall (challenger level) 7th grade The Outsiders I would wait on some of Discovering Literature: Challenger series, which is designed for gr. 8-12. (The titles include The Giver, Lord of the Flies, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Odyssey) KFamily has a *great* list in her post above -- BUT... I would say all of that list is geared for the average *7th grader*. If you have an advanced 5th grader, then that list could work. (At least, *my* very average DSs could not have handled or enjoyed that list in 5th grade... but they DID enjoy a lot of those books in grades 7-8, and could "dig deep" into them.) Here are some ideas with FREE guides from Glencoe Literature Library that would be great for 5th grade: - Across Five Aprils - I, Juan de Pareja - Island of the Blue Dolphins - Johnny Tremain - Number the Stars - Shiloh - Sounder - Where the Red Fern Grows - The Witch of Blackbird Pond - A Wrinkle in Time While I have only used the *high school* level guides (some are better than others), if you don't mind Christian guides, you could check out the Progeny Press guides for 5th-8th grade; here are some of the titles especially good for 5th grade (see table of contents and sample pages at Rainbow Resource): - Amos Fortune, Free Man - Anne of Green Gables - The Cay - The Golden Goblet - Holes - The Secret Garden - The Swiss Family Robinson - a guide for each of the 7 Narnia Chronicles books And a few books that our DSs LOVED in 5th grade: - The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Aiken) - From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Konigsburg) - Half Magic, Magic By the Lake, Knight's Castle (good pairing with Ivanhoe and a Robin Hood work!), The Time Garden, Seven Day Magic (Eager) -- great vocabulary and referencing of other works Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 Did you know Hewitt is writing Lightning Lit for all the lower grades now? I would call and ask them about it. I don't know anything else. So far, they have one for Grade 1, and are moving into working on Grade 2. See more here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 These are the read-alouds I've done with my 5th grader this year. She has also read a whole slew of books, about half pleasure reading (her choice) and about half related to history - early modern period. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass The Hound of the Baskervilles The Sign of the Four The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Huckleberry Finn The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County & The Million Pound Bank Note Little Women The Little House series For 6th grade, in addition to a bunch of historical ficition, I want to have her read some more "classic" works on her own, weaning away from read-alouds (we'll still read aloud every night, but I'm trying to ramp up the independent reading expectation & difficulty level). I'm still working on our list, and re- or pre-reading everything (some have already been bumped ahead), but so far I'm thinking: The Time Machine – H. G. Wells (1895) Voyage to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne The War of the Worlds – H. G. Wells (1898) The Tripods Trilogy – John Christopher The White Mountains The City of Gold and Lead The Pool of Fire Animal Farm – George Orwell Anthem – Ayn Rand Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury The Giver – Lois Lowry The Autobiography of Malcolm X And maybe Watership Down, The Prince and the Pauper, and The Three Musketeers? Feedback welcome! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura in STL Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 These are some books I have on my list for 6th/8th next year. We are studying American history, so our lit reflects that somewhat. The Witch of Blackbird Pond Johnny Tremain The Call of the Wild Out of the Dust The Hiding Place The Giver I'm thinking of using Total Language Plus guides. They will be reading more books, but this list is what I'm looking at for actual formal study. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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