astrid Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 I'd love to hear what you folks are having your sixth graders read/report on this year. For some reason, I'm drawing a blank. Anyone care to share their list? Thanks in Advance! Astrid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kim in ks Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 My 6th grade daughter loves horses so she's read a lot of Marguerite Henry Books, she also loves the Animal Ark Books. THe Life of Faith Books by Mission Press(CC) are some of here favorites, she's read all of Ellies, Kathleen, and has read some of Violets and Millies. My daughter really loves series! For school this year we are doing Ancient History w/ TOG yr 1; so she'll be reading the recommended literature kim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HollyDay Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 We did the horse books too - Misty, Stormy, and Justin Morgan Had a Horse Also a really interesting series from BJUP 's Journey Forth collection about missionaries in Alaska. There were 3 books total - Charlie, 77Z, and I cant remember the other title. Anne of Green Gables. Cherry Ames first 4 volumes. AMerican Girl Kit, Molly, Kirsten, Addy, Josefina. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlotteb Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 My 6th grade son and I will be reading thru the "Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings Trilogy" this year. We're looking forward to it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasharowan Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 My ds12 read Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and A bio of Richard the Lionheart that I can remember of his list without looking. This was last year in 6th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacy in NJ Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 Here's our almost complete list of assigned reads for 6th grade, not in any particular order: Iron Thunder, The Battle Between the Monitor and The Merrimac- Avi Little Britches - Moody War of the Worlds - Wells The House of Sixty Fathers - Dejong Bud, Not Buddy - Curtis The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn - Hoobler The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes - Doyle Nora Ryan's Song - Giff Only the Names Remain - Bealer The Story of Thomas Alva Edison - Cousins Number the Stars - Lowry The Wave - Strasser In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson - Lord I Am David - Holm The Giver - Lowry The Wanderings of Odysseus - Sutcliff A Christmas Carol - Dickens Romeo & Juliet - adapted Shakspeare I'm trying to find a good biography of Frederick Douglas. Any suggestions? We're doing 20th Century History so many of the reads relate to that. A few don't. I just like to do a little Dickens, Shakespeare and Homer/Greek mythology every year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klmama Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 What history will you cover this year? Do you like your lit to coincide as much as possible, or do you like variety? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Becki in IN Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 I'd take a look at the Sonlight book list for the corresponding history. Core 6 is the ancients through the Renaissance/Reformation. Core 7 goes from that time to modern times. You'll get a lot of good ideas there. http://www.sonlight.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baseballmom Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 My son's favorites from last year (6th grade) were: Alladin and other tales from the Arabian Knights by N.J. Dawood Robin Hood Huguenot Garden by Douglas M. Jones III The Door in the Wall Thunderstorm in the Church by Louise Vernon Dangerous Journey by Oliver Hunkin Gulliver's Travels by Martin Woodside Witch of Blackbird Pond Amos Fortune, Free Man Johnny Tremain Justin Morgan had a Horse Sign of the Beaver ***Favorite*** Carry on Mr. Bowditch His favorite from his free time last year were the Alex Rider books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
love2read Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 I whittled down our huge list with each of the first 4 children. No for 5th-7th we mostly draw from this list for general children's classics, although obviously some are historical. They pick three books at a time and when they are done with those, they pick another three. We usually only deeply evaluate 4 books a year in grammar school. The rest of the books are for lighter reading either during schooltime silent reading or in the evening. I read aloud from this list too. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain -- Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain -- Adventures of Ulysses by Charles Lamb -- Alice Adventure in Wonderland by Carroll -- Arabian Nights translated by Edward Lane -- Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by Nesbit -- Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard -- Big Wave by Pearl S. Buck -- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell -- Black Stallion by Walter Farley -- Blue Willow by Doris Gates -- Call of the Wild by Jack London -- Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling -- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming -- Complete Peterkin Papers by Lucretia Hale -- Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens -- Dragon Slayer by Rosemary Sutcliff -- Five Little Peppers by Margaret Sidney -- From Anna by Jean Little -- Gathering of Days by Joan Blos -- Gentle Ben by Walt Morey -- Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes -- Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Statton Porter -- Golden Fleece by Padriac Colum -- Golden Key by George MacDonald -- Gone Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright -- Good Master by Kate Seredy -- Grandfather's Chair by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl -- Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge -- Heidi by Joanna Spyri -- Julie of the Wolves by George -- Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling -- Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson -- Kim by Rudyard Kipling -- King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry -- Lad: a Dog by Albert Payson Terhune -- Last of the Mohicans by Cooper -- Little Lord Flauntleroy by Burnett -- Little Men by Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott -- Lost Princess by George MacDonald -- Magic Summer by Noel Streatfeild -- Mary Poppins by Pamela L. Travers -- Miracles on Maple Hill by Sorensen -- Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of NIMH by O'Brien -- My Side of the Mountain by George -- Old Yeller by Fred Gipson -- Penrod by Booth Tarkington -- Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster -- Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter -- Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain -- Princess and the Goblin by McDonald -- Railway Children by Edith Nesbit -- Rascal by North -- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe -- Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer -- Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright -- Secret Garden by Burnett -- Singing Tree by Kate Seredy -- Story of Dr. Doolittle by Lofting -- Story of King Arthur by Pyle -- Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski -- Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss -- Tales from Shakespeare by Lamb -- Tales from the Arabian Nights -- Tales of Troy and Greece by Andrew Lang -- The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall -- Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll -- Treasure Island by Stevenson, -- Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under by Verne -- Understood Betsy by Fisher -- Wheel on the School by Meindert de Jong -- Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame -- Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum -- We draw from this next list for history between grades 5-7 The Red Keep by French The Secret of the Andes by Clark Walk the World's Rim by Baker Island of the Blue Dolphin by O'Dell The Landing of the Pilgrims by Daugherty The Sign of the Beaver by Speare The Matchlock Gun by Edmonds The Trojan War by Coolidge Archimedes and the Door of Science by Bendick The Children's Homer by Colum The Bronze Bow by Speare Eagle of the Ninth by Sutcliff The Ides of April by Ray Between the Forest and the Hills by Lawrence The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow by French Call it Courage by Sperry Beorn the Proud by Drennen The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day by O'Dell The Lost Baron by French Adam of the Road by Gray The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Jewett The Second Mrs. Giaconda by Konigsburg The White Stag by Seredy The Trumpeter of Krakow by Domanska Reb and the Red Coats by Savery Winter at Valley Forge by Knight Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Latham On to Oregon! by Morrow Downright Dency by Snedker House of Sixty Fathers by DeJong Homesick by Fritz Anne of Green Gables by Montgomery The Good Master by Seredy Thimble Summer by Enright The Endless Steppe by Hautzig Number the Stars by Lowry Rifles for Watie by Keith Patty Reed's Doll by Laurgaard Earthquake at Dawn by Gregory Wait for Me, Watch for Me, Eula Bee by Beatty Johnny Tremain by Forbes Guns for General Washington by Reit Madeleine Takes Command by Brill Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold by Fritz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 My kids have done Animal Farm and The Giver in 6th....also Midshipman Quinn, some Little Britches, and others already mentioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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