Halcyon Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Am putting together a reading list for 6th grade. Would love a mix of classics and contemporary. I am going for quality over quantity, as I want to leave plenty of time for free reading. So far, we are considering Robin Hood, Rainbow People, the Giver, roll of thunder, hear my cry.....I have seashell collection of poetry as well, The Sea Around Us, Alternates: Enders Game, westing game, ink heart, Snow Treasure...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.... Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Here it is in its entirety:  Dragonwings Redwall House of 60 Fathers Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze Airborn (we'll see if we get to this one) Gentle Ben Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Li Lun, Lad of Courage Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes The Cat Who Went to Heaven The Winged Watchman Hoot The Kite Fighters Holes Bridge to Terabithia The Incredible Journey Call It Courage Peter and the Starcatchers (I may read this to them)  History:  Ancient Egypt: Tales of Gods and Pharoahs The Gilgamesh Trilogy (the comic book-looking one) Greek Myths The Bronze Bow Hittite Warrior A Door in the Wall Castle Diary The Great and Terrible Quest Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great Adam of the Road (iffy about this one)  Sorta-Poetry (reading this with the younger ones):  Romeo and Juliet for Kids Midsummer Nights Dream for Kids  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Still revising, but plan to include most of the WTM sixth grade list. So far: Beowulf (Nye) Inferno cantos I-V --shared reading Canterbury prologue and Mccaughrean retelling (not sure about this one) Tales of the Crusades (Coolidge) The Boy's King Arthur or Pyle's Robin Hood, maybe both depending The Bronze Bow Treasure Island Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Tolkien) -- shared reading McCaughrean's version of Faerie Queen Men of Iron (we may listen to this one as an audiobook) Macbeth (shared) The Yearling Adam of the Road Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Here's ours.  The first section is "the list" that goes with history, we're doing history & lit integrated this year, covering the modern era.  The second section we won't get through all of it this year - we're going to work through Figuratively Speaking over the next two years, reading mostly poems and short stories that illustrate the literary devices.  I think this will be  a fun way to cover poetry & short stories that are not tied to the history schedule/era.  I haven't previewed all of those selections yet, so some will probably be dropped if I decide they are too intense.  I don't know why the formatting got all goofy there, sorry. . .  6th Grade Reading List - History & Literature  All of a Kind Family Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Sydney Taylor Letters from Rifka Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Karen Hesse The Great Wheel - Lawson  In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson - the Asian immigrant experience The Hope Chest (Schwabach) women's suffrage Mama's Bank Account (Forbes) The Earth Dragon Awakes (Yep) -- (gr. 7-9) 1906 San Francisco earthquake Dragonwings (Yep) -- (gr. 7-9) turn-of-the-century Chinese immigrants to the US Angel on the Square (Whelan) -- historical fiction; 1914 Russian empire crumbling Around the World in 80 Days Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Jules Verne (read aloud) Kim Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Rudyard Kipling Journey to the Center of the Earth Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Jules Verne The Good Master Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Kate Saredy The Singing Tree Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Kate Saredy Charlotte Sometimes Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Penelope Farmer Things Fall Apart Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Yeats  The Maltese Falcon Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Dashiel Hammet  Strong Poison Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Dorothy L. Sayers Murder on the Orient Express Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Agatha Christie Witness for the Prosecution Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Agatha Christie Cheaper By the Dozen (Gilbraith) -- 1920s America big family; The Most Dangerous Game" (Connell) -- adventure short story with a twist; WW1 is referenced  Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Ă¢â‚¬â€œ James Agee (read together)  The Grapes of Wrath Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Steinbeck Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Ch. 1 & 5 only Out of the Dust Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Karen Hesse Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Robert Burch Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Mildred Taylor The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Ernest Gaines Francie Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Karen English The Friendship Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Mildred Taylor Bud, Not Buddy Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Christopher Paul Curtis  LeonĂ¢â‚¬â„¢s Story Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Walter Tillage Number the Stars Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Lois Lowry  The Winged Watchman Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Hilda Van Stockum  Early Sunday Morning Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Barry Denenberg Hiroshima (Yep) -- WW2 after math of Japanese atomic bomb victims come to US for treatment  LilyĂ¢â‚¬â„¢s Crossing Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Patricia Reilly Giff  The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World Ă¢â‚¬â€œ EL Koningsberg  Escape From Warsaw (Serrailier)-- Polish children surviving without their parents during WW2Winged Watchman (Stockum) -- Danish families under Nazi WW2 occupation The Endless Steppe (Hautzig) -- Russians banished to Siberia during WW2 Starring Sally J Freedman as Herself Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Judy Blume  Good Old Boy Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Willie Morris The Year of Miss Agnes Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Kirkpatrick Hill BertieĂ¢â‚¬â„¢s War Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Barbara Blakely The Pushcart War (Merrill)  Animal Farm Ă¢â‚¬â€œ George Orwell (Read together) Breaking StalinĂ¢â‚¬â„¢s Nose Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Eugene Yelchin Between Shades of Gray Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Ruta Sepetys  IggieĂ¢â‚¬â„¢s House Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Judy Blume Coming of Age in Mississippi Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Anne Moody Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Elizabeth Lewis Own The Cat Who Went to Heaven Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Elizabeth Coatsworth Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Grace Lin Journey to JoĂ¢â‚¬â„¢burg Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Beverley Naidoo Alia's Mission: Saving the Books of Iraq (Stamaty) Breadwinner, and the sequel, Pavanna's Journey (Ellis)  Full Cupboard of Life (Smith) Holes Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Louis Sachar Lupita Manana Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Patricia Beatty The City of Ember Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Jeanne DuPrau (and sequels) Among the Hidden Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Haddix (and sequels) The Giver Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Lois Lowry (and sequels)  Poetry & Short Stories to read w/ Figuratively Speaking: Read Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Autumn Within Read Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Rainy Day Read Edgar Guest Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Home Read Hans Christian Anderson Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Something Read American Tall Tales by Mary Pope Osborne (Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill)The Phantom Tollbooth Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Norton Juster A Story Without an End Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Mark Twain Read Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore Read The Hollow Men Ă¢â‚¬â€œ TS Eliot Read Li Po Taking Leave of a Friend Read Jazz Fantasia by Carl Sandburg Read Emily DickinsonĂ¢â‚¬â„¢s She Sweeps with Many-Colored Brooms Read A Forest Hymn Ă¢â‚¬â€œ William Cullen Bryant Read Thirty-Five by Sarah Josepha Hale Read Winter Dreams Ă¢â‚¬â€œ F Scott Fitzgerald Read The New Colossus Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Emma Lazarus Read The Darkling Thrush Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Thomas Hardy Read Emily Dickinson Ă¢â‚¬â€œ There is a Solitude of Space Read Emily Dickinson Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Much Madness is Divinest Sense Read Emily Dickinson Ă¢â‚¬â€œ My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close Read John Donne Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Death Be Not Proud Read AesopĂ¢â‚¬â„¢s Fable The Mice in Council Read The Cat Who Walks Alone by Rudyard Kipling Read The Grass So Little Has to Do Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Emily Dickinson Read The Walrus and the Carpenter Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Lewis Carroll Read O Captain my Captain Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Walt Whitman Read Ode to the West Wind Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Percy Bysse Shelley Evening by Robert Frost Read Dr HeideggerĂ¢â‚¬â„¢s Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne Read The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst The Old Man and the Sea Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Hemingway Across the Bridge Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Graham Greene Read The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe Read The Bells by Edgar Allen Poe Read The Wreck of Hesperus by Henry Longfellow Read The Hayloft by Robert Louis Stevenson Read I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing by Walt Whitman Read The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes Read The Arsenal at Springfield by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read Ode to the Confederate Dead by Henry Timrod Read Beat! Beat! Drums by Walt Whitman Read Hampton Beach by John Greenleaf Whittier Read The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell Read The Marshes of Glynn by Sidney Lanier Read War is Kind by Stephen Crane Read Upon the Burning of Our House by Anne Bradstreet Read Early Moon by Carl Sandburg Read Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe Read Swift Things are Beautiful by Elizabeth Coatsworth Read Matsuo Basho haikus Read Adelaid Crapsey cinquains Read The Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear Read The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear Read John Skelton Skeltonic verses Read The Princess by Alfred Lord Tennyson Read Lepanto by GK Chesterton Read The Congo by Vachel Lindsay Read The Sound of the Sea by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read Seal by William Jay Smith Read Hunting Song - Native American poem Read Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson Read Jabberwocky by Louis Carroll Read I Will Fight No More Forever by Chief Joseph Read The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln Read Preamble to the Constitution of the United States Listen to a portion of Frederick Douglass Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Untie His Hands Read Edgar Allan Poe Ă¢â‚¬â€œ A Predicament The Bells Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Edgar Allan Poe *The Open Boat Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Stephen Crane Do Not Weep Maiden, For War is Kind Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Stephen Crane Reginald Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Saki Read The Duel by Eugene Field Read Mother Goose rhymes Read The Blessed Damozel Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Dane Rossetti Read An Alphabet of Famous Goops by Gelett Burgess Read aloud Tartuffe by Moliere  Listen to Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Thanatopsis Listen to Sea Fever by John Masefield Listen to Recessional by Rudyard Kipling Read There Is No Frigate Like a Book by Emily Dickinson Read and listen to Preludes by T.S. Eliot Read and listen to Song of the Redwood Tree by Walt Whitman Read The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read The Lighthouse by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Read Endymion by John Keats Read Trees by Joyce Kilmer Read Be Strong by Maltbie Davenport Babcock Read My Kate by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read Ode to the West Wind by Percy Shelley Read Susan Blue by Kate Greenaway Read Rain by Robert Louis Stevenson Read On the Grassy Banks by Christina Rossetti Read Over the River and Through the Woods by Lydia Maria Child *Read Why I Live at the P.O. Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Eudora Welty The Hollow Men Ă¢â‚¬â€œ T. S. Eliot Read Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns and listen to a recitation Read The Favorite Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris Captain JimĂ¢â‚¬â„¢s Friend Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Bret Harte Read The Bet by Anton Chekhov Read Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain Read Main Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland (read aloud) *The Fall of the House of Usher - Poe Trial by Combat Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Shirley Jackson The Scapegoat Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Paul Laurence Dunbar Read O HenryĂ¢â‚¬â„¢s The Gift of the Magi; A Retrieved Reformation; The Cop & the Anthem Read The Remarkable Rocket by Oscar Wilde Read Sarah Orne Jewett Ă¢â‚¬â€œ The Country of the Pointed First Read A Marriage Proposal by Anton Chekhov The Bet Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Anton Chekov The Rubber PlantĂ¢â‚¬â„¢s Story -O. Henry The Bottle Imp Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Robert Louis Stevenson *The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Ursula Le Guin A Predicament Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Edgar Allan Poe *A Rose for Emily Ă¢â‚¬â€œ William Faulkner Read The Lady, or the Tiger by Frank Stockton Read The Treasures of Lemon Brown Read Mannahatta by Walt Whitman Read e e cummings The Importance of Being Ernest Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Oscar Wilde Read AinĂ¢â‚¬â„¢t I a Woman Speech by Sojourner Truth Listen to Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry  Read L'Art by Ezra Pound The Annotated Twas the Night Before Christmas Read A Marriage Proposal Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Anton Chekov Read The Storyteller by Saki Read The Open Window by Saki and go over study guide. Read A Story Without an End Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Mark Twain An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Ambrose Bierce The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock Ă¢â‚¬â€œ T S Eliot *The Lottery Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Shirley Jackson Read O Henry - Hearts and Hands Read An Inhabitant of Carcosa Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Ambrose Bierce The Third Level Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Jack Finney The Face in the Photo Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Jack Finney Read The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Agatha Christie A Harlem Tragedy" (Henry) -- adult short story; dark humor look (with a twist ending) at domestic abuse in turn-of-the-century NY tenement living by O. Henry -- with my high school aged DSs, we had a great discussion on how the "dark humor" of this story allowed Henry to make social commentary on a very dicey and hidden topic of abuse -- you may want to wait on this one until your student can make these connections and leaps Read The MonkeyĂ¢â‚¬â„¢s Paw by WW Jacobs *The Tell-Tale Heart Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Poe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halcyon Posted July 13, 2013 Author Share Posted July 13, 2013 Rose, please don't tell me your child can read all that in a year???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Rose, please don't tell me your child can read all that in a year???? Â Â :lol: Â Well, she did read over 100 books in 5th grade, so I'm not gonna say it's impossible, but no, that isn't my expectation. Â I don't know if you saw my thread on the Logic board, but we're covering modern history by topic, and we have 12 topics, and I expect her to read at least two fiction books per topic, but in some cases I'm giving her 5 or 6 to choose from. Â So this list includes a range of choices for a bunch of different topics. Â I imagine she'll read around 50 books altogether. Â Obviously we won't discuss and write about each one! Â Again, it's 12 topics, and she'll write about at least 1 fiction & 1 nonfiction per topic, so that's covering ~12-15 fiction books in great detail. Â And then with the short stories and poems that go with figuratively speaking, I expect the whole list could take us two years, we'll just see how it goes. Â This is a child who read voraciously, but is pretty happy to have me come home from the library with a stack of books and say "Here, check these out, my boardie friends said you might like them." Â So I can direct her reading - which she'd be doing anyway - toward the topics/books/time periods we are studying. Â Make sense? Â ETA: I just counted the History/Lit book list, and it's about 60. Â I bet she'll read most of those. Â I don't make her finish books she doesn't like after the first 3-4 chapters. Â So I think 50 is about right, with ~15 getting a deeper treatment. Most of the Figuratively Speaking list will be done via read aloud/discussion, so I don't really count those as things she's going off and reading on her own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilaclady Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 My dd reads voraciously but I pick a book a month that we spend more time on. So far this month she has read A wrinkle in time. - our lit book A Hero's guide to saving your kingdom A Hero's guide to storming the castle St Nicholas by Demi Little Oh Ida early comes over the mountain Wonder Medieval tales Castle diary- the journal of tobia burgess The adventures of sir Balin The adventures of sir Givret The adventures of sir Lancelot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entropymama Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 I have a reluctant sixth grade reader. She'll be reading the following, but some of the nonfictions she won't read every chapter:  The Bible Trial and Triumph School of the Woods It Couldn't Just Happen Einstein and the Theory of Relativity Storybook of Science The Hobbit The Von Trapp Family Singers The Bronze Bow The Little Duke Favorite Poems Old and New  That's it! She doesn't like to read, so all these are assigned, narrated books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricket Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Rose, please don't tell me your child can read all that in a year????  That's what I was thinking! That's almost 2 books a week if you follow a 36 week school year. It took us weeks to get through Kim. Ugh! My ds's would keel over right then and there if I gave them that list. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 That's what I was thinking! That's almost 2 books a week if you follow a 36 week school year. It took us weeks to get through Kim. Ugh! My ds's would keel over right then and there if I gave them that list. :lol:  :lol: I haven't decided for sure we're doing Kim, for that exact reason!  If you look at the list you notice most of them aren't particularly "heavy" or "literary", there are a few, but most of these are 4th-7th grade reading level, and yeah, she easily reads 2-3 books a week, 52 weeks a year.  So having 1/3-1/2  of those be relevant to the time period we are studying and/or things I think will stretch her doesn't seem like too much to me.  At least, it wasn't last year! But every kid is different, of course.  And it's not like I give her the whole list and say, "get started! you're behind already!" :D We'll spend ~3 weeks on each of the 12 topics, and for each topic, there is a small stack of fiction and NF books to choose from.  So it's not overwhelming when it's actually happening, it just looks like a lot when you write it all out in a list - which I hadn't actually done till Halcyon asked! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricket Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 I have a reluctant sixth grade reader. She'll be reading the following, but some of the nonfictions she won't read every chapter:  The Bible Trial and Triumph School of the Woods It Couldn't Just Happen Einstein and the Theory of Relativity Storybook of Science The Hobbit The Von Trapp Family Singers The Bronze Bow The Little Duke Favorite Poems Old and New  That's it! She doesn't like to read, so all these are assigned, narrated books.   This sounds a little like my list. We will be covering modern history then on to ancients.  The Bible Trial and Triumph SOTW 4 Never Give In (Winston Churchill biography) The Bronze Bow Ben Hur (?) Augustus Caesar's World Story of the Greeks Story of the Romans The Story of David Livingstone A bio of Albert Einstein Archimedes and the Door of Science Galileo and the Magic Numbers The Hobbit Animal Farm Black Ships Before Troy (Sutcliff) or Tales of Troy (Lang) Poetry: Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Alfred Noyes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homemama2 Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 I have to wait till I can get my friend's Sonlight from her (I'm borrowing it for history this year) so I haven't planned a lot yet. We are for sure doing:  King Arthur by Green Across Five Aprils Number the Stars Westing Game Poetry: Kipling, Whittier, Longfellow and Dunbar I have a few short stories I've selected to discuss  To beef up Sonlight Core E, I'm having him read: Alexander Graham Bell biography (Always Inventing) George Washington Carver biog. (Sowers) Michael Faraday, Father of Electronics Abraham Lincoln's World Story of Inventions  I also have him read a book of his choice off the "free read list" from Ambleside. These are more "literature" type books. He'll be in year 5 and usually only reads one per month or so. The ones that I've already bought (so he doesn't really get a choice after all, lol) are: Treasure Island Goodbye Mr. Chips Lad, a Dog Anne of Green Gables  We'll be doing Oliver Twist, a couple of Shakespeare plays and Kim as well, but those will be read-a-louds or audiobooks and we'll discuss.  And then of course whatever is included in Sonlight. I haven't got to look through this yet, so I'm not sure if the reading level is what I'm hoping for. If it is, we might cut back some of the extra history but if not we might be adding.   Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 My 6th grader did SL Core G last year. Here is a link to the current Core G, though we did an older version with a used IG. The selections are similar.  http://www.sonlight.com/homeschool-curriculum.html?grade=6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halcyon Posted July 23, 2013 Author Share Posted July 23, 2013 Thanks for the link to Sonlight--definitely will use some of those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FriedClams Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 Sonlight Core F and a lot from the 1000 Great books list and a number of brainless reads on dragons, wizards, talking animals, and space travel. ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halcyon Posted July 24, 2013 Author Share Posted July 24, 2013 Oh yes, the giver! We own this. It's on the list. I just wish my son was a faster reader, but he reads slowly so i don't want to give him too many books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meriwether Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 Here's ours.  The first section is "the list" that goes with history, we're doing history & lit integrated this year, covering the modern era.  The second section we won't get through all of it this year - we're going to work through Figuratively Speaking over the next two years, reading mostly poems and short stories that illustrate the literary devices.  I think this will be  a fun way to cover poetry & short stories that are not tied to the history schedule/era.  I haven't previewed all of those selections yet, so some will probably be dropped if I decide they are too intense.  I don't suppose you'd like to put the corresponding number of the Figuratively Speaking lesson behind the readings you are going to use ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 Sure, that's easy!  Here it is, though I don't know why the formatting is all screwy.  Figuratively Speaking Course Outline Ă¢â‚¬â€œ 30 lessons (some will take multiple days!) *These short stories are in The Art of the Short Story by Dana Gioia, along with pieces by their authors  Part 1 Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Figurative Language  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 1 - Denotation and Connotation Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Autumn Within Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Rainy Day Edgar Guest Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Home (online) Hans Christian Anderson Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Something (online)  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 2 - Hyperbole American Tall Tales by Mary Pope Osborne (Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill)  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 3 Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Idiom                The Phantom Tollbooth Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Norton Juster                A Story Without an End Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Mark Twain  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 4 Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Imagery Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore The Hollow Men Ă¢â‚¬â€œ TS Eliot  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 5 - Metaphor and Simile Li Po Taking Leave of a Friend Jazz Fantasia by Carl Sandburg Emily DickinsonĂ¢â‚¬â„¢s She Sweeps with Many-Colored Brooms A Forest Hymn Ă¢â‚¬â€œ William Cullen Bryant Thirty-Five by Sarah Josepha Hale Winter Dreams Ă¢â‚¬â€œ F Scott Fitzgerald The New Colossus Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Emma Lazarus The Darkling Thrush Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Thomas Hardy  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 6 - Oxymoron and Paradox Emily Dickinson Ă¢â‚¬â€œ There is a Solitude of Space Emily Dickinson Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Much Madness is Divinest Sense Emily Dickinson Ă¢â‚¬â€œ My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close John Donne Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Death Be Not Proud  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 7 - Personification AesopĂ¢â‚¬â„¢s Fable The Mice in Council The Cat Who Walks Alone by Rudyard Kipling The Grass So Little Has to Do Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Emily Dickinson The Walrus and the Carpenter Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Lewis Carroll  Apostrophe: O Captain my Captain Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Walt Whitman Ode to the West Wind Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Percy Bysse Shelley  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 8 - Symbol Mending Wall, Home Burial, The Road Not Taken, and Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Dr HeideggerĂ¢â‚¬â„¢s Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst The Old Man and the Sea Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Hemingway Across the Bridge Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Graham Greene  Part 2: Poetic Language  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 9 Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Alliteration  The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe The Bells by Edgar Allen Poe The Wreck of Hesperus by Henry Longfellow  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 10 - Assonance and Consonance The Hayloft by Robert Louis Stevenson I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing by Walt Whitman The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes The Arsenal at Springfield by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ode to the Confederate Dead by Henry Timrod Beat! Beat! Drums by Walt Whitman Hampton Beach by John Greenleaf Whittier The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell The Marshes of Glynn by Sidney Lanier War is Kind by Stephen Crane Upon the Burning of Our House by Anne Bradstreet Early Moon by Carl Sandburg Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe Swift Things are Beautiful by Elizabeth Coatsworth  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 11 - Form Matsuo Basho haikus Adelaid Crapsey cinquains The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear John Skelton Skeltonic verses  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 12 - Onomatopoeia The Princess by Alfred Lord Tennyson Lepanto by GK Chesterton The Congo by Vachel Lindsay The Sound of the Sea by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Seal by William Jay Smith  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 13 - Parallelism Hunting Song - Native American poem Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson Jabberwocky by Louis Carroll I Will Fight No More Forever by Chief Joseph  The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln Preamble to the Constitution of the United States Frederick Douglass Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Untie His Hands Edgar Allan Poe Ă¢â‚¬â€œ A Predicament  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 14 - Repetition and Refrain                The Bells Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Edgar Allan Poe                Do Not Weep Maiden, For War is Kind Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Stephen Crane                Reginald Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Saki  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 15 - Rhyme The Duel by Eugene Field                The Blessed Damozel Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Dante Rossetti An Alphabet of Famous Goops by Gelett Burgess Read aloud Tartuffe by Moliere  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 16 - Rhythm  Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant  Sea Fever by John Masefield  Recessional by Rudyard Kipling There Is No Frigate Like a Book by Emily Dickinson Read and listen to Preludes by T.S. Eliot Read and listen to Song of the Redwood Tree by Walt Whitman  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 17 - Run-on (Enjambed) and End-stopped Lines The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Lighthouse by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost                Endymion by John Keats  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 18 - Stanza Trees by Joyce Kilmer Be Strong by Maltbie Davenport Babcock My Kate by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Ode to the West Wind by Percy Shelley Susan Blue by Kate Greenaway Rain by Robert Louis Stevenson On the Grassy Banks by Christina Rossetti Over the River and Through the Woods by Lydia Maria Child  Part 3: Literary Techniques  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 19 Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Allusion *Read Why I Live at the P.O. Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Eudora Welty The Hollow Men Ă¢â‚¬â€œ T. S. Eliot  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 20 - Characters and Characterization  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 21 - Conflict  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 22 - Dialect Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns and listen to a recitation The Favorite Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris Captain JimĂ¢â‚¬â„¢s Friend Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Bret Harte  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 23 - Dialogue                Pick a short story that is mostly dialogue, read just the dialog and see if you can follow the story  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 24 - Flashback The Bet by Anton Chekhov Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 25 - Foreshadowing Main Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland (read aloud) *The Fall of the House of Usher - Poe Trial by Combat Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Shirley Jackson The Scapegoat Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Paul Laurence Dunbar  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 26 - Genre                A Sherlock Holmes tale                A Poe Tale  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 27 - Irony O HenryĂ¢â‚¬â„¢s The Gift of the Magi; A Retrieved Reformation; The Cop & the Anthem The Remarkable Rocket by Oscar Wilde  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 28 - Local Color Sarah Orne Jewett Ă¢â‚¬â€œ The Country of the Pointed First  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 29 - Mood and Tone A Marriage Proposal by Anton Chekhov The Rubber PlantĂ¢â‚¬â„¢s Story -O. Henry *Read The Fall of the House of Usher Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Edgar Allan Poe  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 30 - Moral and Theme AesopĂ¢â‚¬â„¢s Fables The Bottle Imp Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Robert Louis Stevenson *The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Ursula Le Guin  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 31 Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Narrator/Point of View A Predicament Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Edgar Allan Poe *A Rose for Emily Ă¢â‚¬â€œ William Faulkner  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 32 - Plot The Lady, or the Tiger by Frank Stockton The Treasures of Lemon Brown  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 33 - Poetic License Mannahatta by Walt Whitman e e cummings  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 34 - Pun The Importance of Being Ernest Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Oscar Wilde  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 35 - Rhetorical Question AinĂ¢â‚¬â„¢t I a Woman Speech by Sojourner Truth Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 36 - Satire, Parody, and Farce L'Art by Ezra Pound The Annotated Twas the Night Before Christmas A Marriage Proposal Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Anton Chekov  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 37 - Story Within a Story The Storyteller by Saki The Open Window by Saki and go over study guide. A Story Without an End Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Mark Twain  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 38 - Stream of Consciousness An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Ambrose Bierce The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock Ă¢â‚¬â€œ T S Eliot  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 39 - Surprise Ending                *The Lottery Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Shirley Jackson O Henry - Hearts and Hands The Third Level Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Jack Finney The Face in the Photo Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Jack Finney The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Agatha Christie A Harlem Tragedy Ă¢â‚¬â€œ O Henry  Figuratively Speaking Chapter 40 - Suspense Literary Term Read The MonkeyĂ¢â‚¬â„¢s Paw by WW Jacobs *The Tell-Tale Heart Ă¢â‚¬â€œ Poe Read And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie & do the Boomerang discussion questions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen in CO Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 Going against the trend, here is my short list of sixth grade literature:  Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Benet, The Devil and Daniel Webster Nesbit, The Railway Children Spare, The Bronze Bow Keith, Rifles for Watie British and American poetry  We follow the guidelines in How to Read a Book for our literature studies.  She read a lot on her own, but this is what she studied.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holly Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 I tried to get a variety of books.  My DD isn't a huge reader, so I don't think she'll get through all of these.  They do free reading in the evenings as well, but I don't assign anything for that.  Here is our list: By the Great Horn Spoon Just So Stories The Hobbit Cheaper by the Dozen King of the Golden River Miracles on Maple Hill The Railway Children  To go with history: The Golden Goblet Hittite Warrior The Bronze Bow Detectives in Togas The Cat of Bubastes (I'll probably read this aloud)  We'll also be reading Chronicles of Narnia as a family this year.  If we finish that, I'm hoping to get to Farmer Boy and At the Back of the North Wind.  We'll also do a poet study of Lewis Carroll sometime during the year...We started Favorite Poems Old and New  last spring and will continue with it as well.   Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmilyK Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 Thanks for these lists. Very inspiring! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom31257 Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 Following--I'm still working on my language arts plan for 6th and the rest of middle school. Ds isn't a huge reader, but he likes it better than when he was younger. Â Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 Just since this was bumped, and I was skimming back through  it . . . . Shannon has read about 120 books this year so far.  Not all the books I put on that list, a lot of them I pre-read and decided weren't right for her, and a few she started and didn't enjoy, but about 50 historical fiction or literary works and nonfiction that she's read, and another 20 or so children's classics that I've read aloud (the rest were pleasure reading, of . . . variable literary merit ;) ).  We did the Poetry portion of Fig Speaking in 6th and will study Short Stories in 7th.   Just in the interests of truth in advertising and all . . . I often wonder how many of our grandiose plans work out the way we, well, planned them to! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrayshire Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 I haven't made a list for my 6th grader yet....we will be using Mosdos Pearl then I'll probably choose some books for a book basket and let her do the same..... There are some great ideas here! We are getting ready to go through TTC to help us talk about books. Possibly starting a middle school Lit Club, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlebug42 Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 I decided to do books from different genres next year.  We will also do some short stories/poetry in addition to this and don't know what I am using there yet.  She will also read one novel a month for her book club in addition to this list.  Biography/Memoir:  Escape: The Story of the Great Houdini by Sid Fleischman  Realistic Fiction:  Anything but Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin (the story of life through the eyes of a 12 year old autistic boy)  Science Fiction/Fantasy:  Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine  Nonfiction:  Blizzard: The Storm that Changed America by Jim Murphy  Mystery: Shakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach  Historical Fiction:  The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare  Adventure:  Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell  Humor:  A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck  Animal Stories:  Black Beauty by Anna Sewell  In Other Lands:  Stories from The Arabian Nights  These books were selected specifically with my daughter in mind and are books that fit my categories and will appeal to her.  She loves projects so I plan to have her work on hands on type projects as "book reports" that go with each book.  The books for her book club will be discussed with her group with guidance from parents. This plan will challenge but not overwhelm my soon to be 6th grader.   Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom31257 Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 I've been working on my language arts plan. Here is what it is looking like right now.  Resources I plan to use through all of middle school:  Figuratively Speaking over 6th-8th grades (13 lessons each year)  Memoria Press Poetry for Grammar Stage over 6th and 7th (17 poems each year)  Memoria Press Poetry and Short Stories American Lit (8 selections each year)  Christian Light Reading (6th and 7th grade books with Light Units) Each unit takes 3 weeks to complete, will do 3 units each year with one during a summer (10 total)   6th grade whole books: (will probably try some lit guides)  Historical Fiction: The Golden Goblet Hittite Warrior Archimedes and the Door of Science Detectives in Togas The Bronze Bow  Lit: My Side of the Mountain The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Holes Tuck Everlasting  I'm still working on book selections for 7th and 8th. He'll study world history in 7th and American history in 8th, so the historical fiction will fit into those studies.   Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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