PeterPan Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 That was so fun last week, let's do it again! Dd14 -9th grade finish Yeats Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place series still working on Hitler's War on the Jews MontMorency (several) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 DS: Running Man by Stephen King for fun, I, Claudius by Robert Graves, for school DD: in preparation for her fantasy lit class: The Fellowship of the Ring, Beowulf, Tolkien On Faeries, Sindbad, Hercules, an essay about contemporary adaptation theory Correction: the Tolkien essay is entitled "On Fairy stories" and can be found here: http://brainstorm-services.com/wcu-2004/fairystories-tolkien.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted January 20, 2014 Author Share Posted January 20, 2014 Ooo, I don't know if my dd has seen Tolkien on Faeries!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGHEALTHYMOM Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Pilgrim's Progress / NG World History/ In Their Words: Co-op Poetry Memorization: Andrew Pudewa I read aloud some of Here I Stand : (Martin Luther) was long. I bought a dvd too DS16 loves ANIMAL /DK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Ds16 - school - John Milton - Paradise Lost and various biographical stuff about Milton fun - Partials Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewelma Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 The Luminaries (NZ book that just won the Man Booker Prize) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muttichen Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 We're on a Cormac McCarthy kick here. Ds17 is reading No Country for Old Men and Dd 15 is reading All the Pretty Horses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Marple Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 The Law by Bastiat and will follow this with The Prince by Machiavelli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Ds 16 is finally finishing The Catcher in the Rye. He finds Holden exasperating. Yay! He really is my child. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momofeat Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Great Expectations (assigned but willingly read) October Baby (completely her choice) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MysteryJen Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 dd1 is reading selections of Bede (she likes this...to the surprise of ds1) and is re-reading Beowulf. Both are assigned, I have no idea what she is reading for fun. Ds1 is reading assigned poetry, watching movies, and still reading Infinte Jest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted January 21, 2014 Author Share Posted January 21, 2014 Ds16 - school - John Milton - Paradise Lost and various biographical stuff about Milton fun - Partials Ok, I'll show my ignorance. How do you know about these new things? You sign up for some kind of list? I think I steered dd toward some. I'm not sure what she does with them, now that she's on the other computer and holed up so much, lol. We're on a Cormac McCarthy kick here. Ds17 is reading No Country for Old Men and Dd 15 is reading All the Pretty Horses. I don't know who McCarthy is, but he/she sounds promising! Off to look! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Ok, I'll show my ignorance. How do you know about these new things? You sign up for some kind of list? I think I steered dd toward some. I'm not sure what she does with them, now that she's on the other computer and holed up so much, lol. Ds volunteers at the library. And he stalks the teen librarian! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muttichen Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 I don't know who McCarthy is, but he/she sounds promising! Off to look! :) I'll warn you that McCarthy is pretty violent. But -- when my middle dd was assigned No Country for Old Men for AP Lit, I read it first and warned her about the violence. She read it and said, "Mom, that wasn't half as bad as the Iliad, which you made me read in 7th grade!" Ds is writing a paper on No Country for Old Men for AP Lit today. If you want to read one McCarthy novel, I'd recommend The Road. It is post-apocalyptic and dark, but absolutely masterful, in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elise Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Heavy stuff here--good week for snow!Dd 15 (freshman) just finished Brothers Karamazov and is starting War and Peace.Dd 16 (junior) is reading Great Expectations.I agree, loved The Road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indian summer Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Dd7 is reading a Moshi Monsters book (hey, you asked!) Dd11 is reading a biography of Mozart and Nelson Mandela's autobiography Ds12 is reading a book about how the Minecraft company began and a couple of Pokemon Manga So you see why I still do read alouds with books of my choosing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arborite Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 DS 13 is reading Zombies of Byzantium as we start our Byzantium unit. I assigned it. 😀 Also Chapters 1-2 of SWB's History of the Medieval World. For fun he has been alternating between the Maze Runner and Harry Potter series (Nth time through HP, good thing we bought hardcover way back when). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted January 21, 2014 Author Share Posted January 21, 2014 DS 13 is reading Zombies of Byzantium as we start our Byzantium unit. I assigned it. 😀 Also Chapters 1-2 of SWB's History of the Medieval World. For fun he has been alternating between the Maze Runner and Harry Potter series (Nth time through HP, good thing we bought hardcover way back when). Ok, this is too funny!!! So how did you find this?? You were just sorta randomly searching? You know the author?? :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Ooo, I don't know if my dd has seen Tolkien on Faeries!! It's an essay based on a talk he gave on his views of "eucatastrophe" and how fiction set in "Faerie" allows authors to give us a glimpse into bigger themes (esp. Christian ideas). The essay is rather scholarly, so it may not appeal if you're DD is thinking Tolkien will be discussing Faeries or the World of Faerie. Here is the text of Tolkien's essay, "On Fairy Stories". And in case your family enjoys Tolkien's scholarly thoughts on Literature, here is the text of his essay, "Beowulf: The Monsters and Critics", and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted January 22, 2014 Author Share Posted January 22, 2014 Thanks Lori!!! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swimmermom3 Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 We just finished studying the Industrial Revolution so he is reading Hard Times by Dickens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arborite Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Ok, this is too funny!!! So how did you find this?? You were just sorta randomly searching? You know the author?? :lol: Randomly searching. If you search for Byzantium on Amazon, it comes up near the top. It's definitely a book for a history-loving, teen boy - icon-painting monks swinging swords at shambling zombies. The action starts as two monks are headed toward Constantinople from their monastery in Greece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendall Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 The first 2 books of the Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson This is my son who likes the fiction I assign, but rarely chooses to read fiction on his own. These he chose to read and he raced through them. His 11 year old sister loved them also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 It's definitely a book for a history-loving, teen boy - icon-painting monks swinging swords at shambling zombies. The action starts as two monks are headed toward Constantinople from their monastery in Greece. I sense a run on Amazon's stock of Zombies in Byzantium books coming on... ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiver0f10 Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 Ds 17 and 15: Beowulf Ds 14: reading ( and listening) to Journey to the Centre of the Earth Ds 14, 10 and 9: The Wizard of Oz and Robin Hood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanSebast Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 Ds11: the Hobbit (complete with chapter analyses and reports, so it'll take a while) Ds5: curious George :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momofeat Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 Dd14: Great Expectations & The Book Thief (again) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 If you want to read one McCarthy novel, I'd recommend The Road. It is post-apocalyptic and dark, but absolutely masterful, in my opinion. The Road is a melancholy symphony, the movie is quite good as well. Ds is reading Words, Words, Words by David Crystal. It's a great little book if you have a child even remotely interested in linguistics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 DS16 "American Gun" A History of the US in Ten Firearms TinTin: The Art of Herge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sisyphus Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 Ds15: re reading (he read it 2-3 years ago, not for school) nothing to envy by barabara demick (on north Korea) because he just finished 1984 and is writing a paper drawing parallels. Finishing (perhaps finished?) nip the buds, shoot the kids by Japanese writer Kenzaburo oe No idea on personal reading, probably something gruesome like a Jeffrey Dahmer true crime book. I swear he isn't a disturbed child, he just reads like one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 In the non-school category, ds 16 started reading The Fault in Our Stars because his girlfriend convinced him to read it. He loaned her The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The things we do for love. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch at Home Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Dd 14 just finished Jane Eyre for school. Dd 12 is working her way through House of Hades. Ds 10 is reading Sherlock File - The Case That Time Forgot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homeschoolmom3 Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Holiness of God (Sproul) & Victory in the Pacific (Marrin) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinspired Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 The Art and Craft of Problem Solving by Paul Zeitz (She fell in love with him after he guest-lectured at her math circle last year. I've never seen her act like a fangirl before that.) Walden Great Expectations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teacher Mom Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 The Grapes of Wraith by Steinbeck and Independent Study by Joelle Charbonneau (The Testing, Book2) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LunaLee Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 DS just finished: The Violinist's Thumb Hollow City Treasure Island Still working on his Halo novel. Tomorrow he will start: The Island of Dr.Moreau Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LunaLee Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 I'll warn you that McCarthy is pretty violent. But -- when my middle dd was assigned No Country for Old Men for AP Lit, I read it first and warned her about the violence. She read it and said, "Mom, that wasn't half as bad as the Iliad, which you made me read in 7th grade!" Ds is writing a paper on No Country for Old Men for AP Lit today. If you want to read one McCarthy novel, I'd recommend The Road. It is post-apocalyptic and dark, but absolutely masterful, in my opinion. I agree about The Road as well. Love it so much I refuse to watch the movie because I don't want to ruin it. DD's is reading No Country for Old Men in her English 1B class as part of their dystopian unit. Personally, I thought The Road would have been a better choice for that, but hey, who am I. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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