ProudGrandma Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 I have a dd grade 8, ds grade 7 and ds grade 5...and I am putting together their required reading for the fall....so I am curious what you are all putting on your kid's lists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 We're studying Fantasy lit next year (7th grade). Here's our list. The first block are just read-alouds, the rest will be read & studied in more depth. With tie-ins to the Harry Potter series ;) : Daulaire’s Book of Norse Myths The Marvellous Land of Snergs – Wyke-Smith The Sons of the Volsungs – Dorothy Hosford Smith of Wootton Major – Tolkein The Little White Horse – Elizabeth Goudge The Enchanted Castle – E Nesbit The Book of Dragons – E Nesbit The Chronicles of Prydain The String on the Harp The Moorchild Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Coursera Fantasy & Sci Fi) Romeo & Juliet The Hobbit (annotated book plus Garlic Press guide) The Fellowship of the Ring (LLLOTR) Macbeth (Walch Guide plus Shakespeare Uncovered) The Two Towers (LLLOTR) The Return of the King (LLLOTR) Dracula (Coursera Fantasy & Sci Fi) Frankenstein (Coursera Fantasy & Sci Fi) Hawthorne (Coursera Fantasy & Sci Fi) a. The Birthmark b. Rappaccini’s Daughter c. Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment d. The Artist of the Beautiful Poe (Coursera Fantasy & Sci Fi) a. The Fall of the House of Usher b. The Tell-Tale Heart c. The Black Cat d. The Oval Portrait e. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar f. The Bells g. The Raven h. Annabel Lee Wells (Coursera Fantasy & Sci Fi) a. The Country of the Blind b. The Star c. The Invisible Man (MCT Lit Guide) Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethel Mertz Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Copied from our official 6th Grade Ed Plan: Our literature selections for 2014-2015: Rootabaga Stories – Carl Sandburg The Chronicles of Prydain – Lloyd Alexander The Wildwood Chronicles – Colin Meloy Kidnapped! – Robert Louis Stevenson Chasing Redbird – Sharon Creech From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – E.L. Konigsburg, Bridge to Terabithia – Katherine Patterson In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson – Bette Bao Lord Gentle Ben – Walt Morey Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates – Mary Mapes Dodge The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame The Summer of the Swans – Betsy Byers The Hobbit – Tolkien The Bronze Bow – Elizabeth George Speare Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain Captains Courageous – Rudyard Kipling Dragon of Lonely Island - Rebecca Rupp The Captain’s Dog – Roland Smith DS will also read select biographies for history and science. Our daily read aloud time will include selections from Shakespeare (using the resources How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare – Ken Ludwig and Tales from Shakespeare – Charles and Mary Lamb) as well as from Plutarch (Our Young Folks’ Plutarch – Rosalie Kaufman). In addition, we will study a poet per month (including Christina Rossetti, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickenson, e.e. cummings, Phillis Wheatley, Robert Louis Stephenson, William Wordsworth, and Paul Laurence Dunbar). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kfamily Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 I'm still working on this list, but so far these are very strong contenders: :) This is for 6th grade. Poetry...not sure which authors yet George MacDonald Study (At the Back of the North Wind, poetry, Complete Fairy Tales) Robinson Crusoe by Defoe Treasure Island by Stevenson Persuasion by Austen North and South by Gaskell The Complete Tales from Shakespeare by Lamb Ivanhoe by Scott The Heroes by Kingsley The Trojan War by Coolidge Faerie Gold by Hunsicker Swallows and Amazons by Ransome ETA: This is our read together (usually she reads to me, but if there are several things we are reading aloud in one sitting then I will take over some of it), read and discuss and read followed by a focused narration list. Our read-aloud list looks like this so far: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Romeo and Juliet...to be followed by The Merchant of Venice and then Hamlet Science Matters Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution Parallel Worlds Plutarch selections to be decided still... I'm still working on this list. :) Her independent reading list is much more fluid. I have a number of books that I will suggest to her, but I'm much more flexible with this list. Sometimes I give her a book to read but most of the time I let her choose from the bookshelves. She has four going for school at a time and she rotates through them at her choice in the week. So, she will read whichever from the four for the week that she wants each day (we keep one day per week open for other work). I usually require one oral narration and one written per week from two of these four books, but these are kept very informal. We rotate the narrations too. She has a narration notebook (composition book) for all of her written narrations. She also reads books that are free reading for her. I have no say in these and I have no expectations with these. :) If she wants to share what she is reading, I'm always happy to listen. I have made it a point over these last few years to just get rid of any books that I really didn't like. This makes choosing a book in the house very easy. I like and see value in them all. Some books are just for pure pleasure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saddlemomma Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 We will be doing TOG Y3. This is our literature list through their program: Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Behind Rebel Lines David Copperfield Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier (we will probably substitute this one for another classic) Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Frankenstein The Hound of the Baskervilles The Importance of Being Ernest The Invisible Man Island of the Blue Dolphins Jungle Book Emily Dickinson (selections) Robert Browning (selections) The Princess & the Goblin Tom Sawyer William Wadsworth (selections) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeteranMom Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 I will have one 6th grader and two 7th graders. I've only chosen these 4, so far. Call of the Wild Treasure Island Tom Sawyer The Hobbit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madteaparty Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Still working on 5th grade list. But he is doing Lightning Lit so the books covered there are: Tom Sawyer, Alice in Wonderland, Hellen Keller, All Creatures Great and Small and Stories and Poems for intelligent children. Also planning on Nobody's Boy, Adam of the Road, Call of the Wild. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildiris Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 List so far for grade 6: The Giver Fahrenheit 451 Among the Hidden The Wednesday Wars Odyssey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayne J Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 For my rising sixth grader we are also doing a fantasy focus (great minds think alike Rose!) Beowulf (an adaptation) Adventures with the Heroes (a retelling of the Sigurd Myths/Volsung Saga) Celtic/Welsh mythology King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table The Sword in the Stone The Adventures of Robin Hood The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings trilogy The Prydain Chronicles If there is time/interest, we will also do the Earthsea Trilogy, the Dark Is Rising series, and maybe some more modern stuff like Neil Gaiman and Corneila Funke I also have a reading list tied to our history, including: Adam of the Road Rolf and the Viking Bow Beorn the Proud Castle Diary Otto of the Silver Hand Men of Iron Sir Nigel/The White Company (maybe) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinivanMom Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 My 5th grader will be reading ancient & medieval literature this next year (w/a little historical fiction thrown in) to go along with K12 Human Odyssey. Her tentative book list: Boy of the Painted Cave Hittite Warrior Gilgamesh: The Hero Tales of Ancient Egypt (Roger Green) The Golden Goblet Mara, Daughter of the Nile Sita's Ramayana The Ch'i-lin Purse Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Twenty Jataka Tales (Noor Khan) Behold, Your Queen Greek Myths (Olivia Coolidge) The Golden Fleece Theras and His Town Black Ships Before Troy The Wanderings of Odysseus In Search of a Homeland Eagle of the Ninth The Bronze Bow Children of Odin The Sword in the Stone Anna of Byzantium One Thousand and One Arabian Nights (Geraldine McCaughrean) Son of Charlemagne The Canterbury Tales (Geraldine McCaughrean) A Proud Taste of Scarlet and Miniver I Rode a Horse of Milkwhite Jade Outlaws of Sherwood Adam of the Road Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Tick Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Can someone help me understand these lists? Are your middle schoolers going to read, analyze and compare all the books in your list, just read a selection of the books, or something in between? Mine are going to be in fourth this next year, but I'm looking at the lists thinking that even my strongest reader couldn't handle the longer lists and get anything else done in the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walking-Iris Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 I haven't actually ever made lists...maybe I ought to.....??? When you guys say required reading, do you mean you expect your child to read it on their own, or these are books you will read aloud together and discuss? Will they still have time for free choice reading? So I'll try to make myself a list. These would tie in to our history. The Story of Mankind Theras and His Town Tales of Ancient Egypt The Golden Goblet Children's Homer Archimedes and the Door of Science (have an Arrow guide for this one) The Bronze Bow (Boomerang) The Sword in the Stone (Boomerang) Adam of the Road various mythology from various cultures In The Beginning (Arrow guide) As far as just literature beyond the history focus: I have been hoping to read The Prince and the Pauper with my ds. I remember studying that in school about his age and loving it. Possibly a good Don Quixote adaptation if anyone has any recommendations? Eagle of the Ninth (Boomerang guide) Beowulf (Boomerang) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Boomerang) Robin Hood (Boomerang) The Princess Bride (Boomerang) The Hero and the Crown (Arrow guide) I'd love to delve deeper into Shakespeare. How do you get a child reading on their own a book on your list if they don't want to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Can someone help me understand these lists? Are your middle schoolers going to read, analyze and compare all the books in your list, just read a selection of the books, or something in between? Mine are going to be in fourth this next year, but I'm looking at the lists thinking that even my strongest reader couldn't handle the longer lists and get anything else done in the year. For my list, the first 7 will be read-alouds. The rest we will read (some together, some independently), discuss, and write about, using various study guides and some outside lectures. Don't worry about comparing what a 4th grader can do with what a 7th+ grader can do!! There capabilities will grow so much in the meantime. In 4th, you are still teaching them writing basics. By this point, my dd can write about books - I'm not still teaching her the mechanics/basics of writing. My kid is also a voracious and very fast reader - she will blow through a book very quickly, so forcing her to slow down and discuss, think, and write about the book is the teaching/learning part - the reading takes very little time and much of it happens in "off hours." But yes, it's also a choice: my kid loves literature and she loves the literary discussions we have, so we've chosen to do an hour on literature every day, with other "english" stuff (mostly learning to write various types of essays) on top of that. We're doing literature-focused English for the first time this year - in past years much of English time was focused on basic skills, grammar, vocab, spelling and writing, so reading and discussing lit was less of a focus. I feel like the focus on the basics in previous years is what has prepared us to now spend more of our energy actually reading, discussing, and writing about books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EndOfOrdinary Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 My son is rather intense with his humanities. They are the major focus of our schooling. Here's our Fifth Grade list: Read Alouds are just fun classic kids lit: Anne of Green Gables series, Penderwicks, Fudge series, as many Ramona books as I can get away with History Audiobooks: Herodotus' Histories, Plutarch's Age of Alexander, and Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War Guided Reading Discussion: Lots of short stories for Lit. Analysis that cover the major writers: Poe, O'Connor, Jackson, Melville, Vonnegut on and on Introduction to Literature books independent reading books Naturalism - Call of the Wild and White Fang Cultural views of Nature - Ishmael and Into the Wild Boys Coming of Age - Red Badge of Courage and Lord of the Flies Romanticism - Rhime of the Ancient Mariner and Old Man and the Sea Romanticism as Cultural Commentary - Frankenstein (this one may be too intense, so it is a maybe) and Fahrenheit 451 Literature as commentary on Social Hierarchy - Of Mice and Men and Pygmalion Post Modern Dystopian - Giver Series Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 I haven't actually ever made lists...maybe I ought to.....??? When you guys say required reading, do you mean you expect your child to read it on their own, or these are books you will read aloud together and discuss? Will they still have time for free choice reading? So I'll try to make myself a list. These would tie in to our history. The Story of Mankind Theras and His Town Tales of Ancient Egypt The Golden Goblet Children's Homer Archimedes and the Door of Science (have an Arrow guide for this one) The Bronze Bow (Boomerang) The Sword in the Stone (Boomerang) Adam of the Road various mythology from various cultures In The Beginning (Arrow guide) As far as just literature beyond the history focus: I have been hoping to read The Prince and the Pauper with my ds. I remember studying that in school about his age and loving it. Possibly a good Don Quixote adaptation if anyone has any recommendations? Eagle of the Ninth (Boomerang guide) Beowulf (Boomerang) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Boomerang) Robin Hood (Boomerang) The Princess Bride (Boomerang) The Hero and the Crown (Arrow guide) I'd love to delve deeper into Shakespeare. How do you get a child reading on their own a book on your list if they don't want to? I kind of answered this above - we were posting at the same time. But yes, these are books that will be read, discussed, and written about during "school time" for the most part. My kids are such voracious readers I don't worry about whether they have time for free choice reading - that just happens every day. Last year, we did about 25 read alouds, she read more than 50 books (nonfiction & historical fiction) for history/lit studies, and she still had time to read 80+ books on her own. So to me, my list is actually short, and it will be forcing her to slow down and delve more deeply into her reading. But I'm certain she'll still have plenty of time to read plenty on her own! I also don't make her read anything she isn't enjoying after a couple of chapters. With the quantity she reads, that's a non-issue for us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TracyP Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 5th Grader: Book Club (with her brother and me) Twenty-One Balloons Bambi Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh The Sword in the Stone Brian's Winter Pollyanna (this will be a reread) The Hobbit ELTL Lit "The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry (reread)"The Gift of the Magi" by O. HenryThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (reread)The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar WildeLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottAround the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Literature tied to history - ToG Year 2 Aladdin retelling by Dawood Beowulf retelling by Marshall Canterbury Tales retelling (haven't picked author yet) Adam of the Road Secret of the Andes Poetry for Young People: William Shakespeare Almost Home Dangerous Journey (Pilgrims' Progress retelling) The Witch of Blackbird Pond Robinson Crusoe Read Aloud The Search for Delicious Robin Hood by Pyle A Christmas Carol (reread) A Wrinkle in Time Five Children and It Half Magic Buddy Reading A Midsummer Night's Dream (her request....we will see) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Tick Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Thanks, Rose. I'm breathing a bit more deeply. I will put my head down and focus on building basics for the next three years. My dear-ds, though, is so pencil averse that what you are describing sounds fantastical. Can't wait to see how it really turns out for us! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
My3girls Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 7th grader's list looks something like this. Watership Down 1984 Animal Farm The Outsiders A Wrinkle in Time/ A Wind in the Door Black Ships Before Troy The Wandering of Odysseus The Golden Goblet The Bronze Bow We'll probably add in something for science, a biography or two, and possibly something for geography. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelia Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 So far: The Bronze Bow The Adventures of Robin Hood Gilgamesh the Hero The Children of Odin The Rainbow People King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table Tales of Ancient Egypt The Trumpeter of Krakow Tales from the Arabian Nights D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths Augustus Caesar's World I haven't settled on any books to be read aloud, but am tentatively considering:The Hobbit The Eagle of the Ninth Wonder Bambi's Children The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate Anne of Green Gables Laddie: A True Blue Story Ronia, the Robber's Daughter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 I used to make lists. I'm giving up for next year. The lists never get read except for the read alouds. Different books always get read instead somehow. It does seem we'll be doing a unit on Steampunk literature, so Philip Reeve, maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa B Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 5th grade - Literature Wrinkle in Time Caddie Woodlawn Secret Garden Witch of Blackbird Pond Island of the Blue Dolphins Black Beauty Anne of Green Gables The Trojan War Bronze Bow Hobbit Science Burgess Bird Book Fabre's Book of Insects History d'Aulaire's Greek Myths Roman Myths Black Ships Before Troy Wanderings of Odysseus In Search of a Homeland Theras and His Town Odysseus in the Serpent Maze Tales of the Greek Heroes Archimedes and the Door of Science Detectives in Togas Caesar's Gallic War Story of Greece Famous Men of Greece Story of Rome Famous Men of Rome Outcast Eagle of the Ninth The Silver Branch The Lantern Bearers + a monthly biography Read Alouds Story of the World 1 Age of Fable Augustus Caesar's World Plutarch's Lives Nicomachean Ethics Percy Jackson series Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootAnn Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 My dear-ds, though, is so pencil averse that what you are describing sounds fantastical. Can't wait to see how it really turns out for us! My oldest always used to be allergic to pencils, but she's improved to just disliking writing instead. :sneaky2: She is, however, a strong reader. She'll read most. We won't talk about most of the historical fiction, but we will discuss most of the others. She won't write on these -- her writing will be in other things. Isaac Newton by Philip Steele Three Muskateers by Dumas Tale of Two Cities by Dickens Victory at Valmy by Geoffey Trease One or more of the Horatio Hornblower series Frankenstein Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg Heart and Soul: the story of Florence Nightingale by Gena Gorrell Pick one of: David Copperfield/Oliver Twist /A Christmas Carol by Dickens Drummer Boy's Battle by Jackson Florence Nightingale's Nuns by Emmeline Garnett King Soloman's Mines by Haggard Broken Song by K. Lasky The Good Master by Kate Seredy Angel on the Square by Gloria Whelan Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot Stalin by Albert Marrin The Impossible Journey by Gloria Whelan The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto by Susan Goldman Rubin The Mitchells: Five for Victory by Stockum Twenty and Ten by Bishop Number the Stars by Lois Lowry The Ark by Margot Benary-Isbert Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Ling Jiang Samir and Yonatan by Carmi Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis The Westing Game I'm still working on the list for dd#2 - tentatives right now (total list 8-12): Nzingha, warrior queen of Matamba Jahanara, Princess of Princesses The Sign of the Beaver A coal miner's bride : the diary of Anetka Kaminska Amos Fortune: Free Man Tucket's Ride Still working on list for dd#3 - tentatives right now (total list 4-8): The Pied Piper of Hamelin George Washington's Mother Mr. Revere & I or Ben and Me They always have time for free-pick-reading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mavis Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 This is our read aloud book list for 6th grade : Bridge to Terabithia White Fang Call of the Wild The Giver Hatchet Animal Farm Island of the Blue Dolphins A Wrinkle in Time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly1730 Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 7th grade Literature; to be analyzed, discussed and occasional written narrations The Trojan War The Wind in the Willows Tom Sawyer Shakespeare: As You Like it Around the World in 80 Days Still working on historical and science lists Read alouds will consist of various missionary biographies for our focus on geography And a lot of free reads; they keep a list of these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildiris Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Can someone help me understand these lists? Are your middle schoolers going to read, analyze and compare all the books in your list, just read a selection of the books, or something in between? Mine are going to be in fourth this next year, but I'm looking at the lists thinking that even my strongest reader couldn't handle the longer lists and get anything else done in the year. My small list of books is for guided reading and the beginnings of literary analysis. I could not get my rising 6th grader to read an extensive list of books with a historical focus without turning her off to reading altogether. I am excited that my DD just started reading more on her own, so I don't want to overburden the experience even though her reading level is beyond high school. I am also looking for some nonfiction reading to do with a science focus. Maybe Uncle Tungsten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom31257 Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 For the book club I lead: My Side of the Mountain Around the World in 80 Days Archimedes and the Door of Science Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes or Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (I haven't decided yet.) Historical Fiction: The Golden Goblet Hittite Warrior Detectives in Togas The Bronze Bow Literature: Holes Tuck Everlasting The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Short Stories and Poetry to go along with some of Figuratively Speaking Selections from MP American Literature short stories and Poetry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverMoon Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 (edited) . Edited April 21, 2023 by SilverMoon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa B Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Can someone help me understand these lists? Are your middle schoolers going to read, analyze and compare all the books in your list, just read a selection of the books, or something in between? Mine are going to be in fourth this next year, but I'm looking at the lists thinking that even my strongest reader couldn't handle the longer lists and get anything else done in the year. Only our literature books are analyzed or include any written assignments. While I may have a history guide or two with discussion questions, our history, science and read aloud selections are only orally discussed as we go along. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pen Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 We have no list. My ds is currently reading The Hobbit and LoTR, also a bunch of Star Wars books, which I hope are okay, since I have not reviewed their suitability. He wants to read Animal Farm next-ish. He tried Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde recently, and we decided that horror is not a good genre for our family. So he went back to adventure fantasy which does not give nightmares. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Targhee Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 7th grade list in progress - For outside class Wonder Hatchet Star Girl - Family Read Aloud Carry on, Mr. Bowditch The Phantom Tollbooth - Literature and content area trade books The Captain's Dog I Heard the Owl Call My Name The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven (selections) - Book Buffet (chose one or more from each group) The Mystery of the Periodic Table, The Disappearing Spoon, Tiner's Exploring the World of Chemistry Biography of famous scientist TBD (Newton, Galileo, Faraday, Tesla, Archimedes, Einstein) The Children's Homer/Golden Fleece, Black Ships Before Troy/The Wanderings of Odysseus, Gilgamesh the Hero/TheGolden Goblet, In Search of a Homeland/TheEagle of Ninth Selected poems from 6 poets (choices TBD) Still working on this... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ondreeuh Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 My 7th grader is also doing Lightning Lit, so he's reading: Tom Sawyer Alice in Wonderland Story of My Life (Helen Keller) All Creatures Great and Small selections from Stories and Poems for Intelligent children. In addition, I have selected lit guides for several others: The Egypt Game Call of the Wild The Black Pearl Hoot Julie of the Wolves Maniac Magee and then he will do free reading, likely picking from our home library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 My girls are 8 and 10, going into 5th and 4th grade. I only have classics at home on my shelf and I usually just let them pick whichever one they want to read, but I require that they read for at least 30 min a day from classical literature. For my 5th grader, that will go up to 1 hour of classic lit. I try to keep track what they read. Often they will read a favorite more than once. I've never made a list of what to read until this upcoming year for my 5th grader. She has already read much medieval classic lit on most lists for middle/high school because it is her favorite genre, but I found five she hasn't read yet and have them available for her to read to go along with her Famous Men of the Middle Ages study. They are: Adam of the Road, sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Bronze Bow, The Door in the Wall, The Prince and the Pauper. To go along with her geography studies she will read Around the World in 80 Days. To go along with her science curriculum she will read The History of Medicine and Exploring Planet Earth by Tiner. I don't have any specific scheduled literature for my 4th grader. I'll let her choose. I also do read-alouds and audio books, but I don't ever plan what those will be either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EndOfOrdinary Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 He tried Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde recently, and we decided that horror is not a good genre for our family. So he went back to adventure fantasy which does not give nightmares. We have had books that first become "not before bed books" and quickly move into "let's put that genre off for a few more months/years." It always reminds me of the Friends episode where Joey explains that when he reads a book with a scary part he puts it in the freezer, because the freezer is safe. "Nothing can live in the freezer!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saddlemomma Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 Can someone help me understand these lists? Are your middle schoolers going to read, analyze and compare all the books in your list, just read a selection of the books, or something in between? Mine are going to be in fourth this next year, but I'm looking at the lists thinking that even my strongest reader couldn't handle the longer lists and get anything else done in the year. The books on my list are TOG's literature suggestions. These are to be read by DD alone and then she has literature analysis questions each week for the book she is reading. However, if I know that DD will not like a book, I'll choose something different that I know she will enjoy more. We have other books listed in TOG as read-alouds which are usually historical fiction or in-depth history. DD also has a summer reading list each year. This summer she is reading the following (trying to catch up on the classics we missed before starting TOG): The Witch of Blackbird Pond Little Women A Wrinkle in Time Tuck Everlasting The Wizard of Oz Wind in the Willows Finish Tales from Shakespeare I keep this list smaller because she attends several summer camps and activities. In addition, she's reading several series of her own choosing. DD loves to read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melmichigan Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 For 6th grade literature. Meaning these are books that will be discussed and in some cases compared or written about. The kids also read for pleasure, but those books are from separate lists or books that they choose themselves. The Horse and His BoyIsland of the Blue DolphinsWhere the Red Fern GrowsA Single ShardHolesOut of the Dust Tales of Ancient Egypt Gilgamesh the Hero Hittite WarriorTheras and His TownArchimedes and the Door of ScienceBlack Ships Before TroyTales of the Odyssey The Aeneid for Boys and GirlsThe Bronze BowBlack Horses for the King D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths Mystery of the Roman Ransom God KingDetectives in Togas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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