Wildwood Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 I'm looking for ideas : ) Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Laura~ Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 DD will be doing Memoria Press literature guides with at least 6 different books, Heidi and The Blue Fairy Book for sure, not sure on the other four. She'll also be reading through the 20 Iowa Children's Choice Award books and reviewing them. Her social studies this year involves reading some historical fiction as well. All the books she reads, she logs with Book Adventure. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildwood Posted June 10, 2015 Author Share Posted June 10, 2015 Thanks, Laura. Have you used the MP lit. guides in the past? If so, just wondering how you liked them. I have the MP guides and Progeny Press on my possibles list. Thanks : ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancingmama Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 We are using the Build Your Library curriculum. She's a voracious reader and loved the program this year. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc26 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I will be using Bookshark Eastern Hemisphere (5) with my young 6th grader. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I think I'm just going to have her finish the 4-6th grade list and then start on the next list on Mensa: http://www.mensaforkids.org/achieve/excellence-in-reading/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Just reading books. We do a short story a month to be discussed in depth and occasionally I'll have them read a book and we'll all discuss together, but mostly we just read. I did consider doing Mosdos for this year but decided against it so I'm not revisiting it for next year. But it's another option. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdobis Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Specific lit books from ELTL. Other books of our choice based on historical time period and science topics. These are for fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shahaodou Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I have the MP guides and Progeny Press on my possibles list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrayshire Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 There is also Total Language Plus and Moving Beyond the Page if you are wanting a guide of some sort with the reading. You could also check out SWB's book lists in TWTM book! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mystie Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 My 5th grader will mostly be reading books, but I also have assigned him one book for the whole year – Pilgrim's Progress – that he'll read slowly and illustrate in a hardbound sketchbook with quotes. He likes to draw and is excited about this. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildwood Posted June 11, 2015 Author Share Posted June 11, 2015 Specific lit books from ELTL. Other books of our choice based on historical time period and science topics. These are for fun. What is ELTL? Thanks. : ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdobis Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 What is ELTL? Thanks. : ) English Lessons Through Literature 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 We used books. Just regular books. I've never done any sort of "program" for English, and that worked out splendidly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeAndTheBoys Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 We started Lightning Literature 7 in the spring for my 5th and 6th grader; will finish it this fall. Really enjoying it. We use Christian Light Reading (1/2 year program) and I assign them a book every month or so, but this has helped simplify my planning and working on some literary analysis. They have done units on Riki-Tiki-Tavi and Tom Sawyer so far; there are a few poetry units, Helen Keller's "The Story of My Life", "All Creatures Great and Small", "Alice in Wonderland", and a short story unit remaining. https://www.hewitthomeschooling.com/Materials/mItem.aspx?id=8081 B 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelli Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 We started Lightning Literature 7 in the spring for my 5th and 6th grader; will finish it this fall. Really enjoying it. We use Christian Light Reading (1/2 year program) and I assign them a book every month or so, but this has helped simplify my planning and working on some literary analysis. They have done units on Riki-Tiki-Tavi and Tom Sawyer so far; there are a few poetry units, Helen Keller's "The Story of My Life", "All Creatures Great and Small", "Alice in Wonderland", and a short story unit remaining. https://www.hewitthomeschooling.com/Materials/mItem.aspx?id=8081 B I'm considering this for my 6th grader next year so it's good to hear it worked for you using it a year early. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeAndTheBoys Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I'm considering this for my 6th grader next year so it's good to hear it worked for you using it a year early. Honestly, I was concerned, esp with my 5th grader who isn't a big reader. But he is doing great. There were some things I had to explain in Tom Sawyer (vocabulary and complex phrasing), but he liked reading it. I will probably read the Helen Keller book aloud. The assignments are very easy, IMO; those have not been a problem at all. I think you'll be fine :) If we do LL8, they will be in 7th and 8th grade them, less of a jump for my younger; not in a rush to get through the program, just enjoying the accountability and scheduling :) b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa B Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Lightning Literature 7 We hadn't nailed down anything yet and another homeschooler gave me the teacher's guide. It looks pretty good to both of us, so we are going to try it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairProspects Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 We're doing Lightening Lit 7 also for my rising older 5th grader. I think we will add the MCT Time trilogy too + Tuck Everlasting. I also considered doing an autobiography unit expanding on The Story of My Life and I may still do something with that as well. It is fun as they are getting into the middle years to start working on some lit courses by theme. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fourisenough Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 We're doing Homeschool Book Study's Middle School online class. It is a little different than most online classes (much more affordable, too). Basically you read the books as assigned and get together once per week to discuss briefly. She gives weekly essay prompts, but as my daughter has been on the young end for the class, we didn't write many of the essays (her ability to read/understand was way beyond her ability to produce written output) last year, but will write more this year. Here is a link and the book list for 2015-16: http://homeschoolbookstudy.com/contact/jr-high-book-study/ Little Lord Fauntleroy, Frances Hodgson Burnett James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl The Fledgling, Jane Langton The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper The Twenty-One Balloons, William Pene du Bois The Long Winter, Laura Ingalls Wilder Pollyanna, Eleanor H. Porter Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson We'll also be reading the following books to go along with our modern history studies: Diary of Anne Frank The Boy on the Wooden Box Number the Stars Maus The Book Thief Farewell to Manzanar The Hiding Place Bright Candles Twenty and Ten The Devil's Arithmetic The Upstairs Room Hitler (Marin) Stalin (Marin) Bud, Not Buddy Watsons Go to Birmingham The Breadwinner 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie of KY Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Center for Literature - online course (she listened to some of her brother's last year and asked to do it herself this year). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creekster519 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 We love Total Language Plus (TLP). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelia Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 We used our own list, some related to history, some related to science, some classics and some just for fun. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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