Noreen Claire Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 DS9 has worked through pretty much the entire recommended reading list in the WTM for 3rd grade/early modern times. While he reads above grade level, I assigned him the abridged versions. For several books, he also listened to the unabridged audiobook after reading the abridged version. He listened to the poetry recommendations through audiobook as well. He is a voracious reader when it comes to non-academic reading; he usually has two or more books going at a time. We have 9 weeks of school left before the end of the year. I guess I'm looking for recommendations for maybe short stories or poetry that I can assign during school time. We are nearing the end of the SOTW vol 3, and I would like the readings to be somewhat related to the time period (early 1800s), if possible. I'm open to other ideas, as well, but it has to be something that he can do by himself (he usually completes his literature first thing in the morning, before the other boys wake up and while I make breakfast). Thanks for any ideas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almondbutterandjelly Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 Well, you could get some of the Poetry for Young People books on poets of the time: American Poets in the 19th Century William Bryant (1794 - 1878 ) Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886) Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) Henry Wordsworth Longfellow (1807 -1882) Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862) Walt Whitman(1819 – 1892) Robert Frost (1874-1963 British Poets in the 19th Century Emily Bronte(1818 – 1848) Elizabeth Browning (1806 – 1861) Robert Browning(1812-1889) John Clare (1793 – 1864) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834) John Keats (1795 -1821) Rudyard Kipling. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 – 1889) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 books set in late 1700s and/or early 1800s Ben and Me (Lawson) Mr. Revere and I (Lawson) The Birchbark House (Erdrich) Naya Nuki: The Girl Who Ran (Thomasma) Carry On Mr. Bowditch -- at a higher reading level, so maybe as an audiobook The Captain's Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe (Smith) Seaward Born (Wait) Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin (Gunderson) -- biography Noah Webster: Master of Words (Collins) -- biography Francis Scott Key (Collins) -- biography The Great Little Madison (Fritz) -- biography A Boy Called Dickens (Hopkinson) -- biography What Are You Figuring Now: Benjamin Banneker (Ferris) -- biography The Boy Who Drew Birds: John James Audubon (Davies) -- biography Cornerstones of Freedom: The Erie Canal (Stein) -- nonfiction The Amazing Hot Air Balloon (Van Leeuwen) -- nonfiction Sea Clocks: The Story of Longitude (Borden) -- nonfiction "don't miss" books for a 3rd/4th grade Mrs. Piggle Wiggle series (MacDonald) Sideways Stories from Wayside School (Sachar) Encyclopedia Brown series (Sobol) Rascal (North) Shiloh (Naylor) books by Roald Dahl books by Andrew Clements The Toothpaste Millionaire (Merrill) Mr. Popper's Penguins (Atwater) Henry Huggins series (Cleary) The Mouse and the Motorcycle (Cleary) Trumpet of the Swan (White) The Rescuers; Miss Bianca; The Turret; Miss Bianca in the Salt Mines; Miss Bianca in the Orient (Sharp) One Hundred and One Dalmatians (Smith) The Great Mouse Detective -- and sequels (Titus) Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet; Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet (Cameron) The Iron Giant (Hughes) Stories that Julian Tells (Cameron) Nim's Island (Orr) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knitgrl Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Dd loved, loved, loved Iron Giant. It's actually a pretty good movie, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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