Easy, open and go, middle school unit study that can be finished by Christmas?

[Drama Llama]

I am looking for something open and go that I can do with my 5th and 8th grader.  I care less about the content, than about the structure.  I'd love something that lends itself to reading aloud, with some discussion questions to organize our thinking.  It can be something written for that purpose (e.g. we loved the Further Up Further In Narnia study) or something written to be done in writing, where we just dictate and co-create.  But I want something where I pick up a book, and the next thing is clear.

I don't really care about the topic. Literature, or history, or social studies.  We did a whole lot of ancient/medieval stuff, and I think we're going to do early US history in January, so not those, but beyond that I don't care.  

Does this exist?

 

[bensonduck]

Build Your Library has some neat unit studies available. A Harry Potter one, a prehistory one, and a Christmas one (though I think the Christmas one is for younger kids). 

[Shoeless]

Any interest in science? Ellen McHenry has some unit studies that we have enjoyed. They do not require any other books or to complete complicated experiments.  

[Drama Llama]

Thanks both of you.

I'm open to almost anything, so I will investigate both of those.  

[historically accurate]

11 hours ago, bensonduck said:

Build Your Library has some neat unit studies available. A Harry Potter one, a prehistory one, and a Christmas one (though I think the Christmas one is for younger kids). 

The Hobbit would be a good middle school one from BYL.