LunaLee Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 Getting started for next year, so I have more time to buy used. Here's what I have so far. It's pretty set, but I just wanted to see what everyone else is doing. The Hobbit The Call of the Wild The Adventures of Tom Sawyer A Horse and His Boy Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Kidnapped The Phantom Tollbooth The Tale of Despereaux And if we don't get to these 2 this year, they'll be first on the list for next: Swiss Family Robinson Hatchet Plus the HO MA L2 reading list. It's a lot of reading, but there are worse things to be doing with your time, right? :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 THis is a link for a 6th grade Medieval year list, but maybe it will be useful in some way. When we get to 5th grade, I'm pretty sure we will be doing Moderns, with SOTW 4. We might go ahead and do this, which is similar to Sonlight 5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Florida Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 This is my son's list of assigned reading for this year: Aesop’s Fables Bible Selections Boy of the Painted Cave Cat of Bubastes Chi’Lin Purse Children’s Homer D’Aulaire’s Greek Myths Dar and the Spear Thrower Detectives in Togas Eagle of the Ninth Exploring the Ice Age Gilgamesh the Hero Golden Goblet Mystery of the Roman Ransom Place in the Sun Tales from China Tales from India The Golden Goblet Theras and his Town Top 10 Greek Legends: Zeus on the Loose Tusk and Stone Twenty Jataka Tales Well of Sacrifice Exploring the Ice Age Horrible Histories: Rotten Romans How to Be a Roman Soldier How to Be an Ancient Greek Athlete The Way of Alexander the Great Walking the Bible The difficulty level of these varies widely. Some, like the How to Be books, I selected just because I knew my son would love them, even though they aren't at all challenging. Some others (Place in the Sun, etc.) I just happened to find on the cheap at the close-out bookstore and bought because they fit our theme for the year because I thought he'd enjoy them. He's also reading from several issues of Learning Through History: LTH: Ancient China LTH: Ancient East LTH: Ancient Egypt LTH: Ancient Near East LTH: Mesoamerica (just the Maya articles) In terms of fun reading, he chooses that himself. So far this academic year, he's read: Phoenix Unchained, Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory Phoenix Endangered, Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory Ruins of Gorlan, John Flanagan Sorcerer of the North, John Flanagan Superior Saturday, Garth Nix Tiger Magic, Laurence Yep Tiger’s Apprentice, Laurence Yep Tiger’s Blood, Laurence Yep Fire Thief, Terry Deary Fire Thief Fights Back, Terry Deary Flight of the Fire Thief, Terry Deary Seven Paths to Death, Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler He's currently working on The Fellowship of the Ring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Love your list! A few other terrific books for 5th grade that our boys LOVED: - The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Aiken) - From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Konigsburg) - My Side of the Mountain (George) - Sounder (Armstrong) - Rikki Tikki Tavi (Kipling) - In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson (Lord) And some wonderful, well-written, for fun books for a 5th grader: - Half Magic; Magic by the Lake, Knight's Castle; Time Garden; Seven Day Magic (Eager) - The Never Ending Story (Ende) - The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn (Hoobler) -- and others in the Samurai mystery series - The Black Stallion, The Black Stallion Returns, Island Stallion (Farley) - Ben and I (Lawson) - The Rescuers, Miss Bianca, Miss Bianca in the Orient (Sharpe) - Basil of Baker Street (Titus) - Holes (Sacher) - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (O-Brien) - Snow Treasure (McSwigan) -- WWII Norweigan children hide the country's gold - Land I Lost; Water Buffalo Days (Nhuong) -- memories of pre-war rural Vietnam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Those all sound terrific. My son read several of them last year and he's been reading several of the Harry Potter books on his own this year. We're doing the ancients time period this year, so he's been reading mostly mythology and folk lore of the peoples we're studying from story collections I own, etc. He's also reading more history non-fiction and science on his own this year. Some of the miscellaneous books he's read include: The Zeman Gilgamesh series. Various bios from Ten Kings. The Prince Who Ran Away, Anne Rockwell Buddha, Demi The Paper Dragon, Marguerite Davol Becoming Buddha, Whitney Stewart, et al Buddha, Susan Roth Ice Mummy, Mark Dubowski You Wouldn't Want to be Tutankhamen! David Stewart You Wouldn't Want to be an Egyptian Mummy! David Stewart A Children's Treasury of Mythology Arabian Nights Archimedes Takes a Bath, Joan Lexau Hercules and Other Greek Myths, Mark Gave Pegasus, Marianna Mayer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Testimony Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 In December, he read a Christmas Carol He read Oliver Twist and Children's Homer last semester. A lot of the ancient books that have been mentioned, he has read. Blessings, Karen http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/testimony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LunaLee Posted January 19, 2009 Author Share Posted January 19, 2009 Great Lists! I forgot about The Wolves of Willoughby Chase! Also, I was thinking about The Hound of the Baskervilles, but maybe I'll save that for 6th grade. Since we're doing Middle Ages next year I thought I'd add the Susan Cooper series. He saw the Ranger's Apprentice (I think that was the name of it) at the book store and wants to start that series, too. Dang! Too many books...:001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Just my opinion on the Rangers Apprentice series (which one of our boys *loved*): The books are what I would call "snack" books -- mediocre/adequate in writing, formulaic in plot, no real themes, minimal character development. The series is very appealing to those pre-teen boys, though, because of the archery and almost "super hero" aspect of the incredible ranger tracking, woodcraft and fighting skills. But, hey, nothing wrong with the occasional snack book during your free time! : ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LunaLee Posted January 19, 2009 Author Share Posted January 19, 2009 Just my opinion on the Rangers Apprentice series (which one of our boys *loved*): The books are what I would call "snack" books -- mediocre/adequate in writing, formulaic in plot, no real themes, minimal character development. The series is very appealing to those pre-teen boys, though, because of the archery and almost "super hero" aspect of the incredible ranger tracking, woodcraft and fighting skills. But, hey, nothing wrong with the occasional snack book during your free time! : ) Thanks Lori, I figured as much. It's like the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, books like that I let him read those on "his" time. It's still reading, right.:001_smile: Better than a screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 It's still reading, right.:001_smile: Better than a screen. LOL! :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tohru Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 wow. you guys are all hard core! LOL We do Sonlight 5 and add ins. We Loved Tale of Desperaux in our house and am VERY disappointed that they made such a wonderfully sweet book into a movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Florida Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Just my opinion on the Rangers Apprentice series (which one of our boys *loved*): The books are what I would call "snack" books -- mediocre/adequate in writing, formulaic in plot, no real themes, minimal character development. The series is very appealing to those pre-teen boys, though, because of the archery and almost "super hero" aspect of the incredible ranger tracking, woodcraft and fighting skills. But, hey, nothing wrong with the occasional snack book during your free time! : ) Agreed, and they are truly addictive. My son has read (and re-read and re-read) all of the ones that are currently available in this country, and I have seriously considered ordering the rest from Australia just because he's so desolate when he finishes each new one. I would never count them for school or consider them educational in any way. They are pure fun reading for him. On the other hand, he has been inspired to learn how to sew in order to make himself costumes based on these books. And he has spent many, many hours happily crafting bows and arrows and other costume accessories from cardboard and scrap wood and so on. This is a mixed blessing for me, since I don't like the weaponry but do like him staying occupied. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paisley Hedgehog Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 nm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetbaby Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 I couldn't list all of ours but we read from a combination list of Ambleside Online and Classical Homeschooling. We have read just about a little over half to a third of the 5th grade reading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Florida Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Black Ships Before Troy Yes, that's a good one. My son read it on our last round with the ancients. Archimedes & the Door of Science My son's reading this one this year, too. But it's on his science reading list, along with Galen and the Gateway to Medicine. He's about halfway through Archimedes now and enjoying it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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