Aug 11, 2013::reading lists

We start school tomorrow.
Our seventh year of homeschooling.
Usually, I would write - We Start School Tomorrow!!! :)

No one is really ready this year, even me.

I attribute my own malaise with the lack of rest this summer, the fact that I have only been working on plans for a week, and the great restraint I have shown in the purchase of school supplies this year!

That trip to the school supply aisle always gets my back to school excitement flowing. In the move, I discovered enough basic supplies stored away that we really don't need anything new. Oh well. Brice did ask for some glue sticks. I brought him a modest stash of glue, paint, and drawing paper today. The fact that he disappeared into his room for a couple of hours of painting did give me hope that our lessons will be fun this year.

I have hope that a calm attitude on my part will get us off to a good start tomorrow. I will try to remember that we've all had a very unusual summer and may need a slow start. OK.

Now, moving straight away from relaxed and slow...to our reading goals for the year. They are ambitious, especially for Embree. We'll get as far as we get. A few novels completed well, with meaningful writing assignments,
will be the ultimate goal. Quality over quantity.

Namaste

Backroad School

Literature/Reading Lists

2013-2014

Grade 1- Brice

The Random House Book of Poetry for Children

The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread), DiCamillo

26 Fairmount Avenue, DiPaola

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Dahl

Egyptian Diary: The Journal of Nakht (Diary Histories),Platt

Poppy, Avi  

Capyboppy, Peet

Tales from the Odyssey, Part 1 and 2, Osborne

The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles, Andrews Edwards

The House at Pooh Corner, Milne  

Charlotte's Web, White

Nim's Island, Orr

The Thieves of Ostia, Lawrence

Baby, Maclachlan

Grade 6- Reeves

Greek Mythology, Various Sources

The Iliad & The Odyssey, Homer

Julius Caesar, Shakespeare

The Hobbit, Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Tolkien

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain

Poetry of Shakespeare, Byron, Wordsworth, Kipling, Hughes, Johnson, Dickinson, Longfellow, Poe, Austin, Frost, Dunbar, Carryl, Angelou

Grade 9- Embree

Canterbury Tales, Chaucer

To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee

Shorts Stories by Edgar Allen Poe

Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare

Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck

The Color Purple, Walker

Black Boy, Wright

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass

Wuthering Heights, Bronte

Don Quixote, Cervantes

Diana: Her True Story, Morton

All the President’s Men, Woodward and Bernstein

The Odyssey, Homer