Early Modern Times - Books and Lit Guides for our 15yr Old Son

List of books and literature guides being used by our 15 year old son during 2015

• Early Modern Literature Guides & Titles:

 Greenleaf’s yr 3 Literature Guide: British And American Literature 1500-1900 ~Shearer
A: Foxes Book of Martyrs (selections - contained within the guide) Greenleaf Guide (GG)
2: Poetry for Dummies ~ Timpane    (POETRY Units)
14: Play:  Tartuffe ~ Moliere (1669) GG    online extra
18: Jeckyll & Hyde ~ Stevenson
21: Play:  She Stoops to Conquer ~ Goldsmith (1773) GG    (audio)
29: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience ~ Thoreau (1845–1849) GG
29:  Walden ~ Thoreau (selections) (1845–1849) GG

The Screwtape Letters Literature Guide  
7-10: The Screwtape Letters ~ Lewis
8: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God ~ Edwards

7 Sisters Homeschool Lit Guide: Les Miserable

24: Les Miserable ~ Hugo  (abridged)

Glencoe Literature online guide
31-36:  Jane Eyre  (or SL200 pre-2012 book notes) 

• No Guides Just Reading & Class Time Discussion

A: Pilgrim's Progress ~ Bunyan (unabridged audio)  an "intro listen" as we ramp up the subjects
3: Don Quixote ~ Cervantes (1605)  (OYC Course optional) (audio option)
11: Lorna Doone ~ R.D. Blackmore (England. Monmouth’s Rebellion) 1673-87 (audio)
12: Play:  The Crucible ~ Miller (set in 1773)
17: Journals of John Wesley (selections)
18: 1714-1788 (William)  Deacon Brodie (online research )
22: Captain Cook documentary, & Journals (selections)
27-30: Barnaby Rudge ~ Dickens (1780)   (audio)  written 1840–1841
audio introduction to Barnaby Rudge by David Timson
33: The Scarlet Letter ~ Hawthorne  (audio option) (1850)

• Other Books – Free Reading/Listening  (no literature guides or class time discussion)

4-6 : Twenty Years After  ~ Dumas (1625)
7:  Life and Times: Pepys and The Stuarts ~ Ross (N/F)
8:  A Parcel of Patterns ~ Walsh SL200 (1665)
Optional: 10: 1687 Biography of Isaac Newton (still to choose)

16: Bonnie Prince Charlie and the 45 ~ Scott  (1745) (audio)
16: Kidnapped ~ Stevenson (Scotland) (1751)
17: Biography (Whitefield, Wesley, or, Franklin)
20: The Arrow Over the Door ~ Bruchac   SL7 (1777)   (easy reading)
20: (Opt)  My Brother Sam is Dead ~ Collier  (B. Arnold tie-in)
22: Young Nick’s Head ~ Hesse (1768)       Swap in an NZ author/book here
23: Mutiny on the Bounty ~ Bligh  (1789)
24: Scaramouche ~ Sabatini  (set in 1789-1799) (audio option)
26: Death to the French ~ Forester (optional)
30:  Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex ~ Philbrick   (1820)

• Summer 2015-2016 Reading

1830+ Tom Brown’s School Days ~ Hughes (Rugby School tie-in to poet Matthew Arnold) 
Tolkien titles  not already read