04 February 2019

Proposed Highschool Literature, Reading List, NCEA English for 2019

As this is a possibilities/planning post,  I'll be back to change, delete, and update as we go along.
Beneath are some of the items Daisy (17) may, or may not, read this year.  This is her last full year of highschool courses. 
LoriD on TWTM forums would probably label this as a kitchen sink selection: where we pull any items we like together and even if it doesn't look like a cohesive reading list, we're calling it one.

Study Guides and Personal Growth Books for 2019
  • NCEA English ( writing, and, literature studies)
  • Greenleaf Guide (selections from various books listed in literature beneath)
  • Invitation to the Classics ~ Cowan  (Selections)
  • KJV Life Application Bible (selections)    
  • How to Read Slowly ~ James W. Shire
  • Poetry for Dummies with a selection of poems (Selections)
  • Ourselves ~ Charlotte Mason   (1905)    hmmm, which box did I pack this in? 
  • On Stories ~ C.S.  Lewis (1914-1963)
  • Outliers: The Story of Success ~ Malcolm Gladwell 


Biographies/Memoirs
  • The Hiding Place ~ Corrie Ten Boom   (1971)
  • Gifted Hands ~ Ben Carson   (1990)
  • The Zookeeper’s Wife ~ Diane Ackerman   (2007)
  • Have a Little Faith ~ Mitch Albom   (2009)   


Play/ Dramas/ Short Stories
  • Sophocles Plays   (c. 440 BC)    audible drama (mum to preview first)
  • The Winslow Boy  play (1946) and film (1999)   
  • The Penguin Book of English Short Stories ~ Edited by Christopher Dolley (pub 1983)


Literature
  • Epic of Gilgamesh   (c. 2500 BC)    abridged & selections 
  • The Odyssey ~ Homer   (c. 850 BC)
  • Till We Have Faces ~ C.S. Lewis   (1956)    Angelina Stanford webinar on Cupid & Psyche (this is an online class I purchased last year through Circe Institute and I hope we, at least I, get to go through)
  • The Aeneid ~ Virgil   (c. 30 BC) abridged & audio   
  • The Inferno ~ Dante   (1320)
  • Gawain and the Green Knight   (c. 1400) selections   
  • Rob Roy ~ Sir Walter Scott   (1817)
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ~ Washington Irving (1820)
  • North and South ~ Elizabeth Gaskell   (1855)   
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ~ Stevenson   (1886)  
  • Night ~ Elie Wiesel   (1982)   


Free Reading Options
  • D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths  ~  (audiobook)
  • The Three Musketeers ~ Alexandre Dumas   (1844)
  • Just William ~ Richmal Crompton  (1921 – 1970)
  • Georgette Heyer (to be selected)  (1921 – 1974) Discuss later. Compare and contrast the characters from a Heyer book and an Austen one.  How are clerical men, families, portrayed in each.
  • Winter and Rough Weather ~ D.E. Stevenson  (1951) (Daisy is not a fan of this author)
  • Thrush Green ~ Miss Read   (1959)
  • The Year at Thrush Green ~ Miss Read   (1996)
  • A Beautiful Blue Death Bk1 ~ Charles Finch   (2007)
  • Charles Todd  (Bess Crawford series)  (2009 – 2018)
  • Return to Me:  Restoration Chronicles Bk1 ~ Lynn Austin   (2013)
  • The Girl Who Drank the Moon ~ Kelly Barnhill   (2016)
  • The Love That I Have ~ James Moloney   (2018)  (need to purchase or loan from the library)


Audio
  • The Three Musketeers ~ Alexandre Dumas   (1844)
  • Cranford ~ Elizabeth Gaskell  (1853)
  • The Woman in White ~ Wilkie Collins  (1860)
  • The Moonstone ~ Wilkie Collins, narrated by Peter Jeffery  (originally pub 1868)
  • Georgette Heyer (to be selected 1921 – 1974)
  • Ngaio Marsh  (to be selected  1934 -1947)
  • Thank You, Jeeves: Jeeves  Bk5 ~ P.G. Wodehouse (1934) humour
  • Sarah Morris Remembers ~ D. E. Stevenson  (1967)
  • The Silmarillion ~ J.R.R. Tolkien   (Originally pub 1977)  Classic   Audio   Others may also like a heads up about content in chapt 19, which we skip (incestuous brother/sister relationship)
  • Salt to the Sea ~ Ruta Sepetys  (2016)
  • The Last Moriarty:  Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Bk1 ~ Charles Veley and Anna Elliott narrated by  Edward Petherbridge  (2016)
  • The Wilhelm Conspiracy:  Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Bk2 ~ Charles Veley and Anna Elliott narrated by  Edward Petherbridge  (2016)
  • The Jubilee Problem: Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Bk5 ~  Charles Veley and Anna Elliott  narrated by Simon Prebble and Wendy Tremont King   (2017)  (audible)
  • The Traitor’s Game ~ Jennifer Nielsen   (2018) 

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