Our Week Ahead ~ Monday 8 June 2015

Winter is well and truly here and while I could take a significant side trip into bemoaning the lack of sunshine I won't ☺, instead I'll focus on this season of the year being a perfect opportunity for us to be at home with the fire going, our sheep skin lined slippers on, sipping steaming cups of hot chocolate, or tea,  .... and, the chance for us to make some pretty serious inroads into our academic schedule.
We purposely have our winter months schedule typed up so that it requires more in depth writing, reading and audio book listening from Jay and Daisy, than the amount of work I set for them during the summer months.

The children seem to want to listen to a larger volume of audio books too, which makes me thankful for audible sales that happen just before our winter starts ☺
I find it handy to have audio options of some of our read alouds on hand too, as coughs and colds can get in the way of effectively reading aloud; it's annoying when a reader would continually stop reading, every few sentences, to blow their nose ;)

Our week ahead:

·       Family

Bible

All: Titus

Hymn: Come, We That Love the LORD  (All Glory, Laud & Honor C/D #11)  1674-1748

History & Geography

1:  Read Aloud: George Frederic Handel ~ Ludwig 1692+

2:  Book Basket:

·  The New Oxford Book of Children’s Verse ~Philip (continue)

English

1:  Car (& craft time) time audio: 

The Great Courses: Classics of British Literature

(content issues)

Lecture 14: Swift—Anger and Satire

Lecture 15: Johnson—Bringing Order to the Language

·       Daisy

History & Geography

MOH vol 3, wk 28, Peter I: Czar of Russia

Mapping: Biblioplan wk 17;  Peter the Great's Reign in Russia

History, Literature, & Book Basket:

1: Book Basket:  Susanna Wesley ~ Charles Lugwig  1669+

2:  History Reading:

Isaac Watts 

ITTC~ Cowan  (read over the next 2 weeks)

A:  Swift: Gulliver’s Travels   1726

B:   Edwards: Treatise   1746

C:   Johnson  1759

D:   Boswell   1791

6:  Audio: Lorna Doone ~ R.D. Blackmore   

Free Reading: The Mandie Collection  Vol.10 ~ Leppard

English

1:  Essentials in Writing, Level 8:  L. 15+ Mon to Fri

2:  Timed writing with mum  Mon, Fri

7:  Typing.  A narration from history reading, or from your current reader          (due Weds)

·       Jay

History & Geography

1: Biblioplan Early Modern Times: Ch: 17 Russia; More French Explorers pgs 395-413A

Mapping: Biblioplan wk 17;  Peter the Great's Reign in Russia 

History, Literature, & Book Basket:

1: Book Basket:  Tartuffe ~ Moliere (Play)  book  &  audio production  wk 1 of 2
I think this is a great play to discuss false religious piety and hypocrisy,  and the outcomes of blindly following anyone that practises those traits .  I'm also going to place Letters to a Devastated Christian ~ Edwards,   

&  ,The Tale of Three Kings ~ Edwards  into Jay's book basket to expand that line of thought. 

2:  History Reading:  

Isaac Watts

ITTC ~ Cowan  (read over the next 2 weeks)

A:  Swift: Gulliver’s Travels   1726

B:   Edwards: Treatise   1746

C:   Johnson  1759

D:   Boswell   1791

3:  Audio:  A:  David Copperfield ~ Dickens (dramatised) I enjoyed this audio production so much, I now want to read the book also. Highly recommending this audio!

B:  George Whitefield: God’s Anointed Servant in the Great Revival of the Eighteenth Century ~ Dallimore
C:  The Hound of the Baskervilles ~ Doyle   (we purchased a budget priced kindle edition first, and that allowed us to procure the audio for $2.99)
Someone suggested we also watch a visual production of this book; we won't be ☺ as most of the movies amplify the 'scary, nightmarish'  tone of the story.  I  prefer to go for creating our own visual pictures as we listen along, and to discuss the fears & superstitions that were put to rest once the 'mystery' surrounding the hound of the Baskervilles is dealt with.  (Trying not to add any spoilers for those that wish to read the book somewhere and are not familiar with how the story ends.)

English

1:  Greenleaf Guide Yr 3 Lit (1550-1900)  ~ Shearer

Lesson 11:  Moliere’s Tartuffe (1622 -?)  Mon to Fri

Read http://www.shmoop.com/tartuffe/  first

2:  Review Essentials in Writing, Level 8: L.15+  Mon to Fri

Planning Post ~ 2015: Homeschool Planner & My Working Folder

Once Christmas is done n dusted I like to start thinking about organising my homeschool planner and putting my working folder together.

My 2015 Working Folder (L) and Planner (R) with the planning grid all marked up and ready to go

I'm going to archive a few links here as I go along  - makes it easy for me to find later. Next year.

Here's last years post on how we set up The Ultimate Homeschool Planner (TUHP) with tabs.
I'll add a link to the tabs we're using and some colour co-ordinated pages to use for extra record keeping.
I ended up not writing out each week by hand into TUHP, we just continued to type up  my week ahead sheets and then I'd attach them to my planner.

2014's Planner with our week ahead sheet pasted in.

Having a calendar year page - or a year at a glance sheet - available for me to mark up and divide out is really important for the 'how long before we take a break ' question in our home.  One of these goes in each of our working folders. 

Year at a glance calendar.

Daisy and I like colour so we selected the green accented 2015 download and marked it up for our year ahead: 2015 free and editable Year at a Glance calendar
(originally found on Passport Academy)

Adding this link here for others that may want an online and  printable calendar: Year at a Glance calendar for New Zealander's.
I find the next link helpful to check our local (NZ) school's terms and breaks (needed to assist in planning out each term's music lessons :) )

We've looked over various student planners for Jay and Daisy and have found that handing them a week ahead sheet each - here's one of Jay's -  seems to work best for them at the moment.  Once they have their week ahead sheet they just ascertain the work load required each day to get their 'prescribed' learning done before Friday's deadline.
Along with a week ahead sheet, this year, both children have a literature reading sheet to work through.  This details the reading each student is responsible for reading by themselves in a 6 week period. 

6 weeks worth of History & Literature Reading.

History and literature scheduling sheets for my working folder.

6 wks worth of our class time history and literature schedule

This list is for my benefit, it makes it easy to see which books are coming up next.  I do like lists.

This week I really do need to sit down and work out a weekly (general guidelines) schedule for all of us to work from and so I can see where we can fit electives in.  Electives are the *need* to do things in our home, they help break up the rigor of our more academic must-do subjects.
 ETA:
I'm going to see if Daisy would like a print out of the girly girl planner pages found over at Tina's Dynamic homeschool plus.

Robert Burns ~ Scottish Poet

We like to delve into the life of the poets behind their poetry and we ended up taking an unplanned delight led trip with Robbie Burns this year after Dn came out of his office quoting Man Was Made to Mourn
 
While Robbie Burns scarcely lived the sort of life we admire -  he's an integral part of Scottish history and a poet I was going to have a quick look at while we studied the French Revolution, next year ...... 
This documentary, put out by the BBC,  details all the untamed passions Burns gave free reign to in his life and is a secular documentary... gifts and callings are surely without repentance - recommending previewing before showing to your children.  (We skipped some portions )

And a well read play list hosted on youtube.

Wondering how others approach their poetry studies - other than the obvious route of reading the poetry and creating the odd copywork or notebooking page?

Poets, Authors and Playwrights ~ The Late Renaissance to Early Modern Times Lit Study

I figured this list needed a post of it's own, so I could chat about things a bit more (including a small rabbit trail) and.... the line up of poets and authors made our Early Modern Times book list too long to look through.

With all the selecting out of books and guides for next year (starting in Jan 2015) Jay was really keen on using another literature guide by Greenleaf - so we'll be using their yr 3 guide during 2015 along with it's companion reads.

This will be the third literature guide from Greenleaf we've used. 

(We skipped some selections out of the Ancients Lit guide - some of the literature choices were more than we were wanting Jay to study through at age 13.)

Greenleaf’s yr 3 Literature Guide: British And American Literature 1500-1900 ~ Shearer is still in it's draft form.
If you can get your hands on this guide, do.  (I was very generously gifted a copy ♥ )

Cyndy Shearer writes directly to the student  - she's very humorous - and looking through the Early Modern Lit guide the humour and connection with the student is right there.
I like the poet and author biographies included with each study inside the guide.  One of my pet side trips with much of the literature we read is finding out, where we can,  the background and/or world view of the author... one author we took a side trip with was Robert Louis Stevenson. Being a gifted writer (musician, etc..)  does not give any guarantees to having wholesome character! 

Both Jay and me are looking forward to using Cyndy's Lit Guide, with a few adjustments.

We've elected to not read through the last few literature selections during 2015.  I was thinking of just doing the author studies and leaving the books ... I'm currently tossing up abridged audio options, maybe:
A: Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)
B: Oscar Wilde (Dorian Gray).
Jay is adamant he does not want to study Frankenstein this year (2015), and Dorian Gray is one of those not-happening works for me (ETA: an abridged edition may work though?). 
Since this is our study of literature,  I'm pleased that we get to choose what we read through each year ☺

Rabbit trail time: Talking about choices, and books, Lori D's 8 point considerations to assist in whittling down a gigantic book list to a doable one can be rather helpful.  (Lori's post can be found over on TWTM, and is post #15 in this thread  I find it so easy, too easy, to add in titles but to thin things down to a realistic list can be challenging; the amount of books we'd like to read and the number of weeks in a year just don't match up)

Back to our poets, authors and playwrights list.   Our family like poetry so I was delighted to see the line up of poets and pieces - listed beneath-  that Cyndy Shearer selected out for students study in her year 3 literature guide. The companion book for poetry is Poetry for Dummies  which I was fully prepared to dislike☺ (the dummies part sticks in my craw!)  - the book is actually very good and I know Jay will benefit from using it!
 

Poetry:

EML Poets, Authors and Playwrights (studied with Greenleaf Guide)

Wk 1-6   Unit 1

Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542),
Henry Howard (1517-1547),
Christopher Marlowe,
Shakespeare (1564-1616) sonnets.
Ben Johnson (1572-1637)
John Donne (1572-1631)

Wk 7-12   Unit 2

George Herbert (1593-1633)
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
Milton (1608-1674)
Andrew Marvell (1621-1672) 

Wk 13-18   Unit 3

Anne Bradstreet (1612 -1672)
Moliere’s (Tartuffe) (1622 -?)    online extra 
Neo-Classical (1660 -1785)
Age of Dryden (1660-1700)
John Dryden (1631-1700)
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) (already studied  - condense) 

Wk 19-24   Unit 4

John Gay (1685 - 1732)
Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
Thomas Gray (1716 - 1771)
Oliver Goldsmith (1728 – 1774)   (She Stoops to Conquer ~ Goldsmith) 
Romantic Period (1785-1832)
William Blake (1757 -1827) 

Wk 24-30   Unit 5

Wordsworth (1770 – 1850), (French Rev 1792),  Lyrical Ballads 1802
Byron (1788 -1824)
Shelley (1792 – 1822)
Keats (1792 – 1821)
Emerson (1803 – 1882)
Thoreau (1817 – 1862) (On the Duty of Civil Disobedience / Walden ~ Thoreau (selections) ) 

Wk 31-34   Unit 5

Fireside Poets:
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
Longfellow  (1807 - 1882)
John Whittier (1807 - 1892)
Poe (1809-1949) 
(Queen Victoria’s England b.1819- d.1901   r. 1837-1901) 

Victorian  Poets:

Tennyson  - Charge of the Life Brigade 
Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888) 

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

Late Renaissance & Early Modern History in 2015 - Our Long Book List

This post details my semi-final draft listing the books we've selected out to read during our family's history and literature studies during 2015.  Jay will be 15 and Daisy will be 13.  This list is not set in concrete and will change :)

History Spines and Books

1: Biblioplan Companion Text: Early Modern Times (selections)
We don't want as heavy an American History focus as this text contains. We're switching in British and NZ history and delving deeper into other history topics of interest; The French Revolution, and, The Great Awakening.)
1: DK History Visual Definitive Guide (for J)
1: Kingfisher Encyclopedia  (for S)
1: Christian Men of Science ~ Mulfinger
(Kepler 1571-1630,   Boyle   1627-1691,  Brewster   1781-1868,   Faraday   1791-1867,
Morse  1791-1872,   Maury   1806-1873,   Maxwell   1831-1879,   Kelvin   1824-1907 )
2: Classics of British Literature ( TGC ~ Sutherland. Continue with.  We're using this over a few years)
3: Invitation to the Classics ~ Cowan
(selections: Shakespeare 1601-11 to   Hawthorne- The Scarlet Letter 1850)
3: Famous Men of the 16th and 17th Century ~ Rob Shearer
7: Life and Times: Pepys and The Stuarts ~ Ross (oop)
7: Essential Dates: A Timeline of New Zealand History ~ Dench (Reference Book)
10: Mystery of History vol 3 (selections .... perhaps?)
16: Mystery of History vol 4 (selections..... perhaps?) 
17: Christian Leaders of the 18^th Century ~ R.C Ryle:
George Whitefield (1730+),   John  Wesley (short biography, and, Journal selections) (1739+)
20: Famous Men of Modern Times (Memoria Press) (just for S)
22: How They Lived: A Sailor with Captain Cook ~ Gibson (just for S)

Family Read Alouds (most of these read aloud titles relate to Daisy's schedule)

1: Papa Was a Preacher ~ Porter (modern time)
2: My Escape from the Auto de Fe at Valladolid: October, 1559 ~ Don Fernando de la Mina
6: Out of Many Waters ~ Greene SL7 (1654)
7: The Story of New Zealand ~ Bassett (N/F) (1642+) (selections) 
8: Master Cornhill ~ McGraw SL (1665)
11: Isaac Newton ~ Tiner         (1643 -1727)
13: Rob Roy ~ Scott 1712+  (Scotland)  (written 1817) 
16: George Frederic Handel ~ Ludwig (1692+)
17: Alone, Yet Not Alone ~ Craven (1775)
18: Francis Asbury ~ Benge (1745)
20: Traitor -The Case of Benedict Arnold – Fritz (1777+) 
22: New Zealand’s Christian Heritage ~ Stringer (selections)
24: Les Miserable ~ Hugo (abridged) with 7sistershomeschool lit guide
28: Amy Carmichael Biography (India Tie-in 1867-1951)   (still to purchase) 
29: William Wilberforce ~ Kevin Belmonte 

31: They Loved to Laugh ~ Worth (1830) 

Optional Reads:
Amos Fortune Freeman ~ Yates SL

Family Book Basket and Bible Time Books

wk A:  Beyond Beautiful Girlhood, Plus Companion Guide ~ Noonan (S with mum) 
wk A: Practical Happiness ~ Schultz (J with dad)

wk A: Love and Respect ~ Eggerich (Go thru Pink and Blue Portion)            

wk B: KJV Bible (Book of Proverbs, and nouthetic studies. Year long Study)
wk 1: The Sings My Soul BK 2 ~ Morgan

2: Trial and Triumph ~ Hannula (selections)

3: King Alfred’s English ~ White   (restart Ch: 13) 

Audio Books

(we find that when we "purchase" a $0.00, or low cost,  kindle classic title off amazon, often as not,  when we switched over to audible to purchase a go-along audio reading of the same title the cost of the audio is substantially reduced!!)

1: Car time audio -  Story of the World. Vol 3 ~ Bauer/Weiss

1: All Glory, Laud and Honor ~ Diana Waring (hymns)

3: Car time audio - The Best of our Island Story ~ Marshall (continue)

5: Squanto - Thanksgiving FOTF

8: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God ~ Edwards (just for J)
8: Pilgrim’s Progress, and, Christiana ~ Bunyan (relisten. just for S)
If you purchase the Pilgrim's  Progress in kindle for $1 you can download this audio reading for $2.99

11: Lorna Doone ~ R.D. Blackmore   (1673-87) For content issues !! see my comments in a review here

16: Bonnie Prince Charlie and the 45 ~ Sir Walter Scott  (1745)

18: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (GG Lesson 25) (just for J)

19: Johnny Tremain ~ Forbes SL (relisten. just for S)

19: Revere's Ride (revisit poem)

23: The Old Curiosity Shop (1840) , or,
 Barnaby Rudge ~ Dickens  (Gordon Riots of 1780) (audio option)
 Introduction to Barnaby Rudge by David Timson

26: Death to the French ~ Forester (just for J) (optional)
27: Rip Van Winkle
28: Uncle Tom’s Cabin ~ Stowe (1840’s) (just for S)

32: Mr Midshipman Easy ~ Marryat (1836) (just for J)

33: Great Expectations ~ Dickens (c.1850) (just for S)

34: Masterman Ready ~ Marryat (1871)  (just for J) 

optional listens:
Prisoner of Zenda ~ Hope

Film Studies
still to be decided (use NCEA guide)

Daisy (13)

Early Modern Literature Studies

Guides:

Glencoe Literature Guides (online guides)

Progeny Press

Sonlight Book Notes and Maps (pre-2012) 

Poetry:

3: The Walker Book of Classic Poetry & Poets ~ Rosen

(Shakespeare, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Clark, Keats, Hood, Barrett-Browning, Longfellow, Poe, Tennyson, Lear, Browning, Bronte, Whitman, Dickinson) 

Book Basket for Daisy     (incs literature study titles)

A:  Beyond Beautiful Girlhood, Plus Companion Guide ~ Noonan (S with mum) 

A: The Prince and the Pauper ~ Twain (1547)  Progeny Press

B: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase ~ Aiken  SL5

2: The Siege ~ Shapiro (1585)

3: Don Quixote ~ Cervantes (1605)
3: Play:  Shakespeare (play of your choice) (1660’s)

4: Pochahontas: True Princess ~ Hanes (1607)

5: Two Mighty Rivers : Son of Pocahontas ~ Hanes (optional)

7:  Life and Times: Pepys and The Stuarts ~ Ross

8:  Pilgrim’s Progress, and, Christiana ~ Bunyan (optional relisten) (audio)

9:  The Great House ~ Harnett (England) (1690)  or

Madeleine Takes Command ~ Brill SL7 (French in America) (1692)

10: Escape Across the Sea ~ Kirkpatrick SL7 (1686)

11: Lorna Doone ~ R.D. Blackmore (England. Monmouth’s Rebellion) 1673-87 (audio)   
       Mature content! Discussion, or editing out, recommended.  See my comments in a review here  

12: Play:  The Crucible ~ Miller (set in 1773)

13: Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) (condense) (Greenleaf Guide)

15: Susanna Wesley ~ Charles Ludwig
16: Bonnie Prince Charlie and the 45 ~ Scott  (1745) (audio)

16: Flame-Coloured Taffeta ~ Sutcliff (England) (1750)

17: A Stolen Life ~ Curry (1758)  or

 Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison  ~ Lenski  SL100

17: Biography ( Whitefield, Wesley)

18: 1714-1788 (William)  Deacon Brodie (online research)

18: (optional) Ben Franklin of Old Phil… ~ Cousins (1700’s)

19: Johnny Tremain ~ Forbes SL (optional relisten. audio)

19: The Scarlet Pimpernel ~ Orczy (1792)  (free audio option and extras)

Optional:   other audios in The Scarlet Pimpernel Series read by Karen Savage
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Elusive Pimpernel
El Dorado

20: Sherwood Ring ~ Pope SL7 (?? still undecided about this one)

21: Play: She Stoops to Conquer ~ Goldsmith (1773) GG

22: The Mutiny on Board H.M.S Bounty ~ Bligh (illustrated) (1789)

22: How They Lived: A Sailor with Captain Cook ~ Gibson (easy n/f)

23: Barnarby Rudge ~ Dickens (1780)  (audio)

24: The Lace Maker and the Princess ~ Bradley  (optional. I haven't pre-read this one yet)

27: Choose a work of Dickens

perhaps Oliver Twist (1837), The Old Curiosity Shop (1840), or revisit Little Dorrit  (set in 1820’s, written 1855)

28: The Ravenmaster’s Secret ~ Woodruff  SL7 (optional. repeat read) (1735)

29: The Kidnapped Prince ~ Equiano SL (1755)

29:  Uncle Tom’s Cabin ~ Stowe (1840’s)   (audio. just for S)

30:  Optional:  c.1816  The Journeyman ~ Yates SL3 (repeat read)

1830 Hue and Cry ~ Yates (sequel) 

31: Jane Austin (select 2 titles; 1 for a Lit study, 1 for free reading) (1813+) 
Pride and Prejudice SL200, and,  Sense and Sensibility were the final choices.

31: Under the Hawthorn Tree: Children of the Famine ~ McKenna (1845)

32: Dickens: His Work and His World ~ Rosen

33: Levi Straus -The Blue Jeans Man ~ Van Steenwyk ex.SL

34: Great Expectations ~ Dickens c.1850+ (audio)

Optional reads:

The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn ~ Hoobler SL7 (1735)

The Broken Blade ~ Durbin SL7 (1800)
Famine Triology bk2: Wildflower Girl ~ McKenna
Famine Triology bk3: Fields of Home ~ McKenna

Summer 2015-2016 Reading

1860  Sing Down the Moon ~ O’Dell SL4

1862  Anna and the King ~ Landon SL7

1915  Michael O’Halloran ~ Porter

Jay (15yrs)

Early Modern Literature.

Guides:

A: Greenleaf’s yr 3 Literature Guide: British And American Literature 1500-1900 ~Shearer
7-10: The Screwtape Letters (online guide)   (this guide is no longer available online :(  )
31-36:  Jane Eyre  (SL200 pre-2012 booknotes or other? )

Poetry: 
Using Greenleaf's Literature Guide.  Poets range from Thomas Wyatt to Matthew Arnold.   Here's a separate post about this portion of our studies.

Book Basket for Jay (includes audios and Early Modern Lit study titles)

A: Practical Happiness ~ Schultz (J with dad)

A: Foxes Book of Martyrs (selections - contained within the guide) Greenleaf Guide (GG)

2: Poetry for Dummies ~ Timpane (selections over the year) GG

2: The Siege ~ Shapiro (1585)

3:  Don Quixote ~ Cervantes (1605)  (OYC Course optional) (audio option)
4-6 : Twenty Years After  ~ Dumas (1625)

7:  Life and Times: Pepys and The Stuarts ~ Ross (N/F)

7-10: Screwtape Letters ~ Lewis   

8: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God ~ Edwards (audio)
8:  A Parcel of Patterns ~ Walsh SL200 (1665)

12: Play:  The Crucible ~ Miller (set in 1773)

11: Lorna Doone ~ R.D. Blackmore (England. Monmouth’s Rebellion) 1673-87 (audio)

14: Play:  Tartuffe ~ Moliere (1669) GG    online extra

16: Bonnie Prince Charlie and the 45 ~ Scott  (1745) (audio)

16: Kidnapped ~ Stevenson (Scotland) (1751)

17: Biography (Whitefield, Wesley, or, Franklin)

18: 1714-1788 (William)  Deacon Brodie (online research )
Complete an author overview of Robert L. Stevenson before going through the Brodie go-along:
Jeckyll and Hyde  refer to GG Lesson 25))

20: The Arrow Over the Door ~ Bruchac   SL7 (1777)

20: (Opt) My Brother Sam is Dead ~ Collier  (B. Arnold tie-in)

21: Play: She Stoops to Conquer ~ Goldsmith (1773) GG    (audio)

22: Young Nick’s Head ~ Hesse (1768)       Swap in an NZ author/book here
22: Captain Cook documentary, & Journals (selections)

23: Mutiny on the Bounty ~ Bligh  (1789)
24: William Wilberforce's Speech to the house (1789)
24: Scaramouche ~ Sabatini  (set in 1789-1799) (audio option)

26: Death to the French ~ Forester (optional)
27-30: The Old Curiosity Shop, (audio) (1840)
or, Barnaby Rudge ~ Dickens (1780)   (audio)  written 1840–1841

29: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience ~ Thoreau (1845–1849) GG

29:  Walden ~ Thoreau (selections) (1845–1849) GG

30:  Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex ~ Philbrick   (1820)

31: Jane Eyre ~ Bronte (1847) SL200

33: 1850 The Scarlet Letter ~ Hawthorne  (audio option)

1851 Moby Dick ~ Henry Melville (already been thru)

Optional:
10: 1687 Biography of Isaac Newton (still to choose)

Summer 2015-2016 Reading

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