Need literature program for 12th grader who has used Notgrass past 2 years....

[Alyce]

Our plans for having him take English at local CC has changed. He will be taking it at home. I need a literary program. I've looked at SMARR (which we used in 9th grade and really liked) but many of the books in their programs he has already read. We've done progeny press guides and neither one of us cares for them. Any other suggestions. Also does anyone know of a book that teaches MLA. He will need it for college and I have no clue how to teach MLA. That's not the system I grew up with.

[Julie in MN]

Our plans for having him take English at local CC has changed. He will be taking it at home. I need a literary program. I've looked at SMARR (which we used in 9th grade and really liked) but many of the books in their programs he has already read. We've done progeny press guides and neither one of us cares for them. Any other suggestions. Also does anyone know of a book that teaches MLA. He will need it for college and I have no clue how to teach MLA. That's not the system I grew up with.

It might be more than you need, but I might take a look at My Father's World High School. They use Notgrass & Smarr some years, so their choices might be to your liking. Their 12th program is still in pilot form, but you may even be able to use that.

As for MLA, couldn't you just print out the MLA rules from online & practice making a bibliography in that format? You could just use a random list of books & format them properly.

Julie

[Veronica in VA]

Janice Campbell wrote a Brit Lit course that might work well. I think IEW sells the program. There are different guide books that you can probably find at the library or used bookstore that explain MLA format. One is called MLA Handbook for Writers and I think it is redone every year or so, so you probably can find a used one.

Veronica

[Lori D.]

Here are some ideas for literature programs:

Lightning Literature & Composition
1 semester courses from Hewitt Homeschooling = http://www.hewitthomeschooling.com/book/blight.asp
Some of the courses can be used in any high school grade; some are designed for grades 11-12:

- Amer. Lit.: Early to Mid 19th Cent. (gr. 9-12)
(Ben Franklin's Autobiog.; Moby Dick; Scarlett Letter; Narrative of Life of Frederick Douglass)

- Amer. Lit: Mid to Late 19th Cent. (gr. 9-12)
(Huckleberry Finn; Red Badge of Courage; Call of the Wild; Uncle Tom's Cabin)

- Medieval British Lit (gr. 10-12)
(Beowulf; Canterbury Tales; Piers the Plowman; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)

- British Lit: Early to Mid 19th Cent. (gr. 9-12)
(Frankenstein; Ivanhoe; Jane Eyre; Pride & Prejudice)

- British Lit. Mid to Late 19th Cent. (gr. 10-12)
(Complete Salky & Co; Great Expectations; Silas Marner; Importance of Being Ernest)

- Christian British Authors (gr. 11-12)
(Four Loves; Gaudy Night; Orthodoxy; Why Does God Allow War)

- Shakespeare: Comedies & Sonnets (gr. 11-12)
(Midsummer Night's Dream; As You Like It; Merchant of Venice; Twelfth Night)

- Shakespeare: Tragedies & Sonnets (gr. 11-12)
(Hamlet; Julius Caesar; King Lear; Macbeth)

- World Lit. I: Africa & Asia (gr. 11-12)
(An Artist of the Floating World; Fountain and Tomb; Things Fall Apart; This Same Sky)

- World Lit II: Latin America, Africa, Asia
(Malgudi Days; My Invented Country; In The Name of Identity; A Thousand Pieces of Gold; Other Voices Other Vistas)


Learning Language Arts Through Literature: Gold: American Literature
see it at = http://www.christianbook.com/learning-language-through-literature-gold-book/greg-strayer/9781880892893/pd/72898?item_code=WW&netp_id=213135&event=ESRCN&view=covers
1 semester course. Through a guided discussion format with questions and answers, some background information for each unit, and writing assignment ideas, covers:
- 3 novels (Red Badge of Courage; The Old Man and the Sea; The Pearl)
- 10 short stories [The Real Thing (James); The Open Boat (Crane); Unlighted Lamps (Anderson); The Catbird Seat (Thurber); To the Mountains (Horgan); Young Goodman Brown (Hawthorne); Fall of the House of Usher (Poe); Bartleby the Scrivener (Melville); Baker's Bluejay Yarn (Twain); A Village Singer (Freeman)]
- 10 American poets (Emerson; Longfellow; Dickinson; Robinson; Crane; Frost; Williams; Ransom; Cummings; Auden)


Windows to the World
see it at = http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?item_no=5007348&item_code=WW&netp_id=523467&event=ESRCN&view=covers
1 semester course. For grades 9-12, but more for the younger end of that; can be used for the older grades if you haven't done a lot of literary analysis or need specific instruction in how to write a literary analysis essay. Teaches annotation and how to write a literary analysis essay through in-depth examination of 6 short stories [The Most Dangerous Game (Connell); Gift of the Magi (Henry); The Necklace (de Maupassant); A Jury of Her Peers (Glaspell); A Fight With A Cannon (Hugo); The Open Window (Saki)]. Several fables and poems are also covered within the text, used as practice examples.


Potter School -- 12 grade literature online course options
1 semester: CS Lewis: Major Works = http://registration.pottersschool.org/w/921.jsp
1 semester: JRR Tolkien: Lord of the Rings = http://registration.pottersschool.org/w/921.jsp



re: MLA
There are lots of free resources and examples of MLA style on-line; just do a google search. Below are several MLA resources that may be of help; there are also lots of MLA Style books at your local library or used book store, which walk you through the citations and bibliography formats.

Modern Language Association website: definition: What is MLA style?
http://www.mla.org/style

The OWL at Purdue: Free Writing Help and Teaching Resources:
MLA Formatting and Style Guide
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/

Science Buddies: Writing A Bibliography: MLA Format
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_mla_format_examples.shtml?gclid=CKWyssKE7J sCFRMUagodI3Ct5A

CW Post Campus: MLA Citation Style -- color coded chart:
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citmla.htm

[vmsurbat]

Our plans for having him take English at local CC has changed. He will be taking it at home. I need a literary program. I've looked at SMARR (which we used in 9th grade and really liked) but many of the books in their programs he has already read. We've done progeny press guides and neither one of us cares for them. Any other suggestions. Also does anyone know of a book that teaches MLA. He will need it for college and I have no clue how to teach MLA. That's not the system I grew up with.

It is possible to put together your own SMARR course with just the titles you want.... Someone else on this board suggested this, I wrote to Smarr Pub, gave a list of the 10-12 titles I wanted my son to study this year as a 12th grader (after using Notgrass last year), received a quote, and ordered. I get the guides, tests, "grammar stuff", etc. The only thing is that there will not be a particular "schedule", but since the guides themselves are listed in a Day 1, Day 2 format, I don't anticipate a problem with that; We are going to work through the books chronologically!

HTH,

[rbaliles]

My two graduates have both taken AP Eng Lit through PA Homeschoolers. Excellent course and because they did well on the AP Exam in May they got college credit (one got 3 hours, the other 6 hours of credit). I highly recommend Mrs. Inspektor. pahomeschoolers.com