What did your HS students read for literature for 1600-1850?

[Kendall]

What have your students read for Year 3 in High school, or the 1600-1850 time period? What are must reads, what did you enjoy, what did you wish you had skipped?

I have the list in the WTM book, and we can’t do all of it so I need to prioritize. I’m sure there are other good things to consider as well.

Thanks,
Kendall

[DollyM]

That was the year DD used the lit analysis program by Smarr (which we didn't really like) . She read:

Pride & Prejudice by J. Austen;
Jane Eyre by C. Bronte;
The Man in the Iron Mask & The Count of Monte Cristo by A. Dumas; Frankenstein by M. Shelley;
Robinson Crusoe by Dafoe;
Pilgrim’s Progess by Bunyan;
A Modest Proposal by J. Swift.

She liked them all, but REALLY liked the Dumas novels. Outside of Smarr, she also read Dracula that year and would tell you that was her most favorite (but is it in the write time period? maybe not...) And she read The Autobio of Ben Franklin (pretty much hated it) and Scarlet Letter, Huck Finn (LOVED this) and Red Badge of Courage (considered it punishment LOL.) (We used the Glencoe Study Guides for these last ones.)

Then there was the Shakespeare - several read, several attended. A well loved category unto itself. Made fascinating by combining it with a Hillsdale Summer Study Abroad trip to England.

[Kendall]

Dolly,

Thanks so much. It helps to know how other student's respond and handle works of literature. I hope others will chime in as well.

Kendall

[kate in seattle]

I can anser this one - it is the year I am teaching right now! (I teach a small class of 7 high school kids once a week)

Over the summer - Sophie's World

We incorporated most of "How to Read a Book" over the first six weeks of class.
We use "A History of the American People" and Speilvogel's "Western Civ" for our history texts.

Reading list:
Pilgrim's Progress
Mourt's Relation
Life & Diary of David Brainerd
Mercy of Pocahontas - John Smith
a sermon by Edwards
a sermon by Wesley

Paradise Lost - Milton
On the Social contract - Rousseau
Christianity for Modern Pagans - Kreeft (a favorite)
Second Treatise on Government - Locke
An argument against the aboltion of christianity - swift

Selected Federalist papers
Declaration of Independence
War for Independence - Marrin
Autobiography of Ben Franklin
Selected speeches of Robespierre
A Tale of Two Cities

Frankenstein
Pride & Prejuidice
Jane Eyre
Oliver Twist

Diary of an Early American Boy
Selected essays by Emerson
Selected short stories by Poe
Scarlet Letter
Last of the Mohicans
Bartleby - Melville

In addition they have read two poems each week (we meet for 30 weeks). At the beginning of the year, they had to write an explication for one poem. Now they know how to do this it has tapered off to one or two explications per six week unit.

They have had other writing assignments as well as other history assignments, but that is our reading list. It looks long, but it is very doable.


hope that helps,
kate in seattle

[Mommyfaithe]

of how you put this together for your students. This looks like EXACTLY what i would like to do with my 9 & 12th graders.
I would be so grateful!!
Faithe



I can anser this one - it is the year I am teaching right now! (I teach a small class of 7 high school kids once a week)

Over the summer - Sophie's World

We incorporated most of "How to Read a Book" over the first six weeks of class.
We use "A History of the American People" and Speilvogel's "Western Civ" for our history texts.

Reading list:
Pilgrim's Progress
Mourt's Relation
Life & Diary of David Brainerd
Mercy of Pocahontas - John Smith
a sermon by Edwards
a sermon by Wesley

Paradise Lost - Milton
On the Social contract - Rousseau
Christianity for Modern Pagans - Kreeft (a favorite)
Second Treatise on Government - Locke
An argument against the aboltion of christianity - swift

Selected Federalist papers
Declaration of Independence
War for Independence - Marrin
Autobiography of Ben Franklin
Selected speeches of Robespierre
A Tale of Two Cities

Frankenstein
Pride & Prejuidice
Jane Eyre
Oliver Twist

Diary of an Early American Boy
Selected essays by Emerson
Selected short stories by Poe
Scarlet Letter
Last of the Mohicans
Bartleby - Melville

In addition they have read two poems each week (we meet for 30 weeks). At the beginning of the year, they had to write an explication for one poem. Now they know how to do this it has tapered off to one or two explications per six week unit.

They have had other writing assignments as well as other history assignments, but that is our reading list. It looks long, but it is very doable.


hope that helps,
kate in seattle

[Kareni]

Here are some of the resources my teen used as a 9th grader.

Poor Richard’s Almanack by Benjamin Franklin
George Washington, Spymaster by Thomas B. Allen
Tomaso Albinoni – 12 Concerti a cinque Op. 5
Roots by Alex Haley (to p. 126)
Georg Philipp Telemann – Suite A Minor, 2 Double Concertos (Michala Petri, Academy of St. Martin-in-the Fields)
Amadeus (video)
"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift
George Washington’s World by Genevieve Foster
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
I Will Repay by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Eldorado by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Sir Percy Hits Back by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
The Scarlet Pimpernel (three part video, BBC)
Carl Friedrich Abel – Symphonies Op. 10, numbers 1 – 6, La Stagione
Francesco Geminiani – 12 Concerti Grossi, I Musici
The Art of the Fugue by Bach, Emerson String Quartet
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Longitude (video, A&E)
C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower (set of 8 videos, A&E)
Lock, Stock, and Barrel by Donald Sobol
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphonies 5 in C Minor, Op. 67, and 6 in F Major, Op. 68, Pastoral
"Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Cartouche (video)
Joseph Haydn – String Quartets, Op. 17, Nos. 1, 2, and 4, Kodaly Quartet
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (translated by Norman Denny)
The New Nation by Joy Hakim ***
A Tale of Two Cities (video)
Georges Bizet – Carmen Suites No. 1 and No. 2; L’Arlesienne Suites No. 1 and No. 2, Leonard Bernstein
Adolphe Adam – Giselle, conducted by Richard Bonynge, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 4 “Romantic”, conducted by Eugen Jochum, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Men-of-War: Life in Nelson's Navy by Patrick O'Brian
Young Frankenstein (video)
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (video with Kenneth Branagh)
Lily Afshar -- A Jug of Wine and Thou (Persian music)
Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
Master and Commander (video)
Chamber Works by Women Composers, The Macalester Trio
***Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg
Wassail! Wassail! Early American Christmas Music by the Revels
"An Occurrence at the Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce
The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
Stephen Foster’s Civil War Songs (sung by Linda Russell)

I think the last few of these might be beyond the time period you are looking at. We incorporated books, videos and music.

Regards,
Kareni

[melissaL]

if you would like a book about Australia for 9th grade up, "For the Term of his Natural Life" by Marcus Clark, about the penal colony in Tasmania- very interesting, and based on true account. first published in 1870
MelissaL