Literature

[Marsha]

What do you use?

[Chris in VA]

I tied our lit studies to our history period. We used Sonlight 300 for 20th cent, with lots of extra guides like SparkNotes. We also used two years of Omnibus.

[Carmen_and_Company]

We used a combination of TWTM & The New Lifetime Reading Plan along with secular literature guides, unit studies, and lesson plans found on the Internet for the works under study.

[Nan in Mass]

TWTM/TWEM

[Pam L in Mid Tenn]

The Language of Literature

Classics from our bookshelves or the library

[Faithr]

Lighting Literature by Hewitt

[Charles Wallace]

What do you use?
We go largely chronologically using TWTM as a spine, as many people here have already suggested.

As far as a textbook, I would actually recommend any of the Norton Anthologies for shorter works -- they're quite comprehensive and they're usually available for little money on Amazon.

ETA: If the literature is in translation and we don't like the Norton's, we've used other translations (e.g., the Seamus Heaney translation of Beowulf).

[Love2Smile]

We started with Abeka for my 6th and 9t graders and soon realised we made a mistake with going all abeka. My 6th grader still uses the reading program but we dropped everything else and are using Glencoe free lit guides.

Next year we are going with Beautiful Feet and LLATL

[Veronica in VA]

I used Lighting Lit for American Lit. The rest of the time I've used Sonlight along with The Well Educated Mind and sparknotes or another on-line guide.