Your favorite 9th grade lit curriculum...

[MOCA]

that is NOT teacher intensive? I'm looking for good literary analysis to be taught but can't throw a lot of my time toward it. I would so appreciate your suggestions!

[Lori D.]

1. Literary Lessons from the Lord of the Rings
Full year program. Written to the student and can be done almost entirely solo by the student (although if you can discuss with the student once a week for 30 minutes, you both will get a lot out of it). Covers:
- Fellowship of the Rings
- The Two Towers
- Return of the King

The additional study guide units go into detail on 2 other works, so you easily require these works as well:
- Beowulf
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

And if you added in a few of the other works that are referred to in the study guide, each accompanied by a more meaty study guide, you'd have an awesome lit. year:
- The Iliad
- The Odyssey
- The Aeneid
- Macbeth
- Midsummer Night's Dream



2. Lightning Literature & Composition 8
Full year program. Written to the student and can be done almost entirely solo by the student. Yes, this is the program listed for grade 8 -- BUT, the works covered are mature and meaty enough to easily do in 9th grade (in fact, we'll be doing LL8 with our 9th grade son this year). It covers:
- 3 short stories ("A Crazy Tale"; "Wakefield"; "The Mirror")
- 3 units on poetry (each unit covers 6-8 classic poems)
- Treasure Island (adventure novel)
- A Day of Pleasure (biographical sketches)
- A Christmas Carol (a novella)
- The Hobbit (fantasy novel)
- My Family and Other Animals (humorous novel)
- To Kill A Mockingbird (realistic novel)

[ChocolatePrincess]

2. Lightning Literature & Composition 8
Full year program. Written to the student and can be done almost entirely solo by the student. Yes, this is the program listed for grade 8 -- BUT, the works covered are mature and meaty enough to easily do in 9th grade (in fact, we'll be doing LL8 with our 9th grade son this year). It covers:
- 3 short stories ("A Crazy Tale"; "Wakefield"; "The Mirror")
- 3 units on poetry (each unit covers 6-8 classic poems)
- Treasure Island (adventure novel)
- A Day of Pleasure (biographical sketches)
- A Christmas Carol (a novella)
- The Hobbit (fantasy novel)
- My Family and Other Animals (humorous novel)
- To Kill A Mockingbird (realistic novel)


This is what we are doing for 9th grade what I call English 9........also adding parts of Jensen's Format Writing, Grammar, Punctuation & Vocabulary.

[6packofun]

the Blue Book of Grammar for review,
Write With the Best vol. 1 for writing,
the Garlic Press study guide for To Kill a Mockingbird and
lovetolearnplace.com's study on The Hobbit (We wanted a little more discussion and analysis on those 2 books). :o)

It will be a good, full year!

**We don't do all the writing assignments (or all the assignments, period; we pick and choose) from Lightning Lit. which is why we have a few separate things to round out our English. Don't want ya thinking that we smother them! lol

[Lynn in Caribbean]

1. Literary Lessons from the Lord of the Rings
Full year program. Written to the student and can be done almost entirely solo by the student (although if you can discuss with the student once a week for 30 minutes, you both will get a lot out of it). Covers:
- Fellowship of the Rings
- The Two Towers
- Return of the King

The additional study guide units go into detail on 2 other works, so you easily require these works as well:
- Beowulf
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

And if you added in a few of the other works that are referred to in the study guide, each accompanied by a more meaty study guide, you'd have an awesome lit. year:
- The Iliad
- The Odyssey
- The Aeneid
- Macbeth
- Midsummer Night's Dream



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I like this plan!

What do you use/recommend for the "meaty" study guides?

Thank you!

[Lori D.]

We've had good experiences with:

- Garlic Press publishers lit. = http://garlicpress.com/cgi-bin/shop_gp.cgi?product=LITERATURE
(LOVED the one for The Odyssey!)

- Spark Notes free online lit. = guides http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/
(used these for The Aeneid, Oedipus Rex, and Antigone this past year; LOADS of info and analysis; only wish there had been more discussion *questions* and writing assignment ideas as there were in the Garlic Press guide above)



No personal experience with these, but have heard good things about:

- Glencoe free online lit. guides = http://ntc-highschool.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/index.html

Cliffs Notes free online lit guides = http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/Section/Literature.id-305321.html

- Progeny Press = http://www.progenypress.com/

- Portals to Literature = http://www.rainbowresource.com/



And sometimes you can get good info from Wikipedia (the free online encyclopedia) articles on authors and certain works. = www.wikipedia.org Hope something there gets you started! Warmly, Lori D.

[homeschoolmomof6]

I love Sonlight for literature.