Help! What is the name of the secular literature program, something like "modis" ?

[Teresa Hope]

I discovered it here on the boards, but can't remember the name, can't find the page I printed out, can't find my mind right now, truth be told.

It had books beginning in 6th grade and continuing into high school, I believe, with names like "Coral." Focused on short stories, novels, some non-fiction pieces by noted writers, also some poetry.

Can someone tell me where I can find it?

Teresa

[elegantlion]

Is it www.mosdospress.com (http://www.mosdospress.com) ? Their website seems to be down right now.

[Teresa Hope]

Great! Thanks so much!

[Eliana]

If you like the Mosdos Press books, you might also be interested in the TextWord Press books:
http://www.textword.com/

I wasn't quite satisfied with the MP books - but then I am not generally a fan of literature textbooks, so ymmv! :) I did like many of the selections in the TextWord Press books; many of them seem to be drawn from the old, old editions of Adventures in ___ (favorites of mine as a kid). There is no religious bent to the books (though they are complied by an Orthodox Jewish publisher), but the texts have clearly been carefully screened. Be warned, however, that some things have been edited (generally only very slightly), but the text of Tale of Two Cities has been dramatically trimmed.

Let me know if you have any questions about these - I don't teach from them, but I do have them around for the kids.

Eliana

[Teresa Hope]

If you like the Mosdos Press books, you might also be interested in the TextWord Press books:
http://www.textword.com/

I wasn't quite satisfied with the MP books - but then I am not generally a fan of literature textbooks, so ymmv! :) I did like many of the selections in the TextWord Press books; many of them seem to be drawn from the old, old editions of Adventures in ___ (favorites of mine as a kid). There is no religious bent to the books (though they are complied by an Orthodox Jewish publisher), but the texts have clearly been carefully screened. Be warned, however, that some things have been edited (generally only very slightly), but the text of Tale of Two Cities has been dramatically trimmed.

Let me know if you have any questions about these - I don't teach from them, but I do have them around for the kids.

Eliana

Just curious...I'm not a huge textbook fan, either, but I don't necessarily intend to use them like that...more as a spine for me to work from...to remind me about literary elements and give me discussion points. I'm not a secular homeschooler, either. But I like good literature, not just strictly Christian writing.

[Eliana]

Since I don't own the books, I can't give you solid, specific instances, but I remember having the strong feeling that the text got in the way of the readings themselves - both in the just the physical layout and in the way it presented, reviewed, and discussed the material.

I think <i>Adventures in Appreciation</i> and the rest of that series are much less intrusive, and have an even stronger selection of readings... but that varies with the edition. I own multiple editions of most of the volumes, and have some strong preferences. For ex: Adv in Apprec: 1979; Adv in Reading: 1973. Most of them are available *very* cheaply on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0153351217

I have a list of short stories and essays I use with my students - I'll try to attach it and an excerpt from a thing I did as a curriculum consultant for a new private school showing where they could fit in a systematic survey...

In the list I included the urls for everything I could find online; everything listed as 'print out' I have typed up on my computer, if there is anything you really want to look over.

Eliana

Well, that didn't work! My files are too big... I'll try cutting and pasting, and hope that you can make sense of the messed-up formatting (let me know if you want me to email the docs to you....)

Alarcon
The Stub Book
PRINT OUT
Anderson
The Stolen Day
http://www.clearviewregional.edu/docs/hs/depar/engli/lit/DOCUMENT/ANDERSON/ANSTOLEN.PDF
Baker
How Potts Saved the Night Express
The Youth’s Companion p699
Beerbohm
Seeing People off
http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/shortstories/YetAgain/chap2.html
Bierce
A Horseman in the Sky
http://ee.1asphost.com/shortstoryclassics/biercehorseman.html
Bradbury
There will Come Soft Rains
http://www.plazaboricua.com/anil/archivo/fabulas2/cuentos/august2026.html
Brooks
Home
http://experts.about.com/q/Literature-697/Literature-4.htm
Callaghan
All the Years of her Life
http://mail.pittsfield.net/~Noella_Lallatin/handouts/all%20the%20years%20of%20her%20life.htm (http://mail.pittsfield.net/%7ENoella_Lallatin/handouts/all%20the%20years%20of%20her%20life.htm)
Cather
The Enchanted Bluff
http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.1013/
Flavia and Her Artists
http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.1009/

Chekhov
The Beggar
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13409/13409-8.txt
Chopin
Regret
http://www.geocities.com/short_stories_page/chopinregret.html
Conrad
Il Conde
http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/2480/
Crane
A Gray Sleeve
http://ee.1asphost.com/shortstoryclassics/cranegraysleeve.html

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
http://www.geocities.com/short_stories_page/cranebride.html
Daudet
The Siege of Berlin
http://www.bartleby.com/313/4/1.html
Dickens
The Signal-Man
http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.1410/
Doyle
The Red-Headed League
http://www.4literature.net/Arthur_Conan_Doyle/Red_Headed_League/
Du Maurier
The Old Man
Kiss Me again, Stranger p215
Dunsanay
The True History of the Hare and the Tortoise
http://thenostalgialeague.com/olmag/dunsany1.html
Duvermois
The Clothes Make the Man
http://www.luciamar.k12.ca.us/education/components/docmgr/download.php?sectiondetailid=2075&fileitem=2643&catfilter=ALL&PHPSESSID=c647b4e6a9522710a7814501c7fa7a2e
Finney
Contents of the Dead Man’s Pockets
http://www.is.wayne.edu/mnissani/2030/Deadman.htm
Fisher
A Drop in the Bucket
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13091/13091-8.txt
Freeman
The Revolt of “Mother”
http://www.geocities.com/short_stories_page/freemanrevolt.html
Futrelle
The Stolen Rubens
http://www.futrelle.com/stories/StolenRubens.html
Galsworthy
Quality
http://www.freebookstoread.com/qualt10_2.htm

The Japanese Quince
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Japanese_Quince
Garland
A Day’s Pleasure
http://pge.rastko.net/dirs/etext01/matra10.txt
Gaskell
The Half-Brothers
http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.885/
Gilbert
Koyo, the Singer
Favorite Animal Stories p98
Gordon
The Sea Devil
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1189/is_n4_v260/ai_6588737
Heker
The Stolen Party (alter line 7)
http://www.arvd-symposium.org/cordialityhall/heker_the_stolen_party.pdf
Hemingway
A Day’s Wait
The Snows of Kilimanjaro p34
Henry
A Municipal Report
http://www.literaturecollection.com/a/o_henry/196/
Hughes
Thank you M’am
http://ee.1asphost.com/shortstoryclassics/hughesthankyou.html
Irving
Rip van Winkle
http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.1956/
Jackson
Seven Types of Ambiguity
The Lottery and Other Stories p209
The Sneaker Crisis
Raising Demons p272
Charles
The Lottery and Other Stories p91
James
The Real Thing
http://ee.1asphost.com/shortstoryclassics/jamesrealthing.html
Jewett
A White Heron
http://ee.1asphost.com/shortstoryclassics/jewettheron.html
Kipling
The Ship That Found Herself
http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/2414/
Lagerlof
The Eclipse
PRINT OUT
The Silver Mine
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/lagerlof/marsh/marsh.html#II
Lessing
Through the Tunnel
http://www.miguelmllop.com/stories/stories/throughthetunnel.pdf
London
To Build a Fire
http://ee.1asphost.com/shortstoryclassics/londonfire.html
Love of Life
http://www.literature.org/authors/london-jack/love-of-life/chapter-01.html
Mansfield
Mary
Print out
Miss Brill
http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.2030/
Maugham
The Verger
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=The%20Verger
Maupassant
The Piece of String
http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.933/
The Necklace
http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.518/
McKinley
Spindle’s End (excerpt)
Chapter 1 p3-8
McLaverty
The Wild Duck’s Nest
Favorite Animal Stories p81
Melville
The Fiddler
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/fiddler.html
Mitchison
Quintus Getting Well
The Hostages p 111
O Connor
The Geranium
The Complete Stories p3
O’Faolain
The Trout
http://www.sad34.net/~globalclassroom/Library/Europethetrout (http://www.sad34.net/%7Eglobalclassroom/Library/Europethetrout)
Paton
The Drink in the Passage
Tales from a Troubled Land p117

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[Eliana]

Rawlings
A Mother in Mannville
Short Stories by… p 243
Rosten
The Rather Difficult Case of Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N
Chapter 1
Saki,
The Storyteller
http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.1646/

Dusk
http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/375/
Slonczewski
Tuberculosis Bacteria Join UN
http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/science/tuberculosis_bacteria_join_united_nations.htm
Steinbeck
Chrysanthemums
http://ee.1asphost.com/shortstoryclassics/steinbeckchrysanthemums.html

The Leader of the People
The Red Pony p80
Stuart
The Split Cherry Tree
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/cherry.html

Thanksgiving Hunter
Tales From the Plum Grove Hills p45

This Farm for Sale
A Jesse Stuart Reader p 114
Tan
Two Kinds
http://www.angelfire.com/ma/MyGuardianangels/index9.html
Tellez
Just Lather, That’s All
http://www2.ups.edu/faculty/velez/LAS100/tellez.htm
Thomas
Test
http://www.mrslusk.com/test.html
Thurber
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/6821/thurber.html
Thurman
The Countess and the Impossible
http://aspyre.net/shotsie/archive/006722.html
Tolstoy
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
http://stripe.colorado.edu/~morristo/HowMuchLand.html (http://stripe.colorado.edu/%7Emorristo/HowMuchLand.html)

G-d Sees the Truth but waits
http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.2162/
Tomlinson
The Master
http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Best/TomlinsonMaster.htm
Twain
The Cat and the Pain Killer
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/rgs/sawyr-table.html

The £1,000,000 pound Bank-Note
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/MilPou.shtml

Luck
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/luck.html
Vonnegut
The Lie
Welcome to the Monkey House p222
Walker
Everyday Use
http://ee.1asphost.com/shortstoryclassics/walkereverydayuse.html
Welty
A Worn Path
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/ew_path.html (http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7Edrbr/ew_path.html)
West
The Pacing Goose
The Friendly Persuasion p29
Sixteen
Cress Delahanty p237

Addison
The Spectator #512 10/17/1712
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12030/12030-h/SV3/projectID3ea9f70722b41.txt
Bacon
Of Studies
http://www.westegg.com/bacon/studies.html
Of Discourse
http://www.westegg.com/bacon/discourse.html

Of Regiment of Health
http://www.westegg.com/bacon/discourse.html

Of Travel
http://www.westegg.com/bacon/travel.html
Burroughs
The Art of Seeing Things
Leaf & Tendril p???
Carlyle
The Fall of the Bastille (Ch 6 of History of the French Revolution)
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/carlyle/fr/bastille.html
Carson
A Fable for Tomorrow
Silent Spring p1

The Obligation to Endure
Silent Spring p5
Churchill
History writing
The Age of revolution: Preface & Ch18

Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=391

Their Finest Hour
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=418

Be Ye Men of Valour
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=392
Chute
The Young Shakespeare
Shakespeare of London p??
Curie
Four Years in a Shed
Madame Curie: Chapter 8
De Quincy
On the Knocking at the Gate
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=On%20the%20Knocking%20at%20the%20Gat e
Dickens
The Streets –Morning and Night
(chapters 1 & 2 from Sketches by Boz)
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/d/dickens/charles/d54sb/index.html
De Quincy
On the Knocking at the Gate
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=On%20the%20Knocking%20at%20the%20Gat e
Dickens
The Streets –Morning and Night
(chapters 1 & 2 from Sketches by Boz)
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/d/dickens/charles/d54sb/index.html
Hazlitt
On Going a Journey
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dmiall/Travel/hazlitt.htm (http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Edmiall/Travel/hazlitt.htm)

On Familiar Style
http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/TableTalk/FamiliarStyle.htm

The Entrance into Italy
http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/EntranceItaly.htm
Heinrich
Peep
The Geese of Beaver Bog (Introduction)
Hills
How to Eat an Ice Cream Cone
How to do things Right p5
Holland
Charles Dickens: The Boy of the London Streets
Leaders and Heroes p100
Horgan
The Rio Grande
America East & West p 3-7 more (if possible)
Irving
Preface
The Voyage
http://www.online-literature.com/irving/geoffrey_crayon/0/
http://www.online-literature.com/irving/geoffrey_crayon/1/
Kipling
An Interview with Mark Twain
http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/FromSeaToSea/seatosea_XXXVII.html
Kruif
Leeuwenhoek: First of the Microbe Hunters
Microbe Hunters Ch 1
Lamb
The Superannuated Man
http://www.angelfire.com/nv/mf/elia2/superann.htm
London
Story of an Eyewitness
http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/Journalism/sfearthquake.html
Macaulay
London Coffeehouses (from The History of England)
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/1hoej10.txt
(Fr“The coffee house” to “… the Lord Lieutenant”)
Machiavelli
To acquire Esteem
http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.2/bookid.873/sec.23/

On Civil Principalities
http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.2/bookid.873/sec.11/
Mead
One Vote for this Age of Anxiety
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nytimes/90503387.html?did=90503387&FMT=ABS&FMTS=AI&date=May+20%2C+1956&author=By+MARGARET+MEAD&pub=New+York+Times++(1857-Current+file)&desc=One+Vote+for+This+Age+of+Anxiety (http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nytimes/90503387.html?did=90503387&FMT=ABS&FMTS=AI&date=May+20%2C+1956&author=By+MARGARET+MEAD&pub=New+York+Times++%281857-Current+file%29&desc=One+Vote+for+This+Age+of+Anxiety)
Montaigne
On Liars
http://www.uoregon.edu/%7Erbear/montaigne/1ix.htm

To the readers
http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/montaigne/#ta (http://www.uoregon.edu/%7Erbear/montaigne/#ta)

That our actions should be judged by our intentions
http://www.uoregon.edu/%7Erbear/montaigne/1vii.htm

That one man’s profit is another’s loss
http://www.uoregon.edu/%7Erbear/montaigne/1xxi.htm
Muir
The Birds
Yosemitep119
Peary
Farthest North
PRINT OUT
Plutarch
The Life of Caesar(selections)
Plutarch ‘s Lives p894
Priestly
Essays from Delight
pages: 92,118,125,163,180,220,239
Ruskin
Excerpt from Modern Painters
PRINT OUT
Steinbeck
My War with the Ospreys
Holiday March 1957 p??

Excerpts from Travels with Charley
P3-8, 123-126, 137-142,146-7,159-165
Teale
Animals go to School
The Lost woods p????
Thomas
Florence Nightingale
Living Biographies of Famous Women p147
Thoreau
Walking (excerpts)
http://thoreau.eserver.org/walking1.html
Thurber
The Day the Dam Broke
My Life & Hard Times p 19

Nine Needles
Let Your Mind Alone p106
Tinbergen
Curious Naturalists (? & The Bee Hunters…)
Curious Naturalists Ch16, Ch 1
Turgenev
The Sparrow
http://www.harvestfields.ca/horror/007/233.htm
Twain
Early Years in Florida &
Selections from Early Days
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200551h.html

Life on the Mississippi (Chapters 4-6)
http://www.mtwain.com/Life_On_The_Mississippi/4.html
White
Will Strunk
Essays of EB White p256

A Slight Sound at Evening
p234

Good-bye to 48th street
p3
Woolf
The Death of the Moth
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91d/chap2.html (http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91d/chap2.html)




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[Teresa Hope]

Can't thank you enough for such a comprehensive list!

[Eliana]

:eek: ... let's see how much of it I can get into one post!

I also have a list of resources I've found helpful in pulling together an English 'class'. Let me know if you want more information about any of them .

Eliana

I.Short Stories

A.Why read fiction?
i.The Stolen Day Anderson
ii.The Fiddler Melville
iii.Quintus Getting Well Mitchison

B.Verisimilitude
i.Charles Jackson
ii.Spindle’s End (excerpt) McKinley
iii.The Wild Duck’s Nest McLaverty
iv.Tuberculosis Bacteria Join UN Slonczewski

C.Plot
i.How Potts Saved the Night Express Baker
ii.The Red-Headed League Doyle
iii.The Clothes Make the Man Duvernois
iv.The Stolen Rubens Futrelle
v.The Silver Mine Lagerlof
vi.Test Thomas
vii.G-d Sees the Truth but Waits Tolstoy

D.Structure
i.All the Years of her Life Callaghan
ii.The Siege of BerlinDaudet
iii.The Signal-Man Dickens
iv.The Old Man Du Maurier
v.Contents of the Dead Man’s Pockets Finney
vi.The Revolt of “Mother” Freeman
vii.Dusk Saki
viii.The £1,000,000 pound Bank-Note Twain

E.Characterization
i.A Drop in the Bucket Fisher
ii.Quality Galsworthy
iii.The Half-Brothers Gaskell
iv.Seven Types of Ambiguity Jackson
v.Miss Brill Mansfield
vi.The Rather Difficult Case of Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N Rosten
vii.The Leader of the People Steinbeck
viii.Two Kinds Tan
ix.The Lie Vonnegut
x.A Worn Path Welty


F.Narrator & Point-of-view
i.Flavia and Her Artists Cather
ii.The Stolen Party Heker
iii.Mary Mansfield
iv.The Geranium O’Connor
v.The Storyteller Saki
vi.The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Thurber
vii.The Master Tomlinson
viii.Everyday Use Walker

G.Setting
i.A Horseman in the Sky Bierce
ii.A Day’s Pleasure Garland
iii.Koyo, the Singer Gilbert
iv.The Sea Devil Gordon
v.To Build a Fire London

H.Language and Style
i.There Will Come Soft Rains Bradbury
ii.Regret Chopin
iii.The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky Crane
iv.A Day’s Wait Hemingway
v.Thank you Ma’m Hughes
vi.Rip van Winkle Irving
vii.The Sneaker Crisis Jackson
viii.The Real Thing James
ix.The Cat and the Pain Killer Twain


I.Tone/mood
i.Seeing People off Beerbohm
ii.Home Brooks
iii.The True History of the Hare and the Tortoise Dunsanay
iv.The Verger Maugham
v.The Necklace Maupassant

J.Image, Motif, and Symbol
i.The Enchanted Bluff Cather
ii.The Japanese Quince Galsworthy
iii.A White Heron Jewett
iv.The Eclipse Lagerlof
v.Chrysanthemums Steinbeck




K.Theme
i.The Ship That Found Herself Kipling
ii.Love of Life London
iii.The Split Cherry Tree Stuart
iv.The Countess and the Impossible Thurman
v.Luck Twain


L.Putting it all together
i.The Stub Book Alarcon
ii.The Beggar Chekhov
iii.Il Conde Conrad
iv.The Piece of String Maupassant
v.The Drink in the Passage Paton
vi.The Pacing Goose West
vii.Just Lather, That’s All Tellez
viii.How MuchLand Does a Man Need? Tolstoy
__
II.Essays/non-fiction

A.The character of prose
B.On Writing

i.The Spectator #512 Addison
ii.On the Knocking at the Gate De Quincy
iii.Julius Caesar Forster
iv.On Familiar Style Hazlitt

C.Personal/Biographic Writing

i.The Young Shakespeare Chute
ii.Four Years in a Shed Curie
iii.Charles Dickens: The Boy of the London Streets Holland
iv.An Interview with Mark Twain Kipling
v.Leeuwenhoek: First of the Microbe Hunters Kruif
vi.Florence Nightingale Thomas
vii.Excerpts from Autobiography Twain
viii.Will Strunk White

D.Narrative Writing
E.Descriptive Writing
F.Persuasive Writing

Textual resources
Understanding Literature Kalaidjian, Roof, and Watt
Literature: An introduction to Reading and Writing Roberts &Jacobs
Response and Analysis Probst
Reading Literature and Writing Argument James & Merickel
The Well Educated Mind Bauer
How to Read a Book Adler
With Rigor for All and Classics in the ClassroomJago
Voice Lessons:Classroom Activities to Teach Diction, Detail, Imagery, Syntax, and Tone Dean
Story and Structure Perrine
Reading the Short Story Barrows
The Character of Prose
Prose Models Levin
Analyzing Prose Lanham

Poetry
Sound and Sense Perrine
How Does a Poem Mean Ciardi
UnderstandingPoetryBrooks & Warren
A Poetry Handbook Oliver
Poetic Meter and Poetic Form Fussell
Poetry Handbook Deutsch

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