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Booklists
Please purchase the exact title using the suggested links. Students will have difficulty following along when different versions are used. Translations of some titles by other authors may also contain inappropriate content. In some cases, pdf versions will be provided for students. If a student uses audiobooks, please purchase a print copy for reference when writing.
2024-25 Fall/Spring Book Lists
Class: Fables, Myths & Fairy Tales
Designed for grades 3-5, teach students to write with assignments that will stir their imaginations! The student book features 29 lessons across the 7 units taught in TWSS. Students will learn to take notes, retell narrative stories, summarize references, write from pictures, and compose their own tales.
Please purchase the following books for this class:
Literature units include (please purchase):
Aesop's Fables, The Classic Edition
ISBN-10 : 1604338105
ISBN-13 : 978-1604338102
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
ISBN-10 : 0385015836
ISBN-13 : 978-0385015837
Classic Fairy Tales Vol. 1
ISBN-10 : 1579656862
ISBN-13 : 978-1579656867
Classic Bedtime Stories
ISBN-10 : 1579657605
ISBN-13 : 978-1579657604
Class: Medieval History-Based Writing
(6-8th)
From the Anglo-Saxons to the Renaissance, from chivalrous knights to Genghis Khan, students will improve their knowledge of medieval times while learning to write with Structure and Style®.
Please purchase the following books for this class:
Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons
Includes two novel studies (please purchase):
The Door in the Wall by Maguerite de Angeli
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
Class: Literature & The Lost Tools of Writing (9-12)
Please purchase the following books:
The Lost Tools of Writing, Level One - student workbook only
Literature selections (please purchase):
Little Britches by Ralph Moody
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Master Cornhill by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
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Class: Great Books of
World Literature* ♱
(9th-12th)
Please purchase starred** items.
Literature selections/excerpts include:
The Epic of Gilgamesh (redacted pdf provided)
Theogony (link provided)
**The book of Genesis (use your own Bible)
**The Odyssey by Robert Fagles
**Three Theban Plays (Penguin Classics)
Siddhartha (pdf provided)
Journey to the West (selected chapters, pdf provided)
Plato's Dialogues: Gorgias, Apology (link provided)
Plutarch's Lives (excerpts, pdf provided)
1001 Arabian Nights (link provided)
Exhortation to the Greeks (link provided)