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Posted: Oct 07 2014 at 6:40pm | IP Logged Quote Barb.b
Can you list what your kids read for literature in 11th grade!

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This is my list. It does include everything my 11th grader is currently reading for literature, history, civics, rhetoric, and religion. As people are probably tired of hearing me say, we integrate literature across the curriculum as much as possible -- our history and literature are always integrated, so that we're studying lit chronologically as a tradition, and history through primary sources and other literature.

*Typically* 11th is a US history-literature year in public and private schools -- it was the grade I taught when I was a high-school teacher. You don't have to do it that way, of course, but that's kind of a standard in the US. Much early-American literature is basically primary-source historical material, so there's a lot of crossover between those two subjects naturally.

Anyway, just a little "why" for my list! For the lit component, I do use a US lit textbook (Glencoe). It's HUGE -- my son is already sick of having it in his backpack -- and much of it is useless filler, but it does have literature selections handily arranged in chronological order, which saves my having to find them as e-texts or separate books, though one could easily do that. We're doing through the end of the 19th century this year -- in 12th grade we'll pick up the 20th century/contemporary literature, including both US literature and world literature.

We are also doing 3 Shakespeare plays, one per term, per Ambleside Online's schedule: Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, and Henry V.

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PS: I also have him reading H.E. Marshall's English Literature for Boys and Girls, which is taking him through what's happening in English literature (obviously!) as a parallel to American literature. That way we're not totally losing the Romantic poets, etc.

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