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Posted: Aug 20 2007 at 12:21pm \| IP Logged

We've decided to do Literature this year. I hadn't really planned on it but as we were looking over the state goals/objective it really caught my student's attention. So . . . I would like a resource (the preference range would be free online, cheap book, not-so-cheap book) that will outline the things we need to know with excellent book selection that highlight that particular thing. I guess an example would be Setting, an explanation of setting, and then say, a book like Heidi that has two distinct settings that could be discussed through comparing/contrasting the two. Something like that. Or, character . . . an explanation of what to look for/consider, then something like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or Little Women where the various characters could be discusses. It would be great if there were discussion questions/topics to lead to discoveries under that topic.

Any ideas???

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Posted: Aug 22 2007 at 8:56am \| IP Logged

I'm not quite sure what ages that you're teaching, but one resource I'm using with our 12yod is called Drawn Into the Heart of Reading. You can use this over again, and you study different genres. You can see it, plus samples here:
Drawn Into the Heart of Reading and here:

another site to see it and here:

Rainbow Resource site

Progeny Press Guides are very popular in the homeschool community. You can read a review here:
HS Review for Progeny Press Guides

Here is Cathy Duffy's page for literature guides/curriculums that may help you read about the ones I mentioned, and others as well:
Cathy Duffy Reviews on literature

Hope this helps some!

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Posted: Aug 22 2007 at 11:44am \| IP Logged

Teacher Created Resources Literature Unit. The site is www.teachercreated.com

I bought one of their books for The Call of the Wild and they give you Curriculum Connections, Vocabulary, Unit Test Critical thinking.

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