Wield words well.
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
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:
Fables, Myths & Fairy Tales
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®.
Includes two novel studies:
The Door in the Wall
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
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:
Little Britches
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Hobbit
The Hiding Place
The Old Man and the Sea
Master Cornhill
Adam of the Road
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Great Books of
World Literature*
(9th-12th)
Literature selections/excerpts include:
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Theogony
The book of Genesis
The Odyssey
The Theban Cycle
Siddhartha
Journey to the West (selected chapters)
Plato's Dialogues: Gorgias, Apology
Plutarch's Lives (excerpts)
Exhortation to the Greeks