The new school year is fast approaching. I have been working away on getting everything ready.
We will start our new year of school September 14th.
We
prefer to have the kids read classic novels for their required reading
class. I feel that classic novels help them expand their vocabulary,
open their minds to the ways of the past, and show struggles we no
longer face today, among many other things.
Alexzander is entering ninth grade this year and we will be spending most of the year studying Shakespeare. After he finishes that, he will be reading some short stories as well.
He will be starting with reading the Easy Guide to Shakespeare.
We will move on to The Sonnets and Poems.
We will be using these worksheets while reading the Sonnets.
After completing the book and doing the worksheets he will be writing some of his own sonnets.
The final, and most in-depth part of this study will be on the plays.
We ordered both the Usborne version of the plays and the complete works. We will be using both books while reading the plays.
While I plan to have him read over all the plays, we will be studying four of them in depth. He will be reading them in the story form and in the complete form. Under each of the plays I have linked other things we will be doing a long with to make the class complete.
A Mid Summer's Night Dream
We will be using this study.
Romeo and Juliet
We will be using this study.
Hamlet
We will be using this study.
Macbeth
We will be using this study.
After completing all the work above, Alex will be picking a couple of the plays to watch.
After completing the Shakespeare part of his studies, he will end the year reading the two following books, and writing book reports on both books.
Great American Short Stories
Beowolf
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