Literature Lists

Grammar School LiteratureK 1st 2nd 3rd 4th

CHAPTER BOOKS The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Complete Works of Beatrix Potter Classics for Children: The Secret Garden The Railway Children Heidi The Swiss Family Robinson Charlotte’s Web Aesop’s Fables Gideon’s Gift

SCRIPTURE MEMORY Genesis 1:1 Ephesians 4:32 1 Corinthians 10:31 Proverbs 3:5-6 Psalm 95:6-7 Joshua 1:9 Psalm 23 Luke 2:8-14 Matthew 7:24-27 Psalm 150 Galatians 5:22-23 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

READ ALOUD Dr. Seuss Kevin Henkes Laura NumeroffA.A. Milne Eric Carle Robert McCloskey P.D. Eastman Margery Williams Audrey Penn Virginia Lee Burton Leo Lionni Marjorie Priceman Keiko Kasza Jeff Brumbeau Joy Cowley Carron Brown David Shannon Mac Barnett Charles Ghigna Joan Holub Ned Young Jacqueline Briggs Martin Tony Ross Mem Fox Alice McLerran Various Fairy Tales

POETRY MEMORY “All Things Bright and Beautiful” “There Once Was a Puffin” “In the Heart of a Seed” (Brown) Various Nursery Rhymes

CORE BOOKS Leveled Readers/Saxon Readers Various Picture Books

SCRIPTURE MEMORY Old Testament Psalm 1:1-3 Psalm 100 Proverbs 2:6-8 Isaiah 9:6 New Testament Luke 2:8-14 Matthew 22:37-39 2 Corinthians 5:17 Philippians 4:6-8 Isaiah 40:28-31

READ ALOUDS The Cricket in Times Square The Sign of the Beaver Sarah, Plain and Tall Skylark Lillian Trasher Farmer Boy The Courage of Sarah Noble Thornton Burgess Books A Bear Called Paddington

POETRY MEMORY “Autumn Woods” (James S. Tippett) “The Swing” (Robert Louis Stevenson) “The Seven Continents” (Gina Sanguino) “A Winter Walk” (Elizabeth Newell) “I Have A Dream” (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) “Be Even Tempered” (Alice Joyce Davidson) “Special Friend” (May Pynchon) “Raindrops” (Anonymous) & “Fog” (Carl Sandburg) “If All the Trees Were Pine”

CORE BOOKS Mummies in the Morning A Question of Yams The Boxcar Children The Adventures of Balto Tut’s Mummy-Lost & Found Little House in the Big Woods Baby Island

SCRIPTURE MEMORY Old Testament Exodus 20:1-17 Deuteronomy 6:1-9 Psalm 8 New Testament Matthew 5:1-16 John 1:1-18 Ephesians 3:14-21 2 Peter 1:3-9

READ ALOUDS The Mouse and the Motorcycle Charlotte’s Web Mrs. Piggle Wiggle Winnie the Pooh Rainbow Garden Mummies and Pyramids Who Was King Tut?

POETRY MEMORY “The Little Turtle” (Vachel LIndsay) (full 3 verses) “Skyscrapers” (Rachel Field) “Some One” (Walter de la Mare “The Months” (Sara Coleridge) “Stars” (Sara Teasdale) “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” (Jane Taylor) (full 5 stanzas) “The Secret” (Anonymous)

CORE BOOKS Homer Pric Tales from the Odyssey Dauliere’s Greek Myths The Lion, Witch, & Wardrobe Stuart Little Wind in the Willows (Abridged)Charlie & the Chocolate Factory The Magician’s Nephew

SCRIPTURE MEMORY Old Testament Genesis 1:1, 1:27, 3:15 Exodus 2:23-25, 15 Numbers 6:22-27 Joshua 1:5-9Psalm 33, 103 New Testament Romans 8:31-39 Ephesians 1:3-13 Hebrews 11

READ ALOUD BOOKS Milly, Molly, Mandy Because of Winn Dixie Ginger Pye/Moffats The Little Prince

POETRY MEMORY “September” (Jackson) “Spider Webs” ( Tippett) “When the Frost is on the Punkin’” ( Riley) *Stanza 1 “Gathering Leaves” ( Frost)“Father William” (Carroll) “A Jelly-fish” (Moore)“A Poison Tree” (Blake)“The Children’s Hour” “Guard, My Child, Thy Tongue” (13th Century Hymn)

CORE BOOKS From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Macbeth for Kids - Burdett Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass - Prince Caspian The Twenty-One BalloonsPhantom Tollbooth Advent. of Robin HoodKing Arthur & His Knights of the Round Table

SCRIPTURE MEMORY Old Testament Psalm 34, 51, 121 Isaiah 40:28-31 Jeremiah 1:1-10 Habakuk 3:17-19 New Testament Ephesians 2:1-10, 6:10-20 1 Thessalonians 5:12-24 1 Timothy 6:11-16

READ ALOUD BOOKS Beowulf - Sutcliff The Hobbit -Tolkien

POETRY MEMORY “The Eagle” (Tennyson) “Trees” (Kilmer) “Road Not Taken” (Frost) “Wind is a Cat!” (Fuller) “Kubla Khan” - (Coleridge) “Today We Had Some Weather” (Nesbitt)

Logic School Literature

5th 6th 7th 8th

SCRIPTURE MEMORY Proverbs 3 & 4 Romans 12 & 13

LITERATURE LIST Walk the World’s Rim - Baker Dangerous Journey - Bunyan Voyage to Freedom- Gay The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Speare Johnny Tremain - Forbes Calico Captive - Speare Around the World in 80 Days - Verne

POETRY MEMORY “God Knows What He’s About” - Anonymous “In Flanders Fields” - McCrae ‘Ring Out, Wild Bells” - Tennyson Preamble to the Constitution States and Capitals “The Tyger” - Blake

SCRIPTURE MEMORY James

LITERATURE LIST Bound for Oregon - Leeuwen The Adventures of TomSawyer - Twain Rifles for Watie - Keith With Lee in Virginia - Henty Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry! - Taylor The Hiding Place - Ten Boom

POETRY MEMORY “A Psalm of Life” - Longfellow The Presidents “The Gettysburg Address” - Lincoln “O Captain, My Captain” - Whitman “The New Colossus” - Lazarus “Jabberwocky” - Carroll

SCRIPTURE MEMORY Selections from Ecclesiastes

LITERATURE LIST Selections from Epic of Gilgamesh - Author Unknown The Golden Goblet - McGraw The Cat of Bubastes - Henty Hittite Warrior - Williamson Tales of Ancient Egypt - Green God King - WilliamsonMara, Daughter of the Nile - McGraw Black Ships Before Troy by Barbara Sutcliffe

POETRY MEMORY “God’s Grandeur” - Hopkins “Work” - Van Dyke “The World Is Too Much with Us” - Wordsworth “The Elixir” - Herbert

SCRIPTURE MEMORY Philippians

LITERATURE LIST Aeneid - Vergil Iliad - Homer Odyssey - Homer Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare

POETRY MEMORY “The Raven” - Poe Selections from Julius Caesar - Shakespeare