Its on the Blackboard - Language Arts (Italics,Creative Writing, Grammar, Reading, Literature, Spelling, Vocabulary)

ITALICS

Year 1:Italics A/Italics D/Italics F

Year 2:Italics B/Italics D/Italics F

Year 3:Italics C/Italics E/Italics G

Year 4:Italics C/Italics E/Write Now

CREATIVE WRITING

Year 1:Level 1/Level 5 (to G9)/Writing Exposition

Year 2:Level 2/Level 6 (to G10)/Creating Fiction
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Year 3:Level 3 (to 13)/Level 7 (to G11)/College Writing


Year 4:Level 4 (to G8)/Speech and Interpersonal Communication/Term papers


GRAMMAR
Year 1:
Year 2:
Year 3:
Year 4:

LITERATURE

Use notebook for Summation, etc.  Read separate page for what to do.

Year 1:Ancient: From the beginning

1. The Story of Me: Autobiography and Memoir - 
1.  Augustine (The Confessions - c 400); 
2. Stage 3: The Story of the Past: The Tales of Historians (and Politicians) 
1. Herodotus (The Histories - 441 BC);
2. Thucydides (The PeloponnesianWar"c 400 BCE); 
3. Plato (The Republic - c 375 BCE); Plutarch (Lives - CE 100-125); 
4. Augustine - (the City of God - completed 426); 
5. Bedde: (The Eccesiastical History of the English People 731); 
3. Stage 4:The World Stage: Reading through History with Drama
1. The Greeks:
1. Aeschylus (Agamemnon c 458 BCE)
2. Sophocles (Oedipus the King c 450 BCE)
3. Euripedes (Medea c 431 BCE)
4. Aristophanes (The Birds c 400 BCE)
5. Aristotle (Poetics c 330 BCE)
4. Stage 5: History Refracted: The Poets and Their Poems
1. - (The Epic of Gilgamesh c 2000 BCE)(trans David Ferry, Benjamin Foster)
2. Homer (the Iliad and the Odyssey c 800 BCE)
3. Horace (Odes 65-8 BCE)
4.  - (Beowulf c 1000)
5. Dante Alighieri (Inferno 1265-1321)
6. Geoffrey Chaucer (The Canterbury Tales c 1343-1400 CE)

Year 2:Medieval:1400 - 1700

1. Stage 1:Reading through History with the Novel - 
1. Miguel de Cervantes (Don Quixote - 1605);
2. John Bunyan (Pilgrim's Progress - 1679);
2. The Story of Me: Autobiography and Memoir - 
1.   Margery Kempe (The Book of Margery Kempe - c 1430); 
2. Michel de Montaigne (Essays - 1580); 
3. Teresa of Avila (The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself - 1588); 
4. Rene Descartes (Meditations - 1640); 
5. John Bunyan (Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners - 1666); 
6. Mary Rowlandson ()The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration 1682); 
3. Stage 3: The Story of the Past: The Tales of Historians (and Politicians)  
1. Niccolo Machiavelli (The Prince 0 1513); 
2. Sir Thomas More (Utopia 1516); 
3. John Locke (the True End of Civil Government 1690); 
4. Stage 4:The World Stage: Reading through History with Drama
1. Everyman
1. Fourteenth Century (Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays 14th century)
2. Age of Shakespeare
1. Christopher Marlowe, (Doctor Faustus 1588)
2. William Shakespeare (Richard III 1592-93)(Midsummer Night's Dream 1594-95)(Hamlet 1600)
5. Stage 5: History Refracted: The Poets and Their Poems
1. William Shakespeare (Sonnets 1564-1616)
2. John Donne (1572-1631 esp read Elegy I)
3. King James Bible (Psalms 1611)
4. John Milton (Paradise Lost 1608-1674)

Year 3:Colonial: 1700 - 1800

1. Stage 1:Reading through History with the Novel - 
1. Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels - 1726);
2. The Story of Me: Autobiography and Memoir - 
1. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Confessions - 1781); 
2. Benjamin Franklin (The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - 1791);
3. Stage 3: The Story of the Past: The Tales of Historians (and Politicians)  
1. David Hume (The History of England, Volume V 1754); 
2. Jean Jacques Rousseau (The Social Contract 1762); 
3. Thomas Paine (Common Sense 1776); 
4. Edward Gibbon (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1788); 
5. Mary Wollstonecraft (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 1792); 
4. Stage 4:The World Stage: Reading through History with Drama
1. Men and Manners
1. Moliere (Tartuffe 1669)
2. William Congreve (The Way of the World 1700)
3. Oliver Goldsmith (She Stoops to Conquer 1773)
4. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (The School for Scandal 1777)
5. Stage 5: History Refracted: The Poets and Their Poems
1. William Blake (songs of Innocence and of Experience 1757-1827)
2. William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Year 4:Modern:1800 - present

1. Stage 1:Reading through History with the Novel - 
1. Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice - 1815); 
2. Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist - 1838); 
3. Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre - 1847); 
4. Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter - 1850); 
5. Herman Melville (Moby Dick - 1851); 
6. Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin - 1851); 
7. Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary - 1857); 
8. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Crime and Punishment - 1866); 
9. Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina - 1877); 
10. Thomas Hardy (Return of the Native - 1878); 
11. Henry James (the Portrait of a Lady - 1881); 
12. Mark Twain (Huckleberry Finn (1844); 
13. Stephen Crane (The Red Badge of Courage- 1895);
14.  Joseph Corad (Heart of Darkness - 1902); 
15. Edith Wharton (The House of Mirth - 1905);
16.  F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby - 1925); 
17. Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway - 1925); 
18. Franz Kafka (The Trial - 1925); 
19. Richard Wright (Native Son - 1940); 
20. Albert Camus (The Stranger - 1942); 
21. George Orwell (1984 - 1949); 
22. Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man - 1952);
23.  Saul Bellow (Seize the Day - 1956); 
24. Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude -1967);
25.  Italo Calvino (If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - 1972); 
26. Toni Morrison (Song of Solomon - 1977); 
27. Don Delillo (White Noise - 1985); 
28. A.S.Byatt (Possession - 1990)
2. The Story of Me: Autobiography and Memoir - 
1.  Henry David Thoreau (Walden - 1854); 
2. Harriet Jacobs (Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself 1861); 
3. Frederick  Douglass (Life and Times of Frederick Douglass 1881); 
4. Booker T. Washington (Up from Slavery 1901); 
5. Friedrich Nietzsche (Ecce Homo 1908); 
6. Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf 1925); 
7. Mohandas Gandhi (An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth 1929); 
8. Gertrude Stein (The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 1933); 
9. Thomas Merton (The Seven Storey Mountain 1948); 
10. C.S.Lewis (Surprised by Joy:The Shape of My Early Life 1955); 
11. Malcolm X (The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965); 
12. May Sarton (Journal of a Solitude 1973); 
13. Aleksanddr L. Solzhenitsyn (The Gulag Archipelago 1973 in English); 
14. Charles W. Colson (Born Again 1977); 
15. Richard Rodriguez (Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez 1982); 
16. Jill Ker Conway (The Road from Coorain 1989); 
17. Elie Wiesel (All Rivers Run to the Sea:Memoirs 1995). 
3. Stage 3: The Story of the Past: The Tales of Historians (and Politicians)  
1. Alexis de Tocqueville (Democracy in America 1835-40); 
2. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (The Communist Manifesto 1848); 
3. Jacob Burckhardt (The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy 1860); 
4. W.E.B.Du Bois (The Souls of Black Folk 1903); 
5. Max Weber (The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism 1904); 
6. Lytton Strachey (Queen Victoria 1921); 
7. George Orwell (The Road to Wigan Pier 1937); 
8. Perry Miller (the New England Mind 1939); 
9. John Kenneth Galbraith (The Great Crash 1929); 
10. Cornelius Ryan (The Longest Day 1959); 
11. Betty Friedan (The Feminine Mystique 1963);
12. Eugene D. Genovese (Roll, Jordan, Roll The World the Slaves Made 1974); 
13. Barbara Tuchman (A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century 1978); 
14. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (All the President's Men 1987); 
15. James M. McPherson (Battle Cry of Freedom:The Civil War Era 1988); 
16. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (A Midwife's Tale:the Life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary 1785-1812 - 1990); 
17. Francis Fukuyama (The End of History and the Last Man 1992)
4. Stage 4:The World Stage: Reading through History with Drama
1. Men and Manners
1. Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest 1899)
2. Triumph of Ideas
1. Henrik Ibsen (A Doll's House 1879)
2. Anton Chekhov (The Cherry Orchard 1904)
3. George Bernard Shaw (Saint Joan 1924)
4. T. S. Eliot (Murder in the Cathedral 1935)
5. Thornton Wilder (Our Town 1938)
6. Eugene O'Neill (Long Day's Journey into Night 1940)
7. Jean Paul Sartre (No Exit 1944)
8. Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire 1947)
9. Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman 1949)
10. Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot 1952)
11. Robert Bolt (A Man for All Seasons 1960)
12. Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 1967)
13. Peter Shaffer (Equus 1974)
5. Stage 5: History Refracted: The Poets and Their Poems
1. John Keats (1795-1821)
2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1883)
3. Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
4. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
5. Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
6. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
7. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
8. Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
9. Robert Frost (1874-1963)
10. Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
11. William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
12. Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
13. T.S.Eliot (1888-1965)
14. Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
15. W.H. Auden (1907-1973)
16. Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
17. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
18. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
19. Mark Strand (1934- )
20. Adrienne Rich (1929 - )
21. Seamus Heaney (1939- )
22. Robert Pinsky (1940- )
23. Jane Kenyon (1947-1995)
24. Rita Dove (1952- )

(AS ADULT)
Stage 1:Reading through History with the Novel - 
Miguel de Cervantes (Don Quixote - 1605); John Bunyan (Pilgrim's Progress - 1679); Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels - 1726); Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice - 1815); Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist - 1838); Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre - 1847); Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter - 1850); Herman Melville (Moby Dick - 1851); Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin - 1851); Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary - 1857); Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Crime and Punishment - 1866); Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina - 1877); Thomas Hardy (Return of the Native - 1878); Henry James (the Portrait of a Lady - 1881); Mark Twain (Huckleberry Finn (1844); Stephen Crane (The Red Badge of Courage- 1895); Joseph Corad (Heart of Darkness - 1902); Edith Wharton (The House of Mirth - 1905); F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby - 1925); Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway - 1925); Franz Kafka (The Trial - 1925); Richard Wright (Native Son - 1940); Albert Camus (The Stranger - 1942); George Orwell (1984 - 1949); Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man - 1952); Saul Bellow (Seize the Day - 1956); Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude -1967); Italo Calvino (If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - 1972); Toni Morrison (Song of Solomon - 1977); Don Delillo (White Noise - 1985); A.S.Byatt (Possession - 1990)

Stage 2: The Story of Me: Autobiography and Memoir - Augustine (The Confessions - c 400); Margery Kempe (The Book of Margery Kempe - c 1430); Michel de Montaigne (Essays - 1580); Teresa of Avila (The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself - 1588); Rene Descartes (Meditations - 1640); John Bunyan (Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners - 1666); Mary Rowlandson ()The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration 1682); Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Confessions - 1781); Benjamin Franklin (The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - 1791); Henry David Thoreau (Walden - 1854); Harriet Jacobs (Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself 1861); Frederick  Douglass (Life and Times of Frederick Douglass 1881); Booker T. Washington (Up from Slavery 1901); Friedrich Nietzsche (Ecce Homo 1908); Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf 1925); Mohandas Gandhi (An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth 1929); Gertrude Stein (The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 1933); Thomas Merton (The Seven Storey Mountain 1948); C.S.Lewis (Surprised by Joy:The Shape of My Early Life 1955); Malcolm X (The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965); May Sarton (Journal of a Solitude 1973); Aleksanddr L. Solzhenitsyn (The Gulag Archipelago 1973 in English); Charles W. Colson (Born Again 1977); Richard Rodriguez (Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez 1982); Jill Ker Conway (The Road from Coorain 1989); Elie Wiesel (All Rivers Run to the Sea:Memoirs 1995). 

Stage 3: The Story of the Past: The Tales of Historians (and Politicians) Herodotus (The Histories - 441 BC); Thucydides (The PeloponnesianWar"c 400 BCE); Plato (The Republic - c 375 BCE); Plutarch (Lives - CE 100-125); Augustine - (the City of God - completed 426); Bedde: (The Eccesiastical History of the English People 731); Niccolo Machiavelli (The Prince 0 1513); Sir Thomas More (Utopia 1516); John Locke (the True End of Civil Government 1690); David Hume (The History of England, Volume V 1754); Jean Jacques Rousseau (The Social Contract 1762); Thomas Paine (Common Sense 1776); Edward Gibbon (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1788); Mary Wollstonecraft (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 1792); Alexis de Tocqueville (Democracy in America 1835-40); Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (The Communist Manifesto 1848); Jacob Burckhardt (The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy 1860); W.E.B.Du Bois (The Souls of Black Folk 1903); Max Weber (The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism 1904); Lytton Strachey (Queen Victoria 1921); George Orwell (The Road to Wigan Pier 1937); Perry Miller (the New England Mind 1939); John Kenneth Galbraith (The Great Crash 1929); Cornelius Ryan (The Longest Day 1959); Betty Friedan (The Feminine Mystique 1963);Eugene D. Genovese (Roll, Jordan, Roll The World the Slaves Made 1974); Barbara Tuchman (A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century 1978); Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (All the President's Men 1987); James M. McPherson (Battle Cry of Freedom:The Civil War Era 1988); Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (A Midwife's Tale:the Life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary 1785-1812 - 1990); Francis Fukuyama (The End of History and the Last Man 1992)

Stage 4:The World Stage: Reading through History with Drama

The Greeks:
Aeschylus (Agamemnon c 458 BCE)
Sophocles (Oedipus the King c 450 BCE)
Euripedes (Medea c 431 BCE)
Aristophanes (The Birds c 400 BCE)
Aristotle (Poetics c 330 BCE)

Everyman
Fourteenth Century (Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays 14th century)

Age of Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe, (Doctor Faustus 1588)
William Shakespeare (Richard III 1592-93)(Midsummer Night's Dream 1594-95)(Hamlet 1600)

Men and Manners
Moliere (Tartuffe 1669)
William Congreve (The Way of the World 1700)
Oliver Goldsmith (She Stoops to Conquer 1773)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (The School for Scandal 1777)
Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest 1899)

Triumph of Ideas
Henrik Ibsen (A Doll's House 1879)
Anton Chekhov (The Cherry Orchard 1904)
George Bernard Shaw (Saint Joan 1924)
T. S. Eliot (Murder in the Cathedral 1935)
Thornton Wilder (Our Town 1938)
Eugene O'Neill (Long Day's Journey into Night 1940)
Jean Paul Sartre (No Exit 1944)
Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire 1947)
Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman 1949)
Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot 1952)
Robert Bolt (A Man for All Seasons 1960)
Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 1967)
Peter Shaffer (Equus 1974)

Stage 5: History Refracted: The Poets and Their Poems
- (The Epic of Gilgamesh c 2000 BCE)(trans David Ferry, Benjamin Foster)
Homer (the Iliad and the Odyssey c 800 BCE)
Horace (Odes 65-8 BCE)
 - (Beowulf c 1000)
Dante Alighieri (Inferno 1265-1321)
Geoffrey Chaucer (The Canterbury Tales c 1343-1400 CE)
William Shakespeare (Sonnets 1564-1616)
John Donne (1572-1631 esp read Elegy I)
King James Bible (Psalms 1611)
John Milton (Paradise Lost 1608-1674)
William Blake (songs of Innocence and of Experience 1757-1827)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
John Keats (1795-1821)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1883)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
T.S.Eliot (1888-1965)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
W.H. Auden (1907-1973)
Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Mark Strand (1934- )
Adrienne Rich (1929 - )
Seamus Heaney (1939- )
Robert Pinsky (1940- )
Jane Kenyon (1947-1995)
Rita Dove (1952- )

SPELLING

Use Spelling Power (K-12) and activities

VOCABULARY

Either use Spelling Power for words for vocab list and/or use