Who Ate the Reading List?
As I sit down to plan this next semester (yes, I got a late start), I find that my reading list is … gone. Completely and utterly gone. Not only have I lost the list of works I had planned to be read this year, I’ve lost the list of what we have read. Oh, boy. And as I look ahead, I see that most of TOG’s literature selections for the next 18 weeks are just not in my plans. They’re fine choices, but they’re not my choices. So far, it seems to me that TOG’s rhetoric-level literature is very good, but I find a lot of what I consider “filler” in their lower levels. Here is my reconstructed list for the rest of the year, for Connor (2nd half of 7th grade): Novels Mr. Midshipman Hornblower Carry On, Mr. Bowditch A Christmas Carol (Or, if he thinks it’s too late to be reading Christmas stories, perhaps Oliver Twist or really, any other Dickens. I’m not picky. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass The Princess and the Goblin Short Stories Grimm’s Fairy Tales Selections by Rip Van Wink
