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I do not use the discussion questions in Lightning Lit. We narrate instead.
I do cover every book.
I don’t see why a student couldn’t do history from one era/place and lit from another. I went to school for almost 20 years and never did have literature and history deliberately associated for me. Never found it confusing. I wouldn’t think it silly at all. The Lightning Lit people strongly encourage completion of one of the American sections before doing the World Lit or the Shakespeare especially. I would tend to agree. The Shakespeare guides are fairly challenging and I know some of the literature in the World Literature guides and they are pretty deep/challenging/need some discussion. The American ones are on pretty safe ground and are pretty nonthreatening.
Bookworm,
Just to clarify, when you referred to LL World Literature were you including British Literature in your assessment of it being quite challenging?
Thanks
I haven’t done one of the British Literature units yet, and I don’t recall reading anything at the website about doing American before those–you might check out those on the website and read up on it.
The website did suggest doing one American Lit before doing British Lit but it depends on the interests of the student.
I have one last question, I hope, and that is whether the lessons in each unit build on each other or if they can be done out of order?
Thank you Bookworm for all your time. It truly is appreciated.
They can be done out of order. We have done: American Lit Late 19th Cent, Shakespeare, World Lit I, and have British Lit Late 19th Cent up next.
We did American Lit first, then world, then British last (because it is my favourite – wonder why???) – we did Shakespeare as a stand alone course and EpiKardia for essays and research paper….loved it and it went well. I agree with Bookworm about Emma, it is a wonderful book – we did Sense and Sensibility as well – then Great Expectations, and a A Tale of Two Cities. We read P&P in 8th grade and did not want to do it again. Literature and writing are two favourite things in this house. We used narrations as well, though over the years we did discuss the various story elements, the analysis type things they might need to know in college, but did not harp on it. I am a believer that the more you analyse a book the more likely you are to turn off the reader – and I never want to do that….Linda
Bookworm,
I have another question. Would you see any trouble in doing the American: Mid to Late 19th Century before the American: Early to Mid 19th Century? Or maybe I should ask which guide do you think has the more worthwhile books to read?
Thank you
No, I see no problem in doing this. I think that both look excellent; my son has done the earlier one because he is trying to avoid ever having to read Huckleberry Finn. (He won’t succeed, lol, but I’m letting him do a more “fun” one before we go there.) But I can’t see any problems with any order you want, except I do think the World Lit II requires World Lit I as a pre-req. We are just hopping around, and interspersing with a few other books I want him to read, too, so our plan looks a little chaotic. Actually, I don’t really HAVE a plan except to try to capitalize on his interests plus weasel in a few books I think he shouldn’t miss even though he doesn’t want to read them. LOL
My son has already read Huckleberry Finn, Call of the Wild, and part of Uncle Tom’s Cabin for free reading a few years ago. Would it be a waste of time to have him read them again and use the guide this time around?
BTW, what does your son have against Huckleberry Finn?
Hmm, well, maybe that one wouldn’t be ideal. They’d have him doing essays over the material, which is a plus, and there is some other content as well, but I’d really hesitate to require someone to read Huck Finn or Uncle Tom again. Double jeopardy! LOL
My sons all picked up my not-always-subtle clues that I don’t like Twain. Some of his shorter fiction and some of his nonfiction is relatively amusing but I’ve never read a novel-length Twain I didn’t want to hurl somewhere. I don’t know my exact objection, I’m just not a fan. We still do some Twain, because he’s a cultural icon if nothing else, but we don’t pretend to enjoy it.
The way I use the LL guides is we are studying history chronologically so we are also doing literature chronologically. We began using LL in 7th grade and we did that one fully but since then we jump around in the guides to match the books to what we are studying in history.
Thank you, for your thoughts. I’m not sure what to do. I just thought maybe having read the books previously it would give him an edge since we need to work on his writing skills.
The tough thing for me right now is that my children have read more books than I and most of the highschool literature books I have never read myself but they have. Only in the last year or so have I tried to save some books specifically for including in their studies.
I am kind of jumping in on the tail-end of the conversation here- but where can I find the SCM Literature guide for 9-12?
jenni33:scroll down-http://simplycharlottemason.com/planning/scmguide/literature/
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