Thursday, May 28, 2009

Classical Education Reading List: Late Renaissance/Early Modern

3rd graders should be studying Late Renaissance/Early Modern times (1600-1850). Stories should be read chronologically in order listed below. Read stories and poems by, about, or from the following:

John Milton
French fairy tales (many collected by Charles Perrault)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift:
~Gulliver's Travels by Riordan and Ambrus

Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

Victor Hugo:
~The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Hugo and Marc Cerasini
~Les Miserables by Hugo and Monica Kulling

Alexandre Dumas:
~The Three Musketeers by Dumas and Felder

William Blake, Songs of Innocence
William Wordsworth, collected poems
Jane Austen
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Robert Browning, The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Grimms' Fairy Tales

Charles Dickens:
~A Christmas Carol
~Great Expectations by Dickens and Kulling
~Oliver Twist by Dickens, Martin and Zallinger

Edward Lear, the nonsense poems
Chistina Rosetti, children's poems
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Mark Twain, all the stories
James Fenimore Cooper, all the novels
Jules Verne, all the novels

Norwegian folktales:
~East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Fifty-Nine Norwegian Folk-Tales

Herman Melville:
~Moby Dick by Melville and Drummond (uses lines from actual novel)

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