REGINA PACIS ACADEMY LITERATURE

3RD GRADE Junior Great Books by Mary Norton Stuart Little by E. B. White Paddle-to-the Sea by Holling C. Holling

4TH GRADE Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder The Borrowers by Mary Norton Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien The Moffats by Eleanor Estes

5TH GRADE/6TH GRADE

Year A Language Arts Year B The Winged Watchman by Hilda van Stockum Language Arts The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of N.I.M.H. by Robert C. Son of Charlemagne by Barbara Willard O’Brien The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Roman History Greek History Famous Men of Rome D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths In Search of a Homeland: The Story of the Aeneid by The Children’s Homer by Padraic Colum Penelope Lively Famous Men of Greece City by David Macaulay readings from Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, and The Secrets of Vesuvius by Caroline Lawrence Greek drama Readings from Livy, Plautus, Plutarch, Cicero, Pliny

7TH GRADE/8TH GRADE

Year A Year B English Literature American Literature Beowulf Sermons (e.g. Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edward) The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White Short stories (e.g. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Ballads (including traditional ballads, Keats, Poe) Tennyson) Poems (e.g. Phillis Wheatley, John Greenleaf Whittier, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Emerson, Longfellow, Sandburg, Williams, The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Cummings, Frost, Moore, Eliot) Poems (e.g. Donne, Milton, Shakespeare, Blake, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Byron, Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth, Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Coleridge, Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Hopkins) Macbeth by William Shakespeare Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte My Antonia by Willa Cather Short stories (e.g. Conan Doyle, Chesterton) Call of the Wild by Jack