Junior High Literature
Course Description:
The Junior High Literature program for Seventh and Eighth Grade introduces the student to literature in a deeper, more rigorous fashion than previous reading courses. The course is comprised of classic literature, poetry, short stories, and the lives of saints. Parents, with the assistance of the student, select the proper number of books to fit into each quarter. A complete course in poetry and a complete course of short stories are included; each is designed to cover one quarter. A well-rounded literature course for each year might include novels and lives of saints for three quarters and either the poetry or the short story course for one quarter.
Each Novel and some of the Saint books include weekly written assignment topics. The Study Question booklets include study questions that are perfect to use for a short quiz after the student has read the daily assignment. Kolbe Academy has provided an extensive amount of literature to study over the course of 7th and 8th grade. As such, students are NOT expected to cover all of the material included in the Junior High Literature course.
Texts Used:
- Junior High Literature Study Question, Vocab, and Glossary Booklet – 3-book set, (T3980)
Novels:
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain (T3946)
- Animal Farm, George Orwell (T3938)
- Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery (T3942)
- The Black Arrow, Robert Louis Stevenson (T3957)
- Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury (T3953)
- Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank (T3937)
- Fellowship of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien (T3936)
- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (T3940)
- Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare (T3959)
- Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens (T3956)
- Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis (T3967)
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (T3955)
- The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane (T3944)
- Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe (T3951)
- The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis (T3945)
- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens (T3943)
- Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson (T3949)
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne (T3935)
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe (T3960)
- The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (T3966)
Saint Stories:
- St. Athanasius, Mother Frances Forbes (T2728)
- St. Benedict, Mary Fabyan Windeatt (T2707)
- St. Edmund Campion, Harold C. Gardiner (T3961)
- St. Ignatius, August Derleth (T3962)
- Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, Evelyn M. Brown (T3972)
- St. Maria Goretti, Fr. Godfrey Poage (T3963)
- St. Maximilian Kolbe, Fr. Jeremiah J. Smith (T2725)
- Blessed Miguel Pro, Ann Ball (T3964)
- St. Paul the Apostle, Mary Fabyan Windeatt (T2718)
- St. Teresa of Avila, Mother Frances Forbes (T2726)
Short Story Course:
- The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories, O. Henry (T3947)
- The Ransom of Red Chief
- The Last Leaf
- The Gift of the Magi
- The Story of the Other Wise Man, Henry Van Dyke (T3954)
- The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway (T3968)
- Three Short Stories, (T3939)
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving
- The Red Headed League, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Devil and Daniel Webster, Stephen Vincent Benet
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (T3941)
Poetry Course:
- A Collection of Poetry, (T3411)
- The Highwayman, Alfred Noyes
- Lochinvar, Sir Walter Scott
- The Wreck of the Hesperus, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel T. Coleridge
- O Captain! My Captain, Walt Whitman
- Sea Fever, John Masefield
- Crossing the Bar, Alfred Lord Tennyson
- The Lonely Street, William Carlos Williams
- School’s Out, William Henry Davies
- Daffodils, William Wordsworth
- The Waterfall, Barbara Frances Lloyd
- The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe
- The Naming of Cats, T.S. Eliot
- The Panther, Ogden Nash
- If, Rudyard Kipling
- The Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll
- God’s Grandeur, Gerard Hopkins
- An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, W.B. Yeats
- Anthem to Doomed Youth, Wilfred Owen
- Charge of the Light Brigade, Alfred Lord Tennyson
- The Song of Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (T3412)
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