Elementary Literature Curriculum
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Elementary Literaturesamplecourseplan

Course Description:

The Elementary Literature program for Grades Four, Five, and Six introduces the student to literature in a deeper, more rigorous fashion than a typical reading course. The course is comprised of classic literature and the lives of saints.  There is a suggested amount of time in which to cover each book.  Parents, possibly with the assistance of the student, are to select the proper number of books to fit into each quarter.  Kolbe has provided suggested grade levels for each work to aid the parent in choosing appropriate books for their student’s grade level in the syllabus.  These are based on maturity level needed for themes present in the work, difficulty of vocabulary, and overall difficulty of the material presented in the work.

A well-rounded literature course for each year includes choices from both the novels and lives of saints.  Each Novel and most 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 4th through 6th grade.  As such, students are NOT expected to cover all of the material included in the Elementary Literature course.

Texts Used:

  • Elementary Literature Study Question, Vocab, and Glossary Booklet – 3-book set, (T3930)

Novels:samplecourseplan

  • Black Beauty, Anna Sewell (T3901)
  • The Black Cauldron, Lloyd Alexander (T3902)
  • The Boxcar Children, Gertrude Chandler Warner (T3903)
  • The Bronze Bow, Elizabeth George Speare (T3904)
  • Caddie Woodlawn, Carol Ryrie Brink (T3905)
  • Captains Courageous, Rudyard Kipling (T3906)
  • The Children’s Homer, Padraic Colum (T3440)
  • Fingal’s Quest, Madeleine Polland (T3418)
  • The Great Brain, John Fitzgerald (T3907)
  • Heidi, Johanna Spyri (T3908)
  • The Hobbit, JRR Tolkein (T3909)
  • I am David, Ann Holm (T3965)
  • The Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O’Dell (T3910)
  • Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson (T3950)
  • Kon-Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl (T3911)
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis (T3912)
  • The Miracle Worker, William Gibson (T3913)
  • Misty of Chincoteague Marguerite Henry, (T3915)
  • Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O’Brien (T3914)
  • My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George (T3916)
  • Old Yeller, Fred Gipson (T3917)
  • Outlaws of Ravenhurst, Sr. M. Imelda Wallace (T3447)
  • The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett (T3918)
  • The Secret of Pooduck Island, Alfred Noyes (T3919)
  • Swiss Family Robinson, Johann David Wyss (T3920)
  • Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls (T3948)
  • White Fang, Jack London (T3921)
  • The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare (T3922)
  • A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle (T3923)

Saint Stories:samplecourseplan

  • Saint Catherine of Siena, Mother Frances Alice Forbes (T2730)
  • The Children of Fatima, Mary Fabyan Windeatt (T2706)
  • Saint Dominic, Mary Fabyan Windeatt (T2705)
  • Saint Hyacinth of Poland, Mary Fabyan Windeatt (T2716)
  • Saint John Masias, Mary Fabyan Windeatt (T2721)
  • The Little Flower, Mary Fabyan Windeatt (T2704)
  • Blessed Marie of New France, Mary Fabyan Windeatt (T2722)
  • Saint Martin de Porres, Mary Fabyan Windeatt (T2703)
  • The Miraculous Medal, Mary Fabyan Windeatt (T2712)
  • Saint Monica, Mother Frances Alice Forbes (T2731)
  • Patron Saint of First Communicants, Mary Fabyan Windeatt (T2711)
  • Saint Rose of Lima, Mary Fabyan Windeatt (T2708)
  • Saint Thomas Aquinas, Mary Fabyan Windeatt (T2714)
Last Updated on Wednesday, 05 August 2009 17:22