tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13103413274594935092012-02-16T01:10:31.477-08:00An adult learner, re-educating herself with the Ambleside Online curriculum as a guide.Hopewellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02510172065585770709noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1310341327459493509.post-78359304103314058322011-07-08T08:04:00.000-07:002011-07-08T08:06:07.486-07:00Ugh! Still reading IVANHOE, very, very slowly. It's a great book (Chapter 1 aside) but I need to finish it!<br /><br />Still also reading Pilgrim's Progress--savouring it when I'm in the mood!<br /><br />Still working on drawing--I think I'll give in and take a class. I want to do a nature journal so badly.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1310341327459493509-7835930410331405832?l=lifelonglearnerinambleside.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Hopewellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02510172065585770709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1310341327459493509.post-4120468086823659842008-10-08T07:20:00.000-07:002010-07-16T06:21:31.384-07:00<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">2009-2010 books in progress:<br /></span></span><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">This doesn't look good! I've never started Watership Down and have stalled on all the others!! Guess I need to jump-start my AO reading for a while!<br /></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>Ivanhoe by Walter Scott [Year 7 literature]<br />Once and Future King by TH White [Year 7 literature]<br />Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan<br />Swiss Family Robinson [Year 6 free reading]<br />Watership Down [Year 7 literature]<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br />NOTE: "Reading" includes both reading and audio books.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Completed:</span><br />[I am not including those completed from the Kindergarten and Year 1 list which I've read aloud to my children. Too many to list!] Many, but not all, of the books listed here in years 2--4 were read by me as we homeschooled with AO in 2005-2006.<br /><br /><br /><br />Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt [Year 5 Free Reading]<br />Animal Farm by George Orwell [Year 6 Literature]<br />Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy [Year 11 Literature optional]<br />The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain [Year 5 Free Reading]<br />At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon [Year 11 free reading]<br />Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh [Year 11 Literature]<br />Call of the Wild by Jack London [Year 6 Free Reading]<br />84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff [Year 11 Free Reading]<br />The Chosen by Chaim Potok [Year 11 Literature]<br />A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens [Year 5 Free Reading]<br />Christy by Catherine Marshall [Year 11 Free Reading]<br />Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey [Year 7 History]<br />Discovery or New Worlds by MB Synge [Year 2 History]<br />Fathers and Sons by by Ivan Turgenev [Year 11 Literature optional]<br />Five Children and It bu ES Nesbit [Year 2]<br />Four-Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright<br />Good Earth by Pearl Buck [Year 9 Free Reading]<br />Goodbye Mr. Chips by James Hilton [Year 5 Free Reading]<br />Great Expectations by Charles Dickens<br />The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald [Year 11 Literature]<br />The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw [Year 11 History, optional]<br />Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn [Year 11 Free Reading]<br />Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman [Year 11 History]<br />Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge<br />HMS Pinafore by Gilbert &amp; Sullivan ["Give Three cheers and one cheer more!")<br />At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon [Year 11 Free Reading] (And the rest of the series)<br />How the Other Half Lives by Jacob A. Riis [Year 11 Literature]<br />The Horse and His Boy by CS Lewis Year 4 Free Reading]<br />Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy [Year 11 Free Reading]<br />The Importance of Being Earnest a play by Oscar Wilde [Year 10 Free Reading]<br />To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee [Year 11 Literature]<br />Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte[Year 10 Free Reading]<br />John Adams by David McCullough [Year 9 History]<br />Just as I am by Billy Graham [Year 11 suggested biographies]<br />Justin Morgan had a Horse by Marguerite Henry [Year 4 Free Reading]<br />Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson [Year 4 Literature]<br />Killer Angels by Michael Shara [Year 10 history]<br />King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry [Year 3 Free Reading]<br />Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune [Year 5 Free Reading]<br />The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving [Year 4 Literature]<br />The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis Year 4 Free Reading]<br />Little Duke by Charlotte Yonge [Year 2 History]<br />Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder [several years literature]<br />Little Men by Louisa May Alcott [Year 6 Free Reading]<br />Little Women by Louisa May Alcott [Year 5 Free Reading]<br />The Magician's Nephew by CS Lewis Year 4 Free Reading]<br />Mama's Bank Account by Kathryn Forbes [Year 11 Free Reading] WHY Year 11 and not 5 or 6?<br />A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt [Year 8 History]<br />Michelangelo by Diane Stanley [Year 3 History]<br />Miracle at Philadelphia by Catherine Drinker Bowen [Year 9 History]<br />Mr. Poppins Penguins by Richard Atwater [Year 2 Literature]<br />My Antonia by Willa Cather [Year 10 free reading]<br />Nightengales: The Extraordinary..Life of Florence Nighingale [a bio of Nightingale is recommended in Year 10 history,but no specific book is recommended]<br />Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen [Year 8 Free Reading]<br />On Liberty by John Stuart Mill [Year 10 History]<br />One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn [Year 11 Free Reading]<br />Paddle to the Sea by Holling C. Holling [Year 1 Geography]<br />Parables from Nature by Margaret Gatty [Years 1-3 Literature]<br />Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [Year 4 Literature]<br />Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi<br />Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen [Year 9 Literature]<br />Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry [Year 11 Free Reading]<br />The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer [Year 11 Free Reading]<br />The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis [Year 11 Free Reading]<br />Spiderweb for Two by Elizabeth Enright [free reading]<br />Queen Victoria [I've read most of the bios of her available] [Year 10 History]<br />Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving [Year 4 Literature]<br />October Sky (also called Rocket Boys) by Homer Hickam [Year 11 Free Reading]<br />The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright [Year 3 Free Reading]<br />To Sir With Love by Edward Ricardo Braithwaite [Year 11 Free Reading]<br />Stories of the Pilgrims by Margaret B Pumphrey [used instead of Squanto Year 3 History]<br />Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome [Year 3 Free Reading]<br />Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain [Year 11 history]<br />This Country of Ours by HE Marshall [Year 3 History]<br />Then There Were Five by Elizabeth Enright]<br />A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith [Year 11 Free Reading]<br />Tree in the Trail by Holling C. Holling [Year 2 Geography]<br />Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson [Year 5 Free Reading]<br />Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher [Year 2 Literature]<br />The Von Trapp Family Singers by Maria Von Trapp [Year 6 Free Reading]<br />Waiting for Godot A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett [Year 11 Free Reading]<br />Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith [Year 9 Government and Economics]<br />The Wheel on the School by Meindert De Jong [Year 3 Free Reading]<br />Wind in the Willows by Keith Grahame [Year 2 Literature]<br />Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte [Year 10 Free Reading]<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1310341327459493509-412046808682365984?l=lifelonglearnerinambleside.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Hopewellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02510172065585770709noreply@blogger.com1