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Saturday, September 6, 2008

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Completed Reading

Books listed below read 2015-2016
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Importance of Being Earnest
Murder on the Orient Express
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Books listed below read 2014-2015
Father Brown Stories (G.K Chesterton)
The Invisible Man (H.G. Wells)
The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
Finding Your Roots
Emma
Sense and Sensibility
The Man Without a Country
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Pride and Prejudice
Three Cups of Tea
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Goblin Market, Sister Maude, No Thank You, John (Christina Rosetti)
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Rip Van WInkle
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Pilgrims Progress
Treasure Island
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Books listed below read 2013-2014:
The Story of Science: Newton at the Center
Mainpulating Light: Reflection, Refraction, and Absorption
Now You See It, Now You Don't: The Amazing World of Optical Illusions
Eyewitness: Light
Eyewitness: Energy
Eyewitness: Electricity
Robinson Crusoe
Gulliver's Travels - Lilliput and Brobdingnag
Selected Poems - William Wordsworth
Don Quixote, Part 1
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
Inferno (Dante) - Cantos I-V
Augustine Came to Kent
Beowulf: A New Telling
Saint George and the Dragon
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
The Canterbury Tales
A Christmas Carol
The Story of My Life - Helen Keller
Call of the Wild
Emperess of China: Wu Ze Tian
Timeline of the Middle Ages
The Emperor Justinian and the Byzantine Empire
Life in a Medieval Monastery
Monks and Monasteries in the Middle Ages
My Muslim Faith
Art and Culture of the Medieval World
Cartoon History of the Universe III
Enchantress from the Stars
China's Tang Dynasty
Daily Life of Jews in the Middle Ages
Byzantine Empire
Good King Wenceslas
Stephen's Feast
The Life and Times of William the Conqueror
William the Conqueror and the Normans
Charlemagne and the Early Middle Ages
Eyewitness Science: Life
Decoding Life: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Genome
Double Helix: The Quest to Uncover the Structure of DNA
Amazing DNA
What Life Was Like When Rome Ruled the World: The Roman Empire 100 BC-200 AD
The Roman News
Colosseum
The End of Pompeii - Ancient Civilizations
I Wonder Why Romans Wore Togas and Other Questions About Rome
Hail! Ancient Romans
Food and Cooking in Ancient Greece
The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens and Rome
Eyewitness Books: Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece
The Greek News
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Books listed below read 2012-2013:
Ein Haus voll Musik
Being a Plant
The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe
The Elements
Science in 100 Key Breakthroughs
The Philosophy Book
Call It Courage
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Dear Enemy
Daddy-Long-Legs
The Light in the Forest
The Making of a Writer
Caught in the Act
A Family Apart
An Acceptable Time
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
A Wind in the Door
A Wrinkle in Time
My Side of the Mountain
Midnight Magic
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Pictures of Hollis Woods
What Do Fish Have to Do With Anything?
Holes
The Fellowship of the Ring
Out of the Dust
Flush
Hoot
Chomp
Scat
The Phantom Tollbooth
Brendan Buckley's Sixth Grade Experiment
Flipped
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Fever, 1793
Eyewitness Science: Matter
The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone
Mara, Daughter of the Nile
The Golden Goblet
Tales of Ancient Egypt
Nefertiti of Egypt
Eyewitness Books: Ancient Egypt
Eyewitness Books: Pyramid
Eyewitness Books: Mummy
How Would You Survive as an Ancient Egyptian?
Ancient Egypt: Tales of Gods and Pharoahs
Pharoahs and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt
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Books listed below read 2011-2012:
Epic of Gilgamesh
The Angel and the Donkey
Angels Sweep the Desert Floor
The Peaceful Warrior: The Diary of Deborah's Armor Bearer
Ancient Israelites and their Neighbors
The Israelites
Moses in Egypt
The Ten Commandments
Eyewitness Books: Bible Lands
Miriam in the Desert
Science in Ancient Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia (Excavating the Past)
The Technology of Mesopotamia (The Technology of the Ancient World)
Life in Ancient Mesopotamia (Peoples of the Ancient World)
Eyewitness Books; Mesopotamia
He Who Saw Everything: The Epic of Gilgamesh
Art and Literature in Ancient Mesopotamia
How'd They Do That? Ancient Mesopotamia
Atoms and Chemical Reactions
The Nature of the Atom
The Structure of Atoms
Who Came First? New Clues to Prehistoric Americans
Dreamtime: Aboriginal Stories
Painters of the Caves
The Last Neanderthal (excerpts)
Dragon Bone Hill (excerpts)
The Stick and Stone Age
Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story
The Wisdom of the Bones
Archaeology (DK Eyewitness)
Prehistoric Life (DK Eyewitness)
From Lucy to Language
Evolve or Die (Horrible Science)
In the Shadow of Man
When Fish Got Feet, Sharks Got Teeth, and Bugs Began to Swarm
Dinosaurs Walked Here and Other Stories Fossils Tell
From Living Cells to Dinosaurs
Fossils (The Restless Earth)
Fossil (DK Eyewitness)
Fossils: Clues to Ancient Life
The Tree of Life
From Lava to Life: The Universe Tells Our Earth's Story
Bugs Before Time: Prehistoric Insects and Their Relatives
Born with a Bang: The Universe Tells our Cosmic Story
The Last Battle
The Silver Chair
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Prince Caspian
The Horse and His Boy
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
The Magician's Nephew
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
The Story of the Treasure Seekers
The Monsterologist: A Memoir in Rhyme
Dragonwings
A Girl Called Al
The Swiss Family Robinson
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Conch Bearer
The Water-Babies
The Great Gilly Hopkins
The Girl With the Green Ear
Johnny Tremain
Favorite Christmas Stories: A Collection of Christmas Stories, Poems, and Legends
The True Story of Christmas
Miracle on 34th Street
The Nutcracker
Pippi Longstocking
The City of Gold and Lead
Bridge to Terabithia
Flying South
Morning Girl
Nowhere to Call Home
The Book of Three
The House with a Clock in its Walls
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
Matilda Bone
Love, Stargirl
Stargirl
The Girl Who Could Fly
Anna of Byzantium
The Lemonade Crime
Family, Familia
Redwall: The Graphic Novel
Inkheart
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
I Was a Sixth Grade Alien
Bud, Not Buddy
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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Books listed below read 2010-2011:
Come Hither: A Family Treasury of Best-Loved Rhymes and Poems for Children
Mark Twain: Young Writer
Elizabeth Blackwell: First Woman Doctor
Amelia Earhart
Langston Hughes
Albert Einstein: Young Thinker
A Picture Book of Dwight David Eisenhower
Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems
You Read to Me, I'll Read to You
Beatrix Potter Stories
Just So Stories
The Jungle Book
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Minn of the Mississippi
Tree in the Trail
Paddle-to-the-Sea
Farmer Boy
Little House on the Prairie
Little House in the Big Woods
Peter Pan
The Wind in the Willows
Remember (Toni Morrison)
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Young Man with a Dream
Anne Frank: Life in Hiding
The Cats in Krasinski Square
Young Teddy Roosevelt
Under the Hawthorne Tree
W.E.B. Du Bois
Feed the Children First
Across America on an Emigrant Train
Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield
When Will This Cruel War Be Over? The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson
Mary Todd Lincoln: Girl of the Bluegrass
Lincoln: A Photobiography
The Gettysburg Address
Civil War Days
If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Boys' War
Our Elections
Our Presidency
The Story of the White House
Our Congress
The Bill of Rights
Uncle Sam and Old Glory: Symbols of America
Queen Victoria and the British Empire
The Secret Garden
Jo's Boys
Little Men
Little Women
Invincible Louisa
Flower Fables
War of the Worlds
Kidnapped
Pinocchio
The Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
Treasure Island
Heidi
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Books listed below read 2009-2010:
My Dog May Be a Genius
Where the Sidewalk Ends
The Magic School Bus and the Climate Challenge
The Last of the Mohicans
Moby Dick
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Remember Not to Forget
Always Remember Me
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Oliver Twist
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Three Musketeers
A Pilgrim's Progress
The Brothers Grimm - Popular Folk Tales
Songs of Innocence - William Blake
A Christmas Carol
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Gulliver's Travels
A Cod's Tale
The Tale of Paradise Lost: Based on the Poem by John Milton
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
Children's Poems - Christina Rosetti
Nonsense Poems - Edward Lear
Robinson Crusoe
Perrault's Classic French Fairy Tales
War of the Worlds
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone
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Books listed below read 2008-2009:
Anne of Ingleside
Rilla of Ingleside
Rainbow Valley
Anne's House of Dreams
Anne of the Island
Anne of Avonlea
Anne of Green Gables
Oliver Twist
The Borrowers
All-of-a-Kind Family
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children
See How They Run
The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle
Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems
You Read to Me, I'll Read to You
Beatrix Potter Stories

Completed Curriculum

The Neuroscience of Everyday Life (The Great Courses)
Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding Vol. 3
Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding Vol. 2
Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding
Science Grade 5
Scott Foresman Science 4
Science Grade 4
Physics of Forces Online
RS4K Biology I
RS4K Chemistry I
Astronomy Unit Study
Earth Science Unit Study
Critical Thinking Book 2
Critical Thinking Book 1
Mind Benders A1-A4
Building Thinking Skills Grades 4-6
Critical Thinking Activities Level 2
Calculus Without Tears Vol. I Constant Velocity Motion
Jacobs Geometry
Saxon Algebra 1
Saxon Algebra 1/2
Saxon Math 76
Saxon Math 65
Saxon Math 54
Saxon Math 3
Personal Finance
Consumer Math
Family Math
Singapore Math CWP 2
The Complete Writer: Writing With Skill Level 2
The Complete Writer: Writing With Skill Level 1
English Composition and Grammar - Second Course (Warriners)
English Composition and Grammar - First Course (Warriners)
English Composition and Grammar - Introductory Course (Warriners)
Paragraph Town
MCP Plaid Phonics Word Study Level F
MCP Plaid Phonics Word Study Level E
MCP Plaid Phonics Word Study Level D
Spelling Workout Level H
Spelling Workout Level G
Spelling Workout Level F
Spelling Workout Level E
Spelling Workout Level D
Spelling Workout Level C
First Language Lessons 4
First Language Lessons 3
Poetry and Humanity
A World of Poetry
Building Poems
Music of the Hemispheres
Focus on Drawing Conclusions and Making Inferences Level F
Focus on Drawing Conclusions and Making Inferences Level E
AP Human Geography
Early American History: Native Americans Through The Forty-Niners (The Great Courses)
World History: The Fertile Crescent to The American Revolution (The Great Courses)
The Ancient Roman World
The Ancient Greek World
The Ancient Chinese World
The Ancient South Asian World
The Ancient Egyptian World
The Ancient Near Eastern World
The Early Human World
Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity (The Great Courses)
American History Unit Studies
State Studies
Colonial House - PBS
Citizenship / Government Unit Study
Economics Unit Study
Lenape Indians Unit Study
Election Day Unit Study
Holidays Unit Study
Thanksgiving Unit Study
Native American Unit Study
American History Unit Study
Story of the World Volume 4
Story of the World Volume 3
Story of the World Volume 2
Vocabulary Vine Latin and Greek Roots Grades 4-6
Minimus Latin
German 1 - Komm Mit!
Rosetta Stone German Level 5
Rosetta Stone German Level 4
Rosetta Stone German Level 3
Rosetta Stone German Level 2
Rosetta Stone German Level 1
Educación Española
Elementary Spanish Grades 5-6
Elementary Spanish Grades 3-4
Elementary Spanish Grades 1-2
What Your Fourth Grader Needs to Know
What Your Third Grader Needs to Know
What Your Second Grader Needs to Know

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