4th Grade (Language Arts)

4TH GRADE

• English Lessons Through Literature - Level C: Cultivating (Three Times Weekly)

• The Harp and Laurel Wreath (Laura M. Berquist) - memorize one poem each term.

• The Random House Book of Shakespeare Stories (A. Matthews)

Term 1 (Once Weekly)

• Shakespeare Made Easy - A Midsummer Night's Dream (Alan Durband)
• The Children’s Homer (Padraic Colum) - Troy: Ch. 1-10
•  D’Aulaires’ Greek Myths (Edgar and Ingri D’Aulaire)

Term 1 (Once Weekly)

• Shakespeare Made Easy - Twelfth Night (Alan Durband)
• The Children’s Homer (Padraic Colum) - Troy: Ch. 11-20
•  D’Aulaires’ Greek Myths (Edgar and Ingri D’Aulaire)

Term 1 (Once Weekly)

• Shakespeare Made Easy - Romeo and Juliet (Alan Durband)
• The Children’s Homer (Padraic Colum) - Troy: Ch. 21-23
•  D’Aulaires’ Greek Myths (Edgar and Ingri D’Aulaire)

Ways To Learn Shakespeare

• How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare (Ken Ludwig)
• OMG Shakespeare Boxed Set
• William Shakespeare's Star Wars Trilogy
• Watch a movie
• See a live performance

Optional Extra Free Reads

• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
• Swallows and Amazons and other books by Arthur Ransome
• The Midnight Folk by John Masefield
• The Hobbit by J.R.R.Tolkien
• Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
• Heidi by Johanna Spyri
• The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• Anne of Green Gables by L.M.Montgomery
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Bennett, William J., ed. The Book of Virtues—A Treasury of Great Moral Stories 
• Brandt, Keith Daniel Boone: Frontier Adventures
• Catling, Patrick Skene The Chocolate Touch
• Cooney, Barbara, adaptor Chanticleer and the Fox 
• Cousins, Margaret The Story of Thomas Alva Edison
• Dalgliesh, Alice The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
• D’Aulaire, Edgar Parin & Ingri Book of Greek Myths; Christopher Columbus; Leif the Lucky; 
• George Washington
• Dickens, Charles A Christmas Carol
• Dixon, Franklin W. The Hardy Boys Series
• Gauch, Patricia Lee Aaron and the Green Mountain Boys
• Greene, Carol Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Musical Genius
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel Tanglewood Tales aka The Wonder Book
• Holling, H.C. Paddle-to-the-Sea; Tree in the Trail
• Hurwitz, Johanna The Adventures of Ali Baba Bernstein
• Irving, Washington Rip van Winkle
• Kroll, Steven Lewis & Clark: Explorers of the American West
• Lawson, Robert Ben and Me
• Lewis, C.S. The Chronicles of Narnia Series
• McCloskey, Robert Homer Price
• Monsell, Helen Albee Robert E. Lee: Young Confederates
• Nesbit, Edith Five Children and It
• Reit, Seymour Guns for General Washington
• Rockwell, Thomas How to Eat Fried Worms
• Roddy, Lee Robert E. Lee
• Seuss, Dr. Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
• Stanley, Diane Leonardo da Vinci
• Stevenson, Robert Louis Kidnapped
• Twain, Mark The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; The Celebrated Jumping Frog of 
• Calaveras County
• White, E.B. Stuart Little
• Wyss, Johann David Swiss Family Robinson 
• Yates, Elizabeth Amos Fortune, Free Man