{"id":3702,"date":"2012-02-29T00:05:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T07:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettiesworld.com\/?p=3702"},"modified":"2017-06-28T23:12:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T06:12:57","slug":"what-was-in-those-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/?p=3702","title":{"rendered":"What *WAS* in those boxes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although we&#8217;ve had science, history, and math covered pretty well, and we&#8217;ve got the Great Books for the high school level, and a great religion course in the Didache series, and of course theater class, I haven&#8217;t bought much in the way of literature for a while.\u00a0 So when I came to order up some supplemental materials, that was where I focused.\u00a0 Some of these we have had copies and lost them in the fire, others we&#8217;ve never had before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectionlearning.com\/viewProduct.php?productID=0557001\">Grade 8<br \/>\nCore Exemplar Collection (15 titles)<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Adventures of Tom Sawyer-paperback, Mark Twain<\/li>\n<li>Antigone-paperback, Sophocles<\/li>\n<li>The Building of Manhattan-paperback, Donald A. MacKay<\/li>\n<li>Chicago Poems-paperback, Carl Sandburg<\/li>\n<li>Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott-paperback, Russell Freedman<\/li>\n<li>Geeks: How Two Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho-paperback, Jon Katz<\/li>\n<li>The Great Fire-paperback, Jim Murphy<\/li>\n<li>Little Women-paperback, Louisa May Alcott<\/li>\n<li>Math Trek: Adventures in the Math Zone-paperback, Ivars Peterson<\/li>\n<li>The Road Not Taken and Other Poems-paperback, Robert Frost<\/li>\n<li>Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry-paperback, Mildred D. Taylor<\/li>\n<li>Sorry Wrong Number-paperback, FLETCHER, L.<\/li>\n<li>This Land Was Made For You and Me: The Life &amp; Songs of Woody Guthrie-hardback, Elizabeth Partridge<\/li>\n<li>The Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution-paperback, Linda R. Monk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectionlearning.com\/viewProduct.php?productID=0557101\">Grade 9<br \/>\nCore Exemplar Collection (15 titles)<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>101 Great American Poems-paperback, American Poetry &amp; Literac<\/li>\n<li>Antigone-paperback, Sophocles<\/li>\n<li>Black Boy-paperback, Richard Wright<\/li>\n<li>The Color Purple-paperback, Alice Walker<\/li>\n<li>Everyday Use &#8211; Tale Blazers, Walker, Alice<\/li>\n<li>The Gettysburg Address and Other Writings &#8211; Tale Blazers<\/li>\n<li>The Killer Angels-paperback, Michael Shaara<\/li>\n<li>The Odyssey: The Story of Odysseus-paperback, Homer<\/li>\n<li>Oedipus the King-paperback, Sophocles<\/li>\n<li>Of Mice and Men-paperback, John Steinbeck<\/li>\n<li>Robert Frost&#8217;s Poems-paperback, Robert Frost<\/li>\n<li>Romeo and Juliet-paperback, William Shakespeare<\/li>\n<li>The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings-paperback, Edgar Allan Poe<\/li>\n<li>To Kill a Mockingbird-paperback, Harper Lee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectionlearning.com\/viewProduct.php?productID=0557201\">Grade 10<br \/>\nCore Exemplar Collection (15 titles)<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Complete Short Novels-paperback, Anton Chekhov<\/li>\n<li>Cry, the Beloved Country-paperback, Alan Paton<\/li>\n<li>Death Of Ivan Ilyich-paperback, Leo Tolstoy<\/li>\n<li>Death and the King&#8217;s Horseman-paperback, Wole Soyinka<\/li>\n<li>Diary of a Madman, the Government Inspector, and Selected Stories-paperback, Nikolay Gogol<\/li>\n<li>The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation-paperback, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn<\/li>\n<li>The House of the Spirits-paperback, Isabel Allende<\/li>\n<li>Like Water for Chocolate-paperback, Laura Esquivel<\/li>\n<li>Long Walk To Freedom-paperback<\/li>\n<li>Master Harold and the Boys-paperback, Athol Fugard<\/li>\n<li>Mississippi Trial, 1955-paperback, Chris Crowe<\/li>\n<li>Notes From Underground-paperback<\/li>\n<li>Things Fall Apart-paperback, Chinua Achebe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Plus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectionlearning.com\/vocabu-lit-program\">Vocabu-Lit<\/a> for grades 8 and 10 (we already have grade 9), and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectionlearning.com\/browse.php?categoryID=3982\">Benson Handwriting Software<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think there&#8217;s a good bit in those lit packages that will be useful, if not perhaps everything (or at least not quite at this age).\u00a0 I realized after I ordered that Megan is finishing 10th grade, so she will likely speed through her set and I&#8217;ll order the 11th grade by the end of summer.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure all the kids will be trading books as well, since much of this is new.\u00a0 Good times ahead for my readers!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although we&#8217;ve had science, history, and math covered pretty well, and we&#8217;ve got the Great Books for the high school level, and a great religion course in the Didache series, and of 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