Historical focus: Early Asian Civilizations, Ancient Greek Civilization, American Government, The War of 1812, Westward Expansion, The Civil War, Immigration and Citizenship, Fighting for A Cause, Symbols & Figures

• Roxaboxen (Alice McLerran) – summer reading
• A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens, Children’s Ed.)
• Charlotte’s Web (E. B. White)
• Peter Pan, selections (James M. Barrie) or complete Classical Starts 
• Little House in the Big Woods (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
• The Jungle Book (Classic Starts)*
• The Iliad (Classic Starts)*
• Beauty and the Beast
• The Blind Men and the Elephant (a fable from India)
• The Emperor’s New Clothes (Hans Christian Andersen) 
• The Fisherman and His Wife (Brothers Grimm)
• How the Camel Got His Hump (a “Just-So” story by Rudyard Kipling)
• Iktomi stories (legends of the Plains Indian trickster figure, such as Iktomi Lost His Eyes; Iktomi and the Berries; Iktomi and the Boulder)
• The Magic Paintbrush (a Chinese folktale) 
• El Pajaro Cu (a Hispanic folktale)
• Talk (a West African folktale)
• The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal (a folktale from India) 
• The Tongue-Cut Sparrow (a folktale from Japan)
• Greek Mythology
• Folk Tale Heroes: Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed, John Henry, Pecos Bill, Casey Jones