Sixth Grade Core Literature List

Historical focus: History: Judaism & Christianity, Ancient Greece and Rome, Enlightenment, French Revolution, Romanticism, Industrialism/Capitalism/Socialism, Latin America, American Industrialization/Urbanization/Reform (CK & Program Guide)

  • Greek Myths (Olivia Coolidge) – summer reading
  • “Children’s Homer (aka The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy by Padraic Colum)”
  • The Prince and the Pauper (Twain)
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (Orczy)
  • Count of Monte Cristo, abridged (Dumas) 
  • Julius Caesar (Shakespeare, No Fear Ed.)
  • Apollo & Daphne
  • Orpheus & Eurydice
  • Narcissus & Echo
  • Pygmalion & Galatea
  • Cupid & Psyche
  • The Adventures of the Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) 
  • The Ransom of Red Chief (O. Henry)
  • The Cask of Amontillado (Edgar Allan Poe)
  • The Open Window (Saki)
  • The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (Mark Twain)
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