Literature Super Pack: Terms 1-2

Purchase a full year (32 weeks, Sep-May) of literature classes for only $10/session! This includes:
 
Achieving Greatness (4 weeks)
The Boys in the Boat (Young Readers Adaption), by Daniel James Brown:
With a team composed of the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the University of Washington’s eight-oar crew team was never expected to defeat the elite teams of the East Coast and Great Britain, yet they did, going on to shock the world by defeating the German team rowing for Adolf Hitler. 
 
True Devotion (4 weeks) 
Lad, A Dog, by Albert Payson Terhune:
Lad, a courageous and dignified 80-pound collie, lived in The Place. The Place was thick with woods, abounding with squirrels to chase, and a cool lake in which to plunge—a beautiful kingdom—and Lad was its undisputed king. 
 
The Call of the Wild, by Jack London:
The domesticated life of a powerful St. Bernard-Shepherd mix named Buck is quickly turned on end when he is stolen away from his master and put to work as a sled dog in Alaska. His once life of luxury turns into a life of survival and adaptation as he learns the ways of the wilderness. 
 
Finding Adventures in the Strangest Places (4 weeks)
The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett:
When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire Moors, the mansion has nearly one hundred rooms, her uncle keeps himself locked up, and she hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors every night. Then Mary finds a secret garden, surrounded by walls and locked with a missing key, discovers a way in, and becomes determined to bring it back to life.
 
Summer of the Monkeys, by Wilson Rawls:
The last thing fourteen-year-old Jay Berry Lee expects to find while trekking through the Ozark Mountains of Oklahoma is a tree full of monkeys. But then Jay learns from his grandpa that the monkeys have escaped from a traveling circus, and there’s a big reward for the person who finds and returns them. So Jay sets off, determined to catch them. 
 
Being Brave in Fantastic Worlds (4 weeks) 
The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien:
Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. 
 
Courage in the Face of Danger (4 weeks)
The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Orczy:
The French Revolution, driven to excess by its own triumph, has turned into a reign of terror. The mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel has sworn to rescue the helpless from their doom, his implacable foe—the French agent Chauvelin—relentlessly hunts him down, and lovely Marguerite Blakeney, a beautiful French exile married to an English lord, is caught in a terrible conflict of loyalties. 
 
Eagle of the Ninth, by Rosemary Sutcliff:
Four thousand men in the Ninth Legion marched with their eagle standard into the mists of Northern Britain―and were never seen again. Marcus has to find out what happened to his father, who led the legion. So he sets out into the unknown, on a quest so dangerous that nobody expects him to return.
 
Awesome Willpower at Sea (4 weeks)
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, by Jean Lee Latham:
Nathaniel Bowditch didn’t promise to have the makings of a sailor; he was too physically small. No one guessed that he had the persistence and determination to master sea navigation in the days when men sailed only by “log, lead, and lookout.”
 
Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific on a Raft, by Thor Heyerdahl:
Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by an ancient race from thousands of miles to the east, led by a mythical hero, Kon-Tiki. He decided to prove his theory by duplicating the legendary voyage—a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft.
 
Problem Solvers Saving Lives (4 weeks)
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer:
When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. Using science books in his village libarary, William came up with the idea that would change his family's life forever.
 
We Had to Be Brave, by Deborah Hopkinson:
Under Nazi rule, just going to school became dangerous. Desperate volunteers sprang into action to organize the Kindertransport, a rescue effort to bring Jewish children to England. Somehow, these rescued children had to learn to look forward to hope.
 
Mystery Hour (4 weeks)
Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie:
Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, a millionaire lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. 
 
Westing Game, by Ellen Rasking:
A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of Samuel W. Westing’s will. Sam Westing may be dead…but that won’t stop him from playing one last game! 
 
Day and Time: Wednesdays, 12:45 - 1:45 PM ET
Bundle Duration: 32 Weeks
Dates: September 13, 2023 - May 29, 2024
Fall Break: November 20 - 24, 2023
Winter Break: December 11, 2023 - January 7, 2024 
Spring Break: March 25 - 29, 2024
Recommended for: Ages 11+ / Grades 6-7
Teacher: TTK Faculty
Required Materials:
The Boys in the Boat (Young Readers Adaption), by Daniel James Brown
Lad, A Dog, by Albert Payson Terhune
The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Summer of the Monkeys, by Wilson Rawls
The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Orczy
Eagle of the Ninth, by Rosemary Sutcliff
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, by Jean Lee Latham
Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific on a Raft, by Thor Heyerdahl
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
We Had to Be Brave, by Deborah Hopkinson
Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie
Westing Game, by Ellen Rasking
 
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