British Literature and Composition

Most of our "classes" for high school credit are a literature and composition combination. British Literature is surely a fun class to read, write, and discuss. As I said in my last post, our state requires 100 hours to be considered a "credit", so I allow my youth to choose enough books to read and write about to fill that requirement. It so happens, that they have much more than 100 hours spent in this "class". It doesn't hurt to watch a few of the movies too.

British Literature

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Emma by Jane Austen
• The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis
• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
• Persuasion by Jane Austen
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
• Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
• The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
• The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• King Arthur and the Knights of the Roundtable by Thomas Malory - Le Morte D'Arthur Vol. 1, Le Morte D'Arthur Vol. 2
• Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnnet

NOTE: The books chosen for this list are from "TJED for Teens" book, the AYLI classic books list and the Classics for Youth list in "A Thomas Jefferson Education" by Oliver DeMille.