We shall teach, we shall learn, we shall forge into the unknown with bravery, resilience, and curiosity. Join us.
Becca and I will be forging and foraging ahead with our four: a 10th grader, a 7th grader, a 5-year old, a 3-year old, a goat, three cats, one (bearded) dragon, two fish…and you, if you wish.
There’s some more info, lists, and links below if you’re interested in following along or grabbing some ideas. 😀 Thanks for reading!
The Breakfast Club
Bridge of Spies
Everest
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Flight 93
Free Solo
Glory
Good Will Hunting
The Great Debaters
Into the Wild
Invictus
The King’s Speech
Malcolm X
The Maltese Falcon
Moneyball
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
My Fair Lady
Paths of Glory
Pollock
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Rocky
Roman Holiday
Romeo & Juliet (1968)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Time Bandits
To Kill a Mockingbird
Waking Life
Without a Trace
(from Mensa’s “A Year of Living Poetically” - we’ve got four of ‘em down!)
“The Road not Taken” by Robert Frost
“Death be not Proud” by John Donne
“Sonnet” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
“The Man in the Arena: Citizenship in a Republic” by Teddy Roosevelt
“Richard Cory” by Edward Arlington Robinson
“A Psalm of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The Cloths of Heaven” by William Butler Yeats
“Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas
Henry IV
Richard III
Elements of Design (review)
Principles of Design (review)
Birth of Modern Art
Degas & Manet
Impressionism
Post-Impressionism
Arts & Crafts & Art Noveau
Cubism & Futurism
Surrealism, Salvador Dali, Dadaism, Marcel Duchamp
Art Deco
Constructivism & the Bauhaus
Geometric vs. Organic
Photojournalism
International Style & The New York School
Pop Art & Modernism
Minimalism
Post-modernism
Artists of the 20th century : Cassat, Manet, Picasso, Pollock, Warhol
Artists of the 21st century : Koons, Banksy
The future of art
Eve & Adam in the Garden of Eden
Noah
Babel
Abram / Abraham
Isaac
Jacob & Esau
Jacob’s hard work
Joseph’s coat
Joseph in Egypt
Baby Moses
Leaving Egypt
Wandering through the wilderness & The Ten Commandments
Jericho’s walls
Gideon
Samson
Ruth
Job
Jonah
Samuel
Saul and beginning of the United Kingdom
Adventurousness
Ambition
Bravery
Confidence
Courage
Empathy
Humor
Integrity
Joy
Kindness
Playfulness
Reliability
Resilience
Respect
Simplicity
Self-awareness
Self-management
Social awareness
Strength
Toughness
Poets, poems, & rhymes (bold means we’re aiming to memorize!)
A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
“A Psalm of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Applicant by Sylvia Plath
Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“The Cloths of Heaven” by William Butler Yeats
“Death be not Proud” by John Donne
“Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas
Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep by Mary Elizabeth Frye
Dreams by Langston Hughes
Funeral Blues by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Golden Shovel by Terrance Hayes
Harlem by Langston Hughes
How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
[i carry your heart with me (i carry it in] by ee cummings
i wanna be yours by John Cooper Clarke
If by Rudyard Kipling
Jaberwocky by Lewis Carroll
“The Man in the Arena: Citizenship in a Republic” by Teddy Roosevelt
My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson
Ode by Arthur O’Shaughnessy
O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
Opportunity by John James Ingalls
The Owl and the Pussy-cat by Edward Lear
Oxymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry by Marianne Moore
The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams
Remember by Christina Georgina Rossetti
“Richard Cory” by Edward Arlington Robinson
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
“Sonnet” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden
Warning by Jenny Joseph
The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot
We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
“The Road not Taken” by Robert Frost
Bonus : (can’t help myself) - Life is Fine by Langston Hughes
Short Stories We’ll Read and Chat About Together
All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
The Birds by Daphne du Maurier (1952)
Cathedral by Raymond Carver
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain
Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket by Jack Finney
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry (1905)
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut
The Killers by Ernest Hemingway (1927)
The Lady or The Tiger? by Frank Stockton
The Lady With the Toy Dog by Anton Chekhov
Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl
Minority Report by Philip Dick
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell (1924)
The Necklace by Guy Maupassant
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
Speech Sounds by Octavia Butler
The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin (1894)
Thank You Ma’am by Langston Hughes
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
(all suggested/proposed lists below are ongoing and subject to change, per the whims and discoveries of the individuals involved)
Age 3
Everything by Eric Carle
Age 5
Berenstain Bears, BOB books, and ss many rhymes, limericks, songs, ditties, and poems can be crammed into the fertile soul of a nature-loving, artmaking, dance-bouncing five-year old
Grade 7
Coming soon
Grade 10
Coming soon
The guy in his mid-40s
A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin
Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
Countries of Asia - Central
Countries of Asia - East
Countries of Asia - South
Countries of Asia - Southeast
Countries of Asia - Western
Mountains and mountain ranges of the world
Oceans and seas of the world
Rivers of the world
U.S. regions, states, and capitals
Wonders of the world - Ancient
Wonders of the World - Modern
The big question: how has geography shaped the world we live in now?
End of the Civil War
Reconstruction
Native Americans, pushing West, railroads, World’s Fair
Turn of the century, industrialization, environmentalism
Spanish-American War, isolationism, relationship with other countries
World War I / becoming a world power
The Gilded Age / The Roaring 20s
1929-1945 / World War II, part I
World War II, part II
1950s : Cold War, McCarthy, babies, houses, college, highways, between wars
1960s : civil rights, rock & roll, counterculture, Vietnam
1970s : disillusion, politics, disco
1980s : deregulation, Soviet Union
1990s : Internet and tech, role as a superpower
2000s : tech everywhere, smart phones, access to knowledge, politics
2010s : blockchain & tech, millennials, shift to fundamentalism
2020s : where things going now?
What would the Founding Fathers have to say about the state of the country today?
What changes would you like to see?
What does it mean to be a citizen of a country? What responsibilities and privileges do you carry as an American?
Major periods of music (review)
Major composers in each period (review)
Flowers of the Pacific Northwest
Plants of the Pacific Northwest
Safely start and manage a fire
Sharpen a knife
Major poetry movements
Art
Bible
Character
ELA / Literature / Reading
Geography
Government & Citizenship
Greek & Latin
History
Music
Outdoors & Nature
Philosophy / Religion
Poetry
Science / Health
Technology & Society
