Quarter II Literature for Level Two Students

This quarter you will be reading literature written during and about the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Suggested Reading List

• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. We highly recommend that this influential book be read aloud and discussed by the whole family.

• Frederick Douglass Abolitionist Editor, by Sharman Apt Russell, Chelsea House Publishers, NY, 1988

• Forever Free, the Story of the Emancipation Proclamation, by Dorothy Sterling, Doubleday and Co., NY 1963

• Andrew's Raiders, by Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht, Crowell-Collier Press, NY, 1953

• The Civil War,by Philip Clark, Marshall Cavendish Corporation, NY 1988

• The Addy and Kirsten books from the The American Girls Collection, published by the Pleasant Company.

• Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe

• Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain

Assignment I:

There is no substitute for reading books, poems, and essays by authors who lived during the Civil War era. Make a list of what you read this quarter and make special note of anything actually written during the era we are studying. Learn the correct way to make a bibliography of what you read. As you try and locate these books in your local library you can practice your library research skills.