Required Texts & Binder
Worksheets, Student Packets, Grammar, Literature, Binders for all classes offered
Worksheets & Student Packets
Foundations Classes
Student homework packets will be available each week at this website. Registered students will download and save packets and will type all their work in the packets, emailing them back for teacher review. Students using Google Docs will follow special instructions that Mrs. Luiz will provide.
Essay, Lit Analyis, and Research Papers Classes
All worksheets and reading texts will be available at this website for registered students to print out
Binders
Students are highly encouraged to maintain a writing binder. IEW's Student Resource Packet is a handy resource, containing detailed information on all the writing units, style techniques, mechanics, advanced concepts, and writing units.
Once your child is registered, you will receive login credentials that will give you access to the binder set up area.
Textbooks
Highlighted classes are being taught 2026-27.
Medieval Writing - Beginning/Intermediate Foundations 2026-27
Please purchase Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons Student Book.
Ancients Writing - Beginning/Intermediate Foundations 2027-28
Please purchase Ancient History-Based Writing Lesson Student Book.
Modern World Writing - Advanced Foundations 2026-27
Please purchase Modern World History-Based Writing Lessons Student Book.
US History Writing - Advanced Foundations 2027-28
Please purchase US History-Based Writing Lessons Student Book.
Reading Texts
All levels of Foundations Classes - These are the novels we will be reading. I have provided links if you would like your child to have the version I am using.
Literary Analysis - Novels for the second semester are listed below.
Medieval History-based Lessons (2026-27)
Beginning/Intermediate Foundations
Semester 1
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights retold from the original by Howard Pyle
One Thousand and One Arabian Nights by Geraldine McCaughrean
The King's Shadow by Elizabeth Alder
Robin Hood by J. Walker McSpadden
Semester 2
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
Supplemental Suggested Reading List for Advanced Readers/Older Students
Wulf the Saxon by G. A. Henty
Winning His Spurs: A Tale of the Crusadesby G. A. Henty
In Freedom’s Cause: A Story of Wallace and Bruce by G. A. Henty
Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan or The Pilgrim’s Progress audio CDs
The Magna Carta by James Daugherty
The Shining Company by Rosemary Sutcliff
The White Stag—Atilla the Hun by Kate Seredy
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso by Dante
The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
The Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas
Ancient History-based Lessons (2027-28)
Beginning/Intermediate Foundations
Tales from the Odyssey, Part 1 by Mary Pope Osborne
Tales from the Odyssey, Part 2 by Mary Pope Osborne
Gilgamesh the Hero by Geraldine McCaughrean
Who Was King Tut? by Roberta Edwards
The Charioteer of Delphi by Caroline Lawrence
The Secrets of Vesuvius by Caroline Lawrence
The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Who Was Alexander the Great by Kathryn Waterfield
Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Supplemental Suggested Reading List for Advanced Readers and Older Students
Greek Myths by Olivia Coleridge
The Iliad translated by Samuel Butler (includes explanatory notes)
The Odyssey translated by Samuel Butler (includes explanatory notes)
The Aeneid translated by Samuel Butler (includes explanatory notes)
The Trojan War by Olivia Coleridge
Plato’s Republic (unabridged with explanatory notes)
The Eagle (Roman Britain Trilogy, 1) by Rosemary Sutcliff
The Silver Branch (Roman Britain Trilogy, 2) by Rosemary Sutcliff
The Lantern Bearers (Roman Britain Trilogy, 3) by Rosemary Sutcliff
Introduction to Literary Analysis (2027-28)
Fahrenheit 541 by Rad Bradbury
Modern World History-based Lessons (2026-27)
Advanced Foundations
Semester 1
Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare
In the Reign of Terror: A Story of the French Revolution by G.A. Henty (Dover Children's Classics)
Carry on, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
Semester 2
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
The Hobbit or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Supplemental Suggested Reading List for Advanced Readers/Older Students
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Around the World in 80 Days; Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Oliver Twist; A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Sea Wolf by Jack London
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
US History-based Lessons (2027-28)
Advanced Foundations
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Spear
Give Me Liberty by L.M. Elliot
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Spear
By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleischman
Behind Rebel Lines by Seymour Reit
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
Journey to Topaz by Yoshiko Uchida
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Supplemental Suggested Reading List for Advanced Readers/Older Students
The Landing of the Pilgrims by James Daugherty
Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper (first American novelist)
Autobiography of Ben Franklin by Ben Franklin
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Old Man and the Sea by Earnest Hemingway
Fix-It Grammar
A 15-minute-a-day grammar lesson!
Concepts build incrementally throughout the series, and each Fix It Grammar level begins with a review and practice of basic concepts. Thus, students with other grammar experience or previous Fix It Grammar knowledge will practice the concepts before learning new ideas.
Each Fix It level teaches concepts not featured in the other books and levels, so all students are challenged. I require the Teacher's Manual so you have ready answers for your student's questions and can check their fixes each day. In class, I review the main grammar principles and teach the new Learn It! concepts.
Fix It Grammar is quick and fun! I'm quite familiar with the program, so if you have any questions, please contact me.
Fix It Grammar for 2026-27
All Classes: Fix-It Grammar Cards (Optional)
2026-27 Beginning/Intermediate Foundations
Medieval Class: Fix It Grammar Student/Teacher Combo: Town Mouse and Country Mouse
2026-27 Advanced Foundations in Writing
Modern World Class: Fix It Grammar Student/Teacher Combo: Mogli and Shere Khan
2026-27 Introduction to the Essay
Fix It Grammar Student/Teacher Combo: The Frog Prince