BIOI was born and raised in Kingsport, Tennessee. I attended East Tennessee State University and Middle Tennessee State University. I married David (now deceased) in 1979 and moved to Middle Tennessee permanently. I first heard about home education …

BIO

I was born and raised in Kingsport, Tennessee. I attended East Tennessee State University and Middle Tennessee State University. I married David (now deceased) in 1979 and moved to Middle Tennessee permanently. I first heard about home education from my pastor in 1978, and I told David before we were even married that I wanted to homeschool any future children we might have. God gave us three precious children and we were blessed and privileged to home educate them from birth through high school graduation. We began our home school journey in the fall of 1988 and continued for the next nineteen years. All three children have graduated from college and two have gotten their master’s degrees. Our son is an officer in the United States Army. Even more important than that, I am now a grandmother!

During those nineteen years, we volunteered in various capacities in the homeschool community. David and I served on the Middle Tennessee Home Education Association Board of Directors for thirteen years, and we helped to organize and start the Home Education Association of Rutherford, Tennessee (HEART). I spoke at various conferences, graduations, and homeschool seminars and workshops. In the fall of 2002, I began teaching at Rutherford Tutorial Academy, where I continue to teach today. I also do private tutoring. In addition to teaching and tutoring, being a Mama and a Gigi, I also serve on the Powerfully Positive, Inc., Board of Directors.

Junior High Literature B

32 WEEK CLASS

 

Tutor Name:  Ginger McCreery 

Course Name:  Junior High Literature B                                      
**Course information rotates on a two year cycle, but each year stands alone as a separate course.

Required Texts: 

  • See “Real books” list below
    **Includes mandatory summer reading.
    This is a course repeat from the 2022-2023 school year. If an older student took this course previously, you may already have all of the books needed.

Additional comments:  While we will be using lots of books, most of these can be found at used curriculum sales, home school catalogs, used bookstores, etc.  Instead of buying an expensive textbook you will be investing in real books!

Copy Fee: $25

Minimum Number of Students: 6

Course Description/Outline/Objectives: Good readers make good students!  Good literature provides academic excellence and excellence of character.  This class will be both academic and appreciative, in nature.  Every attempt will be made to accommodate the interests of both male and female students.  We will examine lots of different genres, including short stories, mystery, fantasy, poetry, historical fiction and biography.

Tutor Expectations for Parents:  Because we will be using lots of “real books” instead of a text book, it is absolutely necessary that the students have the books they need by the time we read that book in class.  Look ahead on the syllabus and make sure your student has each book he needs before we start reading it.  I require that the students bring whatever book we are currently reading to class with them each Tuesday.  We will use the books for class discussions and the student MUST have the book with them in order to be able to participate.

Expected Weekly Time Commitment for Homework: Approximately 5-10 hours per week, depending on the speed and skill of the reader.

More Courses
   by GINGER MCCREERY

  • Junior High Literature B

  • American Literature

  • British Literature

  • Classic Christian Literature

Recommended Grade Level: 7th-8th

Rate for Additional Private Tutoring: $25/hour

BOOK LIST – (ISBN numbers are suggestions; Only THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON must be that exact version):

MANDATORY SUMMER READING: 
            THE CHILDREN’S HOMER
                by Padraic Colum.  Aladdin Paperbacks,
                ISBN 0-02-042520-1

SCHOOL YEAR READING: 

  • THE LANTERN BEARERS by Rosemary Sutcliff
    A Sunburst Book, Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux
    ISBN 0-374-44302-5

  • A WRINKLE IN TIME by Madeleine L’Engle
    Bantam Doubleday DellBooks for Young Readers
    ISBN 0-0440-99805-0

  • A LONG WAY FROM CHICAGO by Richard Peck
    Puffin Book from Penguin Putnam publishers
    ISBN 0-14-130352-2

  • SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS by Arthur Ransome
    David R. Godine Publisher
    ISBN 0-87923-573-X

  • ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL by James Herriot
    Bantam Classics
    ISBN 0-553-266812-0

  • SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON*** by Johann David Wyss
    *Needs to be this exact version!* Bantam Classics
    ISBN 0-553-214 03-9 **Get this EXACT book.*

  • CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr., & Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
    (Various publishers, any edition is fine)

  • Bantam Starfire
    ISBN 0-553-272500

  • ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
    Signet Modern Classics
    ISBN 0-451-52634-1

  • THE THREAD THAT RUNS SO TRUE by Jesse Stuart
    A Touchstone Book (Simon & Schuster)
    ISBN 0-684-71904-5

  • THE EXTRAORDINARY CASES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    Puffin Classics
    ISBN 0-14-036705-5

  • FRECKLES by Gene Stratton Porter
    Dell Yearling Classic
    ISBN 0-440-40050-3

  • A CERTAIN SMALL SHEPHERD by Rebecca Caudill
    Publisher is Yearling and
    ISBN 0440411947