Junior Great Books Schedule
Lower Elementary, Mrs. Walker’s
Oldest Friends: Thursdays
9/11/14
Welcome back to Great Books! Distribute Junior Great Books Series 3 Book One, Discuss
poetry: Pegasus Series 3, Secret Messages Poetry.
9/25/14
Thank You M’am, Langston Hughes
10/9/14
Crow Call, Lois Lowry
10/23/14
Fresh, Philippa Pearce
11/6/14
Shrewd Todie and Lyzer the Miser, Ukrainian Folktale as told by Isaac Bashevis Singer
11/20/14
On Sand Island, Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Thanksgiving Break 11/26 – 11/28
12/11/14
The Green Man, Gail E. Haley
Holiday Break 12/22 – 1/2
1/8/15
Song of Hope, Peggy Duffy
1/22/15
Jean Labadie’s Big Black Dog, French-Canadian folktale as told by Natalie Savage Carlson
2/5/15
Thunder Elephant and Dorobo, African Folktale as told by Humphrey Harman, Distribute
Junior Great Books, Series 4, Book Two:
Winter Recess 2/16 – 2/20
2/26/15
Tuesday of the Other June, Norma Fox Mazer
3/12/15
Doesn’t Fall Off His Horse, Virginia A. Stroud
3/26/15
The Cello of Mr. O, Jane Cutler
Spring Break 3/30 – 4/6
Testing 4/13 – 4/24
4/16/15
The Old Woman and the Wave, Shelley Jackson
4/30/15
Letting Swift River Go, Jane Yolen
5/14/15
The Apple and the Envelope, Herbert Montgomery: distribute copies of Ali Baba and the
Forty Thieves, from the Arabian Nights
5/28/15
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, from the Arabian Nights, pages 151-175