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Center Homeschool Excellence
All classes are held through The Center for Homeschool Excellence. Click on the title below to learn about membership and yearly membership fees.
PreK - K - Red Team Classic Literature Book Club
Evan-Moor Literature Pockets includes:
• The Little Red Hen
• The Three Little Pigs
• Goldilocks and the Three Bears
• The Gingerbread Man
• The Three Billy Goats Gruff
• Too Much Noise
• The Little Red Riding Hood
 
1rd - 3rd Grade - Orange Team Literature includes:
Evan-Moor Literature Pockets - Caldecott Medal Winners
• Ox-Cart Man
• The Snowy Day
• Where the Wild Things Are
• Tuesday
• Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
• Always Room for One More
• Officer Buckle and Gloria
• Song and Dance Man
• Owl Moon
• Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears
• Arrow to the Sun
 
4th - 6th Grade - Yellow Team Literature (Fiction) includes:
Realistic Fiction
Folklore
Adventure - Sign of the Beaver
Sports
Science - Ben and Me
Animal
Mystery
Jokes and Riddles
Historical Fiction - Johnny Tremain
Poetry
Humorous Stories
Fantasy
7th - 8th Grade - Green Team (Non-Fiction) includes:
Dewey Decimal system and finding info in Library
People
Religion and Myths - Black Ships Before Troy?
Folklore
Language - The Story of my Life, Helen Keller
Nature and Animals
Math
Science and technology - Benjamin Franklin
Arts, Sports and Recreation
Poetry and Plays - Young Person’s Guide to Shakespeare
History and Travel - Johnny Tremain
Biography - On their own
9th and 10th Grade - Blue and Indigo Team (American Literature) includes:
The Red Badge of Courage
The Old Man and the Sea
The Pearl
The Mentor Book of Major American Poets (Taylor, Emerson, Longfellow, Poe, Whitman, Dickinson, St. Vincent Millay, Cummings, Frost, etc.)
Great American Short Stories - 26 (Twain, Faulkner, Irving, Steinbeck, Welty, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Henry, etc.)
The Southern Renaissance: Everything That Rises Must Converge, * Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, "A Worn Path"*, Katherine Anne Porter, "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"*
The Crucible?
The Glass Menagerie?
11th and 12th Grade - Violet Team (British Literature) inlcudes:
Emma
Great Expectations
The Mentor Book of Major British Poets (Blake, Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Shelley, Keats, Lord Tennyson, Browning, Bronte, Yeats, etc.)
Maybe Animal Farm, Orwell?
Class Schedule:
 
Grades PreK-K         
Classic Literature Pockets: Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Too Much Noise, Three Billy Goats Gruff
 
Grades 1st-3rd           
Classic Literature Pockets: Caldecott Winners
 
Grades 4th-6th
Classic Literature Pockets: Fiction
 
Grades 7th and 8th
Classic Literature Pockets: Non-Fiction
 
Grades 9th - 12th
Classic Literature