Compiled by M. Grubb
These selections for copywork are aimed at children aged 13-15 years and have been carefully chosen as good models of clever dialogue, powerful imagery, insightful descriptions of character and good descriptions of people, places and events. Many homeschooled children are avid and fast readers, however there is a definite advantage in learning the skill of reading slowly. Copywork trains your child in this skill, teaching them to take careful note of what is being said in the passages. Reading is one thing, but writing what you read teaches you skills that do not come by reading alone. Further skills that will be developed through copywork are vocabulary, grammar, punctuation and improved writing ability. One of the great things about classic literature of 100 years or more ago is its characteristic formal style of expression. Learning to write using a more formal style is a requirement of all tertiary level papers. In addition to all these advantages, there is also the hope that the reading of these snippets from good books will entice your child to delve deeper into the wonderful world of classic literature.
There are 70 lessons which will allow you to fit this course into about one-third of your academic year, meaning that 2-3 lessons could be done each week.
Books from which passages have been taken are:
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard
Club of Queer Trades by G. K. Chesterton
Coral Island, The by R. M. Ballantyne
Eldorado: A Story of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
Emma by Jane Austen
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Henry V by William Shakespeare
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
Lost World, The by Arthur Conan Doyle
Man in the Iron Mask, The by Alexandre Dumas
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Man Who Was Thursday, The by G. K. Chesterton
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Poems by Christina G. Rossetti
Poems by G. K. Chesterton
Prisoner of Zenda, The by Anthony Hope
Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott
Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
She by H. Rider Haggard
Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Tale of Two Cities, A by Charles Dickens
Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Waverly by Sir Walter Scott
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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