"In Thought,"
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The
KISS Workbooks
Anthology
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By
Author
Adams, Henry. The
Henry Adams Page
Aesop's
Fables
"Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp"
Andersen, Hans Christian (1805-1875) "The
Little Match Girl"
_____. Stories from Hans Andersen
with illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
Anderson, Sherwood, "The Egg"
Austen, Jane: The KISS
Grammar Jane Austen Page
Selections from Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey,
Persuasion,
and Pride and Prejudice.
Aym?, Marcel. from "The Walker-Through-Walls"
Baldwin, James. "Cornelia's
Jewels"
Barrie, J. M. Selections
from Peter Pan
Bashford, Herbert. "Alice"
Bawden, Nina. from Carrie's War
The Bible
B-I-N-G-O ("There was a farmer")
Bierce, Ambrose
Biographical Sketches Page
Bird, Robert. "The Fairy Folk"
Blaisdell, Mary Frances. Bunny
Rabbit's Diary
Blake, William. "London"
Blanden, Charles G. "A Song the Grass
Sings"
Brome, Alexander. "Why I Love Her"
Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights
Brooks, Phillips. "O Little Town of
Bethlehem"
Bryant, Lorinda Munson. From The
Children's Book of Celebrated Pictures
Burgess, Thornton W. The
Thornton Burgess Page
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The
Secret Garden
Burroughs, John. From
"The tragedy of the nests"
Carroll, Lewis The KISS Grammar
Lewis Carroll Page
Cather, Willa. The
KISS Willa Cather Page
Chekhov, Anton. The Anton
Chekhov Page
Chodzko, Alexander. "The Twelve
Months -- A Slav Legend"
Christie, Agatha. The KISS Grammar
Agatha Christie Page
Churchill, Winston - The KISS Grammar
Winston Churchill Page
Clifford, Ethel. "The Last Hour"
Collodi, C. Pinocchio --
The Tale of a Puppet
Colum, Padraic
The Children of Odin
Opening of The Golden Fleece
Conrad, Joseph. The Joseph Conrad
Page
Cooper, James Fenimore. The James
Fenimore Cooper Page
Coppee, Francois "The Wooden Shoes
of Little Wolff"
Cram, Ralph A. From "In Kropfsberg
Keep"
Crane, Stephen. The Stephen
Crane Page
The Declaration of Independence
(The Opening Paragraph)
Dickens, Charles. The
Charles Dickens Page
See also: "A Child's Dream
of a Star"
Dickinson, Emily
"Autumn"
"There is No Frigate Like a Book"
Donne, John "Holy Sonnet XIV"
Dover Publications,
Exercises based on books from
Dreiser, Theodore. "The Lost
Phoebe"
Eco, Umberto, The Name of the
Rose
Fairy Tales
"Cinderella"
"Hansel and Gretel"
"Jack and the Beanstalk"
"Little Red Riding Hood"
"Snow White"
Fawcett, Edgar. "To an Oriole"
Frost, Robert -- The
Robert Frost Page
Gates, Doris. Selections from Blue
Willow
Gibbon,
Edward. From The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Golden
Deeds: Stories from History
Greenaway, Kate. "Shall
I Sing?"
Gruelle, Johnny, Friendly Fairies.1919.
Hackworth, David H. from
"The Fighter's Badge"
Harte, Bret, The Queen of the
Pirate Isle
Hawes, Charles Boardman. Three selections
from The Dark Frigate
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
The Scarlet Letter
Page
The Short Stories Page
Heilbroner, Robert L. from
The
Worldly Philosophers
Herford, Oliver. [The KISS Oliver
Herford Collection]
Higginson, Ella. "Four-Leaf Clover"
Holbrook,
Florence. From The Book of Nature Myths
"House That Jack Built, The"
Howes, Edith. Wonderwings
and other Fairy Stories
Irving, Washington. The KISS
Washington Irving Page
James, Henry. The Opening
Paragraph of Daisy Miller
James, William. "The Ethical
and Pedagogical Importance of the Principle of Habit"
Jerome, Jerome K..Four Selections
from "Cheeses," from Three Men in a Boat,
Kay, Guy Gavriel. from A Song
for Arbonne
Key, Francis Scott (1779 - 1843). "The
Star-Spangled Banner"
Kilmer, Joyce. "Trees"
King, Jr., Martin Luther. from "A
Letter from Birmingham Jail"
Kingsley, Charles.
The Heroes, or Greek
Fairy Tales For My Children
"Young and Old" (from The
Water Babies)
Kipling, Rudyard. Just So Stories
Knight, Eric. Lassie, Come
Home
Lang, Andrew, The KISS Andrew Lang Page
Lang, Jean. A Book of Myths
Le Fanu, J. Sheridan. "Squire
Toby’s Will,"
Lincoln, Abraham. "The Gettysburg
Address"
London, Jack. The Jack London Page
Lowry, Lois. The Lois Lowry Page
MacDonald, Betty. The Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
books
Macdonald, George. At
the Back of the North Wind, Simplified by Elizabeth Lewis
Mansfield, Katherine (Page)
Marvell, Andrew. "To His Coy Mistress"
Maupassant, Guy de "The Necklace"
Maxcy,
Carroll Lewis. Representative Narratives
Melville, Herman. The Herman
Melville Page
"Metal King, The" (A German
Folk-Tale)
Moore, Clement Clarke. "'Twas the night
before Christmas"
Morley, Christopher, Modern Essays,
Selected by Christopher Morley
Moulton, Louise Chandler. "A Summer
Wooing"
Ober, Frederick A. “Old
Put” The Patriot
Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ram?e) A
Dog of Flanders
Pascal, Blaise Pensees
(#147)
Perry, William G. From "Examsmanship
and the Liberal Arts"
Peters, Elis. The Ellis Peters
Page
Picard, Barbara Leonie. Selection
from One is One
Plato. Five Selections from "The
Allegory of the Cave"
Pledge of Allegiance, The [Grade
3, March 2]
Plutarch. "Two Translations of a
Passage from Plutarch's 'Dion': A Study in Style"
Poe, Edgar Allan. The KISS
Edgar Allan Poe Page
Potter, Beatrix. The
KISS Beatrix Potter Page
Poulsson, Emilie. "The Fairy's New Year
Gift"
Pyle, Hoard. "With the Buccaneers"
[Grade 6, April 17] [Grade
11, March 2]
Renault, Mary. from The King
Must Die
Riley, James Whitcombe. "A
Dream"
Roberts, Charles G. D. "The Frosted
Pane"
Rumi, Jalaluddin. (Persian, 1207-1273) "A
Reed"
Sandburg - The KISS Grammar Carl
Sandburg Page
Saxe, John Godfrey. "The Blind Men and
the Elephant: A Hindoo Fable"
Schoolcraft, Henry R."The Spring
Beauty: An Ojibbeway Legend"
Sears, Edmund Hamilton. "It Came
upon a Midnight Clear"
Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty
Shakespeare's Plays
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "England
in 1819"
Short Story Collection
(various)
Smith, Homer W. A Symbolic Paragraph
from "Kamongo"
"Sing a Song of Sixpence"
Smythe, E. Louise "The Ugly
Duckling"
Sonnets, A Collection of
Southey, Robert. "The Cataract
of Lodore"
Spyri, Johanna. Heidi
Steinbeck, John. The Red Pony
Stevenson,
Augusta. Children's Classics in Dramatic Form
Stevenson, Robert Louis.
A Child's Garden
of Verses
The Master of Ballantrae
Treasure Island
Stoddard, Richard Henry. "The Sea"
Tennyson, Alfred.
"The Eagle" (A Fragment)
"Song: The Owl"
Thaxter, Cecila. "Little Gustava"
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Thoreau, Henry David. "Nature"
Thorley, Wilfrid. "Buttercups"
Tolkien, J.R.R. The J. R.
R. Tolkien Page
Twain, Mark
"Corn-pone
Opinions" Four Selections plus "A Study in Semicolons"
Life
on the Mississippi
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"
Verne, Jules. Twenty
Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
Vredenburg, Edric. My Book
of Favorite Fairy Tales
Walker, Abbie Phillips. Sandman's
Goodnight Stories
Weick, W. H. ? C. Grebner. "The Three Little Butterfly Brothers"
A German Fairy Tale
Warner, Sylvia Townsend. Selections
from Mr. Fortune's Maggot
Welty, Eudora. The opening paragraph
of "A Worn Path"
Wharton, Edith - The Edith Wharton
Page
White, E. B.
Three Passages from Stuart
Little
From The Trumpet of the
Swan
Wilde, Oscar. The Oscar Wilde Page
Williams, Margery. The Velveteen
Rabbit
Wordsworth, William.
"I Wandered Lonely
as a Cloud"
"My Heart Leaps Up"
"Written in March"
Books
on Art
These are primarily used for passages for analysis and include
pictures of the art.
Konody, Paul G.
Primary
School Readers and Grammar Textbooks
Annual Mammoth Book, Florence
Winship
The Beacon Second Reader,
by James H. Fassett
Ben and Alice. American Book
Company, 1936.
Beveridge, John H., Belle M.
Ryan, ? William D. Lewis. English for Use -- Book Three
Browne, Hetty S., Sarah Withers,
and W. K. Tate. The Child's World --Third Reader
Campbell, Rev. Paul E. Voyages
in English - Fifth Year
Child-Story
Readers: Wonder Stories 3 by Frank N. Freeman, Grace E. Storm,
Eleanor M. Johnson, and W.C. French Illustrated by Vera Stone Norman. New
York: Lyons and Carnahan, 1927-29-36.
Chit-chat Stories for Little
Folks.
The Elson Readers Primer, by William
H. Elson and Lura E. Runkel. Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Company,
1927.
Everyday
Classics First Reader
Funk and Wagnall's Standard First
Reader (1902)
Growth in English, by
Carleton E. Gougls, Burton P. Gowler, Mabel E. Simpson, Mary A. Adams,
with illustrations by Marguerite Davis. New York: Newson ? Company, 1936.
The
Haliburton First Reader
Kittredge, George and Sarah
Arnold. The Mother Tongue, Book II
Long, Mason. The New College Grammar
Maxwell, Wm.
H. Introductory Lessons in English Grammar for Use in Intermediate
Grades. New York: American Book Company, 1894.
McGuffey Readers
New National
First Reader, by Charles J. Barnes, et al.
Nursery Rhymes, A Collection for
Third Grade
The Pathway
to Reading: Fourth Reader, by Bessie Blackstone Coleman, Willis
L. Uhl, and James Fleming Hosic
Pennell, Mary E., and Alice M. Cusack.
The
Children's Own Readers - Book Three
Punctuation, Studies
in (from various)
Sadlier, William. Lessons in English:
Higher Course, 1893
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