• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Stepping Heavenward by Elizabeth Prentiss
• Walden; Or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
• A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter
• Notebook

1. We are going to read through the 4 selections (listed above) consecutively.  As you read, write down any impressions or thoughts that may be helpful to you in your life.

2.  In December you are welcome to choose a Christmas literature selection of your choice.

3. Keep a notebook.  The notebook can be used for thoughts and impressions, summaries, quotes, and more.

“It is very helpful to read with a commonplace book or reading-diary, in which to put down any striking thought in your author, or your own impression of the work, or of any part of it; but not summaries of facts. Such a diary, carefully kept through life, should be exceedingly interesting as containing the intellectual history of the writer; besides, we never forget the book that we have made extracts from, and of which we have taken the trouble to write a short review.” 

• Read Middlemarch chapters 1 - 21

• Keep a notebook

• Read Middlemarch chapters 22 - 43

• Keep a notebook

• Read Middlemarch chapters 44 - 65

• Keep a notebook

• Read Middlemarch chapter 66 - finale

• Keep a notebook

• Read Stepping Heavenward intro - ch 13

• Keep a notebook

• Read Stepping Heavenward chapter 14 - end

• Keep a notebook

• Read Walden chapters 1 - 9

• Keep a notebook

• Read Walden chapter 10 - concl.

• Keep a notebook

• Read Girl of the Limberlost chapters 1 - 8

• Keep a notebook

• Read Girl of the Limberlost chapters 9 - 16

• Keep a notebook

• Read Girl of the Limberlost chapters 17 - 25

• Keep a notebook

• Read a Christmas literature selection of your choice!

• Keep a notebook