Desert Homeschoolers

                         

The Short Story Collection

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Week 1: Read  The Cold Equations  (pg 9)

               Complete   Making Meanings (pg.29) 1-9

                  Read   The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant  (pg 35)

              Complete    Making Meanings (pg.41) 1-6

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Week 2: Read   The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges (pg 44)

               Complete   Making Meanings (pg.48) 1-5

                  Read   Boys and Girls by Alice Munro (pg 53)

               Complete   Making Meanings (pg.66) 1-6

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Week 3: Read  Everyday Use by Alice Walker (pg 70)

               Complete  Making Meanings (pg.78) 1-7   

                 Read   Two Kinds by Amy Tan (pg 95)

               Complete  Making Meanings (pg.107) 1-8

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Week 4: Read  The First Seven Years by Bernard Malamud (pg 120)

               Complete  Making Meanings (pg.129) 1-6

                  Read  Distillation by Hugo Martinez Serros (pg 133)

               Complete  Making Meanings (pg.143) 1-7

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Exiles, Castaways, and Strangers Collection

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Week 5: Read  The Pedestrian by Abioseh Nicol (pg 173)

               Complete Making Meanings (pg.179) 1-8

                  Read  Liberty by Hugo Martinez Serros (pg 185)

               Complete Making Meanings (pg.192) 1-4

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Week 6: Read  Where have you Gone, Charming Billy? by Tim O'Brien (pg 198)

               Complete Making Meanings (pg.206) 1-6

                  Read  The Bet by Anton Chekhov (pg 201)

               Complete Making Meanings (pg.219) 1-9 [you can skip #2]

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Week 7: Read A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (pg 223)

               Complete Making Meanings (pg.232) 1-9

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 Breakthroughs Collection

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                  Read Trap of Gold by Amy Tan (pg 249)

               Complete Making Meanings (pg.259) 1-6

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Week 8: Read  By the Waters of Babylon by Stephen Vincent Benet (pg 265)

               Complete Making Meanings (pg.273) 1-8 [you can skip #3]

                  Read  Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing (pg 277)

               Complete Making Meanings (pg.318) you choose what questions to answer

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                                          The Nonfiction Collection

Week 9: Read  The Pit and the Pendulum by Stephen Vincent Benet (pg 265)

               Complete Making Meanings (pg.303) 1-4 

                  Read  Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing (pg 277)

               Complete Making Meanings (pg.318) you choose what questions to answer

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Being There Collection

Week 10: Read  It Can't be Helped by Jeanne & James Houston (pg 355)

               Complete Making Meanings (pg.362) 1-7

                  Read  Typhoid Fever by Frank McCourt (pg 366)

               Complete Making Meanings (pg.374) 1-3t

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