Junior Great Books - series 2

I absolutely love JBG and taught series 2 (old edition) many times at my old Montessori school. I finally invested in the teacher guides and enough student anthologies to be able to do it with my class here! Their anthologies are quite lovely. Grade 2 is a good year to begin JGB, if you wish. One story is done each week. The stories and shared inquiry questions are so rich that you can easily use them in later grades as well (through middle school). I'm using it with students age 10, 11, and 12 with no difficulty, and they love it.

Junior Great Books Series 2 First Semester Teacher's Edition (1992)

Junior Great Books Series 2 Second Semester Teacher's Edition (1992)

The first semester and second semester stories are as follows:

First Semester Student Anthology

"The Happy Lion"
by Louise Fatio

"The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin"
by Beatrix Potter

"How the Camel Got His Hump"
by Rudyard Kipling

"Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest, and Piglet Has a Bath"
by A.A. Milne

"Arap Sang and the Cranes"
African folktale as told by Humphrey Harman

"Blue Moose"
by Daniel Manus Pinkwater

"Anancy and Dog and Puss and Friendship"
West Indian folktale as told by James Berry

"Jack and the Beanstalk"
English folktale as told by Joseph Jacobs

"The Magic Listening Cap"
Japanese folktale as told by Yoshiko Uchida

"The Jackal and the Partridge"
Punjabi folktale as told by Flora Annie Steel

"Nail Soup"
Swedish folktale as told by Linda Rahm

"The Apple of Contentment"
by Howard Pyle

Second Semester Student Anthology

"The Red Balloon"
by Albert Lamorisse

"The Other Side of the Hill"
by Elizabeth Coatsworth

"The Emperor's New Clothes"
by Hans Christian Anderson

"How the Elephant Became"
by Ted Hughes

"Anansi's Fishing Expedition"
West African folktale as told by Harold Courlander and George Herzog

"The Velveteen Rabbit"
by Margery Williams

"The Terrible Leak"
Japanese folktale as told by Yoshiko Uchida

"The Singing Tortoise"
West African folktale as told by Harold Courlander and George Herzog

"Three Boys with Jugs of Molasses and Secret Ambitions"
by Carl Sandburg

"Cinderella"
by Charles Perrault

"The Mouse's Bride"
Indian folktale as told by Lucia Turnbull

"How Coyote Stole the Sun"
Native American folktale as told by Jane Louise Curry

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