I love history and find that reading about it can be be (almost) as exciting as a trip in a time machine would be. Each week, learners will come to class having read the book for that weeks discussion. (Thats 46 books in a year!) We will take a look at the author, the time period it was written (if different from the setting), and learn about what the characters and setting tell us about that moment in history. Learners will be given the opportunity to share their thoughts and opinions about the story and historical context. The first part of class will consist of a short lecture about the historical context, author, and any relevant information about the book. The second half of the class will be open discussion. Class is kept at a small size to ensure every learner will have an opportunity to share. (If your learner does not like public speaking, they are always able to share through the chat box.) 

Please see the Parental Guidance statement below. This is an ongoing - week by week class, so learners are able to jump in any time or skip any books that they (or parents) do not wish to read. This class will be from an historical context, not a literary one. 


Come and join us as we take the challenge to read a different book each week! 


Week of…
September 2 The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
September 9 The Fountains of Silence - Ruta Sepetys
September  16 The Downstairs Girl - Stacey Lee
September 23 NO CLASS 
September 30 12pm PST class - Between Shades of Gray - Ruta Sepetys (6PM class will be discussing The Great Gatsby instead- please message me if you have any questions)
October 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
October 14 The Henna Wars - Adiba Jaigirdar (Monday  6PM PST Class will be discussing The Fountains of Silence NOT The Henna Wars)
October 21 A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry
October 28  The Secret Garden - Francis Hodgson Burnett
November 4 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 
November 11 The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
November 18 All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
November 25 The Secret Life of Sunflowers by Marta Molnar
December 2 Kent State - Deborah Wiles
December 9 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
December 16 The Nutcracker and the Mouse King - E.T.A. Hoffman
December 23-January 5 NO CLASS 



2025 Dates

Week of: 

January 6 Beneath My Mothers Feet - Amjed Qamar
January 13 Glow - Megan E. Bryant
January 20 In Another Time - Caroline Leech
January 27
February 3 Borderless - Jennifer De Leon
February 10
February 17 The War Outside - Monica Hesse
February 24
March 3 Before We Were Free - Julia Alvarez
March 10 Within These Lines - Stephanie Morrill 
March 17 NO CLASS
March 24
March 31 The Rock and The River - Kekla Magoon
April 7
April 14 Boxers & Saints - Gene Luen Yang (2 Graphic Novels)
April 21
April 28
May 5 Olga Dies Dreaming - Xochitl Gonzalez 
May 12
May 19
May 26 Outrun the Moon - Stacey Lee
June 2
June 9 Everything We Never Had - Randy Ribay
June 16
June 23 NO CLASS 
June 30 NO CLASS
July 7
July 14
July 21 The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood - Richard Blanco
July 28
August 4
August 11 Angel of Greenwood - Randi Pink
August 18
August 25
September 1 Walls - L.M. Elliott
September 8
September 15
September 22
September 29 NO CLASS 
October 6
October 13
October 20
October 27
November 3
November 10
November 17
November 24 NO CLASS 
December 1
December 8
December 15
December 22 NO CLASS
December 29 NO CLASS 






2025
Inventing Victoria - Tonya Bolden
Slaugherhouse-Five - Kurt Vonegut
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Night - Elie Wiesel
The Beloved Wild - Melissa Ostrom
Outrun the Moon - Stacey Lee
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner 
Chains: The Seeds of American Trilogy, Book 1 - Laurie Halse Anderson
Native Son - Richard Wright
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Refugees - Alan Gratz
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
A Long Walk to Water - Linda Sue Park
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Indivisible - Daniel Aleman
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
I Must Betray You - Ruta Sepetys
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith