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Reading schedules

Printable week-by-week plans for 56 books, from Aesop and C. S. Lewis to Shakespeare, Homer and Dostoevsky. Each week gives the reading, a short summary, three discussion questions and the escape room that goes with it, and every plan prints cleanly for a folder or a fridge door.

The rooms run in any browser, with no logins, and each has seven self-checking locks. For more on teaching the books, see the teaching guides.

Shakespeare: one act a week

• Macbeth in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 8–12
• Romeo and Juliet in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 8–12
• Julius Caesar in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 8–12
• A Midsummer Night's Dream in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 8–12
• Hamlet in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 8–12
• Othello in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 8–12
• King Lear in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 8–12
• The Tempest in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 8–12
• Twelfth Night in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 8–12
• Much Ado About Nothing in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 8–12
• The Merchant of Venice in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 8–12
• As You Like It in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 8–12

Homer and Virgil: one section a week

• The Iliad in 6 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 7–12
• The Odyssey in 6 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 7–12
• The Aeneid in 6 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 7–12

C. S. Lewis: one book a week

• C. S. Lewis Novel Study in 7 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 4–8

Classics for the grammar stage

• Aesop's Fables in 3 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 3–6
• The Wind in the Willows in 4 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 3–6
• The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 3–6
• King Arthur and His Knights in 4 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 3–6
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 4 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 3–6
• Heidi in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 3–6
• Black Beauty in 4 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 3–6
• The Secret Garden in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 3–6
• The Adventures of Pinocchio in 4 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 3–6

Classics for the logic stage

• Treasure Island in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 6–9
• Kidnapped in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 6–9
• Robinson Crusoe in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 6–9
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 6–9
• A Christmas Carol in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 6–9
• Anne of Green Gables in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 6–9
• The Call of the Wild in 4 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 6–9
• Beowulf in 3 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 6–9
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in 4 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 6–9
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 6–9

Classics for the rhetoric stage

• Greek Tragedy in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 9–12
• Herodotus' Histories in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 9–12
• The Trial and Death of Socrates in 4 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 9–12
• Plato's Republic in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 9–12
• Augustine's Confessions in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 9–12
• Dante's Inferno in 6 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 9–12
• The Canterbury Tales in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 9–12
• Paradise Lost in 6 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 9–12
• The Pilgrim's Progress in 4 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 9–12
• Pride and Prejudice in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 9–12
• Frankenstein in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 9–12
• Jane Eyre in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 9–12
• Great Expectations in 6 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 9–12
• Crime and Punishment in 6 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 9–12
• The Scarlet Letter in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 9–12
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 9–12

Greek and Roman mythology

• Greek Myths of the Gods in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 4–6
• Greek Myths of the Heroes in 6 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 4–6
• Legends of Early Rome in 5 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 5–8
• Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days in 3 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 9–12
• Ovid's Metamorphoses in 6 Weeks: A Reading Schedule · Grades 9–12