Family read-alouds:
- Bible
- (a couple of Shakespearean plays via “No Fear Shakespeare” (A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Othello, perhaps?)
- Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- David Copperfield (may watch a movie rather than read this one)
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge (for the youngest)
- The Chronicles of Narnia (2nd time reading w/ our youngest in mind, beginning with The Voyage of the Dawn Treader)
3rd grade
English: Rod and Staff Grammar series
Handwriting: A Reason for Handwriting
History: Early American History from A Blessed Heritage
Latin: Prima Latina with Memorial Press
Math: Horizons Math 3
Science: Apologia’s Zoology 1
Read-Aloud/ Reading List :
- The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Which Way Freedom?
- Third Grade Detectives series (beginning with The Stuttering Parrot)
- The Incredible Journey
- The Wonderful Flight to Mushroom Planet
- Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
- Tales of Robin Hood by Tony Allan
- Mystery of the Roman Ransom by Henry Winterfield
- Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
- Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
- The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright
- The Princess and the Goblin
- Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
9th/8th Grade
Algebra I: Teaching Textbooks
Apologetics: Know What You Believe by Paul Little
Character: Ourselves by Charlotte Mason
Current Events: Student News Daily and/or World on the Web
Grammar: Rod and Staff Christian English series
History/ Literature: Great Books Curriculum–Ancient History (see reading list below)
Latin: Henle by Memoria Press
Logic: How to Read a Book (2nd year)
Science: Apologia’s Physical Science
Read-Aloud/ Reading List:
- The Gladiators of Capua by Caroline Lawrence
- God King by Joanne Williamson
- Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee by Robert van Gulik
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
- The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis (audiobook)
- Archimedes and the Door of Science by Jeanne Bendick
- Chosen by Ginger Garrett
- Pharoah’s Daughter by Julius Lester
- Alexander the Great by Plutarch
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- The Compact View of World Religions
- Homer’s Odyssey
- Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
- Antigone by Sophocles
- The Republic by Plato
- The Philosophy of Aristotle by Bambrough and Creed(384-322 B.C.)
11th grade
Science: Apologia’s Chemistry (wrap-up during 1st semester)/ Meteorology with Connect the Thoughts
Current Events: Student News Daily and/or World on the Web
Economics: Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell, PBS, Stossel in the Classroom and other online resources
Algebra II: Teaching Textbooks
Latin: Henle by Memoria Press
College Courses:
- Children’s Literature
- American Government
Read-Aloud/ Reading List:
- The Amistad (in book or in film) and/or Amos Fortune, Free Man
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Across Four Aprils by Irene Hunt
- Harriet Tubman by Judith Bentley
- Path of the Pale Horse by Paul Fleischman
- Underground Man by Milton Meltzer
- Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
