THOMAS – 4TH GRADE:
Latin:
Latina Christiana II
Composition & Grammar:
First Language Lessons
Complete Writer, Writing With Ease
Bible:
Child’s Story Bible
Science:
Exploring Creation w/ Human Anatomy & Physiology (Apologia)
Literature:
Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O’Dell
Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
Bound for Oregon, Leeuwen
Around the World in 80 Days, Verne
Little Women, Alcott
Twenty-one Balloons, Du Bois
Heidi, Spyri
Call of the Wild, London
Where the Red Fern Grows, Rawls
The Hiding Place, Corrie ten Boom
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Lewis
History / Geography:
Veritas Press Cards & CD (1815-present)
Amazing, Impossible Erie Canal, Harness
Go Free, or Die, Ferris
Walking the Road to Freedom, Ferris
Boy in the Alamo, Cousins
If You Travelled West in a Covered Wagon, Levine
They’re Off! Story of the Pony Express, Harness
Abraham Lincoln, D’Aulaire
Landmark: Battle of Gettysburg, Kantor
Stonewall, Fritz
Buffalo Bill, D’Aulaire
Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt
Cornerstones of Freedom: Trail of Tears, Stein
Cornerstones of Freedom: Industrial Rev, Collins
Cornerstones of Freedom: Ellis Island, Stein
Cornerstones of Freedom: Roaring Twenties
Cornerstones of Freedom: Great Depression, Stein
Wright Brothers, Reynolds
Air Raid: Pearl Harbor, Taylor
Children of the Storm, Vins
Destination Moon, Irwin
History of Us, by Joy Hakim (Volumes 4-10)
Art:
Monet, Degas, Cassatt, Renoir, Van Gogh, Cezanne
Math:
Teaching Textbooks
PERRY – 8TH GRADE:
History (Modernity):
Abraham Lincoln’s World, G. Foster
Basic History, Vols. 4 & 5, Clarence Carson
7 Men Who Rule the World from the Grave
The Communist Manifesto, Marx & Engels
Hitler, Albert Marrin
Carry a Big Stick, G. Grant
Call of Duty: Sterling Nobility of Robert E. Lee
The Yanks Are Coming, A. Marrin
Remember the Alamo, Robert Penn Warren
The Pony Express, Landmark
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
Reconstruction: Binding the Wounds, Edwards
Logic:
Traditional Logic I, Cothran
Composition:
Classical Composition, Selby, fable and narrative
Literature:
A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens
Silas Marner, George Eliot
Around the World in 80 Days, Verne
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stowe
Animal Farm, George Orwell
The Hiding Place, Corrie ten Boom
The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
Grammar:
Jensen’s Punctuation
Science:
Exploring Creation with Physical Science (Apologia)
Math:
Teaching Textbooks pre-algebra
Art:
Monet, Degas, Cassatt, Renoir, Van Gogh, Cezanne
ANDREW – 10TH GRADE:
Science:
Exploring Creation with Biology (Apologia)
Composition
Classical Composition, Selby – Chreia/Maxim and Refutation/Confirmation
Literature:
Pride & Prejudice, Austen
Jane Eyre, Brontë
The Antiquary, Scott
Portable Romantic Poets
Great Expectations, Dickens
Greenmantle, Buchan
The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald
The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway
One Writer’s Beginnings, Welty
The Eye of the Story, Welty
To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee
The Fellowship of the Ring, Tolkien
Assorted short stories by Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Welty, O’Connor
Grammar:
Errors in English & Ways to Correct Them, Shaw
History:
Gileskirk Humanities: Modernity
Empire, N, Ferguson
Outline of Sanity, GK Chesterton
More than Dates & Dead People, S. Mansfield
Never Give In, S. Mansfield
Carry a Big Stick, G. Grant
Rhetoric:
Classical Rhetoric, Cothran
Rhetoric and Poetics of Aristotle
How to Read a Book, Adler
French:
Rosetta Stone
Math:
Harold Jacobs Geometry
Art:
Monet, Degas, Cassatt, Renoir, Van Gogh, Cezanne
FORREST – 12TH GRADE
Science:
Advanced Biology: The Human Body (Apologia)
Composition:
Style: 10 Lessons in Clarity and Grace, Williams
Literature & Grammar:
same as Andrew
History:
same as Andrew
French:
Rosetta Stone
Math:
Harold Jacobs Geometry
Teaching Textbooks Algebra 2
Art:
Monet, Degas, Cassatt, Renoir, Van Gogh, Cezanne
Looks awesome! You rock, Mommy!
And when do we sign up for your school? (Not my kiddos – ME! 🙂 I would SO enjoy doing a lit study with you ESP GG!!)
Wonderful stuff here – just what I would expect from a true EB!
The library has a really good recording of Up from Slavery that we all enjoyed a few years ago. It will be on our list for next semester.
Do you find yourself adding books to their reading list as you go through the year. It is so hard for me to make a list and say, “this is your required reading for the year”. There is always something else that I find.
Anita, thanks for the tip about the audio of Up from Slavery. Perry really enjoys audiobooks.
Yes, it’s always tempting to add to the list, but participating in Excelsior keeps me more on track than I’d be otherwise. Sometimes I add or substitute a book from our home library to the official list. 😉
You said something about the 2nd Semester…Does that mean these are all for the 1st semester?
Does the student read each book in its entirety, on their own? As I look over the list for just Thomas, I am overwhelmed, though they all look great!
Just wondering…
Lorene
Lorene, this is our list for the whole year. Some of the books on Thomas’s history list are very short, easy books, so the list isn’t really quite as daunting as it looks at first, though it’s admittedly ambitious.
My older boys read everything on their own. Thomas has reached a point where he can read most of his literature and history books on his own, but I help him with assignments in science, grammar, composition, etc. We read harder literature books aloud.
Hi Mary Jo!
I’m so glad to see that you, too, use whole books in your studies of history and literature! They are so much richer than the traditional workbook curricula!! May God bless you and your family’s homeschool this year!