{"id":321,"date":"2010-08-20T13:53:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T13:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/?p=321"},"modified":"2010-11-20T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T21:38:00","slug":"our-homeschool-curriculum-and-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/our-homeschool-curriculum-and-reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Homeschool Curriculum and Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"

THOMAS – 4TH GRADE:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Latin:<\/strong>
\nLatina Christiana II <\/p>\n

Composition & Grammar:<\/strong>
\nFirst Language Lessons
\nComplete Writer, Writing With Ease <\/p>\n

Bible:<\/strong>
\nChild’s Story Bible<\/p>\n

Science:<\/strong>
\nExploring Creation w\/ Human Anatomy & Physiology (Apologia) <\/p>\n

Literature:<\/strong>
\nIsland of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O\u2019Dell
\nTom Sawyer, Mark Twain
\nBound for Oregon, Leeuwen
\nAround the World in 80 Days, Verne
\nLittle Women, Alcott
\nTwenty-one Balloons, Du Bois
\nHeidi, Spyri
\nCall of the Wild, London
\nWhere the Red Fern Grows, Rawls
\nThe Hiding Place, Corrie ten Boom
\nThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Lewis<\/p>\n

History \/ Geography:<\/strong>
\nVeritas Press Cards & CD (1815-present)
\nAmazing, Impossible Erie Canal, Harness
\nGo Free, or Die, Ferris
\nWalking the Road to Freedom, Ferris
\nBoy in the Alamo, Cousins
\nIf You Travelled West in a Covered Wagon, Levine
\nThey\u2019re Off! Story of the Pony Express, Harness
\nAbraham Lincoln, D\u2019Aulaire
\nLandmark: Battle of Gettysburg, Kantor
\nStonewall, Fritz
\nBuffalo Bill, D\u2019Aulaire
\nBully for You, Teddy Roosevelt
\nCornerstones of Freedom: Trail of Tears, Stein
\nCornerstones of Freedom: Industrial Rev, Collins
\nCornerstones of Freedom: Ellis Island, Stein
\nCornerstones of Freedom: Roaring Twenties
\nCornerstones of Freedom: Great Depression, Stein
\nWright Brothers, Reynolds
\nAir Raid: Pearl Harbor, Taylor
\nChildren of the Storm, Vins
\nDestination Moon, Irwin
\nHistory of Us, by Joy Hakim (Volumes 4-10)<\/p>\n

Art:<\/strong>
\nMonet, Degas, Cassatt, Renoir, Van Gogh, Cezanne<\/p>\n

Math:<\/strong>
\nTeaching Textbooks<\/p>\n

PERRY – 8TH GRADE:<\/strong><\/p>\n

History (Modernity):<\/strong>
\nAbraham Lincoln\u2019s World, G. Foster
\nBasic History, Vols. 4 & 5, Clarence Carson
\n7 Men Who Rule the World from the Grave
\nThe Communist Manifesto, Marx & Engels
\nHitler, Albert Marrin
\nCarry a Big Stick, G. Grant
\nCall of Duty: Sterling Nobility of Robert E. Lee
\nThe Yanks Are Coming, A. Marrin
\nRemember the Alamo, Robert Penn Warren
\nThe Pony Express, Landmark
\nUp from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
\nReconstruction: Binding the Wounds, Edwards\t <\/p>\n

Logic:<\/strong>
\nTraditional Logic I, Cothran<\/p>\n

Composition:<\/strong>
\nClassical Composition, Selby, fable and narrative<\/p>\n

Literature:<\/strong>
\nA Tale of Two Cities, Dickens
\nSilas Marner, George Eliot
\nAround the World in 80 Days, Verne
\nUncle Tom\u2019s Cabin, Stowe
\nAnimal Farm, George Orwell
\nThe Hiding Place, Corrie ten Boom
\nThe Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien
\nThe Fellowship of the Ring
\nThe Two Towers
\nThe Return of the King<\/p>\n

Grammar:<\/strong>
\nJensen\u2019s Punctuation<\/p>\n

Science:<\/strong>
\nExploring Creation with Physical Science (Apologia)<\/p>\n

Math:<\/strong>
\nTeaching Textbooks pre-algebra<\/p>\n

Art:<\/strong>
\nMonet, Degas, Cassatt, Renoir, Van Gogh, Cezanne<\/p>\n

ANDREW – 10TH GRADE: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Science:<\/strong>
\nExploring Creation with Biology (Apologia)<\/p>\n

Composition<\/strong>
\nClassical Composition, Selby – Chreia\/Maxim and Refutation\/Confirmation<\/p>\n

Literature:<\/strong>
\nPride & Prejudice, Austen
\nJane Eyre, Bront\u00eb
\nThe Antiquary, Scott
\nPortable Romantic Poets
\nGreat Expectations, Dickens
\nGreenmantle, Buchan
\nThe Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald
\nThe Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway
\nOne Writer\u2019s Beginnings, Welty
\nThe Eye of the Story, Welty
\nTo Kill a Mockingbird, Lee
\nThe Fellowship of the Ring, Tolkien
\nAssorted short stories by Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Welty, O\u2019Connor <\/p>\n

Grammar:<\/strong>
\nErrors in English & Ways to Correct Them, Shaw <\/p>\n

History:<\/strong>
\nGileskirk Humanities: Modernity
\nEmpire, N, Ferguson
\nOutline of Sanity, GK Chesterton
\nMore than Dates & Dead People, S. Mansfield
\nNever Give In, S. Mansfield
\nCarry a Big Stick, G. Grant <\/p>\n

Rhetoric:<\/strong>
\nClassical Rhetoric, Cothran
\nRhetoric and Poetics of Aristotle
\nHow to Read a Book, Adler<\/p>\n

French:<\/strong>
\nRosetta Stone<\/p>\n

Math:<\/strong>
\nHarold Jacobs Geometry<\/p>\n

Art:<\/strong>
\nMonet, Degas, Cassatt, Renoir, Van Gogh, Cezanne<\/p>\n

FORREST – 12TH GRADE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Science:<\/strong>
\nAdvanced Biology: The Human Body (Apologia)\t<\/p>\n

Composition:<\/strong>
\nStyle: 10 Lessons in Clarity and Grace, Williams<\/p>\n

Literature & Grammar:<\/strong>
\nsame as Andrew\t<\/p>\n

History:<\/strong>
\nsame as Andrew<\/p>\n

French:<\/strong>
\nRosetta Stone<\/p>\n

Math:<\/strong>
\nHarold Jacobs Geometry
\nTeaching Textbooks Algebra 2 <\/p>\n

Art:<\/strong>
\nMonet, Degas, Cassatt, Renoir, Van Gogh, Cezanne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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