I’ve decided to share some of our curriculum choices because it’s what some readers want to see. If you’re not interested in school books, you can enjoy the poppy picture. Most of my curriculum ideas have come from The Well Trained Mind by Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer.
Mark’s books (Kindergarten):
- Phonics Pathways by Dolores G. Hiskes
- Math workbooks (various, including Saxon)
- Math-It games for math facts
- The Usborne Complete First Book of Nature
- Easy Phonics Readers
Timothy’s books (3rd Grade)
- English for the Thoughtful Child 2
- Spelling Workout C
- Saxon math 3
- Exploring Creation with Zoology (I don’t love Apologia books and I skip the bothersome sections.)
- Story of the World vol 3
- I’m still planning his literature study. I still have a few days before school begins!!
Daniel’s books (7th grade):
| TITLE:
God’s Gift of Language C grammar |
Author/Publisher:
A Beka |
| Writing Strands 4-5 | National Writing Inst. |
| Spelling Workout f-g | |
| Don Quixote | Michael Harrison |
| “A Voyage to Lilliput,” “ A Voyage to Brobdingnag” from Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates | Mary Dodge |
| A Pilgrim’s Progress | John Bunyan |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| Poems of William Wordsworth | |
| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Coleridge |
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Rip Van Winkle |
| The Pied Piper of Hamelin | Robert Browning |
| Grimms Fairy Tales | |
| Autobiography of Ben Franklin, the Way to Wealth | Franklin |
| Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Caroll |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickins |
| A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickins |
| “The Raven” | Edgar Allen Poe |
| Toliver’s Secret | Ester Wood Brady |
| Caddie Woodlawn | Carol Ryrie Brink |
| My Brother Sam is Dead | James Lincoln Collier |
| The Courage of Sarah Noble | Alice Dalgliesh |
| Algebra ½ | Saxon |
| Kingfisher History Encyclopedia | |
| Learning Through History magazines: American Revolution, Civil War | |
| Critical Thinking Press book 1 Colonies to Constitution | |
| Critical Thinking Press book 2 New Republic to Civil War | |
| Story of the World vol 3 | Bauer |
| Exploring Creation: General Science | Wile |
| Rosetta Stone Spanish 1 | |
| typing tutor software |
Paige’s books (10th grade):
| TITLE
Confessions (selected books) |
Author/Publisher
Saint Augustine |
| Beowulf | |
| Inferno | Dante, tr. Pinsky |
| The Once and Future King | White |
| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | Tolkien |
| The Canterbury Tales | ed. McCaughrean |
| The Prince | Machiavelli |
| Utopia | More |
| The Faerie Queene selections from book 1 | Spenser |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Shakespeare |
| Hamlet | Shakespeare |
| Henry V | Shakespeare |
| The Timetables of History | Grun |
| A Short History of Western Civilization, 8th ed. | Sullivan |
| Janson’s History of Art: The Middle Ages | Davies, … |
| A Day in the Life of Old Rome |
Stearnes |
| Inevitable Apostasy and Promised Restoration | Callister |
| The Magna Charta | Dougherty |
| Empires Lost and Won | Marrin |
| Writing Strands 8 | National Writing Inst |
| A Beka Grammar and Composition | Abeka |
| Advanced Mathematics: Geometry, Trigonometry, Algebra III | Saxon |
| Exploring Creation through Chemistry | Wile |
| Old Testament | |
| Deutsch Aktuell | EMC publishing |
| Rosetta Stone German 2 |