In 10th grade, we shift our focus from more recent US history (1700-present) back to earlier world history. We'll use Church History in Plain Language as our major source, and add various real books appropriate for each historical period. Here are the real books and the approximate historical periods they cover:

Apostle, a Life of Paul by John Pollock - 1st century

Augustine of Hippo by Peter Brown - 300-400AD

Confessions by St. Augustine - 300-400AD

St. Francis by G. K. Chesterton - 1100AD

St. Thomas by G. K. Chesterton - 1200AD

Inferno by Dante 1300 AD

And reading throughout: History of Art for Young People

Other subjects:
Saxon Advanced Mathematics (pre-calculus)

Bob Jones Geography

and rounding the education out with choir, piano, and a couple hours a day taking care of young baby brother.

Ongoing journal of thoughts and decisions "real time" as our 9th grade homeschool plan is developed and implemented

August 2008 - 9th grade wrap-up
Grace finished the major sections of Democracy in America in May.  Summer has been a light dose of Saxon Algebra 2 - only about a lesson a week.  She has less than 10 lessons left to finish it and then on the Saxon Advanced to start 10th grade.  She's continuing working through Bob Jones Geography.  We'll keep that up into 10th grade, rotating with other subjects as we did in 9th.
This summer our girls we're involved in Austin Christian Theatre's production of "Circle of Heaven".  They loved it immensely.  That's wrapped up now and they're spending time on sewing projects and will attend a week long choir camp later in August.  They also did several longer term projects before the production rehearsals got busy - scrapbooks, photo albums, and other sewing. 
A well-rounded summer for the whole family.

April 11, 2008 - Essays and Poetry
Following The Wealth of Nations, Grace read The Law.  This was during the Presidential primary campaign here in Texas so very relevant to all the promises being made by the statists running for office.  Here's one of the essays. 
She's now in the middle of Democracy in America and has written several essays on her weekly readings.  Here's the first essay.

Grace has posted a recent sonnet on her blog.  This was an assignment from her work in the poetry survey Roar on the Other Side.

April 9, 2008 - Consumer Math
Grace is at lesson 105 in Saxon Algebra 2.  We'll switch back to Abeka Consumer Math for 2 or 3 weeks.  This is simple math compared to the algebra she's been doing.  So she's covering 2 sections a day and working 25% of the exercises in the 2 sections.  Picking up Consumer Math at Unit 6 and expect to complete Units 6, 7, and 8 in about 3 weeks.

Click to see prior entries:
January 25, 2008 - Wealth of Nations; Time Travel
November 20, 2007 - Latest Essay
November 7, 2007 - Symposium adjustment
October 8, 2007 - Sample Essay
September 19, 2007 - Booklist and Skill subjects
September 12, 2007 - Symposium progress report
September 11, 2007 - What to expect from a teenager
September 5, 2007 - Symposium 
August 29, 2007 - History planning

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5 day schedule for 4 weeks

5 day schedule for 4 weeks

5 day schedule for 4 weeks

5 day schedule for 4 weeks

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