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

Abeka Economics: Work and Prosperity

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

A Word in Season is a language arts instruction curriculum for K-12. The keystone of this curriculum is a four-year high school program that provides an orderly approach to developing language arts skills by integrating western history, literature, and writing.

Learner.org offers many online classes programs and lectures suitable for high-school homeschoolers. I've enjoyed The Art of the Western World. This is a PBS style documentary with vivid detail that is a joy to watch. The program is not produced from a biblical viewpoint so parents should watch it with their children and discuss the various interpretations offered by the program.

Another great help to parents is learner.org's The Mechanical Universe. This complete introduction to high-school and college physics will interest student and parent alike. It's not a rigorous classroom lecture, but another PBS style documentary. Just enough math is provided to motivate the student to dig deeper and interact with the concepts and equations found in traditional "textbook" physics. Study Notes and coordinated textbooks are available for purchase on the site. We haven't seen these personally.

Take advantage of these Arts and Science programs, as well as the dozens of others offered at learner.org.

A wonderful tool for drilling basic math facts. Covers simple counting up through fractions and percent. An inviting, easy to use program in which the student "races" against others to complete the various simple problems. The "others" are their own earlier best times, or those of other players. Our kids enjoy this and learn simple math facts with a fun game they can play for hours.

A simple game with out all the advanced graphics and soundtracks of advanced computer games...

I was recently asked to recommend good courses or books to study world history from a Christian and biblical perspective. What I've read/studied and can recommend without reservation are...

Some of our methods are inspired by the Robinson Curriculum (RC), though we do not use RC directly. RC is a set of CD's containing the complete pages of various older books and classics. The books are in the public domain so are not copyrighted. The CD's contain photocopies of all the books which you read directly from the computer or print at home. A complete K-12 education is provided as the books span all the way from first grade primers up through college level classics...

5 day schedule for 4 weeks

5 day schedule for 4 weeks

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