Link Up with Training Children up for Christ: Let’s Talk Curriculum

I posted awhile back (wow, in March!) about what I had planned to use for Lee and Fox for *gulp* 9th grade and 7th grade but since then I’ve tweaked it a bit. Rodna, at Training Children up for Christ, has put together a Link Up about what we’re using this year. Yay! It’s always fun and admittedly somewhat frustrating (because I some times second guess what I’ve planned when I see what others are doing lol) when I read the posts of others. I decided to link up my revised plan for the coming year (which has started for us). We use Ambleside Online Year 8 and 6 for our base.

For Lee’s 9th grade:

Bible: KJV-reading: continue OT/NT, Memory verses: Romans 6/Colossians 3/Psalms 139, devotion: Mere Christianity/The Mind of the Maker, study: Commentary by Henry & Brown (Bible Explorer)
Math: Life of Fred: Beginning Algebra, Advanced Algebra, Khan Academy
Writing/Literature: Written narrations, History of English Literature for Boys and Girls, Everyman: A morality play, Westward Ho!, Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves, The Holy War, The Roar on the Other Side (Poetry), …
History/Geography: Western Civilization (11-13; 15-16), http://bit.ly/hizMTY , How the Heather Looks, The Life of Christopher Columbus
Science: Mader Biology 9^th Ed (1-16) (?), http://bit.ly/eLkFR1
Gov’t/Economics/Logic/Civics: Whatever Happened to Justice?, Ourselves, Plutarch’s Lives, Utopia & Francis Bacon Essays, The Fallacy Detective/How to Read A Book
Foreign Language: First Form Latin, Second Form Latin, Greek Level 4
Art/Music/PE: Anime Studio, 4H Visual Arts, Scenic drawings from readings; Composer Study; …
Home Economics/Life Skills

For Fox’s 7th grade:

Bible: KJV-reading: continue OT/NT, verses: 1 a week, study: Saints and Heroes Vol 1 & 2
Math: Life of Fred: PreAlgebra 2 with Economics, Beginning Algebra, Khan Academy
Writing/Literature: Written narrations, The Hobbit, Animal Farm, Tales of Troy; poetry of Robert Frost, Carl Sandberg
History/Geography: Story of the World Vol 4 (2^nd half), *Story of the Greeks, *Story of the Romans; Around the World in 180 Days
Science: The Storybook of Science, Murche’s Science Readers VI, *The Sciences (Holden)
Gov’t/Economics/Logic/Civics: Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?, *Plutarch’s Lives, The Fallacy Detective
Foreign Language: First Form Latin, Second Form Latin
Art/Music/PE: Pictures in cursive (picture study); undecided; …
Home Economics/Life Skills

I do plan on having Nature Study in there as well. Art and Composer Study I really hope to implement much more but will see

I’ve also made up reading lists for each of them. Since we started ‘late’ with AO, it is a bit necessary, I think, to get a little caught up to speed with the readings from previous years. I don’t think it would be detrimental if I did not have them read but it will give them an edge (I hope) on the year and subsequent years. The lists are primarily the same but for a few books:

Our Island Story –
   OR Part 1: http://librivox.org/our-island-story-part-1-by-he-marshall/
   Part 2: http://librivox.org/our-island-story-part-2-by-he-marshall/
Fifty Famous Stories Retold
Parables from Nature
*Wind in the Willows
Books by E. Nesbit
Understood Betsy
Otto of the Silver Hand
Tanglewood Tales (Lee)
*This Country of Ours (Lee)
The Princess and the Goblin
Unknown to History: The Captivity of Mary of Scotland
Heroes Every Child Should Know
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (audio)
   http://www.candlelightstories.com/audio/podcast-of-robinson-crusoe/
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (audio)
   http://librivox.org/the-legend-of-sleepy-hollow-by-washington-irving/
Rip Van Winkle (audio)
   http://librivox.org/short-story-collection-vol-026/
Kidnapped
*Complete Book of Marvels (Lee)
Great Inventors and Their Inventions
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
   http://www.celtic-twilight.com/camelot/pyle/ka/index.htm
*Across Five Aprils
*The Hobbit (Lee)
*Letters from Rifka (Lee)
The Story of the Von Trapp Family Singers
*Animal Farm (Lee)
*Books by Louisa May Alcott
(Personal Reflections of) Joan of Arc
   http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/conte-joanofarc.html (Lee)
*Age of Fable (Lee)
*Age of Chivalry (Lee)
Books by Jean-Henri Fabre http://www.efabre.net/e-fabre.htm
Beowulf http://www.lone-star.net/literature/beowulf/index.html (Lee)
*Daughter of Time (Lee)
*Beautiful Girlhood (Lee)
How to Be A Man (Fox)

Besides their ‘curriculum’ they also will be learning through 4-H. I’m not sure what projects they will choose in October when the new 4-H year starts, but Lee has voiced the strong desire to do Photography again. Fox may not do any.. not sure.

So, I think that is about it…and I think that’s what I have planned   It’s always subject to change What are you using this coming year for your curriculum? Link up at Training Children up for Christ if you would like to share.