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Scroll to the bottom for the Free 4 Year High School Book List & Primary Source Documents.
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Each High School Academy student will receive a customized 36 week schedule – and an easy to implement weekly reading plan. College prep level live, online, interactive classes are also offered each week for Writing, Rhetoric, Literary Analysis and Latin, as well as geography Mapwork to accompany their History Reading.
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The rest of the student work, including independent daily reading & daily narration is self paced, according to the schedule provided & work samples will be shared in class during our Rhetoric class. The Academy option also gives your students access to The Riches, Language Arts and Loop Enrichment Courses each morning!
The Riches, Language Arts & Loop courses are optional for High School students but they are welcome to attend these classes with the Full Academy Option. They are excellent for remedial courses or for students with special needs.
A “12 Week Term at a Glance” High School Schedule:
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A sample Weekly Independent Reading Schedule
(Click to enlarge image)Weekly schedules may be adapted for 4 or 5 school days each week.
We have 4 FREE principal curated book lists to choose from. Each book list includes:
Bible, Science, History, Biography, Literature, Geography, Logic, & Civics
The 4 lists below are sufficient for ANY high school year for grades 9-12.
A very motivated 7th or 8th grader with plans to CLEP for college credit in the upper High School years could start with the Cycle 1 booklist.
These books are meant to be read a little at a time and over a long period of time. This is intentional.
“Slow Reading” or reading a book at a slow & guided pace, over an extended period of time, gives the student time to assimilate ideas and make connections organically, creating the holistic mind, body, spirit education we want for them!
Charlotte Mason once wrote:
“It is a sad fact that we are losing our joy in literary form. We are in such haste to be instructed by facts or titillated by theories, that we have no leisure to linger over the mere putting of a thought.” (Vol. 2, p. 263)
Kids also tend to fuss less over 3-6 pages per reading, versus a textbook with ten to fifteen pages of ‘facts’ they need to read and memorize. At the end of the school year students will have read and narrated 25-30 living books and 6 partial books.
The High School Book & Materials List below is FREE!
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Each History Cycle coordinates with a list of Biographies, Literature, and Geography, plus a list of Primary Source Documents including diaries, letters, essays and speeches, plus complimentary Map Work and the keeping of a Timeline Book, or Book of Centuries. My suggestion is to keep everything in that history module (all of the orange Disciplines & the Primary Source Documents for that cycle) together. Everything else can be substituted to create a custom reading plan that suits the needs of your student. The least complicated option is to just start with a Cycle 1 and go with it!
You will see The Big Picture Bible study, The Holy War, Ourselves, Joan of Arc, English Literature for Girls and Boys, & The Story of America on all 4 book lists. These are all very long books and will be spread out over the course of all 4 years in the rotation & may be started at the beginning for high schoolers new to the program, in any year.
Primary Source Documents, Essays, Diaries & Letters by Cycle
HOW will they ever read this much?!!
I know it looks like a lot, but students typically do one or two short readings per week from about 15 different books. That's only 3-4 readings per day and some books don't begin until the second or third term! Some are also pamphlet sized books & many of the primary source documents are simply short letters or diary entries. The general rule of thumb is that we have around 15 books going at once and that 3-4 short readings a day has been a sweet spot for most teens. Also? My experience has been that even reluctant readers enjoy living books & the more kids read, the more kids want to read!
Parents are also encouraged to continue reading aloud with your child, too! Especially the Bible and worldview spiritual development books, but ANY of these books make amazing read aloud material to share with your child. If you wanted to work through ONLY the list above that would be perfectly fine. If you have an advanced student I highly suggest including the primary source documents, but they are not a requirement of the course, they are for enrichment purposes only. I suggest sprinkling them in sparingly throughout the 36 week course for most students, or let students pick the primary source documents that interest them.
A wide and varied curriculum creates a generous feast that students quickly learn to crave and enjoy!
“...the unspoken demand of children is for a wide and very varied curriculum; it is necessary that they should have some knowledge of the wide range of interests proper to them as human beings, and for no reasons of convenience or time limitations may we curtail their proper curriculum.” (Vol. 6, p. 14)
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