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Book Lists and Study Resources

Biblical Studies

• Asch, Sholem – Moses
• Asch, Sholem – The Prophet (Isaiah)
• Asch, Sholem – The Apostle (Paul)
• Asch, Sholem – Mary
• Asch, Sholem – The Nazarene (Jesus)

Biography

• Bird, Isabella L. – A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains
• Backus, Harriet Fish – Tomboy Bride
• Faulk, Odie B. – The Geronimo Campaign
• Gwynne, S.C. – Empire of the Summer Moon
• Smith, P. David – Ouray Chief of the Utes

Charlotte Mason

Citizenship

• Mason, Charlotte – Ourselves – appx. 22 pages per term, 1-65 for year, throughout remaining years.
• Plutarch’s Lives (Thomas North’s translation)- Follow the schedule posted on Ambleside Online

Commonplace book

Concentration

• 12 Concentration Exercises from 1918

Economics

• Liberty Classroom- Austrian Economics Step-By-Step

Fine Arts

• Composers
• Music Theory
• Painting
• Piano
• Poetry

Foreign Language

  Dutch

  French

• FRENCH in 10 minutes a day with CD-ROM by Kristine K. Kershul
• 24 Best Loved French Folk Song by Claveau, Altery
• French for Your Trip (English and French Edition) Berlitz

  Latin

• The Latin Road to English Grammar

4-H

Geography

• Visualize World Geography

Grammar

• Analytical Grammar

Great Books 1 – Schola Tutorials – 9th grade book list

• The Iliad of Homer
• The Odyssey of Homer
• The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories by Herodotus
• Aeschylus I: The Complete Greek Tragedies Vol 1  by Aeschylus
• Sophocles I: Oedipus The King,  The Complete Greek Tragedies by Sophocles
• The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
• The Persian Expedition by Xenophon
• Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo… by Plato
• The Basic Works of Aristotle by Aristotle

Health and Nutrition

• Health and Nutrition e-course by Food Renegade  (highly recommended)
  

History

Colorado History

• Vandenbusche, Duane – The Gunnison Country

   Ancient History

Liberty Classroom – Western Civilization to 1500

• • Lecture 1: Introduction
  • Lecture 2: Mesopotamia
  • Lecture 3: Ancient Egypt
  • Lecture 4: Empire Builders
  • Lecture 5: Hebrew History
  • Lecture 6: Hebrew Religion
  • Lecture 7: Early Aegean Civilization
  • Lecture 8: Homer and Archaic Greece
  • Lecture 9: The Polis
  • Lecture 10: The Persian and Peloponnesian Wars
  • Lecture 11: Greek Culture: Drama and Art
  • Lecture 12: Greek Culture: Lyric Poetry and History
  • Lecture 13: Greek Philosophy I
  • Lecture 14: Greek Philosophy II
  • Lecture 15: 4th Century Greece and Alexander the Great
  • Lecture 16: The Hellenistic World
  • Lecture 17: Early Roman Republic
  • Lecture 18: Late Roman Republic
  • Lecture 19: Roman Culture
  • Lecture 20: The Pax Romana
  • Lecture 21: The Golden and Silver Ages of Latin Literature
  • Lecture 22: The New Testament Era
  • Lecture 23: Spread of Christianity
  • Lecture 24: Roman Empire: 3rd Century Crisis
  • Lecture 25: Roman Empire: Restoration and Decline
  • Lecture 26: Official Christianity
  • Lecture 27: Early Church Fathers and Monasticism
  • Lecture 28: The Byzantine Empire
  • Lecture 29: Early Islam
  • Lecture 30: Barbarian Kingdoms of Early Medieval Europe
  • Lecture 31: Christianity in Early Medieval Europe
  • Lecture 32: Charlemagne and the Carolingian Renaissance
  • Lecture 33: Medieval Society and Economy: Peasants
  • Lecture 34: Medieval Society and Economy: Urban Life
  • Lecture 35: The Aristocracy
  • Lecture 36: Popes and Kings
  • Lecture 37: Crusades—Foreign
  • Lecture 38: Crusades—Domestic
  • Lecture 39: Universities and Scholastic Philosophy
  • Lecture 40: Medieval Monarchies
  • Lecture 41: The Fourteenth-Century Crisis
  • Lecture 42: Late Medieval Church

Potter, William – Twenty Battles That Changed the World

• Salamis – 480 bc – The Greeks vs. The Persians
• Arbela – 331 bc – The Macedonians vs. The Persians
• Cannae – 216 bc – The Romans vs. The Carthaginians
• Tours – 1732 – Franks vs. Moors
• Crecy – 1346 – England vs. France
• Constantinople – 1453 – Eastern Romans vs. Turks
• Tenochtitlan – 1521 – The Spanish Conquistadors vs. the Aztecs
• Lepanto – 1571 – European Coalition vs. Arab Fleet
• Armada – 1588 – England vs. Spain

   Medieval History

   Renaissance History

• Liberty Classroom-Western Civilization Since 1500

   Modern History

• Catton, Bruce – Four Days
• Lefebvre, Georges – The Coming of the French Revolution
• Livingston, Harrison Edward – High Treason
• Liberty Classroom- U.S. History to 1877
• Liberty Classroom- U.S. History Since 1877
• video- The English Civil War as Current Events

Literature

• Adams, Richard – Watership Down
• Alcott, Louisa May – Jack and Jill
  
• Alcott, Louisa May – Little Men
• Alcott, Louisa May  – Little Women
• Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice
• Bulfinch, Thomas – The Age of Fable
• Bulfinch, Thomas – The Age of Chivalry
• Bynyan, John – Pilgrim’s Progress
• Bynyan, John – The Holy War
  
• Burnett, Frances Hodgson – The Little Princess
• Burnett, Frances Hodgson – The Lost Prince
• Carroll, Lewis – Alice in Wonderland
• Carroll, Lewis – Through The Looking Glass
• Cervantes, Miguel – Don Quixote
• Chesterson, G.K. – The Innocence of Father Brown
• Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur – The Complete Sherlock Holmes
• Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe
• Dodge, Mary Maples – Hans Brinker
• Dumas, Alexandre – The Count of Monte Cristo
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang – Fauste
• Golding, William – The Lord of the Flies
• Grahame, Kenneth – The Wind in the Willows
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel – Tanglewood Tales
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The Wonder Book
• Lang, Andrew – Arabian Nights
• Lewis, C.S. – The Chronicles of Narnia
• Lewis, C.S. – The Four Loves
• Lewis, C.S. – The Space Trilogy
• London, Jack – The Call of the Wild
• Kingsley, Charles – Hereward, the Last of the English or Hereward the Wake published in Robin Hood 
• Kingsley, Charles – Water Babies
• Kingsley, Charles – Westward Ho!
  
• Kipling, Rudyard – Kim
• Kipling, Rudyard – Captain’s Courageous
• Kipling, Rudyard – Puck of Pooks Hill
• Kipling, Rudyard – Riki Tiki Tavi
  
• MacDonald, George – The Light Princess
• MacDonald, George – Phantastes
  
• MacDonald, George – The Princess and The Goblin
• MacDonald, George – The Princess and Curdie
• MacDonald, George – At The Back of the North Wind
• MacDonald, George – The Wise Woman
• Montgomery, Luck Maud – Anne of Greene Gables
• More, Sir Thomas – Utopia
• Orwell, George – Animal Farm
• Orwell, George – Nineteen Eighty Four
• Page, Elizabeth – Wagon’s West  – A Story of the Oregon Trail
• Porter, Eleanor H. – Just David
• Porter, Eleanor H. – Pollyanna
• Pyle, Howard – The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
• Pyle, Howard – The Book of King Arthur
• Schmid, Christopher – The Basket of Flowers
• Sewell, Anna – Black Beauty
• Stevenson, Robert Louis – Kidnapped
  
• Stevenson, Robert Louis – Treasure Island
• Swift, Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels
• Scott, Sir Walter – Rob Roy
• Scott, Sir Walter – Ivanhoe
  
• Spyri, Joanna – Heidi
• Tolkien, J.R.R. – The Children of Huren
• Tolkien, J.R.R. – The Silmarillion
• Tolkien, J.R.R. – The Hobbit
• Tolkien, J.R.R. – The Lord of the Rings
• Tolkien, J.R.R. – The Fellowship of the Ring
• Tolkien, J.R.R. – The Two Towers
• Tolkien, J.R.R – The Return of the King
• Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Twain, Mark – The Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
• Twain, Mark – The Prince and the Pauper
• Twain, Mark – The War Prayer
• Verne, Jules – Around the World in Eighty Days
• Verne, Jules – Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
• White, T.H. – The Once and Future King
• Wilder, Laura Ingalls – The Little House series
• Wyss, Johann – The Swiss Family Robinson

Logic – Oxford Tutorials – Introductory Logic- First Semester

Logic – Oxford Tutorials – Intermediate Logic – Second Semester

Lumosity – Brain Games

Math

• Khan Academy

Nature Studies

• Amory, Cleveland – Ranch of Dreams
• Mowat, Farley – Never Cry Wolf
• Roberts, Monty – The Man who Listens to Horses
• Tompkins, Peter and Bird, Christopher – The Secret Life of Plants

Political Philosophy Classics:

• The Republic, Plato, 400 BC, ~500 pages
• The Prince, Machiavelli, 1532, ~70 pages
• Lex Rex, Rutherford, 1644, ~350 pages
• Leviathan, Hobbes, 1651, ~400 pages
• Two Treatises of Government, Locke, 1689, ~450 pages
• The Social Contract, Rousseau, 1762, ~100 pages
• Commentaries on the Laws of England, Blackstone, 1765, ~2000 pages
• The Wealth of Nations, Smith, 1776, ~1200 pages
• Common Sense, Paine, 1776, ~100 pages
• Debates from the Constitutional Convention, 1787
• The Federalist Papers, 1787, ~500 pages
•  The Anti-Federalist Papers, 1787, ~400 pages
• Reflections on the Revolution in France, Burke, 1790, ~350 pages
•  Democracy in America, de Tocqueville, 1835, ~1000 pages
• The Communist Manifesto, Marx & Engels, 1848, ~50 pages
• The Law, Bastiat, 1849, ~100 pages
• On Liberty, Mill, 1859, ~200 pages

Ron Paul

• A Revolutionary Reading List by Ron Paul
• The Ron Paul Foreign Policy Reading List
• Ron Paul Economics Reading List
• Lew Rockwell’s Ron Paul File

Science

Johnson, George – The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments:

• Galileo: The Way Things Really Move
• William Harvey: Mysteries of the Heart
• Isaac Newton: What a Color Is
• Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier: The Farmer’s Daughter
• Luigi Galvani: Animal Electricity
• Michael Faraday: Something Deeply Hidden
• James Joule: How the World Works
• A.A. Michelson: Lost in Space
• Ivan Pavlov: Measuring the Immeasurable
• Robert Millikan: In the Borderland

Science – Agriculture – Farming

• Carson, Rachel – Silent Spring
• Kirby, David – Animal Factory  – The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy and Poultry Farms to Humans
• Mas Masumoto, David – Wisdom of the Last Farmer
• Nader, Ralph – Genetically Engineered Food – Changing the Nature of Nature
• Schlosser, Eric – Fast Food Nation
• Schmid ND, Ron – The Untold Story of Milk

Science – Astronomy

• Reed, W. Maxwell – The Stars for Sam

Science – Biology

Science – Chemistry

Science – Physical Science

• DeCamp, L. Sprague – Man and Power The Story of Power from the Pyramids to the Atomic Age

Shakespeare

Oxford Tutorials Shakespeare – two semesters

reading and assignment schedule

• First Semester

  WEEK
  Session/Date            Play/Act(s)

    1. Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1

    2. Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 2

    3. Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 3

    4. Midsummer Night’s Dream, Acts 4-5

    5. Romeo & Juliet, Act 1

    6. Romeo & Juliet, Act 2

    7. Romeo & Juliet, Act 3

    8. Romeo & Juliet, Acts 4-5

    9. Twelfth Night, Act 1

  10. Twelfth Night,  Act 2

  11. Twelfth Night, Act 3

  12. Twelfth Night, Acts 4-5

  13. King Lear, Act 1

  14. King Lear, Acts 2-3

  15. King Lear, Acts 4-5

  16. Semester Exam

  Second Semester
  
  WEEK
  Session/Date        Play/Act(s)

    1. As You Like It, Act 1

    2. As You Like It,   Act 2

    3.  As You Like It,   Act 3

    4. As You Like It,  Acts 4-5

    5. Othello, Act 1

  6. Othello,  Act 2

    7. Othello, Act 3

    8. Othello,  Acts 4-5

    9. The Tempest, Act 1

  10.  The Tempest, Act 2

  11.  The Tempest, Act 3 

  12.  The Tempest, Acts 4-5

  13.  Sonnets, #    1-38

  14.  Sonnets,  # 39-77

  15.  Sonnets, #  78-116

  16.  Sonnets, # 117-154

Elementary Shakespeare reading:        

      Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare by Lamb, Charles and Mary 

• The Tempest
• A Midsummer Nights Dream
• The Winters Tale
• Much Ado About Nothing
• As You Like It
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• The Merchant of Venice
• Cymbeline
• King Lear
• Macbeth
• All’s Well that Ends Well
• The Taming of the Shrew
• The Comedy of Errors
• Measure for Measure
• Twelfth Night or What You Will
• Timon of Athens
• Romeo and Juliet
• Hamlet – Prince of Denmark
• Othello
• Pericles – Prince of Tyre

Spelling – MasterSpell

 

Writing Coach –  Ms. Scribbles

It is a great pleasure to highly recommend a one-on-one writing workshop that our homeschool daughter has been in. Ms. Scribbles is a writing coach and her methods are so creative and motivating, for students and adult learners. You can enroll anytime during the year and we are so happy to have found her!

 

Writer’s Workshop – Oxford Tutorials Two Semesters

• Genesis
• Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• Orthodoxy by G.K.Chesterson
• Luke
• Acts
• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

Typing – MasterKey