10th Grade Homeschool Curriculum Choices - World History

Much like last year, we still have a few hands-on projects, but our overall schoolwork has shifted to more writing and textbooks than picture-worthy assignments.

Tenor's senior year is completely dual enrollment at the local tech college. For him, all I need to do is file paperwork with the state and help him with his English Comp papers. Totally different type of year for him.

Soprano's high school years continue with her sophomore year. Here's what she's using:

Math: Saxon Algebra 2 and Life of Fred books
We are plugging away through the Saxon series, continuing with Algebra 2 this year. She'll also do several chapters in Life of Fred every couple weeks. She should finish 1 or 2 LOF books this year.

English/Bible/History/Geography: My Father's World - World History and Literature
Soprano is continuing with My Father's World this year. Lots of British Lit...totally my genre. Will we be watching all of the Jane Austen adaptation movies this year? Oh, definitely yes!

She also has a required literature list from which she needs to pick at least 20 books. Plus there is a good selection of lit recommended in WHL (see the stack with red tape on the spines).

Science: Guest Hollow Chemistry in the Kitchen
I came across this option for a non-math-y chemistry program that seemed like it would fit Soprano's style better than a traditional textbook option. (Update on this since it's taken me all year to post our curricula choices... she loves this program! My very non-sciency kid talks about what she's learning in science all the time! We're such fans that we'll be using Guest Hollow again next year for 11th grade.)

Music/Art: Harmony Fine Arts 10th grade plans
Soprano will also be working towards a fine arts credit using the Harmony Fine Arts plans from 10th to 12th grade. This year she'll be focusing on Renaissance and Baroque art and classical and early romantic composers.

 

Foreign Language: Last year of French. I found this book, French: The Easy Way, that we'll use in conjunction with some French readers and DuoLingo.

Electives:
Career Exploration - 1/2 credit
Working through what 'work' is, what 'calling' is, and potential future careers (as well as college majors) for Soprano's personality and giftings. We're using Understanding God's Calling from the Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics and Career Exploration from 7 Sisters.

Creative Writing - 1 credit
Soprano is taking on another year of creative writing. Her stories are so funny and imaginative. This year we're using The Creative Writer by Sharon Watson.

Interior Design - 1 credit
Soprano loved this last year and was excited to continue. It took a bit of work to find resources I could put together into a course, but this is what I found online.

These lit-based curricula make the amount of needed books look insane!

Homeschool Reading List - 10th Grade World History & British Lit Theme

Here is the reading list I put together for my 10th grader in addition to the books suggested by My Father's World. That year they were studying  world history and British literature so quite a few of these titles fit with that time period. (the + means any title by that author) Enjoy!

Title	Author
A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada	Irving, Washington
A Man for All Seasons	Bolt, Richard
Ballad of the White Horse	Chesterton, G.K.
Barchester Towers +	Trollope, Anthony
Barnaby Rudge	Dickens, Charles
Bulfinch's Mythology: Age of Chivalry & Legends of Charlemagne	Bulfinch, Thomas
Candide	Voltaire
Chivalry +	Cabell, James Branch
Cyrano de Bergerac (GN)	Rostand, Edmond
Gargantua and Pantagruel	Rabelais, Francois
Hamlet	Shakespeare, William
Henry IV	Shakespeare, William
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther	Bainton, Roland H.
Hidden Figures	Shetterly, Margot Lee
Ivanhoe	Scott, Sir Walter
Jane Eyre	Bronte, Charlotte
Kenilworth	Scott, Sir Walter
King Lear	Shakespeare, William
Lorna Doone	Blackmore, Richard
Macbeth	Shakespeare, William
Middlemarch	Eliot, George
Much Ado About Nothing	Shakespeare, William
Murder in the Cathedral	Eliot, T.S.
Nicholas Nickleby	Dickens, Charles
Old Curiousity Shop	Dickens, Charles
Paradise War (trilogy)	Lawhead, Stephen
Pere Goirot	de Balzac, Honore
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc	Twain, Mark
Poems	Burns, Robert
Prisoner of Zenda	Hawkins, Anthony Hope
Rabble in Arms +	Roberts, Kenneth
Selected Poems	Milton, John
Sense and Sensibility +	Austen, Jane
Shakepeare's Sonnets	Shakespeare, William
Tales of the Alhambra	Irving, Washington
Taming of the Shrew	Shakespeare, William
The Betrothed	Manzoni, Alessandro
The Black Tulip	Dumas, Alexandre
The Divine Comedy (GN)	Dante
The Help	Scott, Kathryn
The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Hugo, Victor
The Man in the Iron Mask	Dumas, Alexandre
The Once and Future King	White, T.H.
The Roots of the Mountains	Morris, William
The Scottish Chiefs	Porter, Jane
The Talisman	Scott, Sir Walter
The Three Musketeers	Dumas, Alexandre
The Travels of Marco Polo	Polo, Marco
The Vicar of Wakefield	Goldsmith, Oliver
Twenty Years After	Dumas, Alexandre
Vanity Fair	Thackery, William Makepeace
With Fire and Sword	Sienkiewicz, Henryk

2017-2018 Homeschool Curricula Choices for 10th Grade

Two posts in one day??? Shocking, I know. :)
I sort of talked about where the blog has disappeared to over in this post about Soprano's curricula.

This post will shift to what Tenor has been using for his sophomore year of homeschool.
{Yeah, sophomore. 10th grade. Two years left. I am not old enough for that to be happening so obviously I'm stuck in some sort of weird, Doctor Who-esque time paradox type thing. ;) }

Whether I'm prepared for it or not, here are Tenor's courses.

Math: Saxon Advanced Math
In this edition of the book, we are able to count it as two credits. The first half of the book is Geometry with Advanced Algebra. The second half of the book is Trigonometry with Pre-Calculus.
Fortunately, Tenor has been rocking this out and has needed practically zero help from me. (Which is great because despite my absolute surety that I'm not *that* old, it has been a seriously long time since I've done Trig or Calculus.)

English/Bible/History/Geography: My Father's World - World History and Literature
We're sticking with MFW. The biblical worldview is integrated extremely well; the literature selections are thought-provoking without being controversial or edgy; the composition instruction is thorough; and the overall package is put together very well.
Plus Tenor got to read Pride and Prejudice this year, which meant I got to watch that yummy 6-hour A&E movie version with him. :)

While I also assigned him a required literature list, MFW gave some great suggestions too. He's been trying to read through as many as possible.

Science: Bass planned an Arduino programming course for Tenor that involves lots of little wire bits floating around the family room. LOL The resources he's using include:
Arduino Cookbook by Michael Margolis

Introduction to Arduino: A Piece of Cake PDF

Programming Arduino: Getting Started with Sketches by Simon Monk

http://playground.arduino.cc/Main/ManualsAndCurriculum

https://programmingelectronics.com/home/

www.udemy.com/learn-to-program-cpp/
www.udemy.com/arduino-sbs-getting-serious/learn/v4/overview

and SparkFun Inventor’s Kit and Guide v3.3 (www.sparkfun.com/products/13970)

Foreign Language: Hey, Andrew! Teach Me Some Greek! Level 6

Music/Art: Harmony Fine Arts 10th grade plans

Electives:

Personal Finance: Foundations in Personal Finance by Dave Ramsey
This one, Soprano and Tenor are going through together. It's been helpful to be studying it at the same time. The course says it is for homeschool but there are several 'class' activities that didn't translate well to only two students.

Geography: North Star Geography
Yup, we did this together too, starting last summer to make the schedule not so full in the fall. Soprano kept up very well.

Logic: Art of Argument
This was a much better logic course for Tenor than last year's Fallacy Detective/Thinking Toolbox.

Career Exploration: Understanding God's Calling and Career Exploration from 7 Sisters Homeschooling

Throw in Driver's Ed this spring plus his Taekwondo practices and youth group plus church ministry....it's been a busy (and very good) year.

Do any of you have a student that has seemingly grown-up overnight? What are you using for high school curricula?