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!

Craft Room Organization - Stamp Sets

Here's another sneak peek at one of my organization solutions before the grand craft room reveal. My stamp sets all live in this cabinet.

My unmounted rubber stamps are in clear DVD cases.

My acrylic and clear stamps stay on their packaging sheets and go in clear plastic pockets. I make my own index sheet for each set and then file them by manufacturer in these clear refrigerator bins.

Sometimes I have to go digging if I want something really specific, but in general, I can remember what I have and which manufacturer makes it.

Getting closer to the whole reveal! I can't wait!

Craft Room Organization - Paper

 

I've got a whole craft room redo coming but wanted to give a couple of sneak peeks at some of my organization solutions.Here is how I store my cardstock:
8.5 x 11 sheets are stored on their sides in Flyt magazine holders from Ikea.
I use 3-tab manila folders to divide my colors and distinguish which company they are from. I cut a little tab with Stampin Up bread label punch and adhere it to the side of the folder. The folders also hold all of my scraps for that color.

Generic cardstock is also in magazine holders, but I don't label it. This is also where my heavy cardstock for card bases and alcohol marker cardstock lives.

12x12 cardstock and patterned paper lives in plastic 12x12 paper holders. I have a bunch of the old Cropper Hopper version and recently was able to get my thin CH sleeves organized into similar holders from StorageStudios (sold by A.C. Moore).

More sneak peeks (and an amazing new craft room reveal) coming soon!

Craft Room Organization - Die Cutting

I've got a whole craft room redo coming but wanted to give a couple of sneak peeks at some of my organization solutions. Here is how I store my cutting dies:
Basic shapes, like circles, stars, scallops, labels, are in this little drawer. I think I got it at Staples years ago. It came with little hanging double-sided CD sleeves. I put a little piece of thin magnet sheet on a piece of cardstock in each sleeve to help keep the dies secure.

My larger dies of various shapes, like scenery, cover plates, edges, borders, etc., are in plastic storage sleeves in this basket.

If I have dies that coordinate with a stamp set, they go in the stamp sleeve or stamp case with those stamps and are stored elsewhere.
More sneak peeks coming soon!

Homeschool Reading List - 12th Grade Modern History

Here is the reading list I put together for my 12th grader. That year they were studying modern American history (1877 to the present) so quite a few of these titles fit with that time period. You'll also notice quite a few poetry selections just for exposure. (+ means any title by that author) Enjoy!

Title	Author
1984	Orwell, George
Against All Hope	Valladares, Armando
All Creatures Great and Small +	Herriot, James
All the King's Men	Warren, Robert Penn
American Leonardo	Mabee, Carleton
Brave New World	Huxley, Aldous
Diary of a Country Priest +	Bernanos, George
Divergent +	Roth, Veronica
Dream Thief	Lawhead, Stephen
Every Living Thing	Herriot, James
For Whom the Bell Tolls	Hemingway, Ernest
Gone with the Wind	Mitchell, Margaret
Great Gatsby	Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Green Mansions +	Hudson, William H
Heart of Darkness +	Conrad, Joseph
In This Sign	Greenberg, Joanne
Inherit the Wind	Lawrence, Jerome
Invisible Man	Ellison, Robert
Looking Backward	Bellamy, Edward
Lord of the Flies	Golding, William
Lord Peter +	Sayers, Dorothy
Master and Commander	O'Brian, Patrick
Murder on the Orient Express	Christie, Agatha
My Antonia	Cather, Willa
Night	Wiesel, Elie
Of Mice and Men	Steinbeck, John
Old Creole Days +	Cable, George Washington
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich +	Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek	Dillard, Annie
Poems	Lewis, C.S.
Poems	Keats, John
Poems	Byron, Lord
Poems	Shelley, Percy  Blythe
Poems	Scott, Sir Walter
Poems	Wordsworth, William
Poems of Coleridge	Symons
Ramona	Jackson, Helen Hunt
Scott's Last Expedition	Scott, Robert
Short Stories and Tales, Complete	Poe, Edgar Allan
The Age of Innocence	Wharton, Edith
The Caine Mutiny	Wouk, Herman
The Catcher in the Rye	Salinger, J.D.
The Contender	Lipsyte, Robert
The Cross and the Switchblade	Wilkerson, David
The Cruel Sea	Monsarrat, Nicholas
The Death of Ivan Ilyitch	Tolstoy, Leo
The Fairy Tale of My Life	Anderson, Hans Christian
The Giver	Lowry, Lois
The Good Earth	Buck, Pearl S
The Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John
The Man Who Was Called Thursday	Chesterton, G.K.
The Necklace and Other Stories +	DeMaupassant, Guy
The Nine Tailors	Sayers, Dorothy
The Old Man and the Sea	Hemingway, Ernest
The Power and the Glory +	Greene, Graham
The Trial	Kafka, Franz
Things Fall Apart	Achebe, Chinua
To Kill a Mockingbird	Lee, Harper
To the Lighthouse	Woolf, Virginia
Unbroken	Hillenbrand, Laura
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David
War and Peace	Tolstoy, Leo
War of the Worldviews	DeMar, Gary
Witness	Chambers, Whittaker

Homeschool Reading List - 11th Grade Early U.S. History & American Literature

Here is the reading list I put together for my 11th grader. That year they were studying American history up to 1877 so quite a few of these titles fit with that time period. (the + means any title by that author) Enjoy!

Title	Author
A Death in the Family	Agee, James
A Doll's House	Ibsen, Henrik
A Handful of Dust	Waugh, Evelyn
A Single Pebble	Hersey, John
A Town Like Alice	Shute, Nevil
Abraham Lincoln	Sandburg, Carl
All Quiet on the Western Front	Remarque, Erich
Amazing Adventures of Father Brown	Chesterton, G.K.
Americanization of Edward Bok	Bok, Edward
And Quiet Flows the Don	Sholokhov, Mikhail
Babbitt	Lewis, Sinclair
Bleak House	Dickens, Charles
Borden of Yale	Taylor, Mrs. Howard
Captain Cook's Explorations	Cook, James
Charterhouse of Parma +	Stendahl
Crime and Punishment	Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Cripps, the Carrier	Blackmore, Richard
Darkness at Noon	Koestler, Arthur
Darwin's Black Box	Behe, Michel
David Copperfield	Dickens, Charles
Death Comes for the Archbishop	Cather, Willa
Diary and Autobiography of John Adams	ed. Butterfield, L.
Doctor Zhivago	Pasternak, Boris
Education of Henry Adams	Adams, Henry
Emma	Austen, Jane
Erewhon	Butler, Samuel
Fathers and Sons +	Turgenev, Ivan
Four Voyages to the New World	Columbus, Christopher
Frankenstein	Shelley, Mary
From Basic to Baghdad
How I Found Livingstone	Stanley, Sir Henry Morton
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor
Life of George Washington	Irving, Washington
Life on the Mississippi	Twain, Mark
Little Novels of Sicily	Verga, Giovanni
Look Homeward, Angel	Wolfe, Thomas
Lord Jim	Conrad, Joseph
Martin Chuzzlewitt	Dickens, Charles
Master of Ballantrae	Stevenson, Robert Louis
Miracle at Philadelphia	Bowen, Catherine
Moby Dick +	Melville, Herman
North and South	Gaskell, Elizabeth
Oregon Trail	Parkman, Francis
Our Mutual Friend	Dickens, Charles
Poems	Dickinson, Emily
Poems	Frost, Robert
Poems (The Works of…)	Rossetti, Christina
Pygmalion	Shaw, George Bernard
Raven: a Biography of Sam Houston	James, Marquis
Rob Roy	Scott, Sir Walter
Scaramouche	Sabatini, Rafael
Servant of Slaves +	Irwin, Grace
Sevastopol Sketches +	Tolstoy, Leo
Sons and Lovers	Lawrence, D.H.
The Brothers Karamazov	Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
The Cherry Orchard	Chekhov, Anton
The Count of Monte Cristo	Dumas, Alexandre
The Covenant +	Michener, James
The Crisis	Paine, Thomas
The Fault in Our Stars	Green, John
The House of Seven Gables +	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Journal of George Fox	Fox, George
The Journal of John Wesley	Wesley, John
The Last of the Mohicans	Cooper, James Fenimore
The Life and Diary of David Brainerd	Brainerd, David
The Life and Voyages of Columbus	Irving, Washington
The Life of Samuel Johnson	Boswell, James
The Mill on the Floss	Eliot, George
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Wilde, Oscar
The Red and the Black	Stendahl
The Song at the Scaffold	von Le Fort, Gertrud
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Stevenson, Robert Louis
The Virginians +	Thackery, William
Uncle Tom's Cabin	Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Up From Slavery	Washington, Booker T.
Villette	Bronte, Charlotte
Washington Square	James, Henry
Wuthering Heights	Bronte, Emily

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