A High School Plan

A friend of mine started Ambleside Online late and is trying to "catch up" with her daughter, who's in high school. She's done a couple of Years with AO, mixing and matching to try and use what her daughter missed from previous Years, but that was getting too complicated as she started the high school years. So we sat down and went through the various AO/HEO booklists, and this is what we came up with. Her daughter loves Shakespeare, so it's heavy in that area. :)

(For another look at a high school plan, see AO's "Plan B" - a lightened load of AO books for students who need less books. Year 7, Year 8, Year 9 and Year 10 are available, and each has a 36-week schedule. This is what I plan to use with J. Keola, my middle son. Year 11 will be done after T. Kekoa, my oldest son, finishes year 11's books in June 2007.)

high school credit system (21 credits) [click here]

Ninth Grade
2005-2006 (Revolution) Look at Year 4/9 for more book options
US History - Continue on with TCOO until completed at the end of next year
World History - Story of Mankind by Van Loon ch 44-52 (Religious Warfare-French Revolution)
Biography - Abigail Adams Witness to a Revolution
Poor Richard by James Daugherty
Literature - Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes?
Age of Fable (mythology)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Irving
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
Poetry - Phyllis Wheatley 1753-1784, the slave poet, Alexander Pope, William Cowper 1731- 1800, important as the voice of the Evangelical revival, Lord Byron
Shakespeare - Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Pericles Prince of Tyre, Richard II, Hamlet Prince of Denmark
Geography - The Complete Book of Marvels
Nature - Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton
Economics - Whatever Happened to Penny Candy by Richard Maybury
Worldview - C.S. Lewis: Mere Christianity
Add math, science (Apologia), Foreign language

Tenth Grade
2006-2007 (1800's) Look at year 5/10 for more book options
US History - This Country of Ours ch 64-99
World History - Story of Mankind ch 53-71 (Napoleon-WWI)
Biography - Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Literature - Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham?
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Poetry - Samuel Coleridge, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Percy Bysse Shelly, Thomas Hood
Shakespeare - Henry V, Merchant of Venice, Winter's Tale, Comedy of Errors, Richard III
Geography - Eothen, by Alexander Kinglake
Nature - Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Economics - Are You Liberal, Conservative, Confused? by Richard Maybury AND Essays by Jane Haldimand Marcet (online)
Worldview - The Deadliest Monster by Jeff Baldwin
Add math, science (Apologia), Foreign language

Eleventh Grade
2007-2008 Look at Year 6/11 for more book options (WWII and Modern era, and a term of ancient history)
World History - Story of Mankind ch 62-end
Third term - Story of the Greeks by H. A. Guerber
Third term - Story of the Romans by H. A. Guerber OR, possibly do Tales of Troy
Biography - Galileo and the Magic Numbers by Sidney Rosen
Literature - I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed) by Alessandro Manzoni
Poetry - Edna St. Vincent Millay, Carl Sandburg, WH Auden?
Shakespeare - King Henry VIII, Merry Wives of Windsor, Triolus and Cressida, Timon of Athens, Cymbelline
Grammar - Grammar: Our Mother Tongue: An Introductory Guide to English Grammar by Nancy Wilson
Geography - The World: Travels 1950-2000 by Jan Morris
Nature - The Sea Around Us by Rachael Carson
Economics - Whatever Happened to Justice, by Richard Maybury AND I, Pencil, a short essay by Leonard Read (online)
Worldview - Seven Men Who Rule the World from the Grave by David Breese
Add math, science (Apologia), Foreign language

Twelfth Grade
2009-2010 Look at Year 2/7 for more book options (Middle Ages)
World History - need a book
Biography - The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Joan of Arc by Mark Twain?
Literature - Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Once and Future King by T. H. White, ONLY Books 1 and 2
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
A Taste of Chaucer by Anne Malcolmson
add any free reading books from Year 7
Poetry - anyone who was missed from previous lists, OR use an anthology
Language Arts/Writing - The Elements of Style, by Strunk and White?
Shakespeare - Coriolanus, Love's Labor Lost, Julius Caesar, Two Gentlemen of Verona, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet
Geography - The Brendan Voyage by Tim Severin AND How the Heather Looks by Joan Bodger
Nature - The Life of the Spider by Fabre
Economics - Evaluating Books: What Would Thomas Jefferson Think About This? by Richard Maybury
Worldview - choose from AO/HEO years 9-12
Add math, science (Apologia), Foreign language