Starting J's Year 9 Booklist

I worked out J's booklist to schedule only two books per day, and leave Fridays open for co-op. This is part of our new commitment to focus on relationships this coming year and pay more attention to narration. These are the books he'll be doing this coming school year:

The Age of Revolution by Winston Churchill (history spine)
The Royal Road to Romance by Richard Halliburton (geography/travel)
George Washington, from Four Great Americans by James Baldwin
Napoleon by H.E. Marshall
Miracle at Philadelphia by Catherine Drinker Bowen
Are You Liberal, Conservative, or Confused? by Richard Maybury
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Essays by Jane Haldimand Marcet (five shorts about economics)
Love is a Fallacy - an essay by Max Schulman
The History of English Literature for Girls and Boys by H.E. Marshall ch 63-73
Grammar for Dummies by Geraldine Woods
The Count of Monte Cristo by Victor Dumas
War of the Worldviews by Gary DeMar
Postmodern Times by Gene Edward Veith
Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif (2 chapters)
Saints and Heroes, Vol 2 by George Hodges (2 chapters)
The Story of Painting by H. W. Janson - two sections
The God Who is There by Francis Schaeffer
The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
John Adams and the American Revolution by Catherine Drinker Bowen

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His schedule will look like this:

Sunday devotional/free reading:
The God Who is There by Francis Schaeffer or Practicing the Presence of God

Monday:
The Age of Revolution by Churchill (part one)
Grammar or The History of English Literature

Tuesday:
The Age of Revolution by Churchill (part two)
War of Worldviews or Postmodern Times or Microbe Hunters or Saints and Heroes or The Story of Painting

Wednesday:
The Royal Road to Romance by Richard Halliburton
Economics/Government reading (book or essay)

Thursday:
Washington or Napoleon Biography or Miracle at Philadelphia
The Count of Monte Cristo

Friday:
co-op

weekend free reading:
John Adams by Catherine D. Bowen

To this will be added daily math, copywork, typing, a couple of weekly written narrations, Russian, and subjects we do together (art, music, Plutarch, Shakespeare).