Anemone's 8th Grade Plan

I don’t know why I even bother making homeschool plans for Anemone; we never follow them. There’s this gaping chasm between what she’s able to do (everything) and what she’s willing to do (nothing) that has me so discouraged that I’m considering enrolling her in American School. 

Math

Saxon Advanced Math

I expect it will take Anemone two years to finish this book.

Latin

Wheelock’s

I’ve never been one of those “This curriculum just doesn’t work for my child!” people. If my child isn’t doing well with the materials I provide, it usually means my child needs to study more. But I’m sick of dragging Anemone through Henle, so I’m going to try dragging her through Wheelock’s for a while.

Greek

Elementary Greek 3

Logic

Material Logic

English

Essay writing, grammar review, poetry study. I’ll do this myself.

Literature

Homer
Vergil
The King James Bible 

History and Science

A Short History of the World; J. M. Roberts
A Short History of Nearly Everything; Bill Bryson 

After reading these books, Anemone will be allowed to read whatever popular titles she likes, which means she probably won’t read much of anything at all unless it involves animal attacks or poisoned darts. I think I’m okay with that.

Extracurricular Activities

Ballet
Piano  

JellyMan's 11th Grade Plan

JellyMan will be a junior next year! I suppose his handwriting is as good as it’s going to get. 

Math:

Saxon Calculus

Science (physics):

The Mechanical Universe
Physics and Our Universe: How it All Works 

Foreign Language (Latin IV, Greek III):

Henle Fourth Year Latin 
Athenaze Book 2
Xenophon’s Anabasis 

English

Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student; Corbett
The Elements of Style; Strunk and White
Essential Literary Terms; Sharon Hamilton
The Writer’s Workshop; Gregory Roper
NaNoWriMo
Script Frenzy

Great Books (history component):

Western Civilization, 6th ed.; Jackson Spielvogel
The Renaissance: A Short History; Paul Johnson
Time Tables of History; Bernard Grund
History: The Definitive Visual Guide; Adam Hart-Davis

The Declaration of Independence
Common Sense; Thomas Paine
The Federalist; Alexander Hamilton et al.
Constitution of the United States
“The Rights of Man”; Thomas Paine
“Self Reliance”; Ralph Waldo Emerson 
Letters of a Nation (selections); Andrew Carroll

Great Books (literature component)

The Well-Educated Mind; Susan Wise-Bauer
Psalms; King James Bible
Paradise Lost; John Milton
William Blake
Pride and Prejudice; Jane Austin
Frankenstein; Mary Shelley
William Wordsworth
Edgar Allen Poe 
Jane Eyre; Charlotte Bronte

Extracurricular Activities

Drama
SCUBA
Piano 

Now all we have to do is finish up THIS year…

Anemone's 7th Grade Plan

Anemone has always been a tough nut to crack. She’s very bright, but she doesn’t care for school. She never has. When she grows up, she wants to dance classical ballet, bake cakes, and watch old movies. Worthy goals, all, but it doesn’t help me much in my homeschool planning!

Math

• Saxon Algebra 2

Latin

• Henle Latin 1, units 8-14

Greek

• Elementary Greek 2

Logic

• Traditional Logic 2

English

• Homemade grammar/composition program based on Rod & Staff English, MCT’s Essay Voyage, and The Hobbit
• Poetry and Humanity; Michael Clay Thompson
• Vocabulary from Classical Roots
• The Scarlet Letter; Nathaniel Hawthorn
• Father Brown stories; G. K. Chesterton
• The Jungle Book; Rudyard Kipling
• The Time Machine; H. G. Wells
• Civil Disobedience; Henry David Thoreau
• “Pygmalion”; George Bernard Shaw
• poems by Longfellow, Frost, Whitman, Hughes
• KJV Bible
• The Abolition of Man; C. S. Lewis
• The Handbook of Christian Apologetics; Peter Kreeft

History/Science

Anemone likes reading about disease. I like to see Anemone reading, so I’m thinking of designing a year-long course on the history of epidemiology. I already own the following books:

Nonfiction

• Plagues and Peoples; William H. McNeill
• Guns, Germs, and Steel; Jared Diamond
• The Coming Plague; Laurie Garrett
• The Hot Zone; Richard Preston
• The Great Influenza; John M. Barry

Fiction

• A Journal of the Plague Year; Daniel Defoe
• The Plague; Albert Camus

I’d love to hear your suggestions, especially for good documentaries. Also, I have no idea how a course like this should be organized, so please, help me out here.

Extracurricular Activities

• Ballet 
• More ballet
• Piano

JellyMan's 10th Grade Plan

Oh, it’s that time again! Have your made your plans for the next homeschooling year? 

Math

• Saxon Calculus with Trigonometry and Analytical Geometry
• The Teaching Company’s Understanding Calculus: Problems, Solutions, and Tips; Professor Bruce. H. Edwards

JellyMan keeps changing his mind about math. First he wanted to complete Advanced Mathematics in one year. Then he decided to do it over two years, completing lessons 1-90 his freshman year and lessons 60-124 his sophomore year. Then he thought he might actually be better off starting over with the Art of Problem Solving program. Now he wants to do Saxon Calculus his sophomore year. I’m fine with that, but he’ll have to work through the summer to finish Advanced Mathematics first. No matter what he chooses to do, I’m sure he’ll continue to drive me insane.

Latin

• Henle Third Year Latin
• Latin Vulgate Bible

At least, this is what I think we’ll do. There are other options, but I haven’t really looked into them yet. You  see, I already own Henle Third Year and the Latin Vulgate. I don’t normally skimp on books, but we’re feeling a little squeezed this year. I hate to spend a lot of extra money looking for the BEST option when I already have a perfectly serviceable one sitting on my shelf.

Greek

• Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, Book 2

I won’t bother gathering supplemental materials for Greek this year; Athenaze takes up enough time all by itself. If JellyMan starts wanting to stab his own eyes out, I can download a free fable or twenty for extra translation work.

Rhetoric (English)

• Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student; Edward J. P. Corbett
• The Elements of Style; Strunk and White
• Essential Literary Terms: A Norton Guide With Exercises; Sharon Hamilton
• The Writer’s Workshop: Imitating Your Way to Better Writing; Gregory L. Roper
• Vocabulary From Classical Roots

JellyMan will begin by finishing Classical Writing With Aristotle (we’ll never finish before August), and then he’ll re-read The Elements of Style. He’ll take a month or three to write his way through The New Oxford Guide to Writing, and then he’ll begin Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. That will take him through the end of his sophomore year and will probably keep him busy through most of his junior year. He’ll continue on with Essential Literary Terms and The Writer’s Workshop whenever he needs a break from the daily grind. Vocabulary from Classical Roots will be studied whenever one of us remembers it.

Great Books

History Component:

• The Teaching Company’s Early, High, and Late Middle Ages; Professor Philip Daileader
• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century; Barbara Tuchman
• How the Irish Saved Civilization; Thomas Cahill
• The Mysteries of the Middle Ages; Thomas Cahill
• The Confessions; St. Augustine
• The Ecclesiastical History of the English People; Bede
• The Prince; Machiavelli
• Commentary on Galatians; Martin Luther

Literature Component:

• The Well-Educated Mind; Susan Wise-Bauer
• Poetry, Plato, and the Problem of Beauty; Michael Clay Thomas
• Literary essays by Umberto Eco, J. R. R. Tolkien, and C. S. Lewis
• Beowulf
• Mabinogion
• The Inferno; Dante
• Everyman
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Le Morte d’Arthur; Malory
• Utopia; Thomas More
• Doctor Faustus; Christopher Marlowe
• The Faerie Queene, Book 1 (the rest is optional); Edmund Spencer 
• Julius Caesar; Shakespeare
• Hamlet; William Shakespeare

He’ll just read through as many of these books as he can, and if he gets through them all, I have more! Lots more! I hope he wants to read the Decameron.

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I have a Decameron story. When we were young, The Man worked as a night clerk at a crummy hotel in downtown Anchorage, Alaska. (Here night clerk means big bad bouncer.) After one particularly long night of tactfully running off prostitutes and not-so-tactfully breaking up drug deals, The Man sank into his chair at the front desk and picked up our battered copy of the Decameron, hoping to sneak in a few stories before the morning rush. Of course, two pages into the fifth tale of the fourth day, a guest required his assistance. (Isn’t that always the way?) This guy is Italian, a fight in the alley woke him, since he’s up he’ll check out early, he doesn’t want to miss the train to the glacier, and what is this desk clerk reading, the Decameron, but he wrote his DISSERTATION on the Decameron, it is so wonderful, America is so wonderful, this young DESK CLERK is reading the Decameron, for the love of God, he’s reading Boccaccio in Alaska for pleasure, that’s AMAZING, beautiful, beautiful America.

And then The Man had to go outside and break up a dice game. The end.

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This year we’re shooting for two 8-10 page papers and three 5-7 page essays in addition to his weekly writing assignments.

Science

JellyMan just finished his geology course! Yay! He’ll have plenty of time to get through a very basic conceptual physics book before beginning astronomy. (We’re just using Basic Physics: A Self-Teaching Guide by Karl F. Kuhn.) Not for credit, you understand; this is just for background information.

• The Cosmos: Astronomy in the New Millennium, 3rd. ed.; Jay M. Pasachoff and Alex Filippenko
• The Teaching Company’s Understanding the Universe; Professor Alex Felippenko
• various online resources

He’ll watch the lectures, read the book, answer the questions, do activities online, and keep an astronomy journal. I would also like to assign a research paper, but I cannot tell a lie—we probably won’t get to it. 

Extracurricular Activities

• piano
• Shakespearian drama 
• SCUBA 

I don’t know how much scuba-ing the poor kid will get to do this year; it’s insanely expensive, and we’re not wealthy. Why can’t my Goobs have cheap hobbies? Soccer? Drawing? Guitar? No?

No.

JellyMan's Rhetoric Stage Sequence

Don't mind me; I'm just thinking out loud.

9th Grade

Pre-Calculus:  Saxon Advanced Math
Latin:  Henle Latin book 2
Greek:  Athenaze book 1
English Grammar:  Rod & Staff English 9
Geology:  Understanding Earth, by Press, Siever, Grotzinger, and Jordan; Lab Manual for Physical Geography, by Zumberge, Rutford, and Carter; The Teaching Company's "How the Earth Works"
Rhetoric:  Classical Rhetoric with Aristotle
Great Books I: to 400 A.D. 

10th Grade

Calculus:  Saxon Calculus
Latin:  Henle Latin book 3
Greek:  Athenaze book 2
English Grammar: Rod & Staff English 10
Astronomy:  This course from Cornell University and The Teaching Company's "Understanding the Universe" 
Rhetoric:  A Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston and The New Oxford Guide to Writing by Thomas S. Kane
Great Books II:  400-1600 A. D.

11th Grade

Physics 1:  The Mechanical Universe by Frautschi, Olenick, Apostol, & Goodstein
Latin:  Henle Latin Book 4
Greek:  Anabasis
Biology:  ??? (maybe a summer course at local community college)
Rhetoric:  Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student by Edward P. J. Corbett
Great Books III:  1600-1850 A.D.

12th Grade

Physics 2: Beyond the Mechanical Universe by Olenick, Apostol, & Goodstein
Latin:  Virgil
Greek:  Homer
Chemistry:  Chemical Principles by Dickerson, Gray, & Haight; The Illustrated Guide to Home Laboratory Experiments by Robert Bruce Thompson
Great Books IV:  1850 to present day

JellyMan's 9th Grade Homeschool Plan

Math:  Saxon Advanced Math 

Math is the easiest decision for me to make - we'll just do the next book in the Saxon series.  No supplements, no enrichment, no fantastical journeys through abstract mathematical theory.  JellyMan has never had any interest in math and just wants to get through calculus, take his CLEP test and be done with it forever.  (It's a crying shame, but he is who he is.) 

Latin:  Henle Latin Book 2

This is another easy decision - we'll just go on to Henle Latin Book 2, using Lingua Latina and Lingua Angelica as supplemental materials.  

Greek:  Athenaze Book 1

I'm not anticipating him having any trouble with Athenaze; he is burning through the Elementary Greek series, usually completing a week's worth of exercises in one day.  (And remembering everything effortlessly.  I'm so jealous.)  Still, I'd like to find him a class - he shouldn't have to teach himself everydamnthing, and I want him to take a few outside courses just so he can prove to college admissions officers that he is fully functional.  I'm thinking we'll go with Lukieon in spite of the time difference; getting up at 0400 once a week won't kill him, and it might build a little of that character we homeschoolers are always yammering on about. 

Hebrew: The First Hebrew Primer, 3rd ed.

I can't see Hebew earning a spot on the transcript until 11th grade (if ever), but JellyMan is interested now so why not buy him a book?  Whatever he accomplishes this year is fine with me - it's up to him. 

English Grammar & Composition:  Ugh.

I have never found an English program I can use as written.  Rod & Staff is great for grammar, but I don't like the way they approach poetry or composition.  I think the information on poetry and composition in the Classical Writing program is wonderful, but the implementation doesn't do us much good at all - I'd much rather he write essays about the literature and history he's reading already.  So I have two choices here.  We can keep doing what we're doing:

1.  Spend 10-20 minutes a day going through the grammar exercises in R&S orally (diagramming sentences on paper and simply reading the composition and poetry lessons).

2.  Read the Classical Writing books once the R&S book has been completed, completing one writing exercise for the most advanced topic and spending one session doing the more complicated sentence diagramming.  (CW Poetry gets a little more time and effort.)

3.  Write outlines and essays for history, science, and literature The Well-Trained Mind way.

Or I could try something completely different and order Michael Clay Thompson's Magic Lens series.  As far as I can tell, most of it would serve as review, but the new format might be a welcome change.

Oh, what to do?  Luckily it doesn't really matter; English is his "thing" and he'll do well no matter program we choose.  Actually, he'd do well with no program at all.  I don't know why I'm even worrying about this. 

History:  World History 1 (Ancient History)

He will either read the first three books in Will Durant's The Story of Civilization series:  

• Our Oriental Heritage


• The Life of Greece


• Caesar and Christ 

or study history exactly as written in The Well-Trained Mind.  I'm leaving the final choice up to him.  Either way, he will write a six to eight page history paper in the spring.

Science:  Geology

We pretty much "unschooled" science throughout the elementary and middle school years, and now it's time to buckle down.  He'll read the relevant chapters of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything this summer, then go on to use my college geology texts:

• Understanding Earth, 4th ed.


• Physical Geology lab manual

and syllabus along with the "Understanding the Earth" lectures from The Teaching Company.  I'm so glad I kept my quizzes, tests, and labs from my college course - it will save me so much time! 

Literature:  World Literature 1

I'm thinking I will expect a three to five page essay on four of these works, but will be satisfied with a one to two page essay on the rest.  You'll notice that Homer and Virgil are missing from the list; that's because he read The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid in middle school, and if all goes as planned he'll read at least parts of them again in the original Greek and Latin by the end of his senior year.

1st Quarter:

• Epic of Gilgamesh


• The Theban Plays; Sophocles


• The Oresteia; Aeschylus

2nd Quarter

• The Histories; Herodotus


• Medea; Euripides


• The Birds; Aristophanes

3rd Quarter:

• The History of the Peloponnesian War; Thucydides


• On the Nature of Things; Lucretius

4th Quarter:

• Metamorphoses; Ovid


• Annals of Imperial Rome; Tacitus

This is the second reading list I've drawn up.  The first was more exhaustive, but after I gathered all the books together I felt as though I might be punishing JellyMan for being, well, who he is.  I cut it down by about 1,500 pages, but I left the stack of books out on the table, and now he's walking around the house with his nose stuck in The Oresteia.  

And he just requested Sun-Tzu's The Art of War.  

Logic:  Material Logic 

He is due to start this soon, but probably won't finish it until the middle of October or so.  After he finishes Material Logic, he'll begin:

Rhetoric:  Classical Rhetoric with Aristotle

This course includes readings from Aristotle's Rhetoric, Mortimer Adler's How to Read a Book, and periodic Latin review.  It will most likely take him into the next school year. 

Religion:  Early Church History 

• The Fathers of the Church: An Introduction to the First Christian Teachers; Mike Aquilina


• The Mass of the Early Christians; Mike Aquilina


• History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine; Eusebius

Fine Arts:  What isn't he doing?

I don't have these lessons lined up just yet (we're still trying to figure out the "who's who" of the Oahu arts scene, not to mention local traffic patterns) but he'll keep on with piano, drama, and tap.  I'll also keep dragging him to art museums and making him watch art documentaries and assigning the appropriate pages of Janson's History of Art.  We'll do music theory and appreciation with:

• Scales, Intervals, Keys, and Triads: A Programmed Book of Elementary Music Theory, 1st ed.; John Clough  


• The Understanding of Music, 2nd ed.; Charles R. Hoffer. 

This is also the year I make a concerted effort to get JellyMan drawing.  Seriously.  I mean it this time. I'm going to try everything Donna Young recommends.  If that fails (knowing me, it probably will), I'll spring for drawing lessons.

P.E.:  I don't know yet!

Scuba?  Sailing?  Tae kwon do?  All three?  Time will tell.  He'll go on his first dive this week.  I hope he likes it!  And I fervently hope he doesn't get eaten by a shark. High school planning and sharks - I'm battling some serious mommy angst right now.

Anemone's Logic Stage Sequence

Today's post was inspired by this thread over at The Well-Trained Mind forums.  Anemone is in 5th grade this year, and I spent pretty much the entire month of January figuring out where to go from here.  This is what I came up with.

5th Grade

Saxon 8/7
Henle Latin 1
Rod & Staff English 7
Nature Study
Famous Men of the Middle Ages; John H. Haaren

Reading List

-  Tales From the Mabinogian; Gwyn Thomas and Kevin Crossley-Holland
-  Druids, Gods & Heroes from Celtic Mythology; Anne Ross
-  King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table; Howard Pyle
-  The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood; Howard Pyle
-  Beowulf
-  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
-  Hamlet; Shakespeare
-  KJV Bible

Dance
Piano

6th Grade

Saxon Algebra 1
Henle Latin 1
Elementary Greek 1
Traditional Logic 1
Rod & Staff English 8
Classical Writing: Beginning Poetry
Vocabulary from Classical Roots
Nature Study
Famous Men of Modern Times; John H. Haaren and A. B. Poland

Reading List

- "A Voyage to Lilliput" and "A Voyage to Brobdingnag"; Jonathan Swift
-  Treasure Island; Robert Louis Stevenson
-  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle; Washington Irving
-  "The Way to Wealth"; Benjamin Franklin
-  Emma; Jane Austin
-  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Mark Twain
-  A Christmas Carol; Charles Dickens
-  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave; Frederick Douglass
-  poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Browning, Rossetti, Tennyson
-  KJV Bible
-  Luther's Small Catechism

Dance
Piano

7th Grade

Saxon Algebra 2
Henle Latin 1
Elementary Greek 2
Traditional Logic 2
Rod & Staff English 9
Classical Writing: Intermediate Poetry
Vocabulary from Classical Roots
The Story of the World IV
Nature Study

Reading List

-  The Scarlet Letter; Nathaniel Hawthorn
-  Little Women; Louisa Alcott
-  Father Brown stories; G. K. Chesterton
-  The Jungle Book; Rudyard Kipling
-  The Time Machine; H. G. Wells
-  The Call of the Wild; Jack London
-  Civil Disobedience; Henry David Thoreau
-  Little Women; Louisa Alcott
-  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Mark Twain
-  To Kill a Mockingbird; Harper Lee
-  "Pygmalion"; George Bernard Shaw
-  poems by Longfellow, Frost, Whitman, Hughes
-  KJV Bible
-  The Abolition of Man; C. S. Lewis
-  The Handbook of Christian Apologetics; Peter Kreeft

Dance
Piano

8th Grade

Saxon Advanced Math
Henle Latin 2
Elementary Greek 3
Material Logic
Rod & Staff English 10
Classical Writing: Advanced Poetry
Vocabulary from Classical Roots
A Short History of the World; John Morris Roberts
Science Matters: Achieving Scientific Literacy; Robert M. Hazen and James Trefil

Reading List

-  Bulfinch's Mythology; Thomas Bulfinch
-  The Iliad; Homer
-  The Odyssey; Homer
-  The Aeneid; Vergil
-  KJV Bible
-  Orthodoxy; G. K. Chesterton
-  Heretics; G. K. Chesterton
-  Mere Christianity; C. S. Lewis

Dance
Piano

This plan (like all the other plans I've made through the years) is subject to change.  Have I mentioned how beautiful it is here in Hawaii? 

JellyMan's 8th Grade Homeschool Plan

Math

Saxon Algebra 2

Grammar/Composition

• Rod & Staff English 8
• Classical Writing Poetry for Beginners 
• Classical Writing Diogenes: Maxim

Foreign Language

• Henle Latin 1 (units 8-14)
• Elementary Greek 2

History

Famous Men of Modern Times
Story of the World Volume 4
The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia

A Short History of the World; J. M. Roberts

Science

• Nature study
• Science Matters; Robert M. Hazen and James Trefil

Literature

How to Read a Book; Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren (all year)

1st Quarter:

• Plains Indian Mythology; Alice Marriot and Carol K. Rachlin
• The Scarlet Letter; Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (never mind - he's already read it)

2nd Quarter:

• "Self-Reliance"; Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Walden; Henry David Thoreau
• Civil Disobedience; Henry David Thoreau

3rd Quarter:

• The Last of the Mohicans; James Fenimore Cooper
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Mark Twain
• To Kill a Mockingbird; Harper Lee

4th Quarter:

• "Paul Revere's Ride"; Walt Whitman
• "Young Goodman Brown"; Nathaniel Hawthorne
• "The Fall of the House of Usher"; Edgar Allen Poe
• "O Captain! My Captain!"; Walt Whitman
• "The Lottery"; Shirley Jackson
• "To Build a Fire"; Jack London
• "The Gift of the Magi"; O. Henry
• "Hiawatha"; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Logic

Traditional Logic 2

Christian Studies

• King James Version Bible (all year)
• Lingua Angelica (all year)

1st Quarter:

• The Abolition of Man; C. S. Lewis

2nd Quarter:

• Mere Christianity; C. S. Lewis

3rd Quarter:

• Socrates Meets Jesus; Peter Kreeft

4th Quarter:

• The Handbook of Christian Apologetics; Peter Kreeft and Ronald K. Tacelli

Fine Arts

Drama (lessons, productions, sets, crew)
Piano
Art History (Sister Wendy books/videos)
Tap dancing 

Anemone's 5th Grade Homeschool Plan

Math

Saxon 8/7

Grammar

Rod & Staff English 7

Foreign Language

Henle Latin 1
First Start French

History

Famous Men of Medieval Times
The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia
Jackdaw Portfolios: The Black Death

Literature

Tales From the Mabinogian; Gwyn Thomas and Kevin Crossley-Holland
Druids, Gods & Heroes from Celtic Mythology; Anne Ross
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table; Howard Pyle
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood; Howard Pyle
A Midsummer Night's Dream; William Shakespeare
Beowulf (I haven't yet chosen a translation)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (I haven't yet chosen a translation)

Science

Nature study using a modified version of the Mother of Divine Grace Natural History syllabus

Christian Studies

King James Version Bible
Lingua Angelica

Fine Arts

Piano
Dance (ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, youth theatre productions)
Art History (Sister Wendy videos)

2008-2009 Curriculum

We school year round, so we've started some of these programs already.  They've completed a good chunk of the math and English texts, but they're still finishing up their review of last year's Latin programs and I won't start anyone on Greek or Logic until September.

JellyMan (7th grade)

• Math:  Saxon Algebra 1
• Grammar:  Rod & Staff Grammar 7
• Composition:  Classical Writing:  Aesop and Homer for Older Beginners
• Logic:  Traditional Logic 1 from Memoria Press
• Latin:  Henle Latin 1, Units 1-7
• Greek:  Athenaze Greek, Chapters 1-4*

Anemone (4th grade)

• Math:  Saxon 7/6
• Grammar:  Rod & Staff Grammar 6
• Latin:  Latina Christiana II
• Greek:  Athenaze Greek, Chapter 1*

Content areas (history, science, literature, religion, etc.) will continue to be studied through various books, videos, primary sources, essays, field trips, journals, and projects.  They'll also have their extra-curricular activities, which include piano, dance, drama, and scouts.

* I'll be happy if we get through the alphabet this year!

So, have you planned or purchased your materials yet?  Has anyone found a fabulous new resource?  Our big experiment this year will be Classical Writing.  I'll use it in place of the writing assignments in Rod & Staff, and we'll do the majority of the Rod & Staff exercises orally.  (He'll still be diagramming sentences, though!)  There is no expository writing in CW, but we cover that well enough in our content areas so I think JellyMan will be okay.  I am impressed with the results so far!