Homeschooling Grade Nine
Included here is a sample homeschool checklist for a grade nine child who works independently most of the time. We have also listed the collection of curriculum and materials we may use at some point during the ninth grade.
GRADE NINE HOMESCHOOL SCHEDULE
DEVOTIONS
____ Prayer
____ Audio Bible
____ Devotion
MATH
____ Saxon Advanced Math
____ ABeka Consumer Math
BIOLOGY / SCIENCE
____ Text
____ CD
____ Labs *
____ GRAMMAR
____ SPELLING *
____ VOCABULARY *
WRITING
____ DVD
____ Practice
____ Text
LITERATURE / HISTORY / THEOLOGY
____ Primary Omnibus
____ Secondary Omnibus
LOGIC
____ Text
____ Workbook
LATIN
____ Flashcards *
FRENCH
____ Rosetta Stone
____ Pimsleur
____ Flashcards *
____ MUSIC
____ TYPING
GRADE NINE HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM
DEVOTIONS
Prayer
Audio Bible
Devotion
MATH
Saxon Advanced Math
Saxon Advanced Math Homeschool Packet
Saxon Advanced Math Test Forms
ABeka Consumer Mathematics
ABeka Consumer Mathematics Solution Key
BIOLOGY / SCIENCE
Exploring Creation with Biology
Solutions and Tests for Exploring Creation with Biology
Multi-Media Companion CD for Exploring Creation with Biology
Apologia Biology Lab Set with Prepared Slides & Microscope
Apologia Biology Dissecting Lab with Specimens
Scientists of Faith ~ Dan Graves
ABeka Science of the Physical Creation in Christian Perspective Grade 9
GRAMMAR
ABeka Grammar and Composition Work-Text III Grade 9
SPELLING
ABeka Vocabulary Spelling Poetry III Grade 9
VOCABULARY
Wordly Wise 3000 Book 9
Vocabulary from Classical Roots Book D
WRITING
The Institute for Excellence in Writing
The Institute for Excellence in Writing Student Writing Intensive Group C
Medieval Legends Imitation in Writing
Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons (EIW)
The Lively Art of Writing ~ Lucile Vaughan Payne
The Chicago Manual of Style
LITERATURE / HISTORY / THEOLOGY
Veritas Press Omnibus III: Reformation to the Present
Semester 1 ~ Primary (5 days/week)
The Westminster Confession of Faith (Weeks 1,2)
The Pilgrim’s Progress ~ John Bunyan (Weeks 3-5)
Of Plymouth Plantation ~ William Bradford (Weeks 6-8 )
The Social Contract ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Weeks 9,10)
Foundational American Documents (Weeks 11-13)
Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers (Weeks 14,15)
A Tale of Two Cities ~ Charles Dickens (Weeks 16-18)
Veritas Press Omnibus III: Reformation to the Present
Semester 1 ~ Secondary (3 days/week)
The New Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (Weeks 1,2)
Frankenstein ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Weeks 3,4)
Pride and Prejudice ~ Jane Austen (Weeks 5-7)
Gulliver’s Travels ~ Jonathan Swift (Weeks 8-10)
Autobiography of B Franklin (Weeks 11-12)
Autobiography of Charles G. Finney (Weeks 13-14)
The Pit and the Pendulum (Week 15)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ~ Mark Twain (Weeks 16-18)
Veritas Press Omnibus III: Reformation to the Present
Semester 2 ~ Primary
Reflections on the Revolution in France ~ Edmund Burke (Weeks 1,2)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe (Weeks 3,4)
L’s Speeches (Week 5)
Slave Narratives (Week 6)
The Communist Manifesto ~ Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (Week 7)
The Treaty of Versailles (Week 8 )
The Great Gatsby ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (Weeks 9,10)
Mein Kampf ~ Adolf Hitler (Week 11)
Philemon (Week 12)
The Epistles of John (Week 13)
The Epistles of Peter and Jude (Week 14)
Nineteen Eighty-Four ~ George Orwell (Weeks 15,16)
Veritas Press Omnibus III: Reformation to the Present
Semester 2 ~ Secondary
Little Women ~ Louisa May Alcott (Weeks 1,2)
The Killer Angels ~ Michael Shaara (Weeks 3-5)
Christianity and Liberalism ~ J. Gresham Machen (Weeks 6-8 )
The Old Man and the Sea ~ Ernest Hemingway (Weeks 9)
Animal Farm ~ George Orwell (Weeks 10,11)
Death of a Salesman ~ Arthur Miller (Week 12)
Postmodern Times ~ Gene Edward Veith (Weeks 13-15)
How Should We Then Live? ~ Francis Schaeffer (Weeks 15,16)
Veritas Press Omnibus III ~ Reference Books
Invitation to the Classics ~ Louise Cowan and Os Guinness
Western Civilization ~ Jackson J. Spielvogel
Extra Literature
Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography ~ Iain Murray
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God ~ Jonathan Edwards
The Sovereignty of God ~ Arthur W. Pink
To Kill a Mockingbird ~ Harper Lee
The Scarlet Pimpernel ~ Baroness Orczy
Les Miserables ~ Victor Hugo
The Count of Monte Cristo ~ Alexandre Dumas
The White Company ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Hornblower Beat to Quarters ~ C.S. Forester
The Deerslayer ~ James Fenimore Cooper
Sackett’s Land ~ Louis L’Amour
The Princess and the Goblin ~ George MacDonald
The Man Who was Thursday ~ G.K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy ~ G.K. Chesterton
Optional Robinson Literature
Heather and Snow ~ MacDonald
The Life of Stonewall Jackson ~ Dabney
The Mysterious Island ~ Verne
The White Company ~ A. C. Doyle
Environmental Overkill ~ Ray & Guzzo
The Heart of the Antarctic Volume 1 ~ Shackleton
Tom Sawyer: Abroad, Detective ~ Twain/Clemens
The Solider in Our Civil War Volume 2 ~ Leslie
The Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt ~ Roosevelt
Oliver Twist ~ Dickens
Huckleberry Finn ~ Twain/Clemens
Memoirs of William Tecumseh Sherman ~ Sherman
Don Quixote Cervantes
Life on the Mississippi ~ Twain/Clemens
LOGIC
The Art of Argument
The Art of Argument Teacher’s Materials
Professor Van Dussen The Thinking Machine ~ Jacques Futrelle
LATIN
Flashcards
FRENCH
Rosetta Stone French Levels I & II
Pimsleur Express FRENCH
Quick Study French Vocabulary Flashcards
Oxford French Grammar
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PERSONAL NOTES
(1st child who completed grade nine)
The “plan” for grade nine is listed above. My first child, at fourteen years old, read the following books when he was in grade nine.
Books N read this past year in grade nine.
Veritas Press Omnibus III: Reformation to the Present
Semester 1 ~ Primary (5 days/week)
The Westminster Confession of Faith (Weeks 1,2)
The Pilgrim’s Progress ~ John Bunyan (Weeks 3-5)
Of Plymouth Plantation ~ William Bradford (Weeks 6-8 )
The Social Contract ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Weeks 9,10)
Foundational American Documents (Weeks 11-13)
Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers (Weeks 14,15)
A Tale of Two Cities ~ Charles Dickens (Weeks 16-18)
Veritas Press Omnibus III: Reformation to the Present
Semester 1 ~ Secondary (3 days/week)
The New Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (Weeks 1,2)
Frankenstein ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Weeks 3,4)
Pride and Prejudice ~ Jane Austen (Weeks 5-7)
Gulliver’s Travels ~ Jonathan Swift (Weeks 8-10)
Autobiography of B Franklin (Weeks 11-12)
Autobiography of Charles G. Finney (Weeks 13-14)
The Pit and the Pendulum (Week 15)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ~ Mark Twain (Weeks 16-18)
Veritas Press Omnibus III: Reformation to the Present
Semester 2 ~ Primary
Reflections on the Revolution in France ~ Edmund Burke (Weeks 1,2)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe (Weeks 3,4)
L’s Speeches (Week 5)
Slave Narratives (Week 6)
The Communist Manifesto ~ Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (Week 7)
The Treaty of Versailles (Week 8 )
The Great Gatsby ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (Weeks 9,10)
Mein Kampf ~ Adolf Hitler (Week 11)
Philemon (Week 12)
The Epistles of John (Week 13)
The Epistles of Peter and Jude (Week 14)
Nineteen Eighty-Four ~ George Orwell (Weeks 15,16)
Veritas Press Omnibus III: Reformation to the Present
Semester 2 ~ Secondary
Little Women ~ Louisa May Alcott (Weeks 1,2)
The Killer Angels ~ Michael Shaara (Weeks 3-5)
Christianity and Liberalism ~ J. Gresham Machen (Weeks 6-8 )
The Old Man and the Sea ~ Ernest Hemingway (Weeks 9)
Animal Farm ~ George Orwell (Weeks 10,11)
Death of a Salesman ~ Arthur Miller (Week 12)
Postmodern Times ~ Gene Edward Veith (Weeks 13-15)
How Should We Then Live? ~ Francis Schaeffer (Weeks 15,16)
Other Literature Read in Grade Nine
The Scarlet Pimpernel ~ Baroness Orczy
Les Miserables ~ Victor Hugo
The Count of Monte Cristo ~ Alexandre Dumas
Sackett’s Land ~ Louis L’Amour
The Princess and the Goblin ~ George MacDonald
The Nine Tailors ~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Animal Farm ~ George Orwell
The Bartimaeus Trilogy:
The Amulet of Samarkand ~ Jonathan Stroud
The Golem’s Eye ~ Jonathan Stroud
Ptolemy’s Gate ~ Jonathan Stroud
The Divine Comedy II: Purgatory ~ Dante
The Divine Comedy III: Paradise ~ Dante
Ascent to Love ~ Peter J. Leithart
Why America Doesn’t Work ~ Chuck Colson, Jack Eckerd
To Kill a Mockingbird ~ Harper Lee
Whose Body? ~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Watership Down ~ Richard Adams
The Man Who Was Thursday ~ G.K. Chesterton
The White Company ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained ~ John Milton
Hornblower Beat to Quarters ~ C.S. Forester
The Deerslayer ~ James Fenimore Cooper
Knowing God ~ J.I. Packer
Waiting for His Coming ~ Lewis Neilson
The Sovereignty of God ~ Arthur W. Pink
The Great Divorce ~ C.S. Lewis
The Problem of Pain ~ C.S. Lewis
How Should I Live in this World? ~ R.C. Sproul
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God ~ Jonathan Edwards
Everlasting Man ~ G.K. Chesterton
Exploring Creation with Biology
Scientists of Faith ~ Dan Grave
The Motley Fool Investment Guide for Teens ~ David and Tom Gardner
The Lively Art of Writing ~ Lucile Vaughan Payne
Story ~ Robert McKee
Professor Van Dusen The Thinking Machine ~ Jacques Futrelle
Saxon Advanced Math
French flashcards
Latin flashcards
