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    Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 1:05 pm

    We got to see my baby niece on the webcam for the first time yesterday. C1 said, “Baby… Baby…” and even repeated the baby’s name.

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    “Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
    but most of them pick themselves up
    and hurry off as if nothing happened.”
    Winston Churchill

    • Homeschooling Grade Nine

    Included here is a sample homeschool schedule 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 CHECKLIST

    DEVOTIONS
    ____ Prayer
    ____ Devotion

    MATH
    ____ Saxon Math (1 lesson/day)
    ____ Check Math
    ____ ABeka Consumer Math

    ____ BIOLOGY / SCIENCE (4-5 sessions/week)

    GRAMMAR
    ____ Text (8 pages/week)
    ____ Check Grammar *

    ____ SPELLING * (2 lessons/week)

    ____ VOCABULARY * (20 words/week)

    ____ WRITING (2 days/week)

    LITERATURE / HISTORY / THEOLOGY
    ____ Primary Omnibus (5 days/week)
    ____ Secondary Omnibus (3 days/week)
    ____ Check Omnibus

    ____ LOGIC

    LATIN
    ____ Text or Computer
    ____ Flashcards *

    FRENCH
    ____ Text or Computer
    ____ Flashcards *

    ____ OUTSIDE / EXERCISE (unless rain/snow)

    * Parent Help

    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
    Sense and Sensibility ~ Jane Austen
    Emma ~ Jane Austen

    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
    The Travels ~ Marco Polo
    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
    (First child who completed grade nine)

    My first child, at fourteen years old, read the following books when he was in grade nine:

    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)

    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)

    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)

    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)

    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
    Sense and Sensibility ~ Jane Austen
    Emma ~ Jane Austen
    Oliver Twist ~ Dickens
    The Travels ~ Marco Polo

    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

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