Friday, July 21, 2006

Planning - The bane of my existence

Not really. I love planning. I love planning more than I love doing. I'm such a geek.

The good news is I don't need to buy too much. The bad news (for Christian) is I am going to be working on getting Christian to be more independent... and he is starting Latin. Oh yeah.

Today I asked him if he wanted to start back with German or start Latin first. "Latin, because I hate German." was his answer. Scheiße.

So far the big freshman year plan is:

Literature
The Well Educated Mind
Great Books*

English
Rod and Staff (Grammar)
Vocabulary for the High School Student
The Paragraph Book (Writing is something we haven't spent much time on, so I am starting him here and them moving on through the series. Once we are done with that, I'm not sure what we will do. Any suggestions?)

Math
The next book in the Margaret Lial series

Foreign Language
Oxford Latin
Rosetta Stone German

History - Ancients (BC 5000-400 AD)
World History: The Human Odyssey (Spielvogel)
Timetables of History (Simon & Schuster)

Geography
Runkle (He has already done one part of this, so I will have him finish up the workbook part)

Typing
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing

Logic
Traditional Logic I (Cothran)

Science
Fogware High School Biology CD’s
PASS Biology Workbook
Biology Demystified

Art
Artistic Pursuits

*I haven't decided which Great Books to read yet (and Christian doesn't care) so any suggestions?
The Bible: Genesis, Job
Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2500 BC)
The Iliad and The Odyssey, Homer (c. 850 BC)
A Day in Old Athens by William S. Davis
History of the Persian Wars by Herodotus (485-424 BC)
The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (Livingston abridged edition) (460-395 BC)
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (c. 440 BC)
Medea, Euripides (c. 431 BC)
The Frogs, Aristophanes (405 BC)
Republic, Symposium, Plato (c. 387 BC)
On Poetics, Ethics, Aristotle (384-322 BC)
A Day in Old Rome by William S. Davis
The Bible: The Book of Daniel (c. 165 BC)
On the Nature of Things, Lucretius (c. 60 BC)
De republic, Cicero (54 BC)
The Aeneid by Virgil (c. 30 BC)
Metamorphoses by Ovid (c. 5)
The Bible: Paul, 1 & 2 Letters to the Corinthians (c. 58 AD)
The Wars of the Jews by Josephus (c. 68)
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Roman, Plutarch (c.100)
The Annals of Tacitus (c. 117)
On the Incarnation by Athanasius (c. 300)

So far, Alex's seventh grade year is going to look like this:

Literature
I haven't decided yet

Spelling
Sequential Spelling

Grammar and Composition
Rod & Staff
The Paragraph Book

Math
Basic College Mathematics (Lial)

History Ancients (BC 5000-400 AD)
Kingfisher History Encyclopedia

Art
Artistic Pursuits

Science
Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia
JVC Experiment Books

Latin
Latin for Children

Typing
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing

Logic
Fallacy Detective

Ethan's sixth grade year, so far looks a lot like Alex's seventh grade year. Alex will study the topic more in-depth and is required to write more.

Am I missing anything?

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