Ambleside Online Year 10 Lite
Based on AO's Year 10; (36-week schedule here.) This is an AmblesideOnline student's idea of which books were most helpful and most indispensible for someone needing to pare down. This schedule does not have official Advisory approval. ;)
Exam Questions
Devotional Reading
Follow the Bible reading plan of your choice.
Knowing God by J.I. Packer
The Attributes of God by A. W.
Pink (online here)
OR The Imitation of Christ
by Thomas a Kempis (online here)
History
The Great Democracies by
Winston Churchill (volume 4 of his History of the English Speaking Peoples)
OR A History of the American People
by Paul Johnson
Arguing About Slavery by
William Lee Miller
various speeches
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
by Dee Alexander Brown (optional)
Biographies
The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln
by Helen Nicolay (online here)
Queen Victoria by Sarah Tytler
(vol 1
and vol 2
online) OR Queen Victoria by
Lytton Strachey (online
here) (shorter, but not previewed)
Geography
Eothen by Alexander Kinglake (online
here)
Government and Economics
The Law by Frederic Bastiat (online here)
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
(online
here)
Graves of Academe by Richard
Mitchell (online
here)
Citizenship
Ourselves by Charlotte Mason (online here,
also available in a modern
paraphrase)
Plutarch's Lives (follow Ambleside Online's rotation)
Character is Destiny by
Russell Gough
Sesame and Lilies by John
Ruskin (online here)
One Blood by Ken Ham
(optional; online
here)
Current Events
Keep up with daily news (resource
options here) and keep a calendar of events
Worldview
How Should We Then Live by
Francis Schaeffer
The Deadliest Monster by Jeff
Baldwin
Literature
The History of English Literature for
Girls and Boys by H.E. Marshall ch 77-85 (online
here)
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (online here)
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet
Beecher Stowe (online here)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (online
here) AND Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson (online
here)
Silas Marner by George Eliot (online
here)
Shakespeare (continue with Ambleside
Online rotation)
Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson (Art; Nature)
Frederick
Douglass (Reconstruction, An
Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage, My Escape From Slavery)
G.K. Chesterton (A Piece
of Chalk; The
Twelve Men; What
is Right With the World)
Poetry
Check online sites such as Librivox for free
audio readings of poems; this is a growing project and more poems are
online every month.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (download 23 poems here.)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning (download some poems here.)
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walter Whitman (download 30 poems here.)
Grammar and Composition
If you've read the selections from Years 7-9, use The Book on Writing: the Ultimate Guide to
Writing Well by Paula LaRocque
On the Art of Writing by Sir
Arthur Quiller-Couch (optional)
Recitation
2 Corinthians 6; Ephesians 4; Proverbs 1-4; Hebrews 8; Amos 5:1-24; 1
Peter 2
Psalm 19; Psalm 111; Psalms 121; Psalm 122; Psalm 145; Psalm 118
Shakespeare passages
a poem per term from the term's poetry selections
Copywork/Transcription
Include selections from Shakespeare, the Bible, poetry and other
sources. These selections may be the same ones used for recitation.
Consider begining a personal quote book.
Also, do dictation regularly.
Math
Continue your math program; for some options, see this page.
Science
The Handbook of Nature Study
by Anna Botsford Comstock (as a reference)
Apologia science text
OR BJU
Press Science
Six Easy Pieces by Richard P.
Feynman
Microbe Hunters by Paul de
Kruf (chapters 3-8 this year)
Nature Study
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
(online here)
Logic
How To Read a Book revised
edition by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren (3 years)
Drawing and Art
The Story of Painting by H. W.
Janson - The Age of Machines
Continue the artist rotation posted at Ambleside Online
Music
Continue the composer rotation and hymn rotation posted at Ambleside Online
Folk Songs:
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Buffalo Gals
Simple Gifts
Dixie
John Brown's Body
Poverty Knock
The Ballad of General Ludd
Folk Songs by Stephen Foster
Foreign Language
Begin Latin if you've not started already OR Continue with any previous
foreign language studies
Health
Study nutrition
Keep fit
Life and Work Skills
Work on useful skills such as budgeting, gardening, cooking, car
maintenance, carpentry, etc.
Free Reading
Try to use books that were not included from Year
10, or the
Year 10 Free reading List
Last update Oct 15, 2006
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