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, or use AO's plan which goes through the Bible semi-chronologically over 6 years in Years 6-11. This year's readings would be as follows:
        * Isaiah 1-58, John 1-10
        ** Amos, Micah, Hosea, Nahum, Zephaniah, Jeremiah 1-16, John 11-21
        *** Jeremiah 17-52, Habakkuk, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Corinthians
Knowing God by J.I. Packer (purchase/purchase audio CD)
The Attributes of God by A. W. Pink (online here; purchase/purchase for Kindle) OR The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis (online here; purchase/purchase for Kindle)

History
The Great Democracies by Winston Churchill (purchase) (volume 4 of his History of the English Speaking Peoples; a schedule here) OR A History of the American People by Paul Johnson (purchase/purchase for Kindle) (Term 1: pgs 283-395; Term 2: pgs 395-507; Term 3: pgs 511-620)
Arguing About Slavery by William Lee Miller (purchase)
various speeches
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown (optional; purchase)

Biographies
The Story of Abraham Lincoln by Mary Hamilton (online here), or 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; purchase)

Government and Economics
The Law by Frederic Bastiat (online here; purchase/purchase for Kindle)
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill (online here; purchase)
Graves of Academe by Richard Mitchell (online here; purchase)

Citizenship
Ourselves by Charlotte Mason (online here; purchase/purchase Leslie Laurio's paraphrase for Kindle)
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 (purchase) The video series of the same title offers a strong supplement to the book. (purchase DVD series)
The Deadliest Monster by Jeff Baldwin (purchase)

Literature
The History of English Literature for Girls and Boys by H.E. Marshall ch 74-85 (online here) Purchase from Kelly Kenar, who typed this e-text for the use of HEO. Postage at lulu.com is automatically set to UPS ground which is expensive, but you can choose media mail which is substantially cheaper. (Note - if you purchase this book, we request that you purchase from the link provided, as other publishers' reprints of this book have used Kelly's hand-typed etext for their own profit.)
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (online here; purchase>)
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (online here; purchase)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (online here; purchase) AND Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (online here; purchase)
Silas Marner by George Eliot (online here; purchase)
Shakespeare (continue with Ambleside Online rotation)

Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson (Art: purchase for Kindle; 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 (purchase/purchase for Kindle)
On the Art of Writing by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (optional; purchase)

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 (search amazon.com) OR BJU Press Science
Six Easy Pieces by Richard P. Feynman (purchase/purchase for Kindle)
Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruf (chapters 3-8 this year; purchase/purchase for Kindle)

Nature Study
Walden by Henry David Thoreau (online here; purchase/purchase for Kindle; free Kindle edition may be missing segments)

Logic
How To Read a Book revised edition by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren (3 years) (purchase; purchase for Kindle)

Drawing and Art
The Story of Painting by H. W. Janson - The Age of Machines (purchase)
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, 1863 (purchase MP3)
Buffalo Gals, 1848 (purchase MP3)
Simple Gifts, 1848 (purchase MP3)
Dixie, 1859 (purchase MP3)
John Brown's Body, 1860 (purchase MP3)
Poverty Knock, origin uncertain (please preview and edit the verses as your family sees fit) term three
The Triumph of General Ludd, 1811 (purchase MP3)
The Arms Of Abraham (purchase MP3)
Various Songs by Stephen Foster (purchase CD of Foster songs)

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 Nov 5, 2011