Ambleside Online Year 11 Plan B
Based on AO's Year 11. 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.
The Holiness of God by R. C.
Sproul
The Pleasures of God by John
Piper
History
A History of the Twentieth Century:
The Concise Edition of the Acclaimed World History by Martin
Gilbert
Testament of Youth by Vera
Brittain
The Men Behind Hitler by
Bernhard Schreiber (online
here)
The Trial at Nuremberg (one
short essay online
here)
Diary of A Young Girl by Anne
Frank OR The Hiding Place by
Corrie Ten Boom
When Character Was King by
Peggy Noonan (20 chapters)
various speeches (four per term are scheduled; others are optional but
inseeted in the 36-week schedule where they fit chronologically.)
* Woodrow
Wilson, entering World War I, April 2, 1917 "War Message" #19
* Lou Gehrig's farewell to baseball speech
July 4, 1939 #73 (also see biography on the site)
* Winston Churchill "Blood, sweat and tears"
May 13, 1940
* Winston
Churchill "Their finest hour" June 18, 1940
** Franklin
Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor address December 8, 1941 "a day that will
live in infamy" #4
** Dwight David Eisenhower--Supreme Allied
Commander broadcasts D-Day invasion order June 5, 1944 (Real
Audio only--1 min. 42 sec. click on Speech Archive, scroll down to
first Eisenhower entry) "The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes
and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you."
** Franklin Roosevelt D-Day Prayer
June 6, 1944
** Douglas
MacArthur's farewell to Congress April 19, 1951 "Old soldiers never
die" #14
*** John
F. Kennedy's Inauguration January 20, 1961 "Ask not what your
country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country." #2
*** John
F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" June 26, 1963 #22
*** I Have
a Dream speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. August 28, 1963 OR "I've
been to the mountaintop" March 3, 1968 #15
*** Ronald
Reagan--Brandenberg Gate June 12, 1987 "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down
this wall!" #94
Geography
The World: Travels 1950-2000
by Jan Morris, formerly James
Government and Economics
Economics in One Lesson by
Henry Hazlitt (online here)
Citizenship
Ourselves by Charlotte Mason,
Book 2 (online here,
also available in a modern
paraphrase)
Current Events
Keep up with daily news (resource options
here) and keep a calendar of events
Worldview
Seven Men Who Rule the World from the
Grave by David Breese
Amusing Ourselves to Death by
Neil Postman
Literature
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott
Fitzgerald
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
(3 parts)
To Kill a Mockingbird by
Harper Lee
Short Stories
Young
Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Fall of the House of Usher
by Edgar Allen Poe
How Much
Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy
The
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain
The
Open Window by Saki (Hector.H. Munro)
The Open Boat
by Stephen Crane
I'm
a Fool by Sherwood Anderson
Essays
Abortion
and the Conscience of the Nation by Ronald Reagan
This article 'in
defense of the essay,' is useful, as is this essay entry at Wikipedia.
Poetry
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Short Anthology of Modern Poetry
Grammar and Composition
On Writing Well - The Classic Guide
to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser
Recitation
Matthew 6; 2 Timothy 3; Psalms 27; 33; Hebrews 9; John 1:1-14; Psalms
91; 136; Acts 2:14-47; Ephesians 6; Psalms 122, 123 (these are short);
Psalms 119:9-30
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 9-12 this year)
Nature Study
Our National Parks by John
Muir (online
here) OR The Life of the
Caterpillar
by J. Henri Fabre (online here)
Art
Continue the artist rotation posted at
Ambleside Online
Music
Continue the composer rotation and hymn rotation posted at Ambleside Online
Folk Songs:
* Over There;
It's
a long way to Tipperary; There's a Little Blue Star in
the Window
** White
Cliffs of Dover; When
the Lights Go On Again All Over the World; I'll Be Seeing You
*** Where
Have All the Flowers Gone; We
Shall Overcome; Okie
from Muskogee
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
11, or the Year 11 Free reading List
Last update Aug 23, 2007
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