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, 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:
        * Lamentations, Ezekiel 1-36, 2 Corinthians, Romans
        ** Ezekiel 37-48, Joel, Daniel, Ezra, Colossians, Philemon, Ephesians, Philippians, 1 Timothy, Titus, 1 Peter
        *** Haggai, Zechariah, Esther, Nehemiah, Malachi, Hebrews, 2 Timothy, 2 Peter, Jude, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John
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 (brief non-graphic mention of the author's gender-change operation in chapter 18, titled "Casablanca." The chapter is very short and can be skipped or removed. Also some language on pg 233 and 242.)

Government and Economics
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt (online here)

Citizenship
Ourselves by Charlotte Mason, Book 2 (online here; purchase/purchase Leslie Laurio's paraphrase for Kindle)

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', by Christopher Orlet, 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 (search amazon.com) 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) Fabre texts with photos

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