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AO Booklists - The curriculum booklists for each year.

AO Schedules - 36-week schedules for each year.

Curriculum Resources - Art Study, Music and Composer Study, Nature Study, Plutarch, Shakespeare, and Poetry.

AO Resources and Support - FAQ, help for new users, support groups, schedule and exam examples from members.

Etexts and Online Books - Texts used in AO or in Charlotte Mason's PNEU schools. (Not an exhaustive list.)

The CM Series - The original six-volume series by Charlotte Mason in various formats.

Articles and Topical Discussions - Articles and discussions by Advisory members and AO users about AO, CM, and homeschooling.

General Resources - General CM Resources for help with your own planning, including original PNEU Programmes and Exams.

Information - Background information about AO and the Advisory, User comments and reviews, License Agreement

AO Booklists

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Year 0

• Year 1

• Year 2

• Year 3

• Year 4 (see also see also Year 3.5, a detour for students who arrive at Year 4 before they're ready for the heavier workload)

• Year 5

• Year 6

• Year 7

• Pre-7

• Year 8

• Year 9

• Year 10

• Year 11

• Year 12 (in progress; you can view one AO student's Year 12 plan, based on books suggested by Advisory members and HEO list members from archived posts, here.)

• AO-Help Emergency Lesson Plan for help with homeschooling during a crisis

• "Plan B" - A suggested lightened booklist for students in Years 7-11 who need less reading: Yr 7, Yr 8, Yr 9, Yr 10, Yr 11

• Old (1999) Booklists and 36-week schedules

AO Schedules

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Year 1

• Year 2

• Year 3

• Year 4 (see also Year 3 1/2, for students who arrive at Year 4 before they're ready for the heavier workload)

• Year 5

• Year 6

• Year 7

• Year 8

• Year 9

• Year 10

• Year 11

• Year 12 (in progress)

• "Plan B" - 36-week schedules for the lightened booklists: Yr 7, Yr 8, Yr 9, Yr 10

• Unofficial Schedules for Pre-year 3 (combines years 1 and 2), Pre-Year 5 (years 3 and 4), Pre-Year 7 (years 5 and 6) created by Missey Gray

Curriculum Resources

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Art Study

Schedule for picture study

• Ordering art prints

• Gilbert Stuart notes

• Gauguin, Cezanne, Seurat notes

• Composer Study schedule

  • Medieval Era Music notes

• Hymns schedule

• Folksongs schedule

• Nature Study Schedule and Helps

• Plutarch schedule

  • Aemelius study by Anne White

  • Brutus study by Anne White

  • Crassus study by Anne White

  • Demetrius text and study by Anne White

  • Fabius study by Anne White

  • Nicias study by Anne White

  • Pericles study by Anne White

  • Philopoemen study by Anne White

  • Poplicola study by Anne White

  • Timoleon study by Anne White

  • Dion study by Anne White

  • Summary of Alexander by an Ambleside student

  • Summary of Solon by an Ambleside student

• Shakespeare schedule

• Poets and Poetry Schedule for Years 1-6

  • Carl Sandburg collection

  • Christina Rosetti collection

  • Edna St. Vincent Millay collection

  • Emily Dickinson collection and More Emily Dickinson

  • Eugene Field collection

  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow collection

  • James Whitcomb Riley collection

  • John Greenleaf Whittier collection

  • Paul Laurence Dunbar collection

  • Poems for your Baby

  • Robert Frost collection

  • Rudyard Kipling collection

  • Sara Teasdale and Hilda Conkling collection

  • Tennyson collection

  • Walter de la Mare collection

  • William Blake collection

  • William Wordsworth collection

  • Year 1 Anthology complete or listed by month: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

  • Year 6 Anthology of 59 Poems

AO Resources and Support

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FAQ

• Email Support Group and email List helps and netiquette

• Beginner's Page for new users

• Schedule Examples from AO members

• Exam Examples from AO members (a project that's still in the conceptual stage!)

  • Year 1

  • Year 2

  • Year 3

  • Year 4

  • Year 5

  • Year 6

  • Year 7

  • Year 8

  • Year 9

  • Year 10

  • Year 11

  • Year 12

• 23 Short Stories list for high school

• Acrononyms abbreviations used in email list posts

• Aesop suggested fables, linked to their online text

• Alphabetized Booklist Years 1-11 arranged by Title or Author (Free Reading for years 7-12 is at the bottom of the Booklist pages)

• Bambi study guide Bambi is free reading in Year 3

• Bede's Ecclesiastical History etext divided for Year 8

• Beginning AO with an older (7th grade and up) student

• Beowulf study guide

• Bible Memory Verse suggestions (compiled for AO-HELP)

• Canada resources for AO Canadians

• Credit Hours for planning High School

• Current Events resource links blogs and news sources for older students

• Files that were temporarily placed on the AO site when we ran short of space

• Geography Options for High School

• Hans Christian Andersen suggested fairy tales, linked to their online text

• Links to formatted etexts, AO special support groups, and AO buy/sell/trade lists

• Links to supplemental resources for AO studies

• Marco Polo resources

• Shakespeare Sonnet selection for Year 8

• Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels linked and listed by year/term for high school

• Suggested Supplemental History Books for Years 3-6

• Taxonomic Key for the Burgess Animal Book scheduled in Year 2 by Kelly Kenar

• Where to Get the Books - book vendors and free etexts

• Which version of the Oxford Book of English Verse? (for high school)

Etexts and Online Books

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A New Handwriting by Monica Bridges

(pdf file here)

• The British Museum for Young People by Frances Epps

A New Grammar of the English Tongue

by J.M.D. Meiklejohn (in progress) There's a complete pdf file here; it's a huge (8MB) file.

• Elementary Geography by Charlotte Mason (available in html or pdf file; the pdf file may have missing pages.)

• Heroic Deeds by Donald A. MacKenzie

• Prophets and Kings (complete and proofread) by J. Paterson Smyth

• The Bible for School and Home by Rev. J. Paterson Smyth

• The Sciences by Edward Holden

• When I Was a Boy in Japan by Sakae Shioya

• Countryside Rambles by W.S. Furneaux

• In Memoriam - A tribute written by students, co-workers and friends of Charlotte Mason after she died in 1923; this book includes concise explanations of her methods, selections from her books, personal remembrances and insight into her character.

The CM Series

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The Original Series

• Modern English Paraphrase

• Concise Summaries of each volume

• Reading Schedule for the CM Series email list

• Which Volume Should I Read First?

Articles and Topical Discussions

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A Magical Expansion -

A Study of CM's Principle 12 by Lynn Bruce

• An Imaginary Conversation with a Great Mind - A Study of CM's Principle 8 by Tammy Glaser

• An Oyster and a Jewel - A Study of CM's Principle 10 by Lynn Bruce

• AO Placement For Those Coming From Textbooks

• The benefit of reading books slowly over an extended period of time rather than cramming in lots of books quickly

• Books Build Character by Wendi Capehart

• Christians, Charlotte Mason and Fairy Tales

• Copywork discussion

• Cultural Fun by Wendi Capehart ideas for including culture on a modest income

• Discussion about Foreign Language

• Endangered Minds - Leslie's review of Jane Healy's book

• Escapist Literature by Wendi Capehart

• Free Reading - how to incorporate AO's extra suggested books in your schedule

• Gaps by Wendi Capehart - What if we forget to teach something?

• Grammar Discussion

• Grammar Worksheets - 9 exercises for elementary students

• Handicrafts Discussion

• History - discussion and AO's chronological history sequence

• Imparting Living Ideas to Children Advisory comments

• Language Arts discussion

• Language Arts Scope and Sequence for AO by Karen Glass

• Math comment by Anne White

• Narration discussion

• Phonics Discussion

• Picture Study discussion

• Poetry discussion and CM quotes and PR articles about poetry

• Raising Patriotic Kids: US History Through Holidays by Donna-Jean Breckenridge

• Readaloud discussion - does CM discourage reading aloud?

• Science: Homeschooling the High Schooler the CM Way by Wendi Capehart

• Shakespeare discussion

• Shearing Samson - the Place of Films in a Literary Education by Lynn Bruce

• Should I Combine Children in 1 Year to Streamline our Schedule?

• Should Pictures Have a Place in Education? Does Research Support Quality Over Quantity?

• Solfa - shape note discussion

• Some considerations about the books used (and not used) by AO

• Some Thoughts on Narration by Donna-Jean Breckenridge

• Special needs ("backward children") discussion

• Teaching Music Appreciation

• The benefits of Mother Goose

• The Once and Future King book discussion

• The Spiritual Octopus - A Study of CM's Principle 11 by Lynn Bruce

• The Virtues of Tea by Lynn Bruce

• Thoughts about Exams

• Tips and suggestions for new members from current AO users

• Toward a Definition of a Living Book by Colleen Manning

• Was CM an evolutionist? Why does AO use evolutionary books like Hillyer's CHOW and Van Loon's Story of Mankind?

• What is CM?

• What Year/Level Should I Place My Child?

• Why Read Plutarch? by George Grant

• Why Read the KJV? by Lynn Bruce

• Year 1 Primer - Lorraine Nessman's Tips on Implementing AO for Beginners

• Year 7 - Wendi Capehart goes through book by book explaining why each book was chosen

General Resources

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Charlotte Mason's 20 Principles

side-by-side original/paraphrase version of the 20 Pronciples that boiled down CM's education

• Parents' Review Articles from the monthly magazine that was sent to parents and teachers in CM's PNEU schools
  

• In Memoriam - A tribute written by students, co-workers and friends of Charlotte Mason after she died in 1923; this book includes concise explanations of her methods, selections from her books, personal remembrances and insight into her character.

• List of Attainments - Charlotte Mason's lists of what a child know at age six, and at age 12.




• Vintage PNEU Programmes - These were the Booklists for CM's own schools:

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  PNEU Forms/Class corresponded to grades

  and page count comparisons from included 1921 PNEU programme schedule

  • Programme for Term 1 Form I - approx 1st-3rd grade

  • Programme for Term 1 Form II - approx 4th-6th grades; the "N.B." at the bottom of these programmes means "nota bene," or take notice.

  • Programme for Term 2 Form III - approx 7th/8th grade

  • Programme for Term 42 Form Ia - approx 2nd and 3rd grades

  • Programme for Term 42 Form Ib - approx first grade

  • Programme for Term 42 Form II - approx 4th-6th grades

  • Programme for Term 43 Form Ib - approx first grade

  • Programme for Term 43 Form II - approx 4th-6th grades

  • Programme for Term 44 Form Ia - approx 2nd and 3rd grades

  • Programme for Term 90 Form I - approx 1st-3rd grade

  • Programme for Term 90 Form II - approx 4th-6th grades

  • Programme for Term 90 Form III - approx 7th/8th grade

  • Programme for Term 91 Form I - approx 1st-3rd grade

  • Programme for Term 91 Form III - approx 7th/8th grade

  • Programme for Term 91 Form IV - approx 8th/9th grade (still to come)

  • Programme for Term 91 Form II - approx 4th-6th grades

  • Programme for Term 92 Form I - approx 1st-3rd grade

  • Programme for Term 92 Form II - approx 4th-6th grades

  • Programme for Term 92 Form III - approx 7th/8th grade

  • Programme for Term 92 Form IV - approx 8th/9th grade

  • Programme for Term 93 Form I - approx 1st-3rd grade

  • Programme for Term 93 Form II - approx 4th-6th grades

  • Programme for Term 93 Form III - approx 7th/8th grade

  • Programme for Term 93 Form IV - approx 8th/9th grade

  • Programme for Term 94 Form I - approx 1st-3rd grade

  • Programme for Term 94 Form II - approx 4th-6th grades

  • Programme for Term 94 Form III - approx 7th/8th grade

  • Programme for Term 94 Form IV - approx 8th/9th grade

  • Programme for Term 95 Form I - approx 1st-3rd grade (half done)

  • An image of a PNEU weekly schedule - from a 1908 Parents Review magazine article
    
    

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• British currency conversion rates (to help translate book prices on PNEU Programmes)
  

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• Vintage PNEU Exams - These were the exam questions given to CM's students in her schools

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  Exam for Term 42 Form I - approx 1st-3rd grade

  • Exam for Term 62 Form IV - approx 8th/9th grade (back page is probably mismatched from another Form IV exam)

  • Exam for Term 90 Form I - approx 1st-3rd grade

  • Exam for Term 90 Form II - approx 4th-6th grades

  • Exam for Term 90 Form III - approx 7th/8th grade

  • Exam for Term 91 Form I - approx 1st-3rd grade

  • Exam for Term 91 Form II - approx 4th-6th grade

  • Exam for Term 91 Form III - approx 7th/8th grade

  • Exam for Term 92 Form I - approx 1st-3rd grade

  • Exam for Term 92 Form II - approx 4th-6th grades

  • Exam for Term 92 Form III - approx 7th/8th grade

  • Exam for Term 92 Form IV - approx 8th/9th grade

  • Exam for Term 93 Form I - approx 1st-3rd grade

  • Exam for Term 93 Form II - approx 4th-6th grades

  • Exam for Term 93 Form III - approx 7th/8th grade (incomplete; only half was available)

  • Exam for Term 93 Form IV - approx 8th/9th grade (back page possibly mismatched)

  • Exam for Term 94 Form I - approx 1st-3rd grade

  • Exam for Term 94 Form II - approx 4th-6th grades

  • Exam for Term 94 Form III - approx 7th/8th grade (missing 2 middle pages)

  • Exam for Term 94 Form IV - approx 8th/9th grade

  • See the kinds of questions CM asked of her youngest students - (grades 1-3)

  • See the kinds of questions CM asked of her middle students - (grades 4-6)

  • See the kinds of questions CM asked of her older students - (grades 7-9)

• The AO Exam project - (a group of volunteers compiling AO exams)

• Printing Etexts benefits and instructions

• Holiday Reading - poems, book suggestions, and music

  • 16 Thanksgiving Poems

  • 27 Christmas Carols

  • Christmas songs and CD suggestions

  • Poems for Christmas and New Years

• 36-week breakdown of chapters for Hillyer's Child's Geography of the World for those who want to use this book in Year 5

• Hillyer's Child's History of the World and M.B Synge's 5-volume Story of the World chapters listed with historical periods

• Charlotte Mason's review of Van Loon's The Story of Mankind

Information

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Advisory member biographies

• About AO

• How AO Began

• HEO House of Education description

• User reviews and thanks and helpful tips and suggestions from users

• How does AO compare to other curriculums/methods?

• 2005 Dallas Conference

  • Member Reviews

  • Colleen Manning's Notes from the conference

  • Sheri Bowland and Katie Barr's Conference Notes

  • Pictorial narration of the conference from an Advisory perspective

  • Purchase CDs of conference talks from Sound Word

• Page Counts for Year 7 to compare with CM's workload

• License Agreement