Year 12 Program and Booklist for my High School Senior

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This is what one of my students studied for 12th grade. She has used Charlotte Mason's methods all her life and is accustomed to reading classic literature.

Bible/Devotional:

The Apologetics Bible

Weapon of Prayer by Bounds, E.M.

*Your God is Too Safe, Buchanan

**My Utmost For His Highest, by Oswald Chambers

***Streams of Living Water, by Richard Foster

Apologetics/Philosophy/Logic

Philosophical Foundations of a Christian Worldview, by J.P. Moreland

The Discovery of Deduction-Formal Logic

*Institutes of the Christian Religion, by John Calvin

and various Armenian works. (study both sides of the issue)

*Pensées Pascal, Blaise

 *The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

* **Reasonable Faith, by William Lane Craig

**Selections from Thomas Aquinas

**Timaeus, by Plato

History/Biography

Church History in Plain Language, by Bruce Shelley

*How the Irish Saved Civilization, by Thomas Cahill

**Selections from the Works of Josephus

**St/ Francis of Assisi by G.K Chesterton

** ***Selections from Greek Histories by Herodotus

** ***The Early History of Rome by Livy

Scheduled Ancient and World Literature

Heroes of the City of Man: A Christian Guide to Select Ancient Literature by Leithart

*How to Read the Bible as Literature, by Leland Ryken

*Realms of Gold: The Classics in Christian Perspective by Leland Ryken

*The Iliad, by Homer

*Theogony, by Hesiod (Drama)

*Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

*The Trial and Death of Socrates

*The Stranger, by Albert Camus

*Island of the World, by Michael O’Brien (geography too)

*The Little Prince by St. Exupery

*The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius by Long, George

*Confessions by Hippo, Saint Augustine of

*Oresteia Trilogy, Aeschylus

Term 2

**The Aeneid by Virgil

**Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

**Figure of Beatrice by Charles Williams (commentary for The Divine Comedy)

**La Vita Nuova (The New Life) by Dante Alighieri

**The Discarded Image by C.S. Lewis (commentary for Medieval Literature)

**The Epic of Gilgamesh

**Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

**The Clouds, by Aristophanes (Drama)

**Pearl by Tolkien

**Sir Orfeo by Tolkien

** *** The Mabinogion

Term 3

***De Monarchia by Dante Alighieri

*** The Odyssey

***The Bacchae, by Euripides (Drama)

Short Stories and Essays

The World’s Last Night and other Essays by C.S. Lewis

'On Stories' and Other Essays, C.S. Lewis

Short Stories by Anton Chekhov

Short Stories by Tolstoy

Eeldrop and Appleplex, T.S. Eliot

Geography

The Hills and the Sea, Hilaire Belloc (Geography)

16 Days-Visit the Eastern Coast of USA including Washington D.C.

Math

Pre Calculus-Khan Academy

Understanding Calculus w/ CD

The Humongous Book of Calculus  Problems by W. Michael Kelley

** ***Mathematics, Is God Silent? by James Nickel

Science

Exploring Creation with Physics, by Dr. Jay Wile

*Ignorance: How it Drives Science, Firestein, Stuart

*Relativity: The Special and the General Theory, Einstein, Albert

**Taking Back Astronomy by Jason Lisle

** ***Einstein’s Relativity and the Quantum Revolution by Richard Wolfson w/ CD

***Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays, by Stephen Hawking

***Instant Physics, by Tony Rothman

Speech and Composition

On Speaking Well, Peggy Noonan

Continue to a keep a quote book from books read

Write a poem every two weeks

Recite memorized poetry

Oral and written narrations

Keep Notes and Outlines

Poetry and Recitations

*The Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950 Eliot, T.S.

*Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins

*Having Decided To Stay by Johnson, Bryana  

**Eyes of Youth, a Book of Verse (selected poems by Padraic Colum, Shane Leslie, Viola Meynell, Ruth Lindsay, Hugh Austin, Judith Lytton, Olivia Meynell, Maurice Healy)

**Poetry of Charles Williams (Taliessin through Logres, The Region of the Summer Stars, Poems of Conformity)

***William Blake

***Auden

Foreign Language

Various Turkish literature for translation

Various French literature for translation

Concise French Grammar

Open learning Initiative French program (online and free)

Duolingo

turkishenglish.com

Art/Music

Continue Artist Study

Paint every two weeks

Daily Piano

Free Reading:

What’s Wrong With the World, Chesterton, G.K.

The Sword of Honour Trilogy, Waugh, Evelyn

Brave New World Huxley, Aldous

Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Everlasting Man, Chesterton, G.K

The Silmarillion Tolkien, J.R.R.

Murder in the Cathedral by Eliot, T.S. 

Tales from the Perilous Realm [with Roverandom] Tolkien, J.R.R.

Lilith by George MacDonald

Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen

1984 Orwell, George

A Rare Benedictine by Peters, Ellis  

Sit, Walk, Stand Nee, Watchman

The Lady's Confession MacDonald, George 

The Landlady's Master MacDonald, George

The Solitaire Mystery Gaarder, Jostein 

The Time Machine Wells, H.G.

The Invisible Man Wells, H.G.

The First Men in the Moon by Wells, H.G. 

Foxe’s Book of Martyrs

Phantastes by George MacDonald

Saga of the Volsungs

The Lays of Beleriand (The History of Middle-earth, #3) Tolkien, J.R.R.

The Lost Tales Tolkien, J.R.R.

The Flying Inn by Chesterton, G.K.

Bleak House Dickens, Charles

Piercing the Darkness, Peretti, Frank

Hannah Coulter, Wendell Berry

Gilead by Marilyn Robinson

The Sword of Welleran, Lord Dunsany

The Worm Ouroboros, E.R. Eddison

The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Kalevala (Finnish mythology)

War in Heaven by Charles Williams

Descent into Hell by Charles Williams

The Greater Trumps & The Place of the Lion, Charles Williams

Eeldrop and Appleplex, T.S. Eliot

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