Combining AO years
I hope to get this posted tonight. The internet has been a real trip the past two weeks, first on our end with what ended up being crappy wiring in what has turned out to be much more of a fixer-upper than we ever imagined. Then the past two days with a big something being wrong with the phone company. Wrong enough that McDonald’s & Subway cannot run debit cards and lots of people have no or little internet. Forgive this short I at least want to get started.
I have three kids that are homeschooled and one four year old that is ready to do anything that her older siblings are doing. Our curriculum is Ambleside Online ( http://amblesideonline.org ) but not exactly. When Thomas and Lindsay were beginning their schooling my mother in law was doing chemotherapy, then she died, we moved and a whole lot of life happened – so we have been using their booklists, reading a ton of books but not really following the plan. Which was ok, kind of mostly…not entirely pleasing to my like my ducks in a row loving heart but ok until this year.
This year Thomas turned thirteen and the official homeschool forms had seventh grade marked on them and
kinda of mostly isn’t cutting it anymore. He and Lindsay must, must,must begin schooling like the Jr High students they are. Luckily for me I had already kind of been down this path when I was planning his older brothers schedule for high school. Older brother had never done lower levels of AO + has a learning disablility + is hard headed. Older brother ended up in public school (another story) but the idea of what to do was there.
1. This year Zach is finishing up AO year 1 and beginning year 2. Year 2 studies history from 1000AD to Middle Ages.
2. HEO – the Jr High and High School Levels of Ambleside Online – begin in Year 7 and study history from 800 AD to 1400 AD.
Almost a perfect overlap isn’t it?
Next I made a chart of what subjects are studied in each of the different years & the books used. I hope this posts as pretty as it looks right now. There’s some of my working notes in the last column.
Years 2 and7
| Subject | Year 2 | Year 7 | |
| Bible | *John
**Luke ***Acts
|
Maybe moved to next year – Devotional Reading:
*Mere Christianity **Pursuit of God ***Pursuit of Holiness |
|
| History | An Island Story
The Discovery of New Worlds Story of Mankind Church History Lief the Lucky |
*Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People
*Malmesbury’s Account of the Battle of Hastings **Magna Carta ***History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea (Crusades) ***Daughter of Time |
Using AIS instead of Birth of Britian |
| Biography | The Little Duke
Joan of Arc by Diane Stanley
|
*The Life of King Alfred by Asser
** ***Joan of Arc by Twain |
Asser is combined with Bede |
| Geography | Tree in the Trail
Seabird |
* ** The Brendan Voyage
***How the Heather Looks Map drills |
|
| Government & Economics | Whatever Happened to Penny Candy | ||
| Citizenship | Ourselves | ||
| Current Events | Read daily news keep a calendar of events | ||
| Literature | Shakespeare
Pilgrim’s Progress Parables from Nature Understood Betsy Wind in the Willows Robin Hood Free Reading |
History of English Literature
The Age of Chivalry The Chaucer Story Book from the Baldwin Project
|
Add The Once and Future King, Ivanhoe & Watership Down Later
AND A Taste of Chaucer too. |
| Poetry | Walter De La Mare
Eugene Field & James Whitcombe Riley Christina Rossetti |
* Oxford Book of English Verse (see note)
**Alfred, Lord Tennyson ***John Keats |
|
| Grammar
& Composition |
Grammarland
Spelling Dictionary Skills/List |
Begin written narrations 2-3 per week | Saving the year 7 recommendations for later |
| Recitation | * Psalm 45
**Psalm 46 ***Psalm 51 From Shakespeare Poetry * Poem 8 and 32 |
||
| Copywork
& Transcription |
Include selections from Shakespeare, the Bible, poetry and other selection | ||
| Math | |||
| Science | Apologia General Science
** ***The Life of the Spider
|
||
| Nature Study | Burgess Book
Pagoo Handbook of Nature Study |
*Lay of the Land or something by Edwin Way Teale | |
| Logic | How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler | ||
| Drawing & Art | The Story of Painting
Artist Rotation Work on Drawing Skills Illustrate a scene from reading once a week |
||
| Music | Composer Rotation
3 Folksongs Songs listed on year 7 page Hymns |
||
| Foreign Language | Begin Latin
Other language studies |
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| Health | Books selected already | Fearfully and Wonderfully Made – wait | |
| Life & Work Skills | |||
| Free Reading | List | List | |
Looks like a lot doesn’t it? If the internet continues to work I’ll post more tomorrow. This is not the working plan yet.
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