2013 – 2014 Lessons

Well, this fall will mark four years of working on this project.  (Actually, I started it in the spring, so it’s already been four years.)  Grammar Stage lessons for the Modern Age are already posted at my website here: http://www.classicalhouseoflearning.com/grammar-stage-literature.html#Modern

My lessons for Logic Stage Modern Age will be formatted somewhat differently.  This school year I’ll be teaching a class for my daughter and her peers (~8th grade level) that is a combined history and literature course.  The lessons will alternate between history lessons and literature lessons.  I’m not sure if I’ll have time (or energy) to reformat these lessons to fit my typical CHOLL format, but I can at least post the lessons I make for the course.  There will be 24 lessons all together: 12 history lessons and 12 literature lessons.

These are the books I’m using.  Students can choose which World History text option to use.

• American History Text:  America The Story of Us: An Illustrated History by Kevin Baker ISBN-13 978-1422983430
• World History Text Option 1:  World History the Easy Way, Vol. 2 by Charles A. Frazee; ISBN-13 978-0812097665
• World History Text Option 2 (BOTH of these books):  The Human Odyssey Vol. 2:  Our Modern World, 1400 to 1914 by Mary Beth Klee, John Cribb, and John Holdren; ISBN-13 978-1931728560  AND  The Human Odyssey Vol. 3: From Modern Times to Our Contemporary Era by Mary Beth Klee, John Cribb, and John Holdren; ISBN-13 978-1601530189
• The following literature selections:
  • Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne (pub. 1873)
  • The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (pub. 1895)
  • The Call of the Wild by Jack London (pub. 1903)
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (pub. 1901 – 1902)
  • Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1908)
  • War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells (pub. 1898)
  • The Chosen by Chaim Potok (pub. 1967)
  • Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (pub. 1934)
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell (pub. 1945)
  • Short Stories Unit: “The Machine Stops” by E. M. Forster (pub. 1909), “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry (pub. 1910), and “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (pub. 1961)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (pub. 1960)
  • Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (pub. 1985)