What's below looks complicated and like too much -- but I'll list about 3-5 topics per month in addition to the core classes -- Catechism, Math, Latin, Greek, Logic -- and then go from there.
Reading, working with hands, art, and oral/writtten composition are the other components.
It's helpful to have this laid out for the future. Anyone reading this can ignore it, though, since it's extremely rough right now.
Plans for Middle School (Seventh and Eighth Grade)
Religion
- Faith and Life 7-8
- Bible History (Schuster)
- Gospel of Mark, Luke
- saints' bios (list to follow)
- Apologetics (list to follow)
Math
- Ray's Higher Arithmetic
- Key to Algebra
Latin
- Latina Christiana, Henle
Greek
- Basic Greek in 30 Minutes a Day
Logic
- Introductory Logic,
- Traditional Logic 1
Literature
- Kolbe Junior High Literature
- Shakespeare
- Poetry, Short Story Courses (1 quarter each)
History -- US History & Modern World
- Makers of America (focus on different time periods)
- This Country of Ours and various Baldwin readers as supplements
- Story of the World Volume 4 (last 2 terms of eighth grade)
- List of supplementary readers to follow
- a research paper each term
- Physical
- Historical
Civics
- Plutarch (history of political life)
- Growing in the Virtues of Jesus
- Ourselves (maybe)
- Joyful Mysteries of Life
- Whatever Happened to Penny Candy (maybe) -- OR
- Land of Fair Play (for economics -- 1 quarter)
Science
- Nature Study
- Design a Study -- Science, keep notebook of projects and reading -- I think I will alternate Life Science with Physical Science
- Periodic Table, Chemical History of a Candle (others -- list to follow)
Composition
- Composition in the Classical Tradition (spine)
- List of topics to follow
- Scope and sequence to follow
Art
- Knights of Art
- Correlated with US History study -- American Artists
- list of artists to follow
Music
- various composers and genres -- list to follow
- start piano
Other
- Arts and Crafts
- Life Skills
- Vocational
- PE
- (lists to follow)
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