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Year 11

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Year 11's time period focuses on Modern World History (from 1901-2000).  Our history and literature choices are chosen based on their importance to this time period as well as their specific genre (mostly Sci-Fi).

Reading List

Bible & Devotions

  • Daily Reading
  • The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
  • The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee

History

  • A History of America by Paul Johnson

Supplemental Reading

  • The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
  • All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque
  • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer

Biographies

  • Mein Kampf (My Struggle) by Adolf Hitler
  • Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
  • Stalin:  Russia's Man of Steel by Albert Marrin
  • Hitler by Albert Marrin
  • America and Vietnam:  The Elephant and the Tiger by Albert Marrin

Speeches and Source Documents

  • Speeches from Years 11
  • Historical Documents from Years 11

Geography

  • The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig
  • Lost Horizon by James Hilton

Government

  • Power Basics Government

Economics

  • Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

Citizenship

  • Plutarch's Lives

Logic

  • Critical Thinking

Worldviews

  • Seven Men Who Rule the World from the Grave by David Breese

Literature

  • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  • The Chosen by Chaim Potok
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Free Reading

  • Operation Overlord by Albert Marrin
  • The Yanks are Coming by Albert Marrin
  • The Wild Blue by Stephen Ambrose D-Day: June 6, 1944 by Steven Ambrose
  • Flags of our Fathers by James Bradley

Poetry

  • The Portable Emerson
  • The Portable Whitman

Shakespeare

  • AO Shakespeare - King Lear, Hamlet

Language Arts

  • The Elegant Essay (IEW)

Science

  • Apologia Chemistry

Art and Artist Study

  • A History of Art for Young People by A. Janson

Music and Composer Study

  • AO Composers
  • Hymns and Folksongs
  • Instrument Lessons

Foreign Language Study

  • Russian I

Work and Life Skills

  • CPR Course
  • Basic Auto Repair
  • Driver's Education
  • Christian Service

 

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