Curriculum Plans 2023/2024

Flora:

English:

English Grammar Recitation (32 lessons), Grammar and Writing 8

Everything You Need to Ace English Language Arts in One Big Fat Notebook

Tuesdays Loop: Finish Reading 7 for Young Catholics then *Reading 8 for Young CatholicsWordSmart Junior, Building Writing SkillsComplete Library Skills

Loop: VocabularyCaesar's English I and Rummy Roots, Spectrum Word Study and Phonics and Daily Grams (Finish last pages.) (daily)  

Dictation: SpellingYouSee (Finish E, start F) (Dictation)  (daily)

Spelling: *Sequential Spelling 4Apples, The Word Wasp  (daily)

Literature: CenterforLitThe Young Person's Guide to Shakespeare, Forms and Elements of Literature, Building PoemsThe Art of the Short Story with Charcoal Drawing

Finish Reading Detective A1, then Comprehension Detective  (Reading Skills)  (Saturdays)

Handwriting: Schreibschule der deutschen Schrift


Math:

Teaching Textbooks Pre-Algebra

Zahlenfuchs 4

Math Detective  (Saturdays)


Science/Health:

Loop Exploring Creation with Chemistry and Physics  (Lesson 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 14, use other lessons for main lessons.) Lesson Plans/Tests and Considering God's Creation (Finish together, lessons 27-36 for health)

Science and Living in God's World  (Use as additional help with the other topics.)

Tuesdays: What's Biology All About? (Read on her own.  1 lesson each week)  What's Physics All about?  (Read on her own.  1 lesson each week)

Concepts and Challenges in Life Science


Latin:



German:

Jan und das Wildpferd
Von den sieben Arten eine Katze zu lieben
Balladen für Kinder (Lutz Görner)
Bergkristall (Adalbert Stifter)
Kleider machen Leute  (Gottfried Keller)
Der Schimmelreiter  (Theodor Storm)
Pfiffikus (45 Seiten)
Lernkärtchen Rechtschreibung und Grammatik

French:


Greek:

Elementary Greek I


Religion:

St. Joseph Baltimore Catechism No. 2

Christ in Promise, in Person, and in His Church  (Bible and church history)  (Lesson plans OLRS, daily) combine with Bible CD

Understanding the Mass, 3-Part Cards

The Secret of Mary Explained to Children

Die Bibel Dimiter Inkiow (CD)  (M/W/F)

Our Lady of the Rosary Family Catechism  (Catechism Memory)  (Daily, during Circle Time, Videos on Sundays)

The Curé of Ars

St. Louis de Montfort


American History/World History/NYS (1700 until now):

Industrial Revolution, Napoleon, Ford, Edison, Jefferson, Lincoln, mostly covered during main lessons

Tuesdays: American History (OLVS, 28 chapters) 

PBS American History

Liberty Kids?  (Revolutionary War days)

*New York Dailies

The Complete Book of Presidents and States  (M/W/F)

Living books suggestions 1  (Can't You Make Them Behave, King George?, Along Came Galileo, Bard of Avon, Good Queen Bess, A Young Patriot, Paddle-to-the Sea, Minn of the Mississippi, *The Year of the Horseless Carriage)

Living books suggestions 2  (A Boy Named FDR, Moonshot, The Unbreakable Code, The Children of China, A Grain of Rice, Kampung Boy, The Way We Do It in Japan)

Live Ed Early American History

Live Ed American History in the 19th Century

The Complete Book of World History (1 chapter per week)  

Einmal bis ans Ende der Welt  (Main lesson)

The Story of Inventions  (Main lesson)

Our Past in Western Europe  (Main lesson)

Die Zeitdetektive: Der Spion am Hof des Sonnenkönigs  (Main lesson)

A Child's History of the World:

Week 1: A New Spirit in the World, A New Big Power in the World, Trying to Keep Peace, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow


Government/Constitution together with Veronika:

The Good and the Beautiful Constitution and Government


Geography:

Maps, Charts, and Graphs H

Finish Elementary Geography alternate with Top Deutschland + 2 durch Deutschland (Material, Game) and Exploring Europe

Geography of Asia for Kids

The Maryknoll Book of Peoples

World Geography (Main lesson)

Globalmania using *Geoguessr  (1 x weekly)

Geography Songs


P.E.:

Ballet


Handwork:

Sewing machine: Make a pillow case (Stitches and Pins), sew a skirt

Woodwork: *Birdhouse kit,  Wooden mobile


Art:

Local art classes

Modeling: human hand, foot, bones, head

The Story of Painting  (LinksStory of Art Sticker Book  Loop with: The Usborne Story of Music


Music:

Violin lessons

Recorder, alto recorder

Ready-To-Use Music Activities Kit  (continue daily, after recorder)

The Usborne Story of Music, Usborne Links 

Listen to the Birds: An Introduction to Classical Music

How to Introduce Your Child to Classical Music

Adventures of Richard Wagner

Motets, madrigals, ballads, Renaissance music, Elizabethan songs, symphonic form, American music


Library Skills:

Tuesdays: Complete Library Skills (and during English main lesson)


Typing:

Typing 2


Main Lessons:

1. September 11 - October 6: (4 weeks)

Geometry: Geometry in art and nature, spiral, Golden Proportion, etc.

Week One: Penny Play, General Term, Fibonacci, Seashell Spiral, The Golden Mean  Week Two: Circle Sequence, Pool Table Induction, To the Limit, Circle, Ellipse  Week Three: Parabola, Cardioid, Interior Angles, Easy Addition, Prime Numbers  Week Four: Logarithms, Slide and Jump, Mobius Twist, Postal Bar Codes, Jigsaw Puzzle  Math in Nature, The Rabbit Problem, Blockhead, Growing Patterns, Math Art, Live Ed Nature, Number, and Geometry, Tops Math LabRightStart Math (Finish F, start G)


2. October 9 - October 27: (3 weeks)

History I: 

The Old World's Gifts to the New (Page 316: "The Great Revolt"- End)

A Child's History of the World: Queen Elizabeth, The Age of Elizabeth, James the Servant, A King Who Lost His Head

Chapters in The Old World's Gifts to the New: Week One: The Great Revolt (Martin Luther), Preparing to Find a New World, The Man Who Discovered America, The Man Who First Circled the Globe, The People Who Lived in the New World Week Two: Following the Leader, How the Missionaries Taught the Indians of South America, The Dutch Make a Path to America, Sea Dogs of Old England, French Path Breakers  Week Three: Colonists from Portugal, Spanish Settlers in New Spain, The Dutch in New Netherland, French Home Builders, English Home Makers, Catholic Maryland  

Elizabeth I, Good Queen Bess, Live Ed Reformation Biographies, Live Ed Revolutionaries and Romantics and The Age of Exploration and Discovery,  


3. October 30 - November 17: (3 weeks)

Mathematics: Algebra:

Math is Fun


4. November 27 - December 15: (3 weeks)

Anatomy/Nutrition (skeletal/muscular systems+ the brain and the sense of hearing and smell):

Week One:  Man-Reproductive System; The Cell; Man-Skeletal System; Man-Digestive System; Man-Circulatory System  Week Two: Man-Respiratory System; Man-Nervous System; Man-Integumentary System; Week Three: Man-Endocrine System and Excretory System; Man Muscular System; The Human Eye, Its Form, and Function: The Human Ear and the Nature of Sound; Blindness and Deafness; Helen Keller Week Four: Lirum, larum LöffelstielLive Ed Human Anatomy and Physiology, Muscles and Bones, Blood and GutsThe Story of Helen KellerConsidering God's Creation  (Lessons 27-36), 100 Things to Know About FoodHome Science Tools Food Experiments, Carbohydrates: Test for starch in a leaf.  Starch and Other Carbohydrates.  Sugar and Sweeteners and Let's Learn About Sugar.  Fats: Fats and Cholesterol.  Proteins: Protein.  Just Add SugarIdeasCheese Making KitLive Ed ChemistryConcepts and Challenges in Life SciencesChemie Videos, *Real Chemistry Experiments (Library), Bones (Library), Before I Was Born (Library), Concepts and Challenges in Life ScienceFirst aid videos and here


5. January 8 - January 26: (3 weeks)

Chemistry:

Exploring Creation with Chemistry and Physics (Use parts for main lessons.) Lesson Plans/Tests  
Week 1: Lesson 2  Week 2: Lesson 3  Week 3: Lesson 4


6. January 29 - February 23: (4 weeks)

History II:

A Child's History of the World:

Week One: Red Cap and Red Heels, A Self-Made Man, A Prince Who Ran Away, America Gets Rid of Her King, Upside Down  Week Two: A Little Giant, Latin America and the Caribbean Islands, From Pan and His Pipes to the Phonograph, The Daily Papers of 1854-1865, Three New Postage Stamps  Week Three and Four: A Different Kind of Revolution, A World at War, A Short Twenty Years, Modern Barbarians, Fighting the Dictators

Live Ed Revolutionaries and Romantics, The King's Day, King Louie's Shoes, Palace of Versailles, Cecile?, Paris 1789, Napoleon, The Industrial Revolution for Kids, Mill Times, The Story of Child Labor Laws, Industriezeitalter


7. March 4 - March 22: (3 weeks)

Physics (electricity, aerodynamics, hydraulics, etc.):

Exploring Creation with Chemistry and Physics
Week 1: Lesson 10  Week 2: Lesson 12  Week 3: Lesson 13  
How Ben Franklin Stole the LightningVideoPeter Lustig Video, How a vacuum (experiment) is created, The Leyden JarLive Ed Physics II

8. April 2 - April 19: (3 weeks)

Geography:

Week One: Australia Geography and Culture. Week Two: Asian Geography and Culture, Russia Week Three: Antarctica Geography and Culture  Live Ed European GeographyNeuseeland, Papua und VanuatuBuschmann, Buddha, Tuareg, World Geography

Antarctica BooksAustralia Books


9. April 22 - May 17 (4 weeks)

English:

A Child's Introduction to PoetryGrammar and Writing 8,  Complete Library SkillsThe Art of the Short Story with Charcoal Drawing


10. May 21 - June 7  (3 weeks)

Math: Algebra:

Math is Fun


11. June 10 - June 28

Physics: Meteorology  (3 weeks)

Week One: What is air? What do we know about the gases in air? What are the layers of the atmosphere? How does the earth get its heat? How is the atmosphere heated? How does heat move in the air? Which warms up faster, land or water? What is air pressure? How much pressure does air have? How is air pressure measured?  Build a barometer (Library: Maker Lab Outdoors).  Week Two: Why does air pressure change? How does air pressure change around the earth? How are winds formed? Which way does a wind blow? What causes local winds? How do we measure winds? How does water get into the atmosphere? What is humidity? How can we measure relative humidity?  Week Three: How does water come out of the air? Why does it rain? How do we identify clouds? How does the weather affect us? How do we get our weather? What happens when air masses meet?  What is a station model? How do we read a weather map? What factors determine climate? How can we classify climates?  Concepts and Challenges in Earth ScienceLive Ed Weather, How Weather Works

Summer School:

Grammar and Writing 8

Summer Bridge 8 to 9


Veronika:

Economics:

Bahnsen Economics Course  (free)


Civics:

Loop: The Great Declaration  (own, old library book), American Government: Great Lives  (own) and Best Little Stories from the White House  (own)

Civics OLVS


Typing:

*Professor Teaches Word

*Professor Teaches Windows 10


English:

Advanced Academic Writing 1  (Assignment 3, Assignment 4)

Advanced Academic Writing 3

Advanced Communication Series (out of print)

*Easy Grammar 12

Hound of the Baskervilles (and movie), The House of Seven GablesThe Innocence of Father Brown, Pride and Prejudice (movie and movie "Pride and Prejudice"), The Merchant of Venice 

Word Power Made Easy (second part)

History of literature: A Short History of England's and America's Literature (Eva March Tappan), The Eternal Argument

Grammar of Poetry, Speak Like Rain?  (finish)

SAT prep?


Geography:

Finish MODG: (Week 21-32), then Why Greenland is an Island, Unterwegs in Deutschland, Rick Steves Germany


Biology: 

Finish Charlotte Mason High School Biology: Units 3 and 5, Everything You Need to Ace Biology in One Big Fat NotebookKeeper of the Bees (Library)


Chemistry:

Finish Unit 3 to Unit 5, Everything You Need to Ace Chemistry in one Big Fat Notebook


Math:

Math-U-See Calculus

Panda SAT Math


Latin:

Ecce Romani II


French:

Homeschool Connections Intermediate French: Discovering French Blanc Level 2


German:

Siddhartha, Unterm Rad Hesse (Planet Schule); Die Leiden des jungen Werther, Dokumentation: Goethe, Goethe, Goethe, GoetheBeim Namen gerufen, Buddenbrooks, Die Physiker, Andorra, Kabale und Liebe

Loop: The Shortest History of Germany and Unterwegs in Deutschland and Vom Taugenichts zum Steppenwolf, Meet the Germans, Deutsches Literaturlesebuch

Zeichensetzung  (Nr. 43-99)

Arbeitsblätter für den Deutschunterricht

Schreiben lernen  (Dankesbrief, Bewerbungsbrief, Zwischenspiel "Writing Errors", Kindheit/Erlebnis und Identität, Erinnerungen/Nachrichtenartikel, Zwischenspiel "Using a Dictionary", Stellungnahme, Argumentation, Gedichte, Märchen, Kurzgeschichte, Zwischenspiel "Writing Levels", Bildgeschichte, Inhaltsangabe, Gedichte interpretieren, Märchen interpretieren, Kurzgeschichten interpretieren)

kurz und bündig

Triff Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Der Diktat-Trainer

Deutsch 7. Schuljahr (Textanalyse, Aufsatz)  (S. 44 - 113)


Modern History:

Light to the Nations, Part 2: Chapter 2: Catherine the Great (library), Chapter 4: The Fatal Necklace (library), Chapter 12: Florence Nightingale (library) (and movie), Chapter 13: Pasteur and the Invisible Giants, Chapter 16: Ho-Ming, Girl of New China (library),  Chapter 18: Hitler (library), Chapter 19: The Endless Steppe (library), Chapter 20: All Aboard for Freedom (library), A Long Walk to Water (library)  (with *Workbook and answer key)  (20 chapters)


Music:

*Music as a Mirror of History (Episodes 13-24)

*How to Listen to and Understand Great Music  (48 lectures)

The Gift of Music, Clara Schumann, Concise Norton Anthology of Western Music


Art:

What Adult's Don't Know About Art

Modern art history: *Modern Art Explorer (Library)


Handwork:

Sewing: 

Fashions in History

Sewing 101

The Royal Wardrobe



P.E.:

Ballet


Religion:

Toward the Eternal Commencement (OLVS)

Walking the Bible DVD  (6 parts)   (Sundays)

Catholicism  (10 episodes, each about 60 minutes long)  (Sundays)

Elements of the Catholic Mass  (Videos)  (Sundays)

World Religions  (Video, 47 minutes)  (Sundays)

Religions of the World  (Sundays), *But Don't All Religions Lead to God?  (10 chapters) (Sundays)

The Screwtape Letters and study guide  (Devotion)

A Christian's Guide to Character and Success  (Devotion: 32 chapters)

Resisting Happiness  (Devotion)



Home Economics: 

Experiences in Homemaking  (old book)

Home economics ideas

Home Ec for Everyone

Coronet Films


Health:

First Aid for Free

*Health, Wellness, and Physical Fitness

Life Management Under God

Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs and or Herbal Adventures  (Do some projects.)


Sebastian Kneip, Heilpflanzen Videos YouTube


Main Lessons:

September 1 - October 6: Math  (4 weeks)

The Annotated Flatland (Library)

Geometric Origami Kit

If time: Chalk Dust SAT  (5 chapters)


October 9 - October 27: World History: 20th century  (3 weeks)

Live Ed World History

Week 1: Imperialism Documentary: Namibia, Gandhi: Picture book, Documentary Gandhi, Project, Human Rights: Righting Wrongs, Einstein and Relativity: ZDF Dokumentation

Week 2: Totalitarianism: DiagramAnnenberg: The American Bill of Rights, Animal Farm, Marxism and the Russian Revolution: Worksheet, Stalin and his Regime: Documentary: Hitler and Stalin - Roots of Evil

Week 3: The World at War 1914-1918: World War I Project, World War II: On the Home Front Project, World War II Days, World War II for Kids, Lights Shining in the Darkness, Strides in Technology: Popular Science, Environmental Concerns: Heroes of the Environment, A Child's Introduction to the Environment

Carry over: The Discovery of the Unconscious: Freud: Explorer of the Unconscious, Jung and Freud: Sea of Faith (BBC), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (movie 1931?), Surrealism: Franz Marc, Robert Delauny, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali and the Surrealists, Surrealism, The Discovery of Consciousness: 

Sea of Faith (complete series)


October 30 - November 17: Geography: Economics  (3 weeks)

*Geschichte der Wirtschaft: 35 Kapitel

Live Ed Business Math and Fraternal Economics

Money Matters for Teens (Use workbook.): Week 1: Ch. 1-5  Week 2: Ch. 6-10  Week 3: Ch. 11-15  Carry over: Ch. 16-17


November 27 - December 15: Biology: Zoology  (3 weeks)

Das Darwin-ProjektDarwin's Tree of Life (Library), Charles Darwin and the Beagle Adventure (Library), Charles Darwin's on the Origin of Species (Library)

TOPS Animal Survival  (20 lessons)

Charlotte Mason High School Biology: Units 5 and  6: Kingdom Animalia and Biographies


January 8 - January 26: Architecture  (3 weeks)

Nie wieder keine Ahnung! Architektur (Video)

What Adults Don't Know About Architecture

Super Structures  (kit)

Origami Architecture American Houses


January 29 - February 23: English: Philosophy  (4 weeks)

Introduction to Western Philosophy (Hillsdale)

Living Biographies of Great Philosophers  (20 philosophers)


March 4 - March 22: Physics: Sound/Optics:  (3 weeks)

The World of Physics: Ch. 9: Light, DVD: Physics 101: Disc A; Apologia Physical Science Module 14 and 15Georg Simon Ohm und der elektrische WiderstandAndré-Marie Ampère und der ElektromagnetismusAlessandro VoltaGlühlampe von Thomas EdisonCarl Friedrich GaußThe Mystery of Matter YouTube: Into the Atom


April 2 - April 19: Chemistry  (3 weeks)

Finish (see above)


April 22 - May 10: English: Transcendentalists: (Emerson, Thoreau, Dickinson, Whitman)  (3 weeks)

A Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson for the Young Reader

The American Transcendentalist (documentary)

POLITICAL THEORY - Henry David Thoreau (School of Life)

Thoreau and Civil Disobedience (School of Life)

LITERATURE - Ralph Waldo Emerson (School of Life)

Father, We Thank You (picture book)

A Home for Mr. Emerson (picture book)

Mr. Emerson's Cook (picture book)

If You Spent a Day with Thoreau at Walden Pond (picture book)

The Trouble with Henry (picture book)

Walden Game

*Henry David Thoreau for Kids

I Begin with Spring (picture book)

A Mind with Wings (chapter book)

A Journey into the Transcendentalists' New England  (library)

Thoreau of Walden Pond (library)


May 13 - June 4: Government/American History 20th Century  (4 weeks)

  1. Hillsdale Intro to the Constitution
  2. Constitutional Literacy (DVD)  (Episodes 1-15)
  3. Constitution USA with Peter Sagal (4 episodes, total of 4 hours)

June: Finish main lessons that have not been finished.



Sundays: 

Our Lady of the Rosary Family Catechism (Video)

*Church Rocks

*St. Patrick's Summer

*Holy Mysteries!

Francis and Clare

Saint Anthony and the Christ Child (?)

Blessed Marie of New France

Saint Thomas More (?)


Circle: 

Religion: To Live Is Christ and Living for Holiness, Girls, You're Important (45 entries)

Our Lady of the Rosary Family Catechism  (Catechism Memory), Bible verse (Simply Charlotte Mason Systemuse wreath 1 verses, Wreath Pages

Song: Waldorf songsCatholic Hymns, deutsche Volkslieder

Music: In Music Land

DeutschSchau in die Welteingeschneit

Constitution: *The Story of Our Constitution  (Eva March Tappan), Short books:

My Senator and MeConstitution Translated for KidsShh!  We're Writing the ConstitutionIf You Were There When They Signed the ConstitutionA More Perfect UnionThe Voice of the PeopleThe Fourth of July StoryGive Me Liberty!  The Story of the Declaration of IndependenceThe Journey of the One and Only Declaration of IndependenceThe Story of the Statue of LibertyPresident Adams' AlligatorLet's Go to Mt. VernonKid Presidents

History NY: New York State in Story Part I (Jeanne Meador Schwarz)

History: I Have a Dream (library)

Nature: Unbändige Liebe


Test Prep:

Editor in Chief Level 2 (Flora)

Summer Bridge 7 to 8 (60 days)

SAT/PSAT Word Games? (Veronika)

Chalk Dust SAT  (5 chapters)  Saturdays


Read Aloud: 

Anderwelten


Nature Walk:

Mein erstes Herbarium (trees)

Mein Herbarium Blütenzauber  (flowers)


DVDs:

Teach with Movies


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