{America's Story 1}
{Berean Builders: Discovering Design with Earth Science}
Discovering Design with Earth Science is a laboratory-based earth science course can be used for either eighth or ninth grade. Most homeschooled students should be ready for it in eighth grade, but privately- and publicly-schooled students will be more comfortable with it in ninth grade. It covers the general properties of the earth’s geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere. There are roughly 55 hours of laboratory instruction in the course. A kit (not included and sold-separately) that contains specific minerals, rocks, and fossils allows students to do very detailed experiments related to the geosphere. These include mineral tests, rock analyses, fossil studies, density investigations, and magnetic property explorations. Students also get hands-on experience with waves, gases, wind, water purification, cloud formation, the Coriolis effect, precipitation, and acid/base interactions.
Middles literature is focused on love of literature and beginning discussions around what they are reading. Our selections include:
Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Carry on Mr Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman
Spanish is our planned offering as well as various rotating enrichment studies.
{Biblioplan – Medieval}
“World and Church history from the fall of Rome (AD 476) through the Renaissance (1600s).
On the World History side, Year Two starts with a review of the Roman Empire. The first fifteen weeks focus on Western Europe, with side trips to the Middle East for the rise of Islam and the Holy Land Crusades. Then come several weeks in Asia, with chapters on India, China, Japan, Mongolia and more. After a chapter on medieval Africa, Year Two moves on to the Age of Exploration, Christopher Columbus and the conquistadors. Then come three weeks on the Protestant Reformation, the Renaissance in Art and the Renaissance in Science. We end the year back in Western Europe, where we spend four weeks with King Henry VIII of England and his three children: Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I.
On the Church History side, Year Two starts with some of the early Christians who were martyred under the Roman Empire. Then come the monastic movement and the early days of the Roman Catholic Church. Controversies and schisms play a big part in Year Two. We cover the Great Schism between East and West, the Western Schism within the Church itself, and several others. We end the year with the biggest schism of all: the one that began with the Protestant Reformation.”
https://biblioplan.net/year-2-medieval/
{Rainbow Jr. High Science, year 2: Biology}
"The Rainbow is a two-year, laboratory-based science curriculum for homeschooled children who are (nominally) in Junior High School (grades 7-9). It is sold with all the laboratory equipment and supplies included to make laboratory science safe and easily doable in a home environment. It is a textbook-driven curriculum so the students are exposed to the theory and principles as well as the laboratory practicum. The Rainbow provides one semester each of physics, chemistry, biology, and applications of science. The course could certainly be called General Science. Earth Science is covered in the applications semester. Life Science is taught during the semester of biology. Physical Science is taught the first year of the program in physics and chemistry."
**(Any parent/child that does not want to jump into the second year of a two year program, the option is open for them to join the elementary curriculum which is written up to eighth grade)**
https://www.beginningspublishing.com/rainbow-junior-high-science-curriculum/
Middles literature will be curated and taught by one of our own moms who is a published author and has a passion for teaching literature. She has been using her own curriculum this year; the kids (and other moms) are loving it! Our high schoolers will get to tackle one of her own books this year!
Call of the Wild – Jack London
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
The Five Towers #1: The Blue Tower – J.B. Simmons
Destiny’s Rebel Trilogy #1: Destiny’s Rebel – Philip S. Davies
Enrichment Studies
Spanish and ASL are a planned offering as well as various rotating enrichment studies.
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