Year 10

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Bible

Daily reading including:

• 2 Corinthians, Ephesians
• 1 Kings, Proverbs
• 2 Kings, Jonah, Amos

Devotions

• Knowing God by J.I. Packer 
• The Attributes of God by A. W. Pink
• The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis

History

• The Great Democracies by Winston Churchill
• A History of the American People by Paul Johnson

Supplemental History

• Arguing About Slavery, The Great Battle in the United States Congress by William Lee Miller
• Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Alexander Brown

Speeches and Documents

• The Holy Alliance Treaty September 26, 1815
• The Catholic Emancipation Act
• Missouri Compromise - 1820
• Dred Scott Decision - 1857
• Emancipation Proclamation - 1863
• Confederate Constitution

Biographies

• Virginia's General - Robert E Lee and the Civil War by Albert Marrin
• The Story of Abraham Lincoln by Mary Hamilton
• Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
  

Geography

• Eothen by Alexander Kinglake
• The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman

Government/Economics

• * Evaluating Books: What Would Thomas Jefferson Think About This? by Richard Maybury
• * The Law (1848) by Frederic Bastiat here or here
• ** The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as the Basis for Public Policy by Thomas Sowell, preferred, or Controversial Essays by Thomas Sowell (PDF files with commentary at Hoover Institution)
• *** On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
• *** Graves of Academe by Richard Mitchell

Worldviews

• * **The Deadliest Monster by Jeff Baldwin - A highly recommended literary worldview study contrasting the books "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Frankenstein."
• *** How Should We Then Live by Francis Schaeffer

Literature

• History of English Literature for Boys and Girls by H.E. Marshall - Chapters 77-85
• Simond's Literature - Select readings from chapters 3-6

1. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
2. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
3. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
4. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
5. Silas Marner by George Eliot
6. Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Shakespeare

Per AO Rotation

Essays

•  That It Is Folly to Measure Truth and Error by Our Own Capacity
• Of Solitude
• Of the Inequality Among Us
• Of Repentance

Poetry

• Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry

Recitations

1. 2 Corinthians 6; Ephesians 4
2. Proverbs 1-4; Hebrews 8
3. Amos 5:1-24; 1 Peter 2

Science

• Chemistry
• Microbe Hunters by Paul deKruf
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Logic

• How to Read Slowly by James Sire

Art & Music Appreciation

• The Story of Painting by H. W. Janson
• AO Artist
• AO Composer

Free Reading

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Hard Times by Charles Dickens
• Persuasion by Jane Austen
• The Importance of Being Earnest a play by Oscar Wilde
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
• Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
• The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Sir Walter Scott:

* The Bride of Lammermoor - East Lothian, 1695
* The Pirate - Shetland and Orkney Islands, 1700
* The Black Dwarf - The Lowlands of Scotland, 1706 (Jacobites)
** Rob Roy - The Jacobites
** Heart of Midlothian - Time of George II. (Porteous Riots)
** Waverley - The Jacobites
** Redgauntlet - Time of George III.
** Guy Mannering - Time of George III
** The Surgeon's Daughter - Fifeshire, Isle of Wight, and India (1780)
*** The Antiquary - Scotch Manners, last decade of the 18th Century
*** St. Ronan's Well - Near Firth of Forth, 1812

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