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Year 11

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Bible

  1. Romans, Colossians; Hebrews, Titus
  2. 1 Chronicles, Obadiah; 2 Chronicles, 1 & 2 Timothy
  3. Isaiah, Joel, 1 & 2 Peter

Devotions

  1. The Holiness of God by R. C. Sproul
  2. The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  3. The Pleasures of God by John Piper

History

Modern Times Revised Edition: World from the Twenties to the Nineties by Paul Johnson

Supplemental History

  1. Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children, Roosevelt, ed. by Joseph Bucklin Bishop
  2. Mein Kampf (My Struggle) by Adolf Hitler
  3. I Have a Dream speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Speeches and Documents

  1. Woodrow Wilson, entering World War I, April 2, 1917 "War Message" #19
    Franklin Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address March 4, 1933 "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." #3
  2. The Trial at Nuremberg
  3. Franklin Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor address December 8, 1941 "a day that will live in infamy" #4
  4. Franklin Roosevelt D-Day Prayer June 6, 1944
  5. Winston Churchill "Their finest hour" June 18, 1940
  6. John F. Kennedy's Inauguration January 20, 1961 "Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country." #2
  7. Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 Moon Landing July 20, 1969 "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." (20th century topics, or click here for 4 min. 22 sec.
  8. Gerald Ford's pardoning of Richard Nixon September 8, 1974 #96
  9. Ronald Reagan--D-Day Memorial - Pointe du Hoc - June 6, 1984 "These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc." #60
  10. Billy Graham's (minister to the Presidents) funeral address for Richard Nixon April 27, 1994, before 4 living presidents; Scroll down to second Graham section, "Closing Remarks." Note photos on the page.

Biographies

  1. Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
  2. The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
  3. Stalin:  Russia's Man of Steel by Albert Marrin
  4. Hitler by Albert Marrin
  5. When Character Was King by Peggy Noonan

Geography

  • South by Sir Ernest Shackleton
  • Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes

Worldviews

  • * Seven Men Who Rule the World from the Grave by David Breese
  • ** Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
  • *** Modern Fascism by Gene Edward Veith

Literature

* The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
* All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Marie Remarque - well-written, straightforward account of the realities of WWI.
** The Chosen by Chaim Potok
** Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (Mature content, but meaty and thought provoking)
*** Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
*** To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Short Stories/Poetry

  • Norton's Anthology of Modern Poetry

Recitation

*Matthew 6; 2 Timothy 3; Psalms 27; 33
** Hebrews 9; John 1:1-14; Psalms 91; 136
*** Acts 2:14-47; Ephesians 6; Psalms 122, 123 (these are short); Psalms 119:9-30

Science

  1. Physics
  2. Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard P. Feynman

Art/Music Appreciation

AO Artist/Music rotation

Free Reading

  • The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  • Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
  • Christy by Catherine Marshall
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
  • Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  • My Antonia by Willa Cather
  • A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
  • A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry

 

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