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High School with STAA

Our Basic Recommended Book List

   
 

The following lists our recommended books for each grade. You will not be buying every book or only the books listed. Students have a wide variety of abilities and aptitudes; schooling--especially homeschooling--needs to be adapted to different children in different ways. Your advisor will work with you to (a) match each child’s strengths and weaknesses to specific materials; (b) combine your students in texts and subjects; (c) choose a religion, history and science focus for the family for the year; and (d) weave materials you may already have or would prefer to use into your family’s course plan.

Books and materials are purchased by the family from various sources; provider names and addresses, order codes and prices are included in the program packet. Costs for materials per child can range from $200.00 to $500.00, depending on the grades levels of your children and resources already available to you. Many of the materials are used for two or more years and most are non-consumable.

 
 

Cycle I
Greek History & Astronomy

 
 
Social Studies
Greenleaf Guide: Famous Men of Greece
Christ the King
Herodotus
Thucydides
Xenophon
Plutarch
Alexander of Macedon

Literature
Bulfinch’s Mythology
Iliad
Odyssey
Plato’s Dialogues

Fine Arts
Story of Art

Fine Arts: Greek Drama
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
Aristophanes

Religion
Intro to the Bible: Old Testament

Language Arts
Complete Book of Diagrams
Jensen’s Punctuation
Composition & Analytical Thinking
Accurate Communications
Traditional Logic

Languages
Henle Latin 1 with Memoria Press 1

Math
Jacobs’ Elementary Algebra

Science
Astronomy: A Self Teaching Guide
Mary Daly’s Creator & Creation

 

> Click here to learn more about the books we use for Cycle I <

 

 
 

Cycle II:
Roman History & Classical Physics

 
 
Social Studies
Greenleaf Guide: Famous Men of Rome
Christ the King
Livy
Plutarch
Sallust
Tacitus
Suetonius

Literature
Bulfinch’s Mythology
Aeneid
Cicero, Aurelius
St. Augustine’s City of God

Fine Arts/Roman Drama
Shakespeare
Plautus
Terence

Fine Arts/Music Appreciation
Music & Moments with the Masters

Religion
Story of the Church I with
St. Augustine’s Confessions
Intro to the Bible: New Testament

Language Arts
Jensen’s Grammar
Jensen’s Punctuation
Format Writing: Formal Paragraphs
Sound Reasoning

Languages
Henle Latin 1 with Memoria Press 2

Math
Jacobs’ Geometry

Science
Physics Made Simple

> Click here to learn more about the books we use for Cycle II <

 

 
 

Cycle III:
Old World History & Biology

 
 
Social Studies
Christ the King
Rule of St. Benedict
Bulfinch’s Mythology
Murder in the Cathedral
Canterbury Tales; The Prince
Don Quixote

Literature
Divine Comedy

Fine Arts/Drama
Shakespeare

Fine Arts/Art Appreciation
Adventures in Art

Religion
Story of the Church II with
Shorter Summa
Catholic Morality with
Introduction to the Devout Life

Language Arts
Jensen’s Grammar
Jensen’s Punctuation
Critical Reading
Format Writing: Formal Essays

Languages
Henle Latin 1 with Laura Berquist

Math
Math U See Algebra 2

Science
Biology the Easy Way

> Click here to learn more about the books we use for Cycle III <
 

 
 

Cycle IV:
New World History and Chemistry

 
 
Social Studies
Christ & the Americas
Christ the King
Documentary History of the US

Government & Economics
Roots of American Order
Constitution of the US: An Intro
Intro to Economic Reasoning

Literature
Scarlet Letter
Tale of Two Cities
Huckleberry Finn
The Virginian

Fine Arts/Music Appreciation
Music & Moments with the Masters

Religion
Story of the Church III with
Screwtape Letters
Catholic Apologetics with
Orthodoxy

Language Arts
Jensen’s Grammar
Jensen’s Punctuation
Format Writing: Major Papers

Languages
Henle Latin 2 with Laura Berquist

Math
Math U See Trigonometry

Science
Chemistry Made Simple

> Click here to learn more about the books we use for Cycle IV <

 
 

   
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