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Our plan for high school humanities will be a little different from the usual. We will be doing two histories per year. The plan is to follow AO Years 9-11 and add a year of ancient history per year. AO Years include American and World History.

 

9th grade will be AO Year 9 (obviously we won't be doing the full Years for each year)+Ancient Greece I

 

10th grade will be AO Year 10 + Ancient Rome I

 

11th grade will be Ancient Greece II+ Middle Ages

 

12th grade will be AO Year 11 + Ancient Rome II

 

We will study philosophy, government and geography as it is integrated into each of these years.

 

 

My question is about the Ancient History aspect of this. I want to break it up into a course of study for Greece and Rome and spread it out over the 4 years. I really need to order Ancient Greece since that is the study we will be doing next year. I need to get this in order so that I can start reading and studying. I have not read these myself yet. The literature is included. ETA: We are studying Ancient History this year which focuses on Ancient Egypt, Persia, etc.

 

* I forgot to add...I do have Spielvogel's Western Civilization to use as a spine if needed.

 

I arranged the books for Ancient Greece I this way:

The Book of the Ancient Greeks (Dorothy Mills)

The Histories (Herodotus)

Iliad

Odyssey

The Oresteia (Aeschylus)

Three Theban Plays (Sophocles)

 

Philosophy will be started with:

The Story of Philosophy (Magee)-just the Greeks

The Story of Philosophy (Durant)-chapters 1-2

The Last Days of Socrates

 

Charlotte Mason has her students study Plutarch every year at one per term. We will study Plutarch over the years this way.

 

This would leave these books for Ancient Greece II:

The Greek Way (Hamilton)

The Echo of Greece (Hamilton)

History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)

Anabasis: A History of My Times (Xenophon)

The Clouds (Aristophanes)

Euripides (Medea or The Bacchae)

Aristotle

Aristotle for Everybody (Adler)

 

Here are my questions:

1. Since I haven't read these is my arrangement wrong? Would it be better to read the history books first to build a better base? I would like her to read the foundational works first so that the books from Ancient Greece II make more sense to her. (us!!:lol:)

2. Am I missing anything?

 

Thank you!

 

AO is for Ambleside Online. Here:http://www.amblesideonline.org/index2.shtml

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Thanks Paula!

 

I have all three Rutherford guides and will happily be using them! :lol:

 

In fact, I'm still hopeful she'll finish the set and release the last one. The last one will be on American and Russian History and Literature. If she does finish the set, we will be using the last guide in 12th grade.

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Thanks Paula!

 

I have all three Rutherford guides and will happily be using them! :lol:

 

In fact, I'm still hopeful she'll finish the set and release the last one. The last one will be on American and Russian History and Literature. If she does finish the set, we will be using the last guide in 12th grade.

 

Ah, it clicks now. I should have remembered your posting about them. I would love to see the last one as well.

 

:bigear: I'll be listening to what others say as well. I would love to spend a year on the Greek and a year on the Romans in high school, but I'm not sure how to plan without overwhelming the schedule.

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I'm splitting this up with the idea of doing some of the easier or foundational works first and then attempting the more difficult ones the second time. We are taking a full study of the Ancients and spreading it across 4 years of high school. I would like to do the same thing with Ancient Rome, but since we're starting with Ancient Greece in 9th grade, I need to organize this list to begin preparing myself. Ideally, Dd would like to spread this out so that she can spend more time with the readings and also have a variety of books each year.

Dd will also be working on American/World History I in 9th grade as well. She will have history and literature for this time period too. I'm trying to cover it all and cover it well, but not all in one year. Does that make sense?

 

If it would be better to divide chronologically, I could look at it.

 

I felt sure that, at least to start, she would need to read The Iliad and The Odyssey next year. Classical Writing, the writing program we use, also has her studying The Oresteia and Three Theban Plays so I included those. I wanted at least one history so I chose Herodotus. This is how this list developed...:lol: I just included other works I thought we should cover in the second session.

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