Grade Six

Daily Lessons:

Penmanship or Copywork :  ABEKA Copywork
Math: SAXON 7/6
Foreign language:  Rosetta Stone french
Latin
Musical Instrument Practice:  Guitar, Piano, Drums

Weekly Lessons:

Art Appreciation
Art
Grammar (AO's Language Arts Scope and Sequence for this level is here.)
Correspond history readings with a timeline or century book and map
Handicrafts
Music Appreciation, including folksongs and hymns
Nature Study
One Life from Plutarch
A Shakespeare play

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Bible

History: end of WWI to present day, and 2 terms in ancient history
     Term 1
        Story of Mankind ch 66-71 1920 (purchase/purchase for Kindle) [note]
             OR Child's History of the World ch 85-91
        Story of the World, Vol 4: The Modern Age by Susan Wise Bauer pgs 244-474 (purchase) [note]
             OR What Everyone Should Know About the 20th Century Axelrod, Phillips; click.
     Term 2
        Augustus Caesar's World by Genevieve Foster (purchase) [note]
        ** Story of the Greeks by H. A. Guerber (purchase/purchase for Kindle)
     Term 3
        Augustus Caesar's World (second half) (purchase) [note]
        *** Story of the Romans by H. A. Guerber (purchase/purchase for Kindle)

History Tales and/or Biography

Trial and Triumph by Richard Hannula (purchase; purchase for Kindle) [note]
* Select a book from the Free Reading selections below [note]
** Genesis, Finding Our Roots by Ruth Beechick (purchase)
*** Never Give In (about Winston Churchill) by Stephen Mansfield (purchase/purchase for Kindle)

Geography

The Story of David Livingstone
by Vautier Golding (purchase/purchase for Kindle) [note] Map x

Natural History/Science

The Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock (purchase), as scheduled in Nature Study; online. You may find it helpful and fun to participate in the Outdoor Hour Challenge blog.
Supplies for Nature Study:
     Nature notebook and pencils or paint for each student
     Begin to build a library of regional field guides
     Plenty of time to allow Nature Study to be a fun learning experience for both parent and child
* ** School of the Woods by William J. Long (purchase/purchase for Kindle)
** *** The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson (purchase/purchase for Kindle) (we recommend the Young Readers Edition adapted by Anne Terry White if you can find it - purchase.)
It Couldn't Just Happen by Lawrence Richards (purchase/purchase for Kindle)
Secrets of the Universe: Discovering the Universal Laws of Science by Paul Fleisher; republished as five separate books:
     Liquids and Gases: Principles of Fluid Mechanics (purchase)
     Objects in Motion: Principles of Classical Mechanics (purchase)
     Waves: Principles of Light, Electricity, and Magnetism (purchase)
     Matter and Energy: Principles of Matter and Thermodynamics (purchase)
     Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: Principles of Modern Physics (purchase); see help in corresponding the books here. Hover for more information here
Those preferring a textbook option may use the Exploring Creation With . . . series by Jeannie Fulbright for science in Years 3-6 (purchase): also available here. A support group is available.

Science Biography

* Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity by Robert Cwiklik (purchase) OR Ordinary Genius by Stephanie McPherson (purchase)
** Archimedes and the Door of Science by Jeanne Bendick (purchase)
*** Galileo and the Magic Numbers by Sidney Rosen (affordable for Kindle, or available as a reasonably priced eBook, but there are copyright rules about using it; it must be read off your computer.)

Penmanship/Copywork

A curriculum or program for handwriting is not necessary, but if you want to use one, these are some we've used and can suggest:
A Reason for Writing (Level A: purchase) (Level B: purchase)
Getty Dubay Italic Handwriting Series (purchase)

Mathematics

Select a program that meets your family's needs from our page of Math Options.

Foreign Language

Latin

Poetry

* Robert Frost
** Carl Sandburg
*** Alfred Noyes a few poems online
Term 3's poems aren't selected yet; until then, you might enjoy these 59 poems

Literature

Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch ch 29 (Ulysses) - end (Druids) (purchase/purchase for Kindle)
* ** The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (16 weeks) (purchase/purchase for Kindle)
** Animal Farm by George Orwell (8 weeks) (purchase/purchase for Kindle)
*** The Iliad (purchase/purchase for Kindle) - perhaps Black Ships before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff (purchase), or Tales of Troy by Andrew Lang (purchase) (A Homer website)

Additional Books for Free Reading [note]
* Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls; 20th century (purchase/purchase for Kindle)
* The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig (purchase) (recommended by AO users!)
* The Winged Watchman by Hilda Van Stockum (purchase)
* Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (purchase); deals with racism in the 1930's
* Blue Willow by Doris Gates (purchase); dust bowl story - there is another book by this name
* MIracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen (purchase); depression era fiction- sweet, upbeat, nature appreciation
* Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse (purchase); very literary story of a Jewish Immigrant to post WWII America
* Jungle Pilot: The Life and Witness of Nate Saint, Martyred Missionary to Ecuador by Russel T. Hitt
* The Von Trapp Family Singers by Maria Von Trapp (purchase/purchase for Kindle)
* Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan (purchase); true story of Norwegian children who spirited away gold for the resistance right under the Nazi's eyes
* Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (purchase); WWII based on a true story of the Danish efforts to save the Jews
* The Ark by Margot Benary-Isbert; refugee family attempts survival in post WWII Germany [OOP]
Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott (purchase/purchase for Kindle)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (purchase)
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott (purchase)
Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott (purchase) (every homeschool family should read this)
The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens (purchase)
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss (purchase/purchase for Kindle)
Call of the Wild by Jack London (purchase)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (purchase)
Penrod by Booth Tarkington (purchase)
A Little Brother to the Bear by William J. Long (purchase/purchase for Kindle)
***The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth Speare (purchase)
God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew and John Sherrill (purchase)
(Purchase a Kindle)