Sixth and Seventh Grade

*Almost every bit of this is scheduled at Mater Amabilis here.  Very little Ivory-originality for 6th-8th grade.

3 R’s

(N) Literature, Poetry, Biography, Science, Geography, Religion

Used both years:

  • Shakespeare, 1 play every 12 weeks (Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Richard III, 3 parents’ choice)
  • Secrets of the Universe by Paul Fleisher
  • From Sea to Shining Sea:  the Story of America (N)
  • Complete Book of Marvels by Richard Halliburton (N)
  • The Book of Discovery by M.B. Synge (N)
  • Gospel from Ignatius Study Bible (N)
  • Bible History by TAN (N)
  • One saint from Vision Book Series each term

Books that change between 6th and 7th

  • 6th grade Science–Our Universe: A Guide to What’s Out There (Russell Stannard),
    Copernicus, Galileo and the Catholic Sponsorship of Science (Jane Meyerhofer), Exploring the Sky: 100 Projects for Beginning Astronomers (Richard Moeschl), World of Plants (Usborne Internet-Linked Library of Science)
  • 7th grade Science—Mystery of the Periodic Table, provisional: TOPS Science 10, 11, 32
  • 6th grade Lit–Little Women (Louisa May Alcott), Around the World in Eighty Days (Jules Verne), Ivanhoe (Walter Scott)
  • 7th grade Lit–Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain), The Scarlet Pimpernel(Baroness Orczy), Swallows and Amazons (Arthur Ransome)

OPTIONAL

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Free Reading

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott (every homeschool family should read this)
The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
Call of the Wild by Jack London
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Penrod by Booth Tarkington
A Little Brother to the Bear by William J. Long
The Little White Horse (Elizabeth Goudge)
God’s Smuggler by Brother Andrew



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