Year 12 Discussions

_____________ESSAYS______________
Essays may be used for dictation work. After studying essays, students should be prepared to tackle writing essays on subjects they choose. One possible usage is to have students read an essay on Monday, outline it on Tuesday, rewrite it from their outline on Wednesday, and polish up that rough draft on Thursday. Note: In PNEU's Form III, a paragraph was dictated; in Form IV, selections were occasionally written from memory. You might occasionally assign the student's mastered work for the dictation lesson. Forms V and VI also wrote: "A good precis. Letter to The Times on topics of the day. Essays on subjects taken from the term's work in History and Literature and Economics; or, write on a picture studied, or on some aspect of nature."
Students should read an essay every other week. Choose 18 essays for the year from the following suggestions or supplement with your own choices.

_______________LITERATURE_________________
Miss Mason directed students at this level to keep a Common-place Book for passages that strike them particularly; to learn a hundred lines of poetry; and to be able to give some account of what they have read in each book, with sketches of the chief characters.
Leslie: Let's suggest Age of Fable for those who didn't use it in the earlier years.

Year 12: I, Claudius, Graves The Greek Way The Roman Way, both by Edith Hamilton
Anne: I would still like to include, somewhere in our worldview or literature books for Year 11 or 12, Terry Glaspey's guide to great reading, which does introduce students to people like Buechner. And also The Christian Imagination, and maybe one of Peter J. Leithart's other study guides that we haven't used yet (I have only seen the Shakespeare one up close, though).
And also re Year 12: any chance that we could incorporate Cyndy Shearer's guide to ancient literature?

From: Lynn Bruce <mamadah@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sun Sep 4, 2005 8:52 pm
Subject: Fwd: [AO-Advisory] Random responses (books) threeebeees

[Finding stuff in my outbox that never got sent -- from my 7 hour computer session on our trip home. I guess we need to start a shared file on Y12? ]

I'm in the car going through my stuffed email folders and deleting the unnecessary. Found this note that includes some ideas for Year 12 that could impact a couple of titles for Year 11.

Caitlin strongly recommended here that we use Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday and Sense and Sensibility in year 12... because she found that these two books so perfectly illustrated what Edith Hamilton covers in her books about the differences between Greece and Rome. I remember she wrote a paper contrasting the Greek way and the Roman way at the end of that school year, and used examples from both these books to illustrate the two concepts.

Chesterton - Caitlin is plugging Manalive for Year 10. She read it in May and is still pondering it -- "fantastic, makes you think about how wonderful it is to be alive, the joy of living..." She is planning to read it again next month. She stopped to read sections aloud to me while she was in the thick of it. She further *insists* that Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday be placed in Year 12 if we use The Greek Way and The Roman Way (both by Edith Hamilton, both superb). ("The characters in the book put modern flesh on Hamilton's points about the differences between Classical and Romantic thought.")

But then Caitlin also found similar analogies in Eleanor and Marianne Dashwood. <G>

Leithart's book (Brightest Heaven) - do we not suggest this somewhere in HEO as a teaching help? If not, we must! Canon Press has other similar books which are also excellent helps... Heroes Of The City of Man, which is for ancient lit (Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, etc) and Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves, which is a superb guide to The Faerie Queen.

_________________SHAKESPEARE______________
Continue to follow the AO schedule.
Leithart's book Brightest Heaven of Invention--a Christian study guide for 6 Shakespeare plays: Henry V, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, and Much Ado About Nothing.

__________________POETRY________________
year 7 is doing anthology, Tennyson, John Keats year 8 is doing John Milton, Shakespeare (sonnets), John Donne, Spenser year 9 is doing Pope, Cowper, Burns, Wheatley, Byron year 10 is doing Samuel Coleridge, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walter Whitman

Lynn: Lots of Homer! And if we use Echo of Greece, The Greek Way and The Roman Way by Edith Hamilton, which I considered the connecting thread of our study of the ancients, they will get long passages of other poets from the era, along with commentary.

---STILL UNSCHEDULED--- Christopher Marlowe - 1590 George Herbert 1593-1633 Robert Herrick 1591-1674 Richard Lovelace 1618-1658 Thomas Gray 1716-1771 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822 Thomas Hood 1799-1845 The Bronte sister go? 1840 William Butler Yeats1865-1939
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844-1889- YEAR 10 OR 11 A. E. Housman- 1859-1936- YEAR 10 OR 11 Algernon Charles Swinburne- 1837-1909- YEAR 10 Francis Thompson, if only for The Hound of Heaven- 1859-1907- YEAR 10
Belong in Year 11 TS Eliot- born 1888- BELONGS IN YEAR 11 John Masefield 1878- 1967 (Whoa!)- how can our children not know "I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky, and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.?- YEAR 11 Dylan Thomas (difficult, as probably none of his poems are public domain)- it isn't Christmas until we've played our C.D. of him reading "A Child's Christmas in Wales." 1914-1953- YEAR 11

______________COMPOSITION and GRAMMAR_______________
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- On Writing Well by William Zinsser -- If your student has completed Elements of Style, use this for Year 9 (could be spread over two years). This is a classic, respected book familiar to all writers, and commonly used as a text in writing courses. Very readable and instructive, and currently in print. Written for adults; you may wish to preview.
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A possible selection still under review: The Book on Writing: The Ultimate Guide To Writing Well by Paula LaRocque.
If your student hasn't yet had any formal grammar lessons, use Our Mother Tongue: An Introductory Guide to English Grammar by Nancy Wilson
OR work through Jensen's Grammar this year.

Note: Most students in Year 12 will have the SAT barrelling down on them, and will need to focus on preparing for the essay portion of that test. As for assigning research papers, we leave this to parental discretion. A student should learn to cite sources properly; however, it takes very little time to learn how to do this. Students should already have become proficient at writing from previous schoolwork such as narration.

Karen Glass: Paradigm Online Writing Assistant is a whole online free course about writing four kinds of essays. I haven't explored the whole thing, but I like what I've seen so far. I'm not sure the link I've given you would be the best link for us to use (it's a little confusing), but it is the link to the beginning of the first lesson. At the top of the page, you can see the progression of the whole course.

AO's Language Arts Scope and Sequence for this level is here.

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WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
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-- Written Narrations --
Assign 3 to 5 written narrations each week, varying the assignments among subjects, and assigning some narrations to be written from readings done earlier in the week. [Example: On Tuesdays, the student would read the scheduled Literature, news of the week, historical or allegorical subjects, etc. Then on Thursdays, the student would write a narration of one of those readings.] Narration can be done in many ways: poetic, in answer to an essay-style question, straight narration, narration in letter-writing form, and many other creative ways. Examples of creative narration techniques for the high school level, see here NO LINK ACTIVATED YET

Karen Glass: Paradigm Online Writing Assistant is a whole online free course about writing four kinds of essays. I haven't explored the whole thing, but I like what I've seen so far. I'm not sure the link I've given would be the best link for us to use (it's a little confusing), but it is the link to the beginning of the first lesson. At the top of the page, you can see the progression of the whole course.<br>

Write verses (perhaps using metre of poems set for this term) on current events and characters in the term's reading, upon heroic deeds, or on seasonal scenes.
Write Narrative poems on striking events.
GRAMMAR STUDY
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OPTION ONE: Dr. Edward Vavra's Grammar for Elementary and Up, which is available for free.
OPTION TWO: Dr. Robert Einarrson's Grammar Handouts, which is reasonably priced and very user friendly. (Should you buy this, Karen Glass requests that you tell him she sent you. She gets no monetary reward, she just wants him to know how much she likes his text ;-).
OPTION THREE: Jensen's Grammar - A workbook format but similar to Meiklejohn's Grammar, which Miss Mason used.
OPTION FOUR: Work slowly through The Little, Brown Handbook by H. Ramsey Fowler and Jane E. Aaron, assigning those sections of the book which address your student's weaknesses in grammar and writing skills.
______________RECITATION_____________
Memorize all of the following:

___________COPYWORK AND TRANSCRIPTION__________
These are Year 10's Listings
Include selections from Shakespeare, the Bible, poetry and other sources. May be the same selections used for recitation.
This is a good year to begin a personal quote book.
-- Dictation --
The student studies two or three pages of dictation material per week, from which the teacher dictates several paragraphs or sections. Students should have the opportunity to study the passage carefully for spelling, punctuation and form before they are required to write it from dictation. At this level, you may wish for your student to alternate between taking dictation in the traditional way by hand, and with a word processor (an added benefit here is the spellchecker function, which can be a useful teaching tool and actually functions in a manner complementary to CM's spelling methods.)
Dictation selections may be drawn from sources such as the term's prose, poetry and Bible readings. You may also occasionally choose to assign selections from well-written journalism sources to exemplify a more technical and factual style of writing. However, choose carefully as newspapers and magazines are often poorly written. Examples of worthy sources might include World Magazine, and columnists such as Peggy Noonan, William F. Buckley, William Raspberry, Charles Krauthammer, Cal Thomas, George Will, and Thomas Sowell, most of whom are accessible from www.drudgereport.com (site will need screening by parent; daily entries are increasingly and disturbingly non-family-friendly). Another good resource for exemplary journalism is http://www.opinionjournal.com from the Wall Street Journal. Writers from these sources are prolific and skilled at the craft of writing. The New Yorker magazine is known for being expertly written and edited, but may require parental previewing.
You may also select among these essays by Charles Lamb for dictation work: http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~jer6616/elia(1823).htm These provide a good starting point for the essay form of writing. After two or three terms of studying Lamb's essays, students should be prepared to tackle writing essays on subjects they choose. One possible usage is to have students read an essay on Monday, outline it on Tuesday, rewrite it from their outline on Wednesday, and polish up that rough draft on Thursday. If you did Lamb's essays last year, continue in the same vein using: Essays in Criticism, by M. Arnold, or Quiller-Couch's collection of essays Note: In PNEU's Form III, a paragraph was dictated; in Form IV, selections were occasionally written from memory. You might occasionally assign the student's mastered work for the dictation lesson.
Note: In PNEU's Form III, a paragraph was dictated; in Form IV, selections were occasionally written from memory. You might occasionally assign the student's mastered recitation work for the dictation lesson.

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This is what was on Year 11's Temp page for copywork previously:

Include selections from Shakespeare, the Bible, poetry and other sources. May be the same selections used for recitation.
This is a good year to begin a personal quote book.
-- Dictation --
The student studies two or three pages of dictation material per week, from which the teacher dictates several paragraphs or sections. Students should have the opportunity to study the passage carefully for spelling, punctuation and form before they are required to write it from dictation. At this level, you may wish for your student to alternate between taking dictation in the traditional way by hand, and with a word processor (an added benefit here is the spellchecker function, which can be a useful teaching tool and actually functions in a manner complementary to CM's spelling methods.)
Dictation selections may be drawn from sources such as the term's prose, poetry and Bible readings. You may also occasionally choose to assign selections from well-written journalism sources to exemplify a more technical and factual style of writing. However, choose carefully as newspapers and magazines are often poorly written. Examples of worthy sources might include World Magazine, and columnists such as Peggy Noonan, William F. Buckley, William Raspberry, Charles Krauthammer, Cal Thomas, George Will, and Thomas Sowell, most of whom are accessible from www.drudgereport.com . Another good resource for exemplary journalism is http://www.opinionjournal.com from the Wall Street Journal. Writers from these sources are prolific and skilled at the craft of writing. The New Yorker magazine is known for being expertly written and edited, but may require parental previewing.
You may also select among these essays for dictation work: http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~jer6616/elia(1823).htm These provide a good starting point for the essay form of writing. After two or three terms of studying Lamb's essays, students should be prepared to tackle writing essays on subjects they choose. One possible usage is to have students read an essay on Monday, outline it on Tuesday, rewrite it from their outline on Wednesday, and polish up that rough draft on Thursday.
Note: In PNEU's Form III, a paragraph was dictated; in Form IV, selections were occasionally written from memory. You might occasionally assign the student's mastered recitation work for the dictation lesson.

______________MATH________________
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Continue with your math program; ; for some options, see this page. Euclid's Elements
______________SCIENCE_________________
Apologia science materials by Dr. Jay Wile. (read Susan Wise Bauer's review of Apologia here.) Read the suggested course sequencing at their site to determine what will work best for the needs of your student, based on interest and math level.

Possible option: BJU Press Science, which schedules Physical (basic) science in 9th grade, Biology in 10th grade, Chemistry in 11th grade, and Physics in 12th grade. The Advisory has not used this yet. Some have recommended BJU Biology, Apologia Chemistry and Apologia Physics.

____________NATURE STUDY______________

___________________LOGIC_________________
These are Year 10's Listings
- How To Read a Book by Mortimer Adler Be sure to get the revised edition, which was written by both Adler and Charles Van Doren. If Van Doren is not a co-writer, it's the older book. It was revised in 1972, but later books may not be called "revised." The version to use has five chapters in part 1; 7 chapters in part 2; 7 chapters in part 3; and two chapters in part 4. The unrevised edition may have fewer parts. If you read part 3 in Year 9, then complete the book this year. This book was scheduled at a slow pace throughout Years 7-10, but if you're just starting in Year 10, plan accordingly; consider reading this book aloud with your student.
- Fallacy Detective by Nathaniel Bluedorn and Hans Bluedorn
- How to Read Slowly, by James Sire
Possible title still under review - Critical Thinking in United States History by Critical Thinking Press
_______________ART AND DRAWING_________________
- Continue the Artist rotation posted at Ambleside Online each term.
- Work on drawing skills. Illustrate scenes from Literature.
- Study, describe, and draw from memory details of six reproductions of pictures by each term's artist.
ART HISTORY BOOKS (Parents may wish to screen all options for nudity.)
OPTION ONE: - The Story of Painting by H.W. Janson - The Chapter titled The Age of Machines. (note: this book is best suited for the earlier years of Ambleside's House of Education)
OPTION TWO: - H. W. Janson's History of Art--In print. Assign the chapters in your Janson edition that cover the Year 12 period.

_______________MUSIC_______________
- Continue Composer rotation posted at Ambleside Online each term.
- Music lessons on instrument of choice.
- Singing: - Foreign language - 3 songs each term (Miss Mason assigned 3 in French and 3 in German.)
- Hymns Continue to follow the Ambleside rotation each term.
- Folk Songs ???

_______________FOREIGN LANGUAGE__________________
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- Begin or continue Latin. - Begin or continue with any previous foreign language studies.
(Charlotte Mason's students were learning three languages at this level.)
Note: You might find that your foreign language studies cover enough grammar to be counted as English Grammar as well.
________________________HEALTH_______________________
- Schedule regular exercise of some sort. (One Advisory suggestion: For routine fitness, Living Arts' Pilates videos/DVD's offer a challenging but enjoyable 30 minute mat workout that will benefit the entire family. Instructor Ana Caban gives clear and concise verbal cues that even young children can follow with a little guidance (even a 3 yob! ;-) and the background music is neither loud nor distracting. Start with the Beginning Mat Workout video/DVD, which explains the basics, before advancing to the Intermediate Mat Workout. Available at most major bookstores and fitness stores.)
- Study nutrition. You may wish to consider books by Shonda Parker, a Christian homeschooling mother and certified herbalist.
- PE: learn and play a game (kick ball, tennis, croquet, ping-pong, bocce ball, softball, racquetball, volleyball, soccer, etc.) or take up folk-dancing, hula dancing, clogging, Scottish dancing, or pursue other physical activity of your choice. Hike, improve swimming skills.
_____________WORK and LIFE SKILLS______________________________
SUGGESTIONS: Charlotte Mason had students do house or garden work, make Christmas presents, pursue useful crafts, sew, cook, and learn first aid. She also suggested that the student help darn and mend garments from the wash each week and sew for charity (serving at a soup kitchen would also work).
We suggest that over the course of high school, your student might do the following (a rough guideline would be to choose about three of these per year for the next four years):
Learn to cook using a basic cookery book such as Joy of Cooking, one of Sue Gregg's cookbooks, or whatever you have on hand. Learn CPR and first aid (This can also be counted for Health.) Learn to balance a checking account Learn to read a map Read a book about Small Engine Repair Take a course in Driver's Ed Work with an Election Campaign Learn to garden and/or yard care Change a flat tire Use jumper cables Pump gas, change the oil and plugs on a car Make some simple furniture Lay a tile floor Paint a room Some basic home repair and maintenance
- The Walls Around Us, by David Owen is a well-written book about how our houses are built - needs some previewing or parental editing.
Miss Mason frequently recommended Scouting tests (Parents' Review, May 1920) and said that all girls should take the First Aid and Housecraft Tests. We suggest that all students learn CPR and First Aid. Scouting or 4-H are other options to consider.
DOMESTIC SCIENCES
OPTIONS:
Home Comforts:The Art and Science of Keeping House by Cheryl Mendelsohn (excellent resource for all homes) The Hidden Art of Homemaking by Edith Schaeffer Do I Dust or Vacuum First? by Don Aslett books by Emilie Barnes Get More Done in Less Time by Donna Otto Speed Cleaning by Jeff Campbell Who Says it's a Woman's Job to Clean? by Don Aslett (These last two may be particularly useful with boys.)

MONEY MANAGEMENT
Books such as Money Management by Larry Burkett The Tightwad Gazette books
____________FREE READING____________
In no particular order

Jane Austen Year 12 -- Free Reading - Mansfield Park This puts a strong and entertaining one as the introduction to Austen, and the themes mature through the later years
- Sir Walter Scott: If the student has not yet read Rob Roy, we suggest that you begin with it. The Bride of Lammermoor - East Lothian, 1695 The Pirate - Shetland and Orkney Islands, 1700 The Black Dwarf - The Lowlands of Scotland, 1706 (Jacobites) Rob Roy - The Jacobites Heart of Midlothian - Time of George II. (Porteous Riots) Waverley - The Jacobites Redgauntlet - Time of George III. Guy Mannering - Time of George III The Surgeon's Daughter - Fifeshire, Isle of Wight, and India (1780) The Antiquary - Scotch Manners, last decade of the 18th Century St. Ronan's Well - Near Firth of Forth, 1812

For 36-week schedule

Short Stories (see Yr 11 for URL links)
https://www.amblesideonline.org/ao-y11-bks#lit

James Joyce The Dead
E. M. Forster The Machine Stops
Dorothy Parker You Were Perfectly Fine
James Thurber The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
William Faulkner A Rose for Emily

William Faulkner Barn Burning
F. Scott Fitzgerald Babylon Revisited
Ernest Hemingway A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Ernest Hemingway Hills Like White Elephants
Eudora Welty Why I Live at the P.O.

Flannery O'Connor Everything That Rises Must Converge
Flannery O'Connor Revelation - pdf file
John Updike A and P
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Harrison Bergeron
O Henry Ransom of Red Chief

Many thanks to David Hicks, author of Norms and Nobility, for his kind permission to draw from his work and ideas. For more information please see the amazon.com link to the 1999 edition of his book

Ambleside Online/House of Education Year 12