Page Counts by Year and Term

How many pages were Charlotte Mason's students reading? Vol 6 pg 6 says, "Scholars. . . read in a term one, or two, or three thousand pages, according to their age, school and Form, in a large number of set books." And pg 241 says again that students "read in a term from one thousand to between two and three thousand pages, according to age and class, in a large number of set books."

If we assume younger ages (Form I, or first grade) started at the lower number (1000 pages per term), and older students (last year or two of high school) read the higher number (3000 pages per term), this is what the graduated page count might look like:

Year 1: 1000 pages per 12-week term (83 pgs per week)
Year 2: 1200 pages per 12-week term (100 pgs per week)
Year 3: 1400 pages per 12-week term (117 pgs per week)
Year 4: 1600 pages per 12-week term (133 pgs per week)
Year 5: 1800 pages per 12-week term (150 pgs per week)
Year 6: 2000 pages per 12-week term (167 pgs per week)
Year 7: 2200 pages per 12-week term (183 pgs per week)
Year 8: 2400 pages per 12-week term (200 pgs per week)
Year 9: 2600 pages per 12-week term (217 pgs per week)
Year 10: 2800 pages per 12-week term (233 pgs per week)
Year 11: 3000 pages per 12-week term (250 pgs per week)
Year 12: 3000 pages per 12-week term (250 pgs per week)

AO Page Counts by Term

Following is a listing of page counts for the books in AO's curriculum updated Apr 2023 for Years 1 to 6, and for the Basic/Lite versions of Years 7-11, where options had been pre-selected that enabled a real page count to be done. Year 12 was not counted because that Year was kept intentionally light to accommodate students who might be dual enrolled, working part time, or otherwise occupied.

Page counts were done by finding the number of words per line in a book (taken by counting words in twelve line samples and getting an average), then counting lines in the book and multiplying by the number of words per line to get a fair estimate of how many words are in the book. Etexts available online were pasted into a word editing program that displays how many words are in the document. Books vary as to how many words are on an average page, ranging from 250 to 500, but 320-360 was most common, and since An Island Story uses about 320 words per page and we know Charlotte Mason used that book in her schools and wrote how many pages of that book she used in various Forms, we used a uniform 320 words per page. By dividing the total estimated words of a book by 320, we were able to get uniform page numbers.

Imagining that every AO book could be printed with the same typeface and size of An Island Story, this is what AO's page count would be. Plutarch's Lives (one per term) would add 35-55 pages to the term, and a Shakespeare play would add 46-95 pages to the term.

Year 1 CM's page count: 1000 pgs/term
Term 1: 291 pgs
Term 2: 336 pgs
Term 3: 347 pgs

Year 2 CM's page count: 1200 pgs/term
Term 1: 606 pgs
Term 2: 653 pgs
Term 3: 748 pgs

Year 3 CM's page count: 1400 pgs/term
Term 1: 777 pgs
Term 2: 974 pgs
Term 3: 981 pgs

Year 4 CM's page count: 1600 pgs/term
Term 1: 740 pgs
Term 2: 853 pgs
Term 3: 967 pgs

Year 5 CM's page count: 1800 pgs/term
Term 1: 1061 pgs
Term 2: 1313 pgs
Term 3: 1169 pgs

Year 6 CM's page count: 2000 pgs/term
Term 1: 1122 pgs
Term 2: 1271 pgs
Term 3: 1195 pgs

Year 7 Basic/Lite CM's page count: 2200 pgs/term
Term 1: 1787-1884 pgs
Term 2: 1827-1856 pgs
Term 3: 1812-1881 pgs

Year 8 Basic/Lite CM's page count: 2400 pgs/term
Term 1: 1926-1959 pgs
Term 2: 1837-1867 pgs
Term 3: 1819-1855 pgs

Year 9 Basic/Lite CM's page count: 2600 pgs/term
Term 1: 2008 pgs
Term 2: 1940 pgs
Term 3: 1992 pgs

Year 10 Basic/Lite CM's page count: 2800 pgs/term
Term 1: 2499 pgs
Term 2: 2323 pgs
Term 3: 1622 pgs

Year 11 Basic/Lite CM's page count: 3000 pgs/term
Term 1: 2307 pgs
Term 2: 1646 pgs
Term 3: 1966 pgs

Page Counts By Week

What does that look like in a week? Here are page counts for week 7, week 15 and week 29 (a week for each term) for every AO Year. Plutarch and Shakespeare combined would add 7-13 pages per week. Charlotte Mason assigned reading over weekends and long holiday breaks, and those wouldn't have been scheduled during a regular school week. The numbers are still useful for perspective.)

Year 1 CM's page count: 83 pgs/week
week 7: 26-29 pages
week 15: 39 pgs pages
week 29: 47-54 pages

Year 2 CM's page count: 100 pgs/week
week 7: 68-72 pages
week 15: 57-61 pages
week 29: 60-64 pages

Year 3 CM's page count: 117 pgs/week
week 7: 79-84 pages
week 15: 89-95 pages
week 29: 70-75 pages

Year 4 CM's page count: 133 pgs/week
week 7: 71-75 pgs
week 15: 59-63 pgs
week 29: 86-92 pgs

Year 5 CM's page count: 150 pgs/week
week 7: 109-116 pgs
week 15: 108-115 pgs
week 29: 106-113 pgs

Year 6 CM's page count: 167 pgs/week
week 7: 105-112 pgs
week 15: 106-113 pgs
week 29: 113-119 pgs

Year 7 CM's page count: 183 pgs/week
week 7: 149 pgs
week 15: 108 pgs
week 29: 124-132 pgs

Year 8 CM's page count: 200 pgs/week
week 7: 98-126 pgs
week 15: 116-158 pgs
week 29: 108-125 pgs

Year 9 CM's page count: 217 pgs/week
week 7: 169 pgs
week 15: 180 pgs
week 29: 173-181 pgs

Year 10 CM's page count: 233 pgs/week
week 7: 173 pgs
week 15: 132 pgs
week 29: 128 pgs

Year 11 CM's page count: 250 pgs/week
week 7: 219-224 pgs
week 15: 180 pgs
week 29: 152-160 pgs

By CM standards, it appears that AO's pages counts are 20-40 percent too low, but that's easily corrected with the addition of free reading, by using the regular AO years instead of Basic/Lite Years 7-11, and including more salad bar options.

Page Counts for Every AO Term

Here's the long list. These are page counts as if these books were all printed at 320 words per page.

Year 1 Term 1
Bible 54 pgs
An Island Story 27 pgs
Fifty Famous Stories 23 pgs
Benjamin Franklin 22 pgs
Paddle to the Sea 7.5 pgs
Aesop 15
Shakespeare 27
Blue Fairy 49
Just So 22
Parables from Nature 26
Child's Garden of Verses 29 pgs
James Herriot 10
Burgess Bird Book 33
Total: 345 pgs

Year 1 Term 2
Bible 54 pgs
An Island Story 30 pgs
Fifty Famous Stories 30
D'Aulaire George Washington 12 pgs
Paddle to the Sea 8 pgs
Aesop 14
Shakespeare 33
Blue Fairy 61
Parables from Nature 17
Just So Stories 37
Milne Poetry 46 pgs
James Herriot 15
Burgess Bird Book 33
Total: 390 pgs

Year 1 Term 3
Bible 54 pgs
An Island Story 27
Fifty Famous Stories Retold 2
Viking Tales 42
Buffalo Bill 10
Paddle to the Sea 7
Aesop 16
Shakespeare 37
Blue Fairy 33
Parables from Nature 40
Just So 56
Child's Book of Poems by Gyo Fujikawa (60 poems) 34
James Herriot 10
Burgess Bird Book 33
Total: 401

Year 2 Term 1
Bible 54 pgs
An Island Story 50 pgs
This Country of Ours 10 pgs
A Child's History of the World 27 pgs
OR Synge 23 pgs
Trial and Triumph 20 pgs
The Little Duke 69 pgs
Tree in the Trail 17 pgs
The Burgess Animal Book 93 pgs
Walter De La Mare poetry 12 pgs
Tales from Shakespeare 36 pgs
Pilgrim's Progress Book 1 57 pgs
Parables from Nature 23 pgs
Understood Betsy148 pgs
Total: 616 pgs

Year 2 Term 2
Bible 54 pgs
An Island Story 74 pgs
A Child's History of the World 415 pgs
OR Synge 11 pgs
Trial and Triumph 16 pgs
The Little Duke 56 pgs
Tree in the Trail 9 pgs
Seabird 11 pgs
The Burgess Animal Book 61 pgs
Eugene Field and James Whitcombe Riley poems 43 pgs
Tales from Shakespeare 30 pgs
Pilgrim's Progress Book 1 60 pgs
Parables from Nature 48 pgs
The Wind in the Willows 184 pgs
Total: 663 pgs

Year 2 Term 3
Bible 54 pgs
An Island Story 43 pgs
This Country of Ours25 pgs
A Child's History of the World 13 pgs
OR Synge 21 pgs
Trial and Triumph 17 pgs
Joan of Arc, by Diane Stanley 27 pgs
Seabird 23 pgs
The Burgess Animal Book 71 pgs
Christina Rossetti 8 pgs
Tales from Shakespeare 30 pgs
Pilgrim's Progress Book 1 61 pgs
Parables from Nature 33 pgs
Robin Hood (finish over the summer) 348 pgs
Total: 753 pgs

Year 3 Term 1
Bible 52 pgs
An Island Story 39 pgs
This Country of Ours 48 pgs
A Child's History of the World 17 pgs (OR Synge)
Trial and Triumph 16 pgs
Leonardo Da Vinci 28 pgs OR Michelangelo 26 pgs
Landing of the Pilgrims 96 pgs
Marco Polo Towle 56 pgs
A Drop of Water 13 pgs
Pagoo 47 pgs
William Blake 14 pgs
Parables from Nature 32 pgs
American Tall Tales 37 pgs
Tales from Shakespeare 35 pgs
The Heroes Kingsley 38 pgs
Pilgrim's Progress Part Two 51 pgs
The Princess and the Goblin 162 pgs
Total: 782 pgs

Year 3 Term 2
Bible 52 pgs
An Island Story 44 pgs
This Country of Ours 92 pgs
A Child's History of the World 12 pgs (OR Synge)
Trial and Triumph 13 pgs
Bard of Avon OR Good Queen Bess 14 pgs
Marco Polo Towle 56 pgs
A Drop of Water 13 pgs
Pagoo 26 pgs
Secrets of the Woods 36 pgs
Sara Teasdale and Hilda Conkling poems 14 pgs
Parables from Nature 53 pgs
American Tall Tales 31 pgs
Tales from Shakespeare 31 pgs
The Heroes Kingsley 70 pgs
Pilgrim's Progress Part Two 57 pgs
Children of the New Forest 356 pgs
Total: 972 pgs

Year 3 Term 3
Bible 52 pgs
An Island Story 39 pgs
This Country of Ours 19 pgs
A Child's History of the World 3 pgs (OR Synge)
Trial and Triumph 17 pgs
Landing of the Pilgrims 96 pgs
Marco Polo Towle 55 pgs
A Drop of Water 13 pgs
Secrets of the Woods 96 pgs
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poems 22 pgs
Parables from Nature 60 pgs
American Tall Tales 21 pgs
Tales from Shakespeare 34 pgs
The Heroes Kingsley 34 pgs
Pilgrim's Progress Part Two 55 pgs
The Jungle Books 364 pgs
Total: 979 pgs

In Years 4-11, Shakespeare and Plutarch (both combined) would add 81-150 pages per term, depending on which of the Lives or plays is scheduled that term.

Year 4 Term 1
--Bible 32 pgs
This Country of Ours 59 pgs
Trial and Triumph 13 pgs
Poor Richard 86 pgs
Minn of the Mississippi ch 1-7 29 pgs
Madam How and Lady Why 44 pgs
The Storybook of Science 75 pgs
Gregor Mendel Friar Who Grew Peas 7 pgs
Alfred Lord Tennyson poems 25 pgs
The Age of Fable 45 pgs
Robinson Crusoe 325 pgs
Total: 740 pgs

Year 4 Term 2
--Bible 42 pgs
This Country of Ours 64 pgs
George Washington's World, Foster 163 pgs
Trial and Triumph 17 pgs
Abigail Adams ch 1-12 107 pgs
Minn of the Mississippi ch 8-13 25 pgs
Madam How and Lady Why ch 3-4 33 pgs
The Storybook of Science 89 pgs
Ocean Of Truth Newton ch 1-9 49 pgs
Emily Dickinson poems 10 pgs
The Age of Fable ch 4-8 38 pgs
Robinson Crusoe 57 pgs
Kidnapped ch 1-20 161 pgs
Total: 853 pgs

Year 4 Term 3
--Bible 37 pgs
This Country of Ours 65 pgs
George Washington's World, Foster words 162 pgs
Trial and Triumph 9 pgs
Abigail Adams ch 13-24 157 pgs
Minn of the Mississippi ch 14-20 29 pgs
Madam How and Lady Why ch 5-7 42 pgs
The Storybook of Science 95 pgs
Ocean Of Truth Newton ch 10-end 53 pgs
William Wordsworth poems 28 pgs
The Age of Fable ch 9-14 53 pgs
Kidnapped ch 21-30 78 pgs
The Incredible Journey 94 pgs
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 38 pgs
Paul Revere's Ride 3 pgs
Rip Van Winkle 23 pgs
Total: 967 pgs

Year 5 Term 1
--Bible 62 pgs
Trial and Triumph 19 pgs
This Country of Ours 58 pgs
Abraham Lincoln's World 158 pgs
Of Courage Undaunted 68 pgs
The Book of Marvels 71 pgs
Wild Animals I Have Known 59 pgs
Fulbright's Anatomy 50 pgs
Madam How and Lady Why 35 pgs
Story of Inventions 64 pgs
Alexander Graham Bell, Shippen 41 pgs
Rudyard Kipling poetry 26 pgs
The Age of Fable 43 pgs
King Arthur, Green 314 pgs
Total: 1069 pgs

Year 5 Term 2
--Bible 68 pgs
Trial and Triumph 18 pgs
This Country of Ours 57 pgs
Abraham Lincoln's World 180 pgs
Of Courage Undaunted 34 pgs
Carry a Big Stick 48 pgs
The Book of Marvels 82 pgs
Wild Animals I Have Known 49 pgs
Fulbright's Anatomy 50 pgs
Madam How and Lady Why 46 pgs
Story of Inventions 72 pgs
Alexander Graham Bell, Shippen 20 pgs
George Washington Carver, Collins 36 pgs
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 26 pgs
The Age of Fable 41 pgs
Oliver Twist 493 pgs
Total: 1320 pgs

Year 5 Term 3
--Bible 78 pgs
Trial and Triumph 17 pgs
This Country of Ours 57 pgs
Story of the World Volume 4 190 pgs
Carry a Big Stick 82 pgs
The Book of Marvels 78 pgs
Wild Animals I Have Known 53 pgs
Fulbright's Anatomy 50 pgs
Madam How and Lady Why 32 pgs
Story of Inventions 48 pgs
George Washington Carver, Collins 72 pgs
Greenleaf Whittier, Dunbar poems 31 pgs
The Age of Fable 46 pgs
Kim, Kipling 331 pgs
Total: 1163 pgs

Year 6 Term 1
--Bible 173 pages
The Story of Mankind, Van Loon 54 pgs
Story of the World, Vol 4 180 pgs
Trial and Triumph 12 pgs
Never Give In Churchill 100 pgs
The Book of Marvels 100 pgs
The Mystery of the Periodic Table 28 pgs
Fulbright's Anatomy 50 pgs
It Couldn't Just Happen 56 pgs
Ordinary Genius, McPherson 52 pgs
OR Albert Einstein by Robert Cwiklik
The Elements 8 pgs
Robert Frost poems 24 pgs
Age of Fable 44 pgs
The Hobbit, to ch 12 230 pgs
Total: 1111 pgs

Year 6 Term 2
--Bible 163 pgs
Augustus Caesar's World 151 pgs
Story of the Greeks Guerber 164 pgs
Never Give In Churchill 49 pgs
Genesis, Finding Our Roots 63 pgs
The Book of Marvels 95 pgs
The Mystery of the Periodic Table 25 pgs
Fulbright's Anatomy 75 pgs
It Couldn't Just Happen 69 pgs
Archimedes and the Door of Science 67 pgs
The Elements 7 pgs
Carl Sandburg poems 7 pgs
Age of Fable 45 pgs
The Hobbit, ch 13-19 68 pgs
Animal Farm 94 pgs
Iliad, Alfred Church 137 pgs
[OR Black Ships before Troy Sutcliff 126 pgs]
Total: 1279 pgs

Year 6 Term 3
--Bible 151 pgs
Augustus Caesar's World 159 pgs
Story of the Romans Guerber 199 pgs
Trial and Triumph 4 pgs
Genesis, Finding Our Roots 63 pgs
David Livingstone, Golding 60 pgs
The Mystery of the Periodic Table 43 pgs
Fulbright's Anatomy 75 pgs
It Couldn't Just Happen 62 pgs
Galileo and the Magic Numbers 179 pgs
The Elements 12 pgs
Langston Hughes The Dreamkeeper 35 pgs
Age of Fable 52 pgs
Odyssey Alfred Church 133 pgs
[OR The Wanderings of Odysseus, Sutcliff 84 pgs]
Total: 1227 pgs

Year 7 Term 1
Bible 143 pgs
Word Came With Power 31 pgs OR Bright Valley of Love 28 pgs
Case for Christ 93 pgs OR More Than a Carpenter 31 pgs
Birth of Britain 139
Saints and Heroes 69
Asser's Life of Alfred 42
Bede's Ecclesiastical History 27
Once and Future King 360
Age of Chivalry 180
Beowulf, first two thirds 82
Ivanhoe 193
History of English Literature 42
Brendan Voyage 121
Fallacy Detective 45
Poetry 8
Picture History of Painting 19 pgs
Life of the Spider 45 or Social Life of Insects 41
Sloane's Weather Book 30
Great Astronomers: Intro, Ptolemy 23
Wonder Book of Chemistry 97 pgs
First Studies of Plant Life 16
Secrets of the Universe 53
Penny Candy 16
Ourselves 10
Total: 1787-1884 pgs

Year 7 Term 2
Bible 136 pgs
Word Came With Power 56 pgs OR Bright Valley of Love 68 pgs
Case for Christ 84 pgs OR More Than a Carpenter 45 pgs
Birth of Britain 142
Saints and Heroes 40
William of Malmesbury's account of the Battle of Hastings 5
Magna Carta 11
In Freedom's Cause 369
Watership Down 254
Beowulf, last third 41
Ivanhoe 193
History of English Literature 42
Brendan Voyage 121
Fallacy Detective 45
Poetry 9
Picture History of Painting 17 pgs
Life of the Spider 48 or Social Life of Insects 46
Sloane's Weather Book 30
Great Astronomers Copernicus 9
First Studies of Plant Life 10
Secrets of the Universe 53
Wonder Book of Chemistry 98 pgs
Penny Candy 26
Ourselves 17
Total: 1827-1856 pgs

Year 7 Term 3
Bible 141 pgs
Word Came With Power 58 pgs OR Bright Valley of Love 52 pgs
Case for Christ 84 pgs OR More Than a Carpenter 39 pgs
Birth of Britain 143
Saints and Heroes 16
Daughter of Time 199
Lang's Joan of Arc 64 (Twain's is 478)
Chaucer Golden Key 158
Watership Down 254
Ivanhoe 193
History of English Literature 42
Brendan Voyage 121
Fallacy Detective 45
Poetry 8
Picture History of Painting 20 pgs
Life of the Spider 50 or Social Life of Insects 32
Sloane's Weather Book 30
Great Astronomers Brahe 14
First Studies of Plant Life 16
Secrets of the Universe 53
Wonder Book of Chemistry 97 pgs
Penny Candy 48
Ourselves 27
Total: 1812-1881 pgs

Year 8 Term 1
Bible 152
Jungle Pilot 82 pgs OR To a Different Drum 113 pgs
Screwtape Letters 26 pgs
Pursuit of Holiness 41 pgs
Churchill New World, first third 122
Saints and Heroes, 8 ch 90
Man for All Seasons 88
Westward Ho, first 3/5 500
Everyman 23
History of English Literature12 ch 73
Fierce Loves Faithful Wars 136
Character is Destiny, ch 1-8 83 pgs
The Lay of the Land ch 13 and 1 21 or Rural Hours, September 23
Napoleon's Buttons, first third 96
Studies in Plant Life ch 11-14 22
Chemical History of a Candle, first 2/3 83
Phineas Gage 46
Ourselves pg 66-86 19
Francis Bacon 6 essays 10
Kon Tiki, first third 103
Whatever Happened to Justice, first half 92
Painting 18
Total: 1926-1959 pgs

Year 8 Term 2
Bible 159
Jungle Pilot 81 pgs OR To a Different Drum 104 pgs
Screwtape Letters 27 pgs
Pursuit of Holiness 40 pgs
Churchill New World 119
Saints and Heroes 2 ch 21
Pilgrim's Journal Plymouth Colony pdf 89
Character is Destint ch 9-14 53 pgs
Great Astronomers: Kepler 14
A Coffin for King Charles 234
Westward Ho 1/4/ I Promessi Sposi 1/3 400
History of English Literature 11 ch 88
Rural Hours, Jan-Feb and March 48 or Lay of the Land ch 2-6 55
Napoleon's Buttons, second third 98
Studies in Plant Life ch 15-20 27
Chemical History of a Candle, last third 44
Ourselves pg 87-107 18
Francis Bacon 4 essays 9
Shakespeare Sonnets 7
Kon Tiki, second third 103
Utopia, first half 67
Whatever Happened to Justice, last half 73
Painting 18
Total: 1837-1867 pgs

Year 8 Term 3
Bible 145
Jungle Pilot 73 pgs OR To a Different Drum 99 pgs
Screwtape Letters 32 pgs
Pursuit of Holiness 40 pgs
Saints and Heroes, 2 ch 22
Churchill New World, last third 110
Excerpts from Samuel Pepys diary 36 pgs
I Promessi Sposi, last 2/3 400
The Holy War 309
History of English Literature 5 ch 54
Rural Hours April-May 51 or Lay of the Land ch 7-12, 14-15 61
Napoleon's Buttons, last third 96
Studies in Plant Life ch 21-24 19
Briefer History of Time 118
Microbe Hunters: Leeuwenhook 26
William Harvey Circulation of Blood 25
Ourselves pg 108-130 20
How to Read a Book Pt 1 55
Kon Tiki, last third 103
Utopia, last half 69
Milton poetry 16
Total: 1819-1855 pgs

Year 9 Term 1
Bible 149 pgs
Mere Christianity 74 pgs
Through Gates of Splendor 75 pgs, or William Carey 57 pgs
Saints and Heroes, ch 13 10 pgs
Age of Revolution 81 pgs
Miracle at Philadelphia ch 1-12 113 pgs
Speeches and documents 87 pgs:
Salem Witchcraft transcripts 35 pgs
13 Wesley's sermon on Free Grace - 16 pgs
14 Edwards' sermon Sinners in the hands of an angry God - 33 pgs
17 Patrick Henry: Give Me Liberty speech - 3 pgs
Autobiography Ben Franklin, first half 103 pgs
Founding Father, Brookhiser 149 pgs
Chesterfield Letters to His Son, selections 88 pgs? (selection is not final)
Longitude ch 1-6 42 pgs
Ourselves 21 pgs
How To Read a Book 42 pgs
Universe Next Door 76 pgs
History of English Literature Dryden - Addison 59 pgs
Count of Monte Cristo, ch 1-36 315 pgs
Gulliver's Travels 325 pgs
Battle of the Books 35 pgs
Poetry of Pope 10 pgs
Land of Little Rain ch 1-5 42 pgs
The Sea Around Us 25 pgs
Science - 145 pgs left open for optional textbook
Great Astronomers: Newton, Flamsteed, Halley 55 pgs
Total: 2008

Year 9 Term 2
Bible 117 pgs
Mere Christianity 76 pgs
Through Gates of Splendor 65 pgs, or William Carey 61 pgs
Saints and Heroes ch 14 11 pgs
Age of Revolution 111 pgs
Miracle at Philadelphia ch 13-22 138 pgs
Common Sense 61 pgs
Speeches and documents 53 pgs:
15 Burke's Plea of Conciliation - 3 pgs
18 Declaration of Independence - 5 pgs
16 Mecklenburg Declaration - 1 pg
19 Articles of Confederation - 10 pgs
20 Articles of Capitulation - 1 pg
21 Treaty with Great Britain - 6 pgs
22 Federalist Paper no. 10 - 9 pgs
23 Federalist Paper no. 39 - 8 pgs
24 Federalist Paper no. 51 - 5 pgs
25 Federalist Paper no. 68 - 5 pgs
Founding Father, Brookhiser 97 pgs
Founding Brothers Preface, ch 1 53 pgs
Foa's Boy Napoleon 118 pgs (or Marshall's Story of Napoleon 59 pgs)
Longitude ch 7-10 36 pgs
Ourselves 21 pgs
How to Read a Book 46 pgs
Universe Next Door 76 pgs
History of English Literature Steele-Burns 69 pgs
Count of Monte Cristo ch 37-72 304 pgs
Autobiography Ben Franklin, last half 102 pgs
She Stoops to Conquer 72 pgs
Rasselas 119 pgs
Poetry Cowper, Wheatley 19 pgs
Story of Painting 8 pgs
Land of Little Rain ch 6-9 29 pgs
The Sea Around Us 27 pgs
Science - 130 pgs left open for optional textbook
Microbe Hunters Spallanzani 36 pgs
Great Astronomers Bradley, Herschel, LePlace 34 pgs
Total: 1940

Year 9 Term 3
Bible 151 pgs
Mere Christianity 68 pgs
Through Gates of Splendor 51 pgs
Age of Revolution ch 16-25 129 pgs
Speeches and documents 84 pgs:
27 U.S. Constitution - 29 pgs
26 Washington's First Inaugural Speech - 4 pgs
29 Wilberforce's Speech on Slavery - 9 pgs
34 Washington's Farewell Address - 18 pgs
28 Treaty With Six Nations - 4 pgs
33 Treaty with France for Louisiana - 5 pgs
35 Treaty with Great Britain (War of 1812) - 10 pgs
Founding Brothers 247 pgs
Longitude ch 11-15 47 pgs
Jane Marcet essays 69 pgs
Ourselves 27 pgs
How to Read a Book 56 pgs
Universe Next Door 89 pgs
History of English Literature, ch 1 ch 5 pgs
Pride and Prejudice 381 pgs
Count of Monte Cristo ch 73-108 346 pgs
Poetry Byron 14 pgs
Land of Little Rain ch 10-14 39 pgs
The Sea Around Us 27 pgs
Science - 189 pgs left open for optional textbook
Great Astronomers Brinkley 11 pgs
Total: 1992

Year 10 Term 1
Bible 166 pgs
Cost of Discipleship 85 pgs
God's Smuggler 85 pgs or Gladys Aylward 56 pgs
Churchill's Great Democracies 86 pgs
Arguing About Slavery ch 1-13 225 pgs
Historic documents 31 pgs
Lincoln biography 74 pgs
Frederick Douglass Narrative on the Life 128 pgs
Eothen ch 1-7 69 pgs
Ourselves, Book 2 pg 1-21 16 pgs
How to Read a Book ch 13-15 48 pgs
One Race One Blood 150 pgs
Amusing Ourselves to Death 88 pgs
Bastiat's The Law 58 pgs
Invitation to the Classics 50 pgs
Uncle Tom's Cabin 571 pgs
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 81 pgs
Short stories 102 pgs
Essays (including Walden) 109 pgs
Coleridge poetry 28 pgs
Six Easy Pieces 27 pgs
Microbe Hunters ch 3-4 86 pgs
The Sea Around Us 29 pgs
137 pgs left for optional science textbook
Total: 2499

Year 10 Term 2
Bible 156 pgs
Cost of Discipleship 79 pgs
God's Smuggler 99 pgs or Gladys Aylward 55 pgs
Churchill's Great Democracies 112 pgs
Arguing About Slavery ch 14-27 227 pgs
Historical Documents 195 pgs
Eothen ch 8-17 107 pgs
Amusing Ourselves to Death 81 pgs
Seven Men Who Rule From the Grave 100 pgs
Ourselves, Book 2 pg 21-48 24 pgs
How to Read a Book ch 16-17 40 pgs
Invitation to the Classics 52 pgs
Silas Marner 223 pgs
Up From Slavery ch 1-10 126 pgs
Frankenstein 244 pgs
Short stories 102 pgs
Essays (including Walden) 89 pgs
Poetry: Brownings 52 pgs
Six Easy Pieces 25 pgs
Microbe Hunters 70 pgs
The Sea Around Us 29 pgs
155 pgs left for optional science textbook
Total: 2323 pgs

Year 10 Term 3
Bible 170 pgs
Cost of Discipleship 90 pgs
God's Smuggler 82 pgs or Gladys Aylward 39 pgs
The Great Democracies Churchill ch 15-21 101 pgs
Historical Documents 125 pgs
Arguing About Slavery ch 28-42 234 pgs
Up From Slavery ch 11-17 114 pgs
Eothen ch 18-29 102 pgs
Ourselves Book 2 pgs 49-67 16 pgs
How to Read a Book ch 18-19 40 pgs
Seven Men Who Rule From the Grave 100 pgs
Sesame and Lilies, 2 essays 71 pgs
Invitation to the Classics 61 pgs
Essays 21 pgs
Short stories 57 pgs
Poetry Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman 27 pgs
Six Easy Pieces, pg 47-69 23 pgs
Microbe Hunters ch 7-8 52 pgs
The Sea Around Us 23 pgs
175 left for optional science textbook
Total: 1622

Year 11 Term 1
Bible 175 pgs
The Pleasures of God, Piper ch 1-6 153 pgs
History of the Twentieth Century Gilbert 307 pgs
Testament of Youth 667 pgs
Woodrow Wilson "War Message" 11 pgs
Lou Gehrig's farewell to baseball 1 pg
Winston Churchill "Blood, sweat and tears" 2 pgs
Winston Churchill "Their finest hour" 14 pgs
Diary of A Young Girl, 171 pgs [OR The Hiding Place ch 1-9 174 pgs]
The World: Travels 1950-2000 74 pgs
Economics in One Lesson ch 1-12 68 pgs
Ourselves Book II pg 68-96 25 pgs
Post-Christian 95 pgs or Saving Leonardo 73 pgs
Vision of the Anointed 87 pgs
Invitation to the Classics Joyce to Yeats 16 pgs
The Great Gatsby 147 pgs
The Machine Stops, Forster 39 pgs
The Open Window, by Saki 4 pgs
Barn Burning, Faulkner 24 pgs
In Defense of the Essay, Orlet 5 pgs
The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent, Erskine 13 pgs
The Superstition of School, Chesterton 4 pgs
Master of Many Trades, Twigger, 8 pgs
Edna St. Vincent Millay 34 pgs
On Writing Well Zinsser ch 1-12 119 pgs
Microbe Hunters ch 9 29 pgs
Picture History of Painting 15 pgs
Total: 2198-2307 pgs

Year 11 Term 2
Bible 166 pgs
Pleasures of God, Piper 168 pgs
History of the Twentieth Century Gilbert 178 pgs
The Men Behind Hitler 84 pgs
The Trial at Nuremberg essay 3 pgs
Franklin Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor address 2 pgs
Eisenhower--D-Day invasion order 1 pg
Franklin Roosevelt D-Day Prayer 2 pgs
Douglas MacArthur's farewell 10 pgs
Diary of A Young Girl, 85 pgs [OR The Hiding Place 90 pgs]
The World: Travels 1950-2000 84 pgs
Ourselves Book II pg 97-114 16 pgs
Economics in One Lesson ch 13-24 101 pgs
Post-Christian 91 pgs or Saving Leonardo 68 pgs
Vision of the Anointed 96 pgs
Invitation to the Classics Eliot to Bonhoeffer 46 pgs
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Thurber 7 pgs
Shooting an Elephant, Orwell 10 pgs
The Lottery, Jackson 11 pgs
The Outstation, Maugham 38 pgs
Introduction to Athanasisus' Incarnation, Lewis, 8 pgs
The Inner Ring, Lewis, 12 pgs
Politics and the English Language, Orwell, 16 pgs
The Chosen 295 pgs
---A short anthology of Modern Poetry
On Writing Well Zinsser ch 13-24 189 pgs
Six Easy Pieces pg 69-104 29 pgs
Microbe Hunters ch 10 37 pgs
The Life of the Caterpillar ch 1-2 29 pgs [OR Our National Parks, by John Muir 13 pgs]
Total: 1623-1646 pgs (plus Poetry Anthology)

Year 11 Term 3
Bible 152 pgs
The Holiness of God, Sproul 395 pgs
History of the Twentieth Century Gilbert 295 pgs
John F. Kennedy's Inauguration 4 pgs
John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" 2 pgs
I Have a Dream speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. 5 pgs
Ronald Reagan--Brandenberg Gate 9 pgs
The World: Travels 1950-2000 pg 161-237 75 pgs
Economics in One Lesson 21 pgs
Ourselves Book II pg 115-136 19 pgs
Post-Christian 94 pgs or Saving Leonardo 95 pgs
Vision of the Anointed 64 pgs
Two essays from Graves of Academe 47 pgs
Invitation to the Classics: O'Connor to Contemporary 18 pgs
Fahrenheit 451 114 pgs
To Kill a Mockingbird 314 pgs
A & P, Updike 9 pgs
Harrison Bergeron, Vonnegut 7 pgs
Everything That Rises Must Converge, O'Connor 20 pgs
Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation, Reagan, 11 pgs
Can Beauty Help us to Become Better People? Armstrong, 6 pgs
You're Regretting Wrong, Shulevitz, 4 pgs
The Problem With Too Much Information, Hine 5 pgs
---A short anthology of Modern Poetry
Six Easy Pieces pg 104-136 36 pgs
Microbe Hunters 49 pgs
The Life of the Caterpillar ch 3-14 190 pgs [OR Our National Parks, by John Muir ch 1-4 86 pgs]
Total: 1965-1966 pgs (plus Poetry Anthology)

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