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AO Curriculum - AO's booklists and 36-week schedules for each year.
Curriculum Resources - Artists, Composers, Songs, Nature Study, Plutarch, Shakespeare, and Poetry.
AO Resources and Support - FAQ, help for new users, support groups, sample member schedules
AO Exams
Etexts and Online Books - Texts hosted AO's website.
The CM Series - The original six-volume series by Charlotte Mason in various formats.
Articles and Topical Discussions - Articles and discussions by Advisory and AO users about AO, CM, and homeschooling.
General Resources - General CM Resources for help with your own planning, including Holiday reading and music,
Tables of Contents for some books (some with dates)
PNEU Programmes and PNEU Exams from CM's schools
Information - Background information about AO and the Advisory, User comments and reviews, License Agreement
AO Booklists
More Options:
Year 3.5 and Schedule, a detour for students who arrive at Year 4 before they're ready for the heavier workload
Pre-7 - for students starting later who need a year to "catch up" before diving into AO's upper years.
Upper Years in Five Years (instead of six)
2007 student's Year 12 plan, based on ancient history course of study from Advisory notes.
AO-Help Emergency Lesson Plan for help with homeschooling during a crisis
Old (2011) Booklists for Years 3, 4, 5, 6 (science was changed; old schedules are below)
Old (1999) Booklists and 36-week schedules
Old (2011) Schedules for Years 3, 3.5, 4, 5, 6 (science was changed)
Unofficial Schedules for Pre-Yr 3 (combines yrs 1, 2), Pre-Yr 5 (yrs 3, 4), Pre-Yr 7 (yrs 5, 6) created by Missey Gray
New! AO for Groups, a lightened, streamlined version of AO for co-ops and cottage schools.
Curriculum Resources
Links to the AO Curriculum Years
AO's 11-year Bible plan
Current Events links to resources and blogs
Art Study Rotation schedule for picture study
notes on John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart
Gauguin, Cezanne, Seurat notes from 2002
Biography of Fragonard
AO's Composer Study Rotation Schedule
Medieval Era Music notes
AO's Hymn Rotation Schedule
Anglican Hymns that were added to AO's Hymn Rotation
Folksongs Rotation Schedule
Nature Study Schedule and Helps
Geography Rotation for Years 1-6
Shakespeare Rotation Schedule
AO's Poetry Schedule for Years 1-12
William Blake collection
E. B. Browning and Robert Browning
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hilda Conkling
William Cowper
Walter de la Mare collection
Emily Dickinson collection and More Emily Dickinson
John Donne
Paul Laurence Dunbar collection
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eugene Field collection
Robert Frost collection
George Herbert
John Keats
Rudyard Kipling collection
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow collection
Edna St. Vincent Millay collection
John Milton
Alfred Noyes
Alexander Pope
James Whitcomb Riley collection
Christina Rosetti collection
Carl Sandburg collection
20 selected Shakespeare Sonnets
Sara Teasdale
Alfred Lord Tennyson collection
Phillis Wheatley
Walt Whitman
John Greenleaf Whittier collection
William Wordsworth collection
Poems for your Baby
Children's Anthology complete or
listed by month: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Year 6 Anthology of 59 Poems
Parent's cheat sheet summaries for Year 7 Oxford Book of Poetry
AO's Plutarch Rotation
Introduction to Plutarch Study Guides
Aemelius Text with Study Guide; Text only
Agis and Cleomenes Text with Study Guide; Text only
Alcibiades Text with Study Guide; Text only
Aristides Dryden's Text with Study Guide
Brutus
Brutus Study Guide, no text
Coriolanus Study Guide no text
Crassus Text with Study Guide; Text only
Demetrius Text with Study Guide; Text only
Dion Text with Study Guide *
Fabius Text with Study Guide; Text only
Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus Text with Study Guide; Text only
Julius Caesar Text with Study Guide; Text only
Marcus Cato Text with Study Guide; Text only
Nicias Text with Study Guide; Text only
Pericles Dryden's Text with Study Guide
Philopoemen Text with Study Guide; Text only
Publicola Text with Study Guide; Text only
Pyrrhus Text with Study Guide; Text only
Romulus Text with Study Guide; Text only
Solon Kaufman's Text with Study Guide
Themistocles Text with Study Guide; Text only
Timoleon Text with Study Guide; Text only
Titus Flamininus Text with Study Guide; Text only
Complete Booklist for Years 1-12 on Google Docs
AO Resources and Support
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
AO Forum
Introduction Page for new users, and Suggestions for Beginners
Tim Laurio's reading of Year 1 Parables of Nature
Thoughts on Scheduling and Schedule Examples from AO members
Leslie Laurio's daily school schedules
AO Forum Guidelines
Exams
AO Exams
the beginning of composer questions
Exam Questions for Nature Study
Exam Questions for Plutarch
Questions from real PNEU exams for Grades: 1-3, 4-6, 7-9
Examples of Exams from AO members (Year 1, Year 2)
Acrononyms abbreviations used in email list posts
Aesop suggested fables, linked to their online text
Bambi study guide Bambi is free reading in Year 3
Bede's Ecclesiastical History etext divided for Year 8
Beginning AO with an older (7th grade and up) student
Beowulf study guide
Canada resources for AO Canadians
Credit Hours discussion for High School
Discussion of High School from old email list
Current Events resource links blogs and news sources for older students
Geography Options for High School
Hans Christian Andersen suggested fairy tales, linked to their online text
High school English: literature analysis, and writing discussion
Links to formatted etexts, AO special support groups, and AO buy/sell/trade lists (most have been replaced by the AO forum and Facebook group)
Charlotte Yonge's The Little Duke study guide by Anne White Year 2
AO on the Go Mobile Device Bookmark - page of links to AO, online book sites, online nature field guides, movie reviews, selected AO blogs
Teacher's Notes for Madam How and Lady Why for Year 4 by Katie Barr
Madam How and Lady Why Study Guide for Year 5 by Anne White
Marco Polo resources
Pilgrim's Progress suggested resources and discussion
Shakespeare Sonnet selection for Year 8
Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels linked and listed by year/term for high school
Suggested Supplemental History Books for Years 3-6
Taxonomic Key for the Burgess Animal Book scheduled in Year 2 by Kelly Kenar
Westward Ho study guide by Anne White
Where to Get the Books - book vendors and free etexts
Which version of the Oxford Book of English Verse? (for high school)
Worldview book options and alternatives
Year 9 Living Science options
Lexile Reading Ratings: just how hard are AO's books, anyway?
Etexts/Online Books hosted at AmblesideOnline
A New Handwriting by Monica Bridges (also here
Essay: The Artistic Ordering of Life by Cook, 1898 Year 11
Asser's King Alfred for wk 8-11, year 7 Detailed
Asser's King Alfred wks 3-12 for Yr 7 Basic
These essays for Year 8:
Of Truth
Of Revenge
Of Innovations
Of Regiment of Health
Of Suspicion
Of Discourse
Of Riches
Of Youth and Age
Of Studies
Of Praise
Of Honor and Reputation
Of Anger
Bacon essay: On Studies, paraphrased 2008
When I Was a Boy in Japan by Sakae Shioya
The British Museum for Young People by Frances Epps
Elementary Geography by Charlotte Mason
Essay: The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent by John Erskine Year 11
Abridged edition of Everyman play for Year 7
Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans by Firth, Epilogue for Year 8
Sample from A History of England by H. O. Arnold-Forster
Heroic Deeds of the Great War by Donald A. MacKenzie (ch 1-6)
Grammarland by M. L. Nesbitt
The Making of a Christmas Story by A.A. Milne
The Blue Poetry Book edited by Andrew Lang for use in Schools, 1896
Marco Polo by George Makepeace Towle
slightly expurgated Measure for Measure
9 fairy tales that contain no magic for Year 1
Parables of Nature in a modern English paraphrase version
Pilgrim's Progress Part 1 divided into 36 readings
Pilgrim's Progress Part 1 divided into 72 readings (to cover 2 years)
Pilgrim's Progress Part II: Christiana's Journey, divided into 36 readings (1 year)
Pilgrims Progress divided into 36 readings
Pilgrims Progress divided into 72 readings (2 years)
Pope's Essay on Man selections for Year 9
Diary of Samuel Pepys excerpts for Year 8 (or 9?)
The Saviour of the World, six volumes of poems by Charlotte Mason based on the New Testament
Sesame and Lilies modern English paraphrase
The Sciences by Edward Holden
Ways of the Six-Footed by Anna Botsford Comstock (only ch 2 is done)
A New Grammar of the English Tongue by J.M.D. Meiklejohn (in progress) There's a complete pdf file here; it's a huge (8MB) file.
The Book of Genesis by J. Paterson Smyth (and Part 2)
Prophets and Kings (complete and proofread) by J. Paterson Smyth
The Gospel Story, Part 1 by J. Paterson Smyth (probably not complete)
The Bible for School and Home by Rev. J. Paterson Smyth (J Paterson Smyth website with texts here.)
In Memoriam - A tribute written by students, co-workers and friends of Charlotte Mason after she died in 1923; this book includes concise explanations of her methods, selections from her books, personal remembrances and insight into her character.
The CM Series
The Original Series
Modern English Paraphrase
Concise Summaries of each volume
Which Volume Should I Read First?
Articles and Topical Discussions
A Magical Expansion - A Study of CM's Principle 12 by Lynn Bruce
An Imaginary Conversation with a Great Mind - A Study of CM's Principle 8 by Tammy Glaser
An Oyster and a Jewel - A Study of CM's Principle 10 by Lynn Bruce
AO Placement For Those Coming From Textbooks
The benefit of savoring books slowly over an extended period of time rather than cramming in lots of books quickly
Books Build Character and set examples by Wendi Capehart
Christians, Charlotte Mason and Fairy Tales by Wendi Capehart
Copywork discussion
Cultural Fun by Wendi Capehart ideas for including culture on a modest income
Discussion about Foreign Language
Endangered Minds - Leslie's review of Jane Healy's book
Discussion and heads-up about Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
Is It Bad to be Uplifted by Escapist Literature by Wendi Capehart
Free Reading - how to incorporate AO's extra suggested books in your schedule
What About The Gaps in Education? by Wendi Capehart - What if we forget to teach something?
Why Diversity isn't the driving focus of AO's selections
Grammar Discussion
Grammar Worksheets - 9 exercises for elementary students
Handicrafts Discussion
History - discussion and AO's chronological history sequence
Imparting Living Ideas to Children Advisory comments
Language Arts discussion
Language Arts Scope and Sequence for AO by Karen Glass
Suggested Math Programs
Finishing Your Math Book vs Short Lessons comment by Anne White
Narration discussion
Memories of a P.N.E.U. Education by Christine Verspaandonk, 1999
The value of reading old books
Phonics Discussion
Picture Study discussion
Placement For LDers by Cheri Hedden
Poetry discussion and CM quotes and PR articles about poetry
Raising Patriotic Kids: US History Through Holidays by Donna-Jean Breckenridge
Readaloud discussion - does CM discourage reading aloud?
Science: Homeschooling the High Schooler the CM Way by Wendi Capehart
Shakespeare discussion
Shearing Samson - the Place of Films in a Literary Education by Lynn Bruce
Should I Combine Children in the same Year to Streamline our Schedule?
Should Pictures Have a Place in Education? Does Research Support Quality Over Quantity?
Solfa - Lynn Bruce shape note discussion
Some considerations about the books used (and not used) by AO
Should I wait until my child is 6 to start to Year 1?
Some Thoughts on Narration by Donna-Jean Breckenridge
Special needs ("backward children") discussion
Teaching Music Appreciation by Wendi Capehart
The benefits of Mother Goose
The Once and Future King book discussion
The Spiritual Octopus - A Study of CM's Principle 11 by Lynn Bruce
The Virtues of Tea by Lynn Bruce
AO's statement regarding This Country of Ours
Thoughts about Exams
Thoughts about Year 0 (K)
Tips and suggestions for new members from current AO users
Toward a Definition of a Living Book by Colleen Manning
Was CM an evolutionist? Why does AO use evolutionary books like Hillyer's CHOW and Van Loon's Story of Mankind?
What is CM? An Introduction to the CM method
What Year/Level Should I Place My Child?
Why Read Plutarch? by George Grant
Donna-Jean How I Use AO AmblesideOnline 2002-2003
Folk Songs, Unplugged by Lynn Bruce
Why Read the KJV? by Lynn Bruce
Year 1 Primer Tips for every subject by Lorraine Nessman
Year 7 - Wendi Capehart goes through book by book explaining why each book was chosen
Amy Witt shares her experience beginning Shakespeare
You Know You're Hooked On AO When . . . (A fun look at AO)
General Resources
Charlotte Mason's 20 Principles side-by-side original/paraphrase version of the 20 Principles that boiled down CM's education
Parents' Review Articles from the monthly magazine that was sent to parents and
teachers in CM's PNEU schools
In Memoriam - A tribute written by students, co-workers and friends of Charlotte Mason after she died in 1923; this book includes concise explanations of her methods, selections from her books, personal remembrances and insight
into her character.
List of Attainments - Charlotte Mason's lists of what a child know at age six, and at age 12.
Vintage PNEU Programmes - These were the Booklists for CM's own schools:
PNEU Forms/Class corresponded to grades and page count comparisons from included 1921 PNEU programme schedule
Programme for Term 1 Form I - approx 1st-3rd grade
Programme for Term 1 Form II - approx 4th-6th grades; the "N.B." at the bottom of these programmes means "nota bene," or take notice.
Programme for Term 2 Form III - approx 7th/8th grade
Programme for Term 42 Form Ia - approx 2nd and 3rd grades
Programme for Term 42 Form Ib - approx first grade
Programme for Term 42 Form II - approx 4th-6th grades
Programme for Term 43 Form Ib - approx first grade
Programme for Term 43 Form II - approx 4th-6th grades
Programme for Term 44 Form Ia - approx 2nd and 3rd grades
Programme for Term 90 (Spring 1921) Form I - approx 1st-3rd grade
Programme for Term 90 Form II - approx 4th-6th grades
Programme for Term 90 Form III - approx 7th/8th grade
Programme for Term 91 (Fall 1921) Form I - approx 1st-3rd grade
Programme for Term 91 Form II - approx 4th-6th grades
Programme for Term 91 Form III and IV - approx 7th-9th grade
Programme for Term 91 Form V and VI - approx 10th-12th grade
Programme for Term 92 (Winter 1921/22) Form I - approx 1st-3rd grade
Programme for Term 92 Form II - approx 4th-6th grades
Programme for Term 92 Form III - approx 7th/8th grade
Programme for Term 92 Form IV - approx 8th/9th grade
Programme for Term 93 (Spring 1922) Form I - approx 1st-3rd grade
Programme for Term 93 Form II - approx 4th-6th grades
Programme for Term 93 Form III - approx 7th/8th grade
Programme for Term 93 Form IV - approx 8th/9th grade
Programme for Term 94 Form I - approx 1st-3rd grade
Programme for Term 94 Form II - approx 4th-6th grades
Programme for Term 94 Form III - approx 7th/8th grade
Programme for Term 94 Form IV - approx 8th/9th grade
Programme for Term 94 (Fall Form V and VI - approx 10th-12th grade
Programme for Term 95 Form I - approx 1st-3rd grade (half done)
NEW: Programmes arranged in grid/graph format: Form III; Form IV (in progress)
An image of a PNEU weekly schedule/timetable - from a 1908 Parents Review magazine article
British currency conversion rates (to help translate book prices on PNEU programmes
See also Charlotte's Daughters: 12 years of PNEU booklists (try the archived link)
Vintage PNEU Exams - These were the exam questions given to CM's students in her schools:
Exam for Term 42 Form I - approx 1st-3rd grade
Exam for Term 62 Form IV - approx 8th/9th grade (back page is probably mismatched from another Form IV exam)
Exam for Term 90 Form I - approx 1st-3rd grade
Exam for Term 90 Form II - approx 4th-6th grades
Exam for Term 90 Form III - approx 7th/8th grade
Exam for Term 91 Form I - approx 1st-3rd grade
Exam for Term 91 Form II - approx 4th-6th grade
Exam for Term 91 Form III - approx 7th/8th grade
Exam for Term 92 Form I - approx 1st-3rd grade
Exam for Term 92 Form II - approx 4th-6th grades
Exam for Term 92 Form III - approx 7th/8th grade
Exam for Term 92 Form IV - approx 8th/9th grade
Exam for Term 93 Form I - approx 1st-3rd grade
Exam for Term 93 Form II - approx 4th-6th grades
Exam for Term 93 Form III - approx 7th/8th grade (incomplete; only half was available)
Exam for Term 93 Form IV - approx 8th/9th grade (back page possibly mismatched)
Exam for Term 94 Form I - approx 1st-3rd grade
Exam for Term 94 Form II - approx 4th-6th grades
Exam for Term 94 Form III - approx 7th/8th grade (missing 2 middle pages)
Exam for Term 94 Form IV - approx 8th/9th grade
See the kinds of questions CM asked of her youngest students - (grades 1-3)
See the kinds of questions CM asked of her middle students - (grades 4-6)
See the kinds of questions CM asked of her older students - (grades 7-9)
Printing Etexts benefits and instructions
Downloading etexts and ebooks to your electronic device (Kindle, Nook, etc.) 2-min tutorial *
Holiday Reading - Thanksgiving story suggestions, Christmas poems, book suggestions, and music.
16 Thanksgiving Poems
40 Christmas Carols
Christmas songs and CD suggestions
A sampling of Christmas carols from around the world.
Poems for Christmas and New Years
Fresco: Triumph of Saint Thomas Aquinas and the Allegory of Christian Learning
Tables of Contents (TOC) to help in your school planning and scheduling
Hans Christian Anderson summaries for parental pre-reading, Year 1
Table of Contents and 36-week breakdown for Hillyer's Child's Geography of the World for those who want to use this book in Year 5
Arnold Forster English History schedule for Years 7 and 8
schedule for Year 6
The Everything American Government Book, TOC and 18-wk or 36-wk schedule
TOC for Grimms Fairy Tales with suggestions to skip some chapters
Contents for chapters of Halliburton's Book of Marvels (The Occident/The Orient) for those who can find this book for Year 5
Hillyer's Child's History of the World and M.B Synge's 5-volume Story of the World chapters listed with dates/historical periods
H.E. Marshall's This Country of Ours chapters listed with dates/historical periods/keywords for planning Yrs 2-5
Gerald Johnson's History for Peter series listed with dates/historical periods
H.E. Marshall's An Island Story/Our Island Story chapters listed with dates/historical periods and AO Terms
Van Loon's The Story of Mankind chapters listed with historical periods
Churchill's History of the English Speaking Peoples chapters listed with historical periods for Years 7-10
Churchill chapters broken down into 4 short readings per week
Churchill paperback edition published by Bantam Books, 1956 scheduled into 4-day weekly readings
Churchill hardback set Dodd Mead and Company, New York 1966 scheduled into 4-day weekly readings
Susan Wise Bauer's Story of the World, Volume4, The Modern World chapters listed with dates
50 Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin, Year 1 (scroll down for list by date)
Andrew Lang's King Arthur scheduled into 12 readings
Missionary Travels by David Livingstone
From London to Land's End by Daniel Defoe and A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson scheduled readings for Year 9
H.E. Marshall's History of English Literature for Boys and Girls chapters listed with dates/historical periods
Louise Cowan and Os Guinness's Invitation to the Classics chapters listed with dates/historical periods for Yrs 6-11
Charlotte Mason's 1922 review of Van Loon's The Story of Mankind
Hillyer's A Child's History of Art chapters listed with dates/historical periods
Janson's Art books: various editions scheduled for Years 7-11
Great Pictures and their Stories 8 volume set by Katharine Morris Lester; Table of Contents
Robinson Crusoe TOC with help to locate chapter divisions Year 3
Secrets of the Universe 36-week schedule for Year 6
Paul Fleisher's Secrets of the Universe chapters listed and noted which new book it's in
weekly breakdown for Halliburton's Royal Road to Romance
It Couldn't Just Happen 36-week breakdowns, Year 6
The Story of Inventions 36-week breakdowns, Year 5
Madam How and Lady Why by Kingsley, 72-week breakdown gor Years 4 and 5
Consequence of Ideas Sophie's World, 10 Books That Screwed Up The World Correlated in 64 readings for Year 12
chapter divisions for Year 2 books to be used as bookmarks
Information
Meet the Advisory/AO Creators
Meet the Auxiliary
About AO
How AO Began
User reviews and thanks and helpful tips and suggestions from users
How does AO compare to other curriculums/methods?
2016 AO Conference mp3's ($5 each)
June 2005 AO Conference in Dallas:
Member Reviews
Colleen Manning's Notes
from the conference
Sheri Bowland and Katie
Barr's Conference Notes
Pictorial
narration of the conference from an Advisory perspective
Purchase CDs
of conference talks from Sound Word
Advisory and Auxiliary favorite books
Page Counts for Year 7 to compare with CM's workload
License Agreement
AO's copyright statement
