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| From: | maria (199.90.157.4)
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| Subject: | here is my daughter's 10th grade |
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Date: | August 3, 2009 at 2:24 pm PST |
In Reply to: Here is what I know so far for son posted by Patti on July 11, 2009 at 5:46 am:
we finished grammar in 8th grade so we're doing writing now; mainly just a weekly paper on whatever literature or history we're working on, plus a longer essay for the year.
literature: 1 unit on the Heroic Quest - reading Beowulf, Gilgamesh, Le Chanson de Roland, Le Mort d'Artur, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series. 1 unit on non-English novels: Madame Bovary, Remembrance of Things Past, The Magic Mountain, Anna Karenina, Don Quixote, Crime and Punishment.
History: The Teaching Company's History of China
Civics and philosophy: Hobbes' Leviathan, selections from Locke, Rousseau, the Federalist, JS Mill, the speeches of Edmund Burke, the Constitution, a selection of Supreme Court decisions
math: Calculus I
Science: physics and astronomy
language: Rosetta Stone Arabic I and Spanish IV; Latin II
PE: weekly Sierra Club expeditions, ending with a 4-day Outward Bound trip. We run a 5K together 3 times a week.
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