HEO Yr 7

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History studied in Year 7: Middle Ages, 800- 1400 (Alfred, King Arthur, Joan of Arc)

One asterisk * means a book will be used in Term One.

Two asterisks ** means Term Two, and three *** means Term Three.

No asterisks mean the book will be used for all three terms.

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Atlas of the Holy Land for reference We would be glad to hear of other recommendations, either in hard copy or online.

The site we had previously linked to is apparently no longer working; BibleStudy.org site also has Biblical maps.

Charlotte Mason had her students reading a commentary. We suggest you use what fits best with your family's belief system, keeping in mind that this year should be a bit meatier than previous years.

The Birth of Britain by Winston Churchill, which is Volume 1 of his 4 volume set, The History of the English Speaking Peoples. The next three volumes will be used in the next three years of HEO. This has recently gone out of print, but is widely available through used book sites such as AddAll.com, and often available at auction on eBay. (Note: PLEASE contact Barnes & Noble Publishing and strongly suggest (beg, plead, cry) that they republish their lovely slipcased edition of this set!)

Download a 12-week text file that includes selections from this work and Asser's Life of Alfred selections

* William of Malmesbury's account of the Battle of Hastings

** In Freedom's Cause by G.A. Henty (Athough this is a work of fiction, it is a more accurate account of William

Wallace and Robert the Bruce in Scottish history than is available in many other similar books.)

*** History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea by William Tyre A first-hand account of the Crusades

*** The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

* The Life of King Alfred by Asser, selected passages

Download a 12-week text file that includes selections from this work and Bede selections

** *** Joan of Arc by Mark Twain

* **The Brendan Voyage by Tim Severin

***How the Heather Looks by Joan Bodger (You will love this book and may therefore look for more by the

same author for your child to read. Please exercise caution in doing so.)

Ten minutes of map drills each week, locating places from the week's reading on a map.

Websites useful for mapwork activities (and a great big thanks to Wendy Fish for her gargantuan task of sifting through mapsites to find these!):

Mapwork for Roman Britain and Ireland. Northern Gaul outline maps also available.

For those who would like a way to find modern town names.

Europe as it was in the timeframe covered in Year 7 studies.

The most straightforward outline maps of modern world.

Some easy-to-read maps of Europe in the Year 7 timeframe.

An extra note: Will and Ariel Durant's history series volume for this time period contains excellent maps inside the covers that portray the geographical locations pertaining to Year 7 studies.

Ourselves by Charlotte Mason, approximately 22 pages per term. This book will continue through all the remaining years of HEO curriculum. This is the 4th volume of Mason's 6 Volume Series, currently in print.

Plutarch's Lives - follow the schedule posted at Ambleside Online.

* Whatever Happened to Penny Candy by Richard Maybury purchase (There is a Canadian supplement to this book.)

Charlotte Mason had students at this level read the daily news and keep a calendar of events. We suggest students choose the most important 2 or 3 stories of the week and re-write them in their own words as a chronicle of the year, making the heading of each page something like "This Week in History, September 1st, 2003." Parents: pre-read and filter current events materials (on the web, or in print) as necessary, due to the potential for coverage and topics of an explicit nature, even from conservative sources.

- World Magazine, an excellent weekly newsmagazine written from a Christian worldview

- The Washington Times, http://www.washtimes.com/ or The New York Post http://www.nypostonline.com/

- The World and I, http://www.worldandi.com/ An expensive but fantastic monthly publication of The

Washington Times for 'serious readers.' Superb for family current events reading (as always, please

proofread for inappropriate content).

- The Drudge Report, http://www.drudgereport.com/ A collection of breaking headlines from around the world,

as well as links to every available news magazine, newspaper, international news agency, and columnist

on the internet. Due to the ever-changing photos and material on this site, parents should peruse it first each time for

- Chuck Colson's Breakpoint, http://www.breakpoint.org/ Subscribe to receive the text of his daily radio feature

via email. Brief and thought provoking.

- NewsMax, http://www.newsmax.com/ Another source for daily news.

- Crosswalk, http://www.crosswalk.com/ Daily news from a religious source, allows you to subscribe to the Current News Summary and Feature Story.

-The White House website publishes the full texts of all the President's speeches, including his weekly radio address, and the entire website can be read in Spanish for foreign language practice. There are also wonderful photo essays here. http://www.whitehouse.gov

[WARNING: DO NOT type ".org" nor ".com" for the White House address as this will take you to an extremely inappropriate website.]

- A source for tracking all Congressional bills: THOMAS (after Thomas Jefferson) http://thomas.loc.gov/ Includes the Congressional Record and full text of all legislation from the 101st Congress (1989) to the present, summaries of legislation back to the 94th Congress (1974) as well as additional historical information, a great search engine, and links to other useful sites.

* Watership Down by Richard Adams.

The Once and Future King by T. H. White (hereafter referred to as TOAFK) Book One ("The Sword in the Stone")

and Book Two ("The Queen of Air and Darkness") will be divided over three terms. NOTE: This is a read aloud

and discuss book. ***Please preview.*** The themes in this book, although controversial, are too

important to dismiss. For more information, read discussion about this book

* ** Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (20 weeks)

** *** A Taste of Chaucer by Anne Malcolmson -- May be special ordered from Sonlight, who reprinted it ($7.95). It's no

longer on the Sonlight website nor in their catalog, so call Christine at Sonlight directly: 303-730-6292. The item

number is 8R26. Christine confirmed for us in 9/02 that they have lots of copies. However, they may not hold

them indefinitely since it's no longer used in their curriculum. Contains edited-for-students versions of the

following tales: The Monk's Tale, The Nun's Priest's Tale, The Tale of the Clerk of Oxenford, The Manciple's Tale,

The Franklin's Tale, Chaucer's Tale, The Tale of the Man of Law, The Canon's Yeoman's Tale, The Pardoner's Tale

Letting your student loose on an unedited version of Canturbury Tales is not recommended!

Possible substitute(may be more suitable for students?) The Parliament of Fowles by Chaucer

* Follow this time-line of English Poetry and do an anthology of sorts this term. (Some firewalls may block access to

this link - just a technical glitch. In that case, try this: shorten the addy to http://www.library.utoronto.ca then

click on "e-Books" which will take you to a search field. Type in "Representative Poetry".From that page,

choose "timeline" and you'll be in the right place.)

OR: The Oxford Book of English Verse is a poetry anthology Charlotte Mason used; it's very good, and it's

online in a searchable format

And beginning in Form IV, Mason had the students note the metre and other technical details of the poems. We'd like to be able to suggest a good reference book for the parent for this, or a website. If a book is online, that would be a great help.

GRAMMAR & COMPOSITION

In a year or two or more (we don't want to get your hopes up), the grammar Charlotte Mason used, Meiklejohn's A New Grammar of the English Tongue, will be online.

Meanwhile, we recommend Dr. Edward Vavra's Grammar for Elementary and Up, which is available for free

More advanced or older students might use Dr. Robert Einarrson's Grammar Handouts, (homepage) which is reasonably priced and very user friendly: We plan to suggest this text in the upper grades. (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 ;-).

The Grammar of Poetry by Matt Whitling, from the Imitation in Writing series (Logos School Materials), may also be sold by Veritas Press and Canon Press Or, try here

Begin written narrations, 2-3 per week, varying among subjects.

Include one written narration from a reading earlier in the week.

Purchase a good English handbook. An Advisory favorite is The Little, Brown, Handbook. Some may find Writer's Inc. more user friendly.

1. Scripture suggestions: Psalm 45 *, Psalm 46 **, and Psalm 51 ***

2. Shakespeare - selected passages, all terms. We can make these suggestions to the list each term to go with the Shakespeare play being read that term. Or, of course, members may choose their own. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is a helpful tool for looking for quotable sections from various plays of Shakespeare, especially quotes from the various plays which appear in various other literature. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition, is online

Note: To get the list of plays from the Bartlett's Familiar Quotations page, try selecting 1) the Author index, then select 2) the Shakespeare entry, which should provide a list of quotations from the first play in the list; and then try selecting 3) Shakespeare's name above the quotations. This last step should bring you to an index of the plays, not just the list of quotations. Or, you may go directly to the play needed from the Shakespeare play index.

3. Poetry - a poem by that term's poet, all terms.

COPYWORK or TRANSCRIPTION

Include selections from Shakespeare, the Bible, poetry and other sources.

These selections may be the same ones used for recitation.

Continue your math program.

Apologia science materials by Dr. Jay Wile. Read the suggested course sequencing at
http://www.highschoolscience.com to determine what will work best for the needs of your student, based on interest and math level. If a student missed out on the Ambleside science selections and nature study rotation, General Science should be considered as a starting point with Apologia materials; otherwise start with Physical Science. Read through Jay Wile's website, especially "course sequencing" to see what will work best for the needs of your student based on interest and math level. If financial resources are a concern, any of their science courses may easily be stretched to two years.

Keep flower and bird lists of species seen, select a special study for outdoor work, and continue to maintain nature notebooks.

*Lay of the Land by Dallas Lore Sharp

(Note: Alternatively, you may choose the nature writings of Edwin Way Teale if you have them on your shelf. Unfortunately, these are not online, and go in and out of print. A particular favorite is The Circle of Seasons but other titles are also commendable.) OR Rural Hours by Susan Fenimore Cooper

The Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock

Continue to use as in previous years with the Ambleside Online curriculum.

How To Read a Book by Mortimer Adler

Please be sure to get the revised edition, and read only Part 1 this year (this book continues into Year 10). This breaks down to five chapters for the year, seven weeks to get through each chapter. This is slow, but this material is weighty and should give much material for reflection and discussion. The revised version was written by both Mortimer J. Ader And Chares 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.

The Story of Painting by H.W. Janson - chapters 1-3 this year. (some nudity; parents should preview first.)

Work on drawing skills. Illustrate a scene from reading of your choice once a week, more as desired.

Foreign language - 3 songs each term (Mason did 3 in French and 3 in German).

We would like a recommendation for a resource for this.

Three Folk Songs in English- you may choose to continue the Folk Song rotation at Ambleside Online; as well as

the Ambleside rotation for Hymns each term. Carols would do for the Winter term.

Folk Songs which are particularly appropriate selections for the Year 7 time frame include:

Term 1: The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood; The Three Ravens; and The Outlandish Knight.

Lyrics and the midi files Work on each song about 4 weeks.

Term 2: When The King Enjoys His Own Again; Farewell to Lochaber; Battle of Otterburn, or any other tunes of

your choice from this website Again, work on each song about 4 weeks, reviewing as desired. The idea is to

enjoy them, not turn them into drudgery.

Term 3: Go No More a Rushing; Greensleeves; Scarbourough. You may also choose any other three folksongs you

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

- Begin Latin if you've not started already.

- 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.

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made by Paul Brand Please preview this first; some may wish to postpone this a year

Charlotte Mason had them do house or garden work, make Christmas presents, other crafts, sew, cook, learn first aid...

learn and play a game (kick ball, tennis, croquet, ping-pong, softball, etc.) or folk-dance, or pursue other physical activity of your choice.

Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight (Burton Raffel's version is very accessible)

The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkein (The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The

When the Tripods Came; The White Mountains; City of Gold and Lead; and Pool of Fire, by John Christopher

Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch (also here)

The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill

The Knight's Fee by Rosemary Sutcliff

The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall

Rolf and The Viking Bow

The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (its prequel is Sir Nigel)

Beowulf - the version by Burton Raffel is very accessible, or use this free-verse version

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson

Hereward the Wake Originally Published in Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales

Other Possibilities: These are books that Miss Mason used, or that we think would be good- but we've not read them,

so can't recommend them. We list them here so that those who are interested might preview them if desired

and pass on a review for the rest of us:

The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga), With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda, translated

The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott or other of the Waverly novels appropriate for this year's study

(All the novels written by Sir Walter Scott are commonly referred to en masse as The Waverley Novels. While

not a series, these books all share the common distinction of superbly written historical fiction -- in fact, it is

said that Scott created this literary genre with these novels. Charlotte Mason read from the Bible and the

Waverley novels daily through much of her lifetime; whenever she finished reading through all 27 volumes,

she simply started over. We assume any of them would be good for free reading anytime, but have not yet

read them all ourselves. You can read more here and here Further links or information always welcome.)

Penrod and Sam by Booth Tarkington

Alhambra by Washington Irving

Useful for future reference: A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales by Jonathan Nield

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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

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