A CM-Styled High School Education
Year 10
BIBLE - Apologetics - 5 credits
Josh McDowell's "Evidence that Demands a Verdict," and "More Evidence
that Demands a Verdict"
Lee Stroebel's "The Case for Christ"
(A Notes Narration was required for the above books. That is a written
narration that does not have to be in complete sentences. There were also
final exam questions.)
SCIENCE plus LAB - Biology - 5 credits
Apologia's "Biology"
(The tests in the texts are the evaluation method used. The lab work was
to be done also.)
Nature Study with the family, as well as nature study entries in a
notebook.
MATH - Geometry - 5 credits
Use Math-U-See: second half the lessons from Basic Algebra & Geometry
(The tests in the texts are the evaluation method used. An additional
exam is the ability to explain orally a sample math problem.)
HISTORY - U.S. History II - 5 credits
(Of the three sources of history Churchill, Lincoln's writings, and the
additional readings, we used the evaluation technique of both written and
oral narration. Two of the three sources assigned for each week had to be
written narrations. A third, usually the speech but it could vary, was
an oral narration. Churchill was usually divided up by chapter for
narration purposes. At the end of certain sections, or at a predetermined
calendar date, essay-type narration questions on the material were given
as exams.)
Winston Churchill's "History of the English-Speaking Peoples" volume 4:
Great Democracies.
(For the most part, our additional history readings, our literature, and
our poetry selections either by content or by author - all reflect the
time period covered in "Great Democracies," the 19th century.)
Writings of Lincoln (read one per week) Many taken from Roy P. Basler's
"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln," and can be found on this excellent
(Click on "Speeches" - or go straight to
and the entries are found under "Lincoln's Writings," "Lincoln's
Letters," and "Lincoln's Speeches")
(Note: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates will be included in
"Argumentation and Debate.")
Lincoln, Part 1
1832 First Political Announcement
1838 Lyceum Address
1842 Termperance Address
1846 Letter to Allen N. Ford
1846 Poems by Lincoln
1850 Notes for a Law Lecture
1852 Eulogy on Henry Clay
1855 Letter to George Robertson, and 1855 Letter to Joshua Speed
1855 Advice to Lawyers (several letters)
1858 House Divided Speech
1859 Letter to Henry Pierce
Lincoln, Part 2
1860 Letter to Lyman Trumball
Autobiographies of 1858-60
1860 Cooper Union Address
1860 Letter to Edward Everett, and Letter to George Latham
1860 Letter to Grace Bedell
1861 Farewell Address
1861 Address to Senate and New Jersey Assembly; also Address in
Independence Hall
1861 First Inaugural Address
1862 Letter to Horace Greeley
1862 Letter to Fanny McCullough, and 1862 Meditations on Divine Will
1862 Concluding Remarks, Annual Address to Congress
Lincoln, Part 3
1863 Letter to General Grant
1863 Letter to James C. Conkling
1863 Emancipation Proclamation
1863 Gettysburg Address
1863 Proclamation Adopting a National Fast Day; and 1863 Thanksgiving
Proclamation
1864 Letter to Albert Hodges
1864 Letter to Eliza Burney
1864 Letter to Mrs. Bixby
1864 Acceptance of Honorary Degree:
1864 Speech to the Ohio Regiment
1865 Second Inaugural Address
1865 Last Public Address
Corollary History Readings of Speeches, Writings, and Eyewitness
Accounts:
Part 1
Frederick Douglass: "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass"
Part 2
-Queen Victoria's Diary 1837
-Alexis DeTocqueville's "Democracy in America" (Excerpts only from
sections on political structure and democracy, focusing on religion and
read "Tocqueville Today.") Text:
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton's First Women's Rights Convention Address
-Karl Marx's "Conmunist Manifesto" (Prologue, Bourgeois and Proletarians,
Proletarians and Communists" - Take 2 weeks.)
-Missouri Compromise: Henry Clay, 1/29/1850 ("A Treasury of the World's
Great Speeches," edited by Houston Peterson, pp. 392-397)
-Missouri Compromise: John C. Calhoun, 3/4/1850 ("Treasury," pp. 397-401)
-Missouri Compromise, Daniel Webster, 3/7/1850
-Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species" (Introduction only. Take 2
weeks.)
Part 3
-Livingstone Discovers Victoria Falls 1855
-John Brown's Courtroom Speech 11/2/1859 ("Treasury of the World's Great
Speeches," pp. 499-502)
-Robert E. Lee's writings (William Federer's "America's God and Country
Encyclopedia of Quotations," pp. 363-368.)
-Surrender at Appomattox 1865
-Benjamin Disraeli defends Conservative Party, 4/3/1872 ("Treasury,"
pp.554-560)
-Custer's Last Stand 1876
-William Gladstone supports freethinkers to enter House of Commons,
4/26/1883 ("Treasury," pp. 560-569)
-Wounded Knee 1890
-Booker T. Washington before Cotton States & International Exposition
9/18/1893 ("Treasury," pp. 633-637)
-Dwight L. Moody. Short bio:
58 sec. Real Audio of Moody reading the Beatitudes
Evangelistic message "Where Art Thou?"
-William Jennings Bryan "Cross of Gold" speech 7/9/1896
Timeline Book/Book of the Centuries (Make weekly entries; submit at exam
time)
Current Events: Write a brief paragraph 4 times per week describing a
current events issue that was read (sources included the newspaper,
ENGLISH - American Literature, Poetry, and Grammar/Composition - 5
credits
Evaluation of literature was all by written narration. Written narration
for poetry was done in the form of a poetic narration about the work of a
single poet; written narration for a book was done in the form of
creative narration, some examples of which will be posted separately.
Such narrations also count for exams.
American Literature:
"Cycle of American Literature" by Robert E. Spiller (An Essay in
Historical Criticism, Macmillan Company, 1955. Paperback edition, 1967)
Herman Melville's "Moby Dick"
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Poetry:
(Chosen to reflect the time period of the 19th century. One poem or
portion of a poem - is read four days per week.)
Part 1
-Emily Dickinson - all of her poetry can be found at
or a smaller amount at
"An altered look about the hills," "These are the days when birds come
back," "Hope is the thing with feathers," "The soul selects her own
society," "A bird came down the walk," "This is my letter to the world,"
"I died for beauty, but was scarce," "I heard a fly buzz when I died,"
"Because I could not stop for Death," "I never saw a moor," "Title divine
is mine," "Because that you are going."
-Christina Georgina Rossetti (I have not yet found many of her sacred
poems online. We used the book "Poems Feasts and Fasts," Fount
Classics, 1996.) "Christ's Heart was Wrung for Me," "A Martyr," "The
Bridegroom Cometh," "In the Bleak Mid-Winter," "For the Least of All
Saints," "They Scarcely Walked," "I Lift Mine Eyes," "It is Finished."
-Alfred, Lord Tennyson - some of his poetry can be found at
"The Lady of Shalott," "The Lotos Eaters," "The Eagle," "Morte D'Arthur,"
"Ask Me No More," "Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal," "Songs from the
Princess": "Tears, Idle Tears," "Home They Brought," "The Splendor
Falls," "Prefatory Poem to My Brother's Sonnets," "Charge of the Light
Brigade," "Break, break, break,"
"Ulysses," "Flower in the Crannied Wall," "Crossing the Bar."
-Essay: a portion of Henry David Thoreau's "Walden" ("Where I Lived, and
What I Lived For")
Part 2
-Civil War Poetry - taken from the Dover book "Civil War Poetry: An
Longfellow's "The Building of the Ship," Emerson's "Boston Hymn," James
Ryder Randall's "My Maryland," Henry Timrod's "Ethnogenesis" and "Ode at
Magnolia Cemetery," James Sloan Gibbons "Three Hundred Thousand More,"
Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic," William Cullen Bryant's
"The Death of Slavery" and "Abraham Lincoln," Ethel Lynn Beers' "All
Quiet along the Potomac," Melville's "The March into Virginia" and
"Stonewall Jackson," James Russell Lowell's "Ode Recited at the Harvard
Commemoration," Francis Miles Finch's "The Blue and the Gray," Whittier's
"Brown of Ossawatomie," "A Word for the Hour," "The Battle Autumn of
1862," "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott," "Laus Deo!", and "Barbara
Frietchie"
-Walt Whitman -some of his poetry can be found at
"O Captain! My Captain!," "Give me the splendid silent sun," "O tan-faced
prairie boy," "I hear America singing," "Beat! Beat! Drum!," "To a
locomotive in winter," "Afoot and light-hearted, I take to the open
road," "Pioneers, O Pioneers," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard
Bloomed," "By Blue Ontario's Shore," "A Noiseless Patient Spider," "When
I heard the learned astronomer," "Dirge for Two Veterans," "So long."
Part 3
-Robert Browning - some of his poetry can be found at
"Rabbi Ben Ezra," "One Word More," "In Three Days," "Old Pictures in
Florence," "Love in a Life," "Life in a Love," "Fra Lippo Lippi,"
"Home-Thoughts
from Abroad," "Cristina," "Any Wife to Any Husband," "The Year's at the
Spring," "Love Among the Ruins," "Prospice," "Belief and Unbelief."
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning -all of her "Sonnets from the Portuguese" can
be found at
I,III, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XIV, XVII, XVIII, XX, XXI, XXII, XXVI,
XXVIII, XXXI, XXXIII, XXXV, XXXVIII, XLIII
(Poetic narrations are required for all major poets covered, except for
the Civil War poetry, when one poetic narration can be done to cover all
of them.)
Composition:
"Elements of Style" by Strunk and White. (Read and discussed orally.)
"Art of Writing" by Robert Louis Stevenson (Read, written narration, exam
question.)
Copywork was also done. Selections were the student's choice, but had to
fit certain categories, such as Bible, French, Hymns, Poetry, and
History.
FRENCH - French II - 5 credits
"Oui, je parle francais." Texbook: "Oui, je parle francais," by Theodore
Huebener and Marie K. Neuschatz. Lessons include guidance in conversation
as well as grammar (Evaluation was through reviews, and completed
assignments.)
HEALTH/PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT/PHYSICAL EDUCATION - 5 credits
Health: (Mind and Body)
"Fearfully and Wonderfully Made," Philip Yancy and Dr. Paul Brand.
Read, and submit written narrations.
Also "Eight Stages of Christian Growth Human Development in
Psycho-Spiritual Terms" by Philip A. Captain (1984, Prentice-Hall Inc.).
Oral narration.
Personal Development:
Selections from Charlotte Mason's "Ourselves."
Written narration for exam.
Physical Education:
At least 2 ½-3 hours of aerobic-styled exercise per week (can be in
activities with others, such as Fellowship of Christian Athletes'
"Huddle," homeschool skiing or ice skating, video exercise, or
rollerblading/biking). Keep record, and submit as exam.
Total year 10 credits: 35 (30 plus 5 Bible credits)
