Subject AO Year 7 AO Year 8

Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 1 Term 2 Term 3

Bible & Christian How To Be Your The Pursuit of God The Pursuit of A Ready Defense Mere Christianity Desiring God
Theology Own Selfish Pig Holiness or- The Case for or- More Than a
Christ Carpenter
Optional: Saints and Heroes, Vol 1 by George Hodges Optional: Saints and Heroes, Vol 2 by George Hodges

History The Birth of Britain by Churchill The New World by Churchill

Bedes In Freedoms The Daughter of Martin Luthers Queen Elizabeths John Donnes
Ecclesiastical Cause Time defense before the speech to the Devotions Upon
History of English Diet of Worms Spanish Armada Emergent
People Occasions
The Anglo-Saxon The Magna Carta History of Deeds
Chronicle on Done Beyond the
Alfred the Great Sea (crusades)
William of
Malmesburys
Account of the
Battle of Hastings
Biographies The Life of King Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc A Man for All A Coffin for King Charles
Alfred (Twain) Seasons
Life of Sir Frances A Relation or Ch 23 from
Bacon Journal of the Oliver Cromwell
Beginnings and and the Rule of
Proceedings of the the Puritans in
English Plantation England by Sir
settled at Plymouth Charles Firth
The Life of John
Donne

The Voyage of the Armada The Spanish

Story, by David Howarth
Geography The Brendan Voyage How the Heather Christopher Kon-Tiki
Looks Columbus
Government & Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? Whatever Happened to Justice?
Economics
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 Citizenship Ourselves
Plutarchs Lives
Francis Bacon Essays
Utopia
Literature Shakespeare
Ivanhoe Everyman, A I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)
Morality Play
The History of English Literature for Boys and Girls
The Age of Chivalry Westward Ho! excerpted copy of The
Diary of Samuel Pepys
Watership Down Chaucers Canterbury Tales The Holy War
The Once and Future King
Beowulf
Poetry The Oxford Book Tennyson Keats Fierce Wars and John Donne & John Milton
of English Verse Faithful Loves George Herbert
Shakespeares
Sonnets
The Grammar of Poetry The Roar on the Other Side
Grammar & Our Mother Tongue
Composition
Recitation Psalm 45 Psalm 46 Psalm 51 Romans 6 1 Corinthians 13 Psalms 139
Shakespeare and Poetry
Copywork Shakespeare Bible Poetry
Math
Science Eric Sloanes The Life of the Spider OR Social Life Chemical History of William Harvey
Weather in the Insect World a Candle and the
Discovery of the
Circulation of the
Blood
Secrets of the Universe Johannes Kepler A Briefer History
of Time
The Wonder Book of Chemistry Napoleons Buttons or Marvels of the Molecule
First Studies of Plant Life
Adventures with a Microscope
Signs & Seasons
Great Astronomers Phineas Cage The Microbe
Hunters
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 Nature Study The Lay of the Land Rural Hours
Logic How to Read a Book
The Fallacy Detectives
Art The Story of Painting
Music AOs Composer Rotation
Foreign Latin
Language
Health Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
Life Skills
Free Reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Burton Raffel Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott (or other Scott novel)
The Lord of the Rings trilogy, by J.R.R. Tolkien Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantesfind an edited version
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
When the Tripods Came; The White Mountains; City of Gold and The Innocence of Father Brown, by G. K. Chesterton
Lead; and Pool of Fire, by John Christopher Emma by Jane Austen
Legends of Charlemagne, by Thomas Bulfinch Freckles by Gene Stratton Porter
The Pushcart War, by Jean Merrill ** The House of Arden: A Story for Children, by E. Nesbit
The Knight's Fee, by Rosemary Sutcliff ** Harding's Luck by E. Nesbit
The Gammage Cup, by Carol Kendall ** Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
Rolf and The Viking Bow, by Allen French *** Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
The Lost Prince, by Frances Hodgson Burnett The Wonderful O and/or The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber
The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (prequel is Sir Nigel) The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis (Out of the Silent Planet,
Beowulf - Preferred: Seamus Heaney Perelandra, That Hideous Strength
David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens To Have and to Hold: A Story of Virginia in Colonial Days, by Mary
Sonlight The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson Johnston
Hereward, the Last of the English, by Charles Kingsley All for Love, or, The World Well Lost or Discourses on Satire and
Beautiful Feet Optional: (used by CM) Epic Poetry by John Dryden
The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott The Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander
Penrod & Sam by Booth Tarkington The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton
Veritas Press
Alhambra by Washington Irving The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln
Feats and Fiord by Harriet Martineau Pioneers of the Old South: A Chronicle of English Colonial
The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald by Anonymous Beginnings by Mary Johnston
Unknown to History: Captivity of Mary of Scotland by Charlotte
Yonge
The History of King Charles II of England by Jacob Abbott
Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus by astronomer
Owen Gingerich
Jean Henri Fabre: Choose another book on insect life

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 Year 7/8 Term 1 Middle Ages, 800-1215 Term 2: 1216-1485 Term 3: 1450-1640
Bible (1, 2, 3) More Than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
Combined The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer The Story of Joan of Arc by Andrew Lang Saints and Heroes, Vol. 2 by George
Saints and Heroes, Vol. 1 by George Hodges (1, 2) Chaucer: A Golden Key by Haweis Hodges
The Birth of Britain by Winston Churchill (1, 2) The New World by Winston Churchill
Books used The Life of King Alfred by Asser Martin Luthers defense before the Diet of
for this Bedes Ecclesiastical History Worms
schedule William of Malmesburys account of the Battle of Hastings Queen Elizabeths speech to the Spanish
Magna Carta Armada
Ourselves by Charlotte Mason (1, 2, 3) Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt
The Fallacy Detective by Bluedorn (1, 2) Everyman, A Morality Play
What Ever Happened to Penny Candy? (1, 2) Pilgrim Journal of Plymouth Settlers
The Brendan Voyage by Tim Severin or Kon Tiki (1, 2, 3) How to Read a Book by Adler
The History of English Literature for by H. E. Marshall (1, 2, 3) Whatever Happened to Justice?
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (1, 2) Utopia by Sir Thomas More
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves
Once and Future King Francis Bacon Essays
Watership Down (1, 2) Westward Ho! by Kingsley or I Promessi
The Oxford Book of English Verse (1, 2) Sposi by Alessandro Manzoni
Our Mother Tongue by Nancy Wilson or other grammar (1, 2,3) Plutarch
Social Life of an Insect or- The Life of the Spider by Fabre (1, 2, 3) Shakespeare
Eric Sloanes Weather Book (1, 2, 3) Shakespeare Sonnets
First Studies of Plant Life by George Francis Atkinson (1, 2, 3)
Adventures with a Microscope by Richard Headstrom (1, 2, 3)
Great Astronomers by R. S. Ball (1, 2, 3)
Signs and Seasons by Jay Ryan (1, 2, 3)
Secrets of the Universe by Paul Fleisher (1, 2, 3)
The Story of Painting by H. W. Janson (1, 2, 3)
Book of Centuries
Current Events
Recitation 2 Bible passages of about 20 verses each and 2 Psalms per term; Shakespeare passages; a poem per term from terms poetry selection
Copywork Include selections from Shakespeare, Bible, poetry and other sources - Can be the same as recitation passages Consider beginning
a personal quote book (commonplace)
Dictation
Math
Music
Foreign Language
Health
Life and Work Skills
Free Reading Year 7: In Freedoms Cause, The Age of Chivalry, The Daughter of Time; Year 8: I Promessi Sposi, Westward Ho!

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