Lighthouse Book List: 2009 - 2010 School Year

BIOLOGY

Exploring Creation through Biology – Apologia, 2nd Edition © 2005

 

PHYSICAL SCIENCE

 Exploring Creation through Physical Science – Apologia, 2nd Edition © 2007

 

CHEMISTRY

Exploring Creation through Chemistry – Apologia, 2nd Edition

 

ANATOMY

Exploring Creation through  Advanced Biology: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made – Apologia, 2nd Edition

 

PRE-ALGEBRA

Teaching Textbooks – PreAlgebra © 2005

 

ALGEBRA

Teaching Textbooks – Algebra

 

GEOMETRY

Teaching Textbooks – Geometry

 

ALGEBRA II

Teaching Textbooks – Algebra II

 

PRECALCULUS (TRIGONOMETRY)

Teaching Textbooks – PreCalculus (Trigonometry)

 

GOVERNMENT (1ST  SEMESTER)

American Government for Christian Schools – BJU Press – 2nd Edition, © 2005

 

ECONOMICS (2ND  SEMESTER)

*Text to be announced – estimated cost $30

 

SAT/ACT PREP (1ST  SEMESTER)

TBA

 

LATIN I

Latina Christiana, Books 1 and 2 – Memoria Press

 

SPANISH I

Spanish I – Bob Jones University Press – 2nd edition © 2004

Spanish I activity manual – Bob Jones University Press – 2nd edition © 2004

 

FRENCH I

TBA

 

GRAMMAR/COMPOSITION

TBA

  

FOUNDATIONS (7th/8th grade humanities)

Bible

Mere Christianity – C. S. Lewis

Know What You Believe – Paul Little

Know Why You Believe – Paul Little

The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis and Pauline Baynes © 2001 (one volume)

Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson

Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain

The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien

 

Required Summer Reading for Foundations:

The Magician’s Nephew – C. S. Lewis (from the Chronicles of Narnia volume)

Chapter One: The Law of Human Nature – from Mere Christianity, by C. S. Lewis

 

ANTIQUITY

Chronological Bible

Western Civilization, 5th Edition or later, Jackson Spielvogel (combined editions, not volumes)

Wonders of Old (blank timeline) – T. Johnson

The Creation Answers Book - D. Batten, editor

Gilgamesh – David Ferry translation

Codes of Hamurabi and Moses – W. W. Davies

Assumptions That Affect Our Lives – C. Overman

The Iliad and the Odyssey – Homer, Fagel or Lattimore translation

Aechylus /(Oresteia) – R. Lattimore translation

Aesop’s Fables – V. Jones translation

Sophocles/(Oedipus Rex) – D. Grene, translator, R. Lattimore, editor

The Aeneid – Virgil, R. Fitzgerald translation

Till We Have Faces – C. S. Lewis

Confessions – St. Augustine

*Anthology of Ancient Writing, compiled by A. Earle, to be purchased from LCHA

 

Required Summer Reading for Antiquity: 

More Than Dates and Dead People – Stephen Mansfield

Genesis 1 and 2

“Introduction to Students of Western Civilization” in Western Civilization text

 

THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

Bible

Wonders of Old (blank timeline) – T. Johnson

History of the American People – Paul Johnson

The Patriot’s Handbook – George Grant

Three Centuries of American Poetry – Allen Mandelbaum and Robert Richardson, editors

Captain John Smith: A Select Edition of His Writings – edited by Karen Ordahl Kupperman

The Confidence Man – Herman Melville

The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Crucible – Arthur Miller

Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

Walden – Thoreau

The Man Without a Country – Edward Everett Hale

The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, by himself - edited and with notes by Shelly Eversley

 

Required Summer Reading for The American Experience:

“Part One: John Smith, Life and Legend” from Captain John Smith: A Select Edition of His Writings

pages 3 – 28 from History of the American People by Paul Johnson