Suggested Reading

Greg's Recommended Reading for High School

Planning:

  • Home School, High School, and Beyond, by Beverly Adams-Gordon, 1996
  • Senior High: A Home-Designed Form+U+la, by Barbara Edtl Shelton, 1996
  • Homeschooling the Highschooler (Combined Volumes 1&2), by Diana McAlistser and Candice Oneschak, 1993
  • Christian Home Educators' Curriculum Manual, Junior/Senior High, by Cathy Duffy, 1995.
  • Far Above Rubies, by David Mulligan, 1994


Economics:

[An understanding of money is invaluable toward understanding history and the present.
"The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender." (Prov. 22:7)
"The love of money is the root of all evil. (I Tim. 6:10)]

  • Whatever Happened to Penny Candy, by Richard Maybury, 1993
  • Biblical Economics in Comics, by Vic Lockman, 1985
  • Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt, 1979
  • Honest Money, by Gary North, 1986
  • A Banker's Confession, by Gary Sanseri, 1991


Government & Law:

  • Whatever Happened to Justice?, by Richard Maybury, 1993
  • The Law, by Frederic Bastiat, 1850 (translation from the French)
  • Ancient Rome: How It Affects You Today, by Richard Maybury, 1995
  • The Christian and Civil Government, by Pastor John Weaver, 1991
  • Law & Liberty, by Rousas J. Rushdooney, 1984
  • A Defense of Liberty against Tyrants, by Junius Brutus, (1689 translation from Latin, Vindicae Contra Tyrannos, 1579)
  • Lex Rex, by Samuel Rutherford, 1982 (originally published 1644)


History:

(Studies in government and economics establish an excellent foundation for history.)
"The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a
high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which
they are living." C.K. Chesterson, 1933

  • America's Providential History, by Mark A. Beliles & Stephen K. McDowell, 1989
  • History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, by J.H. Merle d' Aubigne, 1846


Geography:

  • Physical Geography, by Arnold Guyot, 1885


Sciences:

  • Lab Science: The How, Why, What, Who, 'n' Where Book, Barbara Edtl Shelton, 1996
  • Kitchen Science, by Howard Hillman, 1989
  • Fearfully & Wonderfully Made, by Paul Brand & Philip Yancey, 1980
  • Chemical History of a Candle, by Michael Faraday, 1993 (originally published 1861)
  • In His Image, by Paul Brand & Philip Yancey, 1984
  • Witness of the Stars, by E.W. Bullinger, reprint of the 1893 edition
  • Exploring Chemical Elements and their Compounds, by David L. Heiserman, 1992


Math:

  • Mathematics for the Million, by Lancelot Hogben, 1993
  • Mathematics for the Non-Mathematician, by Morris Kline, 1965
  • Men of Mathematics, by E. T. Bell, 1937


Foreign Languages:

  • How to Learn Any Language, by Barry Farber, 1991
  • The Loom of Language, by Frederick Bodmer, 1946
  • Basic Greek in 30 Minutes a Day, by Jim Found, 1983
  • Foreign language Bible "Faith comes by hearing. . ."
    www.BibleGateway.com/languages
  • New Testament in nearly 20 foreign languages on cassette tape (or audio CD, Spanish only) can be purchased from Christian Duplications International, (800) 327-9332, www.Christianduplications.com see also www.verbix.com for an online verb conjugator
   
   

 

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