Grammar
Latin (Henle First Year, Units 1–14)
Students continue Henle First Year Latin into the second half of the book, working through Units 1–14 to deepen vocabulary, grammar, and translation.
Challenge I
Secondary School · Years 9–13
Curriculum by strand
Exposition & Composition
American Literature
Students keep developing the persuasive essay with The Lost Tools of Writing while reading twenty-one works of American literature across the year, from The Sign of the Beaver to Starship Troopers.
Reading list
The Sign of the Beaver
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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The Call of the Wild
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Johnny Tremain
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The Red Badge of Courage
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The Scarlet Letter
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The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories
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Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories
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Through Gates of Splendor
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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An Old-Fashioned Girl
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Harvey
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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Born Again
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Up From Slavery
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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The Old Man and the Sea
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Self-Reliance and Other Essays
BookYear 9
Walden; or, Life in the Woods
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Starship Troopers
BookYear 9
Debate
American Documents & Economics
Students study America's founding documents and speeches in the first semester, then turn to economics with the Uncle Eric books and a stock-market simulation in the second.
Research
Physical Science
A full year of Apologia's Exploring Creation with Physical Science, covering motion, energy, weather, and the water cycle with hands-on labs throughout.
Reasoning
Mathematics
Challenge I sets no required maths text — any maths programme may be used at home.
Recommended
Saxon Algebra 1 Homeschool Kit
Book
Years 8-9
CC recommends Saxon Algebra 1; any maths programme may be used at home.
Rhetoric
Formal Logic & Drama
Students take up formal, deductive logic with Memoria Press's Traditional Logic I and give a close reading to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.
