Grammar
Latin A
The first half of Henle First Year Latin, building vocabulary, forms, and translation skills week by week.
Challenge A
Middle School · Grades 7–8
Curriculum by strand
Exposition & Composition
Newbery Literature & The Lost Tools of Writing
Students learn the five-paragraph essay through The Lost Tools of Writing while reading ten Newbery and classic novels across the year.
Reading list
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
BookGrade 7
The Magician's Nephew
BookGrade 7
Number the Stars
BookGrade 7
Amos Fortune, Free Man
BookGrade 7
The Secret Garden
BookGrade 7
The Door in the Wall
BookGrade 7
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830–32
BookGrade 7
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
BookGrade 7
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
BookGrade 7
The Bronze Bow
BookGrade 7
Debate
Cartography
Students draw and label the world map from memory, building geographic knowledge that supports the year's history and current-events discussions.
Research
Natural Science & Anatomy
About nine weeks of library-based nature research papers, ten weeks preparing a science fair project, and eleven weeks of anatomy drawing — scheduled by the Challenge A Guide with no set textbook.
No resources are listed for this strand by design — it's project- and library-based rather than built around a textbook.
Reasoning
Mathematics
Challenge A sets no required math text — any math program may be used at home.
Recommended
Saxon Math 8/7 Homeschool Kit
Book
Grade 7
Recommended
Saxon Algebra ½ Homeschool Kit
Book
Grades 7-8
Recommended
The Math Map
Book
Grades 4-9
CC recommends Saxon 8/7 or Algebra ½; any math program may be used at home.
Rhetoric
Clear Reasoning
Students learn to spot logical fallacies and evaluate arguments about the natural world with It Couldn't Just Happen and The Fallacy Detective.
More in this level
Other resources tagged into this level beyond the strand lists above.
