Biology (current year)
- Fall Semester: Exploring Creation with Biology, Wile and Durnell (Apologia)
- Spring Semester: Advanced Biology: The Human Body, Shannon and Yunis (Apologia)
- Tutor’s note: Both of these Biology texts can be obtained used from Amazon (here and here), or new from Amazon (here and here) or Apologia (here and here)
Basic Science (next year)
- A Beka Science: Matter and Energy. (FYI: The digital version is $19.95)
English
- Handbook of Grammar and Composition, 4th edition (or any previous or used edition is fine, Abeka #63355
- Writers Inc. (try Amazon or Half Price Books), ISBN: 0669471860
- The Iliad, unabridged, translated by Robert Fagles
- The Odyssey, unabridged, translated by Robert Fagles
- The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fagles
- Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare
- The Three Theban Plays, Robert Fagles
There are often inexpensive copies of the Homer and Virgil books (Fagles’ translation) available at Half Price Books locations.
Geometry
- Geometry Seeing, Doing, Understanding, 3rd edition (try Amazon), Harold Jacobs, ISBN: 0716743612
- The Jacobs Geometry book is now being published by My Father’s World. You can also find it (in addition to Amazon) along with the answer key, at www.mfwbooks.com
- Additional materials: The Bones (Euclid) ISBN-13: 978-1888009217 ISBN-10: 1888009217
Latin III
- Wheelock’s Latin Reader (try Amazon), Richard Lafleur, ISBN: 978-0060935061
Logic
- Traditional Logic (you need books 1 and 2), Martin Cothran
- Traditional Logic workbooks (Memoria Press is now printing the logic exercises as a separate workbook (they used to be after every chapter). The students will need both the text and the workbook. Younger siblings can just buy a fresh workbook.)
Western Civ I
- Historyguide.org
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization, Anthony Esolen ISBN: 1596980591
- Water from a Deep Well, Sittser, ISBN: 978-083-083-7458