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2026 Curriculum & Book Choices

                        2026 Curriculum and Book Choices: 

11th and 7th Grade




Note: 

Each year, I give a detailed plan of our schedule and our chosen resources. 

Our 2020 schedule and resources can be found here, our schedule and resources from 2021 can be found here , our resources from 2022 can be found here, our resources for 2023 can be found here, our resources and curriculum choices for 2024 can be found here, and our resources and curriculum choices for 2025 can be found here. 

In addition, you can find free printables of my 2021-2024 schedules here. 

We begin each school year in January, but I choose resources and plan for the following year well in advance. So, I have made these choices to begin our 2026 year with an 11th and 7th grader in January. I will update with any changes or additions throughout 2026. 


Group Lessons 


History


American
Civil War- Civil Rights 


World
Modern 

Combination of:
SOTW Volume 3 & 4 
History Unboxed Boxes
 
Plus, a variety of Readers. 

Spycraft 
Delighting in Exploration: Spycraft 


Humanities 

Cultural Studies 

Delighting in the World: NYC

Civics:

Let's Talk About the USPS (published by Delightfully Feasting) 
Introduction to Government from Indie Scholar 

General Civics- Patriotism 
What Unites Us: The Graphic Novel by Dan Rather 



Geography
Delighting in the World: Rivers of the World 
Look Down and See: Natural Wonders of the World 
Great Rivers of the World 


Grammar and Practice: 
Delighting in Language Volume 2 (published in 2026) 

Writing:
Write With Front Desk

Handwriting: 
Cursive Logic

Shakespeare
Delighting in Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew 
w/ Fish Tank Learning Study 

Tales: 
Monsterology and The Monsterology Handbook 

Foreign Language 

Spanish: 
Continue Spanish for Everyone
Language Guide Vocabulary


Group Math 

General: 
Delighting in Math Volume 3 

Personal Finance:
Teenprenuer Business Course  and Budget Project from Wonder House Creative 
Khan Academy: Personal Finance

Group Skills 
Delighting in Exploration: Careercraft Volume 1 
Help Your Kids With Adolescence 



Music 

Music History: 
Delightfully Feasting Rock Through the Decades 


Christian Studies 
Bible:
New Testament Study:
Overview 
Step by Step Through the New Testament 

Old Testament Study: 
Covenants and Themes 
God's Bible Timeline 
Bible Infographics 

Systematic Theology:
Eschatology 
I will be building these lessons myself out of many resources. 

Topical/Practical Theology: 
Inductive Bible Study (variety of resources) 
The Bible Recap For Kids (Sheldon) and The Bible Recap (Teddy) & Journal (Both) 

Habits and Character: 
Moderation (Discussion & Videos)  

Natural History and Science 

Special Studies
Delighting in Creation: The Human Body 

Science 
Science 1: Anatomy 
Human Body and Forensics from Winter Promise 
Learning With Friends Science: Anatomy Bundle 
Smithsonian: Human Body by DK
Dr. Frankenstein's Human Body Book 
Plus, a Variety of Readers, References, & Models 

Science 2: Physics  
Learning With Friends Science: Physics Bundle 
Super Simple Physics 
Physical Science for Middle School Online Textbook from CK-12 

Science 3: Forensics 
Forensics Illustrated 
The Forensics Casebook 
Forensics Investigations 
Crime Scene Investigations Labs 

Science 4: Health and Fitness 
Delighting in Creation: Health and Fitness 
What Do We Eat 
Simply Nutrition by DK 
The Food Book by DK 
Intro to Neuroscience from Wonder House Creative 


Critical Thinking 

Psychology & Philosophy: 
Delighting in Creation: Psychology 
Super Simple Psychology
Intro to Psychology from Wonder House Creative 
This is Your Brain on Stereotypes 

Technology: 
A Smart Kid's Guide to Social Media
Khan Academy: Internet Safety
Everything You Need to Ace Computer Science and Coding 

Group Logic: 
(Review for Teddy, First Time for Sheldon) 
The Fallacy Detective
An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments 


Individual Lessons 

Language 

Language Arts
6th Grade: 
Melancholy Grammar Volume 2 from Mint and Bloom 
Gross Out Grammar and Revolting Writing 
Hearth and Story Novel Study 
Hearth and Story Poetry 


10th Grade:
Rhetoric: Fitting Words 
Reading and Vocabulary from Khan Academy 
Literature Study: Screwtape Letters from Seven Sisters Homeschool 

Math 

6th Grade:
Humble Math
Everything You Need to Ace Math in One Big Fat Notebook 
Math Minutes 

10th Grade:
Flipped Math


Logic & Rhetoric 
6th Grade: 
Skill Sharpeners: Critical Thinking from Evan Moor 
Another Logic Workbook for Gritty Kids 
Hearth and Story Brain Food 


10th Grade: 
Fitting Words 


Skills
6th Grade: 
Thriving With ADHD Workbook (And, Executive Functioning Workbook) 

10th Grade: 
TBD 

Independent Lists
Explode the Code 
Memory Games
Math Facts Practice 
Current Events 
A Kid's History of the United States Postal Service Free Workbook 
Spelling: Spelling Word Work from A Love of Teaching 

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2025 Curriculum Choices

            2025 Curriculum and Book Choices: 

10th and 6th Grade


Note: 

Each year, I give a detailed plan of our schedule and our chosen resources. 

Our 2020 schedule and resources can be found here, our schedule and resources from 2021 can be found here , our resources from 2022 can be found here, our resources for 2023 can be found here, and our resources and curriculum choices for 2024 can be found here. 

In addition, you can find free printables of my 2021-2024 schedules here. 

We begin each school year in January, but I choose resources and plan for the following year well in advance. So, I have made these choices to begin our 2025 year with a 10th and 6th grade in January. I will update with any changes or additions throughout 2025. 


Group Lessons 

Treasure Time 

Recitation: May I Walk in Beauty / A Navajo Blanket 
Scripture Memory: Colossians 1 
Citizenship Memory: Declaration of Independence 
Poetry Memory: American Poetry of Choice 
Skills: Skill of the Week 

Fun Facts: 
100 Things to Know About Numbers, Computers, and Coding
Weird But True: Middle Ages

History


American
Revolution  

Two "Spines":
George vs George
King George: What Was His Problem? 

Curriculum: 
Investigating American History
History Pockets: American Revolution 

Plus, a variety of picture books. 
 

World
Middle Ages 

Combination of:
SOTW Volume 2
U Read Through Middle Ages 
History Unboxed Boxes
SOTW Lapbooks from Loving Learning as We Go 
 
Plus, a variety of Readers. 

Women's History 
Delighting in History: Women in Sports
Delighting in History: Women in Power 

Plus, a TON of readers and biographies! 


Humanities 

Cultural Studies 

Delighting in the World: London 
Delighting in the World: Japan 


World Religions
Repeat:
Delighting in the World: World Religions 

Add In: 
12 Major World Religions


Citizenship: 

Ongoing- 
Delighting in History: Presidency 

General Civics- 
Civic Online Reasoning from Stanford 

Topical Citizenship- National Monuments 
National Monuments of the USA

Topical Civics- Constitution 
Constitution 101 Course
Fault Lines in the Constitution and Graphic Novel Version
The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation
Fault Lines in the Constitution (Graphic Novel Version)



Language 

Group Language

Grammar and Practice: 
Delighting in Language Volume 1 

Writing: 
Write With Front Desk

General: 
Continue Teen Slang Unit from Wonder House Creative
Wizards: Wizardology

Shakespeare
Delighting in Shakespeare: The Tempest 

Foreign Language 

Spanish: 
Continue Spanish for Everyone
Language Guide Vocabulary


Group Math 

General: 
Delighting in Math Volume 3 


Personal Finance:
Teenprenuer Business Course  and Budget Project from Wonder House Creative 
Khan Academy: Personal Finance



Art 

Picture Study 
Overview of American Artists 

Art History 
Overview of Medieval Art

Handicrafts 
Film Review:  The Art of Watching Films 
Film History:  Crash Course Film History
The Movie Book by DK
52 Must See Movies & Why They Matter

Music 

Hymn Study: 
Semester 1- All Things Bright and Beautiful/ This is My Father's World 
Semester 2- O God Our Help in Ages Past/ God of Glory, God of Grace 
Folk Song: Lavendar's Blue 
Composer Study: 
Semester 1- Delightfully Feasting Composer Study: Beatles   
Semester 2- Delightfully Feasting Composer Study: Hip Hop 

Music Theory: 
Music Theory Overview


Christian Studies 
Bible:
New Testament Study: Colossians
Mini Bible Lessons
Completion & Reconciliation in Christ by John MacArthur 

Old Testament Study: Genesis 
Let's Talk About Beginnings and Let's Talk About Noah 
Herein is Love Commentary 


Systematic Theology:
Ecclesiology 
Mini Bible Lessons: Doctrine ("The Church" Section) 
Fundamentals of the Faith (Church Sections) 

Topical/Practical Theology: 
Prayer & Gratitude- How to Pray by CS Lewis / Gratitude Journals 
Fundamentals of the Faith (Prayer Sections) 

Habits and Character: 
Courage (Discussion & Videos)  

Natural History and Science 

Special Studies
Delighting in Creation: Medicinal Plants 

Science 
Science 1: Botany 
Botany in Eight Lessons
Trees, Leaves, Flowers, and Seeds
The Secret World of Plants

Science 2: Chemistry 
Middle School Chemistry
Intro to Chemistry from Wonder House Creative 
Super Simple Chemistry by DK 
Everything You Need to Ace Chemistry in One Big Fat Notebook
The Elements Book by DK 
Nature Study:
State Flowers and State Trees 
Book of State Trees and Book of State Flowers (Thinking Tree Workbooks) 


Critical Thinking 

Psychology: 
Delighting in Creation: Psychology 
Super Simple Psychology
Intro to Anxiety and Minds Matter Units from Wonder House Creative 


Philosophy: 
Teaching Children Philosophy and Ethics from The Prindle Institute 
Introducing Philosophy: A Graphic Guide

Technology: 
A Smart Kid's Guide to Social Media
Khan Academy: Internet Safety
Khan Academy: Social Media Literacy
Coding for Beginners & The Coding Book


Individual Lessons 

Language 

Language Arts
6th Grade: 
Bookworms 5 from Open Up Resources 
Melancholy Grammar Volume 2 from Mint and Bloom 
Perfect Paragraphs

10th Grade:
High School Literacy from Open Up Resources 
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Writing Tools
Continue Painless Grammar 
Reading and Vocabulary from Khan Academy 

Math 

6th Grade:
Humble Math and Evan Moor Workbooks (Combo) 


10th Grade:
Continue
Painless Algebra 
Flipped Math Algebra 1
Everything You Need to Ace Pre- Algebra and Algebra 1 in One Big Fat Notebook 


Logic 
6th Grade: 
Patterns and Logic Puzzles from Humble Math 
Skill Sharpeners: Critical Thinking from Evan Moor 

10th Grade: 
Continue Traditional Logic from Memoria Press 

Skills
6th Grade: 
Thriving With ADHD Workbook (And, Executive Functioning Workbook) 

10th Grade: 
Planning Your Career Workbook from NWT Literacy 
The Dyslexia Workbook for Adults

Independent Lists
Technology Scribble Book
Explode the Code 
Memory Games
STEM Adventures: Terrific Technology
Math Facts Practice 
Current Events 


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More Modern Authors for Your TBR

 




⁣⁣⁣📚We are living in a golden age of fiction, and I implore every reader not to miss it.⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
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📚Here are a few more Modern Authors in several genres that I think are worth reading (for adults). ⁣
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(See my other 3 posts in this series for additional authors) ⁣⁣⁣
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📝 Barbara Kingsolver ⁣⁣
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Writes: ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
Literary Fiction⁣
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Read For: ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
Absolutely perfect voicing and characterization displayed in stories you’ll never forget⁣
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📝 Margarita Engle ⁣⁣
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Writes: ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
Middle Grade/YA Verse⁣
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Read For: ⁣⁣⁣⁣
Stories and poetry that will both break your heart and restore your hope⁣
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📝 Erica Bauermeister⁣⁣
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Writes: ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
Contemporary Fiction⁣
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Read For: ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
Deceptively readable (and quotable) writing that will provoke many thoughts and conversations⁣
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📝 Anna Quindlen ⁣⁣
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Writes: ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
Literary Fiction/Nonfiction⁣
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Read For: ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
Writing that effortlessly captures the mundanity and beauty of every day life and lovely, complex, imperfect people ⁣
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📝 Anne Patchett ⁣
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Writes: ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
Literary Fiction/Essays⁣
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Read For: ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
Exposure to one of America’s finest writers and a snapshot of the rare phenomenon of perfectly constructed sentences in immersive stories with unforgettable characters. ⁣
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📝 Dennis Lehane⁣
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Writes: ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
Noir⁣
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Read For: ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
Smart writing, immersive atmosphere, and several novels that have also been adapted into great movies⁣
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📝 Toshikazu Kawaguchi ⁣
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Writes: ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
Magical Realism⁣
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Read For: ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
The best kind of emotional damage 😘 - but also, deceptively simple writing and a really clever use of an overused plot device⁣
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📝 Nikki Grimes ⁣
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Writes: ⁣⁣⁣
Poetry/Novels in Verse/Middle Grade/One of the Best Memoirs Ever Written⁣
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Read For: ⁣⁣⁣
Because, she’s an actual treasure and you’ll never be the same⁣
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📝 Annie Ernaux ⁣
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Writes: ⁣
Memoirs ⁣
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Read For: ⁣
The most intimate writing you’ll ever read that forces you to dig deeper into your thoughts, memories, identity, and emotions than you bargained for but will never regret⁣

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Term 2 Plans

 




📚Term 2 Plans⁣⁣
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Here are some of the things we will be focusing on in Term 2: ⁣⁣
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💡 Critical Thinking lessons will focus on Media Literacy, primarily reading “Can You Believe It” and “Breaking The News”. ⁣⁣
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🇺🇸 For Citizenship we will continue to learn about the Supreme Court and Presidency, and to “explore” DC. But we will also make space to work through the Lonely Planet Kids “You Rule” book, “creating” our own countries. ⁣⁣
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👻 Our Tales this term will be a study of the work of Edgar Allan Poe primarily reading the graphic compilation “Poe: Stories and Poems” and completing activities in the Lesson Set Bundle from Mint and Bloom. ⁣⁣
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🧮 Our Group Math will focus primarily on beginning Delighting in Math Volume 1. ⁣⁣
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📝 Group Language Lessons will continue to be a loop of several things, but with a continued focus on analyzing and constructing poetry.⁣⁣
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We will also continue our overview of Literary Genres with a deep dive into horror subgenres to pair with our study of Poe. ⁣⁣
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🌎 For Climatology we will keep focusing on Climate Change but will give a lot of space this term to reading Old Enough to Save the Planet and doing the corresponding lessons from Mint and Bloom. ⁣⁣
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🦊 Zoology Lessons will focus on Mammals following a term spent on invertebrates…. ⁣⁣
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🌳 and Ecology will focus on the forest Biome and an overview of the Types of Consumers in the animal kingdom… ⁣⁣
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🦏 and our Special Studies this term will be a repeat of Delighting in Animals: Endangered and Extinct, which is a favorite. ⁣⁣
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🌽 Food Science will continue to take us on a journey through America’s Food Industry and connected nutritional concepts, adding in the Britannica book. ⁣
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⏳ For American History we will spend the first half of the term focused on The Salem Witch Trials. ⁣
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🧠 For Psychology we will continue slowly through Delighting in Creation: Psychology Vol 1, learning about mood disorders and mental health care. We will also focus this term on sleep with “Sleep: A Kid’s Guide to the Science of Slumber”. ⁣
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👦🏼👦🏼 I will share in stories a couple of things that each boy will focus on individually this term.

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The Best Readers are MORE Than Readers



Being a (truly) good reader requires being more than a reader. ⁣
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I have long lamented the way(s) in which the CM Community often breeds bad readers, often by disdaining modernity and hyper-focusing on “classics” without equipping readers with the ability to develop distinguish taste for the goodness of books old and new. ⁣
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Even more specifically, I’ve recently connected the dots between this and a corresponding disdain for literary analysis and criticism. ⁣
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By telling readers that older is better and then also making them fearful or disdainful of literary criticism, CM social media is churning out an army of readers that have undeveloped taste. ⁣
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If you believe that old books are inherently better AND you believe that analyzing books will ruin them, then you have no ability to discern or distinguish goodness in every place that it is found. ⁣
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Yes, books can be over-analyzed. ⁣
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But the antidote for the improper application of a tool isn’t to discard the tool- it is to instead learn to use the tool well.⁣
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Books can be analyzed to death. This is a fact. ⁣
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Books can simply be read, experienced, and enjoyed without analyzing. This is a fact, and should be a reality in every reader’s life. ⁣
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Also a fact is that the best readers know how to read AND how to think critically about books. ⁣
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Some books can simply be enjoyed, and others can be enjoyed AND analyzed. ⁣
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It is not only *possible* to think critically about books without “ruining” the experience, but the skill and practice of doing so is also *vital* to being a distinguishing reader. ⁣
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It is through thinking thoroughly and well about books that good taste is developed, and it is through good taste that a reader can see and fully appreciate goodness from every age, in every form, of every type. ⁣
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The best readers are more than readers; they are also: ⁣
Thinkers⁣
Critics ⁣
Communicators ⁣
Reviewers ⁣
Analyzers ⁣
Debaters ⁣
Observers ⁣
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💡 In this month’s Beyond Reading workshop we will be discussing the art of becoming more than readers through Examining and Evaluating books. You can preregister in the shop. ⁣

 

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