Legacy Community Christian School Textbook and Resource List
BIBLE/WORLDVIEW TEXTS
7th & 8th Grades* Text:
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (ESV)
Walking in Truth: The Christian Worldview (Summit Ministries) Student Workbook
Resources:
World News Group
High School: 9th-12th Grades* Text:
The Holy Bible. English Standard Version (ESV)
Understanding the Faith: A Survey of Christian Apologetics, Jeff Meyers & David A. Noebel (Summit Ministries)
Student Workbook
Resources:
World News Group
Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Current Captivity by Nancy Pearcey In the Likeness of God by Dr. Paul Brand and Philip Yancey
*Bible classes will be combined grades until student enrollment allows more division. Courses listed in the course catalogue on the Legacy website will be rotated to provide the necessary credits for promotion and graduation.
ENGLISH LIT/COMPOSITION
Our goal is to integrate history, literature, writing and Biblical worldview as our students progress through Legacy. The teachers from each of these disciplines will work together to assign projects, coordinate lesson plans and meld a vision to accomplish this scope and sequence of humanities.
7th Grade** Text:
Students are introduced to a variety of genres in 7th grade. The English teacher will choose from following list to accomplish this goal and integrate with the historical time period (1400-1600):
A Christmas Carole, Charles Dickens
Swiss Family Robinson, Johann Wyss
The Hobbit*, J. R. R. Tolkien
The Nine Tailors, Dorothy Sayers
Winning His Spurs, G. A. Henty
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood*, Howard Pyle
Fellowship of the Ring, J. R. R. Tolkien
The Two Towers, J. R. R. Tolkien
The Return of the King, J. R. R. Tolkien The Dragon and the Raven, G. A. Henty The Chronicles of Narnia*, C. S. Lewis
King Arthur and His Knights , Roger Lancelyn Green
Rule of St. Benedict, Benedict of Nursia
George Mueller: He Dared to Trust God for The Needs of Countless Orphans, Faith C. Bailey
Through Gates of Splendor, Elisabeth Elliot Biography: Abe Lincoln Grows Up, Carl Sandburg
Autobiography: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Plays: Romeo & Juliet*, A Midsummer Night’s Dream*, Henry V*, As You Like it*, Shakespeare Essays by Bacon, Locke, Emerson, Dickinson
Poetry:
Poetry for Young People (Shakespeare and Longfellow) Speeches:
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (to be used at the end of the year to lead into American
History)
Patrick Henry’s Address to the House of Burgesses
Daniel Webster’s Address on the Completion of Bunker Hill Monument
Short Stories- selections from:
Washington Irving: “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” “Rip Van Winkle”
- Henry: “The Gift of the Magi,” “A Retrieved Reformation”
and Flannery O’Conner
*Literature guides from Memoria Press pertaining to novels/works covered
Composition and Grammar texts: Fix It! “The Nose Tree”, IEW Composition I (Part 1, Veritas Press)
**Student enrollment may require combined 7th & 8th grade history classes this year; therefore, the literature selections will alternate to align with the history being studied.
8th Grade** Text:
The English teacher will choose from the following list to correspond with the history scope and sequence of American History (Colonization-Civil War):
The Federalist Papers, Signet Classics
The Anti-Federalist Papers, Signet Classics
The Courtship of Miles Standish, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Common Sense, Thomas Paine
Of Plymouth Plantation, William Bradford
Men of Iron, Howard Pyle
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes
Little Women*, Louisa May Alcott
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer*, Mark Twain
The Call of the Wild, Jack London
The Dangerous Journey*, John Bunyan
How to Read a Book, Mortimer J. Adler
Literature guides from Memoria Press pertaining to novels/works covered
Composition and Grammar Texts:
Fix It! “Robin Hood”, IEW
Composition I (Part 2, Veritas Press)
**Student enrollment may require combined history classes for 7th and 8th grades; therefore, the literature selections will alternate to align with the history being studied.
9th Grade: ** Text:
The English teacher will choose from the following list to correspond with the historical time period (Creation-1800):
The Odyssey*, Homer
Beowulf*, trans. by Burton Raffel
When Knights Were Bold, Eva March Tappan
Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
Prologue to Canterbury Tales*, Geoffrey Chaucer The New Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, John Foxe Henry VIII, William Shakespeare
Macbeth*, William Shakespeare
The Dangerous Journey*, John Bunyan
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight*
*Literature guides from Memoria Press pertaining to novels/works covered
**Student enrollment may require combined history classes this year; therefore, the literature selections will alternate to align with the history being studied.
Composition and Grammar Texts:
Composition 2 (Part 1, Veritas Press)
10th Grade: ** Text:
The English teacher will choose from the following list to correspond with the historical time period (Reformation-Present):
Poetry of William Wadsworth, Tennyson, Brownings, Keats The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy
The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare
Pride and Prejudice*, Jane Austen Great Expectations, Dickens
The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis
The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe*, C.S. Lewis The Scarlet Letter*, Nathaniel Hawthorne
*Literature guides from Memoria Press pertaining to novels/works covered
**Student enrollment may require combined history classes this year; therefore, the literature selections will alternate to align with the history being studied.
Composition and Grammar Texts:
Composition 2 (Part 2, Veritas Press)
11th Grade: ** Text:
The English teacher will choose from the following list to correspond with America’s historical
time period (Civil War-Present):
Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings, Gore Vidal
The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara Cry the Beloved Country, Alan Paton Jayber Crowe, Wendell Berry
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 1984, George Orwell
Thanatos Syndrome, Walker Percy
A Tale of Two Cities*, Charles Dickens
Animal Farm, George Orwell
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
Through Gates of Splendor, Elisabeth Elliot
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Jonathan Edwards Selections from state papers (Words Aptly Spoken)
Selected poems of William Cullen Bryant and Edgar Allan Poe
Selected poems of Phillis Wheatley, Philip Freneau and Francis Hopkinson (Poetry of the Revolution)
Composition and Rhetoric Text:
A Rhetoric of Love (Veritas Press)
*Literature guides from Memoria Press pertaining to novels/works covered
**Student enrollment may require combined history classes this year; therefore, the literature selections will alternate to align with the history being studied
12 Grade: ** Text:
The English teacher will choose works from the following literary list to correspond with American history/government and to promote advanced, critical thinking:
Selected Essays, Emerson
Poetry of Whitman, Poe, Sandburg, Lanier, Riley, Field, Dickinson, Masters, Robinson, Frost, Eliot, and Millay
Selected Poetry (1925-) by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edgar Lee Masters, Edwin Arlington Robinson,
- S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis Socrates Meets Jesus, Kreeft
The Best Things in Life, Kreeft
Till We all Have Faces, C. S. Lewis The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald Anna Karenina*, Leo Tolstoy
Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington Biography, George Washington Carver The Story of My Life, Helen Keller
The Thread That Runs So True, Jesse Stuart
The Spirit of St. Louis, Charles A Lindbergh
Literature guides from Memoria Press pertaining to novels/works covered
Composition and Rhetoric Texts:
Rhetoric of Love (Veritas Press)
Chicago Manual of Style for Senior Thesis
*Denotes Memoria Press literature guide availability to accompany the particular work
**Student enrollment may require combined history classes this year; therefore, the literature selections will alternate to align with the history being studied.
HISTORY
7th Grade***
Text and Resources:
The World’s Story 3: The Modern Age, Master Books Curriculum Atlas (TBD)
8th Grade***
Text and Resources
The American Republic, Bob Jones University Press Words Aptly Spoken: American Documents, 2nd Edition
***Student enrollment may require combined history classes for 7th and 8th grades; therefore, the literature selections will alternate to align with the history being studied. Courses will be rotated biannually to provide the necessary credits for promotion.
9th Grade ***
Texts and Resources:
Streams of Civilization Volume I, Liberty Press
Geography III, Student Text & Workbook (Memoria Press)
10th Grade***
Texts and resources:
Streams of Civilization Volume II, Liberty Press Geography III, Student Text & Workbook (Memoria Press)
11th Grade***
Texts and resources:
American History: Combined Edition, Thomas Kidd
Words Aptly Spoken: American Documents that Shaped the United States
12th Grade: Government & Economics***
Texts and Resources
Government:
American Government, BJU Press
Words Aptly Spoken: American Documents that Shaped the United States
Economics:
Foundations in Personal Finance Curriculum (Dave Ramsey)
Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Current Captivity by Nancy Pearcey
***Student enrollment may require combining grade levels; therefore, the literature selections will alternate to align with the history being studied. Courses will be rotated biannually to provide the necessary credits for graduation.
MATHEMATICS
7th Grade Texts:
Math 7, Teaching Textbooks
Pre-Algebra, Teaching Textbooks
8th Grade Texts:
Pre-Algebra, Teaching Textbooks Algebra I, Teaching Textbooks
9th Grade Texts:
Geometry, Teaching Textbooks
10th Grade Text:
Algebra II, Teaching Textbooks
11th Grade Text:
Pre-Calculus, Teaching Textbooks
12th Grade Text:
Calculus, Math-U-See
SCIENCE
7th Grade**** Text:
General Science, Apologia
8th Grade****
Text and Resources:
Physical Science, Novare
Fallacy Detective, Bedford and Bluedom
****Student enrollment may require combined science classes for 7th and 8th grades this year. If so, courses will be rotated biannually to provide the necessary credits for promotion.
9th Grade**** Text:
General Biology, Novare
10th Grade**** Text:
General Chemistry, Novare
11th Grade**** Text:
Physics: Modeling Nature, Novare
12th Grade**** Text:
Environmental Science, Karen Arms
****Student enrollment may require combining grade levels. If so, courses will be rotated biannually to provide the necessary credits for graduation.