Free Audio Books ~ a Smaller List of Titles

I'm essentially archiving these links here, for my own benefit - so easy to refer to them this way.

We've checked out that the readers are pleasant, or good!,  to listen to, but have not managed to go through to vouch safe for all of these stories and their content, yet.

Audio Books (just a few) Titles from Booksshouldbefree:

Ancient History
The Eye of Osirus  (Ancient Egypt tie-in detective story - not sure of exact content yet)
Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before  Ancient Greece
History of Julius Caesar
When the King Came   life of Christ for youngers and young middles
Quo Vadis  Rome/ Nero -  not down loaded yet, nor sure of exact content
Middle Ages
The Discovery of NewWorlds (various ages)
Stories of Beowulf Told to Children Short History of Scotland
Margaret of Anjou  Start of the 30 Years War
At Agincourt: White Hoods of Paris  G.A. Henty  1400’s
The Awakening of Europe  (Synge)  1520-1745
Tavern Knight

Modern Times and (some) Classic Authors
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby   (Britian) Charles Dickens
Tom Browns School Days   (Britian) Thomas Hughes
Michael Strogoff  (Russia) Jules Verne
Emperors Candlesticks  (Russia) Baroness Orczy
The Boys Life of Mark Twain  (USA) biography
Slavery of Our Time  Leo Tolstoy
http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/book/Tavern-Knight middle ages
Three Men in a Boat   (humour)  Jerome K. Jerome

Lamplighter Go Along Authors, or Titles
Ester Reid 
Julia Reid 
Probable Sons 
Tip Lewis and His Lamp 
Peep Behind the Scene 

Other
Knyght Ther Was  not sure of the content of this yet ... wondering if anyone else has read, or heard it?   Time travel 2178 to 542
Girls of Gardenville   for older ? girls??

Dog of Flanders  (dogs)
Dandelion Cottage  (girls)
Mag and Margaret: A Story for Girls  (girls)
Royal Book of Oz   Wizard of Oz tie-in title
Pussy and Doggy Tales   E.Nesbit (youngers)

Ancient Egypt - Tiny Tie-in, During Break Week

During our term break we're indulging in a bit of a visual tie-in fest, starting with
The Ten Commandments  movie, especially for Daisy's benefit :-)
and then toss in a few documentaries .... there are so many available to choose from on youtube - however we decided to just watch these few:

1: Ancient Egypt - The Mystery of the Rosetta Stone - BBC (which I shan't link here due to the 'foul mouthed' remarks in the comments section - we just downloaded it to watch off of the youtube site ) 

2: Ramses the Great: Master of Engineering

3: Egypt: The Search of Tutankhamun  BBC

and then we'll hop over to the history channel to see if there is anything of interest we may like there.

The 10 Plagues in Egypt ~ Notebooking Page

Sharing here the notebooking pages we've tossed together to use alongside our study of Moses and the Plagues in Egypt - to help solidify the portion on the 10 plagues in Egpyt and the Egpytian gods they challenged.

The coloured clip art of the 10 plagues is from H.o.W

(For anyone interested in H.o.W Exodus Lesson, including the coloured clip art, above, which is used in a lapfold,  see here.  )

The Egyptian Gods, black and white, clip art page is out of Remembering God's Awesome Acts

though we may use some of the  - free for personal and/or school use only -   Egyptian gods clip art   instead.

Betsy Stout has created some free notebooking pages others may like to use:

Egyptian gods and Symbols page 

Ancients History, various topics, notebooking pages

or Megan's Ancient Egypt Notebooking Pages

There are a plethora of Ancient Egypt freebies, and go alongs out there .. pinterest is a pretty good spot to browse through for possible options.

We're going to use the pages we have on hand below, out of Remembering God's Awesome Acts, and, Bibloplan's Companion Text.

Dr. Jay Wile ~ New Elementary Science Course

We're currently reading through Dr. Wiles new elementary science book:
Science in the Ancient World.
Currently, the free download is only available to those outside the USA - so yes, Vess,  Canadians can access it too.

The first 'course' Dr. Wile put up, Science in the Creation Week , contained so many things I don't like to use in a science curric - similar to Apologia's jnr texts  - that I'll leave that one for someone else to review.  Others will *love* it!   

We'll ... perhaps not those that have no desire to navigate through a 6 literal days "science" view point. The index for Science in the Creation Week and a 1 page peek can be seen here

I'm enjoying Science in the Ancient World so far and we all like the writing style - we'll continue to do it as a discussion based 'option' - and no Eliz we have not felt so inclined to do any experiments, yet.

The differing levels for lesson review at the end of each topic make this text very adaptable  - and easy to use with a variety of ages, and ability.

This course does have a similar format to Science in the Creation Week, with the Ancients text covering scientific discovery made by natural philosophers, spanning the era from the ancient Greeks upto, and including, the time of Leonardo da Vinci.
The index for Science in the Ancient World can be viewed here ... and yes it is the Ancients index, someone just forgot to change the title ☺

Maybe it's the topic being covered as opposed to 'writing style' - but Science in the Ancient World was definitely more appealing to us than the Creation Week text

* dragging this post forward and updating with picts.

Our Week Ahead ~ 15 April

We've not long started a new creative writing course for Bobs, The Creative Writer.

Last week seemed to go pretty well and amazingly the lesson tied in perfectly with a teaching style very similar to one we'd already covered in WWS1, a Tom Sawyer excerpt with a summary outline.

Bible:

KJV Exodus 2-3, 7-14 (audio bible), and, GG to OTH  Lesson 40 and Exodus Ch: 6

Victory Journey through the Bible;  pgs 54-65,  Moses, Plagues, and, The Exodus

BiblioPlan Companion Ancients Map - The Exodus   for Bobs

What the Bible is All About for Young Explorers pg 36-42 (Moses)  for Daisy

Refer to Remembering Gods Awesome Acts pgs 246-255 create Plague to Egpytian Gods notepage, and, complete gods in different cultures page.

Math:

Daisy:
Continue with one on one review .
Khan Academy instruction this 2 days this week, and, 3 day of Making Math Meaningful
Bobs:
Continue with Khan Academy. Review of math terms. Some LOF.
 
Language Arts and Literature:
Bobs:

Continue with scheduled L/As guides
(WWS - work with mum, RnS grammar 2 lessons a day, Creative Writer 1 day this week)  
AAS twice this week.
Reader: Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt ~ Elizabeth Payne   continue pgs 119-174
Do Hard Things ~ Alex & Brett Harris  continue, a chapter each day.
Read Aloud to family: Poetry Piece

Daisy:
Continue with scheduled L/As guides.
(WWE - with mum, RnS grammar 2 lessons a day, handwriting 2 days this week)

Reader:   Tirzah ~ Travis

Read Aloud to family, poetry from Favourite Poems Illustrated  ~ Helen Ferris

Family Read Aloud:
Pillar of Fire ~ J.H. Ingraham (continue)

Hittite Warrior ~ Joanne Williamson  with 2012 SL Core G booknotes (start as lunch time read)

History and Geography 

Week 10: Moses Pt: 1, and, The Exodus
All:
Book of the Ancient World ~ Dorothy Mills  
- Moses & the Exodus pg119-121,
- The Hittites & Their Cities pg155-158,
- The Hittite and Their Neighbours pg 159-164  

Bobs:

Kingfisher pg 20 (1600-1200BC) The Hittites
Story of Man Kind  Ch:9 Moses (compare to biblical account)

Daisy: 
UILE pg 142 Hebrew Kingdoms pt A (approx 1200BC) 
(SOTW 1: ch:14 colour in sheet - plagues of Egypt   opt)

Audios:

Car and Craft Time Audio: The Cat of the Bubastes  (available as a download)
Random choices which are often favourite relistens:

Bobs: El Dorado - Baroness Orczy (read by Karen Savage)
Daisy: Little Lord Fauntleroy  - Frances Hodgson Burnett

Logic:
Perplexors D for Bobs
Chess Academy - Bobs

Perplexors B for Daisy

Science & Nature:

Delight led videos, online classes,  and experiments.
Bobs to continue reading Exploring Planet Earth ~ John Tiner.  (written summary a la WWS)
Daisy to continue reading The Story Book of Science ~ John Henri Fabre and select one notebook page to go with a corresponding chapter this week.

For the Term
Memorisation : (loaded on to their ipods as a play list and to be listened to in their own time)
Song for 2 weeks: 10 Commandments (Credo CD - Harrow family)
Hymn: All the Way My Saviour Leads Me
Multiplication Songs  6,7,8,9,12  times tables - Daisy

Composer:
Johann Strauss II via  Classical Composers Monthy    
Week 4 of 4 weeks   

Artist & Theme:
Ancient Egyptian Art
Art:
A lesson with Mark Kistler (Ancients)

Electives:
Computer Science for Bobs (continue with lessons)

Handstitching project - Daisy

Science ~ Living Books Lists

Resharing our favourite science books lists here,  again - as they may be of interest to others too .

Bonajo - Science Books 

Penny Gardner - Readable Science

Cranial Edumacation ~ Science Living Book List
We don't follow a traditional science course but do like science-y topics☺ and as the children enjoy reading science and nature focused books I do try to have a variety of those on hand, for them to pick and choose through.
Having a list, or two, to select from is a great help.

I've always had such plans to use a science spine, something like Apologia, and then add in some living science books - similar to this - but we just couldn't seem to stick with Apologia ... and ended up so rabbit, or random, trailed it seem pointless to back up and carry on.

Discontinued Sonlight Titles up to 2013 (with a 2016 link) - Our Blogged List

Beneath is an online, blogged, list of

Discontinued Sonlight Titles,

Retired Sonlight Books,

Dropped Sonlight Books,

or whatever you'd like to call them .... up to and including the changes for 2013.

To see how we - Jill, Tara, two other SL book loving mums, and I - worked out this list see this post and the link there for the original 2012 pdf.

Here is the link for the 2013 updated list in pdf  link update, now goes to dropbox

UPDATE: 2014 updated book list is detailed over on Jill's blog  
UPDATE: 2016 updated book list; again, over on Jill's blog   (thanks Jill!!)

Request for Use:
Please be considerate and do not copy and redistribute the details off this list as your own work. If you decide to recreate this list, or use portions of it, to place in amongst a list of your own design; in your own document, on a post, in a tweet, on pinterest, or as a whatever ?    ☺
Please give credit to the SL moms/mums who contributed to, or worked on the original:
Jill (Kentucky – US),
Tara (SL Forums),
Chelle (NZ)
Thank you ☺

Other discontinued Sonlight titles may be found on Nicola's post - which arranges titles Sonlight use into  TWTM 4 year History Cycle

The list below does not contain the titles of books that have been switched within a Core, you can find those on the 2013 pdf, linked above , or if you are interested soley in the 2013 titles that have been dropped or switches they are listed in our blog post   here.

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Discontinued Sonlight Titles -  2013

Core P3/4
Fiction, Fairy Tales, and Fun for Little Learners
A Robert McCloskey Collection (3 Stories) swapped for Make Way for McCloskey. 8 Stories

Core P4/5
Exploring God’s Word (Level Pre.K or Core B)
25 Stories for Little People - cassette
101 Favorite Children's Songs - cassette
101 Favorite Stories from the Bible (2013 -switched over from Core P3/4)
A Bear Called Paddington – Bond
A Family Treasury of Little Golden Books - Buell
A Treasury of Children’s Literature – Elsen
Children’s Choice Bible – Chancellor
Curious George - Rey (early edition used in 1994-1995)
Emperor's New Clothes - ?
Ken Taylor's Favorite Bible Stories - Taylor (earlier edition of Family Time Bible in Pictures)
Let's Talk about Animals - published by Ladybird
Mother Goose Classic - Volland edition
My First Encyclopedia - Watson
Noah's Ark - Spier
Opposites - Tyler and Gee
Peter and the Wolf / R Maltby Presents the Orchestra's Instruments - 2 cassettes
Real Mother Goose – illust by Blanche Fisher Wright
Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy World - Scarry
Right Choices – Taylor
Shapes - Usborne
Tall Book of Fairy Tales, The - Vance
Tall Book of Nursery Tales, The - Rojankovsky
Treasury of Little Golden Books
Ugly Duckling, The - ?
You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You (same pub as 20th Century Children’s Treasury)


Core A
Intro to the World: Cultures (Core K or C)
A Boy, A Dog, A Frog - Mercer Mayer
Alice's Adventure in Wonderland (Illustrated Condensed) - Carrol
Apple and the Arrow, The - Buff
Capyboppy – Peet
Chimney Sweep's Ransom: John Wesley - Jackson
Family Under the Bridge, The – Carlson
Granny Han’s Breakfast - Groves
Hero Tales - Jackson
Johnny Appleseed - Steven Kellogg
Johnny Appleseed: First Biographies - Gini Holland
Kidnapped by River Rats: William and Catherine Booth - Jackson
My Book about Hudson: Hudson Taylor - Miller
Poems to Read to the Very Young - Frank
Stop that Ball – McClintock
Winnie the Pooh - Milne
Wizard of Oz - Baum


Core B
Intro to World History: Part 1 (Core 1)
Bandit of Ashley Downs: George Mueller – Jackson
Fables – Lobel
Flight of the Fugitives - Jackson
Follow My Leader – Garfield
From Arapesh to Zuni - Lewis (Replaced with From Akebu to Zapotec)
Half Magic - Eager
Heidi (condensed version) – Spyri
Hero Tales. Vol. III - Jackson
Hidden Jewel, The: Amy Carmichael - Jackson
Leah's Song - Clifford
Now We are Six - Milne
Prince & the Pauper (abridged ed.) - Twain
Queen's Smuggler, The: William Tyndale - Jackson
Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest – McGovern
Shoeshine Girl - Bulla
Thieves of Tyburn Square: Elizabeth Fry – Jackson
To the Top - Kramer
Velveteen Rabbit – Williams


Core C
Intro to World History: Part 2 (Core 2)
A Child’s Garden of Verses (Stevenson)
A Little Princess - Burnett
A Poke in the I - Janeczko
Alexander the Great – Robert Green
Alexander the Great : Empire Builder - Maureen Ash
Alexander the Great (World Leaders Past & Present) - Dennis Wepman, Arthur M .Schlesinger
Ben & Me - Lawson
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – Fleming
Explorer's News – Johnstone
Fine Print: A Story About Johann Gutenberg - Burch (also used in, then drop from, Core 6)
Florence Nightingale - (author not detailed in catalog)
Gladys Aylward - Swift
Hans Brinker, Condensed - Dodge
How our Bible Came to Us - Daney
Indian in the Cupboard – Banks
Joan of Arc - Stanley
Kildee House – Montgomery
Little House in Rocky Ridge - MacBride
Magellan – Brewster
Old Ramon – Schaefer
Ordinary Princess, The – Kaye
Shadrach – DeJong
Swiss Family Robinson, Condensed - Wyss
Treasure in an Oatmeal Box - Gire
Trial by Poison: Mary Slessor - Jackson
Trojan Horse, The – Little
You Can Change the World - Johnstone (updated to the new book called Window on the World, same author)


Core D
Intro to American History: Part 1 (Core 3)
A Twister of Twists, A Tangle of Tongues - A Schwartz
American Adventures I – Greenberg
A Drinking Gourd - Monjo
Bold Journey – Bohner
Boone, Wilderness Explorer - Retan
Can't You Make Them Behave, King George ? – Fritz
Columbus - D'Aulaire
Erie Canal, The – Stein
Every Day With God – Nichols ?
Fish do the Strangest Things - Hornblow
Flight of the Fugitive - Jackson
Giant Treas'ry of Brer Rabbit - JC Harris
Hannah - Whelan
Hopeful Trout & Other Limericks - Ciardi
Imprisoned in the Golden City: Adoniram & Ann Judson – Jackson
In God We Trust – Crater & Hunsicker
Insects do the Strangest Things - Hornblow
Landmark History of the American People (revised and split into two separate volumes)
Martha Washington (Childhood of Famous Americans) – Wagoner
Mother West Winds Children - Burgess
Paddle-to-the-Sea - Holling
Poem Stew - Cole
Secret of the Andes – Clark
Silver - Whelan
Story of the Lone Star Republic, The - Stein
Story of the USA Volumes 1 and 2
War of 1812, The - Morris


Core E
Intro to American History: Part 2 (Core 4)
A Bundle of Beasts - Hooper
All Sail Set – Sperry
American Adventures 1 – Greenberg
American Adventure 2 - Greenberg
American Wars: World War 1 – Stewart
An Arkful of Animals - Cole
Behind Rebel Lines - Reit
Bolivar – Guyatt
Bully for You Teddy Roosevelt - Fritz
California Gold Rush (Landmark) - McNeer
Canada - Sabin
Canada the Land - Kalman
Cheaper By the Dozen – Gilbreth
Churcaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa – Kalnay
Day it Rained Forever, The - Gross
Dog Jack - Biros
Every Living Thing - Rylant
Flame Across the Susquehanna – Banner
Great Depression, The - Stein
He Free Britain's Slaves: William Wilberforce - Ludwig
If You Lived at the Time of the Great San Francisco Earthquake – Levine
Light Princess, The - MacDonald
Learning About God From A to Z - Erickson
Monitor and the Merrimac, The – Stein
Mr. Blue Jeans: The Story About Levi Strauss - Weidt
On the Banks of Plum Creek - Wilder
Prairie Boy's Winter - Kurelek
Simon Bolivar: The Liberator – de Varona
Shoes for Everyone – Mitchell
Story of the Golden Spike (SL pub) - Stein
Where the Red Fern Grows ~ Rawls
World War I - Kent
Zooful of Animals, An – Cole

Core F
Eastern Hemisphere (Core 5)
101 Differences Between Cats and Dogs! - Bob Sjogren
A Glorious Age in Africa – Chu and Skinner
Aladdin & Other Favorite Arabian Nights Stories – Smith
Ancient China - Cotterell
Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions - Musgrove, illust Leo and Diane Dillion
Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum – Bryan
Captain Cook - Humphris
China: History to 1949 - Mc Lenigham
Coral Reefs - Johnson
Disease Fighters, The: Nobel Prize for Medicine - Aaseng
East to the Shifting Sands - Poynor
Eastern Hemisphere Explorer – Densmer
Eric Liddell: Something Greater Than Gold – Benge
Eric Liddell: Men of Faith - Swift
Escape to the Jungle – (Sim International)
Exploring Planet Earth - Tiner
Faces: Australia Through Time – Faces Magazine Vol.III
Gandhi: Peaceful Warrior – Bains
Genghis Khan and The Mongol Horde – Lamb
Gengis Khan (World Leaders Past and Present) - Judy Humphrey
Incredible Journey, The - Burnford
India: The Culture - Kalman
India: The People – Kalman
Island of the Blue Dolphins, The – O’Dell
John Newton: Angry Sailor - Strom
Louise Braille - Davidson
Mongols, The – Nicholson
Rascal – North
Rat Catcher's Son, The - London
Remembering God's Awesome Acts - Mortimer
Seabird – Holling
Ships, Sailors and the Sea – Usborne
Slave Ship, The - Sterne
Stories from Arabian Nights - Lang
Story of Islam, The - Kanm
Story of Africa & Her Flags to Colour, The - Faul
Tales of a Korean Grandmother - Carpenter
Throwing Shadows - Konigsburg
Torches of Joy - Dekker
Traditional Africa - Addison
Unreached People Groups DVD
Walkabout ~ Marshall
What They Believe: Islam - Berry
White Queen: The Story of Mary Slessor - McFarlan
With Daring Faith: A Biography of Amy Carmichael - Davis
Wolves of Willoughby Chase, The – Aiken
Young Man in a Hurry - Clinton
Your Place in God's Plan - Holtzmann

Core G
World History: Part 1 (Core 6)
A Boy’s War - Michell
Adventures of The Greek Heroes – Mclean & Wiseman
Air Raid – Pearl Harbor! – Taylor
Ancient Egypt - Nickelson and Watts
Ancient Greece - Clare
Ancient Greeks in The Land of the Gods, The – Descamps-Lequime
Anne of Green Gables - Montgomery
Archeology: The Young Scientist - Usborne
Augustus Caesar's World - Foster
Between the Forest and The Hills – Lawrence
Big Red - Kjelgaard
Case of the Baker Street Irregulars - Newman  (Listed as boys reader)
Children's Homer - Colum
Cleopatra - Stanley
Condor of the Andes, The - Wagner
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths - Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
Daddy Long Legs - Webster  (Listed as girls reader)
David Livingstone: First to Cross Africa With the Gospel - Worcester
Eagle of the Ninth, The – Sutcliff
Everything You Need to Know About World History Homework – Zeman and Kelly
Fine Print: The Story of Johann Gutenberg – Burch
Freckles - Stratton-Porter
Girl of the Limberlost, A - Stratton-Porter
Hawk That Dare Not Hunt By Day, The – O’Dell
Hitler - Wepman
Ink on His Fingers – Vernon
Isobel Kuhn - Dick
Johannes Kepler: Giant of Faith and Science - Tiner
Marie Curie - Birch   (different publication to book being used in Science C)
Martin Luther: Hero of the Faith - Nohl
Middle Ages, The - Caselli
Monk Who Shook the Word, The - Davey
Morning Star of the Reformation – Thomson
Napoleon - Carol
North To Freedom - Holm  (this book is still included, now called I am David )
Nothing Daunted - Repp
Otto of the Silver Hand – Pyle
Scarlet Pimpernel - Orczy
Science Discoveries: Isaac Newton and Gravity - Parker
Story of D-Day, The - Bliven
Story of Mankind - Van Loon
Story of Music, The – Usborne
Treasure of the Snow, The - St. John
Twenty and Ten - Bishop (moved to core A)
Vasco de Gama: Adventures in Discovery - Knight
White Queen: The story of Mary Slessor - McFarlan
White Stag, The - Seredy
World of Columbus and Sons, The – Foster


Core H
World History: Part 2
(Core 7 post 2005, which is different from Core 7, now titled 100 below)
A Jar of Dreams – Uchida
Abraham Lincoln's World - Genevieve Foster
Catherine The Great (Landmark) - Scherman
Captain Cook Explores the South Seas (Landmark) - Sperry
Dark Frigate, The - Hawes
George Washington's World - Genevieve Foster
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Kidnapped Prince, The - Olaudah Equiano. Adapted by Ann Cameron
Napoleon and the Battle of Waterloo (Landmark) - Winwar
Painless Poetry - Elizabeth

Core W in 2013 ( previously Alt 6)
Anna and the King - Margaret Landon
Augustus Caesar's World - Genevieve Foster
The BBC Manual: Turning Your Bedroom into a Bible College - Gregg Johnson
Betty Greene: Wings to Serve - Janet Benge, Geoff Benge
But Don't All Religions Lead to God? - Michael Green
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths - Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
Daring to Live on the Edge - Loren Cunningham
The Eagle of the Ninth - Rosemary Sutcliffe
The Endless Step - Esther Hautzig
Escape from Warsaw - Ian Serraillier
George Washington's World - Genevieve Foster
How to Stay Christian in High School - Steve Gerali
The Ides of April - Mary Ray
It's a Jungle Out There! - Ron Snell
Leonardo da Vinci (Landmark Book) - Emily Hahn
Live Like a Jesus Freak: Spend Today as if it Were Your Last - DC Talk
Mary, Bloody Mary - Carolyn Meyer
The Monk Who Shook the World: The Story of Martin Luther - Cyril Davey
Otto of the Silver Hand - Howard Pyle
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
The Second Mrs. Giaconda - E.L. Konigsburg
Shadow of a Bull - Maia Wojciechowska
Usborne History of the 20th Century
Usborne Book of World History
The World of Columbus and Sons - Genevieve Foster
The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin

Core 100
American History in Depth (Core 7 pre-2005)
A Gathering of Days - Blos
A Jar of Dreams - Uchida
Adventures of the Greek Heroes - McLean and Wiseman
After the Dancing Days - Rostkowski
Black Like Me - Griffin (Moved to Core 400)
Blue Willow - Gates
Called to Die: The Story of American Linguist Chet Bitterman - Estes
Christy - Marshall
Constance - Clapp
Custer and Crazy Horse - Razzi
Down Ryton Water - Gaggin
Dragonwings - Yep
Early Thunder – Fritz
Earthquake at Dawn - Gregory
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Four Million and Other Stories - O'Henry
Frank Delano Roosevelt - Freedman
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - Konigsburg (switched to Core E Reader)
Gentle Ben - Morey
Gold Bug and Other Tales, The - Poe
Greeks, The - Usborne
Green Book, The - Walsh
Guns for General Washington – Reit
Henry Hudson: Master Explorer - Weiner
Home Ranch, The - Moody
Joni - Eareckson
Julius Caesar: Roman Dictator, illustrated -  ?
Light in the Forest, The ~ Richter
Loner, The - Wier
Martin Luther King Jnr: A Man to Remember - Darby
Mrs Mike - Freedman
My Side of the Mountain - George
Nothing to Fear - Koller
On to Oregon – Morrow
Patty Reed’s Doll - Laurgaard
Pony Express, Cobblestone (1981) : - Nankin
Piercing the Darkness - Peretti
Red Badge of Courage, The - Crane
Rifles for Watie - Keith
Robert E. Lee - Roddy
Samuel F.B. Morse: Artist With A Message - Tiner
Smokey the Cowhorse - James
Sounder - Armstrong
Stout-Hearted Seven - Frazier
Streams to the River, River to the Sea - O’Dell
Time Enough for Drums - Rinaldi
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Trails to Posey - Cook
Tut-ankh-amun and His Friends - Aldred
Two Tickets to Freedom - Freedman
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Stowe
Up a Road Slowly - Hunt
Young Scientist Book of Archaeology - Usborne
Wait for Me, Watch for Me, Eula Bee - Peck
We’ll Race You Henry Ford - Mitchell


Core 200
History of God’s Kingdom (Core 8)
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
A Taste of Chaucer (SL pub) – Malcolmson
Americas’ Favorite Poems – Pinsky
Bartholomew Fair ~ Stolz
Black Beauty – Sewell
Beauty – McKinley (listed as girls lit)
Bridge to Terabithia – Paterson
Canterbury Tale, The - Chaucer, retold by McCaughrean
Don't Check Your Brains at the Door - Mc Dowell
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Weir of Hermiston - Stevenson
Emperors Winding Sheet, The - Walsh
Fire Upon the Earth - Langford
Flames of Rome, The - Maier
Flying to the Moon – Collins
Good Wives – Alcott   (listed as girls lit)
Hang Tough, Paul Mather – Slote   (listed as boys lit)
Hatchet – Paulsen
Hawk and the Dove, The – Wilcock
In His Steps - Sheldon
Jackaroo - Voight
Little Men – Alcott   (listed as boys lit)
Little Women – Alcott    (listed as girls lit)
Pride and Prejudice    (replaced with annotated version)
Quo Vadis – Sienkiewicz
Summer of the Swan, The - Byars
Taste of Chaucer: Selections From the Canterbury Tales - Malcomson, editor
Trumpeter of Krakow, The - Kelly

Optional Titles for Research Paper for the Year
Thirty Days to Understand Church History - Anders-Lundsford
This was John Calvin - Van Halsema
Who Moved the Stone? - Morrison
William Booth - Bennett

Optional Resources for Research Projects
Becoming Orthodox - Gillquist
Catholic and Christian - Schreck
Catholicism and Fundamentalism - Keating
Church of Rome at the Bar of History, The - Webster
Common Ground - Bajis
Evangelical is Not Enough - Howard
Faith Alone - Sproul
For the Life of the World - Schmemann
Gospel According to Rome, The - McCarthy
Not By Faith Alone - Sungenis
Not By Scripture Alone - Sungenis
Roman Catholicism: Evangelical Protestants Analyze What Divides and Unites Us - Armstrong


Core 300
20th Century World History (Core 9) :
Darkness at Noon - Koestler
DK 20th Century Day to Day – Schlesinger (CD-Rom)
DK Visual Timeline of the 20th Century, The - Adams
Exodus - Uris
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway
I Had Seen Castles - Rylant
Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom – Jicai
Life During the Russian Revolution - Sherrow
Mammoth Book of Eye-witness History - Lewis
More to be Desired than Gold - Wilson
Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter for Workers’ Rights - Pinkerton Josephson
My Life in Advertising & Scientific Advertising – Hopkins
Permanent Book of the 20th Century, The - Lewis
Robert Frost: Selected Poems
Run Baby Run - Cruz
Spy Who Came in From the Cold – Le Carre
War of the Worldviews – DeMar

What Everyone Should Know About the 20th Century ~ Axelrod and Philips

Youth Walk Vol.1 – Walk Thru the Bible Ministries

Core 400

Civics/American Government :

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith

America's Caesar - Durand

Belle Prater's Boy - Ruth White

Crazy Lady! - Jane Leslie Conly

The Crucible - Arthur Miller

Dating With Integrity - John Holzmann

The Day They Came to Arrest the Book - Nat Hentoff

The Dry Divide, Vol. 7 - Ralph Moody

Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men - Jeffrey Rogers Hummel

The Giver - Lois Lowry

Godless Constitution: The Case Against Religious Correctness, The – Kramnick and Moore

The Institutes of Biblical Law - Rousas John Rushdoony

Julie of the Wolves - Jean Craighead George

The Jungle - Upton Sinclair

Lies My Teacher Told Me - James W. Loewen

Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Never Before in History - Gary Amos

The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton

Shadow of the Almighty - Elisabeth Elliot

Tools of Dominion - Gary North

Walden and Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau

Where the Broken Heart Still Beats - Carolyn Meyer

Optional Titles

Our Right to Drugs - Szasz

The Discovery of Freedom - Lane

When in the Course of Human Events - Adams

  Core 530

British Literature (Core BL)

nil

Our Week Ahead ~ 8 April 2013

Bible:

KJV Job 1-2, 42

(a  few questions on Thursday) GG to OTH (era - 1520 BC ?)

Victory Journey through the Bible;  pgs 120-124,  Job
BiblioPlan Companion Ancients Map - Egypt's New Kingdom   for Bobs

What the Bible is All About for Young Explorers pg 188-189 (Job)  for Daisy

Math:
Continue with one on one review with Daisy.  Khan Academy instruction this week.
Bobs to continue with Khan Academy. Review of math terms. Some LOF.
 
Language Arts:
Bobs:

Continue with scheduled L/As guides (WWS, RnS grammar, Creative Writer 1 day this week)  
AAS only once this week
Reader: Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt ~ Elizabeth Payne   continue pgs 64-118
Do Hard Things ~ Alex & Brett Harris  continue, a chapter each day.
Read Aloud to family: Poetry Piece

Daisy:
Continue with scheduled L/As guides.
Reader:  Hatshepsut
Book basket read: Ralph S. Mouse
Read Aloud to family, poetry from Favourite Poems Illustrated  ~ Helen Ferris

Family Read Aloud:
Pillar of Fire ~ J.H. Ingraham

(The Pillar of Fire is part of Lamplighters Epic Collection)
The entire book can be viewed online here. 

History & Geography 

Week 9: Egypt's New Kingdoms
Both:
Book of the Ancient World ~ Dorothy Mills  
Ch.7 The Pharaoh,    Ch.8 The Egyptian Gods & Heaven   

The Ancient World (A History of Fashion & Costume)  pg 14-15

Bobs: Kingfisher pg 26-27 (1532-1070 BC)
DK Weapons (Ancient Egypt)

Daisy:  UILE pg136-137 Temples & Gods
(SOTW 1: ch:13 colour in sheet)
MOH 1 wk.8 L.22, 23, 24 (Pharaohs) - optional read
Audios:

Random choices which are favourite relistens:

Bobs:  The Elusive Pimpernel (free from booksshouldbefree - read by Karen Savage)
Daisy: The Merry Adventures of Robinhood ( Daisy has listened to this a few times already.)
(we wait until audible is having a sale and buy a collection of audio books then.)

Logic:
Perplexors D for Bobs
Chess Academy - Bobs

Perplexors B for Daisy

Science & Nature:

Totally delight led this week.
Bobs to continue reading Exploring Planet Earth ~ John Tiner, &,
Daisy to continue reading The Story Book of Science ~ John Henri Fabre.

For the Term
Memorisation : (loaded on to their ipods as a play list and to be listened to in their own time)
Song for 2 weeks: 10 Commandments (Credo CD - Harrow family)
Hymn: All the Way My Saviour Leads Me
Multiplication Songs  6,7,8,9,12  times tables - Daisy

Composer:
Johann Strauss II via  Classical Composers Monthy    
Week 2 of 4 weeks   

Artist & Theme:
Ancient Egyptian Art (continue for 2 more weeks)

Art:
A lesson with Mark Kistler (Ancients)

Electives:
Computer Science for Bobs (continue with lessons)

Handstitching - Daisy

List of Discontinued Sonlight Titles ~ 2013 Update

I've gone ahead and updated our pdf of dropped sonlight titles ... 

List of Discontinued Sonlight Titles for 2013
UPDATE: 2016 updated book list;  over on Jill's blog as a post   (thanks Jill!!)

For those that just want to browse through the most recent changes I've detailed them beneath as they are listed in the catalogue - not in alphabetic order as they are in our discontinued titles list, linked above.

Our blog post listing all the books Sonlight have dropped is here
(to make it easy for those that like to copy and paste things ☺ )

 2013 Sonlight Book Changes

Core P4/5:

101 Favorite Stories from the Bible -  switch from Core P3/4

Core D:

Dropped:

Landmark History of the American People - revised and split into two distinct volumes.

Story of the USA volumes 1 and 2 removed.

Added:

People: From Plymouth to the West, Vol. 1  (Vol. 1 of the revised Landmark book)

Children's Encyclopedia of American History

Core D+E:

Dropped:

Landmark History of the American People (revised and split into two distinct volumes)

Story of the USA  volumes 1-4 removed

Added:

People: From Plymouth to the West, Vol. 1  (Vol. 1 of the revised Landmark book)

People: From Fort Sumter to the Moon, Vol 2  (Vol. 2 of the revised Landmark book)

Children's Encyclopedia of American History

Core F:
Dropped:

101 Differences Between Cats and Dogs! ~  Bob Sjogren

Added:

Case for Christ for Kids ~ Strobel, Suggs, Elmer

Core G:
Dropped:

D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths ~ Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

Added:

Greek Myths ~ Olivia Coolidge

Core H:
Dropped:

George Washington's World ~ Genevieve Foster

Abraham Lincoln's World ~ Genevieve Foster

The Kidnapped Prince ~ Olaudah Equiano. Adapted by Ann Cameron.

Great Expectations ~ Charles Dickens

Added:

The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia

Lord Peter: The Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Stories ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Operation Yes ~ Sara Lewis Holmes

Chu Ju's House ~ Gloria Whelan

Switched:

Dr. Jenner and the Speckled Monster - now 5-day only

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - now 5-day only

Homeless Bird - moved from Reader to Read-Aloud

Core W:
Dropped:

But Don't All Religions Lead to God? ~  Michael Green

Live Like a Jesus Freak: Spend Today as if it Were Your Last ~ DC Talk

How to Stay Christian in High School ~ Steve Gerali

Daring to Live on the Edge ~ Loren Cunningham

The BBC Manual: Turning Your Bedroom into a Bible College ~ Gregg Johnson

Augustus Caesar's World ~ Genevieve Foster

The World of Columbus and Sons ~ Genevieve Foster

George Washington's World ~ Genevieve Foster

Usborne History of the 20th Century

Usborne Book of World History

The Eagle of the Ninth ~ Rosemary Sutcliffe

Otto of the Silver Hand ~ Howard Pyle

The Second Mrs. Giaconda ~ E.L. Konigsburg

Anna and the King ~ Margaret Landon

The Westing Game ~ Ellen Raskin

The Endless Step~ Esther Hautzig

D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths ~ Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

The Ides of April ~ Mary Ray

Leonardo da Vinci(Landmark Book) ~ Emily Hahn

The Monk Who Shook the World: The Story of Martin Luther ~ Cyril Davey

Mary, Bloody Mary ~ Carolyn Meyer

Shadow of a Bull ~ Maia Wojciechowska

The Phantom Tollbooth ~ Norton Juster

Escape from Warsaw ~ Ian Serraillier

Betty Greene: Wings to Serve ~ Janet Benge, Geoff Benge

It's a Jungle Out There! ~ Ron Snell

Added:

International Children's Bible Field Guide ~ Lawrence O. Richards

Sing the Word: Credo - I Believe (CD) ~ Harrow Family

Usborne Encyclopedia 12,000 Years of World History

The Kingfisher Atlas of World History

Beyond the Desert Gate ~ Mary Ray

Flame Over Tara ~ Madeleine Polland, Omar Davis

A Single Shard ~ Linda Sue Park

A Murder for Her Majesty ~ Beth Hilgartner

The Sherwood Ring ~ Elizabeth Marie Pope

The Singing Tree ~ Kate Seredy

King Arthur: Tales from the Round Table (Dover Children's Evergreen Classics) ~ Andrew Lang

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever ~ Barbara Robinson

Operation Yes ~ Sara Lewis Holmes

Greek Myths ~  Olivia Coolidge

Son of Charlemagne ~ Barbara Willard

Nory Ryan's Song ~ Patricia Reilly Giff

The Good Master ~ Kate Seredy

Angel on the Square ~ Gloria Whelan

Year of Impossible Goodbyes ~ Sook Nyul Choi

Chu Ju's House ~ Gloria Whelan

The Breadwinner ~ Deborah Ellis

Switched:

The Great and Terrible Quest - moved from Readers to Read-Aloud

Trojan War - now a 5-day only book

Banner in the Sky - now used in both 4- and 5-day

Core 100:

Dropped:

Ender's Game ~ Orson Scott Card

Their Eyes Were Watching God ~ Zora Neale Hurston

Added:

Bud, Not Buddy ~ Christopher Paul Curtis

The View From Saturday ~ E. L. Konigsburg

A Long Way from Chicago ~ Richard Peck

A Wrinkle in Time ~ Madeleine L’Engle

When You Reach Me ~ Rebecca Stead

Dating With Integrity ~ John Holzmann

Core 200:

Dropped:

A Separate Peace ~ John Knowles

Added:

The Hawk and the Dove Trilogy ~ Penelope Wilcock

Core 400:

Dropped:

Dating With Integrity ~ John Holzmann

Walden and Civil Disobedience ~ Henry David Thoreau

Belle Prater's Boy ~ Ruth White

Crazy Lady! ~ Jane Leslie Conly

Julie of the Wolves ~ Jean Craighead George

The Day They Came to Arrest the Book ~ Nat Hentoff

Moby Dick ~ Herman Melville

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ~ Betty Smith

The Crucible ~ Arthur Miller

The Outsiders ~ S. E. Hinton

The Giver ~ Lois Lowry

The Institutes of Biblical Law ~ Rousas John Rushdoony

Tools of Dominion ~ Gary North

Shadow of the Almighty ~ Elisabeth Elliot

Where the Broken Heart Still Beats ~ Carolyn Meyer

Lies My Teacher Told Me ~ James W. Loewen

Never Before in History ~ Gary Amos

The Jungle ~ Upton Sinclair

The Godless Constitution : The Case Against Religious Correctness ~ Isaac Kramnick, R. Laurence Moore

The Dry Divide (vol. 7) ~ Ralph Moody

Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men ~ Jeffrey Rogers Hummel

Added:

A Separate Peace ~ John Knowles

Ender's Game ~ Orson Scott Card

Their Eyes Were Watching God ~ Zora Neale Hurston

How to Read a Book ~ John Moritmer

Elements of Style ~ William Strunk, Jr.

Fidelity: Five Stories  ~ Wendell Berry

Evidence Not Seen ~ Darlen Deibler Rose

Outliers ~ Malcolm Gladwell

Brave Companions: Portraits In History ~ David McCullough

Teaching a Stone to Talk :Expeditions and Encounters ~ Annie Dillard

Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays) ~ Arthur Miller

On Writing Well ~ William Zinsser

God and Politics : Four Views on the Reformation of Civil Government : Theonomy, Principled Pluralism, Christian America, National Confessionalism ~ Gary Scott Smith

Truth and Transformation : A Manifesto for Ailing Nations ~ Vishal Mangalwadi

The U.S. Supreme Court : A Very Short Introduction ~ Linda Greenhouse 

Are You Liberal? Conservative? Or Confused? (An Uncle Eric Book) ~ Richard J. Maybury, Jane A. Williams

Selecting a President (Fundamentals of American Government) ~ Eleanor Clift, Matthew Spieler

The Complete Idiot's Guide to U.S. Government & Politics ~ Franco Scardino

Congress for Dummies ~ David Silverberg, Dennis Hastert , Tom Daschel

Switched:

Eternity in Their Hearts - moved from History to Literature

Up From Slavery - moved from History to Literature