British Literature

Lifepacs #1-5, Alpha Omega Publications Objective: This is a general overview of the development and thought of British Literature from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Laura will learn to critique the philosophy of each author; become aware of the philosophies and religious beliefs that influenced the authors in each period of history; and gain knowledge of historical/biographical background of each author. Topics Covered: The Middle Ages - Bede-Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Chaucer, Canterbury Tales- The Prologue, The Pardoner’s Tale, and Piers Plowman, Everyman, Beowulf, and Sir Thomas Malory-Le Morte d’ Arthur The Sixteenth Century - Sir Thomas Moore, Roger Ascham, John Foxe, Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, Sir Philip Sydney, Edmund Spenser, Mary (Sydney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke Sir Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, and The English Bible The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - John Donne, Ben Johnson, Francis Bacon, John Milton, John Owen, John Dryden, John Bunyan, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and Isaac Watts The Nineteenth Century - William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Colderidge, Sir Walter Scott, Jane Austen, Charles Lamb, George Gordon-Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Cardinal Newman, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Charles John Huffman Dickens, Robert Browning, George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Oscar Wilde, and Lewis Caroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodson) The Twentieth Century - Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, G. K. Chesterton, William Butler Yeats, T. S. Eliot, George Bernard Shaw, Winston Churchill, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Aldous Leonard Huxley, and C. S. Lewis Testing: The method of testing comes with the curriculum. There are self tests at the end of each section (Chapter) and they are self graded. At the end of each booklet, I will administer the unit test. In addition, if Laura does not pass each booklet with 80% or above, she will be given an additional or alternative test.

Mathematics:

Consumer Mathematics I,

Lifepacs #1-10, Alpha Omega Publications Objective: Laura should be able to apply mathematical principles and operations in solving consumer-related problems; to calculate income, taxes, and interest rates as they affect family finances; to prepare, maintain, and interpret family financial records; to apply and solve mathematical expressions that relate to a variety of occupations; to determine revenue and costs associated with business operations; and to establish, maintain, and interpret financial statements relevant to business operations. Topics Covered: Basic Arithmetic, Mental Search, and Creative Manipulation skills; Fractions, Decimals, Per Cent; Family Finances – Income, Taxes, Budgets, Buying; Insurance, Banking, Financial Planning; Construction & Building Trades – Measurement Systems, Area and Volume Computations; Service Occupations – Financial Transactions, Data Interpretation; Transportation – Financing and Operating an Automobile, Currency-Exchange Rates and Travel-Cost Comparisons; Business Services – Financial Records, Business Operations; Occupational Diagrams – Scale Drawings, Informal Geometry, House Plans. Testing: The method of testing comes with the curriculum. There are self tests at the end of each section (Chapter) and they are self graded. At the end of each booklet, I will administer the unit test. In addition, if Laura does not pass each booklet with 80% or above, she will be given an additional test made up on the sections that she needs more practice.

Accounting,

Lifepac #1-10, Alpha Omega Pulications Objective: Laura should be able to learn the basic accounting applied to a business and by the end of the year she will be able to utilize the procedures learned and complete a business simulation. Topics Covered: Overview of Accounting; Starting an Accounting System; Analyzing & Journalizing Transactions; Posting to the General Ledger; Preparing the Worksheet; Financial Statements for a Proprietorship; Recording & Posting the Adjusting & Closing Entries; Payroll Records; Payroll Accounting, Taxes, Reports; and Business Simulation Reinforcement Activity. Testing: The method of testing comes with the curriculum. There are self tests at the end of each section (Chapter) and they are self graded. At the end of each booklet, I will administer the unit test. In addition, if Laura does not pass each booklet with 80% or above, she will be given an additional test made up on the sections that she needs more practice.

Science:

Science Lifepac 1000, #1-10, Alpha Omega Publications Topics Covered: The topics covered: Taxonomy, Basis of Life, Microbiology, Cells, Plants: Green Factories, Human Anatomy and Physiology, Inheritance, Cell Division & Reproduction, Ecology & Energy, and Applications of Biology. Testing: The method of testing comes with the curriculum. There are self tests at the end of each section (Chapter) and they are self graded. At the end of each booklet, I will administer the unit test. In addition, if Laura does not pass each booklet with 80% or above, she will be given an additional or alternative test.

Electives

Music

Survey of origins and influence of Rock and Roll on Western Civilization. Laura will prepare a 5 page report on any artist of her choice. The paper will include a biographical sketch of the artist and an analysis of three of their works.

Art History

A survey of art from the paleolithic era to Egypt. Laura will be able to identify major features of human artistic expression from the cave paintings in Spain and France through Egyptian art forms. This course is based on-line.

Computer Literacy

Laura will demonstrate proficiency at a keyboarding, a work processing program, basic html and Excell by developing an on-line secondhand bookstore.

Physical Education: Russian Ballet