High School Book List

Grade 9 Book List

Religion 9

• Baltimore Catechism No. 3
• Sample Lesson Plan*

English 9

• Lilies of the Field by William E. Barrett
• Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
• Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
• The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter
• An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott

• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand

• Shane by Jack Schaefer
• The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

• Sample Lesson Plan

Grammar and Composition 9

• High School Grammar for Catholic Students

Algebra I

• Algebra I (3rd Edition) by Saxon
• Algebra I computer disk software [optional]
• Algebra I Solutions Manual

Earth Science (Christian)

• Earth Science for Christian Schools
• CD on Evolution

OR

Physical Science (Christian)

• Science of the Physical Creation
• CD on Evolution

Vocabulary (1 Semester)-Optional

• Vocabulary for the College-Bound

Grade 10 Book List

Religion 10

• Mass and the Sacraments
• Catholic Morality
• Understanding the Mass
• Sample Lesson Plan

English 10

• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

• The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Giant by Edna Ferber

• The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• Set All Afire [St. Francis Xavier] by Louis de Wohl
• Lay Siege to Heaven [St. Catherine of Siena] by Louis de Wohl

• My Ántonia by Willa Cather
• The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
• The Robe by Lloyd Douglas

• Sample Lesson Plan

World Literature

• World Literature

• Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
• Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
• The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni

• Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
• Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
• The Odyssey by Homer

• Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel
• El Cid (Spanish narrative poem)
• The Song of Roland (French narrative poem)

• The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
• Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz

• Sample Lesson Plan

World History (Catholic)

• Christ the King, Lord of History
• Historical Atlas of the World
• Sample Lesson Plan

Geometry

• Geometry by Houghton-Mifflin
• Geometry Solutions Manual

Biology (Christian)

• Biology: A Search for Order in Complexity
• Humani Generis
• Student Laboratory Manual (Optional)

Grade 11 Book List

Religion 11

• Introduction to the Bible
• Sample Lesson Plan

English 11

• The Ballad of the White Horse by G.K. Chesterton
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
• A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Cliff Notes
• The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
• The Song at the Scaffold by Gertrud von Le Fort
• Sample Lesson Plan

American Literature

• American Literature

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington

• Jo’s Boys by Louisa May Alcott
• So Big by Edna Ferber
• Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

• The Virginian by Owen Wister
• Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott
• Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

American History (Catholic)

• Christ and the Americas
• Atlas of American History

Algebra II

• Algebra II (2nd Edition) by Saxon
• Algebra II Solutions Manual

Foreign Languages

Latin I

• Latin: First Year (Catholic)
• Latin Grammar
• Progress Tests
• Teacher’s Manual and Answer Key
• Audio recordings online

OR

French I

• French Now! Text-Workbook
• French Grammar
• Audio recordings online

OR

Spanish I

• Spanish Now! Textbook/Workbook
• Audio recordings online

Grade 12 Book List

Religion 12

• Following Christ in the World
• Catholic Apologetics
• Sample Lesson Plan

English 12

• Prose and Poetry of England
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare

• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
• Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
• Silas Marner by George Eliot

• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
• The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
• Perelandra by C.S. Lewis

• Sample Lesson Plan

American Government (Christian)

• American Government in Christian Perspective
• Federalist Papers
• Cliffs Notes on Federalist
• On Social Reconstruction (Quadregesimo Anno)

Foreign Languages

Latin II

• Latin: Second Year (Catholic)
• Latin Grammar
• Progress Tests
• Teacher’s Manual and Answer Key
• Audio recordings online

OR

French II

• French for Mastery 2
• Workbook
• Answer Key

OR

Spanish II

• Spanish Now! Level 2
• Answer Key
• Supplemental Reading (3 booklets)
• Audio recordings online

Electives

Accounting

• The Accounting Game

Advanced Math

• Advanced Math: An Incremental Development (2nd Edition)
• Tests
• Answer Keys

Chemistry (Christian)

• Chemistry: Precision and Design
• Lab Manual
• Test Packet

Computers

• Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science
• Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Programming
• Understanding Computers: Today and Tommorrow

Economics

• Economics: Work and Prosperity in a Christian Perspective (by Russell Kirk)
• Test Booklet

Geography

• World Geography: A Physical and Cultural Approach
• Classroom Atlas

Physics

• Physics: An Incremental Development (by Saxon Publishers)
• Lab Book
• Answer Key

Shakespeare

Signet Classic editions of the following plays:

• As You Like It
• Hamlet
• King Lear
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Romeo and Juliet
• The Tempest
• Twelfth Night
• The Winter’s Tale