High School Government, Economics, and Civics

Level 5, Year 1 

Level 5 Year 1 Civics/ Government/ Economics lesson plans 

Civics

Plutarch’s Lives (Bernadotte Perrin translation available free online
OR the retelling, Lives From Plutarch by Pleasant Graves, Audrey Graves, John McFarland) available from Hillside Education

Term 1: Cicero ( + Demosthenes opt.)
Term 2: Alexander
Term 3: Finish Alexander + Caesar

Ourselves by Charlotte Mason 

Term 1: Book 1: pp. 1-32
Term 2: Book 1: pp. 33-65
Term 3: Book 1: pp. 66-98

Government/Economics
The following titles may be skipped if read already or if you find your child needs a more gradual easement into high school level coursework. Formal government and economics study will begin in Level 5 Year 2.

Term 1: Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? Richard J. Maybury
Term 2: Are You Liberal? Conservative? Or Confused? Richard J. Maybury
Term 3: Animal Farm by George Orwell

Level 5, Year 2 

Level 5 Year 2 Civics/Government/Economics Lesson Plans

Civics

Plutarch’s Lives (Bernadotte Perrin translation available free online)

OR Anne White’s The Plutarch Project Volume One

Term 1: Marcus Cato the Censor (or Publica)
Term 2: Philopoemen
Term 3: Titus Flamininus

Ourselves by Charlotte Mason

Term 1: Book I: pp. 99-131
Term 2: Book I: pp. 132-166
Term 3: Book I: pp. 167-203

Economics

Economics: Work and Prosperity by Russel Kirk

Term 1: Ch. 1-2
Term 2: Ch. 3
Term 3: Ch. 4

Government

The American Cause by Russel Kirk (with a New Introduction by Gleaves Whitney)

Term 1: Introduction
Term 2: Ch. 1-2
Term 3: Ch. 3

Readings from the American Founding and Essays

Honors

Economics In One Lesson by Hazlitt
Term 1: Lesson I, II, III
Term 2: Lesson IV, V, VI, VII
Term 3: Lesson VIII, IX, X, XI

The Grand Inquisitor by Dostoyevsky

Level 6, Year 1

Civics

Plutarch’s Lives (Bernadotte Perrin translation)

OR Anne White’s The Plutarch Project Volume Two

• Term 1: Pyrrhus
• Term 2: Nicias
• Term 3: Crassus

Ourselves by Charlotte Mason

Economics

Economics: Work and Prosperity by Russel Kirk

Government

The American Cause by Russel Kirk (with a New Introduction by Gleaves Whitney)

Major Problems in American History Since 1945 (Second Edition) edited by Robert Griffith and Paula Baker (ISBN-10: 0395868505)

Assigned Readings by week (scroll down)

Honors: 

Economics In One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

1984 by George Orwell OR Democracy In America by Alexis de Tocqueville

Level 6, Year 2

Civics

Plutarch’s Lives (Bernadotte Perrin translation)

• Term 1: Demetrius
• Term 2: Ages and Cleomenes
• Term 3: The Gracci (or Timoleon)

Ourselves by Charlotte Mason

Economics

Economics: Work and Prosperity by Russel Kirk

Government

The American Cause by Russel Kirk (with a New Introduction by Gleaves Whitney)

Major Problems in American History Since 1945 (Second Edition) edited by Robert Griffith and Paula Baker (ISBN-10: 0395868505)

• Assigned Readings by week (scroll down)

Honors: 

Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren OR Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville