Level 5 & 6 Government, Economics, Civics
Mater Amabilis High School Civics at a Glance
Level 5 Year 1 Civics/ Government/ Economics lesson plans Civics Plutarch’s Lives (Bernadotte Perrin translation available free online Term 1: Cicero ( + Demosthenes opt.) Ourselves by Charlotte Mason Term 1: Book 1: pp. 1-32 Government/Economics Term 1: Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? Richard J. Maybury Level 5 Year 2 Civics/Government/Economics Lesson Plans Civics Plutarch’s Lives (Bernadotte Perrin translation available free online) Term 1: Marcus Cato the Censor (or Publica) Ourselves by Charlotte Mason Term 1: Book I: pp. 99-131 Economics Economics: Work and Prosperity by Russel Kirk Term 1: Ch. 1-2 Government The American Cause by Russel Kirk (with a New Introduction by Gleaves Whitney) Term 1: Introduction Readings from the American Founding and Essays Honors Economics In One Lesson by Hazlitt The Grand Inquisitor by Dostoyevsky Civics Plutarch’s Lives (Bernadotte Perrin translation) OR Anne White’s The Plutarch Project Volume Two 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 Civics Plutarch’s Lives (Bernadotte Perrin translation) 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) 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 Level 5, Year 1
OR the retelling, Lives From Plutarch by Pleasant Graves, Audrey Graves, John McFarland) available from Hillside Education
Term 2: Alexander
Term 3: Finish Alexander + Caesar
Term 2: Book 1: pp. 33-65
Term 3: Book 1: pp. 66-98
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 2: Are You Liberal? Conservative? Or Confused? Richard J. Maybury
Term 3: Animal Farm by George OrwellLevel 5, Year 2
Term 2: Philopoemen
Term 3: Titus Flamininus
Term 2: Book I: pp. 132-166
Term 3: Book I: pp. 167-203
Term 2: Ch. 3
Term 3: Ch. 4
Term 2: Ch. 1-2
Term 3: Ch. 3
Term 1: Lesson I, II, III
Term 2: Lesson IV, V, VI, VII
Term 3: Lesson VIII, IX, X, XILevel 6, Year 1
Level 6, Year 2