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Curriculum in American English, version 0.0.1.20210618

Core

• Math: solve problems (read: do mastery challenges) until there are none, then cover (a) new lesson(s)
• Khan Academy (KA) Early Math
• KA Kindergarten
• KA Arithmetic
• KA Basic geometry
• KA Pre-algebra
• KA Algebra basics
• KA Algebra 1
• KA High school geometry
• KA Algebra 2
• KA Trigonometry
• KA Precaulculus
• KA Differential calculus
• KA Integral calculus
• KA Multivariable calculus
• KA Differential equations
• KA Linear algebra
• KA Statistics and probability
• KA High school statistics
• Writing: write a page a day on any topic you like (alternatively: translate something, e.g. Wikipedia articles) and get the errors in your writing highlighted
• Reading: read the following books in the order given
• Part 1 (language and country specific)
1. McGuffey's Eclectic Primer -- William McGuffey. archive.org
2. McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader -- William McGuffey. archive.org
3. Nursery Rhymes (Altemus' Wee Books) -- Various Authors.;; substitute with http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10607 (no killing refs at this age) and update patch version
4. The Life of George Washington -- Josephine Pollard. archive.org
5. McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader -- William McGuffey. archive.org
6. The Tale of Jolly Robin -- Arthur Scott Bailey. archive.org
7. The Tale of Solomon Owl -- Arthur Scott Bailey. archive.org
8. Our Hero General U. S. Grant -- Josephine Pollard. archive.org
9. The Tale of Paddy Muskrat -- Arthur Scott Bailey.
10. The Bobbsey Twins at School -- Laura Lee Hope. archive.org
11. Childhood's Happy Hours -- O. M. Dunham.
12. Christopher Columbus and the Discovery of the New World -- Josephine Pollard.
13. Young Folks' Bible -- Josephine Pollard. archive.org
14. Fifty Famous Stories Retold -- James Baldwin. archive.org
15. Four American Naval Heroes -- Mabel Borton Beebe. archive.org
16. The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes -- Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer). archive.org
17. The Rover Boys on the River -- Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer). archive.org
18. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew -- Margaret Sidney. archive.org
19. Five Little Peppers Midway -- Margaret Sidney. archive.org
20. The Rover Boys at College -- Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer). archive.org
21. Tom Swift and His Airship -- Victor Appleton. archive.org
22. The Rover Boys on the Ocean -- Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer). archive.org
23. Tom Swift and His Air Scout -- Victor Appleton. archive.org
24. The Adventures of Pinocchio (or A Tale of a Puppet) -- C. Collodi. archive.org
25. The Rover Boys on a Tour -- Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer). archive.org
26. The Swiss Family Robinson -- Johann David Wyss. archive.org
27. The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle -- Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer). archive.org
28. Ben Pepper -- Margaret Sidney. gutenberg.org
29. Uncle Remus (His Songs and His Sayings) -- Joel Chandler Harris. archive.org gutenberg.org
30. The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island -- Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer). archive.org gutenberg.org
31. Aesop's Fables -- Aesop. archive.org gutenberg.org
32. The Rover Boys in Southern Waters -- Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer). archive.org gutenberg.org
33. The Adventures of Joel Pepper -- Margaret Sidney. archive.org gutenberg.org
34. Heidi -- Johanna Spyri. archive.org gutenberg.org
35. The Rover Boys on Land and Sea -- Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer). archive.org gutenberg.org
36. Tom Swift and His Motor-Boat -- Victor Appleton. archive.org gutenberg.org
37. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm -- Kate Douglas Wiggin. archive.org gutenberg.org
38. The Rover Boys Down East -- Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer). gutenberg.org
39. Do and Dare -- Horatio Alger. archive.org gutenberg.org
40. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- Lewis Carroll. archive.org gutenberg.org
41. Through the Looking-Glass -- Lewis Carroll. archive.org gutenberg.org
42. The Rover Boys on a Hunt -- Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer). archive.org gutenberg.org
43. Uncle Remus Returns -- Joel Chandler Harris. archive.org
44. Jack's Ward -- Horatio Alger. archive.org gutenberg.org
45. McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader -- William McGuffey. archive.org gutenberg.org
46. Just So Stories -- Rudyard Kipling. archive.org gutenberg.org
47. Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates -- Mary Mapes Dodge. archive.org gutenberg.org
48. The Boy Knight: A Tale of the Crusade -- G. A. Henty. archive.org gutenberg.org
49. Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat -- Victor Appleton. archive.org gutenberg.org
50. Little Women -- Louisa May Alcott. archive.org gutenberg.org
51. Bob, Son of Battle -- Alfred Ollivant. archive.org gutenberg.org
52. Little Men -- Louisa May Alcott. archive.org gutenberg.org
53. McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader -- William McGuffey. archive.org gutenberg.org
54. The Pied Piper of Hamelin -- Robert Browning. archive.org gutenberg.org
55. The Friend of Washington; A Young Folks' Life of General Lafayette -- Henry C. Watson.
56. Brave and Bold -- Horatio Alger. archive.org gutenberg.org
57. Facing the World -- Horatio Alger. archive.org gutenberg.org
58. David Crockett, Scout -- Charles Fletcher Allen. archive.org
59. Up from Slavery -- Booker T. Washington. archive.org gutenberg.org
60. Captains Courageous -- Rudyard Kipling. archive.org gutenberg.org
61. Told by Uncle Remus -- Joel Chandler Harris. archive.org
62. The Hound of the Baskervilles -- Arthur Conan Doyle. archive.org gutenberg.org
63. Uncle Remus and His Friends -- Joel Chandler Harris. archive.org
64. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader -- William McGuffey. archive.org gutenberg.org
65. Picturesque America (Vol. 1) -- William Cullen Bryant. archive.org
66. Gulliver's Travels -- Jonathan Swift. gutenberg.org
67. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -- Mark Twain. archive.org gutenberg.org
68. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (Vol. 1) -- Ulysses S. Grant. archive.org gutenberg.org
69. The Jungle Book -- Rudyard Kipling. archive.org gutenberg.org
70. The Second Jungle Book -- Rudyard Kipling. archive.org gutenberg.org
71. The Pathfinder -- James Fenimore Cooper. archive.org gutenberg.org
72. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (Vol. 2) -- Ulysses S. Grant. archive.org gutenberg.org
73. Life of George Washington (Vol. 1) -- Washington Irving. archive.org gutenberg.org
74. The Song of Hiawatha -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. archive.org gutenberg.org
75. The Prince and the Pauper -- Mark Twain. archive.org gutenberg.org
76. Robinson Crusoe -- Daniel Defoe. archive.org gutenberg.org
77. The Pilgrim's Progress -- John Bunyan. archive.org gutenberg.org
78. Life of George Washington (Vol. 2) -- Washington Irving. archive.org
79. Rudyard Kipling's Verse; Inclusive Edition 1885-1918 -- Rudyard Kipling. archive.org
80. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader -- William McGuffey. archive.org gutenberg.org
81. Life of George Washington (Vol. 3) -- Washington Irving. archive.org
82. The Spy -- James Fenimore Cooper. archive.org gutenberg.org
83. Picturesque America (Vol. 2) -- William Cullen Bryant. archive.org
84. The Diaries of George Washington (Vol. 1) -- George Washington.
85. The Law -- Frederic Bastiat. gutenberg.org
86. Treasure Island -- Robert Louis Stevenson. archive.org gutenberg.org
87. The Diaries of George Washington (Vol. 2) -- George Washington. archive.org
88. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin -- Benjamin Franklin. archive.org gutenberg.org
89. Pudd'nhead Wilson -- Mark Twain. archive.org gutenberg.org
90. Those Extraordinary Twins -- Mark Twain. archive.org gutenberg.org
91. The Diaries of George Washington (Vol. 3) -- George Washington. archive.org
92. Poems -- Oliver Wendell Holmes. archive.org
93. Afloat and Ashore -- James Fenimore Cooper. archive.org gutenberg.org
94. The Diaries of George Washington (Vol. 4) -- George Washington. archive.org
95. Life of David Crockett (Autobiography) -- David Crockett. archive.org
96. Not Yours to Give -- David Crockett.
97. The Vicar of Wakefield -- Oliver Goldsmith. archive.org gutenberg.org
98. Economic Sophisms -- Frederic Bastiat. archive.org gutenberg.org
99. The Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln -- L. P. Brockett. archive.org
100. The Friendly Arctic; The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions -- Vilhjalmur Stefansson. archive.org
101. What Has Government Done to Our Money? -- Murray Rothbard.
102. The Song of Roland -- Anonymous. archive.org gutenberg.org
103. Economics in One Lesson -- Henry Hazlitt.
104. On That Day Began Lies -- Leonard Read.
105. The Holy War -- John Bunyan. archive.org gutenberg.org
106. The Soldier in Our Civil War (Vol. 1) -- Frank Leslie. archive.org
107. Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood -- George MacDonald. archive.org gutenberg.org
108. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea -- Jules Verne. archive.org gutenberg.org
109. Heather and Snow -- George MacDonald. archive.org gutenberg.org
110. Life and Campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall) -- R. L. Dabney. archive.org
111. The Mysterious Island -- Jules Verne. archive.org gutenberg.org
112. The White Company -- Arthur Conan Doyle. archive.org gutenberg.org
113. Environmental Overkill -- Dixy Lee Ray & Lou Guzzo.
114. The Heart of the Antarctic (Vol. 1) -- E. H. Shackleton. gutenberg.org
115. Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer Detective, and Other Stories -- Mark Twain. archive.org
116. The Soldier in Our Civil War (Vol. 2) -- Frank Leslie. archive.org
117. Theodore Roosevelt; An Autobiography -- Theodore Roosevelt. archive.org gutenberg.org
118. Oliver Twist -- Charles Dickens. archive.org gutenberg.org
119. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Mark Twain. archive.org gutenberg.org
120. Memoirs of Gen. W. T. Sherman -- William Tecumseh Sherman. archive.org gutenberg.org
121. Don Quixote -- Miguel de Cervantes. archive.org gutenberg.org
122. Life on the Mississippi -- Mark Twain. archive.org gutenberg.org
123. Orations (of Marcus Tullius Cicero) -- Cicero. archive.org
124. The Federalist andd Other Constitutional Papers) -- Alexander Hamilton, et al.. archive.org gutenberg.org
125. The Heart of the Antarctic (Vol. 2) -- E. H. Shackleton. gutenberg.org
126. Julius Caesar -- William Shakespeare. archive.org gutenberg.org
127. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals -- William Harvey. archive.org
128. American Historical Documents 1000-1904 -- Harvard Classics Vol. 43. archive.org
129. The Enterprising Americans -- John Chamberlain.
130. My African Journey -- Sir Winston S. Churchill. archive.org gutenberg.org
131. A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States (Vol. I) -- Alexander Stephens. archive.org
132. A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States (Vol. II) -- Alexander Stephens. archive.org
133. Ivanhoe -- Sir Walter Scott. archive.org gutenberg.org
134. A Tale of Two Cities -- Charles Dickens. archive.org gutenberg.org
135. The Health Hazards of NOT Going Nuclear -- Petr Beckmann.
136. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Vol. 1) -- Jefferson Davis. archive.org gutenberg.org
137. The Forces of Matter -- Michael Faraday. archive.org
138. The Chemical History of a Candle -- Michael Faraday. archive.org gutenberg.org
139. Fiat Money Inflation in France -- Andrew Dickson White. archive.org gutenberg.org
140. The Gallic War -- Julius Caesar. archive.org gutenberg.org
141. Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln (1832-1865) -- Abraham Lincoln. archive.org gutenberg.org
142. The World Crisis (Vol. 1) -- Sir Winston S. Churchill. archive.org
143. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Vol. 2) -- Jefferson Davis. archive.org gutenberg.org
144. Fifty Years in the Royal Navy -- Admiral Sir Percy Scott. archive.org
145. King Henry V -- William Shakespeare. archive.org gutenberg.org
146. Two Years Before the Mast (And Twenty-Four Years After) -- Richard Henry Dana. archive.org gutenberg.org
147. The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences -- W. K. Clifford.
148. Paradise Lost -- John Milton.
149. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations -- Adam Smith.
150. Paradise Regained -- John Milton.
151. Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 1) -- John Calvin.
152. The Prince -- Niccolo Machiavelli.
153. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark -- William Shakespeare.
154. Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 2) -- John Calvin.
155. The Ultimate Resource 2 -- Julian Simon.
156. Access to Energy -- Arthur Robinson.
157. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Vol. 1) -- John Locke.
158. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Vol. 2) -- John Locke.
159. Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John -- Isaac Newton.
160. The Civil War -- Julius Caesar.
161. De Bello Gallico -- Julius Caesar and T. Rice Holmes.

Science books (to be read after mastering KA Math)

162. The Mechanical Universe -- Olenick, Apostol, and Goodstein.
163. Answers to the Mechanical Universe -- Olenick, Apostol, and Goodstein.
164. Beyond the Mechanical Universe -- Olenick, Apostol, and Goodstein.
165. Answers to Beyond the Mechanical Universe -- Olenick, Apostol, and Goodstein.
166. Chemical Principles -- Dickerson, Gray, and Haight.

Supplementary books

1. to be added later
• Part 2 (world heritage)
• HC Vol. 50: Introduction, Reader's Guide, Indexes. archive.org
• HC Vol. 1: Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn. archive.org
• HC Vol. 2: Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius. archive.org
• HC Vol. 3: Bacon, Milton's Prose, Thomas Browne. archive.org
• HC Vol. 4: Complete Poems in English, Milton. archive.org
• HC Vol. 5: Essays and English Traits, Emerson. archive.org
• HC Vol. 6: Poems and Songs, Burns. archive.org
• HC Vol. 7: The Confessions of St. Augustine, The Imitation of Christ. archive.org
• HC Vol. 8: Nine Greek Dramas. archive.org
• HC Vol. 9: Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny. archive.org
• HC Vol. 10: Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith. archive.org
• HC Vol. 11: Origin of Species, Darwin. archive.org
• HC Vol. 12: Plutarch's Lives. archive.org
• HC Vol. 13: AEneid, Virgil. archive.org
• HC Vol. 14: Don Quixote, Part 1, Cervantes. archive.org
• HC Vol. 15: Pilgrim's Progress, Donne and Herbert, Walton. archive.org
• HC Vol. 16: The Thousand and One Nights. archive.org
• HC Vol. 17: Folklore and Fable, AEsop, Grimm, Andersen. archive.org
• HC Vol. 18: Modern English Drama. archive.org
• HC Vol. 19: Faust, Egmont, etc., Goethe, Doctor Faustus, Marlowe. archive.org
• HC Vol. 20: The Divine Comedy, Dante. archive.org
• HC Vol. 21: I Promessi Sposi, Manzoni. archive.org
• HC Vol. 22: The Odyssey, Homer. archive.org
• HC Vol. 23: Two Years Before the Mast, Dana. archive.org
• HC Vol. 24: On the Sublime, French Revolution, etc., Burke. archive.org
• HC Vol. 25: J.S. Mill and Thomas Carlyle. archive.org
• HC Vol. 26: Continental Drama. archive.org
• HC Vol. 27: English Essays, Sidney to Macaulay. archive.org
• HC Vol. 28: Essays: English and American. archive.org
• HC Vol. 29: Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin. archive.org
• HC Vol. 30: Faraday, Helmholtz, Kelvin, Newcomb, etc. archive.org
• HC Vol. 31: Autobiography, Cellini. archive.org
• HC Vol. 32: Montaigne, Sainte-Beuve, Renan, etc.. archive.org
• HC Vol. 33: Voyages and Travels. archive.org
• HC Vol. 34: Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes. archive.org
• HC Vol. 35: Froissart, Malory, Holinshead. archive.org
• HC Vol. 36: Machiavelli, More, Luther. archive.org
• HC Vol. 37: Locke, Berkeley, Hume. archive.org
• HC Vol. 38: Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur. archive.org
• HC Vol. 39: Famous Prefaces. archive.org
• HC Vol. 40: English poetry 1. archive.org
• HC Vol. 41: English poetry 2. archive.org
• HC Vol. 42: English poetry 3. archive.org
• HC Vol. 43: American Historical Documents. archive.org
• HC Vol. 44: Sacred Writings 1. archive.org
• HC Vol. 45: Sacred writings 2. archive.org
• HC Vol. 46: Elizabethan Drama 1. archive.org
• HC Vol. 47: Elizabethan drama 2. archive.org
• HC Vol. 48: Thoughts and Minor Works, Pascal. archive.org
• HC Vol. 49: Epic and Saga. archive.org
• HC Vol. 51: Lectures. archive.org
• Chrisropher Clark (2012) The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
• Zygmunt Bauman (1989) Modernity and the Holocaust
• Gustave Le Bon (1895) The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
• Vocabulary & Languages: take a course on Duolingo, LibreLingo, Omnilingo or similar, find a phrasebook and a grammar book if you need some, then consider following and contributing to our curriculum in the language that you are learning
• For the right hemisphere of the brain
• Draw: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Betty Edwards)
• Design programs: How to Design Programs (Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt, Shriram Krishnamurthi)

Reference material

• Dictionaries: Learner's Dictionary
• Encyclopedias: Britannica, Britannica Kids

On meta skills

• On problem solving: How to Solve It (George Polya)
• On proving: How to Prove It (Daniel Velleman)
• On writing well: e.g. Boynton (1915) Principles of Composition
• On reading well: How To Read a Book (Mortimer Adler, Charles van Doren)
• On speaking and learning languages effectively
• On computer program design: How to Design Programs (Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt, Shriram Krishnamurthi) Teach Yourself Computer Science
• On learning & creativity: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Betty Edwards)

Extra curricular

• Bible
• Quran
• Merck Manuals / MSD Manuals

Acknowledgements

Part 1 of our Reading list above is based on the Robinson Curriculum (http://rosegate.dreamhosters.com/rc-books.html, https://homeschoolfreestuff.wordpress.com/books-for-reading/robinson-booklist/), Part 2 on the Harvard Classics (HC) series.