Cycle 1 Form 4+ Sample Schedule 1
This is a sample schedule with most of the STAR subjects included. There is one book listed per subject at a time. If you would like to see more book options, or to create a custom weekly guide like this, you will want to purchase the full cycle.
Books Needed for this Schedule:
Some of the following links are affiliate links. Whenever possible, I have linked to free versions.
- A Bible
- Jashub's Journal: An Old Testament Law Story with Bible Study by Sonya Shafer
- Claritas Publishing Cycle 1
- Amazing Grace 366 Inspiring Hymn Stories
- Fearless Apologetics by Chap Bettis
- Something Needs to Change by David Platt
- The Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer
- Excellence in Literature: World Literature by Janice Campbell
- Excellence in Literature Handbook for Writers by Ian Johnston and Janice Campbell
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Antigone by Sophocles
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- Divine Comedy: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goeth
- Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
- Biblio Plan Consider the Years: History for High School Years Book One: Ancient Years by Rob and Julia Nalle
- National Geographic People of the World by Catherine H. Howell
- What I Eat by Peter Menzel
- The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden
- The Case for a Creator by Lee Strobel
- Microbe Hunters by Paul De Kruif
- Life and Her Children by Arabella Buckley
- The Biology Coloring Book by Griffin
- The Usborne Complete Book of the Microscope
- The Handbook of Nature Study by Ana Comstock
- The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms by Amy Stewart
- The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body by David Macaulay
- The Health Reader by W. Hoskyns-Abrahall
- Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth by Thaddeus J. Williams
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcom Gladwell
- 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You by Tony Reinke
- The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet by Nina Teicholz
- Old-Fashioned on Purpose: A Homesteading Manifesto―Rediscovering Simplicity and Meaning Through the Lost Arts of the Past such as Gardening, Canning and More by Jill Winger
How to Use this Schedule:
Do the following four or five days per week:
- Bible Reading
- Bible Memory
- Science & Nature Reading
Do the following two or three days per week:
- History
- Handicrafts
- Life Skills
- Life Reading
Do the following one or two days per week:
- Geography
- Maps (look at maps, fill in maps, color maps, or play map games--do something with maps)
Do the following one day per week:
- Hymn Study
- Timeline (fill in what you've learned in this week's history)
- Science Lab
- Listen to Composer's song
- Look at Artist's art
- Read Poem