Below are required textbooks for our upcoming school year. Please be sure to check prices on various sites (ebay, Amazon, thriftbook, homeschool classifieds, etc.) before purchasing.
Note: Each Concepts student should supplement math at home. Due to a variety of family choices, TLC does not cover Math in its Concepts classes.
Concepts A Class:
Latin:
Henle 1st Year Latin Text
Henle 1st Year Latin Key
Henle Latin Grammar
Science:
It Couldn't Just Happen (Lawrence Richards)
Lyrical Life Science: Anatomy, vol. 3 (Dorry Eldon)
Nature Sketch Journal (CC sells their own version but this can also be any ruled notebook)
Literature & Composition:
Books from reading list (see "Concepts Reading List" post)
The Lost Tools of Writing, Level 1, teacher guide & student workbook (The CiRCE Institute)
Words Aptly Spoken: Children's Literature (optional)
Geography:
Exploring the World Through Cartography (Classical Conversations)
Logic:
Analogies for All of Us (Marc Hays)
The Fallacy Detective (Nathaniel Bluedorn)
Concepts B Class:
Latin:
Henle 1st Year Latin Text
Henle 1st Year Latin Key
Henle Latin Grammar
Literature & Composition:
Books from reading list (see "Concepts Reading List" post)
The Lost Tools of Writing, Level 1, 5th ed., student workbook (The CiRCE Institute)
Words Aptly Spoken: Short Stories, 3rd ed. (Jen Greenholt)
History:
Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: One Dead Spy, A Revolutionary War Tale
Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Lafayette!, A Revolutionary War Tale
Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Blades of Freedom, A Tale of Haiti, Napolean, and the Louisiana Purchase
Science:
Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds (Philip Johnson)
Nature Sketch Journal (CC sells their own version but this can also be any ruled notebook)
Discovering Atomos (optional)
Logic:
Introductory Logic, 5th ed. (Jim Nance)
Intermediate Logic, 3rd ed. (Jim Nance)
Mock Trial:
Case Packet will be provided by TLC
Concepts 3 Class:
Language: Students may choose to opt out of Latin and substitute with another language of study. At least one language is required. Textbooks to be determined accordingly by parents.
Science:
Nature Sketch Journal (CC sells their version but this can also be any notebook.)
Exploring Creation with Chemistry, 3rd ed., plus answer key (Apologia)
Student Lab Report Handbook (John D. Mays)
Literature & Composition:
Books from reading list (see "Concepts Reading List" post)
The Elements of Style (William Strunk & E.B. White)
Brightest Heaven of Invention (Peter J. Leithart)
Poetry:
The Roar on the Other Side (Suzanne Rhodes)
Poetry Journal/Notebook (any notebook will do)
Logic/Reasoning:
The Consequences of Ideas (R.C. Sproul)
Traditional Logic II: Advanced Formal Logic - text, student workbook, & key (Martin Cothran/Memoria Press)
Philosophy/Socratic Dialogue:
Meno (Plato) - can be found free here: The Internet Classics Archive | Meno by Plato (mit.edu
The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy (Michael F. Patton, Kevin Cannon)
History:
A Patriot's History of the United States (Larry Schweikart)
A copy of the U.S. Constitution (may be purchased or printed for free online)
Civics/Government:
Content will be provided by TLC
Mock Trial:
Case Packet will be provided by TLC
Concepts 4 Class:
Literature:
Theogony (Hesiod)
The Iliad (Homer)
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Aeneid (Virgil)
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Heroes of the City of Man (Peter Leithart), companion study guide
Latin:
Henle 4th Year Latin Text
Henle 4th Year Latin Key
Henle Latin Grammar (Robert J. Henle)
Physics:
Saxon Physics: An Incremental Development kit
Saxon Physics Solutions Manual
Theology:
Invitation to the Psalms (Rolf A. & Karl N. Jacobson)
I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist (Norman L. Geisler)
The Mosaic Course: Understanding World Religions from a Christian Perspective (Matthew P. John)
World History:
The Discoverers (Daniel Boorstin)
Optional:
Trivium Tables: Latin
Cassell's Latin Dictionary
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