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:
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 2 Class:
Latin*:
*Beginning in Concepts 2, students may choose to opt out of Latin and substitute with another language of study.
Henle 2nd Year Latin Text
Henle 2nd Year Latin Key
Henle Latin Grammar
Science:
Nature Sketch Journal (CC sells their version but this can also be any notebook.)
Exploring Creation with Biology, 3rd ed., plus answer key (Apologia)
Student Lab Report Handbook (John D. Mays)
Literature & Composition:
Books from reading list (see "Concepts Reading List" post)
Elements of Style (William Strunk & E.B. White)
No Lost Tools of Writing this year! ;)
Western Cultural History:
How Should We Then Live? Book and/or Video Series (Francis A. Schaeffer)
Amusing Ourselves to Death (Neil Postman)
Logic:
Traditional Logic I: Intro. to Formal Logic - text, workbook, & key (Martin Cothran)
Socratic Dialogue:
Gorgias (Plato) - can be found free here: The Internet Classics Archive | Gorgias by Plato (mit.edu).
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