I have been long-range and short-range planning for high school. My daughter is entering the 9th grade which begins a new season for us.Our new curriculum consists of unit studies spawning from Proverbs 31 called Far Above Rubies. There are 20 units for the 20 verses and sooooo much content that the hardest part of planning is deciding what to eliminate. There are six years of great project to do here and only four years left to work. I am thoroughly excited about these projects.
Just this year she will:
Read Origins of Species and refute each of Darwin's points with God's Word.
Write a Letter to Darwin refuting his theories and sharing the Truth of Jesus Christ.
Study state court cases and laws on teaching creation and evolution.
Memorize Genesis 1 and 2.
Read Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights and analyze the female characters in light of Proverbs 31 and other Scriptures.
Learn to analyze water purity and build a water purifier.
Build new dinosaurs using two different dinosaur kits or without all of the pieces and research species that were fabricated and taught, yet we now know do not exist.
Create a scale of the size of dinosaurs.
Compare and contrast Freudian, rogerian and skinnerian psychology or counseling and study how each would determine right or wrong, good or evil. Learn why a Christian cannot get her ideas of virtue from either of these systems.
Learn about nouthetic counseling.
Outline OT biblical books.
Study technology that went into building the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Mausoleum at Halicarnasussus.
Tons of health and fitness projects.
Design and teach lesson plans for teaching the Beatitudes to children.
I could go on and on.
Love that these projects invite the student into critical thinking while washing everything with God's Word. The topics lead to REAL knowledge that affect our day to day living truly preparing her for adulthood.
Noah Websters once said, "An education without the Bible is useless."
