Ryan’s lesson plans are fiddled with all year long. It all depends on how well he’s adapting, how cooperative he is, how many seizures he’s having and many other things that effect the autistic mind that are completely unpredictable.

So here is the framework. He will study history and science with his sisters and most of his other work he can do independently. I have to read his literature selections to or with him but I have to say, he is the more self sufficient of my kids.

Mathematics
(Daily)
Math-U-See
Zeta by Miriam Homer
One Lesson Daily (focus on percents and decimals)

Daily 15
minutes drill/practice basic math facts.

 English

 Writing

Stories
with a View: Narrative Inspirations

Two
Lessons Weekly

Copywork  (10 minutes daily)

Copy two
lines daily from favourite poems, prayers, Bible passages or the Shakespeare
play being studied.
Resources

The Harp and
Laurel Wreath by
Laura Berquist

Shakespeare
quotations
suitable for copywork.

Composition  (Daily)

Regular
written narrations from books set for history, religion, geography, literature
and science.

Grammar
/ English Language

 Primary Language
Lessons by Emma Serl (Hillside
Education, Lingua Mater Series)

Daily
lessons

 

Spelling

My
Catholic Speller, Level F (Catholic Heritage Curricula)

Studied Dictation (Twice weekly)

Passages to be dictated
from a section (two or three paragraphs) of a history, literature, geography or
religion book that has been studied in advance.

Vocabulary
Wordly Wise Book 3, one lesson weekly

Literature

Classic Literature

Q1 –
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Q2 –
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson (abridged version)

Q3 – Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson (abridged)

Q4 –
Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift (abridged)

(NOTE:
Ryan’s comprehension problems make the abridged versions more attainable).

 

 Shakespeare (Weekly)

One of
the following plays to be studied each term:   

Merchant
of Venice

 Hamlet

Resources:
Re-tellings
of Shakespeare plays. Choose from:

 Shakespeare
Stories by Leon Garfield

 Enchanted
Island: Stories from Shakespeare by Ian Serraillier

Background
reading:
          Starting
Shakespeare by
Eric Boagey

Poetry

The
Harp and Laurel Wreath by Laura Berquist:
Memorize at least four poems each semester

History

Ancient History

The Story of the World, History for the
Classical Child, Edited by Susan Wise Bauer (Peace Hill Press)

 

1st Q: Ancient Egypt   

Chapters
1 – 13 Each chapter includes Review Questions, Encyclopedia Work, Map work and
additional reading. Reading List Attached.

2^ndQ: Ancient Egypt and Greece

Chapters
13-22 Each chapter includes Review Questions, Encyclopedia Work, Map work and
additional reading. Reading List Attached.

 

3^rd
Q: Ancient Greece and Rome

Chapters
22-32 Each chapter includes Review Questions, Encyclopedia Work, Map work and
additional reading. Reading List Attached

 

4^th
Q: Ancient Rome

Chapters
33-42 Each chapter includes Review Questions, Encyclopedia Work, Map work and
additional reading. Reading List Attached

 

Current Affairs 
Print:
The National Catholic Register

Online:
Catholic World News

Catholic Exchange

Geography
and Earth Studies (twice weekly; plus map work)

Geography (twice
weekly)

Map
Work

Maps
Charts and Graphs Level D (Modern Curriculum Press)

Map
work is included in our history lessons and maps of the ancient world will be
studied.

Spend
a short time each week locating places mentioned in reading for other subjects.

 

Earth Studies

Nature
Study

 Take at least one nature walk each week.

 Keep a nature notebook

Resources

Keeping a
Nature Journal by
Claire Walker Leslie and Charles E.Roth

Wild Days:
Creating Discovery Journals by Karen Rackliffe

Introduction
to Nature Study by
MacBeth Derham (website)

Optional
Nature Reading

Insect
Adventures by
J.Henri Fabre

 

 

Science

This is a
continuation of last year’s study of nature and the creatures and plants that
inhabit our earth.

God’s
Marvelous Works Book 2 (Rod and Staff Publisher’s Inc.)
Q1: Algae and Fungi (lessons 1 – 6); Mammals (lessons 7 – 8)
Q2: Mammals (lessons 9 – 15)
Q3: Mammals (lessons 15 – 23)
Q4: Sponges, Mollusks, Sea Worms and Sea Jellies (lessons 24 -26); Amphibians
(lessons 27 – 30)

Reference
Book
Kingfisher
Science Encyclopedia

Extra
Resources

Lyrical
Life Science Vol.1

Lyrical
Life Science Vol.2 

 

Ryan
is enrolled in a homeschool science class at the Long Island Children’s Science
Museum in Plandome from October until December.

 

Health

Health
8 (Seton Press)

 

Picture
Study (weekly)

One
twentieth century artist to be studied each term:

Q1 – Henri Matisse

Q2 –  Pablo Picasso

Q3 –  Marc Chagall
Q4 – Jackson Pollock

To accompany picture study we will use Discovering
Great Artists: Hands-On Art for Children in the Styles of the Great Masters by Mary Ann
Kohl.

 

Music
(weekly)

Ryan
takes guitar lessons once a week for one hour and sings in the Our Lady of
Perpetual Help Boys choir.

We
will also study the Adoremus Hymnal in music.

 

Phys Ed.

Ryan
takes twice weekly karate lessons for one hour each.
Ryan plays baseball in the fall and spring in the Challenger League (special ed
league)

One
quarter long lesson in bicycle safety.

 

Practical Work

Ryan
will be learning rosary making and leather work this year.

 

Religion

Bible
Study

Ignatius
Study Bible: Matthew (Weekly)

Bible
Memory Work –
memorize one verse from each week’s lesson

Catechism  (Weekly)
Faith and
Life 8 (Ignatius Press). Read,
narrate and discuss one lesson each week.

Extra
Faith and Life Activity Book 8

Saints and Catholic Heroes  (ad lib.)

One
saint’s biography each quarter from the Vision Books series.