Welcome to ​Old Fashioned Education's FREE online curriculum.
Before you begin, please read the introduction and license agreement. 

Directions: 

1. Gather materials using the Booklist (below) for what to teach.
2. Print the 40-Week Schedule PDF for when to teach it.
3. Order the Grade 11 Teacher Manual (optional, when available) with lesson plans, worksheets, tests, and answer key for how to teach it or plan your own lessons using the FREE Student Weekly Assignment Booklet PDF.

Key:  *Free online   ❶  Our Pick!   ❷ Christianbook

Eleventh Grade
For Ages 15 to 18
Industrial History from 1800 to 1900


King James Bible 

• The King James Version of the Bible

Bible Study

• Heretics ❷ or Orthodoxy ❷ by G. K. Chesterton*
• ​One Blood*  The Biblical Answer to Racism by Ken Ham
• One Blood Study Guide*​

Devotions

• Our Daily Bread* [1] or Daily Strength for Daily Needs* or other devotions of your choice

Arithmetic. Choose 1

• CIMT Secondary Year 12* or 
• Ray's New Higher Algebra* or
• Teaching Textbooks or Trigonometry of your choice

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Science

• Enjoying Science Together or Chemistry text of choice

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​Language Arts

• The Exposition of Ideas by Baxter Hathaway*
• A Study of Poetry by Perry Bliss*
• As A Man Thinketh by James Allen*

Grammar & Composition as needed. [2]

• McGuffey High School Reader* 
• ​McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book*
• Harvey's English Grammar*

Latin & Foreign Languages

• Begin or continue Latin
• Latin for Beginners, or another Latin text of your choice.
• Add other foreign languages of your choice.

Literature

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley* 
• Dracula by Bram Stoker*
• Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Vern*
• The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells 
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson* 
• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe*

​Extra reading as desired

• The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton*
• The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton*
  
• FREE Robinson Book List - Level 11*
• Andrew Lang's Fairy Books*

History

• Beacon Lights of History, Volume 12: American Leaders by John Lord*, all 6 Chapters
• Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14: The New Era by John Lord*, all 10 Chapters
• First Across the Continent: The Story of Lewis & Clark by Noah Brooks*
• The Underground Railroad by William Still*

Biography

• Daniel Webster by Henry Cabot Lodge*
• Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe*
• Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington*
• John James Audubon by John Burroughs*
• Appropriate Henty, Altsheler, and Mühlbach novels*

Social Studies
Civics

• Problems in American Democracy by Thames Ross Williamson*

Economics

• Liberty, A Path to it's Recovery by F.A. Harper*
• Whatever Happened to Penny Candy by by Rick Maybury*, extra reading as desired

Eleventh Grade Syllabus​

1. Daily - spend time reading a broad array of topics - see 40-Week Schedule.
2. Daily - spend time writing narrations, outlines, copywork, spelling, or penmanship [2]
3. Daily - spend time talking (discuss and narrate readings, compare to today's issues)
4. Daily - spend time reciting (students should create an ongoing Recitation Notebook for making notes of all subjects in Q&A format or outline format)

Junior Weekly Schedule:

Have Eleventh Grade questions or comments?  See FAQ's

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Notes
[1] Our Daily Bread includes a Bible reading plan.
[2] Need a crash course in grammar and composition? While it is costly, we recommend Analytical Grammar's 2-Year Schedule.
^Consumable books less than 10%