Homeschool High School Lesson Plans

Our Homeschool High School Lesson Plans are here!

A few years ago, we started to pursue a long-term vision of developing a complete course of study for Grades K-12, one in which families can experience many of the benefits of a one-room schoolhouse atmosphere. As a first step towards that end, we offered a suggested sequence along with curriculum recommendations for studying high school subjects as they correspond with each program within our Mission: Great Commission Curriculum series. Since then, we have embarked on the long process of evaluating high school curriculum with our teenagers using our corresponding lesson plans for each curriculum choice. We’re excited to announce that after years of curriculum evaluation and lesson planning, our first set of Homeschool High School Lesson Plans is finished!

We wanted to provide you with a preview so that you can take advantage of upcoming curriculum sales if you decide you’d like to embark on this journey with us through the high school years.

What it entails

1. Engagement with family. High school students often become disconnected from the rest of their family as they earn high school credit, so our aim was to develop lesson plans that would step them and their parents through learning the same general topics at a deeper and more challenging level – and with curriculum that qualifies as high-school level material. By having these same general topics correspond to our Mission Great Commission series, high schoolers can remain engaged and contribute what they’re learning to the discussions because of the overlap between material.
2. Parent help. Co-op help. If you’re not sure how to lay out lesson plans over the course of the year or what to do when you meet with your student to discuss what they’re learning, these lesson plans provide that support for you. Each week concludes with a co-op or parent meeting day in which students present and discuss material with other students (in the case of a co-op setting) or with their parents. Prompts are included for discussion.
3. College prep. Because we wanted to do our best in preparing students for college, we also wanted to ensure that our high schoolers could successfully transition to college and/or successfully earn college credit via testing before offering our plans to others. In these lesson plans, we’ve taken our favorite courses, scheduled them out over the course of the year, and provided some tips for how to earn college credit as your student works his/her way through high school using CLEP testing.
4. Complete, four-year program…. eventually! This set of lesson plans will be Trek One, intended for 9th graders. Depending on the interest expressed by homeschooling families, our goal is to create an entire scope and sequence of lesson plans for the four years of high school. Trek One was released in May 2023. If the response to Trek One warrants the further development of this program, Trek Two, Trek Three, and Trek Four will most likely be released in Spring 2024, Spring 2025, and Spring 2026, respectively.

The most challenging part of this vision has been simply…. decision. There are many different curriculum options, and there are many different learning styles. Education is not a one-size-fits-all endeavor. Even so, these lesson plans are meant to provide a framework to equip parents to continue to teach their children at home through the intimidating high school years. And our hope is that it will provide a catalyst for meaningful discussion and memory-making with your high schoolers!

The Curriculum Choices

If you’re interested in using our lesson plans, Trek One will provide a full, 36-week schedule for the following subjects:

The lesson plans are for the following curriculum choices which correspond to subjects studied in our Grade 2-8 program, Mission Lasting Liberty:

• History: Dave Raymond’s American History
• English Composition: Advanced U.S. History-Based Writing Lessons
  • American Literature:
    • The Last of the Mohicans
    • The Scarlet Letter (optional)
    • Excerpts from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
    • The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
    • Uncle Tom’s Cabin
    • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    • The Red Badge of Courage
    • Up from Slavery
    • To Kill a Mockingbird
    • The Boy on the Wooden Box
    • The Old Man and the Sea
    • Select short stories and poetry
• Lab Science: Choose either Devotional Biology (for students who do not plan to pursue a career in the sciences) or Discovering Design with Biology (for students who plan to pursue a career in the sciences). Lesson plans for both programs are provided.
• Math: Math U See Algebra I Legacy Edition (Lesson plans are for Legacy Edition (brown cover), not Principles of Secondary Mathematics Edition (blue cover))
• Foreign Language: Visual Latin 1 along with Lingua Latina.
• Health (Required Elective – 1st Semester): Apologia Exploring Creation with Health and Nutrition.
• Government (Required Elective – 2nd Semester): Notgrass Exploring Government along with the corresponding Student Review Pack. A new edition of Exploring Government will be released in late 2023. Our current lesson plans will reflect the current edition which will likely sell out during Summer 2023. After the new edition is released, we will provide an update with page numbers to the newer edition for those who are unable to order the current edition.

In future posts or newsletters, we will share why we chose this particular curriculum out of all the high school curriculum we have purchased/reviewed/used over the past five years.

If your student is using a different program for any of these subjects, blank planning pages are provided so that you can insert your own lesson plans for those subjects.

Check it out!

If you’d like to download a sample of the first week of Homeschool High School Lesson Plans: Truth Trek One, click here.

If you have questions, feel free to hop down to the comments or contact us via email at halfahundredacrewood @gmail.com (no spaces).

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High School Lessons – Truth Trek One

High School Lessons Truth Trek One PDF Only
Streamline high school with all-in-one lesson plans for courses written from a Christian worldview! This one-year high school-level curriculum provides 36 weeks of lesson plans for seven subjects: U.S. History to the Early 1900s (full year), American Literature & Composition (full year), Biology (full year lab science), Math – Algebra I (full year), Foreign Language – Latin (full year), Health (Elective – 1st Semester), and Government (Elective – 2nd Semester). Each week consists of four days of instructions for students and wraps up with a “Co-op or Parent Meeting Day” that walks parents or co-op teachers through a discussion of the current week’s topics and confirms that the student understands the material. To download a sample, click here.

Note: This resource is not eligible for purchase through a charter/public school program due to Christian themes. For families with children in Grades 1-8, the Mission Lasting Liberty program teaches corresponding subjects at the elementary and middle school levels. This provides a unified approach to teaching and learning in the home as all students in Grades 1-12 study similar content areas.

Format: PDF Download (Mac & PC Compatible), 218 pages. For individual family use only. A link to download the PDF Document will be automatically sent to the Paypal email address used at checkout.

Suggested grades: 9th grade (or high schoolers who need to take a course in any of the following: American Literature, American History, American Government, Biology I, Health, or Foreign Language).
PDF Price: $39.95

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