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Cycle 4 Survival Reading Form 4+

Cycle 4 Habit Training

Form 4 and 5 students at STAR read all of the following books and also do independent study about survival. You can download the pdf schedule below.

The Walls Around Us by David Owen 

This book is scheduled at a pace of one chapter per week from Week 1 through Week 9.

Ten Acres Enough by Edmund Morris

This book is scheduled at a pace of one to two chapters per week from Week 10 through Week 26.

Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon 

This book is scheduled at a pace of about twenty to twenty-five pages per week through all twenty-eight weeks.

You can download the pdf here:

STAR Cycle 4 Survival Forms 4-5Download
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Cycle 4 Life & Worldview Reading Form 5+

Cycle 4 Habit Training

Life & Worldview Reading, Forms 4 & 5 Combined

Form 4 and 5 students at STAR will be reading all of the following books in the 2024-2025 school year. You can download the pdf schedule below.

Peacemaker by Ken Sande 

This book is scheduled at a pace of two chapters per week for weeks 1 through 6.

How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture by Francis A. Schaffer

This book is scheduled at a pace of one to two chapter per week from Week 7 through Week 13. 

The Ever-Loving Truth: Can Faith Survive in a Post-Christian Culture? by Voddie Baucham 

This book is scheduled at a pace of one to two chapters per week from Week 13 through Week 18.

Before You Hit Send: Preventing Headache and Heartache by Dr. Emerson Eggerichs

This book is scheduled at a pace of one or two chapters per week from Week 19 through Week 22.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman

This book is scheduled at a pace of one to two chapters per week from Week 23 through Week 28.

You can download the pdf here:

STAR Cycle 4 Life Reading Form 5Download
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Cycle 4 Life Reading Form 4

Cycle 4 Habit Training


Form 4 students at STAR Homeschool Community read all of the following books. You can find the pdf schedule below.

Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper

This book is scheduled at a pace of one or two chapters per week, for the first six weeks of the term.

How to Be Your Own Selfish Pig: And Other Ways You’ve Been Brainwashed by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

This book is scheduled at a pace of one to two chapters per week from week 6 through week 14.

Seven Men and the Secret of Their Greatness by Eric Metaxas

This book is scheduled at a pace of one chapter per week during weeks 15 through 21.  

7 Women and the Secret of Their Greatness by Eric Metaxas

This book is scheduled at a pace of one chapter per week during weeks 22 through 28.

You can download the pdf here:

STAR Cycle 4 Life Reading Form 4Download
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Cycle 4 Life Skills

Cycle 4 Habit Training

  1. Drying dishes
  2. Trimming a bush
  3. Emergency preparedness: fires
  4. Writing letters
  5. Table manners
  6. Being a good friend
  7. Hospitality
  8. Caring for a younger child or pet
  9. Emergency preparedness: earthquakes
  10. Setting a table for a guest
  11. Loading and unloading a dishwasher
  12. Keeping a calendar
  13. Baking yeast bread
  14. Cleaning windows and mirrors
  15. Changing a lightbulb
  16. Using coupons
  17. Collecting recipes in a box or binder
  18. Keeping track of family birthdays
  19. Tidying the house everyday
  20. Removing stains from laundry
  21. Planning a menu
  22. Applying mulch
  23. Creating a grocery list
  24. Growing flowers
  25. Washing a car
  26. Grocery shopping
  27. Washing and drying laundry in a machine
  28. Watering a garden

You can download the pdf here:

STAR Cycle 4 Habit Training_ Life SkillsDownload
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All Cycles Survival Skills Form 4+

All Cycles Survival Skills Form 4+
  • Animal Fat Rendering
  • Animal Trapping
  • Basket Weaving
  • Berry Identification
  • Braided Rugs
  • Bug Out Bags
  • Butter Making
  • Campfire Cooking
  • Cast Iron Pot Cooking
  • Candle Making
  • Cheese Making
  • Chickens-Raising for Eggs
  • Chickens-Raising for Meat
  • Cleaning Fish
  • Compass Skills
  • Container Gardening
  • Cows-Raising for Meat
  • Cows-Raising for Milk
  • Crocheting
  • Dehydrating Food
  • Ducks-Raising for Eggs
  • Ducks-Raising for Meat
  • Emergency Shelter Making
  • Essential Oils
  • Fence Building/Repairing
  • Fermenting (Vegetables)
  • Filtering Water
  • Fire Building
  • First Aid
  • Fishing
  • Flint & Steel
  • Food Safety
  • Foraging for Food (Safely)
  • Freeze Drying Food
  • Freezing Food
  • Garlic Braiding
  • Goats-Raising for Meat
  • Goats-Raising for Milk
  • Herb Drying
  • Herb Gardening
  • Herbal Medicine/Tinctures
  • Hogs-Raising for Meat
  • Hunting
  • Identifying Spoiled Food
  • Knife Skills
  • Knitting
  • Knot Tying
  • Lavender Crafts
  • Life Guard Skills
  • Map Skills
  • Pasta Making (homemade)
  • Plant Identification
  • Pond Building
  • Potable Water
  • Preparing Wild Game
  • Pressure Canning
  • Rabbits-Raising for Meat
  • Rocket Stove Making
  • Rope Structures
  • Signaling in an Emergency
  • Salve Making
  • Self Defense
  • Sheep-Raising for Meat
  • Soap Making
  • Solar Ovens
  • Sourdough Bread
  • Sewing 
  • Swimming
  • Tree Identification
  • Turkeys-Raising for Meat
  • Water Bath Canning
  • Whittling
  • Wildlife Encounter Safety (Bears, Coyotes, etc.)
  • Wood Carving
  • Wood Chopping
  • Yogurt Making


You can download the pdf here:

STAR Form 4 & 5 Survival TopicsDownload

Let me know if you have any suggestions for topics to add to this list!