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Cycle 4 Science & Nature: Nature Form 4

STAR Homeschool Cycle 4 Science and Nature

Family Read Aloud Books or Independent Reading: Nature, Forms 4 & 5

Field, Forest and Farm by Jean-Henri Fabre

This book is scheduled at a pace of one to three chapters per week from Week 1 through Week 28.

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Cycle 4 Science & Nature: Forests and Trees Form 4+

STAR Homeschool Cycle 4 Science and Nature

How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves by Tristan Gooley

This book is scheduled at a pace of one chapter per week for weeks 1 through 14.

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Cycle 4 Science & Nature: Weather Form 5+

STAR Homeschool Cycle 4 Science and Nature

Family Read Aloud Books or Independent Reading

Sabbath Mood High School Weather

This book is scheduled at a pace of one to two lessons per week. An additional book is needed for this curriculum: The Secret World of Weather by Tristan Gooley.

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Cycle 4 Science & Nature: Weather Form 4+

STAR Homeschool Cycle 4 Science and Nature

Family Read Aloud Books or Independent Reading

Sabbath Mood Form 3-4 Weather

This book is scheduled at a pace of one to two chapters per week for all four terms. This curriculum requires two additional books: Look at the Sky and Tell the Weather by Eric Sloane and Climate Maps by Ian F. Mahaney

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Cycle 4 Science & Nature: Physics Form 4+

STAR Homeschool Cycle 4 Science and Nature


Claritas publishing memory work covers physics in Cycle 4, so Iโ€™ve scheduled several options for families to cover this subject.

Family Read Aloud Books or Independent Reading: Physics Form 4 & 5

These books are all included on a single pdf, below.

Sabbath Mood F3-4 Electronics

This book is scheduled at a pace of one to two lessons per week for all twenty-eight weeks. An additional book is needed for this curriculum: Electronics for Kids by ร˜yvind Nydal Dahl

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Liquids and Gases by Paul Fleisher

Objects in Motion by Paul Fleisher

Waves by Paul Fleisher

Sabbath Mood Physics 3-4

Sabbath Mood Physics Part 1

Exploring the World of Physics: From Simple Machines to Nuclear Energy by John Hudson Tiner

Matter and Energy by Paul Fleisher

For the Love of Physics by Walter Lewin

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Cycle 4 History Form 4+

Cycle 4 History

This is the independent reading schedule for students in Forms IV, V and VI. Forms IV, V and VI are students in grades 9 through 12. In a smaller community, all Form IV, V & VI students meet together and use the following schedule.

Reading is only part of the learning process. Make sure your Form IV, V or VI student is practicing the following:

  • Narration: sometimes spoken and sometimes written
  • Studying Maps: look at the locations mentioned in the history books and draw and label maps
  • Keeping a timeline, or, book of centuries

And last, students should be discussing these topics with others. This can be with other teens and a tutor in a community, or it can be with mom and/or dad at home.

Do not be tempted to waste time on quizzes, word finds, crossword puzzles with history vocabulary words or other work that might be deemed twaddle. Encourage your child to read these good books, keep a detailed timeline book, draw maps (as beautifully as she can), to write some narration passages about what she learned, and to discuss all of these things.

Growth of the British Empire by M.B. Synge

This is the last book in the Story of the World series by M.B. Synge. This book is scheduled at a pace of three chapters per week for the first two terms (fourteen weeks).

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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.

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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.

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Cycle 4 Literature & Language Arts Form 4+

STAR Cycle 4 Form 1 Read Aloud

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen*

This book is scheduled at a pace of four chapters per week for the first twelve weeks, and two chapters in Week 13.

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton*

This book is scheduled at a pace of two or three chapters per week from Week 3 through Week 18.

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

This book is scheduled at a pace of one act per week from Week 1 through Week 3. At STAR, this book will be read aloud in class.

Born Again by Charles W. Colson*

This book is scheduled at a pace of two chapters per week from Week 15 through Week 28.

Shakespeare in Three Steps: The Comedy of Errors 

This play is scheduled at a pace of one act per week from Week 15 through Week 19. At STAR, this play will be read aloud in class.

Joni by Joni Eareckson Tada*

This book is scheduled at a pace of two or three chapters per week from Week 19 through Week 24.

Something Beautiful for God by Malcom Muggeridge

This book is scheduled at a pace of one to two chapters per week from Week 24 through Week 27.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury*

This book is scheduled at a pace of one chapter per week from Week 26 through Week 28.

You will also need:

 Literature Guides from 7 Sisters Homeschool: Sense and SensibilityCry, the Beloved CountryBorn AgainSomething Beautiful for GodFahrenheit 451 

*Audio is available

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Cycle 4 Apologetics Form 4

Cycle 4 Apologetics Form 4

There are currently only two reading plans for Form 4 Apologetics, so the reading plans for Cycles 1 and 3 are the same, and so are the plans for Cycles 2 and 4, with one exception: the topics in Fearless Apologetics. The apologetics reading schedules really take every Form through the same apologetics question at the same time, but using books at their own level. Fearless Apologetics is the core text that Form 4 and 5 students will use every year to get through these topics. 

Students will come across a topic more than once over their education, but they will use different resources, and the hope is that their own brain would begin to make some beautiful connections.

Scroll down to see the list of books, and download the pdf for the reading schedule.

Fearless Apologetics by Chap Bettis

This is a great resource for the whole family and is a required resource for Form 4 and 5 students at STAR and will be used each year for these Forms. 

The book contains apologetics topics and questions, and then resources and Scripture references for each question. There is a different set of questions from this book for every cycle.

This reading schedule is for the 2022 edition and will be updated if a new version is printed.

The Grace and Truth Paradox: Responding with Christlike Balance by Randy Alcorn

This short book is scheduled at a pace of two chapters per week for weeks 1 through 5.

The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel

This is book is scheduled at a pace of one chapter per week, starting in Week 6 and ending in Week 17.

Follow Me by David Platt

This book is scheduled at a pace of one chapter per week during weeks 18 through 27.

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