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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: Physics Form 4+

STAR Homeschool Cycle 4 Science and Nature


Claritas publishing memory work covers physics in Cycle 4, so I’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 Øyvind Nydal Dahl

You can download a pdf of the Electronics book alone here:

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 & 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.

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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 5+

Cycle 4 Apologetics Form 4

Students in our Form 5 classes at STAR read all of the following books, and so they receive a reading plan with each resource below listed on it. You may choose to have your student read all of the following books, or you may choose individual books from this list.

Scroll down to see the list of books and download the attached reading schedule in PDF format.

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 Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer 

This book is scheduled at a pace of one to two chapters per week for all twenty-eight weeks.

  • Amazon (paperback, Audible, Kindle, hardcover)

Jesus’ Family Tree: Seeing God’s Faithfulness in the Genealogy of Christ by Rose Publishing

This book is scheduled at a pace of one chapter per week from week 1 through week 12.

Radical by David Platt 

This book is scheduled at a pace of one chapter per week from week 13 through week 21.

  • Amazon (paperback,Kindle, Audible, audio CD)

Eternity in their Hearts by Don Richardson

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

You can download the pdf here:

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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.

You can download the pdf here:

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Cycle 4 Form 5+ Bible

Cycle 4 Bible

Saviour of the World Volume V by Charlotte Mason

Saviour of the World Volume VI by Charlotte Mason

 Saviour of the World Volume VII by Charlotte Mason

These books are such a fabulous resource! Charlotte Mason herself wrote seven volumes of poetry about God’s Holy Word! I recommend that students read these poetry and then also find and read the Scripture passage that the poem references.

These books are scheduled at a pace of one or two chapters per week for all twenty eight weeks. This series is read over the course of the six years students will spend in Forms 4 and 5. Form 4 readings are repeated (Cycle 1 and 3 are the same and Cycle 2 and 4 are the same) because a student will only spend two years in Form 4 (seventh and eighth grades). Then, the Form 5 readings move on from there, with Cycle 1 beginning with Volume III and Cycle 4 ending with Volume VII (students will start with chapter LVIII of Volume V in this cycle, and finish it off and then they will also get through all of Volume VI and Volume VII in this cycle). There is no harm in jumping in to whatever volume is scheduled for the year, even if a student did not read the previous volume.

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Cycle 4 Form 4+ Bible

Cycle 4 Bible

In addition to reading the Bible, Form 4 and 5 students may read books to further their knowledge of the Bible. Here are some suggestions:

Track 1

The Saviour of the World Volume II, His Dominion by Charlotte Mason

What a fabulous resource! Charlotte Mason herself wrote seven volumes of poetry about God’s Holy Word! I recommend that students read these poetry and then also find and read the Scripture passage that the poem references.

This book is scheduled at a pace of one to three chapters per week for all twenty eight weeks. This series is read over the course of the six years students will spend in Forms 4 and 5. Form 4 readings are repeated (Cycle 1 and 3 are the same and Cycle 2 and 4 are the same) because a student will only spend two years in Form 4 (seventh and eighth grades). Then, the Form 5 readings move on from there, with Cycle 1 beginning with Volume III and Cycle 4 ending with Volume VII. There is no harm in jumping in to whatever volume is scheduled for the year, even if a student did not read the previous volume.

You can download the pdf here:

Track 2

Strong in the Word by Sonya Shafer

This book is scheduled at a pace of one to two lessons per week and takes students through 1 Peter, 2 Peter, Jude, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, and Revelation.

You can also find this book on the suggested reading lists for Form 4 and 5 under Core Reading.

You can download the pdf here: