Now that my oldest child has reached the high school grades, I'm picking up some of the teaching load. I've laid out a three year plan for reading in the final high school years. Here is what we will be going through. For each, after we've covered the book, I'll post my files used to guide the discussion.

You may have noticed that I haven't posted any discussion topic files lately. For the curious: we are still doing the reading list, but I've found that the discussion fodder isn't necessary.

Year 1

Being Logical; D.Q. Mcinerny (PowerPoint)
How to Read a Book; Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (PowerPoint, Synopsis)
The Conscience of a Conservative; Barry M. Goldwater (PowerPoint)
How to Lie with Statistics; Darrell Huff, Irving Geis (PowerPoint)
The Constitution, including the Bill of Rights and the other ammendments (PowerPoint)
The Declaration of Independence (See The Constitution PowerPoint)
Harrison Bergeron; Kurt Vonnegut (PowerPoint)
Pilgrim's Progress; John Bunyan (No PowerPoint, I'll have to make one for the next kid!)
The Knowledge of the Holy; A. W. Tozer (PowerPoint)
The Screwtape Letters; C. S. Lewis (No PowerPoint, I'll have to make one for the next kid!)
The Elements of Style; William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (PowerPoint)

Year 2

Mere Christianity; C. S. Lewis
Pia Desideria; Philip Jacob Spener
How to Solve It; G. Polya
The Closing of the American Mind; Allan Bloom
The Federalist Papers, free version here
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History; Thomas E. Woods Jr.
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science; Tom Bethell
Decision Making and the Will of God; Garry Friesen
Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air; Beckwith & Koukl
The Church at the End of the 20th Century; Francis A. Schaeffer

Year 3

Escape from Reason; Francis A. Schaeffer
The Abolition of Man; C. S. Lewis
Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview; J. P. Moreland, William Lane Craig
Reasonable Faith: Christian Faith and Apologetics; William Lane Craig
Darwin on Trial; Phillip E. Johnson
Commentary on Romans; Martin Luther
How to Stay a Christian in College; J. Budziszewski
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades); Robert Spencer
The Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel; C. F. W. Walther

Other Courses

Before embarking on this three year study of some good and a few great books, I taught the following home schooling classes:

Introduction to Biblical Greek
Introduction to Propositional Logic