Ambleside Online Curriculum book substitutions

This post is just where I'm oranizing potential substitutions or add-ons for the Ambleside curriculum.



Books that have the potential to be substituted:

AO7 SCIENCE - add "Disappearing Spoon" back in as a free read.

AO 7 BIBLE The Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges (potentially won't fit with our theology?)

AO 8 SCIENCE Napoleon's Buttons (science is poorly represented, apparently filled with mistakes)... still need to find a sub for this.

AO 9-10-11 LIFE SKILLS Potentially replace "Do I dust or vaccum first?" with "The House that Cleans Itself" or something by Martha Stewart.

AO 9 HISTORY "Founding Brothers" potentially replace with Andrea Wulfs "The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession"

Replace Francis Schaeffer book in AO9 with Eucebius Early Church History
https://www.christianbook.com/eusebius-church-history-translation-with-commentary/paul-maier/9780825433283/pd/33282

AO 9-10-11-12 LIFE SKILLS Possibly replace "Getting more done in less time" with "Getting things done" by David Allen, also add in "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less".

AO 10 Health - Alongside "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration", add in the other books from Weston Price Foundation such as "Nourishing Broth" and "Why we need animal fats". Also consider "Good Fats, Bad Fats". "Terrors from the Table: The Curious History of Nutrition" by Walter Gratzer, "Vitamin Discoveries and Disasters".

AO 11 Science - replace "Darwin's Black Box" with "Finding Darwin's God" by Kenneth Miller.

AO 11 Science - replace "Case for a Creator" with "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief" by Francis Collins.

More books that needed to be added in or used instead of other books:

"The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldts New World" by Andrea Wulf (probably AO11 Science/History/Nature) alongside original works by Charles Darwin "Voyage on the Beagle" etc. (Humboldt was Darwin's mentor and inspired his voyage.)

For Bible (AO 10-12)

• NT Wright Books:
• "Simply Christian"
• "Love Does" by Goff
• Max Lucado books
• "The Evolution of Adam" by Peter Enns
• "How the Bible Actually Works" by Peter Enns

For Literature A11 or A12:

"Gentleman in Moscow" by Amor Towles (potentially instead of Fyodor Dostoyevksy, if that's too hard)

"All the Light We Cannot See" Anthony Doerr

Possible alternative for A11 Geography "Under the Tuscan Sun", could be "Four Seasons in Rome" by Anthony Doerr or "A Year in Provence" by Peter Mayle.

For American history, add in "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook got wrong" by James Loewen.

Find alternative for "Desiring God" by Piper, possibly something by NT Wright. Possibly the workbook and DVD set "The New Testement You Never Knew: Exploring the context, purpose and meaning of the Story of God"

Find alternative for "The Pleasures of God", possibly something by NT Wright.

Add in AO12 LIFE SKILLS "The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up" by Marie Kondo, and "The Slight Edge" by Jeff Olson.

Potential for girls in AO12 "Real Food for Pregnancy" by Lily Nichols

AO 11 or 12 add in for science or health:
"Missing Microbes"
"I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life"
"Bechamp or Pasteur?: A Lost Chapter in the History of Biology"
"Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History"
Forest Marready books
"The Stress of Life" by Selye
"The Magnesium Miracle"
"Why Zebra's Don't Get Ulcers"