Ambleside Year 4 (tweaked)

This year we tried a different structure to our year, so some things are really not AOish, but sort of CM friendly.

History
Maestro: The New Americans: Colonial Times 1620-1689
Maestro: Struggle for a Continent: The French and Indian Wars 1689-1763
Maestro: Liberty or Death: The American Revolution 1763-1783
Maestro: A New Nation: The United States 1783-1815
Sanders: America's Black Founders: Revolutionary Heroes & Early Leaders with 21 Activities
Anderson: Independent Dames: What You Never Knew About the Women and Girls of the American Revolution
Hennessey: The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation
Bauer: Story of the World vol. 3 (only the 1600-1800 sections)

California History
O'Dell: Cruise of the Arctic Star
O'Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins
Steck-Vaughn: Never Turn Back: Father Serra's Mission
Abbink: Missions of the Monterey Bay Area
White: Missions of the San Francisco Bay Area
(the two missions books were chosen because I found a report on a Native American website that those books tend to more accurately reflect the Native experience)

Biography
Fleming: Ben Franklin's Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's Life
Bober: Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution

Science
Dixon: The Practical Geologist
Earth Science cards from Creek's Edge
Nebel's Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding K-2 & 3-5
Comstock: Handbook of Nature Study (if I can figure out how to fit nature study in)

Geography
Ada: Where the Flame Trees Bloom
Sherlock: West Indian Folk-Tales
Taylor: The Cay

Shakespeare
Midsummer Night's Dream
Romeo and Juliet
Love's Labors Lost

Plutarch
Pericles, Fabius, & Nicias

Literature
Stevenson: Kidnapped
Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
Burnford: The Incredible Journey
Bullfinch: Age of Fable (first 15 chapters)
Irving: "Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Longfellow: "Paul Revere's Ride"

Poetry
Tennyson, Dickinson, Wordsworth

French
Alex et Zoe levels 2 & 3

Japanese
beginning class at the Japanese Language School in San Jose

Artist Study
Renoir (ok, we mostly missed him), Hokusai, Seurat
Place: The Old Man Mad About Drawing (about Hokusai)

Art
Artistic Pursuits grades 4-6 vol. 1

Composer Study
Debussy, Bach, Verdi

Practical Life: Computer Science
Bueno: Loren Ipsum
Programming practice in Scratch (we may use learnscratch.org)
(we may also add in Alice at some point)

Math
Mathematics Enhancement Programme Year 4
Kumon books about the 4 operations

English
First Language Lessons vol. 4
Writing with Style vol. 1
Thompson: Sentence Town
Henry: Words