Christopher Riegg – Curriculum Bibliography
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ENGLISH
For English, Christopher studied the following books. Those marked with an asterisk are being
completed during his senior year.
AMERICAN AUTHORS – PRIMARY
Dickinson, Emily, Frances Schoonmaker, and Chi Chung. Emily Dickinson. New York: Sterling Pub.,
1994. Print.
etc.
AMERICAN AUTHORS – NON-PRIMARY
Bascomb, Neal. The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less than Four Minutes to Achieve It.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Print.
etc.
BRITISH AUTHORS – PRIMARY
Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Print.
etc.
BRITISH AUTHORS – NON-PRIMARY
Herriot, James. All Creatures Great and Small. New York: St. Martin's, 1972. Print.
etc.
OTHER AUTHORS
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, and David McDuff. Crime and Punishment. London: Penguin, 2003. Print.
etc.
GRAMMARS AND VOCABULARY BUILDERS
Hodkinson, Kenneth. Wordly Wise: Books 9-12. Cambridge, MA: Educators Pub. Service, 1972. Print.
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Phillips, Wanda C. Daily Grams. Jr. & Sr. High. Scottsdale, AZ: ISHA Enterprises, 2002. Print.
Sire, James W. How to Read Slowly: Reading for Comprehension. Wheaton, IL: H. Shaw, 1989. Print.
MATHEMATICS
Christopher is largely self-taught in the area of math. For Pre-calculus and Calculus, he has met
occasionally with a private tutor.
ALGEBRA 2
Saxon Algebra 2. Orlando, FL: Saxon, 1997. Print.
Tiner, John Hudson. Exploring the World of Mathematics. Green Forest, AR: Master, 2004. Print.
ALGEBRA 3, TRIGONOMETRY
Saxon Geometry, Trigonometry, Algebra 3. Orlando, FL: Saxon, 1985. Print.
PRE-CALCULUS
Pre-calculus "Teaching Textbooks." Web. 25 Nov. 2010.
<http://www.teachingtextbooks.com/v/vspfiles/tt/PreCalculus.htm>.
CALCULUS*
Gibilisco, Stan. Calculus Know-it-all: Beginner to Advanced, and Everything in between. New York:
McGraw-Hill, 2009. Print.*
"MIT OpenCourseWare | Mathematics | 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2006 | Home." Free Online
Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare. Web. 28 Nov. 2010.
<http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-01-single-variable-calculus-fall-2006/>.*
DEBATE: US TEAM POLICY
During the last four and a half years, team policy debate has required much research, including many
thousands of articles from a wide variety of internet and print sources. From these tens of thousands of
pages of reading, Christopher compiled approximately 2,000 pages of research documents, consisting of
about 250 briefs and 10 cases that he and his partners used in about 300 rounds of debate competition.
He also helped as a student-coach of his debate club, giving presentations on research, guidance to
fellow students, and leading research teams. In this bibliography, only the printed books that he read for
background knowledge of each debate topic are included. Not included are the thousands of research
articles.
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NATO – Completed during 8th grade at high school academic level.
IMMIGRATION
Graham, Otis L. Unguarded Gates: a History of America's Immigration Crisis. Lanham, MD: Rowman
& Littlefield, 2006. Print.
etc.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Christopher read general history, politics and economics books and original source materials in tandem
with historical novels and watching video documentaries. Together, these provided a rich tapestry of
historical and analytical content. The non-fiction, biographical and autobiographical works are separated
from the historical novels. He answered specific questions relating to the books, wrote essays and
reports, discussed the historical events, and created some timelines.
AMERICAN HISTORY
Non-fiction, Biographical and Autobiographical Works:
Alexander, Caroline. The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition. New York: Knopf,
1998. Print.
etc.
Historical Novels for American History:
Beatty, Patricia. Bonanza Girl. New York: Scholastic Teaching Resources, 2003. Print.
etc.
WORLD HISTORY: ANCIENT EGYPT to WW II
Non-fiction, Biographical and Autobiographical Works:
Anderson, Neil. In Search of the Source: a First Encounter with God's Word. Orlando, FL: Wycliffe,
1999. Print.
etc.
Historical Novels for World History:
Holm, Anne. I Am David. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2004. Print.
etc.
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CIVICS, ECONOMICS and GOVERNMENT
Non-fiction, Biographical and Autobiographical Works:
Amos, Gary T., Richard Gardiner, and William A. Dembski. Never before in History: America's
Inspired Birth. Dallas, TX: Haughton Pub., 1998. Print.
etc.
Historical Novels for Civics, Economics and Government:
Hentoff, Nat. The Day They Came to Arrest the Book. Berlin: Cornelsen, 2006. Print.
etc.
SCIENCE
Christopher studied Chemistry with a private class for home schooled students, and Honors Biology 2:
Genetics at Canby High School. Both classes included labs. His pursuit of understanding physics
included reading the listed books and viewing multimedia presentations.
ASTRONOMY*
Filippenko, Alexei V. Understanding the Universe: an Introduction to Astronomy. Springfield, VA:
Teaching, 2007. DVD.*
Filippenko, Alexei V. Black Holes Explained. Springfield, VA: Teaching, 2007. DVD and Print.*
"MIT OpenCourseWare | Physics | 8.282J Introduction to Astronomy, Spring 2006 | Home." Free
Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare. Web. 28 Nov. 2010.
<http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-282j-introduction-to-astronomy-spring-2006/>.*
BIOLOGY 2: GENETICS
Ensrud, Jeremy. Modern Medicine; Molecular Genetics; Mendelian Genetics; Note: These were the
high school teacher’s packets that he prepared for the class. Canby, OR. 2009. Print.
BIOLOGY 3
Alberts, Bruce. Molecular Biology of the Cell. New York: Garland Pub., 1989. Print.*
Roberts, Michael. Advanced Biology. Walton-on-Thames: Nelson, 2004. Print.*
Sanford, John C., and John R. Baumgardner. Genetic Entropy & the Mystery of the Genome: the
Genome Is Degenerating. Lima, NY: Elim, 2005. Print.
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CHEMISTRY
Margulis, Lynn, and Eduard Punset. Mind, Life, and Universe: Conversations with Great Scientists of
Our Time. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Pub., 2007. Print.
Tiner, John Hudson. Exploring the World of Chemistry: from Ancient Metals to High-speed Computers.
Green Forest, AR: Master, 2001. Print.
Wile, Jay L. Exploring Creation with Chemistry. Anderson, IN: Apologia Educational Ministries, 2003.
Print.
HEALTH
Gray, Henry. Gray's Anatomy: the Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice. Edinburgh: Elsevier Churchill
Livingstone, 2005. Print.*
PHYSICS
arnett, R. ichael., enry
hry, and Helen R. Quinn. The Charm of Strange Quarks: Mysteries and
Revolutions of Particle Physics. New York: AIP, 2000. Print.
etc.
SPANISH
Christopher participated in four years of classroom Spanish instruction with other home schooled
students. His father, a professional Spanish instructor, taught the classes using the TPRS story-telling
method.
Living Waters Spanish 3and 4. Web. 25 Nov. 2010. <http://livingwatersspanish.weebly.com/>.*
PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY and WORLDVIEWS
Augustine. Confessions. New York: Penguin, 2006. Print.*
etc.
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