Adapting LCC: A Further Example
Some states require both a full year of American history and a semester of Civics (Government) in high school. If yours does, or you would like your students to spend more time on American history in high school, here's one way to arrange the courses:
9th grade: World History to 1500
10th grade: World History 1500-present
11th grade: American History
12th grade: Civics and Economics
This arrangement would require condensing the primary source readings for grade 9 and adding in a selection of later works for grade 10: More's Utopia, Leviathan by Hobbes, John Locke's Two Treatises of Government, and the Communist Manifesto would be good choices. Tocqueville can be read as part of an 11th grade American History course, along with selections from the book listed for the second term of 12th grade.
For Civics, use either the readings listed for the 2nd and 4th terms of 12th grade in LCC2, or Declaration Statesmanship (see my review). Russell Kirk's book, listed for grade 8, can be used for Economics, with or without the workbook. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom and Roepke's Humane Economy would make stimulating additions to the Economics reading. Both are from a conservative perspective; parents may of course choose to present other viewpoints. Catholic parents may wish to address the Church's teachings on subsidiarity, economic justice, and work alongside secular readings in economics. (See, for example, the encyclicals Rerum Novarum and Centisimus Annus.)