High School
High school students take a wide variety of courses and have more options to focus on subjects that interest them than in earlier years.
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Geometry: Seeing, Doing, Understanding
Harold Jacobs' classic high-school geometry course, built on discovery rather than memorized proofs. The one geometry text most veteran homeschoolers name first.
Geometry For Dummies
Mark Ryan's plain-English geometry reference, aimed squarely at the student who has a textbook and still cannot follow the proofs in it.
Geometry Workbook For Dummies
The practice half of the For Dummies geometry pair: several hundred problems with fully worked solutions, not just an answer key.
Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar
Short explanations followed by heavy drill, from McGraw-Hill's long-running self-study series. Cheap, plentiful practice.
Side by Side: Student Book 1 (Third Edition)
A conversation-first beginner course built around guided dialogues, which makes it one of the few ESL books that works with two people at a kitchen table.
Essential Grammar in Use with Answers
Raymond Murphy's elementary grammar reference, built on a two-page unit format that makes it genuinely usable for self-study.
Word Power Made Easy
A vocabulary builder that teaches Greek and Latin roots rather than word lists, so each session unlocks families of words at once.
Basic English Grammar Workbook (Azar-Hagen, 5th Edition)
The grammar series most ESL teacher training programs are built around, in workbook form with a full answer key for self-study.
Oxford Picture Dictionary, Third Edition
The standard visual dictionary in ESL classrooms worldwide: roughly 4,000 words organized by real-life situation rather than alphabetically.
English for Everyone Practice Book Level 1: Beginner
The written practice half of DK's Level 1 course. Buy it with the course book, not instead of it.
English for Everyone Course Book Level 1: Beginner
DK's visual self-study English course, built so a complete beginner can work through it alone without a teacher explaining every page.
How to Take Smart Notes
The standard English-language explanation of the Zettelkasten slip-box method: notes written to be linked and reused, not filed and forgotten.