Reading List
Level I – 7th Grade
| Class | Author | Work(s) |
| Bible Study Methods | Hendricks | Living by the Book |
| Moses | Pentateuch (Genesis–Deuteronomy) | |
| Classical Foundations 1 | Phillips | Easy Grammar: Plus |
| Pudewa | Institutes for Excellence in Writing Material | |
| Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, O Henry, Rudyard Kipling, C.S. Lewis, Guy de Maupassant, James Thurber, Mark Twain | Various short stories | |
| Algebra 1/2 | John Saxon | Algebra 1/2 |
| Physical Science | Various | Discussions and sample readings studying a range of scientific fields–Geology, Aeronautics, Rocketry, Astronomy, Chemistry, etc for the purpose of arousing interest in Science |
| Ancient Near East | Various | Projects and maps over various civilizations–The Ancient Egyptian, Mycenaean, Minoan, Babylonian, Hebrew and Indus River Valley |
*Excerpts only
Level II – 8th Grade
| Class | Author(s) | Work(s) |
| Old Testament | Various | Joshua – Malachi |
| English 1 | Aeschylus | Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides |
| Homer | The Iliad, The Odyssey | |
| Plato | The Republic, The Apology, other selected works | |
| Sophocles | Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone | |
| Classical Foundations 2 | Pudewa | Institutes for Excellence in Writing Material |
| Phillips | Easy Grammar: Ultimate Series | |
| Algebra 1 | Saxon | Algebra 1 |
| Biology | Kaskel, Hummer, and Daniel | Biology: An Everyday Experience |
| Darwin |
The Origin of Species
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| Behe |
Darwin's Black Box*
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| Aristotle |
De Anima*
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| Bernard | An Introduction to Experimental Medicine* | |
| Yancey and Brand | Fearfully and Wonderfully Made* | |
| Strobel | The Case for a Creator* | |
| Greece and Rome | Hamilton | Mythology* |
| Plutarch | Lives of Noble Greeks and Romans* | |
| Herodotus | The Histories* | |
| Thucydides | History of the Peloponnesian War* | |
| Livy | The Early History of Rome* | |
| Seutonius | Lives of the 12 Caesars* |
*Excerpts only
Level III – 9th Grade
| Class | Author(s) | Work(s) |
| New Testament | Various | Matthew – Revelation |
| English 2 | Anselm | Proslogium, Monologium, Cur Deus Homo |
| Aristotle | Physics, Metaphysics, De Anima, Nichomachean Ethics, Parts of Animals, On the Soul | |
| Athanasius | On the Incarnation | |
| Augustine | Confessions, City of God | |
| Cicero | Selected Works | |
| Erasmus | On Free Will | |
| Shakespeare | Selected Works | |
| Virgil | The Aeneid | |
| Greek 1 | Mounce | Beginning Greek |
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Algebra 2
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Saxon | Algebra 2 |
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Logic
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Wilson and Nance | Introductory Logic, Intermediary Logic |
| World History 1 | Kaufman | Our Young Folks' Plutarch |
| Josephus | Antiquities of the Jews | |
| Seutonius | The Twelve Caesars | |
| Tacitus | The Annals of Imperial Rome |
*Excerpts only
Level IV – 10th Grade
| Class | Author(s) | Work(s) |
| Bible Literature | Various | Genesis – Revelation* |
| English 3 | Aquinas | Summa Theologica |
| Calvin | The Institutes of the Christian Religion* | |
| Chaucer | Canterbury Tales | |
| Dante | Inferno | |
| Hobbes | The Leviathan | |
| Milton | Paradise Lost | |
| Shakespeare | Hamlet | |
| Spenser | Faerie Queene | |
| Greek 2 | Mounce | Beginning Greek |
| Pre-Calculus | Foerster | Pre-Calculus with Trigonometry: Concepts and Applications |
| Physics | Hewitt | Conceptual Physics |
| Hickman | Problem-Solving Exercises in Physics | |
| World History 2 | Armstrong | Islam |
| Machiavelli | The Prince | |
| Marx | The Communist Manifesto | |
| Schaeffer |
How Should We Then Live?
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| Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Copeland, Handel, Mozart, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Wagner |
Selected Compositions
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*Excerpts only
Level V – 11th Grade
| Class | Author(s) | Work(s) |
| English 4 | Conrad | Heart of Darkness |
| Dostoevsky | The Brothers Karamazov | |
| Goethe | Faust | |
| Hume | Treatise on Human Nature | |
| Kant | Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics, Foundations to the Metaphysics of Morals | |
| Kirkegaard | Fear and Trembling | |
| Montaigne | Essays | |
| More | Utopia | |
| Nietzsche | Beyond Good and Evil | |
| Pascal | Pensées | |
| Swift | Gulliver's Travels | |
| Rhetoric | Aristotle | On Rhetoric |
| Cicero | De Oratore, Rhetorica as Herennium, De Inventione | |
| Plato | Meno, Ion, Gorgias, Phaedrus | |
| Various | Selected Speeches | |
| Fine Arts 1 | Fritz | Creating |
| Geometry | Abbott | Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions |
| Euclid |
The Elements
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| Various |
SAT Prep
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| Chemistry | ||
| American History | Founding Fathers | Declaration of Independence, The Constitution |
| Hamilton, Jay and Madison | The Federalist Papers | |
| King | March on Washington Address | |
| Lincoln | Selected Speeches
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| Tocqueville | Democracy in America | |
*Excerpts only
Level VI – 12th Grade
The Bible
Selections
Aristotle
Physics
Adam Smith
Wealth of Nations
Twain
Selected Writings
Melville
Moby Dick
T. S. Eliot
Selected Poems
C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity
Shelley
Frankenstein
Stevenson
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Ptolemy
Almagest
Churchill
Selected Works
Copernicus
On the Revolutions of the Spheres
Lucretius
On the Nature of Things
Pascal
Pensees
Einstein
Selected works
Galileo
Dialogue Concerning Two Chief World Systems
Newton
Principia
Mathematica
Descartes
Geometry
Selections
Aristotle
Physics
Adam Smith
Wealth of Nations
Twain
Selected Writings
Melville
Moby Dick
T. S. Eliot
Selected Poems
C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity
Shelley
Frankenstein
Stevenson
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Ptolemy
Almagest
Churchill
Selected Works
Copernicus
On the Revolutions of the Spheres
Lucretius
On the Nature of Things
Pascal
Pensees
Einstein
Selected works
Galileo
Dialogue Concerning Two Chief World Systems
Newton
Principia
Mathematica
Descartes
Geometry
Pascal
Generation of Conic Sections
Euclid
The Elements
Text and Reference
Statistics
Generation of Conic Sections
Euclid
The Elements
Text and Reference
Statistics
