Reading List
Level I – 7th Grade
| Class | Author | Work(s) |
| Bible Study Methods | various | Pentateuch (Genesis-Deuteronomy) |
| Classical Foundations | Lybrand | The Writing Course |
| Hemmingway | The Old Man and the Sea | |
| Lewis | The Chronicles of Narnia | |
| Tolkien | The Hobbit | |
| Aeschylus | Prometheus Bound | |
| Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, C.S. Lewis, Guy de Maupassant, James Thurber, Mark Twain, Poe | various short stories | |
| Algebra 1/2 | 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– Ancient Egyptian, Mycenaean, Minoan, Babylonian, Hebrew and Indus River Valley |
Level II – 8th Grade
| Class | Author(s) | Work(s) |
| Old Testament | various | The Bible (Joshua – Malachi) |
| Great Books I | Aeschylus | Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides |
| Sophocles | Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone |
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| Homer | The Iliad, The Odyssey | |
| Plato | The Republic, The Apology, other short dialogues | |
| Algebra 1 | Foerster | Algebra 1 |
| Biology | Kaskel, Hummer, and Daniel | Biology: An Everyday Experience |
| Darwin | The Origin of Species | |
| Behe | Darwin's Black Box* | |
| Aristotle | De Anima* | |
| 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 (Our Young Folks' Plutarch)* | |
| Herodotus | The Histories* | |
| Thucydides | History of the Peloponnesian War* | |
| Livy | The Early History of Rome* | |
| Seutonius | Lives of the 12 Caesars* | |
| MacGregor | The Story of Rome* | |
| Josephus | The Antiquity of the Jews*, Wars of the Jews* | |
| DeVries | Battles of the Ancient World* | |
| Polybius | The Histories* | |
| unknown | I & II Maccabees* |
Level III – 9th Grade
| Class | Author(s) | Work(s) |
| New Testament | Various | The Bible (Matthew – Revelation) |
| Great Books 2 | Anselm | Proslogium*, Monologium*, Cur Deus Homo* |
| Aristotle | Physics*, Metaphysics*, Nichomachean Ethics*, Politics* | |
| Augustine | Confessions* | |
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Bradbury
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Farenheit 451
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| unknown | Beowulf | |
| Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth | |
| Virgil | The Aeneid | |
| Chaucer | Canterbury Tales* | |
| Greek 1 | Mounce | Beginning Greek |
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Algebra 2
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Foerster | Algebra and Trigonometry |
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Logic
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Wilson and Nance | Introductory Logic, Intermediary Logic |
| World History 1 | Gonzalez | The Story of Christianity |
| Josephus | Antiquities of the Jews | |
| Seutonius | The Twelve Caesars* | |
| Tacitus | The Annals of Imperial Rome * | |
| Augustine | City of God* | |
| Armstrong | Islam, A Short History* | |
| Athanasius |
On the Incarnation
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| Muhammad |
Quran*
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| Martyr |
First Apology
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| various |
select Medieval documents and decrees
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*Excerpts only
Level IV – 10th Grade
| Class | Author(s) | Work(s) |
| Great Books 3 | Aquinas | Summa Theologica* |
| Descartes | Meditations* | |
| Dante | Divine Comedy: Inferno and Purgatorio | |
| Hobbes | The Leviathan* | |
| Milton | Paradise Lost* | |
| Shakespeare | Hamlet, King Lear | |
| Machiavelli | The Prince | |
| Nietzsche | Parable of the Madman | |
| Locke | Second Treatise on Government* | |
| Luther | 95 Theses | |
| 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 | |
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Rhetoric I
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Aristotle | On Rhetoric* |
| Paul, the Apostle | Romans (Bible) | |
| Khunert | Servant Leadership | |
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World History 2
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Marx | The Communist Manifesto |
| Wiesel |
Night
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| Schaeffer |
How Should We Then Live?
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| various | Essentials: European History Series (1500-Present) | |
| Giotto, Masaccio, daVinci, Michaelangelo, Raphael, Rembrandt, Bruegel the Elder, Goya, Monet, Van Gogh, Munch, Picasso, Duchamp, Warhol, Pollock | select paintings | |
| Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Copeland, Handel, Mozart, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Wagner | select compositions | |
| Films: | ||
| Till | Luther | |
| Apted | Amazing Grace | |
| Spielberg | Schindler's List (clean film version) | |
| Frankowski | Expelled |
*Excerpts only
Level V – 11th Grade
| Class | Author(s) | Work(s) |
| Great Books IV | Dostoevsky | The Brothers Karamazov |
| Goethe | Faust, Part I | |
| Hume | Treatise on Human Nature*, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding* | |
| Kant | Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics* | |
| Kirkegaard | Fear and Trembling* | |
| Dickens | Great Expectations | |
| Rousseau | The Origin of Inequality*, The Social Contract* | |
| Nietzsche | Beyond Good and Evil* | |
| Pascal | Pensées* | |
| Swift | Gulliver's Travels | |
| Golding | The Lord of the Flies | |
| Rhetoric II | Cicero | De Oratore, Rhetorica as Herennium, De Inventione |
| Aristotle | On Rhetoric | |
| Plato | Meno, Ion, Gorgias, Phaedrus | |
| Various | Selected Speeches | |
| Fine Arts I | Fritz | Creating |
| various films | ||
| Geometry | Abbott | Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions |
| Euclid |
The Elements
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| Khan Academy, College Board, Barron's |
SAT Prep
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| American History | Jefferson, Adams, Franklin | Declaration of Independence, The Constitution |
| Hamilton, Jay and Madison | The Federalist Papers | |
| King | March on Washington Address | |
| Lincoln | Selected Speeches | |
| select opinions | Supreme Court Decisions | |
| Bradford |
Mayflower Compact
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| Mayhew | "A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers" | |
| Marshall and Manuel | The Light and the Glory | |
| Henry | Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death | |
| Paine | Common Sense | |
| Maybury | World War I: the Rest of the Story*, World War II: the Rest of the Story | |
| Washington | Farewell Address | |
| Reed | Myths of the Great Depression | |
| various | Essentials: U.S. History Series (1492-present) | |
| Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley, U.S. Congress | Documents on American Imperialism | |
| Moore |
We Were Soldiers Once...and Young*
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| Films: | ||
| Burns | The Civil War*, The War*, Jazz* | |
| Spielberg | Amistad, Lincoln, Saving Private Ryan, John Adams (Episodes 1 and 2) | |
| Johnson | Boycott | |
| Donaldson | 13 Days | |
| National Geographic | Inside 9/11 |
*Excerpts only
Level VI – 12th Grade
| Class | Author(s) | Work(s) |
| Advanced Literature | Huxley |
Brave New World
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| Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird | |
| Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | |
| Plato | Republic | |
| Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter | |
| Calculus | Swokowski | Calculus |
| Fine Arts II | Bordwell/Thompson | Film Art |
| Apologetics | Lewis | Mere Christianity, Great Divorce |
| Stroebel | Case for a Creator | |
| Muhammad | Quran* | |
| various | The Bible, selections | |
| Kreeft | Socrates Meets Jesus | |
| Muller | Wisdom of the Buddha | |
| Smith | Book of Mormon* | |
| Laozi | Tao Te Ching | |
| Vyasa | Bhagavadgita | |
| Astronomy | Rees | Universe:The Definitive Visual Guide* |
| Hawking | A Brief History of Time | |
| Stroebel | Case for a Creator | |
| Government | Hamilton, Madison, Jay | Federalist Papers* |
| Henry | Speeches before Virginia Assembly | |
| King John, Langton | Magna Carta | |
| various | Mayflower Compact | |
| various | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | |
| British Parliament | English Bill of Rights | |
| Locke | Second Treatise of Government* | |
| Jefferson, Adams, Franklin | Declaration of Independence, The Constitution | |
| Dickinson | Articles of Confederation | |
| deTocqueville | Democracy in America* | |
| Skousen | 5000 Year Leap* | |
| Economics |
Adam Smith
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Wealth of Nations
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Sowell
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Basic Economics*
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Ramsey
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Financial Peace University Student Edition
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*Excerpts only
