Reading List

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Writing, Reading and Thinking


Aristotle: Poetics
Aristotle: Organon (bits and pieces)
How to Read a Book
Tenets for Readers and Reviewers
Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay

Religion

Screwtape Letters
Mere Christianity
Dominic Savio
Orthodoxy by GKC

History and LIterature

World’s Great Speeches
Pygmalion (G.B. Shaw)

Herodotus, The Persian Wars, Books VI to IX
Thucydides, Peloponnesian War
Xenophon, Persian Expedition
Plutarch, Rise and Fall of Athens
Plato: The Republic

Homer, the Iliad
Homer, the Odyssey
Aeschylus, The Oresteian Trilogy.
Aristotle. “On the Art of Poetry: Poetics” found in Classical Literary Criticism. Penguin.
Sophocles, The Theban Tragedies.

Plato. “Ion” from Great Dialogues of Plato.
Plato. “Meno” from Great Dialogues of Plato.
Plato. “Apology”, “Crito” and “Phaedo” from Great Dialogues of Plato.

Science

Parts of Animals
Instant Biology
King Solomon’s Ring
Fabre: World of Insects
Chemical History of a Candle + biography of Michael Faraday
Mystery of the Periodic Tables
Galen and the Gateway to Medicine
Origin of Species
Biography of Water (for second semester, or Grade 10)
Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

Geography

The Path to Rome

Economics

Work and Prosperity
Economics in One Lesson
Free to Choose

Fiction

* The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton
* The Echo of Greece by Edith Hamilton
** The Roman Way Edith Hamilton

* The Code of Hammurabi
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

* The Gift of Fire by Richard Mitchell

LITERATURE

Shakespeare - continuing with the schedule posted at Ambleside Online. Julius Caesar fits well in this year.

* Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis (contrasts the Greek, Roman/pagan, and Christian ways of thinking)
* Oedipus Rex and Antigone by Sophocles (Greek tragedies in prose by Alfred Church here.)
* Medea and Hippolytus by Euripides
** The Aeneid by Virgil (Books I-VI) SparkNotes helps
*** The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
*** Beowulf - Seamus Heaney's translation's is recommended
*** Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Tolkein's translation)

SHORT STORIES

These are the ones selected for AO's Year 12:

* James Joyce - The Dead (21 pages)
* E. M. Forster - The Machine Stops (15 pages)
** Dorothy Parker - You Were Perfectly Fine (2 pages)
** James Thurber - The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2 pages)
** William Faulkner - A Rose for Emily 4 pages)
** William Faulkner - Barn Burning (7 pages)
** F. Scott Fitzgerald - Babylon Revisited (12 pages)
** Ernest Hemingway - A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (3 pages)
** Ernest Hemingway - Hills Like White Elephants (4 pages)
*** Eudora Welty - Why I Live at the P.O. (6 pages)
*** Flannery O'Connor - Everything That Rises Must Converge (7 pages)
*** Flannery O'Connor - Revelation (pdf file) (10 pages)
*** John Updike - A & P (3 pages)
*** O Henry - Ransom of Red Chief (5 pages)
*** Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Harrison Bergeron (4 pages)

Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch ch 29 (Ulysses) - end (Druids)