*** SAMPLE reading list. This year's list still to be determined
Sample SECONDARY Reading list
7th Grade
READING LIST Ancient /Medieval Lit.
The Golden Goblet, Eloise McGraw
Eagle of the Ninth, Rosemary Sutcliff
Robin Hood, translation
The Hobbit, C.S. Lewis
Divine Comedy (junior version, Dante
The Inferno (junior version), Dante
Canterbury Tales (junior version), Geoffrey Chaucer
HISTORY READERS
Black Ships Before Troy , Rosemary Sutcliff
The Wanderings of Odysseus, Rosemary Sutcliff
The Aeneid for Boys and Girls, Alfred Church
8th Grade
READING LIST Early Modern / Modern Lit.
Pilgrim’s Progress in Modern Language, John Bunyan
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare
Short Stories (various)
Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom
Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
9th Grade
READING LIST Ancient/Medieval Lit
Genesis 1-12, Exodus 19-23, Deut. 6-9
The Screwtape Letters C.S. Lewis
The Enuma Elish, trans. Leonard W. King
The Odyssey, Homer (trans. Richmond Lattimore)
Julius Caesar, Shakespeare
Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
Philosophy and Christian Worldview
Know What You Believe, Paul Little
Answers for Difficult Days, David Quine
How to Read Slowly, James Sire
The Best Things in Life, Peter Kreeft
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert L. Stevenson
The Deadliest Monster, J.F. Baldwin
Assumptions that Affect Our Lives, Christian Overman
10th Grade
READING LIST Ancient/Medieval Lit*
Black Ships Before Troy , Rosemary Sutcliff
The Wanderings of Odysseus, Rosemary Sutcliff
The Screwtape Letters C.S. Lewis
The Enuma Elish, trans. Leonard W. King
The Odyssey, Homer (trans. Richmond Lattimore)
Julius Caesar, Shakespeare
Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Mark Twain
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Medieval travel journal excerpts , Marco Polo, Columbus, etc.
Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
*Due to curriculum tweak, 10th grade lit./history is the same as 9th grade this year
11th Grade
READING LIST American Literature
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography Booker Washington
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
A Separate Peace, John Knowles
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Poetry, various
Short stories, various
Sociology: Examining World Cultures
The Yin and Yang of American Culture, Eun Y. Kim
Ministering Cross-culturally, Mayers & Lingenfelter
12th Grade
READING LIST British Literature
Beowulf , Seamus Heaney
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
Macbeth, Shakespeare
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Importance of being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
Poetry, various
Short story, various