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Reading List

9th Grade
Humane Letters

Great Books

  • My Antonia, Cather
  • The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald
  • Walden, Thoreau
  • Civil Disobedience, Thoreau
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain
  • Othello, Shakespeare
  • Democracy in America, De Tocqueville
  • Night, Weisel

Historical Works

  • A Documentary History of the United States, Heffner

10th Grade
Humane Letters

Great Books

  • Utopia, More
  • Second Treatise of Government, Locke
  • Pride and Prejudice, Austen
  • Discourse on Inequality, Rousseau
  • A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens
  • The Communist Manifesto, Marx
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Solzhenitsyn
  • Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky
  • Henry V, Shakespeare

11th Grade
Humane Letters

Great Books

  • The Iliad, Homer
  • The Odyssey, Homer
  • History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
  • The Theban Plays, Sophocles
  • Five Dialogues, Plato
  • The Republic, Plato
  • Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle
  • The Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Job)
  • Hamlet, Shakespeare

12th Grade
Humane Letters

Great Books

  • The Aeneid, Virgil
  • Confessions, Augustine
  • The Bible (Mark, John, Acts, Romans)
  • Treatise on Law, Aquinas
  • Inferno, Dante
  • The Prince, Machiavelli
  • Essays, Montaigne
  • Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes
  • 1884 Manuscripts, Marx
  • Reason in History, Hegel
  • The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky
  • King Lear, Shakespeare