Year 12
ANCIENT/CHURCH HISTORY and WORLD LITERATURE
Bible/Devotional:
The Apologetics
Bible
My Utmost For His
Highest, by Oswald Chambers
Streams of Living
Water, by Richard Foster or The Knowledge of the
Holy by A.W. Tozer
Your God is Too
Safe, Buchanan
Apologetics/Philosophy
Reasonable Faith,
by William Lane Craig
Pensées Pascal,
Blaise
A Meaningful
World by Witt and Wiker
History/Biography
Church History in Plain
Language, by Bruce Shelley
*Selections from the Works of
Josephus (begin after OT history)
**Selections from Greek
Histories by Herodotus
***The Early History of Rome
by Livy vol 1-5
***How the Irish Saved
Civilization, by Thomas Cahill
Scheduled Ancient and
World Literature
How to Read the Bible as
Literature, by Leland Ryken
Realms of Gold: The Classics
in Christian Perspective by Leland Ryken
Heroes of the City of Man: A
Christian Guide to Select Ancient Literature by Leithart
Term 1
The Epic of Gilgamesh (parental
discretion advised)
(http://www.icr.org/article/noah-flood-gilgamesh/)
The Iliad, by Homer
Macbeth by Shakespeare (watch
the movie)
Paradise Lost by Milton
(selections)
GREEK DRAMA: Oresteia
Trilogy, Aeschylus
Term 2
The Odyssey by Homer
The Trial and Death of
Socrates (listen to audio too)
GREEK DRAMA: Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
The Scarlet Letter by
Hawthorne
Great Expectations by Dickens
(if you didn’t read this yet)
Term 3
The Aeneid by Virgil
The Death of Ivan Ilych by
Tolstoy
The Stranger by Camus
The Little Prince by St.
Exupery
Geography
Hills and the
Sea, Hilaire Belloc
Island of the World, by
Michael O’Brien (Balkans, WW2)
Govt. and Economics
How an Economy
Grows and Why It Crashes by
Peter D. Schiff or
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
Short Stories and Essays
The World’s Last Night and
other Essays by C.S. Lewis
'On Stories' and Other
Essays, C.S. Lewis
Short Stories by Anton
Chekhov
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Math
Continue your
Math program
Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
Nature Study
and Science
Science Matters
by Hazen and Trifel
Exploring
Creation with Physics, by Dr. Jay Wile
Keep a nature journal
Composition
Keep a Commonplace
Book
Write a poem
every two weeks
Oral and written
narrations
Notes and
Outlines
Poetry and
Recitations
T.S. Eliot
Lucy Shaw
Wendell Berry
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Eyes of Youth, a Book of
Verse (selected poems by Padraic Colum, Shane Leslie, Viola Meynell, Ruth
Lindsay, Hugh Austin, Judith Lytton, Olivia Meynell, Maurice Healy)
Having Decided To Stay by
Johnson, Bryana (poetry from a Charlotte Mason Schools graduate)
Foreign
Language
Various
literature in target language for translation into English
Open learning Institute
(online and free)
Art/Music
Art for God's Sake: A Call to Recover the Arts by Ryken
Paint/sketch every two weeks
Paint/sketch every two weeks
Daily Piano
Free Reading
for entire year:
Brave New World
Huxley, Aldous
Everlasting Man,
Chesterton, G.K.(read before Orthodoxy)
Orthodoxy,
Chesterton
The Silmarillion
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Murder in the
Cathedral by Eliot, T.S.
Lilith by George
MacDonald
Collected
Fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges
Mansfield Park,
by Jane Austen
1984 Orwell,
George (parental discretion advised)
The Old Man and
the Sea Hemingway, Ernest
Quo Vadis: A Tale of
the Time of Nero by
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Letters to
Children Lewis, C.S.
War in Heaven by
Charles Williams
Descent into Hell
by Charles Williams
Bleak House
Dickens, Charles
This Present Darkness, Peretti, Frank
The Mabinogion
Saga of the
Volsungs
Jayber Crow by
Wendell Bery
Hannah Coulter,
Wendell Berry
Gilead by Marilynn
Robinson
Pearl translated
by Tolkien
Sir Orfeo
translated by Tolkien
Crime and
Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
