Below are optional recommended readings for each of the 2019-2020 courses:
WRITING I: GRAMMAR
- The D’Aulaire’s Greek Myths (available at Amazon)
ANCIENT HISTORY & ANCIENT LITERATURE
- Edith Hamilton’s Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes (available at Amazon)
- Padraic Colum’s The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy, now titled The Children’s Homer – This would be a fast read for most older students; also has many beautiful line drawings (available free at Archive)
- Dorothy Mills’ The Book of the Ancient Greeks (available free at GoogleBooks)
- Dorothy Mills’ The Book of the Ancient Romans (available free at Archive)
- Ernle Bradford’s Thermopylae (available at Amazon)
- B.H. Liddell Hart’s Scipio Africanus: Greater than Napoleon (available at Amazon)
MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE HISTORY & MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE LITERATURE
- C.S. Lewis’ The Discarded Image (available at Amazon)
- Christopher Dawson’s Religion and the Rise of Western Culture (available at Amazon)
- C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia (available at Amazon)
- J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (available at Amazon)
PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, AND ECONOMICS
- The U.S. Declaration of Independence
- The U.S. Constitution
- The U.S. Bill of Rights
- News stories from a variety of sources
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