Grade 9 Curriculum Proposal
Humane Letters
Harrison, Shorter History of Western Civilization
Starr, the Ancient Greeks and The Ancient Romans
Penguin Atlas of the Ancient World
Ceram: Gods, Graves and Scholars
Johnson, "Creation"
Book of Genesis
Gilgamesh (Mason ed)
First and Second Books of Samuel
Byron, Destruction of Sennacherib
Nash, Very Like a Whale
Primary source readings of mythic prototypes (Creation, ORigin of Evil, Nature of God, Deluge, Origin of Language/World Disunity)
Egyptian, Akkadian, Hebraic, Greek
Homer, Iliad and Odyssey
Sophocles, Oedipus trilogy
Aristotle, Poetics (selections)
CS LEwis, Till We Have Faces
Herodotus, abridges History of Persian Wars
Book of Ezra, Esther, Nehemiah
Thucydides, History Peloponnesian Wars
Plutarch, Themistocles, Pericles, Alcibiades
Excerpts from Hippocrates
Euclid, Elements of Geometry
Plato: Apology, Crito, Meno
Aristophanes, The Clouds
Book of Job
Mary Renault (out of class)
Memory
Psalm 8 -- What is Man
Psalm 19, God's Glory
Psalm 23 -- Lord is My Shepherd
Psalm 137 Song of Exile
Thucydides -- Pericles Funeral Oration
Virgil, Aeneid
Selections from Livy, Tacitus
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
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