Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Norms and Nobility Grade 9 Outline

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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