ALL BOOKS MUST BE PURCHASED BY THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS.
(Note on costs: These books can be purchased new or used from amazon.com, half.com, rainbowresource.com, thriftbooks.com, abebooks.com, or CBD.com for a very minimal price.. The Savannah campus has a lending library that operates on a first come/first served basis. Other campuses may also offer books in the lists as used. Please contact your director about this.) Audio versions of the readers are also encouraged especially for auditory learners or students with reading or processing difficulties. Some of these can be downloaded for free at librivox.org or purchased for a small fee at audible.com.
Literature: Grades 9-12 – Please note that these exact translations must be purchased.
- No Fear Shakespeare Julius Caesar-by Spark Publishing ISBN: 9781586638474
- Dante’s Inferno in Modern English-translated by Douglas Neff. (No illustrations)
- The Odyssey-translated by W.H.S. Rouse (a Signet classic)
- Great Russian Short Stories by Paul Negri (Dover Thrift edition)
- *Optional – The 100 Best Poems of All Time-edited by Leslie Pockell (You may opt to find these poems online.)
- The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy by Hirsch (not the child’s version) ISBN: 9780618226474 (used all 4 years in the older class)
- Please note: The Director of your academy will be contacting you in the summer to let you know which English book to purchase.
- Each student is to pick one book from List 1 and two books from List 2 from the attached Masterpieces of World Literature. It is best to purchase the books instead of getting them from the library so that they can be written in. We will be writing in them as part of our analysis.
- Writing a Research Paper: A Step by Step Approach ISBN: 9780821581803 (Purchase the newest edition from Sadlier-oxford.com or Rainbowresource.com) (used all 4 years of older class)
- Write With the Best, Vol. 2 by Jill J. Dixon – $14.99. Please do not order this from our curricula website. Orders placed there have state tax and a $5.00 shipping charge applied. Local academies will be invoiced for the book when you complete your online forms at sign-up. You will receive books on the first day of class. Books will be shipped to individuals in different locales and the shipping charge will apply.
- Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary and Thesaurus
- Vocabulary Workshop – Level F – Achieve edition ONLY. (Order from William H. Sadlier eStore
History: Grades 9-12
- Everything You Need to Know about World History Homework by Scholastic Books ISBN: 9780439625210 (Purchase used from Amazon.com or new from http://store.scholastic.com) (It will say Grades 4-8, but this is the correct book.)
- The Bible for Blockheads by Douglas Connelly (Zondervan Publishing) ISBN: 9780310273882
- The Usborne Encyclopedia of the Ancient World (paperback only) ISBN: 9780794511418
- The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia-2004 Edition ISBN: 0753457849 (used all 4 years older class)
- World History the Easy Way, Volume 1 (Barron’s) ISBN: 978081209765
- The Bible in World History by Stephen Leston—Barbour Publishing ISBN: 9781602606456
- National Geographic Student Atlas of the World – 3rd Edition ISBN: 9781426304460
- A large blank book for a timeline/Century Book (used all 4 years) – Can purchase a large sketch book from Michael’s or preprinted from History through the Ages or Sonlight.com
Optional, but helpful For History:
- World Laminated Mark-It Map by Geography Matters
- A World wall map
- The Story: The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People ISBN: 9780310950974
Each student is to pick one book from List 1 and two books from List 2. If the book in List 2 has an *, it can be chosen alone because it will take 8 weeks to read instead of 4. Each book will be read in 4 weeks unless it has an *, so make sure you can read and analyze it in that amount of time. Please make sure you pick something you think you will enjoy.
Parents, if you are not sure about the content of a book, please look it up before your student reads it. I suggest reading about the book before your child chooses it. pluggedin.com has reputable reviews on books. Audible versions are also recommended.
LIST 1:
- My Early Life by Winston Churchill
- Gandhi, an Autobiography
- World War II by Winston Churchill
- Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
- The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
- The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Earnest Gaines
- Letters and Papers from Prison by Bonhoeffer
- Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
- Albert Einstein and The Theory of Relativity
- Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
- A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Plato’s Republic
- Hiroshima by John Hersey
- Chinese Cinderella by YenMa
LIST 2:
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The Chosen by Potok
- *Moby Dick by Melville
- To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- *Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
- The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- Heart of Darkness by Conrad
- A Passage to India by Forster
- A Raisin in the Sun by Hansberry
- The Old Man and the Sea by Hemmingway
- The Metamorphosis by Kafka
- The Giver by Lowry
- Hamlet by Shakespeare
- Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
- The Little Prince by Saint-Exupery
- The Three Musketeers by Dumas
- Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
- *The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
- Treasure Island by Stephenson
- *The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Hugo
- *Les Misreables by Hugo
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Vernes
- *Quo Vadis by Sienkiewicz
- Life of Pi by Martel
- Antigone by Sophocles