st. thomas school grade eleven curriculum

St. Thomas SchoolCurriculum for Grade Eleven

(© 2011 Jean W. and Maria C. M. Rioux)

SCRIPTURE STUDY THREE TIMES WEEKLYUnderstanding the Scriptures (Didache)Read text, then completely answer all questions.(Chapters 1-15 are complated in Grade 11; 16-30 in Grade 12.)Chapter 1: What is the Bible?__ What Catholics Believe About The Bible,Periods Of Bible History, How The Bible

Was Written,The Bible Is Sacred Literature, The Bible Is Religious__ Is everything in the Bible true? Archaelogical Periods And Biblical Events,What

“Salvation History” Is,Covenant History, The Church Will Be Our Guide, How The Canon Came To Be,The Canon Of Scripture

__ Supplementary Reading, Vocabulary, Study Questions, Practical Exercises, From The Catechism

Chapter 2: The Old Testament__ The Books Of The Old Testament, The Law, History, Wisdom, Prophecy, __ Quick Outline Of Old Testament History, What Typology Is And How It Works__ Supplementary Reading, Vocabulary, Study Questions, Practical Exercises, From

The Catechism

Chapter 3: The Creation Of The World__ Days 1-3: Creating Form, Days 4-6: Filling The Void, Seventh Day: The Sabbath

CovenantWith Creation,Creation: A Covenant With The Universe, Understanding Time As Part Of CreationCreation Is Good, The Creation Of Human Beings In The Image Of God

__ The Marriage Covenant, God Our Father, The Fall, Spiritual Death, “Where Are You?”, The First Gospel

__ The Curse, Evil, Creation And Evolution__ Supplementary Reading, Vocabulary, Study Questions, Practical Exercises, From

The CatechismChapter 4: The Early World__ The Evil Line Of Cain, The Righteous Line Of Seth, The Sons Of God And The

Daughters Of MenThe Flood, Did the Flood Really Happen? The Covenant With Noah, Another Story Of The Flood

__ The Curse On Canaan, Table Of Nations, The Arrogance Of The Children Of Ham, The Real Tower Of Babel


Chapter 5: Abraham, Our Father__ The Life Of A Nomad, The Promises To Abram, Abraham’s Migration In The Near

East, From Abram To Abraham, The Journeys Of Abraham In Canaan__ 1. God’s Oath: Land And A Nation, 2. God’s Oath: Kingship And A Name, Sodom

And GomorrahThe Story Of Lot, 3. The Binding Of Isaac And God’s Third Oath

__ Supplementary Reading, Vocabulary, Study Questions, Practical Exercises, From

The CatechismChapter 6: The Patriarchs__ Finding A Wife For Isaac, Jacob And Esau, The Journeys Of Isaac And Rebekah,

Jacob’s LadderJacob And Laban, The Journeys Of Jacob And Rachel

__ Twelve Sons, Wrestling With God: Jacob Named Israel, Joseph’s Brothers Sell Him As A Slave, The Sale Of Joseph, God Turns Evil Into An Instrument Of Salvation


Chapter 7: The Exodus__ The Birth And Rescue Of Moses, Moses Rebels, The Burning Bush: God Reveals His

NameTo Moses

__ The Message To Pharaoh, The Plagues, The Passover, The Passover Lamb As A Type Of Christ

__ The Route Of The Exodus, Escape From Egypt, Spiritual Food In The Wilderness, The Covenant At Sinai, The Temple In Heaven And On Earth


Chapter 8: The Law__ The Golden Calf Changes Israel’s Relationship With God, The Institution Of The

Priesthood, After The Fall, Heaven On Earth, The Law, In The Wilderness__ The Constitution Of Israel, A Close Look At Deuteronomy, The Tabernacle In The

Wilderness__ Supplementary Reading, Vocabulary, Study Questions, Practical Exercises, From

The CatechismChapter 9: The Rise Of The Kingdom__ The Conquest Begins, Canaan At The Time Of The Conquest, Joshua’s Covenant

with IsraelEarly Israel And Her Neighbors

__ The Judges, Samuel the King-Maker, Saul, the Anointed One, Saul’s First Big Mistake, The Kingdom Of Saul, Saul’s Second Big Mistake, The Man after God’s own Heart


Chapter 10: The Kingdom Of David__ Jerusalem, David’s New Capital, Bringing The Ark To Jerusalem, The Covenant

With David, Beyond Sinai To Zion__ The Davidic Covenant: Seven Primary Features, The Davidic Covenant In Psalm

89, The Davidic Covenant: Three Secondary Features, The Main Features Of The Davidic Covenant


Chapter 11: Wise King Solomon__ Wise King Solomon, Imperial Israel, The Wisdom Of Solomon, Solomon Builds The

Temple, Building Materials For Solomon’s Temple, Solomon’s Pride And Apostasy__ Supplementary Reading, Vocabulary, Study Questions, Practical Exercises, From

The CatechismChapter 12: The Divided Kingdom__ The Torn Kingdom, The Divided Kingdoms Of Israel And Judah, Back To The

Golden Calf, Good And Bad Kings, Jonah__ Elijah And Jezebel, Elijah At Sinai, The Journeys Of Elijah And Elisha, Elijah And

Elisha, The Assyrian Threat, The End Of Israel, The Downfall Of Israel__ Supplementary Reading, Vocabulary, Study Questions, Practical Exercises, From

The CatechismChapter 13: Conquest And Exile__ The Great Prophet Isaiah, Hezekiah Defends Jerusalem, The Wicked King

Manasseh, The Great Reform, Jeremiah Sees The End Of The World, The Fall Of Judah

__ The Impossible Promise, The Exodus Reversed, The Babylonian Empire, The Babylonian Exile, Daniel: Heroic Stories Of The Exile


Chapter 14: A Remnant Returns__ Belshazzar’s Feast, Cyrus The Messiah, Beginning The New Jerusalem, Trouble

With The SamaritansEzra The Scribe, What God Really Wants, The Promise Unfulfilled


Chapter 15: Revolt Of The Maccabees__ Only One World To Conquer, Jerusalem In The Middle, The Final Desecration,

Amazing Success Of The Maccabees, What The Jews Believed__ Supplementary Reading, Vocabulary, Study Questions, Practical Exercises, From

The CatechismChapter 16: The World Of The New Testament__ The Prophecies Fulfilled? The Pharisees, The Sadducees, After The Maccabees,

Herod The Great, When The Time Had Fully Come, Religion In The Roman Empire

__ Herod’s Sons Inherit His Kingdom, The Spread Of The Jewish Religion, Proselytes Of The Gate, Judea And Galilee, The Samaritans


Chapter 17: The New Testament__ How The New Testament Is Organized, The New Law: The Four Gospels,

Matthew, Mark, Luke, John History: The Acts Of The Apostles, Wisdom: The Epistles, Prophecy: The Revelation


Chapter 18: The Incarnation__ The Son Of David, Hail Mary, The Birth Of Jesus, The Journeys Of Jesus

__ Nunc Dimittis, The Epiphany, The Holy Innocents, Teaching The Teachers__ Supplementary Reading, Vocabulary, Study Questions, Practical Exercises, From

The CatechismChapter 19: What Jesus Did__ John The Baptist Makes Straight The Way, Jesus Baptized, The Temptation In

The Wilderness, Water Into Wine, Cleansing The Temple__ The Land Of Zebulun And Naphtali, Healing The Sick, Who Sinned? Casting Out

Demons, Eating With Sinners, Women And Samaritans, The Twelve, Hosanna To The Son Of David


Chapter 20: What Jesus Taught__ Teaching With Authority, Parables, The Kingdom Of God Is At Hand, Born From

Above, The Letter Of The Law Is Not Enough__ The Last Shall Be First, The First Shall Be Last, Love Your Enemies, God’s Grace Is

UndeservedPray Without Ceasing, Jesus Is The Bread Of Life


Chapter 21: The Cup Of Consummation__ The Missing Cup, In Gethsemane, Jesus Arrested In Gethsemane, Peter’s Denial,

Blasphemy!Judas Repents, Pilate Examines Jesus

__ Crucify Him! Jesus Crucified, Behold Your Mother, The Last Cup, Pontius Pilate, The Crucifixion Psalm, The Jews


Chapter 22: The Resurrection__ The Women Who Met The Risen Lord, The Road To Emmaus: Jesus Revealed In

The Eucharist, The Power To Forgive And Retain Sins, Doubting Thomas, Back To GalileePeter’s Redemption


Chapter 23: Jesus Fulfills The Old Testament__ Fulfilling The Law And The Prophet, The Church Before Jesus, 1. Jesus Fulfills

The Covenant With Adam, 2. Jesus Fulfills The Covenant With Noah, 3. Jesus Fulfills The Covenant With Abraham, 4. Jesus Fulfills The Covenant With Moses

__ The New Exodus, Jesus The Passover Lamb, 5. Jesus Fulfills The Covenant With David


Chapter 24: The Birth Of The Church__ Restoring The Kingdom, The Election Of Matthias, Pentecost__ Peter’s Authority, Martyrdom Of Stephen, What The Early Christian Community

Was Like


Chapter 25: Reaching Out To All Nations__ Philip Baptizes The Ethiopian, Saul The Persecutor, Saul’s Conversion, Are

Christians Jews?, The Council Of Jerusalem__ Supplementary Reading, Vocabulary, Study Questions, Practical Exercises, From

The CatechismChapter 26: Paul, An Apostle__ Peter And Paul In Acts, Apostle To The Gentiles, The Law Was Our Custodian, Sin

Brings Death Through The Law__ St. Paul’s Doctrine Of Justification, St. Paul’s Travels, Map: Paul’s Second

Journey, Map: Paul’s Third Journey, Map: Paul’s Journey To Rome__ Supplementary Reading, Vocabulary, Study Questions, Practical Exercises, From

The CatechismChapter 27: The New Kingdom__ The Son Of David, The Riddle: How Can David’s Son Be David’s Lord?The Church

Perfectly Fulfills The Davidic Covenant, The Davidic Covenant: Seven Primary Features, The Davidic Covenant: Three Secondary Features


Chapter 28: The Catholic Church in Scripture__ Organization Of The Church, The Primacy Of Peter, Councils Of The Whole

Church,Sacraments__ Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance, Annointing Of The Sick, Holy Orders,

Matrimony__ Supplementary Reading, Vocabulary, Study Questions, Practical Exercises, From

The CatechismChapter 29: The End Of History__ What Jesus Taught About The End Of History, The End Of The Old Covenant, The

Vision Of The Heavenly Liturgy, The Liturgy Of The Word__ The Heavenly Eucharist, The Beasts, The New Jerusalem, The Warning And The

Promise__ Supplementary Reading, Vocabulary, Study Questions, Practical Exercises, From

The CatechismChapter 30: How To Read The Bible__ The Bible Is Literature, Spiritual Senses, Look To The Church For Guidance, What

To Read First, Pray__ Supplementary Reading, Vocabulary, Study Questions, Practical Exercises, From

The Catechism

APOLOGETICS TWICE WEEKLY

Catholicism and Fundamentalism (Keating)

__ Preface, Chapter 1__ Chapter 2__ Chapter 3__ Chapter 4__ Chapter 5__ Chapter 6__ Chapter 7__ Chapter 8__ Chapter 9

__ Chapter 10__ Chapter 11__ Chapter 12__ Chapter 13__ Chapter 14__ Chapter 15__ Chapter 16__ Chapter 17__ Chapter 18

__ Chapter 19__ Chapter 20__ Chapter 21__ Chapter 22__ Chapter 23__ Chapter 24__ Chapter 25, Afterword

The Usual Suspects (Keating)

__ The Roman System Way__ The Only Game in Town__ How Evangelicals Handle

Cults__ Argument By Sneer__ Two Notions of Worship__ Note to a Seminarian__ Blindness and the Bible

Alone Theory__ Four Inadequate Reasons

and a Fifth

__ Looking Foolish__ Hairballs__ Our Personal Mother__ ChurchianityScholars Need Not Apply__ Numbers Running__ Left Behind__ Jeremiah's Lament__ Why me, Lord?__ The Papacy Exposed (again)

__ The Strongest Man on Earth

__ Message From Marra__ A Dangerous Model__ Let Me Tell You Why__ Deconstructing Lourdes__ Fun Reading For

Insomniacs__ Analyzing an Anti-

Catholic Video__ Three Against One

Beginning Apologetics 4How to Answer Atheists and New Agers (Chacon and Burnham)

__ Intro to Atheism, pp.2-4__ Why People Go Astray..., pp.4-7

__ Proofs For the Existence of God, pp.7-10__ The Spirituality of the Human Soul, pp.11-

14__ Idealism, pp.14-16__ Fideism, pp.16-19__ Atheistic Systems..., pp.19-22__ Refuting Atheism, pp.23-25

__ Eastern Religions, pp.25-28__ Modern Psychology, pp.28-30__ Miscellaneous Sources, pp.30-34__ Refuting New Age Beliefs, pp.34-37__ Refuting Reincarnation, pp.37-39

RELIGIOUS READING ONCE WEEKLY

Choose Among the Following (1 Book /month, average):

__ Fides et Ratio JPII__ Gift and Mystery JPII __ On the Eucharist JPII__ Love and Responsibility JPII__ The Queen's Way,Sister Mary Amatora,

O.S.F. __ Introduction to the Devout Life,St.

Francis de Sales __ Crossing the Threshold of Hope JPII__ Quadragesimo Anno, Pius XII__ A Priest Forever, Fr. Benedict Groeschel__ A Treasure in Clay, F.J. Sheen__ God's World and Our Place in It(Sheen)__ A Map of Life (Sheed)__ Forget Not Love, Andre Fossard__ The Family That Overtook Christ,

Raymond__ In the Shadow of His Wings__ Theology For Beginners, Sheed__ Why Humanae Vitae Was Right, Smith__ Boys To Men, Gray and Martin__ Courageous Virtue (Bible Study For

Women) Mitch__ Courageous Love(Bible Study on

Holiness For Women) Mitch__ The Catholic Church: The First 2000

Years, Rasmussen__ In the Beginning, Ratzinger__ Spirit and Liturgy, Ratzinger__ Deus Caritus Est, B-16__ A Biblical Defense of Catholicism,

Armstrong__ Half Truths, Brown__ Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis__ The Four Loves, Lewis__ The Great Divorce, Lewis__ Screwtape Letters, Lewis__ 10 Books That Screwed Up the World (and 5More That Didn’t Help), Wiker

__ Making Snese Out of Scripture, Shea__ Consoling the Heart of Jesus, Gaitley__ Treasury of Catholic Wisdom Hardon__ What is the Bible? Henri Daniel-Rops__ Witness of the Messiah Pimentel__ Mission of the Messiah Gray__ Dawn of the Messiah Sri__ Mystery of the Kingdom Sri__ Scripture Matters Hahn

__ The Kiss From the Cross Chervin __ Edith Stein: Essential Writines__ Carolyn Houselander: Essential

Writings__ Reed of God Houselander__ Way of the Cross Houselander__ Self-Knowledge and Self-Discipline

Maturin__ Heaven in Stone and Glass Barron__ The Strangest Way Barron__ Splendor in the Ordinary Howard__ Unearthing Your Ten Talents Vost__ Seventeen Steps to Heaven Trese

__ Profiles of Faith Ruffin__ The Catholic Verses Armstrong__ The Path of Life Smith, OSB__ Spiritual Excellence Goodier__ The Three Greatest Prayers Aquinas__ The Glory of All Israel Walls__ Called to Life Phillipe__ Jesus of Nazareth Mother Loyola__ Jesus of Nazareth B-16__ The Day Christ Died Bishop__ Life of Christ Sheen__ New Rosary in Scripture Sri

MATH THREE TIMES WEEKLYGeometry, Trig., Algebra III (Saxon)__ Lesson 1__ Lesson 2__ Lesson 3__ Lesson 4__ Lesson 5__ Lesson 6__ Lesson 7__ Lesson 8__ Lesson 9__ Lesson 10__ Lesson 11__ Lesson 12__ Lesson 13__ Lesson 14__ Lesson 15__ Lesson 16__ Lesson 17__ Lesson 18

__ Lesson 19__ Lesson 20__ Lesson 21__ Lesson 22__ Lesson 23__ Lesson 24__ Lesson 25__ Lesson 26__ Lesson 27__ Lesson 28__ Lesson 29__ Lesson 30__ Lesson 31__ Lesson 32__ Lesson 33__ Lesson 34__ Lesson 35__ Lesson 36




__ Lesson 91__ Lesson 92__ Lesson 93__ Lesson 94__ Lesson 95__ Lesson 96




__ Lesson 115__ Lesson 116__ Lesson 117__ Lesson 118__ Lesson 119

GRAMMAR THREE TIMES WEEKLY

Warriner’s Grammar and Composition (fifth course)(Pages 1-198 are review.)

__ Pages 199-204__ Pages 204-210__ Pages 210-216__ Pages 216-222__ Pages 222-225__ Pages 226-230__ Pages 230-234__ Pages 235-241__ Pages 242-247__ Pages 248-253__ Pages 253-258__ Pages 258-263__ Pages 263-269__ Pages 273-277__ Pages 277-282__ Pages 283-290__ Pages 290-296__ Pages 296-299__ Pages 300-207__ Pages 307-311__ Pages 311-316



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CREATIVE WRITING TWICE WEEKLY

VOCABULARY ONCE WEEKLY

Vocabulary for the College-Bound Student

__ Pages 18-30__ Pages 31-43__ Pages 44-58__ Pages 58-71__ Pages 72-80__ Pages 6-17__ Pages 81-90__ Pages 90-97__ Pages 97-104__ Pages 104-112

__ Pages 113-120__ Pages 120-128__ Pages 128-135__ Pages 135-145__ Pages 145-155__ Pages 155-165__ Pages 165-174__ Pages 174-183__ Pages 184-194__ Pages 194-205


HISTORY FOUR TIMES WEEKLY

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples(Churchill)Volume I and II

__ Britannia__ Subjugation__ The Roman Province __ The Lost Island__ England__ The Vikings__ Alfred the Great__ The Saxon Dusk__ The Norman Invasion__ William the Conqueror__ Growth Amid Turmoil__ Henry Plantagenet__ The English Common

Law__ Couer de Lion__ Magna Carta__ On the Anvil__ The Mother of Parliments__ King Edward I__ Bannockburn__ Scotland and Ireland__ The Long Bow__ The Black Death__ King Richard II and the

Social Revolt__ The Usurption of H.

Bolingbroke__ The Empire of Henry V__ Joan of Arc

__ York and Lancaster__ The Wars of the Roses__ The Adv of Edward IV__ Richard III__ The Round World__ The Tudor Dynasty__ King Henry VIII__ Cardinal Wolsey__ The Break with Rome__ The End of the

Monasteries__ The Protestant StruggleHow the Reformation

Happened (Belloc)

__ The Problem__ The Advent of Disaster__ The Flood__ The English Accident__ Calvin__ The Lining Up For

Battle__ The Universal Battle__ The Defence__ The Draw__ The Result

The Beginning of the English Reformation (Williamson)

__ Introduction__ The Course of the

Revolution__ Epilogue: The Half-

Century of SettlementA History of the English-

Speaking Peoples (Churchill)

__ Good Queen Bess__ The Spanish Armada__ Gloriana__ The United Crowns__ The Mayflower__ Charles I and

Buckingham__ The Personal Rule__ The Revolt of Parliament__ The Great Rebellion__ Marston Moor and

Naseby__ The Ax Falls__ The English Republic__ The Lord Protector__ The Restoration__ The Merry Monarch__ The Popish Plot__ Whig and Tory__ The Catholic King__ The Revolution of 1688

__ William of Orange__ Continental War__ The Spanish Succession__ Marlborough__ Blenheim and Ramillies__ Oudenarde and

Malplaquet__ The Treaty of Utrecht__ The House of Hanover__ Sir Robert Walpole__ The Austrian Succession

and the "Forty-Five"__ The American Colonies__ The First World War__ The Quarrel With

America__ The War of Independence__ The United States__ The Indian Empire__ The Younger Pitt__ The American

Constitution__ The French Revolution__ France Confronted__ Trafalgar__ The Emperor of the

French__ The Peninsular War and

the Fall of Napoleon__ Washington, Adams, and

Jefferson__ The War of 1812__ Elba and Waterloo__ The Victory Peace__ Canning and the Duke__ Reform and Free Trade__ The Crimean War__ Palmerston__ The Migration of the

Peoples I: Canada and South Africa;

__ II: Australia and New

Zealand__ American Epic; Slavery

and Succession__ The Union in Danger__ The Campaign Against

Richmond__ Lee and McClellan__ Chancellorsville and

Gettysburg__ The Victory of the Union__ The Rise of Germany__ Gladstone and Disraeli__ American "Reconstruction"

__ America As a World Power

__ Home Rule for Ireland__ Lord Salisbury's

Governments__ The South African War

SCIENCE TWICE WEEKLY Eploring Creation With Chemistry by Dr. Jay Wile

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GEOGRAPHY TWICE WEEKLY

World Physical Geography (Runkle)__ Lesson 1__ Lesson 2__ Lesson 3__ Lesson 4__ Lesson 5__ Lesson 6__ Lesson 7__ Lesson 8__ Lesson 9__ Lesson 10__ Lesson 11

__ Lesson 12__ Lesson 13__ Lesson 14__ Lesson 15__ Lesson 16__ Lesson 17__ Lesson 18__ Lesson 19__ Lesson 20__ Lesson 21__ Lesson 22



LOGIC TWICE WEEKLYThe Four Questions (Rioux)

Part One: What Is It?__ __ Chapter One:: Human Knowledge__ __ Chapter One:__ __ Chapter Two: Signs__ __ Chapter Three: Words, Concepts and Things__ __ Chapter Four: Universality and the Predicables__ __ Chapter Five: The Categories: What is Predicated__ __ Chapter Six: The Post-Predicament of Opposition__ __ Chapter Seven: Logical Division

__ __ Chapter Eight: DefinitionPart Two: Is it So?__ __ Chapter Nine: What is a Proposition?__ __ Chapter Ten: The Parts of a Proposition__ __ Chapter Eleven: P ropositional Types__ __ Chapter Twelve: ompound and Model Propositions__ __ Chapter Thirteen: Opposition, in General__ __ Chapter Fourteen: The Square of Opposition__ __ Chapter Fifteen: Other Porpositional Relations__ __ Chapter Sixteen: Compound Propositions in Detail Part Three: Why Is It So?__ __ Chapter Seventeen: Reasoning, in General__ __ Chapter Eighteen: The Syllogism: Its Definition and Parts__ __ Chapter Nineteen: Syllogistic Mood and figure__ __ Chapter Twenty: Syllogistic Validity__ __ Chapter Twenty One:: Reducing Syllogisms to the First Figure__ __ Chapter Twenty Two: Enthymemes and Sorites__ __ Chapter Twenty Three: Compound Syllogisms

Homeschool Connections Class: Fallacies and Paradoxes: (Rioux)__ Class 1: The selections we'll read are: Class 1: Plato's "allegory of the cave", from the Republic__ Class 2: Aristotle on happiness and moral virtue, from the Nicomachean Ethics__ Class 3: St. Augustine on choosing evil, from the Confessions__ Class 4: St. Anselm of Canterbury's and Ren⁄ Descartes' "ontological" arguments, from the

Proslogion and the Meditations, respectively__ Class 5: Ren⁄ Descartes on how I may know of my own existence, from the Meditations__ Class 6: Blaise Pascal on the "wager" argument, from the Pens⁄es__ Class 7: St. Thomas Aquinas on the possibility of proving God's existence, from the Summa

Theologiae__ Class 8: St. Thomas Aquinas' "five ways", from the Summa Theologiae

Homeschool Connections Course; What Philosophers Do and How They Do It. (Rioux)

__ Class 1: Plato's "allegory of the cave"; The Republic__ Class 2: Aristotle on happiness and moral virtue; Nicomachean Ethics__ Class 3: St. Augustine on choosing evil; The Confessions__ Class 4: St. Anselm of Canterbury's and René Descartes' "ontological" arguments;

The Proslogion and the Meditations__ Class 5: René Descartes on how I may know of my own existence; The

Meditations__ Class 6: Blaise Pascal on the "wager" argument; The Pensées__ Class 7: St. Thomas Aquinas on the possibility of proving God's existence; The

Summa Theologiae__ Class 8: St. Thomas Aquinas' "five ways", from the Summa Theologiae

MUSIC APPRECIATION ONCE WEEKLY

300 Years of Interaction in Western Music, Arts, and CultureDr. Carol Reynolds

__ Unit 1: Using Music History to Unlock Western Culture__ Workbook?Tests/Additional Resources__ Unit 2: Music Entwined With Great Events in Western History__ Workbook?Tests/Additional Resources__ Unit 3: Technology, Terminology, and Cultural Perspective__ Workbook?Tests/Additional Resources__ Unit 4: Fanfare and Power: The Court of Louis XIV__ Workbook?Tests/Additional Resources__ Unit 5: Sweeping Away the Renaissance into the Baroque__ Workbook?Tests/Additional Resources__ Unit 6: Liturgical Calendar, Street Parties, and New Church music__ Workbook?Tests/Additional Resources__ Unit 7: A Lively Journey Through the Life of J.S. Bach

__ Workbook?Tests/Additional Resources__ Unit 8:Enlightenment, Classicism, and the Astonishing Mozart__ Workbook?Tests/Additional Resources__ Unit 9: Into the Abyss: The Centurey Struggles With Unfettered Imagination__ Workbook?Tests/Additional Resources__ Unit 10: Beethoven as Hero and Revolutionary__ Workbook?Tests/Additional Resources__ Unit 11: Salons, Poetry, and the Power of Song__ Workbook?Tests/Additional Resources__ Unit 12:A Tale of Four Virtuosi and the Birth of the Tone Poem__ Workbook?Tests/Additional Resources__ Unit 13: Nationalism, and the Explosion of the Romantic Operqa__ Workbook?Tests/Additional Resources__ Unit 14: The Absolutely New World of Wagner__ Workbook?Tests/Additional Resources__ Unit 15: Imperial Russia_A Cultural Odyssey__ Workbook?Tests/Additional Resources__ Unit 16: Load Up the Wagons: The Story of American Music__ Workbook?Tests/Additional Resources__ Unit 17: Turning the Page one Western Tradition with the Explosion of War__ Workbook?Tests/Additional Resources

READING ONE BOOK WEEKLY

First Semester’s List__ Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare__ MacBeth, Shakespeare__ The Song of the Scaffold__ Barnaby Rudge, Charles Dickens__ The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens__ Silas Marner, Eliot__ Frankenstein, Shelly__ Dracula ,Stoker

__ Prince Otto, Robert Louis Stevenson__ Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys,

John Buchan__ Darwin’s Black Box, Michel Behe__ Man Called Thursday, G.K. Chesterton__ News From Nowhere, William Morris__ Pilgrim's Progress,Bunyan__ Gulliver’s Travels Swift

__ The Problem of Pain, Lewis__ How the Catholic Church Built Western

Civilization, Woods__ Team of Rivals, Kearns-Goodwin__ Separation of Church and State,

Hamburger__ Safe Return Doubtful, Graham__ Before the Heroes Came, Baughman__ America, The Last, Best Hope, Bennett__ Miracle at Kitty Hawk, Kelly__ Don Quixote Cervantes__ War and Peace Tolstoy__ The Rights of Man Paine__ Abgail Adams (Collected Letters)__ John Adams McCullough__ The Last of the Mohicans Cooper__ The Mayflower Philbrick__ Founding Brothers Ellis__ Passionate Sage Ellis__ Erudite Sage Ellis

__ Your Excellency, Mr. Washington Ellis__ 1776 McCullough

Poetry Readings

__ Poem of the Cid, unknown__ Song of Roland, unknown__ Battle of Maldon & others, Crossley-

Hollan & Mitchell__ Idylls of the King, Alfred Lord Tennyson__ Sonnets, Shakespeare

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GREAT BOOKS SEMINAR MONTHLY

Choose From Among the Following Selections:__ Samuel Johnson Rasseslas: Prince of

Abyssininia__ Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics, Bks. I

and X __ Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics, Book II__ Aristotl’s Nichomachean Ethics, Book III,

Ch. 1-5__ Lucretius, On the Nature of things, Bks. I-

II__ Homer, Odyssey, Books IX-XII (Is

Odysseus a good man?)__ Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Part I: “A Voyage to Lilliput”

__ Declaration of Independence, Preamble to the Constitution of the U.S.

__ The Meno (Can Virtue Be Taught?)

__ The Gorgias(What is Rhetoric?)__ The Phaedo (Immortality of the soul)__ Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (What

Makes a Good Man and What Makes a Good Citizen?)

__ Pride and Prejudice, Austen (Who's Proud and Who's Prejudiced?)

__ Virgil, The Aeneid, Books II and III__ Plato, the Republic, Books VI and VII__ Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part I:

Chapters 1-10__ Herodotus, Book I and II__ The Republic, Book II (Ring of Gyges)__ Thucydidies (Battle of Salamis, and

Marathon)__ The Crito (Duty of a Citizen vs. Anarchy)__ The Euthyphro (What is Piety?)__ Treasure Island (Is LJS a good Man?)__ Epictetus, The Discourses, Book I__ Summa Theologica, Treatise on the last

End, I-II, QQ 1-5__ Dante, Divine Comedy, “Hell.”__ Milton, “Paradise Lost.”__ Montaigne, Essays: “Of Custom,...” “That

is Folly...”, and “That the Relish of Good and Evil...”

__ Moby Dick (Melville)

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