Books for the Brain

If you are looking for a literature course for your high schooler, there are a number of different options on SchoolhouseTeachers.com. Great Books, Part One with Steven Hake, the Chair of the Department of Classical Liberal Arts and Director of the Literature major at Patrick Henry College, has put together an 18-lesson course for high school students. Some of these lessons include readings from Aristophanes-Clouds, Aristotle-Ethics; Aristotle-Politics; New Testament: Matthew and Acts; St. Augustine-Confessions; Machiavelli-The Prince; Shakespeare-Hamlet; Gibbon-The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States, The Federalist; Marx—Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party, and much more. There are discussion questions in the form of weekly written assignments for the student to complete, along with one-page journal entries, two short papers, and, at the conclusion of the course, a longer paper. Literature with Adam Andrews studies conflicts, themes, setting, characters, motif, and more for A Tale of Two Cities, All the Places to Live, The Book of Three, The Bronze Bow, and more. This is a course designed for high school and middle students, as well as students in the upper elementary grades.

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