Last year my family joined a local classical Christian homeschooling co-op that meets once a week for tutorials. I taught the literature class for 9th-12th graders, and it was a wonderful experience. I hope to post more about last year’s class soon.<\/p>\n
The co-op\u00a0uses George Grant’s Gileskirk Humanities curriculum\u00a0for grades 9-12, so the literature class is partly derived from the Gileskirk reading list (with a few tweaks of my own).<\/p>\n
Here’s the list for the upcoming school year:<\/p>\n
Mythology<\/em> by Edith Hamilton (Assigned for summer reading. A classic introduction to Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology. I remember reading this in 7th grade . . . for Latin class, I think.)<\/p>\n The Epic of Gilgamesh<\/em><\/p>\n Rasselas <\/em>by Samuel Johnson (OK, this isn\u2019t ancient lit\u2014but George Grant includes it in Gileskirk with the study of Proverbs because it deals with issues of wisdom. A former student praised it highly, and I\u2019m also interested because it\u2019s the book Helen Burns is reading in Jane Eyre<\/em>, so I decided to include it.<\/p>\n The Iliad<\/em> by Homer<\/p>\n The Odyssey<\/em> by Homer<\/p>\n Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers<\/em>, and The Euminides<\/em> by Aeschylus<\/p>\n Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus<\/em>, and Antigone<\/em> by Sophocles<\/p>\n The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans<\/em> by Plutarch<\/p>\n The Aeneid<\/em> by Virgil<\/p>\n Julius Caesar<\/em> by William Shakespeare (another divergence from the literature of the period, but hey, it\u2019s Shakespeare, and it\u2019s about<\/span> the period)<\/p>\n Heroes of the City of <\/em>Man<\/em> by Peter Leithart<\/p>\n How to Read a Book<\/em> by Mortimer Adler (summer reading)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Most ancient literature includes some objectionable material. I’ll be posting about that in the next blog entry.<\/p>\n What are your favorite books from ancient literature? Leave a comment!<\/p>\n Blessings,<\/p>\n Mary Jo Tate<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last year my family joined a local classical Christian homeschooling co-op that meets once a week for tutorials. I taught the literature class for 9th-12th graders, and it was a wonderful experience. I hope to post more about last year’s class soon. The co-op\u00a0uses George Grant’s Gileskirk Humanities curriculum\u00a0for grades 9-12, so the literature class … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}