Reading List
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The curriculum of Veritas Christi Hybrid Academy takes a classical approach and uses the Socratic method of discussion. The following list readings is suggestive of those we use. We use a mix of full works to get a sense of the whole, and excerpts to provide focused coverage.
Literary Perspectives and Rhetoric (Western Civilization)
- Shakespearean sonnets
- Hamlet, Shakespeare
- Pilgrim’s Progress, Bunyan
- Oliver Twist, Dickens
- Romantic and Victorian poetry by Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Byron, Coleridge
- Animal Farm, Orwell
- Gulliver’s Travels and A Modest Proposal, Swift
- A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Solzhenitsyn
- The Chosen, Potok
- War poetry, including The Hollow Men, Dover Beach, They, Dead Man’s Dump
Reflections on Western Civilization
- The Prince, Machiavelli
- Erasmus Reader, Rummel
- Utopia, More
- A Man for All Seasons, Bolt
- Faith and 95 Theses, Luther
- Act of Supremacy
- Spiritual Exercises, Ignatius
- Council of Trent
- Edict of Nantes
- Peace of Westfalia
- Novum Organum, Bacon
- A Discourse on Method, Descartes
- Optiks, Newton
- Two Treatises of Government, Locke
- Leviathan, Hobbes
- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Burke
- Leeds Woollen Workers
- Rerum Novarum, Leo XIII
- Wealth of Nations, Smith
- The Law, Bastiat
- Inequality, Rousseau
- Socialism, Engels
- Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels
- Memoirs of the Second World War, Churchill
Junior High Literature
- A Door in the Wall, de Angeli
- Matilda Bone, Cushman
- The King's Swift Rider, Hunter
- The Hiding Place, Corrie ten Boom
- The Miracle Worker, Gibson
- Song of Roland, Sayers
- Short Stories and Poems
