Great Hearts Curriculum Overview

K 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th Phonics, Spelling & Vocabulary th Touchstones & Junior Great Hearts K-5 Grade Core Reading List English Great Books Literature & Composition Humane Humane Humane Humane Reading & Literature Letters: Letters: Letters: Letters: A Christmas Carol The Emperor’s New Clothes Little Women Shakespeare Stealer Grammar & Composition American Modern Ancient Rome to A First Book of Fairy Tales The Fire on the Mountain The Magic Paintbrush and the Seven Dwarfs Tradition Europe Greece Modernity A Lion to Guard Us Frog and Toad Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Core Classic) The Tale of Peter Rabbit Core Knowledge American History & Intro to the History Ancient Medieval A Midsummer Night’s Dream The Golden Fleece The People Who Could Fly Tales from Shakespeare Geography American History History A Wrinkle in Time Gulliver’s Travels (Core Classic) Phantom Tollbooth Talk Core Knowledge World History & Geography Tradition Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Pinocchio The Magic Brocade College The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Hunting of the Great Bear Pollyanna (Core Classic) Treasure Island (Core Classic) Pre- Algebra Math Singapore Math Algebra I Geometry Algebra / Calculus Aesop’s Fables In Their Own Words: Paul Revere The Prince and the Pauper The Ugly Duckling Algebra I / II Trig Aladdin and Other Favorite Arabian Nights Stories Jack and the Beanstalk The War Within Alice in Wonderland King Arthur (Core Classic) Rip Van Winkle (Core Classic) Where the Red Fern Grows Physical Life Earth Science Core Knowledge Science Biology Physics I Physics II Chemistry Beauty and the Beast King Midas and the Golden Touch Robin Hood (Core Classic) Why the Owl Has Big Eyes Science Science Science Charlotte’s Web The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Robinson Crusoe (Core Classic) William Tell Adv Latin Adv Latin Greek I Greek II The Chocolate Touch The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe The Wind in the Willows Foreign or or or or Spanish, French, or Latin Latin Little House in the Big Woods Sarah Plain and Tall The Wise Woman and Other Stories Language Mod Lang Mod Lang Mod Lang Mod Lang Don Quixote (Core Classic) The Little Match Girl The Secret Garden I II III IV Core Knowledge Music Intro to Fine Arts Music & Studio Art Music & Poetry Studio Art & Drama Core Knowledge Studio Art Fine Arts th th College Great Hearts 6 -12 Grade Core Reading List Study Skills Senior Other Competitive Chess Economics Admissions Workshop Thesis 101 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Confessions of St. Augustine The Great Gatsby The Miracle Worker Reason in History Physical • • • • • • Competitive Athletics The Aeneid The Constitution of the United States Heart of Darkness My Antonia Red Badge of Courage Education Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Crime and Punishment Henry V The Nicomachean Ethics The Republic Anti-Federalist Papers Crito The Histories No Exit Rip Van Winkle Please note that, due to differences in surrounding feeder schools, there are slight variations in the mathematics offerings at the Great Hearts schools. Antigone The Crucible History of the Peloponnesian War An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge A Rose for Emily Apology The Declaration of Independence The Hobbit Odyssey Second Treatise of Government As I Lay Dying Democracy in America Iliad Oedipus the King Selected Writings of Marx Autobiography of an American Slave Discourse on Method Julius Caesar The Old Man and the Sea Shane Bacchae Discourse on the Origin of Inequality The Jungle On Civil Disobedience Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Beowulf The Divine Comedy King Lear One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Song of Roland Bernice Bobs Her Hair Don Quixote The Last Battle The Oresteia Summa Theologica The Bible (selections) Enchiridion Letter from the Birmingham Jail Othello A Tale of Two Cities Billy Budd The Epic of Gilgamesh Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address Our Town Tales of the Greek Heroes The Brothers Karamazov Essays of Montaigne Lord of the Flies Paradise Lost The Tempest Brown vs. Board of Education Euthyphro Macbeth Phaedrus To Build a Fire The Call of the Wild Federalist #10 Marbury vs. Madison Plessy vs. Ferguson To Kill a Mockingbird The Canterbury Tales Federalist #15 Medea Poetics of Aristotle Utopia The Chosen Federalist #39 Meditations on First Philosophy Politics of Aristotle Walden A Christmas Carol Frankenstein Meno Pride and Prejudice The Wind in the Willows The Clouds Gorgias Merchant of Venice The Prince Young Goodman Brown The Communist Manifesto The Grapes of Wrath A Midsummer Night’s Dream Protagoras