11th Grade Humanities
Unit 1: Paradise, Innocence and Experience
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Romantic poetry
Things Fall Apart by China Achebe
Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Unit 2: Rebellion
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Declaration of Independence
Great Expectations and Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self by Carl Trueman
Unit 3: Resistance and Restoration
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
“Letter From the Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Winter’s Tale by Shakespeare
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazoo Ishiguro
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
12th Grade Humanities
Unit 1: Relationship with God
"Enuma Elish"
"Theogony" by Hesiod
Books of Job, Romans, and Revelation
Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine of Hippo
The Monkey and the Monk (abridged version) by Anthony C. Yu
Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Unit 2: Family
Oresteia by Aeschylus,
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Antigone by Sophocles
Medea by Euripides
Books of II Samuel and Hosea
Unit 3: Society
Republic by Plato
Books of I and II Corinthians and proverbs
Politics by Aristotle
The Trojan Women by Euripides
On The Good Life by Cicero
The Analects by Confucius
Excerpts from The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Excerpts from The Bhagavad Gita by Vyasa
Fall of the Roman Empire by Plutarch
City of God by St. Augustine