Over the summer the boys are expected to shift their brain’s gears toward the topics being discussed in the fall. This fall we are looking at morals, cultural expectations, and meta-themes as cultures rise, fall, and merge. To this end we are looking at myths, rise of language (spoken and written), geological forms, archeologists, and historical texts. There are culturally important themes that were discussed last school year. They are expected to be able to discuss them and realize their implications in literature and pop culture.
Summer reading list
HISTORY
Plato’s Apology Crito and Phaedo or I. F. Stone’s The Trial of Socrates
Ovid or Tactius or Cicero (Selections)
The Books of Joshua, Judges, I and II Samuel, I and II Kings, I and II Chronicles (JV’s pick 1)
FICTION
John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress or John Milton’s Paradise Lost
Mary Renault’s The King Must Die (AV’s pick 1)
Jane Walden’s Favorite Folktales from Around the World (AV’s pick 2)
NON-FICTION
Joseph Campbell’s The Power of Myth (JV’s pick 2)
Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft
Thomas Lewis’ Lives of a Cell: Notes from a Biology Watcher (JV’s pick 3)
John McPhee’s Rising from the Planes, Assembling California, and Basin and Range (AV’s pick 3)
Jeannine Davis-Kimball’s Warrior Women: An Archeologist’s search for History’s Hidden Herroines
David Anthony’s Horse, Wheel, Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
Andrew Robin’s The Story of Writing
The Inclusive Atrium 