Literature study course for the Ancients?

[Laura Corin]

Calvin will be thirteen when we reach the Ancients in history again, and working at a high school level. I'd like to use a packaged literature study course for him - do you have any ideas?

I'd like something that isn't too heavy, so uses the more accessible ancient texts, rather than more worthy but overwhelmingly dense ones. I'd also prefer a secular approach.

Does this exist?

Many thanks

Laura

[Gretchen in NO. CA]

Have you looked at Smarr Literature? They have a literature program for the Ancients. I haven't used it yet but I'm looking at it. www.smarrpublishers.com (http://www.smarrpublishers.com).
Gretchen

[Anne/Ankara]

This is not a packaged curriculum, but I'm hoping that it will be a good plan for my 14 ninth grade ds as we cover Ancient Literature. I bought 4 textbook anthologies from Ebay (high school and college books) and plan to read selections and background on the works that WTM has listed for ninth grade. If possible, we will read the whole text on some of these... but at least we will be getting some exposure to these works. In addition, I plan to use some of the Teaching Company lectures, listed at the end of this plan.

Ninth Grade Literature

Texts: Longman Anthology World Literature, Volume A The Ancient World
Bedford Anthology of World Literature, The Ancient World
Holt: World Literature, Revised Edition
Holt: Elements of Literature, World Literature
Teaching Company: Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition


First semester

1. Bible, Genesis-Job
Bedford p. 127
Longman p. 50
Holt, p. 160
Holt, elements, p. 51
Great Authors #1-7

2. Gilgamesh
Bedford p. 55
Longman p. 88
Holt p. 136
Holt, elements, p. 21
Great Authors #2

3. Homer, Iliad
Bedford p. 277
Longman p. 230
Holt p. 214
Holt, elements, p. 120
Great Authors #7

4. Homer, Odyssey
Bedford p. 421
Longman p. 291
Great Authors #8

5. Herodutus, Histories
Longman p. 694
Great Authors #13

6. Thucydides, Peloponnesian War
Bedford p. 1135
Longman p. 700
Holt p. 284
Holt, elements, p. 181
Great Authors #14

7. Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Bedford p. 899
Longman p. 648
Holt p. 301
Holt, elements, p. 199
Great Authors #11

8. Euripides, Meclea
Bedford p. 1004
Longman p. 748
Great Authors #12

9. Aristophanes, Frogs
Great Authors #15

10. Plato’s Republic
Bedford p. 1111
Longman p. 712
Books that Made History #13, #25
Great Authors #16

11. Aristotle, Poetics, Ethics
Bedford p. 1153

Second Semester

1. Bible, Book of Daniel

2. Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
Bedford p. 786

3. Cicero, de Republica
Books that Change Lives #33

4. Virgil, Aeneid
Bedford p. 1181
Longman p. 1163
Holt p. 379
Holt, elements, p. 269

Great Authors #19
Books that Change Lives #20

5. Ovid, Metamorphoses
Holt, p. 422
Bedford p. 1270
Longman p. 1264
Holt, Elements, p. 305
Great Authors #20

6. Bible, Corinthians

7. Josephus, Wars of the Jews

8. Plutarch, Lives of the Greeks
Great Authors #21

9. Tacitus, Annals
Holt, elements, p. 322



Teaching Company Courses

Human Prehistory and the First Civilization
Old Testament, New Testament
Origins of Great Ancient Civilizations
Ancient Greek Civilization
Classical Mythology
Foundations of Western Civilization
Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition
Great Battles of the Ancient World
Great Ideas of Philosophy
Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age
Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition
Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt
History of Ancient Egypt
History of Ancient Rome
The Vikings

[LisaNY]

Laura, I loved using WTM/TWEM for our Ancients study. I know it's not packaged, but is so easy to implement, that I felt I had to share the idea. I was able to use it w/my older dd, who is not that into reading, so your ds should do even better at this than we did.

I had started out w/Omnibus, but the list was so overwhelming. The WTM is lengthy, but SWB's suggestions for its use made it attainable for us. I began it mid-year, so we didn't get as far as I would have liked, but I still feel that we gleaned a lot from our studies.

I made heavy use of Sparknotes, and I highly recommend the Teaching Co. lectures by Elizabeth Andiver.

[Mama Lynx]

Laura,

I'm also planning to use TWTM/TWEM lists and ideas for our high school study.

You might also check out History Odyssey's Level 3 ancients, although that is not strictly literature.

Lightning Lit is has an ancients course planned, but don't have any kind of projected release date yet.

[Rhondabee]

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[Nan in Mass]

Laura, I think you might like TWTM/TWEM approach, too. I began it with a younger child and it was great. It is a method that can be applied to whatever books you choose, so it is really flexible and easy to use, perfect for growing with a child because you don't really need to do the adapting; the child does that himself. If you are interested, I can tell you what we did. -Nan

[Mama Lynx]

Laura, I think you might like TWTM/TWEM approach, too. I began it with a younger child and it was great. It is a method that can be applied to whatever books you choose, so it is really flexible and easy to use, perfect for growing with a child because you don't really need to do the adapting; the child does that himself. If you are interested, I can tell you what we did. -Nan

I'm interested!