An excerpt-based class, students are introduced to the epic through early historical literature including The Epic of Gilgamesh (circa 2100 BC), Homer's The Iliad (8th Century BC), Beowulf (circa 1000 AD), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (circa 1400), The Faerie Queene (1590), and Paradise Lost (1667). All texts are included as part of the class; no materials are required for purchase. 

Prerequisite: The Composition or similar experience

An excerpt-based class, students continue a study through early historical literature, including an introduction to Shakespeare (1600s), Don Quixote (1605), The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), Robinson Crusoe (1719), The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791), and poems by Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) and William Blake (1757-1827). All texts are included as part of the class; no materials are required for purchase.

Prerequisite: Essay Basics or similar experience

An excerpt-based class, students are introduced to primary works of literature from the early and middle 1800s, including poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) and William Wordsworth (1770-1850), The Swiss Family Robinson (1812), Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers (1836) and Oliver Twist (1838), Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), poems by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), Jane Eyre (1847), and Moby Dick (1851). All texts are included as part of the class; no materials are required for purchase.

Prerequisite: Essay Basics or similar experience

An excerpt-based class, students are introduced to primary works of literature from the middle and late 1800s, including poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) and Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), Little Women (1868) and Little Men (1871); Around the World in Eighty Days (1873); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884); The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892); and The Red Badge of Courage (1895). All texts are included as part of the class; no materials are required for purchase.

Prerequisite: Essay Basics or similar experience

An excerpt-based class, students are introduced to primary works of literature from the early and middle 1900s, including Helen Keller's The Story of My Life (1902); poems by Robert Frost (1874-1963) and Edgar A. Guest (1881-1959), Pygmalion (1912); poems and works by Langston Hughes (1902-1967); Johnny Tremain (1943), The Diary of a Young Girl (1947), and an overview of The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis (1950-1956). All texts are included as part of the class; no additional materials required.

Prerequisite: Essay Basics or similar experience

An excerpt-based class, students are introduced to primary works of literature from the middle and late 1900s, including A Wrinkle in Time (1962); All Creatures Great and Small (1975); Tuck Everlasting (1975); Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1977), Sarah, Plain and Tall (1985); Number the Stars (1989); The Giver (1993), and poetry with George Ella Lyon (1949-). All texts are included as part of the class; no additional materials required.

Prerequisite: Essay Basics or similar experience

S.D. Smith's The Green Ember presents many ideas worthy of discussion. For this class, students focus on the theme of purpose, that of finding one's place in the story of life. Students will see how main characters Heather and Picket discover their places in the fight against evil and the preservation of good, whilst learning how to spot hindrances to our individual purposes. Optional vocabulary lists will be supplied, which can be further expanded at home as daily spelling practice. Students must have a copy of The Green Ember to read. 

Prerequisite: Essay Basics or similar experience

On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness by Andrew Peterson is a modern fantasy novel that is rich with meaningful themes—courage, family, sacrifice, truth, purpose, and more. For this class, students will focus on the theme of identity, that of discovering who one truly is. Through the journeys of Janner, Tink, and Leeli Igiby, students will examine how characters change and grow in response to hardship, responsibility, and discovery. Students must have a copy of On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness to read. ​

Prerequisite: Essay Basics or similar experience