Plan for Ninth Grade Great Books Study:
I actually have this set up as a table, if anyone is interested in it please just let me know. I can’t get it to show up correctly on the blog so I’m posting each portion, History, Literature, and Reference Works, separately:
History
Utilizing SWB’s History of the Ancient World
Week 1: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 – Sumer; Nile Valley 3200bc
Week 2: Chapters 5, 6, 7 - Indus Valley; Yellow River Valley; Sumer and Egypt
3800-2400bc
Week 3: Chapters 8, 9, 10 - Sumer 2700bc; Egypt 3100-2686bc; Sumer 2600bc
Week 4: Chapters 11, 12, 13 - Egypt 2686-2566bc; Sumer 2350bc; Sumer 2334-2279bc
Week 5: Chapters 14, 15, 16 - Indus Valley 2300bc; Egypt 2450-2184bc; Akkadia, Sumer, Elam
2278-2154bc
Week 6: Chapters 17, 18, 19 - Sumer and West 2166-1191bc; Egypt to 1782
Week 7: Chapters 20, 21, 22, 23 - Mesopotamia to 1750; Yellow River Valley; Babylonia to 1712; Egypt to 1630bc
Week 8: Chapters 24, 25, 26, 27 - Crete to 1628bc; India to 1575bc; Asia Minor and
Mesopotamis to 1560; Egypt to 1546bc
Week 9: Chapters 28,29, 30, 31 - Egypt to 1446; Egypt, Meso, Asia M; Shang China to 1400;
Crete (Mycenaeans); Greece to 1400
Week 10: Chapters 32, 33, 34, 35 - Egypt to 1340; Egypt, Meso, Asia M; Egypt, Asia M, Assyria; Asia M and Greece
Week 11: Chapters 36, 37, 38, 39 - China 1200bc; India 1200bc; Asia M, Assy, Bab, Eg;
Egypt end of N King.
Week 12: Chapters 40, 41, 42, 43 - Dark Age, Greece and Mesopotamia to 1032; Fall of Shang China; China 1040-918bc
Week 13: Chapters 44, 45, 46 - Northern India to 950; Israel, Arabia, Egypt; China – Zhou to 771
Week 14: Chapters 47, 48, 49 - Assyria, Israel, Egypt, Phoenicia to 841bc; Assyria, Baby, Greece; Italy and Greece to 720
Week 15: Chapters 50, 51, 52 - Assyria, Urartu, Syria, Babylonia to 727bc; Assyria, Israel, Egypt; Assyria, Baby, Judah, Egypt to 681bc
Week 16: Chapters 53, 54, 55 - China to 628bc; Assy, Baby, Phrygia, Lydia, Egypt to 653bc;
Assyria, Baby, Elam, Media, Persia to 625
Week 17: Chapters 56, 57 - Greece, Asia Minor, North Africa to 622bc; Italy, Assyria, Baby, Judah, Egypt to 605bc
Week 18: Chapters 58, 59 - Baby, Egypt, Media; Baby, Lydia, Arabia, Judah, Media, Persia to 539bc
Week 19: Chapters 60, 61, 62 - N. Africa, Italy, Asia M; India to 500bc; China to 475bc
Week 20: Chapters 63, 64 - Persia, Egypt, India; Persia, Egypt, Greece
Week 21: Chapters 65, 66 - Persia, Egypt, Greece, Sicily; Italy to 390bc
Week 22: Chapters 67, 68, 69 - Ch’in China to 325bc; Persia, Egypt, Greece, Macedonia;
Italy, Sicily, Carthage
Week 23: Chapters 70, 71 - Alexander 336-272bc; India to 231 bc
Week 24: Chapters 72, 73 - China to 202bc; World 285-202bc
Week 25: Chapters 74, 75 - Greece, Macedonia, Seleucids, India to 168; China, Bactria, Parthia,
India to 110bc
Week 26: Chapter 76 - Italy, Sicily, Greece, N. Africa to 121bc
Week 27: Chapter 77 - Italy, N. Africa, China to 73bc
Week 28: Chapter 78 - Italy, Britain, Gaul, Egypt, Parthia to 44bc
Week 29: Chapter 79 - The Roman Empire, Parthia, Egypt to 14ad
Week 30: Chapter 80 - China to 75ad
Week 31: Chapter 81 - The Roman Empire, Parthia, India to 69ad
Week 32: Chapter 82 - The Roman Empire, Parthia, Britain to 132
Week 33: Chapter 83 - China to 182
Week 34: Chapter 84 - The Roman Empire, Parthia, China to 222
Week 35: Chapter 85 - The Roman Empire, Parthia, Persian Empire to 312
Week 36: Nothing
Literature
Use The Well Educated Mind, SWB, throughout the year for discussion questions, etc.
Week 1: NIV/Message Bible: Genesis – Job – This is ~375 pages @ 50 pages per day =
~2 weeks – HISTORY-POETRY-and DRAMA
Week 2: Continue to completion. If time: Beyond the Gates of Hercules, a Tale of the Lost Atlantis, de Trevino - Home
Week 3: Gilgamesh (~2500bc) – POETRY - 96 pgs. Also complete Bible work if not yet finished.
Week 4: Homer: The Iliad, trans. Robert Fitzgerald - ~600 pages @ ~50 pages per day = 3 weeks – POETRY
Week 5-6: Cont. The Iliad
Week 7: Homer: The Odyssey - Length? Allow 4 weeks - POETRY
Week 8-10: Continue The Odyssey
Week 11: Greek Lyrical Poetry: Lit of West. Civ. – Sappho, pgs. 178-9; Pindar – pg. 182. Look up more Pindar and also Solon online. 1 day
Do Sophocles: Oedipus the King – Drama – 2 days
Agammemnon -Drama -2 days - Choose Version: Greek Trag., Green and Lattimore, Ed. Or Ten Greek Plays, Lind, Ed.
Week 12: Begin Herodotus: The Histories, Robin Waterfield, Trans. – Library
772 pages, so take about a month to complete - HISTORY
Week 13-15: Continue Herodotus
Week 16: Euripides: Medea – Lit of West. Civ.- 1 day - DRAMA
Aristophanes: The Birds – Four Plays – rest of week – DRAMA
Other Euripides? Use the Bacchae and other Plays, Vellacott, Trans. – Home
Week 17: Thucydides: The Peloponnessian War, Steven Lattimore, Trans. – need to purchase 656 pages, so take a month to complete - HISTORY
Weeks 18-20: Continue Thucydides
Week 21: Plato: The Republic, Desmond Lee, Trans. – 408 pages – take 2 weeks - Need to purchase -HISTORY
Week 22: Complete Plato
Week 23: Aristotle: On Poetics, Seth Benardete, Trans. – Need to purchase – 105 pages - DRAMA
Aristotle: Rhetoric – online book: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/a8rh/ - HISTORY?
Read the book of Daniel in the Bible - HISTORY
Week 24: Horace, from Lit of West. Civ. - Do both the Odes and his Satire - Poetry
Lucretius: On the Nature of Things, A. E. Stallings, Trans. – Library – 265 pages – complete next week - POETRY
Week 25: Complete Lucretius.
Cicero: The Republic (and the Laws), Niall Rudd, Trans. - ~150 pgs - HISTORY
Week 27: Complete Aeneid.
Week 28: Ovid: Metamorphoses, Mary Innes, Trans. - ~350 pages, so take 2 weeks - POETRY
Week 29: Bible: Corinthians I and II - History
Week 30: Wars of the Jews, Josephus, Betty Radice, Trans. About 500 pages – take two weeks - HISTORY
Week 31: Complete Josephus.
Week 32: Plutarch: The Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, Robin Waterfield, Trans. - ~600 pages – take three weeks - HISTORY
Week 33-34: Continue Plutarch.
Week 35: Tacitus: Annals – use online version to cover what we can this week and perhaps next: http://classics.mit.edu/Tacitus/annals.html - HISTORY
Week 36: Saint Athanasius: On the Incarnation available through Amazon – 82 pages – DRAMA? Also online: http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/history/ath-inc.htm
Reference Works
Timetables of History, Grun; DK Timelines of World History – use with every topic
Week 1-2: How the Bible Came to Us and How to Study the Bible
Chapter 1, Spielvogel World – 4 wks. ~35 pages, So ~2 pages per day
Week 3-4: Continue Spielvogel Ch. 1
Week 5: Begin Ch. 2 Spielvogel - Do 6 pages per week(x4 wks), so about 1 per day
Week 6-8: Continue Ch. 2, Spielvogel
Week 9: Spielvogel – begin Ch. 3 - 4 wks. – 7 pgs. per week, so ~1 ½ pages per day.
Week 10-12: Continue Spielvogel Ch. 3
Week 13: Begin Spielvogel Ch. 4 - 8 wks. – 4 pages per week, 1 page per day
Week 14 – 20: Continue Spielvogel Ch. 4
Week 21: Begin Spielvogel Ch. 5 – 36 pages – 16 weeks - ~3 pages per week
Week 22 – 36: Continue Spielvogel Ch. 5
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