Melissa in Australia Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Hi everyone we are following WTM great books/History, and are up to Renascence-Post Modern. I would love to see what great books others have used. I have a year 10 & 12 both boys doing this time period. So far this is my list; Gulliver's Travels Frankenstein The Last of the Mohicans The Scarlet Letter ( I will pre-read this one, not sure if it is a girl book or not) Oliver Twist For The Term Of His Natural Life Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chemist Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematica I am not particularly interested in in heaps of American Literature ( Being Australian) Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 Hi everyone we are following WTM great books/History, and are up to Renascence-Post Modern. I would love to see what great books others have used. I have a year 10 & 12 both boys doing this time period. So far this is my list; Gulliver's Travels Frankenstein The Last of the Mohicans The Scarlet Letter ( I will pre-read this one, not sure if it is a girl book or not) Oliver Twist For The Term Of His Natural Life Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chemist Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematica I am not particularly interested in in heaps of American Literature ( Being Australian) Thank you The Scarlet Pimpernel Three Musketeers The Count of Monte Cristo I was also eyeing a copy of The Discoverers by Boorstin a few days ago. I was thinking that since we're headed into renaissance and beyond, I should read this. Not a Great Book, per se, but a well done history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skadi Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 (edited) Here's my high school list, with approximate dates (taking out some of the American Revolution selections): Divine Meditations by John Donne (1635) Principles of Philosophy by Rene Descartes (1644) Paradise Lost (selections) by Milton (1664) “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” by John Locke (1690) “The Social Contract” by Rousseau (1762) “Critique of Pure Reason” by Kant (1781) Songs of Innocence and Experience by Blake (1789) Les Miserables by Victor Hugo audiobook with Bill Homewood (1789) “The Rights of Man” by Paine (1792) Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge (1798) Napoleon: A Life by Paul Johnson (1799) Mr. Midshipman by C.S. Forester (first book in the Hornblower series) (1803) Pride and Prejudice or Emma or Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1815) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley audiobook with Kenneth Brenaugh (1818) The Last of the Mohicans by Cooper (1826) “The Lady of Shalott” and other poems of Tennyson (1832) Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol (1835) “The Fall of the House of Usher” and other stories of Poe (1839) “Self-Reliance” by Emerson (1844) A Masked Ball and Other Stories by Alexander Dumas (1845) Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre or Agnes Gray by the Bronte Sisters (1847) Moby Dick by Melville audiobook with Burt Reynolds (1851) I don't include The Scarlet Letter because I hated it in high school. :tongue_smilie: Edited April 12, 2011 by Skadi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted April 13, 2011 Author Share Posted April 13, 2011 Thank you very much everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 Robbery Under Arms is another to toss in. Doesn't everyone like bushrangers? Rosie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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