Homeschoolmom3 Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Looking for a great master list for HS classical Literature chronologically? I have the WTM, but was looking for a larger list that is possibly broken up by genre. Know of anything? TIA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3in9th Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 I have an English degree and my university was really good about reading a variety of works from a variety of people. To that end, I've put together some works for my kids to read: Modern Times 1850-Present- Level II Classics 1861 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 880L/5.6 AR 1913- O, Pioneers! by Willa Cather 6.7 AR 1920s- The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck 1530L/6.8 AR 1927- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 1030L/7.2 AR 1932- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 870L/7.5AR 1933- To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee 870L/8.6 AR 1935- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 680L/4.9 AR à Pulitzer 1952- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 7.2 AR 1952- Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 5.1 AR à Pulitzer 1969- House Made of Dawn by M. Scott Momaday 6.2 ARà Pulitzer 1981- Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 5.5 ARà Pulitzer Poetry 1850- Sonnets from the Portuguese by E.B. Browning 1850- Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1855- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman William Butler Yeats W. H. Auden T.S. Eliot Gwendolyn Brooks Non-Fiction 1854- Walden by Henry David Thoreau 8.7 AR 1871- Descent of Man by Charles Darwin 1940s- Diary of Anne Frank 1080L/6.5 AR Drama 1904 Peter Pan by Barrie 1912 Pygmalion by Shaw Eugene O’Neill 1938 Our Town by Thorton Wilder Pulitzer The Crucible by Arthur Miller Tennessee Williams Rogers and Hammerstein Historic Fiction 1850- The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier 1853- In the Land of the Long Shadow by Sara Lark 1861- Lincoln: A Novel by Gore Vidal 1887- The Last Romanov 1861- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 1100L/7.1 AR Pulitzer 1862- Anna and the King by Margaret Langdon ?/7.2AR 1959- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 960L/6.6 AR 1960- In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez 910L/5.8 AR Modern Times 1850 to Present- Level III Classics 1853- Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 1050L/9.3 AR 1890s- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 1230L/9.7 AR 1896- Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 1110L/8.9 AR 1915- Of Human Bondage by M. Somerset Maugham 910L/8.3AR 1946- Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell 1090L/8.9AR Henry James George Eliot It's obviously not extensive, but a couple of resources you can use is the Pulitzer, Nobel, Orange, and Man Booker Prizes as well as this resource, which lists American and English classics in chronological order. A newer version is available, but it's way expensive. You can try a university library for it, though. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homeschoolmom3 Posted March 19, 2015 Author Share Posted March 19, 2015 Thanks, that is a good list for modern...we are looking to finish up ancient-medieval next year and didn't want to miss any must have's. We have completed the Odyssey and so are looking in the 800-400BC range, and am looking forward from that time period. We are hoping to finish up to the 400 BC this year maybe finishing with Plato. So we are starting Aristophanes next week and was thinking of doing Aesops fables, but before I do that I was wondering if I can consider: Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato for Literature? Thanks everyone! I hope this makes since I am compiling next year's list as well and so looking ahead from the 400BC-1000AD. So would love to find some type of master list. Thanks for your ideas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Thanks, that is a good list for modern...we are looking to finish up ancient-medieval next year and didn't want to miss any must have's... Wikipedia actually has some great "master lists" of Literature by time period that can be a useful starting point, and then whittle it down by comparing with a number of syllabi and booklists from curriculum providers or other high school booklists that you connect with, such as WTM, Ambleside, The Great Books, etc. For example, from the Wikipedia: Ancient Literature list, here's an abridged list of works I've seen people mention on their ancients booklist -- NOT all of them on one student's reading list of course! ;) I would still drastically reduce it to fill what time we had with what was most important to OUR family to cover. :) Middle Bronze Age: ca. 2000 to 1600 BC 1900 Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh 1780 Akkadian Code of Hammurabi stele Late Bronze Age: ca. 1600 to 1200 BC 1700-1100 Vedic Sanskrit: approximate date of the composition of the Rigveda 1550 Egyptian Book of the Dead 1440-1400 Hebrew Torah, also called the Pentateuch or Five Books of Moses 1330 Egyptian Great Hymn to the Aten 1200 Egyptian Tale of Two Brothers Iron Age 1200-1100 BC approximate date of some of the Rigveda 1050 BC Egyptian Story of Wenamun 1000-600 BC Chinese Classic of Poetry (Shījīng), Classic of Changes (I Ching) 8th century BC Greek: Homer: The Iliad, The Odyssey Hebrew: Oldest non-Pentateuchal books (Nahum, Hosea, Amos, Isaiah) 6th century BC Hebrew Bible: Psalms, Ezekiel, Daniel Chinese: Sun Tzu: The Art of War Sanskrit: Sutra literature Greek: Sappho, Aesop's Fables 5th century BC Sanskrit: Epics (Mahabharata and Ramayana) Chinese: Confucius: Analects Greek: - Herodotus: The Histories of Herodotus - Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War - Aeschylus: Oresteia, others - Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, others - Euripides: Medea, Trojan Women, others - Aristophanes: The Clouds, The Wasps, The Birds, The Frogs, others 4th century BC Hebrew: Book of Job Chinese: Tao Te Ching Greek: - Aristotle - Plato: Republic - Euclid: Elements 3rd century BC Hebrew: Ecclesiastes 1st century AD Latin: - Julius Caesar: Gallic Wars - Virgil: Aeneid - Livy: History of Rome Greek: - Plutarch: Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans - Josephus: The Jewish War, Antiquities of the Jews, Against Apion - books of the New Testament - Ovid: Metamorphoses - Pliny the Elder: Natural History Late Antiquity (early A.D.) 4th century = Augustine of Hippo: Confessions 5th century = Augustine of Hippo: The City of God After ancients, the Wikipedia lists get very long and pretty early on are listed by YEAR, which makes for a long slog to go through 100 pages, one per year for just one century, skimming for titles. ;) Wikipedia does have a condensed list by century -- scroll down for the actual works of literature: 14th century; 15th century; 16th century; 17th century; 18th century; 19th century. And don't forget poets, listed separately by century. And you can also focus on specific movements. Anyways, here are a few Medieval works that pop up on classic literature lists: 8th-11th century Old English - Beowulf - Exeter Book: Anglo Saxon riddles - Dream of the Rood Norse: Sagas French: Song of Roland 12th century - French: The Lais of Marie de France - French: Launcelot du Luc / Le Chevalier de la Charrette (Chretien de Troyes) - German: The Nibelungenlied - Spanish: The Poem of the Cid - Welsh: The Mabinogion (collection of stories) 13th century - German: Tristan and Isolde (Gottfried von Strassburg) - French: Silence -- girl raised as a boy becomes world’s best minstrel, then world’s best knight - Old Norse: Edda (collection of stories) 14th century Italian: The Divine Comedy (Dante) Middle English: - Canterbury Tales (Chaucer) - Piers the Plowman - Poetry of the Pearl - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 15th century - French and English: Morte D'Arthur (Malory) (can substitute T.E. White's 20th century Once and Future King or other King Arthur works) After that, you're getting into Renaissance literature... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homeschoolmom3 Posted March 19, 2015 Author Share Posted March 19, 2015 Thanks Lori, great list! Great ideas and I didn't know about checking on Wikipedia. :blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aprilleigh Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 This book has several lists that are divided by literature type, era, or country of origin. I found a copy at my public library several years ago and kept renewing it so many times I finally bought a copy for myself. http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Lists-Bound-Students-College-Bound/dp/0764561014 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homeschoolmom3 Posted March 20, 2015 Author Share Posted March 20, 2015 Will check that book out...thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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