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THE
ANGELICUM ACADEMY
High School Socratic Seminar Readings
This
list has been revised as of 8-28-02
for the 2002-2003 School Year
Click
here for our Holiday Schedule
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Freshman Year - Ninth Grade
Great Books Level 1 - The Ancient Greeks (34 weeks
- September-May)
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15
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(September
5 - December 23, 2002)
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19
Weeks
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January
2 - May 30
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NOTA
BENE:
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Required
reading before first class: Theogony
- Hesiod; Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus
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Lycurgus,
Solon, Pericles, Alcibiades - Plutarch
(Jan. 2)
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Orientation:
(September 5, 2002), Mic tests, introduction
to Socratic inquiry
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Medea,
Bacchae - Euripedes (Jan. 9)
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Theogony
- Hesiod
Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus (Sept.
12)
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Peloponnesian
War (Books 1-3) - Thucydides (Jan.
16)
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The
Iliad - Homer (Sept.
19)
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Peloponnesian
War (Books 4-6) - Thucydides (Jan.
23)
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The
Iliad - Homer (Sept.
26)
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Fragments*
- Presocratic Philosophers (Jan.
30 )
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The
Odyssey - Homer
(Oct. 3)
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Ion,
Meno - Plato
(Feb. 6)
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The
Odyssey - Homer
(Oct. 10)
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Symposium
- Plato (Feb. 13)
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Agamemnon,
Libation Bearers - Aeschylus Eumenides
- Aeschylus (Oct.
17)
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Georgia
- Plato (Feb. 20)
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Trojan
Women, Alcestis - Euripedes (Oct.
24)
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The
Clouds, The Birds - Aristophanes
(Feb.
27)
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Aesop's
Fables - Aesop (Oct.
31)
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Euthyphro,
Apology,Crito - Plato (Mar. 6)
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Oedipus
Rex, Oedipus at Colonus - Sophocles
(Nov. 7)
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The
Republic* - Plato (Mar. 13)
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Antigone
- Sophocles, Hippolytus - Euripides
(Nov. 14)
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Alexander
- Plutarch (Mar. 20)
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Histories
(Books 1-3) - Herodotus (Nov.
21)
Thanksgiving Holidays (Nov. 28,29)
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Poetics
- Aristotle (Mar. 27)
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Histories
(Books 4-6) - Herodotus (Dec.
5)
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Histories
(Books 7-9) - Herodotus (Dec.
12)
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On
the Heavens*, On the Soul*, Ethics*, Metaphysics*
- Aristotle (Apr. 10) - - - Spring
Break April 14-18
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Oral
Exams (December 16-20, 23)
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The
Oath, On Ancient Medicine, On Airs, Waters,
Places - Hippocrates (Apr. 24)
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Elements
- Euclid (May 1)
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Sand
Reckoner, Floating Bodies, Equilibrium of Planes -
Archimedes (May 8)
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Introduction
to Arithmetic - Nichomachus of Gerasa (May
15)
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selections
only (the Aristotle sections are very brief)
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Oral
Exams (May 20-22, 26-30)
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Sophomore Year - Tenth Grade
SECOND YEAR (Roman) READINGS
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15
Weeks
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September
3 - December 23, 2002
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19
Weeks (January 7 - May 30)
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Orientation
Week (September 3, 2002)
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Enneads*
- Plotinus (Jan. 7)
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Aeneid
- Virgil (Sept.
10)
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Old
Testament - Genesis
(Jan. 14)
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Aeneid
- Virgil (Sept.
17)
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Apocalypse
- John (Jan. 28)
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Confessions
- Augustine (Feb. 4)
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Plutarch's
Lives: Romulus, Numa Pomulus, Coriolanus, Caesar
(Oct. 8)
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Confessions
- Augustine (Feb. 11)
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Conquest
of Gaul - Caesar (Oct. 15)
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Consolation
of Philosophy - Boethius (Feb. 18)
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Plutarch's
Lives: Cato the Younger, Antony, Brutus,
Cicero (Oct. 22)
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On
Friendship - Cicero (Oct. 29)
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History
of the English People -
Bede (Mar. 4)
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On
Duties - Cicero (Nov. 5)
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Two
Lives of Charlemagne (Mar. 11)
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Annals*
- Tacitus (Nov. 12)
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On
the Nature of Things* - Lucretius (Nov.
19)
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Memoirs
of the Crusades (Mar. 25)
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Discourses*
- Epictitus; Meditations* - Marcus
Aurelius (Nov. 26)
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Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight (Apr. 1)
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Almagest
- Ptolemy (Dec. 3)
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Guide
for the Perplexed - Maimonides
(Apr. 8)
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Spring Break (April 14-18)
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On
the Natural Faculties - Galen (Dec.
11)
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Oral
Exams (Dec. 16-20, 23)
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The
Divine Comedy - Dante (Apr. 29)
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The
Divine Comedy - Dante (May 6)
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The
Divine Comedy - Dante (May 13)
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Oral
Exams (May 20-22, 26-30)
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Junior Year - Eleventh Grade
THIRD YEAR (Medieval) READINGS
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15
Weeks
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September
3 - December 23, 2002
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20
Weeks
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January-May
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Orientation;
Mic testing (Sept. 4)
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Gargantua
and Pantagruel - Rabelais (Jan. 8)
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Canterbury
Tales (Sept. 11) - Chaucer
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