Great Hearts Curriculum Overview
K
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
10th
11th
12th
Phonics, Spelling & Vocabulary
Touchstones & Junior
Great Books
English
Great Hearts K-5th Grade Core Reading List
Literature & Composition
Humane
Letters:
American
Tradition
Reading & Literature
Grammar & Composition
Core Knowledge American History &
Geography
History
Core Knowledge World History & Geography
Math
Singapore Math
Science
PreAlgebra
Algebra I
Spanish, French, or Latin
Intro to
Fine Arts
Core Knowledge Studio Art
Other
Competitive Chess
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Life
Science
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Study Skills
Workshop
Humane
Letters:
Ancient
Greece
Humane
Letters:
Rome to
Modernity
Medieval
History
Algebra
I / II
Earth
Science
Latin
Core Knowledge Music
Fine Arts
Physical
Education
Ancient
History
Physical
Science
Core Knowledge Science
Foreign
Language
Intro to the
American
Tradition
Humane
Letters:
Modern
Europe
Music & Studio Art
Geometry
Biology
Adv Latin
or
Mod Lang
I
College
Algebra /
Trig
Physics I
Adv Latin
or
Mod Lang
II
Music & Poetry
Calculus
Physics II
Greek I
or
Mod Lang
III
Please note that, due to differences in surrounding feeder schools, there are slight variations in the mathematics offerings at the Great Hearts schools.
Greek II
or
Mod Lang
IV
Studio Art & Drama
College
Economics Admissions
101
Competitive Athletics
Chemistry
Senior
Thesis
A Christmas Carol
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Little Women
Shakespeare Stealer
A First Book of Fairy Tales
The Fire on the Mountain
The Magic Paintbrush
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
A Lion to Guard Us
Frog and Toad
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Core Classic)
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Golden Fleece
The People Who Could Fly
Tales from Shakespeare
A Wrinkle in Time
Gulliver’s Travels (Core Classic)
Phantom Tollbooth
Talk
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Hansel and Gretel
Pinocchio
The Magic Brocade
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Hunting of the Great Bear
Pollyanna (Core Classic)
Treasure Island (Core Classic)
Aesop’s Fables
In Their Own Words: Paul Revere
The Prince and the Pauper
The Ugly Duckling
Aladdin and Other Favorite Arabian Nights Stories
Jack and the Beanstalk
Rapunzel
The War Within
Alice in Wonderland
King Arthur (Core Classic)
Rip Van Winkle (Core Classic)
Where the Red Fern Grows
Beauty and the Beast
King Midas and the Golden Touch
Robin Hood (Core Classic)
Why the Owl Has Big Eyes
Charlotte’s Web
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Robinson Crusoe (Core Classic)
William Tell
The Chocolate Touch
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Rumpelstiltskin
The Wind in the Willows
Cinderella
Little House in the Big Woods
Sarah Plain and Tall
The Wise Woman and Other Stories
Don Quixote (Core Classic)
The Little Match Girl
The Secret Garden
Great Hearts 6th-12th Grade Core Reading List
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Aeneid
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Anti-Federalist Papers
Antigone
Apology
As I Lay Dying
Autobiography of an American Slave
Bacchae
Beowulf
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
The Bible (selections)
Billy Budd
The Brothers Karamazov
Brown vs. Board of Education
The Call of the Wild
The Canterbury Tales
The Chosen
A Christmas Carol
The Clouds
The Communist Manifesto
Confessions of St. Augustine
The Constitution of the United States
Crime and Punishment
Crito
The Crucible
The Declaration of Independence
Democracy in America
Discourse on Method
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
The Divine Comedy
Don Quixote
Enchiridion
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Essays of Montaigne
Euthyphro
Federalist #10
Federalist #15
Federalist #39
Frankenstein
Gorgias
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
Heart of Darkness
Henry V
The Histories
History of the Peloponnesian War
The Hobbit
Iliad
Julius Caesar
The Jungle
King Lear
The Last Battle
Letter from the Birmingham Jail
Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address
Lord of the Flies
Macbeth
Marbury vs. Madison
Medea
Meditations on First Philosophy
Meno
Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Miracle Worker
My Antonia
The Nicomachean Ethics
No Exit
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Odyssey
Oedipus the King
The Old Man and the Sea
On Civil Disobedience
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Oresteia
Othello
Our Town
Paradise Lost
Phaedrus
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Poetics of Aristotle
Politics of Aristotle
Pride and Prejudice
The Prince
Protagoras
Reason in History
Red Badge of Courage
The Republic
Rip Van Winkle
A Rose for Emily
Second Treatise of Government
Selected Writings of Marx
Shane
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Song of Roland
Summa Theologica
A Tale of Two Cities
Tales of the Greek Heroes
The Tempest
To Build a Fire
To Kill a Mockingbird
Utopia
Walden
The Wind in the Willows
Young Goodman Brown