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Official 2011 Reading List

2011 Reading List

January: Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

February: The Lonesome Gods by Louis L'Amour

March: Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

April: Alas Babylon by Pat Frank

May: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

June: Animal Farm by George Orwell

July: Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

August: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

September: The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom with John and Elizabeth Sherrill

October: Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

November: Old Yeller by Fred Gipson

December: The Odyssey by Homer

2 Nov 2010 Unoffical voter guide...

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The Power of a Story

The Classics Force Us To Think

"First we are caused to think about the characters in the story, then about ourselves, then about people we know and finally about humanity in general...The classics can be hard work, and that is exactly what is needed to learn to think. Thinking is hard; deep thinking is not entertaining or easy...The classics make us struggle, search, ponder, seek, analyze, discover, decide, and reconsider."



A Thomas Jefferson Education by Oliver DeMille

The Classics Take Us To The Frontier To Be Conquered

"All generations before this one have had geographical frontiers to conquer. We don't. Without a frontier we cannot become what the Founders, the explorers and the pioneers became in their extremities. Our challenges define us, our reaction to them mold and shape us...Human beings need a frontier in order to progress. Fortunately, we do have one frontier left, and it is in fact the hardest one. It is the frontier within...classics can help."



A Thomas Jefferson Education by Oliver DeMille

The Classics Bring Us Face-To-Face With Greatness

"The purpose of studying literature is to become better. As we read we experience despair, heartache, tragedy -- we learn to recognize what causes them and avoid it or cope with it in our own lives. As we study the characters, real or fictional, in the classics, we are inspired by greatness, which is the first step to becoming great ourselves...Who we are changes as we set higher and higher standards of what life is about and what we are here to accomplish."

A Thomas Jefferson Education by Oliver DeMille