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Mathematics Courses

 

University of Chicago School Mathematics Project

Publisher Scott Foresman

  • Algebra
  • Advanced Algebra
  • Geometry
  • Functions, Statistics, and Trigonometry

 

Precalculus: Roland E. Larson and Robert P.Hostetler - Houghton Mifflin Co.

Single Variable Calculus: James Stewart - Brooks/Cole Publishing Co.

 

 

Selected Material from:

Book One Algebra, Hayes School Publishing Company 1997

The History of Mathematics (An Introduction)

Fourth Edition

David M. Burton

WCB/McGraw-Hill

 

Music Theory Courses

Elementary Rudiments of Music, Barbara Wharram

Fundamentals of Piano Theory, Keith Snell and Martha Ashleigh

Theory Essentials Volume I and II, Connie Mayfield

Groves, Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Music in the Western World; A History in Documents, Weiss and Taruskin

 

 

Music Courses

VIOLIN

I Can Read Music, Summy Birchard

Suzuki Books 1, 2, and 3

 

 

VIOLA

I Can Read Music, Summy Birchard

Essential Technique for Strings Books One and Two,

Second and Fourth Position String Builder  Samuel Appelbaum

Suzuki Books 1, 2, and 3

 

BASS

I Can Read Music, Summy Birchard

New Method for the Double Bass, Franz Simandl

30 Etudes Franz Simandi

 

CELLO

I Can Read Music, Summy Birchard

Pathway for Young 'Cellists,   Olga Kraus Stewart

First Book of Study Pieces,   Edith Otis

New Tunes for Strings, Book One and Two,   Stanley Fletcher

Hungarian Children's Songs, edited   Mezo Laszlo

Bach for the Cello, transcribed   Charles Krane

The Young Violoncellist, Vol. 1A and 1B,   Louis Feuillard

Repertoire Album, edited   Antal Friss

The Young Violoncellist's Method,   Louis Feuillard

Position Pieces for Cello,   Rick Mooney

Fairy Tales,   Henry Squire

Suzuki Cello Book 3

Cellists Favorite Contest Album, edited   Franklin Collier

Method for the Violoncello,   Kummer

Thumb Position for Beginners,   Pat Legg

Learning the Tenor Clef,   Pat Legg

Suite Francaise,   P.  Bazelaire

Suite No. 1 in G major,   J. S. Bach

Sonata in C Major, J. B. Breval

Sonata in G Major,   B. Marcello

Danse Rustique and Tarantella,   Henry Squire

Selected cello duets, trios, quartets and sextets from a myriad of sources...

 

 

Latin

Cambridge Latin Series, Unit One; Unit Two

Wheelock’s Latin

 

Selected Latin groups will be reading the following authors:

Plutarch's Life of Publicola; Life of Coriolanus

Livy's History of Early Rome, books 1 & 2

Theocritus Idyll 11

Apuleius' The Golden Ass, books 4 & 5

Callimachus' Hymn to Demeter

 

Biology

Biology, Prentice Hall

De Anima, Aristotle

Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin

 

Additional Readings as assigned

 

Humanities

The Odyssey, Homer

Plutarch’s Lives

Germania, Tacitus

The Fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbon

Gilgamesh

The Republic , Plato

Poetics, Aristotle

Oedipus, Sophocles

Sir Gawen and the Green Knight

Antony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare

The Creators Daniel Boorstin

The Story of Mankind Hendrik Willem Van Loon

A History of Knowledge  Charles Van Doren

A People’s History of the United States Howard Zinn

The Near East, Isaac Asimov

 

Selected Groups will also read:

Ulysses, James Joyce

Omeros, Derek Walcott

 

Additional Readings as assigned