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Textbooks for both Summer and Academic Year 2026 Courses

Courses in Latin

Latin I (2002) • [2026] Bruce McMenomy

Required:	*Wheelock's Latin, Seventh Edition [Edition required: 7]* Wheelock Frederick M., LaFleur Richard A.
Required:	*Workbook for Wheelock's Latin, 3rd Edition, Revised (Paperback) [Edition required: 3]* Paul T. Comeau, Richard A. LaFleur Notes: Students must have a new, entirely unmarked copy of this workbook for their own personal use.
Optional:	*A Comprehensive Guide to Wheelock's Latin: Newly Revised for Wheelock's 6th Edition [Any edition]* Dale A. Grote Notes: Optional: Dr. Grote's extended descriptions and notes on Wheelock's Latin have been out there for many years now, and many students find his clear and thorough explanations a useful supplement to the basic textbook.
Optional:	*Vocabulary Cards and Grammatical Forms Summary for Wheelock's Latin [Any edition]* Richard A. LaFleur, Brad Tillery Notes: Optional: the real benefits of making vocabulary cards for yourself may be outweighed by the possibility that you simply won't do so. If that's likely, you may want to invest in these.

Latin II (2008) • [2026] Bruce McMenomy

Required:	*Wheelock's Latin, Seventh Revised Ed. [Edition required: 7]* Frederic M. Wheelock, Richard A. LaFleur Notes: (Earlier notes relating to the sixth edition are irrelevant now, since everyone should have started with the seventh edition in Latin I.)
Required:	*Workbook for Wheelock's Latin, 3rd Edition [Edition required: 3]* Paul T. Comeau, Richard A. LaFleur Notes: This is the version of the workbook selected to go with the edition with which the student began: most students should already have their own personal copy, with the chapters for this course unmarked.
Optional:	*A Comprehensive Guide to Wheelock's Latin: Newly Revised for Wheelock's 6th Edition [Any edition]* Dale A. Grote Notes: Optional: Dr. Grote's extended descriptions and notes on Wheelock's Latin have been out there for many years now, and many students find his clear and thorough explanations a useful supplement to the basic textbook.
Optional:	*Vocabulary Cards and Grammatical Forms Summary for Wheelock's Latin [Any edition]* Richard A. LaFleur, Brad Tillery Notes: Optional: the real benefits of making vocabulary cards for yourself may be outweighed by the possibility that you simply won't do so. If that's likely, you may want to invest in these.

Latin III (2026) • [2026] Bruce McMenomy

Required:	*Aeneas to Augustus [Edition required: 2]* Mason Hammond, Anne Amory
Required:	*Ancient Rome: An Introductory History [Any edition]* Paul A. Zoch
Required:	*Syntactical Mechanics [Edition required: 1]* Bruce A. McMenomy
Optional:	*Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome [Any edition]* Lesley Adkins, Roy A. Adkins

Courses in Mathematics

Algebra 1 (2020) • [2026] John Hogan

Required:	*Discovering Algebra: An Investigative Approach [Edition required: 3]* Jerald Murdock, Ellen Kamischke, and Eric Kamischke
Optional:	*Introduction to Algebra [Edition required: 2]* Richard Rusczyk Notes: A complimentary ebook version of this text is provided by the instructor, along with access to the Art of Problem-Solving website. Families who prefer hard copies may also purchase the text and solutions manual separately on the AoPS website or used via their favorite online reseller: Text ISBN: 978-1-934124-14-7 // Solutions ISBN: 978-1-934124-15-4
Optional:	*TI-NSpire Calculator [Any edition]* Notes: There are several models of the TI-nspire; the standard model is fine for this class. This handheld device should last through college.
Optional:	*TI-NSpire for Dummies [Edition required: 2]* Jeff McCalla

Geometry (2019) • [2026] Art Mabbott

Required:

Discovering Geometry [Edition required: 5]
Michael Serra
Notes:

ISBN 13: 978-1-4652-5505-1

Algebra 2 (Advanced Algebra) (2021) • [2026] Art Mabbott

Required:	*Discovering Advanced Algebra: An Investigative Approach [Edition required: 3]* Jerald Murdock, Ellen Kamischke, and Eric Kamischke Notes: ISBN 13: 978 1465290397
Required:	*TI-NSPIRE (either Numeric or CAS) ASIN# B07RL7HM5V [Any edition]* Texas Instruments

Pre-Calculus with Trigonometry (2076) • [2026] Art Mabbott

Required:	*Pre-Calculus with Trigonometry: Concepts and Applications [Edition required: 4]* Paul A. Foerster Notes: ISBN 13: 979-8765733967 This text brings an effective & modern approach to the learning of advanced mathematics.
Required:	*TI-NSpire Calculator (Either the NUMERIC OR CAS VERSION) ASIN# B07RL7HM5V [Any edition]*

Calculus (2083) • [2026] John Hogan

Required:	*Calculus Volume 1 [Edition required: 1]* Gilbert Strang, Edwin “Jed” Herman, et al. Notes: ISBN: 978-1938168024 Students will find additional resources under the "Student Resources" tab on the website.
Optional:	*Calculus Made Easy: Expanded & Modernized (Full-Color Edition) [Edition required: 1]* Sylvanus P. Thompson, Kamyar M. Davoudi Notes: ISBN: 979-8322363309

Courses in Science

Natural Science I (2004) • [2026] Christe McMenomy

No texts are listed for this course at this time.

Natural Science II (2009) • [2026] Christe McMenomy

No texts are listed for this course at this time.

The Chemical History of the Candle (2011) • [2026 (Summer)] Christe McMenomy

Required:

The Chemical History of the Candle [Edition required: 1]
Michael Faraday
Notes:

Several editions of this book are available, including a downloadable PDF version. See the teacher's website for further details. Any version is acceptable.

Biology (2001) • [2026] Christe McMenomy

Required:

Biology: Concepts and Connections [Edition required: 10]
Martha R. Taylor; Eric Simon; Jean L. Dickey; Kelly Hogan
Notes:

Please be sure that you are purchasing the 10th edition (Giraffe cover). You do not need to purchase Mastering Biology access to the publisher's site; all materials for the course will be available from Scholars Online's secure Moodle site. This text is available for rental in eText format through VitalSource (9780136538981).

Required:

Illustrated Guide to Home Biology Experiments [Edition required: 1]
Robert B Thompson and Barbara F Thompson

Astronomy (2010) • [2026] Christe McMenomy

Required:	*Stellarium Planetarium [Edition required: 0.21.0]* Fabien Chéreau Alexander Wolf, Guillaume Chéreau, Georg Zotti, Marcos Cardinot, et. al. Notes: You may also wis to check out the different features.
Required:	*Universe [Edition required: 11]* Robert Geller; Roger Freedman; William J Kaufmann Notes: This text is also available from VitalSource in eBook only edition.
Required:	*University of Nebraska-Lincoln Astronomy Education Application Suite [Edition required: 1]* The Astronomy Faculty at UNL

Chemistry (2007) • [2026] Christe McMenomy

Required:	*Chemistry and Chemical Reactivity [Edition required: 10]* John C. Kotz, Paul M. GTreichel, John Townsend, David Treichel Notes: The hardcover, softcover, and eBook (available from VitalSource) versions of the tenth edition include all materials required for the course. Please be sure to purchase the 10th edition (with the floating iceberg cover) as the materials are not the same within editions. You do not need to purchase OWL or any access to the publisher's site; all materials for the course will be available from Scholars Online's secure Moodle site.
Required:	*Chemistry Lab Kit - Honors Level [Any edition]* Robert B. and Barbara F. Thompson Notes: The Honors level version of the chemistry kit contains most (but not all) equipment required to complete the AP level chemistry experiments for this course. The Standard Level kit will allow you to complete the required number of labs, but some AP-type labs may not be possible. You may also choose to purchase individual supplies for specific labs instead of investing in a kit.
Required:	*Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments [Edition required: 1]* Robert Bruce Thompson Notes: We will use this text as the basis of our chemistry lab efforts.

Physics (2005) • [2026] Christe McMenomy

Required:

Physics: Principles with Applications [Edition required: 7]
Donald C. Giancoli
Notes:

You do not need to purchase Mastering Physics access to the publisher's site; all materials for the course will be available from Scholars Online's secure Moodle site.

Courses in Literature

Summer Shakespeare III (2074) • [2026 (Summer)] Bruce McMenomy

Required:	*Cymbeline [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please be sure to get this edition.
Required:	*Henry VIII [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please be sure to get this edition
Required:	*King John [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please be sure to get this edition.
Required:	*Othello [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please be sure to get this edition.
Required:	*Pericles, Prince of Tyre [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please get this edition.
Required:	*Timon of Athens [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please be sure to get this edition.
Required:	*Titus Andronicus [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please be sure to get this edition.
Required:	*Troilus and Cressida [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please be sure to get this edition.
Required:	*Two Gentlemen of Verona [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please be sure to get this edition

The Thought Plickens: Learning to Think Critically (2084) • [2026] Alexandra Dascalu Nelson

Required:	*A Wrinkle in Time [Edition required: 1]* Madeleine L'Engle
Required:	*Anne of Green Gables [Any edition]* L.M. Montgomery Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Notes: If possible there will be an online or PDF version available as well and posted to the website. If you are having trouble finding the edition, please contact me.
Required:	*Ender's Game [Any edition]* Orson Scott Card Notes: This book will be assigned based on the students reading level and age.
Required:	*Little Women [Edition required: 1]* Louisa May Alcott Notes: If you have your own edition or find another, unabridged version elsewhere, that is fine. Borrowing from the local library is encouraged, but this book may need to be checked out a couple times during our time with it.
Required:	*Redwall [Edition required: 1]* Brian Jacques
Required:	*The Adventures of Tom Sawyer [Any edition]* Mark Twain Publisher: Penguin Classics Notes: If possible there will be an online or PDF version available as well and posted to the website. If you are having trouble finding the edition, please contact me.
Required:	*Treasure Island [Any edition]* Robert Louis Stevenson Publisher: Modern Library Classics Notes: If possible there will be an online or PDF version available as well and posted to the website. If you are having trouble finding the edition, please contact me.

Looking at Middle-earth (2044) • [2026 (Summer)] Bruce McMenomy

Required:	*The Hobbit: or There and Back Again [Any edition]* J. R. R. Tolkien
Required:	*The Lord of the Rings [Any edition]* J. R. R. Tolkien Notes: Any edition will suffice.
Optional:	*The Silmarillion [Any edition]* J. R. R. Tolkien Notes: Not required, but the next logical step after reading The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

World Literature (2029) • [2026] Bruce McMenomy

Required:

World Literature [Any edition]
Susan Wittig Albert, Richard Cohen, Rose Sallberg Kam, David Adams Leeming, Thomas Monsell, Carroll Moulton, Susanna Nied, Eileen Hillary Oshinsky
Notes:

Be sure to obtained the revised edition as specified by the ISBN. Copies are available used at ridiculously low prices: do read the descriptions of their condition to avoid getting something that is just falling apart.

Western Literature to Dante (2030) • [2026] Bruce McMenomy

Required:	*Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature [Any edition]* Erich Auerbach, Willard R. Trask (tr.)
Required:	*The Aeneid (Penguin Classics) [Any edition]* Virgil, David West Notes: Please do not resort to other translations; they tend to cause confusion in class.
Required:	*The Consolation of Philosophy [Edition required: 2]* Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius, tr. Victor Watts
Required:	*The Greek Plays [Edition required: 1]* Mary Lefkowitz, James Romm, edd. Notes: If you have already acquired the Lind Ten Greek Plays, that will suffice. The translations here are more up to date and more complete, however, and this should be useful.
Required:	*The Holy Bible: New International Translation [Any edition]* Various, NIV Commission (tr.) Notes: You need some translation of the Bible for this course, preferably a reasonably modern one; it need not be this edition or even this translation. I value the New International Version for its literal accuracy, though its language tends to be rather stiff and sometime slanted; the King James Version, while beautiful and a work of genius in its day, is laden with numerous pitfalls for the modern reader. The Revised Standard Version is reasonably sound, if you can get it; the New Revised Standard Version is riddled with politically motivated compromises of every sort. Other options would be the Jerusalem Bible or the New English Bible.
Required:	*The Iliad (Penguin Classics) [Any edition]* Homer, Robert Fagles Notes: Please do not resort to other translations; doing so makes referring to pages impossible, and creates unnecessary storms of opinion relating to translated forms. You may get any other edition of the Fagles translation required, though.
Required:	*The Nibelungenlied: Prose Translation [Any edition]* Anonymous, A. T. Hatto (tr.) Notes: Please do not resort to other translations of this work; they tend to create confusions in class.
Required:	*The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) [Any edition]* Homer, D. C. H. Rieu, Peter V. Jones, E. V. Rieu Notes: Please do not resort to other translations; they are likely to create confusion in class.
Required:	*The Portable Dante [Any edition]* Dante Alighieri, Mark Musa (tr.) Notes: Please do not resort to other translations of this: it tends to create confusion in class. In addition, many other translations of Dante's Divine Comedy are very stilted and awkward, creating tonal and dictional problems of their own.
Required:	*The Saga of the Volsungs (Penguin Classics) [Any edition]* Anonymous, Jesse L. Byock Notes: Please do not resort to other translations if possible: it tends to create confusion in class. (The translation by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson is very archaic in diction and hence quite difficult for many students to read.)
Required:	*The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics) [Any edition]* Anonymous, Glyn S. Burgess (tr.) Notes: Please do not resort to other translations if possible; they tend to cause confusions in class.
Required:	*Western Literature to Dante: A Parents' Guide [Edition required: 3]* Bruce A. McMenomy Notes: This is a handbook I have prepared for parents who have enrolled for the course, or who are considering it. It gives a complete rundown of course elements, pedagogical goals, study techniques, and background material on each unit to help parents evaluate the course's suitability or to guide their children through it.
Optional:	*Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes [Any edition]* Edith Hamilton Notes: Not required, but encouraged for those who have no background in mythology: have this read over the summer.
Optional:	*The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (Dover Storybooks for Children) [Any edition]* Howard Pyle Notes: Not required, but students who have no background in the Arthurian tales may benefit from reading this through before the second half of the course.

English Literature (2032) • [2026] Bruce McMenomy

Required:	*England in Literature (Macbeth Edition) [Any edition]* Helen McDonnell, John Pfordresher, Gladys Veidemanis Notes: If you cannot secure the Macbeth edition, the Hamlet edition is acceptable as well - merely make sure that you also have the optional Folger version of Macbeth listed below. That accounts for the only differences between the two volumes. This book is now out of print, as Scott, Foresman has been assimilated by Prentice-Hall. Used copies are available.
Required:	*Much Ado About Nothing (Folger Shakespeare Library) [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please use this edition only. Unannotated editions of Shakespeare usually spell disaster for student comprehension, while using different texts (which often vary substantively) will merely create confusion in class.
Required:	*Richard III (Folger Shakespeare Library) [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please use this edition. Other editions are not acceptable for various reasons: chief among them the fact that unannotated texts tend to be impenetrable for the younger student.
Optional:	*A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) [Any edition]* Charles Dickens Notes: This or Great Expectations is required for the class. You do not need to acquire both, though you may. Any unabridged version of the novel will suffice.
Optional:	*England in Literature (Hamlet Edition) [Any edition]* Helen McDonnell, John Pfordresher, Gladys Veidemanis Notes: NOTE: This is presented as an alternative if you cannot find the Macbeth edition. It is not otherwise needed. If you get this volume rather than the Macbeth edition, please ALSO secure the Folger Library Macbeth given as optional below.
Optional:	*Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus (Penguin Classics) [Any edition]* Mary Shelley Notes: You may use any complete text of this book you have available. You should get either this or Pride and Prejudice, though you may read both.
Optional:	*Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) [Any edition]* Charles Dickens Notes: This or A Tale of Two Cities is required for the class. You need not get both, though of course you may. Any unabridged edition is sufficient.
Optional:	*Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: NOTE: Not normally required. This is offered as an alternative for those who buy the Hamlet Edition of the textbook. If you have the Macbeth Edition, it is not necessary.
Optional:	*Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) [Any edition]* Jane Austen Notes: This or Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is required for the class; you need not get both (though you are free to do so).

Senior English (Literature) (2034) • [2026] Bruce McMenomy

Required:	*An Experiment in Criticism [Any edition]* C. S. Lewis Notes: Any edition of this book will do.
Required:	*Anton Chekhov's Selected Plays (Norton Critical Editions) [Edition required: 2]* Anton Chekhov, Laurence Senelick (Translator) Notes: Please get this edition specifically. We will be using the unique critical materials in the back for various class activities. Cited in some places as "Second revised edition"
Required:	*Billy Budd and Other Tales [Any edition]* Hermann Melville, Joyce Carol Oates
Required:	*Copenhagen [Any edition]* Michael Frayn
Required:	*Emma (Norton Critical Edition) [Edition required: 4]* Jane Austen Notes: Please get this edition specifically. We will be using the unique critical materials in the back for various class activities.
Required:	*Ethan Frome: Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Contexts Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) [Edition required: 1]* Edith Wharton, Kristin O. Lauer, Cynthia Griffin Wolff Notes: Please get this edition specifically. We will be using the unique critical materials in the back for various class activities.
Required:	*Fathers and Children (Norton Critical Edition) [Edition required: 2]* Ivan Turgenev, ed. Michael R. Katz Notes: It is essential to get this edition of the book. Other versions are not going to provide the correct critical material for our class discussions.
Required:	*Hamlet: An Authoritative Text, Intellectual Backgrounds, Extracts from the Sources, Essays in Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) [Edition required: 2]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please get this edition specifically. We will be using the unique critical materials in the back for various class activities. There are two apparently separate track versions of this text, and it's very confusing. What you want is the one edited by Cyrus Hoy. The other one is full of politicized nonsense.
Required:	*Heart of Darkness (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) [Edition required: 3]* Joseph Conrad, Ross Murfin (Editor) Notes: Please get this edition specifically. We will be using the unique critical materials in the back for various class activities.
Required:	*Henry IV, Part 2 (Folger Shakespeare Library) [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please get this edition specifically. We will be using the unique critical materials for various class activities.
Required:	*Henry IV, Part I (Folger Shakespeare Library) [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please get this edition specifically. We will be using the unique critical materials for various class activities.
Required:	*Henry V (Folger Shakespeare Library) [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please get this edition specifically. We will be using the unique critical materials for various class activities.
Required:	*Ibsen's Selected Plays (Norton Critical Editions) [Any edition]* Henrik Ibsen, Brian Johnston (Editor) Notes: Please get this edition specifically. We will be using the unique critical materials in the back for various class activities.
Required:	*Iphigenia; Phaedra; Athaliah (Penguin Classics) [Any edition]* Jean Baptiste Racine Notes: Any complete text of this play in a reasonable translation will suffice.
Required:	*Measure for Measure (Folger Shakespeare Library) [Any edition]* William Shakespeare
Required:	*Perrine's Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry [Edition required: 15]* Thomas R. Arp, Greg Johnson Notes: It is imperative that you get and use this edition only. It is signficantly changed from previous editions.
Required:	*Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Anniversary Edition) [Any edition]* Tom Stoppard Notes: Any complete edition of this play will suffice.
Required:	*Ten Greek Plays in Contemporary Translations [Any edition]* Levy Lind (ed.)
Required:	*The Cid, Cinna, The Theatrical Illusion (Penguin Classics) [Any edition]* Pierre Corneille, John Cairncross Notes: Any complete edition of this play will suffice.
Required:	*The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides I [Any edition]* David Grene (Editor), Richmond Lattimore (Editor)
Required:	*The Great Gatsby [Any edition]* F. Scott Fitzgerald
Required:	*The House of the Seven Gables (Norton Critical Edition) [Edition required: 2]* Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert S. Levine (Editor) Notes: Please get this edition specifically. We will be using the unique critical materials in the back for various class activities.
Required:	*The Life of the Drama [Any edition]* Eric Bentley
Required:	*The Misanthrope and Other Plays (Signet Classics) [Any edition]* Jean-Baptiste Moliere, Donald M. Frame Notes: Any complete edition of the play will suffice.
Required:	*The Remains of the Day [Any edition]* Kazuo Ishiguro
Required:	*The Rhetoric of Fiction [Edition required: 2]* Wayne C. Booth Notes: A reasonable search online or through Amazon’s secondary dealers can often turn up inexpensive used copies of this volume.
Required:	*The Sorrows of Young Werther (Penguin Classics) [Any edition]* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Michael Hulse (Translator)
Required:	*The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions) [Edition required: 1]* T. S. Eliot, Michael North (Editor) Notes: Please get this edition specifically. We will be using the unique critical materials in the back for various class activities.
Required:	*Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold [Any edition]* C. S. Lewis Notes: Any edition of this work is fine.
Required:	*War and Peace [Any edition]* Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, tr. Notes: Any complete version will suffice, but I strongly recommend this version or the Dunnigan version (from Signet) for readability. The Maude translation is very dated and rather painful to read.
Required:	*Wuthering Heights (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) [Edition required: 2]* Emily Bronte, Linda H. Peterson Notes: Please get this edition specifically. We will be using the unique critical materials in the back for various class activities.
Optional:	*100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses and Misuses [Any edition]* Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries Notes: Highly recommended for writing guidance on questions of usage. Not strictly required.

Western Literature to Dante II (2085) • [2026] Bruce McMenomy

Required:	*Greek Lyrics [Any edition]* Richmond Lattimore, ed. Notes: Used versions of this book are available for about $2.00 through Amazon (the SO Bookstore), and it is also widely available at larger libraries.
Required:	*Parzival: A Romance of the Middle Ages [Any edition]* Wolfram von Eschenbach, Helen M. Mustard (tr.), Charles E. Passage (tr.) Notes: I really don't care overly whether you get this one or the equivalent Penguin version; I slightly prefer this one myself. Either way, however, you can get them used for fairly little. The work is long enough that you probably don't want to have to read it online.
Required:	*The Cosmographia of Bernardus Silvestris [Any edition]* Bernardus Silvestris, Winthrop Wetherbee (tr.) Notes: I've listed this as required because it's virtually impossible to find any other way. You are welcome to use any edition you can find, however. (Warning: the Latin original text is available as well, but is dizzyingly difficult.)
Required:	*The Discarded Image [Any edition]* C. S. Lewis Notes: This book will be required, though any edition is acceptable. (I've listed the Canto edition of 1994, but it was published through the main Cambridge University Press series much earlier.)
Required:	*The Plays of Roswitha [Any edition]* Roswitha von Gandersheim Notes: There are various editions of this to be found here and there; you are certainly welcome to use any version you like, including the online edition in the Mediaeval Sourcebook site at Fordham.
Required:	*The Quest of the Holy Grail [Any edition]* Anon., Pauline M. Mararasso, tr. Notes: This is not available many other places, which is why I've listed it as required. The Matarasso translation has been out there for years, though, and there should be many copies available used for a pittance.
Required:	*The Romance of the Rose [Any edition]* Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meung, tr. Dahlberg Notes: I'm not really insisting on a particular translation, so you can pick and choose, but some version is necessary. This is a big work, so give yourself some lead time.
Required:	*The Romance of Tristan [Any edition]* Beroul, Alan S. Fedrick (tr.) Notes: I've listed this as required so that you'll make sure you're getting the Beroul version, but if you can find it elsewhere, I don't really mind. It's important not to mistake it for any of the many other Tristan stories out there.
Required:	*Timaeus and Critias [Any edition]* Plato, Desmond Lee (tr.) Notes: Some edition of the Timaeus is required; one may read it from a library edition, some other reasonably modern translation of published independently or in a collected Plato.
Required:	*Tristan [Any edition]* Gottfried von Strassburg Notes: Since this is not widely available, I've listed it as required here, but anywhere you can get it is fine. It is long enough that even if it were readily available online, you'd probably rather not have to read it that way.
Optional:	*Arthurian Romances [Any edition]* Chrétien de Troyes, Carleton W. Carroll (tr.) Notes: There are a number of versions out there; David Staines' is also quite acceptable. This one is somewhat more economical, and there are used versions available. The texts of most of the romances are also available online.
Optional:	*Categories and De Interpretatione [Any edition]* Aristotle, J. L. Ackrill (tr.) Notes: These works are also available online if you don't want to pay for this (rather shockingly expensive) edition; Ackrill's notes really are superior, however, so this is strongly recommended. The work is available used from about $10.00.
Optional:	*Edda (Prose Edda) [Any edition]* Snorri Sturluson Notes: The text here is one of several convenient versions; it is also available online in other translations.
Optional:	*Greek Tragedies, vol. 2: The Libation Bearers (Aeschylus), Electra (Sophocles), Iphigenia in Tauris, Electra, and The Trojan Women (Euripides) [Any edition]* Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, David Greene Notes: Some versions of both Sophocles' and Euripides' Electra are required. This is one accessible form; the plays are also available online, though I recommend against the very old Morehead translations.
Optional:	*Greek Tragedies, vol. 2: The Libation Bearers (Aeschylus), Electra (Sophocles), Iphigenia in Tauris, Electra, and The Trojan Women (Euripides) [Any edition]* Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, David Greene Notes: Some versions of both Sophocles' and Euripides' Electra are required. This is one accessible form; the plays are also available online, though I recommend against the very old Morehead translations.
Optional:	*La Vita Nuova [Any edition]* Dante Alighieri, Barbara Reynolds (tr.) Notes: You are also welcome to use the Mark Musa version (published separately or as part of the Portable Dante).
Optional:	*Njal's Saga (sometimes The Saga of Burnt Njal). [Any edition]* Anon., Robert Cook, tr. Notes: The older Magnusson version from Penguin is equally acceptable; the text is also available online at the Internet Sacred Texts Archive.
Optional:	*On the Good Life [Any edition]* Cicero, Michael Grant Notes: We'll be reading the Somnium Scipionis (Scipio's Dream) from this. There are a number of versions available online, though Grant's translation is quite accessible.
Optional:	*Poems of the Elder Edda [Edition required: 4]* Anon., Patricia Terry (tr.) Notes: Terry's translation is lively and engaging. You may read these poems here or in the Hollander edition; unless you are a real maven of things Nordic you probably don't need both. You can also find the relevant poems online, so don't really need to buy any.
Optional:	*Statius, Charles Stanley Ross (tr.) [Any edition]* The Thebaid: Seven Against Thebes Notes: We'll be spending several weeks on this, and it's hefty and long: you'll probably want a hard copy. This version is available used in paperback for a reasonable price. Any other version is acceptable, though it is somewhat difficult to find, and is fairly hard to locate in a readable edition online.
Optional:	*The Argonautika: The Story of Jason and the Quest for the Golden Fleece [Any edition]* Apollonios Rhodios, Peter Green, tr. Notes: I offer this as a verse alternative to the Penguin Rieu version. It is somewhat more expensive, though there are copies listing for less than a dollar through the Amazon site. You do NOT need both this and the Rieu.
Optional:	*The Comedies [Any edition]* Terence, Betty Radice (tr.) Notes: These plays are available in many editions and online. You may read these plays in any format that's available; this is a fairly convenient one with a good solid (and readable) translation if you want the physical book. Make sure you get both the Hecyra and the Adelphoe.
Optional:	*The Frogs and Other Plays [Any edition]* Aristophanes, David Barrett (tr.) Notes: Some reasonable modern version of this play is required; this edition is available cheaply in quantity. One can also elect to use a library edition or to read the play online.
Optional:	*The Lais of Marie de France [Any edition]* Marie de France, Glyn S. Burgess (tr.) Notes: You will need some version containing the various Lais. There is also a version in the Everyman Library, and some online. I don't care much which one you use.
Optional:	*The Poetic Edda [Edition required: 2]* Anon., Lee M. Hollander, tr. Notes: This is probably well worth getting if you like this kind of material: Hollander's notes are extensive and intriguing, and his translation is probably better than any other out there for accuracy. I am also listing the Terry translation, however, if you would like an alternative.
Optional:	*The Pot of Gold and Other Plays [Any edition]* Plautus, E. F. Watling (tr.) Notes: I really don't care whether you read this in a book or online. If you want the hard copy, this is a reasonable edition. We need both the Menaechmi (contained herein) and the Amphitruo (Amphitryo, Amphitryon, in different editions), one way or the other. Reasonably cheap used copies are available at Amazon.
Optional:	*The Rope and Other Plays [Any edition]* Plautus, E. F. Watling (tr.) Notes: As with the Menaechmi, I offer this as a convenience: you may read the play online or in another edition if you prefer. Inexpensive copies are available at Amazon.
Optional:	*The Shorter Socratic Writings [Any edition]* Xenophon, Robert C. Bartlett, ed. and tr. Notes: Some edition of the Apology of Socrates (Xenophon's account, not Plato's!) is required. This is offered in case you want to own your own, but it is short and freely available through the Perseus Project.
Optional:	*The Voyage of Argo: The Argonautica [Any edition]* Apollonius of Rhodes, E. V. Rieu (ed., tr.) Notes: Some edition of the Argonautica is required. It's less available online than some other works in this course, and it's long enough that you'd probably rather not read it all from the screen. I don't really care, however, which edition you use. This is a prose translation. I have also listed a verse translation by Peter Green, but it is somewhat more expensive.
Optional:	*Two Lives of Charlemagne [Any edition]* Einhard, Notker the Stammerer, David Ganz (ed., tr.) Notes: We'll be reading the Einhard half of this. It is available any number of places online, and the older Penguin edition will certainly suffice.

Courses in History

Around the World in Nine Weeks (2092) • [2026 (Summer)] Christe McMenomy

No texts are listed for this course at this time.

Courses in Writing

How to Become a Precocious Student (2064) • [2026 (Summer)] Christe McMenomy

No texts are listed for this course at this time.

Writing the Research Paper (2065) • [2026 (Summer)] Christe McMenomy

No texts are listed for this course at this time.

Molding Your Prose (2022) • [2026 (Summer)] Bruce McMenomy

No texts are listed for this course at this time.

Molding Your Argument (2023) • [2026 (Summer)] Bruce McMenomy

No texts are listed for this course at this time.

Courses in Programming

HTML Basics (2075) • [2026 (Summer)] Christe McMenomy

No texts are listed for this course at this time.

Introduction to Programming with Scratch (2091) • [2026 (Summer)] Christe McMenomy

No texts are listed for this course at this time.

Courses in Philosophy

Introduction to Philosophy (2094) • [2026] Karl Oles

Required:

Aristotle for Everybody [Edition required: 1]
Mortimer J. Adler

Textbooks for both Summer and Academic Year 2025 Courses

Courses in Latin

Latin I (1902) • [2025] Bruce McMenomy

Required:	*Wheelock's Latin, Seventh Edition [Edition required: 7]* Wheelock Frederick M., LaFleur Richard A.
Required:	*Workbook for Wheelock's Latin, 3rd Edition, Revised (Paperback) [Edition required: 3]* Paul T. Comeau, Richard A. LaFleur Notes: Students must have a new, entirely unmarked copy of this workbook for their own personal use.
Optional:	*A Comprehensive Guide to Wheelock's Latin: Newly Revised for Wheelock's 6th Edition [Any edition]* Dale A. Grote Notes: Optional: Dr. Grote's extended descriptions and notes on Wheelock's Latin have been out there for many years now, and many students find his clear and thorough explanations a useful supplement to the basic textbook.
Optional:	*Vocabulary Cards and Grammatical Forms Summary for Wheelock's Latin [Any edition]* Richard A. LaFleur, Brad Tillery Notes: Optional: the real benefits of making vocabulary cards for yourself may be outweighed by the possibility that you simply won't do so. If that's likely, you may want to invest in these.

Latin II (1908) • [2025] Bruce McMenomy

Required:	*Wheelock's Latin, Seventh Revised Ed. [Edition required: 7]* Frederic M. Wheelock, Richard A. LaFleur Notes: (Earlier notes relating to the sixth edition are irrelevant now, since everyone should have started with the seventh edition in Latin I.)
Required:	*Workbook for Wheelock's Latin, 3rd Edition [Edition required: 3]* Paul T. Comeau, Richard A. LaFleur Notes: This is the version of the workbook selected to go with the edition with which the student began: most students should already have their own personal copy, with the chapters for this course unmarked.
Optional:	*A Comprehensive Guide to Wheelock's Latin: Newly Revised for Wheelock's 6th Edition [Any edition]* Dale A. Grote Notes: Optional: Dr. Grote's extended descriptions and notes on Wheelock's Latin have been out there for many years now, and many students find his clear and thorough explanations a useful supplement to the basic textbook.
Optional:	*Vocabulary Cards and Grammatical Forms Summary for Wheelock's Latin [Any edition]* Richard A. LaFleur, Brad Tillery Notes: Optional: the real benefits of making vocabulary cards for yourself may be outweighed by the possibility that you simply won't do so. If that's likely, you may want to invest in these.

Latin III (1926) • [2025] Bruce McMenomy

Required:	*Aeneas to Augustus [Edition required: 2]* Mason Hammond, Anne Amory
Required:	*Ancient Rome: An Introductory History [Any edition]* Paul A. Zoch
Required:	*Syntactical Mechanics [Edition required: 1]* Bruce A. McMenomy
Optional:	*Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome [Any edition]* Lesley Adkins, Roy A. Adkins

Latin I and II Exam Access (1990) • [2025] Emily Marie Gassman

No texts are listed for this course at this time.

Courses in Mathematics

Algebra 1 (1920) • [2025] Rachel Lott

Required:	*Introduction to Algebra [Edition required: 2]* Richard Rusczyk Notes: A complimentary ebook version of this text is provided by the instructor, along with access to the Art of Problem-Solving website. Families who prefer hard copies may also purchase the text and solutions manual separately on the AoPS website or used via their favorite online reseller: Text ISBN: 978-1-934124-14-7 // Solutions ISBN: 978-1-934124-15-4
Optional:	*TI-NSpire Calculator [Any edition]* Notes: There are several models of the TI-nspire; the standard model is fine for this class. This handheld device should last through college.
Optional:	*TI-NSpire for Dummies [Edition required: 2]* Jeff McCalla

Geometry (1919) • [2025] Art Mabbott

Required:

Discovering Geometry [Edition required: 5]
Michael Serra
Notes:

ISBN 13: 978-1-4652-5505-1

Algebra 2 (Advanced Algebra) (1921) • [2025] Art Mabbott

Required:	*Discovering Advanced Algebra: An Investigative Approach [Edition required: 3]* Jerald Murdock, Ellen Kamischke, and Eric Kamischke Notes: ISBN 13: 978 1465290397
Required:	*TI-NSPIRE (either Numeric or CAS) ASIN# B07RL7HM5V [Any edition]* Texas Instruments

Pre-Calculus with Trigonometry (1976) • [2025] Art Mabbott

Required:	*Pre-Calculus with Trigonometry: Concepts and Applications [Edition required: 4]* Paul A. Foerster Notes: ISBN 13: 979-8765733967 This text brings an effective & modern approach to the learning of advanced mathematics.
Required:	*TI-NSpire Calculator (Either the NUMERIC OR CAS VERSION) ASIN# B07RL7HM5V [Any edition]*

Calculus (1983) • [2025] John Hogan

Required:	*Calculus Volume 1 [Edition required: 1]* Gilbert Strang, Edwin “Jed” Herman, et al. Notes: ISBN: 978-1938168024 Students will find additional resources under the "Student Resources" tab on the website.
Optional:	*Calculus Made Easy: Expanded & Modernized (Full-Color Edition) [Edition required: 1]* Sylvanus P. Thompson, Kamyar M. Davoudi Notes: ISBN: 979-8322363309

Courses in Science

Natural Science I (1904) • [2025] Christe McMenomy

No texts are listed for this course at this time.

Natural Science II (1909) • [2025] Christe McMenomy

No texts are listed for this course at this time.

The Chemical History of the Candle (1911) • [2025 (Summer)] Christe McMenomy

Required:

The Chemical History of the Candle [Edition required: 1]
Michael Faraday
Notes:

Several editions of this book are available, including a downloadable PDF version. See the teacher's website for further details. Any version is acceptable.

Biology (1901) • [2025] Christe McMenomy

Required:

Biology: Concepts and Connections [Edition required: 10]
Martha R. Taylor; Eric Simon; Jean L. Dickey; Kelly Hogan
Notes:

Required:

Illustrated Guide to Home Biology Experiments [Edition required: 1]
Robert B Thompson and Barbara F Thompson

Astronomy (1910) • [2025] Christe McMenomy

Required:	*Stellarium Planetarium [Edition required: 0.21.0]* Fabien Chéreau Alexander Wolf, Guillaume Chéreau, Georg Zotti, Marcos Cardinot, et. al. Notes: You may also wis to check out the different features.
Required:	*Universe [Edition required: 11]* Robert Geller; Roger Freedman; William J Kaufmann Notes: This text is also available from VitalSource in eBook only edition.
Required:	*University of Nebraska-Lincoln Astronomy Education Application Suite [Edition required: 1]* The Astronomy Faculty at UNL

Chemistry (1907) • [2025] Christe McMenomy

Required:	*Chemistry and Chemical Reactivity [Edition required: 10]* John C. Kotz, Paul M. GTreichel, John Townsend, David Treichel Notes: The hardcover, softcover, and eBook (available from VitalSource) versions of the tenth edition include all materials required for the course. Please be sure to purchase the 10th edition (with the floating iceberg cover) as the materials are not the same within editions. You do not need to purchase OWL or any access to the publisher's site; all materials for the course will be available from Scholars Online's secure Moodle site.
Required:	*Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments [Edition required: 1]* Robert Bruce Thompson Notes: We will use this text as the basis of our chemistry lab efforts.
Optional:	*Home Chemistry Laboratory Kit CK01A [Any edition]* Robert B. and Barbara F. Thompson Notes: The CK01A version of the chemistry kit contains most (but not all) equipment required to complete the AP level chemistry experiments for this course. While it is possible to secure individual items for each lab, and may be less expensive for students completing only the Honors option, you may find purchase the kit more convenient.

Physics (1905) • [2025] Christe McMenomy

Required:

Physics: Principles with Applications [Edition required: 7]
Donald C. Giancoli
Notes:

You do not need to purchase Mastering Physics access to the publisher's site; all materials for the course will be available from Scholars Online's secure Moodle site.

Courses in Literature

Looking at Middle-earth (1944) • [2025 (Summer)] Bruce McMenomy

Required:	*The Hobbit: or There and Back Again [Any edition]* J. R. R. Tolkien
Required:	*The Lord of the Rings [Any edition]* J. R. R. Tolkien Notes: Any edition will suffice.
Optional:	*The Silmarillion [Any edition]* J. R. R. Tolkien Notes: Not required, but the next logical step after reading The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

Summer Shakespeare II (1972) • [2025 (Summer)] Bruce McMenomy

Required:	*All’s Well That Ends Well [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please use this edition only — there is enough variation in Shakespeare’s texts that resorting to different editions in class tends to create confusion.
Required:	*Antony and Cleopatra [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please use this edition only — there is enough variation in Shakespeare’s texts that resorting to different editions in class tends to create confusion.
Required:	*Coriolanus [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please use this edition only — there is enough variation in Shakespeare’s texts that resorting to different editions in class tends to create confusion.
Required:	*Henry VI, Part 1 [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please use this edition only — there is enough variation in Shakespeare texts that we need to have a standardized text to which to refer.
Required:	*Henry VI, Part 2 [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please use this edition only — there is enough variation in Shakespeare texts that we need to have a standardized text to which to refer.
Required:	*Henry VI, Part 3 [Any edition]* William Shakespeare
Required:	*Love’s Labour’s Lost [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please use this edition only — there is enough variation in Shakespeare’s texts that resorting to different editions in class tends to create confusion.
Required:	*The Comedy of Errors [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please use this edition only — there is enough variation in Shakespeare’s texts that resorting to different editions in class tends to create confusion.
Required:	*The Merry Wives of Windsor [Any edition]* William Shakesepeare Notes: Please use this edition only — there is enough variation in Shakespeare’s texts that resorting to different editions in class tends to create confusion.
Required:	*The Winter’s Tale [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please use this edition only — there is enough variation in Shakespeare’s texts that resorting to different editions in class tends to create confusion.

The Thought Plickens: Learning to Think Critically (1984) • [2025] Alexandra Dascalu Nelson

Required:	*A Wrinkle in Time [Edition required: 1]* Madeleine L'Engle
Required:	*Anne of Green Gables [Any edition]* L.M. Montgomery Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Notes: If possible there will be an online or PDF version available as well and posted to the website. If you are having trouble finding the edition, please contact me.
Required:	*Ender's Game [Any edition]* Orson Scott Card Notes: This book will be assigned based on the students reading level and age.
Required:	*Redwall [Edition required: 1]* Brian Jacques
Required:	*Treasure Island [Any edition]* Robert Louis Stevenson Publisher: Modern Library Classics Notes: If possible there will be an online or PDF version available as well and posted to the website. If you are having trouble finding the edition, please contact me.

Fairy Tales, Myths and Folklore (1999) • [2025] Alexandra Dascalu Nelson

Optional:	*A Treasury of Irish Fairy and Folk Tales (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection) [Any edition]* Various Authors Notes: The Textbook is OPTIONAL as online links to the assigned reading or a PDF version will be provided as well.
Optional:	*Mythology [Any edition]* Edith Hamilton Notes: I can provide a PDF version of this book and the supplemental readings.
Optional:	*The Complete Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Andersen (Wordsworth Special Editions) [Any edition]* Hans Christian Andersen Notes: The Textbook is OPTIONAL as online links to the assigned reading or a PDF version will be provided as well.
Optional:	*The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition [Edition required: 3]* Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Notes: The Textbook is OPTIONAL as online links to the assigned reading or a PDF version will be provided as well.

World Literature (1929) • [2025] Bruce McMenomy

Required:

World Literature [Any edition]
Susan Wittig Albert, Richard Cohen, Rose Sallberg Kam, David Adams Leeming, Thomas Monsell, Carroll Moulton, Susanna Nied, Eileen Hillary Oshinsky
Notes:

Western Literature to Dante (1930) • [2025] Bruce McMenomy

Required:	*Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature [Any edition]* Erich Auerbach, Willard R. Trask (tr.)
Required:	*The Aeneid (Penguin Classics) [Any edition]* Virgil, David West Notes: Please do not resort to other translations; they tend to cause confusion in class.
Required:	*The Consolation of Philosophy [Edition required: 2]* Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius, tr. Victor Watts
Required:	*The Greek Plays [Edition required: 1]* Mary Lefkowitz, James Romm, edd. Notes: If you have already acquired the Lind Ten Greek Plays, that will suffice. The translations here are more up to date and more complete, however, and this should be useful.
Required:	*The Holy Bible: New International Translation [Any edition]* Various, NIV Commission (tr.) Notes: You need some translation of the Bible for this course, preferably a reasonably modern one; it need not be this edition or even this translation. I value the New International Version for its literal accuracy, though its language tends to be rather stiff and sometime slanted; the King James Version, while beautiful and a work of genius in its day, is laden with numerous pitfalls for the modern reader. The Revised Standard Version is reasonably sound, if you can get it; the New Revised Standard Version is riddled with politically motivated compromises of every sort. Other options would be the Jerusalem Bible or the New English Bible.
Required:	*The Iliad (Penguin Classics) [Any edition]* Homer, Robert Fagles Notes: Please do not resort to other translations; doing so makes referring to pages impossible, and creates unnecessary storms of opinion relating to translated forms. You may get any other edition of the Fagles translation required, though.
Required:	*The Nibelungenlied: Prose Translation [Any edition]* Anonymous, A. T. Hatto (tr.) Notes: Please do not resort to other translations of this work; they tend to create confusions in class.
Required:	*The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) [Any edition]* Homer, D. C. H. Rieu, Peter V. Jones, E. V. Rieu Notes: Please do not resort to other translations; they are likely to create confusion in class.
Required:	*The Portable Dante [Any edition]* Dante Alighieri, Mark Musa (tr.) Notes: Please do not resort to other translations of this: it tends to create confusion in class. In addition, many other translations of Dante's Divine Comedy are very stilted and awkward, creating tonal and dictional problems of their own.
Required:	*The Saga of the Volsungs (Penguin Classics) [Any edition]* Anonymous, Jesse L. Byock Notes: Please do not resort to other translations if possible: it tends to create confusion in class. (The translation by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson is very archaic in diction and hence quite difficult for many students to read.)
Required:	*The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics) [Any edition]* Anonymous, Glyn S. Burgess (tr.) Notes: Please do not resort to other translations if possible; they tend to cause confusions in class.
Required:	*Western Literature to Dante: A Parents' Guide [Edition required: 3]* Bruce A. McMenomy Notes: This is a handbook I have prepared for parents who have enrolled for the course, or who are considering it. It gives a complete rundown of course elements, pedagogical goals, study techniques, and background material on each unit to help parents evaluate the course's suitability or to guide their children through it.
Optional:	*Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes [Any edition]* Edith Hamilton Notes: Not required, but encouraged for those who have no background in mythology: have this read over the summer.
Optional:	*The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (Dover Storybooks for Children) [Any edition]* Howard Pyle Notes: Not required, but students who have no background in the Arthurian tales may benefit from reading this through before the second half of the course.

English Literature (1932) • [2025] Bruce McMenomy

Required:	*England in Literature (Macbeth Edition) [Any edition]* Helen McDonnell, John Pfordresher, Gladys Veidemanis Notes: If you cannot secure the Macbeth edition, the Hamlet edition is acceptable as well - merely make sure that you also have the optional Folger version of Macbeth listed below. That accounts for the only differences between the two volumes. This book is now out of print, as Scott, Foresman has been assimilated by Prentice-Hall. Used copies are available.
Required:	*Much Ado About Nothing (Folger Shakespeare Library) [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please use this edition only. Unannotated editions of Shakespeare usually spell disaster for student comprehension, while using different texts (which often vary substantively) will merely create confusion in class.
Required:	*Richard III (Folger Shakespeare Library) [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please use this edition. Other editions are not acceptable for various reasons: chief among them the fact that unannotated texts tend to be impenetrable for the younger student.
Optional:	*A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) [Any edition]* Charles Dickens Notes: This or Great Expectations is required for the class. You do not need to acquire both, though you may. Any unabridged version of the novel will suffice.
Optional:	*England in Literature (Hamlet Edition) [Any edition]* Helen McDonnell, John Pfordresher, Gladys Veidemanis Notes: NOTE: This is presented as an alternative if you cannot find the Macbeth edition. It is not otherwise needed. If you get this volume rather than the Macbeth edition, please ALSO secure the Folger Library Macbeth given as optional below.
Optional:	*Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus (Penguin Classics) [Any edition]* Mary Shelley Notes: You may use any complete text of this book you have available. You should get either this or Pride and Prejudice, though you may read both.
Optional:	*Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) [Any edition]* Charles Dickens Notes: This or A Tale of Two Cities is required for the class. You need not get both, though of course you may. Any unabridged edition is sufficient.
Optional:	*Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: NOTE: Not normally required. This is offered as an alternative for those who buy the Hamlet Edition of the textbook. If you have the Macbeth Edition, it is not necessary.
Optional:	*Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) [Any edition]* Jane Austen Notes: This or Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is required for the class; you need not get both (though you are free to do so).

American Literature (1933) • [2025] Bruce McMenomy

Required:	*A Man for All Seasons (Vintage International) [Any edition]* Robert Bolt Notes: You may use any complete text edition of this play.
Required:	*Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Norton Critical Edition) [Edition required: 3]* Mark Twain, Thomas Cooley Notes: Please do not substitute another edition for this one. We will be using critical materials unique to this edition for class.
Required:	*Moby-Dick (Norton Critical Editions) [Edition required: 3]* Herman Melville, Hershel Parker (Editor) Notes: Please do not substitute any other edition. We will be using the special critical material unique to this volume, unavailable in other editions.
Required:	*The Crucible (Penguin Classics) [Any edition]* Arthur Miller, Christopher Bigsby Notes: You may use any complete edition of this play.
Required:	*The Old Man and The Sea [Any edition]* Ernest Hemingway Notes: You may use any available copy of this book.
Required:	*The Red Badge of Courage (Norton Critical Editions) [Edition required: 4]* Stephen Crane, Eric Carl Link (Editor), Donald Pizer (Editor) Notes: Please do not substitute another edition for this one. We will be using the unique materials available in this particular edition for class.
Required:	*The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings (Norton Critical Editions) [Any edition]* Nathaniel Hawthorne, Leland S. Person Notes: Please do not substitute another edition of this book. We will be using the unique critical material in this volume, unavailable in other editions.
Required:	*The United States in Literature (Three Long Stories) [Any edition]* James E. Miller Jr., Kerry M. Wood, Carlota Cardenas de Dwyer Notes: Please get this edition. If you cannot find the Three Long Stories edition, the other one will do, but you will need to track down those three stories in some other format.

Senior English (Literature) (1934) • [2025] Bruce McMenomy

Required:	*An Experiment in Criticism [Any edition]* C. S. Lewis Notes: Any edition of this book will do.
Required:	*Anton Chekhov's Selected Plays (Norton Critical Editions) [Edition required: 2]* Anton Chekhov, Laurence Senelick (Translator) Notes: Please get this edition specifically. We will be using the unique critical materials in the back for various class activities. Cited in some places as "Second revised edition"
Required:	*Billy Budd and Other Tales [Any edition]* Hermann Melville, Joyce Carol Oates
Required:	*Copenhagen [Any edition]* Michael Frayn
Required:	*Emma (Norton Critical Edition) [Edition required: 4]* Jane Austen Notes: Please get this edition specifically. We will be using the unique critical materials in the back for various class activities.
Required:	*Ethan Frome: Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Contexts Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) [Edition required: 1]* Edith Wharton, Kristin O. Lauer, Cynthia Griffin Wolff Notes: Please get this edition specifically. We will be using the unique critical materials in the back for various class activities.
Required:	*Fathers and Children (Norton Critical Edition) [Edition required: 2]* Ivan Turgenev, ed. Michael R. Katz Notes: It is essential to get this edition of the book. Other versions are not going to provide the correct critical material for our class discussions.
Required:	*Hamlet: An Authoritative Text, Intellectual Backgrounds, Extracts from the Sources, Essays in Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) [Edition required: 2]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please get this edition specifically. We will be using the unique critical materials in the back for various class activities. There are two apparently separate track versions of this text, and it's very confusing. What you want is the one edited by Cyrus Hoy. The other one is full of politicized nonsense.
Required:	*Heart of Darkness (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) [Edition required: 3]* Joseph Conrad, Ross Murfin (Editor) Notes: Please get this edition specifically. We will be using the unique critical materials in the back for various class activities.
Required:	*Henry IV, Part 2 (Folger Shakespeare Library) [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please get this edition specifically. We will be using the unique critical materials for various class activities.
Required:	*Henry IV, Part I (Folger Shakespeare Library) [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please get this edition specifically. We will be using the unique critical materials for various class activities.
Required:	*Henry V (Folger Shakespeare Library) [Any edition]* William Shakespeare Notes: Please get this edition specifically. We will be using the unique critical materials for various class activities.
Required:	*Ibsen's Selected Plays (Norton Critical Editions) [Any edition]* Henrik Ibsen, Brian Johnston (Editor) Notes: Please get this edition specifically. We will be using the unique critical materials in the back for various class activities.
Required:	*Iphigenia; Phaedra; Athaliah (Penguin Classics) [Any edition]* Jean Baptiste Racine Notes: Any complete text of this play in a reasonable translation will suffice.
Required:	*Measure for Measure (Folger Shakespeare Library) [Any edition]* William Shakespeare
Required:	*Perrine's Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry [Edition required: 15]* Thomas R. Arp, Greg Johnson Notes: It is imperative that you get and use this edition only. It is signficantly changed from previous editions.
Required:	*Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Anniversary Edition) [Any edition]* Tom Stoppard Notes: Any complete edition of this play will suffice.
Required:	*Ten Greek Plays in Contemporary Translations [Any edition]* Levy Lind (ed.)
Required:	*The Cid, Cinna, The Theatrical Illusion (Penguin Classics) [Any edition]* Pierre Corneille, John Cairncross Notes: Any complete edition of this play will suffice.
Required:	*The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides I [Any edition]* David Grene (Editor), Richmond Lattimore (Editor)
Required:	*The Great Gatsby [Any edition]* F. Scott Fitzgerald
Required:	*The House of the Seven Gables (Norton Critical Edition) [Edition required: 2]* Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert S. Levine (Editor) Notes: Please get this edition specifically. We will be using the unique critical materials in the back for various class activities.
Required:	*The Life of the Drama [Any edition]* Eric Bentley
Required:	*The Misanthrope and Other Plays (Signet Classics) [Any edition]* Jean-Baptiste Moliere, Donald M. Frame Notes: Any complete edition of the play will suffice.
Required:	*The Remains of the Day [Any edition]* Kazuo Ishiguro
Required:	*The Rhetoric of Fiction [Edition required: 2]* Wayne C. Booth Notes: A reasonable search online or through Amazon’s secondary dealers can often turn up inexpensive used copies of this volume.
Required:	*The Sorrows of Young Werther (Penguin Classics) [Any edition]* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Michael Hulse (Translator)
Required:	*The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions) [Edition required: 1]* T. S. Eliot, Michael North (Editor) Notes: Please get this edition specifically. We will be using the unique critical materials in the back for various class activities.
Required:	*Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold [Any edition]* C. S. Lewis Notes: Any edition of this work is fine.
Required:	*War and Peace [Any edition]* Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, tr. Notes: Any complete version will suffice, but I strongly recommend this version or the Dunnigan version (from Signet) for readability. The Maude translation is very dated and rather painful to read.
Required:	*Wuthering Heights (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) [Edition required: 2]* Emily Bronte, Linda H. Peterson Notes: Please get this edition specifically. We will be using the unique critical materials in the back for various class activities.
Optional:	*100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses and Misuses [Any edition]* Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries Notes: Highly recommended for writing guidance on questions of usage. Not strictly required.

Courses in History

World History I (1982) • [2025] Christe McMenomy

Required:

Patterns of World History, Volume I: To 1600 [Edition required: 4]
Peter Von Sivers, Charles A. Desnoyers, and George B. Snow
Notes:

There are several versions of the 4th edition. The ISBN above is to the Volume I edition without sources. You may also purchase the combined volume (containing all readings for the two year course) or the volumes with sources. Previous editions will not be acceptable, however.

Around the World in Nine Weeks (1992) • [2025 (Summer)] Christe McMenomy

No texts are listed for this course at this time.

Courses in Writing

Cursus Scriptorum: Writing With Honors (1960) • [2025] Bruce McMenomy

Required:	*The Elements of Style [Edition required: 4]* William Strunk, EB White Notes: We selected this classic handbook of style for its high quality and its wide availability---no copy should cost more than ten dollars, if that, and it should be available in almost any bookstore. Any edition will serve.
Optional:	*A Writer's Reference [Edition required: 7]* Diana Hacker Notes: This can be quite an expensive book to buy new. Prior editions and used copies are entirely acceptable. You may also use another reputable grammar book for reference as well, such as one of the many editions of Warriner's Grammar and Composition.

Practical Grammar (1903) • [2025 (Summer)] Emily Pearson

Required:

Painless Grammar [Any edition]
Rebecca Elliott, Ph.D.

Molding Your Prose (1922) • [2025 (Summer)] Bruce McMenomy

No texts are listed for this course at this time.

How to Become a Precocious Student (1964) • [2025 (Summer)] Christe McMenomy

No texts are listed for this course at this time.

Molding Your Argument (1923) • [2025 (Summer)] Bruce McMenomy

No texts are listed for this course at this time.

Writing for the College-bound (1981) • [2025] Emily Pearson

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Courses in Programming

Introduction to Programming with Scratch (1991) • [2025 (Summer)] Christe McMenomy

No texts are listed for this course at this time.

Courses in Philosophy

Plato’s Meno (1906) • [2025 (Summer)] Bruce McMenomy

Required:	*Meno [Edition required: 2]* Plato, G. M. A. Grube (Translator) Notes: This version or the composite volume of five dialogues (including the Meno) is required. Both are not. If you already have the other volume from one of our other courses, that will suffice.
Required:	*Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo [Edition required: 2]* Plato; John M. Cooper, G. M. A Grube (Translator) Notes: If you have already bought this collection of five dialogues for one of the other courses we’ve offered, it should suffice; if you want just the Meno alone, select the other option. One or the other is required, both are not.

Introduction to Philosophy (1994) • [2025] Karl Oles

Required:

Aristotle for Everybody [Edition required: 1]
Mortimer J. Adler

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