Five Pillar Reading List

Semester One

A Thomas Jefferson Education - Oliver DeMille
Little Britches - Ralph Moody
The Chosen - Chaim Potok
Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
The 7 Keys of Great Teaching (CD) - Oliver DeMille
Jane Eyre - Jane Austen
Walking Drum - Louis L'Amour
Laddie - Gene Stratton-Porter

Semester Two

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephan Covey
What is Seen and What is Not Seen – Frederic Bastiat (In Essay on Political Economy)
The Fourth Turning - William Strauss
2 plays by Shakespeare (TBA)
Understanding the Times - David A Noebel
Alas Babylon - Pat Frank

Semester Three

The Seven Lesson School Teacher – John Taylor Gatto
How Children Learn – John Holt
A Market Based Education: A New Model for Schools - Kathleen Harward
The New Commonwealth School – Aneladee Milne
The One Minute Teacher - Spencer Johnson
Multiple Intelligences - Howard Gardner
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Leadership Education - Oliver DeMille
The Virginian - Owen Wister
Spiritual Lives of Great Composers - Patrick Kavanaugh

Semester Four

The Abolition of Man - C. S. Lewis
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
3 Plays by Shakespeare (TBA)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens