Fall 2006 Core texts

Unit One: Creation and Birth

• Native American creation accounts (Penobscot and Crow) (coursepack)
• Other creation account TBD (e.g. Asian/African/South American/Australian) (coursepack)
• Genesis 1-4 and Job 38-41 (from HarperCollins Study Bible [0060655275])
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Rappaccini’s Daughter” (coursepack)
• Film: Gattaca
• Matt Ridley, Genome (selections) (0060894083)

Unit Two: Coming of Age and Education

• Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written By Himself (0393969665)
• Plato, “Allegory of the Cave” (from Republic, Book VII) (coursepack)
• Simone Weil, “Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies With a View to the Love of God” (from Waiting for God) (coursepack)
• Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (1594480001)
• Film: Garden State
• Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies (0452274427)

Unit Three: Citizenship and Service

• Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains (selections) (0812973011)
• Gospel According to Matthew, chapters 5-7 (The Sermon on the Mount) (from HarperCollins Study Bible)
• William Riordon, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall (0451526201)
• Film: Crash
• Plato, Apology and Crito (from The Trial and Death of Socrates) (0872205541)
• Sophocles, Antigone (Braun translation) (0195061675)