The Great Conversation Year 2 Texts and Materials

TEXTS:

+ These books are consumable or used in class. Siblings taking TGC 2 should each have their own copy.
* These books are used in subsequent years of TGC.

Used during the first semester.

  • TGC 2 Fall Syllabus
    (Purchase from Instructor $40)
  • The Universe Next Door*
    James W. Sire
    (6th edition or later)
  • Divine Comedy: Inferno+
    Dante
    (Esolen translation, NOT World View Edition available from Cornerstone)
  • Divine Comedy: Purgatorio+
    Dante
    (Esolen translation, NOT World View Edition available from Cornerstone)
  • Divine Comedy: Paradiso+
    Dante
    (Esolen translation, NOT World View Edition available from Cornerstone)
  • Institutes of Christian Religion+
    John Calvin -- edited by Tony Lane and Hilary Osborne
    (ISBN: 978-0-8010-2524-2 ONLY)
  • Westminster Confession of Faith Modern English Study Version+
    (Purchase from Instructor $10)
    (ISBN: 978-0-934688-87-1- ONLY)
  • Paradise Lost+
    John Milton
    (World View Edition from Cornerstone Curriculum)
  • The Pilgrim's Progress+
    John Bunyan
    (World View Edition from Cornerstone Curriculum)
    Total Truth*, Nancy Pearcey
    (ISBN: 1-58134-458-9)
  • World History 10 (4th edition)*
    Bob Jones University
    (ISBN: 978-1606821183)
  • The Little Seagull Handbook (3rd edition)*+
    Richard Bullock, Michael Brody, Francine Weinberg
    (ISBN: 978-0-393-60264-7)

Used during the second semester.

  • TGC 2 Spring Syllabus
    (Purchase from Instructor $40)
  • America: A City Upon A Hill+
    David Quine, editor
    (Cornerstone Curriculum)
  • Second Treatise on Government
    John Locke
    (ISBN-13: 978-0023933004 recommended)
  • Anti-Federalist Papers
    Ketcham
    (ISBN: 978-0451528841 recommended)
  • A Tale of Two Cities+
    Charles Dickens
    (Any edition)
  • The Communist Manifesto
    Marx/Engels
    (ISBN: 978-0717802418 recommended)
  • Animal Farm
    George Orwell
  • The Beginning of the Republic
    Clarence B. Carson
    No ISBN

MATERIALS:

  • Binder, paper, pencils, pens, highlighters, red pen.
  • Access to a computer, internet, email, and a printer, as well as ink and paper. Be sure your computer has Adobe Reader.
  • Gmail email address
  • We encourage each family to subscribe to and discuss together World Magazine or listen together to the podcast The World and Everything in It from the World News Group.