This is what students at Founders Classical Academy of Lewisville, a classical school in Texas, are asked to read. This is what serious education looks like: 5th Grade: — Don Quixote (select episodes for young readers) — Prince Caspian — A Midsummer Night’s Dream — Sherlock Holmes — Little Women — The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (abridged) 6th Grade: — Greek Myths (summer reading) — The Children’s Homer — Julius Caesar (adapted) — The Scarlet Pimpernel — The Count of Monte Cristo (abridged) — The Prince and the Pauper 7th Grade: — The Jungle Book (summer reading) — The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — The Call of the Wild — Fahrenheit 451 — Cyrano de Bergerac — A Christmas Carol — Romeo and Juliet — Animal Farm — The Diary of Anne Frank 8th Grade: — Frankenstein (summer reading) — Lord of the Flies — Uncle Tom’s Cabin (selections) — To Kill a Mockingbird — Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass — Much Ado About Nothing — The Red Badge of Courage — Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography (selections) 9th Grade: — The Odyssey (summer reading) — The Iliad — Oedipus the King — Antigone — The Clouds — The Aeneid — Julius Caesar (Shakespeare) — Metamorphoses (selections) 10th Grade: — Tales of King Arthur — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight — Beowulf — The Canterbury Tales — Hamlet — Paradise Lost — Shakespeare’s Sonnets 11th Grade: — The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — The Scarlet Letter — Walden — Self-Reliance — Moby-Dick — The Tempest — My Ántonia 12th Grade: — Pride and Prejudice — Metamorphosis — Heart of Darkness — Crime and Punishment — King Lear — Murder in the Cathedral