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The first seven items in JQA's list all involve learning Latin and Greek ("racines" is French for "roots").
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John Quincy Adams to John Adams

[Passy, 16 March 1780]

My Work for a day.

Make Latin,
Explain
Cicero
Erasmus
Appendix
Peirce Phædrus.
Learn
greek Racines
greek Grammar
Geography
geometry
fractions
Writing
Drawing

As a young boy can not apply himself to all those Things and keep a remembrance of them all I should desire that you would let me know what of those I must begin upon at first. I am your Dutiful Son,

John Quincy Adams

Adams, John Quincy. Letter to John Adams, [March 16, 1780]. Adams Family Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society. Published in Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 3: April 1778 - September 1780 (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1973). Pages 307-308.