Memoria Press' Classical Teacher, Winter 2014

Saving Western civilization one student at a time

Winter 2014

Why Latin Is NOT an Option Martin Cothran & Cheryl Lowe

What Is Classical Education?

Andrew Kern

Studying Music the Classical Way Dr. Carol Reynolds

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was attending an education conference a while back and decided that I wanted a sandwich for lunch, so I walked into a nearby mall and found a popular sandwich chain store. I ordered a Chipotle Steak and Cheese with Avocado.

"What kind of meat would you like?" she asked.

"Uh, well, I think this is supposed to be a steak sandwich. Maybe steak would be good," I said.

"Okay," said the perky voice. "What kind of cheese would you like?"

"Well, you invented the sandwich," I said, jokingly.

"What would you recommend?" She responded that most people like provolone. "Let's do that."

"What else would you like on your sandwich?" she asked. At this point I was pondering the fact that this sandwich chain must have spent millions of dollars researching what kind of sandwiches people like and what they like on them.

I asked what she would recommend and she said, "Most people put lettuce and tomato." So I told her to just do what most people did.

"Would you like avocado on your sandwich, sir?" I looked up despairingly at the menu, which said, "Chipotle Steak and Cheese with Avocado." I really didn't want to have to take several courses in advanced sandwich science to order my lunch. I took the avocado.

"Would you like anything else on it?" At this point I was mentally exhausted from having to make so many complex sandwich decisions. I began thinking of those old fraternity hazing rituals in which you were awakened in the middle of the night, taken to a

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Letter from the Editor

dark room, put in a chair, and questioned by unperky people you couldn't see who were standing behind a large, bright light aimed at your face. I'm trying to remember if any of the questions involved the construction of a sandwich.

She continued to smile at me: the quintessence of perk. "That will be all," I said. "Thank you."

I have slightly exaggerated this story, but I tell it to make the point that we live in a culture in which choice is the chief value. We are told that the more choices we have, the better off we are.

In education too, choice sometimes seems the most important value. We talk about "electives" and "individualized learning." You go to the counter to order your education knowing you can "have it your way."

Or so we are told.

We are asked, "What would you like on your education?" and we can choose from college preparedness or career readiness or even indoctrination into someone's idea of good politics.

But when we put up a sign offering "classical education," we implicitly commit ourselves to specific content and to a certain order and methodology in presenting it.

If you were to visit a good school up until about 100 years ago, you would likely find the focus there to be the teaching of the great books in the original languages. And since all the great books were written in Latin and Greek, you learned these classical languages in preparation to read those books. That's why it was called "classical education." This is how we taught wisdom and virtue, but it also better taught all the things we now say are important: cooperation, creativity, and thinking skills.

Our Western culture has been around a long time, and over the centuries a lot of effort has been expended to determine the best kind of education.

So when we are asked what else we would like on our education, we need to say, "That will be all.

Thank you."

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Winter 2014 FEATURED ARTICLES

LATIN, Greek, & French

2 Letter From the Editor by Martin Cothran 13 What a Child with a Classical Education Can Do

by Dr. Gene Edward Veith

14 From Latin Student to Latin Teacher: This Is Not a Test

by Paul Schaeffer

22 26 34 40 45 50 54

Why Latin Is NOT an Option by Cheryl Lowe & Martin Cothran The Flaming Arrow of Classical Education by David Wright What Is Classical Education? by Andrew Kern Memoria Press Book Review by Martin Cothran A Horse Is a Horse, of Course, of Course by Martin Cothran

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Latina Christiana & Supplements

Grades 3-6

First Form Latin Series & Supplements

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Henle Latin Series, NLE Prep Guides First Start French I & II

Grades 8-12 Grades 5-8

21 Elementary Greek, Greek Alphabet Book,

Curriculum Packages & Supplements

Jr. K - Grade 8

Lesson Plans by Subject

Jr. K - Grade 8

Special-Needs Curriculum Packages

52 Traditional Logic I-II, Supplements, 53 Classical Rhetoric & Supplements

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Ages 2+ Jr. K - Grade 12

44 Christian Studies I-IV 46 D’Aulaires’ Greek Myths

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48 Classical Literature & Supplements

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Famous Men Series Dorothy Mills Histories

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Resources

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Alphabet, Numbers, & Enrichment

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New American Cursive

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Literature Study Guides

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38 Literature Study Guides 42 Intro to Composition, Poetry,

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Grades 3+ Grades 3-12

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36 Astronomy, Insects, Birds, Trees,

Grades 3+

Biology, Medicine, Physics, & more!

American / Modern

24 American Studies, Modern European History 25 States & Capitals, Geography I-II

Grades 7-12

CLASSICAL/Christian Studies

Classical Core Curriculum

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Grades 3+

Latin & Greek Supplements

Aristotle's Material Logic

Why Study Latin?—38% of HLS Seniors Recognized as National Merit Scholars!

Curriculum Map Yearly Outlook

Prima Latina & Supplements

LOGIC & RHETORIC

Studying Music the Classical Way by Dr. Carol Reynolds

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16 17 18 20

Grades 3+ Grades 3+

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Spelling Workout C Classical Phonics (p. 31) 2nd Grade Literature Set (p. 37)

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Prayers for Children Big Thoughts for Little People

Classical Core Curriculum

The Golden Children's Bible (p. 44)

The Golden Children's Bible (p. 44)

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The Golden Children's Bible (p. 44)

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Writing & Penmanship

Math

Alphabet Books (p. 30)

Copybook I (p. 32) Composition & Sketchbook (p. 32)

Copybook II (p. 32) Composition & Sketchbook (p. 32) New American Cursive 1 (p. 33)

Prima Latina Copybook (p. 16) Copybook Cursive (p. 32) Composition & Sketchbook (p. 32) New American Cursive 2 (p. 33)

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Enrichment Numbers Coloring Book (p. 30) Counting With Numbers Inside and Outside

Book of Crafts (p. 30) Alphabet Flashcards (p. 30)

Numbers Books (p. 30) Rod & Staff Math 1, Part 1

Art Cards (p. 31) Kindergarten Enrichment (p. 31)

Rod & Staff Math 1, Parts 1-2

Art Cards (p. 31) First Grade Enrichment (p. 31) Alphabet Wall Poster (p. 32)

Rod & Staff Math 2

Second Grade Enrichment (p. 31) Art Cards (p. 31)

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• Third Grade Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year • Latina Christiana I complete set + Review Worksheets • Third Grade Literature: Study Guides w/ Novels & Best Christmas Pageant Ever • D'Aulaires' Greek Myths set • Christian Studies I set • New American Cursive 3 • States & Capitals set • Astronomy set • Rod & Staff Math 3 set (student, teacher, blacklines, speed drills) • Spelling Workout D set (student, teacher) • English Grammar Recitation & Workbook I set • Introduction to Composition set • Poetry for the Grammar Stage set • Timeline Program

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Resources Included in Previous Year Packages: • Latina Christiana I Flashcards $14.95 (included in 2nd grade) • The Golden Children's Bible $17.99 (included in K-2nd grade or see p. 44) Supplements:

Supplements: • Read-Aloud Program $120 • Story of the World, Vol. 2 $16.95 (summer reading before 5th grade; p. 35) • American/Modern studies novels $80 set (p. 25)

• Ludere Latine I $19.95 (p. 16) • Lingua Angelica I Set $39.95 set (p. 19) • Read Aloud Program: 11 Novels $150 | 25 Picture Books $300 • Story of the World, Vol. 1 $16.95 (summer reading before 4th grade; p. 35) • American/Modern studies novels $120 set (p. 25)

Literature Farmer Boy Charlotte's Web The Moffats (p. 39)

Latina Christiana I (p. 17)

Greek Myths (p. 46)

Christian Studies I (p. 44)

First Form Latin (p. 18)

Famous Men of Rome (p. 46)

Christian Studies II (p. 44)

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Heidi Lassie Come-Home (p. 39)

Famous Men of the Middle Ages (p. 47)

Christian Studies III (p. 44)

Adam of the Road Robin Hood The Door in the Wall King Arthur (p. 39)

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Classical & Christian Studies

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Latin & Greek

• Fourth Grade Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year • First Form Latin complete set • Fourth Grade Literature: Study Guide Sets w/ Novels • Famous Men of Rome set • Christian Studies II set • Geography I: Middle East, North Africa, and Europe set • United States Review set • The Book of Insects set • Rod & Staff Math 4 set (student, teacher, drills, tests) • Spelling Workout E set (student, teacher) • English Grammar Recitation Workbook 2 set (student, teacher) • Classical Composition: The Fable Stage set

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Second Form Latin (p. 18)

Third Form Latin (p. 19) Greek Alphabet Book (p. 21)

Classical Core Curriculum

Famous Men of Greece Horatius at the Bridge (pp. 46, 48)

Timeline Set (p. 48)

Christian Studies IV (p. 44)

The Trojan War Anne of Green Gables The Bronze Bow The Hobbit (p. 39)

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• Fifth Grade Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year • Second Form Latin complete set • Fifth Grade Literature: Study Guide Sets w/ Novels • Famous Men of the Middle Ages set • Christian Studies III set • Geography II set & Geography I Review set • Rod and Staff Arithmetic 5 set (student, teacher, tests) • Spelling Workout F set (student, teacher) • English Grammar Recitation Workbook 3 set (student, teacher) • What's That Bird? set • Exploring the History of Medicine set • Classical Composition: The Narrative Stage set

• Sixth Grade Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year • Third Form Latin complete set • Sixth Grade Literature: Study Guide Sets w/ Novels • Famous Men of Greece set, Horatius at the Bridge • Christian Studies IV set • Rod and Staff Arithmetic 6 set (student, teacher, tests, quizzes) • Spelling Workout G set (student, teacher) • Rod & Staff English 6 set (student, teacher, worksheets, tests) • The Story of the Thirteen Colonies and The Great Republic, 200 Questions About American History, & Everything You Need to Know About American History Homework • Book of Trees set, Exploring the World of Biology set • Classical Composition: The Chreia/Maxim Stage set • Greek Alphabet Book set

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Spelling Workout D

Introduction to Composition (p. 42)

States & Capitals (p. 25)

Rod & Staff Math 3

Book of Astronomy (p. 36)

English Grammar, Workbook II (p. 42)

Spelling Workout E

Classical Composition: The Fable Stage (p. 43)

Geography I: The Middle East, North Africa, & Europe (p. 25)

Rod & Staff Math 4

Book of Insects (p. 36)

Spelling Workout F

Classical Composition: The Narrative Stage (p. 43)

Geography II: Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Oceania, & the Americas (p. 25)

Rod & Staff Math 5

What's That Bird?

The History of Medicine (p. 36)

Rod & Staff Math 6

The Book of Trees Exploring the World of Biology (p. 36)

English Grammar, Workbook III (p. 42)

Rod & Staff English 6

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Classical Composition: The Chreia/Maxim Stage (p. 43)

The Thirteen Colonies & the Great Republic 200 Questions About American History (p. 24)

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he Classical Core Curriculum is now complete through middle school, and high school is coming.

In the important step from grammar school to middle school, students need to take the basic skills and knowledge they have mastered and begin converting them into a more advanced command of skills subjects like Latin and math, and into a deeper understanding of history and literature.

Memoria Press’ new 8th Grade Core Curriculum package continues to focus on this mastery and understanding. Students continue advanced study in Latin grammar, and upper level math. Having begun their reading of the great books in 7th grade with Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, 8th grade students continue their study with Virgil's Aeneid.

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• Seventh Grade Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year • Fourth Form Latin complete set • Seventh Grade Literature: Study Guide Sets w/ Novels • The Bard of Avon • Book of the Ancient Greeks set • Book of the Ancient World set • Iliad & Odyssey set w/ Novels • Poetry and Short Stories: American Literature set • College of the Redwoods Pre-Algebra (text, solutions manual, quizzes/tests, key) • Rod and Staff English 8 set (student, teacher worksheets, tests) • Spelling Workout H set (student, teacher) • Geography: Exploring & Mapping the World set • Exploring Planet Earth set • Classical Composition: Refutation - Confirmation Stage set

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Writing The Book of the Ancient World (p. 46) The Book of the Ancient Greeks (p. 46) The Iliad (p. 48) The Odyssey (p. 48)

The Aeneid (p. 49) The Book of the Ancient Romans (p. 47) The Story of Christianity (p. 44)

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WEEK 1

Monday □ □ Read Read “How “How to to Mark Mark aa Book” Book” (Appendix (Appendix of of this this Curriculum Curriculum Manual) Manual)

□ □ Book Book of of the the Middle Middle Ages Ages

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WEdnEsday

□ □ Book Book of of the the Middle Middle Ages Ages

□ □ Book Book of of the the Middle Middle Ages Ages

□ □ Read Read Ch. Ch. 22 “The “The Early Early Christian Christian (marking book) book) Church” Church” (marking

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Prima Latina Latina Christiana First Form Series First Start Reading Literature Read-aloud Enrichment Copybooks New American Cursive Famous Men Series Grammar & Spelling Dorothy Mills Histories

□ □ Read Read Ch. Ch. 66 “The “The Norsemen” Norsemen” (marking (marking book) book)

□ □ Read Read Ch. Ch. 11 “The “The Foundations Foundations of of the the (marking book) book) Middle Middle Ages” Ages” (marking

Thursday □ □ Beowulf Beowulf Student Student Guide Guide □ □ Read Read “Notes “Notes & & Instructions Instructions to to (Teacher),” ,” “Taking “Taking With With Student Student (Teacher) Us Us What What Matters,” Matters,” & & “Four “Four Stages Stages to to the the Central Central One One Idea” Idea”

□ □ Beowulf Beowulf the the Warrior Warrior □ □ Read Read Introduction Introduction at at beginning beginning of of book, book, marking marking the the text text as as you you read read

LiTEraTurE

□ □ Beowulf Beowulf Student Student Guide Guide □ □ Complete Complete Introduction Introduction Comprehension Comprehension Questions Questions □ □ Read Read “Basic “Basic Features Features & & Background Background

□ □ Classics Classics Algebra Algebra II Lesson Lesson 1-1: 1-1: Symbols Symbols and and □ □ Classics Classics Algebra Algebra II Lesson Lesson 1-2: 1-2: The The

MaTh

Expressions Expressions

Commutative Commutative and and Identity Identity Properties Properties

□ □ Try Try This: This: a-q a-q □ □ Exercises: Exercises: 1’s, 1’s, 7’s 7’s

□ □ Try Try This: This: a-o a-o □ □ Exercises: Exercises: 1’s, 1’s, 7’s 7’s

□ □ Classics Classics Algebra Algebra II Lesson Lesson 1-3: 1-3: Exponential Exponential Notation Notation

□ □ Try Try This: This: a-q a-q □ □ Exercises: Exercises: 1’s, 1’s, 7’s 7’s

□ □ Exploring Exploring the the World World of of Chemistry: Chemistry:

cLassicaL & chrisTian sTudiEs

□ □ Book Book of of the the Ancient Ancient Romans: Romans: □ □ Read Read Lesson Lesson 11 (p. (p. 7-10) 7-10) □ □ Complete Complete Lesson Lesson 11 Study Study Guide Guide

□ □ Henle Henle II II Review Review □ □ Latin Latin Grammar Grammar for for the the Grammar Grammar Stage Stage (Review Grammar: Grammar: All All declensions) declensions) pp. pp. 6-7 6-7 (Review □ □ Henle Henle Grammar Grammar #45-64 #45-64 (SOX, (SOX, ERROR, ERROR,

LaTin

□ □ Henle Henle Grammar Grammar #59-61 #59-61 (review (review rules rules for for i-stem i-stem nouns) nouns)

Associative Associative Properties Properties

□ □ Try Try This: This: a-q a-q □ □ Exercises: Exercises: 1’s, 1’s, 7’s 7’s (omit (omit #57) #57)

□ □ Pre-Grammar Pre-Grammar □ □ Grammar: Grammar: Reading Reading Notes Notes □ □ Grammar: Grammar: Words Words to to be be Defined Defined (Complete (Complete as as many many as as possible possible without without aa dictionary) dictionary)

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Simply Classical Curriculum for Special-Needs Students from Cheryl Swope and Memoria Press Level A: Readiness, Rhythm, and Rhyme (Ages 2-3) $225 $200 Complete Set (all books + Lesson Plans) $30 Lesson Plans for One Year (only) Level A seeks to nurture wonder and language through an early love of books. Level A helps you strengthen your child's readiness skills through music, movement, and poetry. The child receives gentle lessons in colors, numbers, letters, vocabulary, shapes, Mother Goose rhymes, and prayers. Through the beauty of simple stories, lessons, and songs, Level A guides the child through improvement in each of these areas: oral language, fine-motor (small muscle) and gross-motor (large muscle) movement, and daily living skills.

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Level B: Essentials, Etiquette, and Ear Training (Ages 3-4) $185 $160 Complete Set (all books + Lesson Plans) $30 Lesson Plans for One Year (only) Level B provides extensive practice in readiness skills with an emphasis on fine-motor skills. The child learns how to hold a pencil properly and how to color. Alphabet and number lessons integrate fine-motor practice every day. In Level B, the child learns manners. He practices saying please and thank you. He learns to win and lose games gracefully. To inspire a love of words, this level includes children's poetry set to beautiful music. Lessons introduce the names and sounds of letters, the names and values of numbers, as well as games, and stories. Through simple Bible stories, daily prayers, and memory verses from Holy Scriptures, the child learns of God's holiness, love, and mercy in Christ.

For approximate skill level or chronological ages 3-4 (children ready for instruction in fine-motor skills, manners, numbers, poetry, and knowledge of letter sounds).

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ne of the best books I have ever read on classical education is the just-released Simply Classical: A Beautiful Education for Any Child from Memoria Press. Cheryl Swope's book not only gives an unusually lucid explanation of what classical education is and how to teach it, whether in a school or at home—it reminds us of classical education’s most important quality: how human it is and how it connects with the humanness of its students, including those whose humanness is often overlooked.

Cheryl tells about how she applied classical education in homeschooling her twins, special-needs children afflicted with autism and a number of other heart-breaking mental problems. Whereas progressive education, with its reductionistic view of human beings, would have just tried to program the twins with some basic survival skills and stop there, the humane, personal, inspiring approach of classical Christian education caused them to blossom. To bloom.

Not only was her daughter Michelle achieving academic levels that her doctors thought were impossible for her, she was awakening to the realm of the true, the good, and the beautiful. You have got to read Cheryl’s account of her courageous son and of her daughter, who emerges, despite her continuing difficulties, as a complex, accomplished, and compelling young woman.

Michelle, now 19, has published a book of her poetry. It will blow you away. By any standards, the poems are extraordinarily meaningful and touching, filled with vivid imagery and lovely language. To know Michelle’s background, though, is to appreciate her all the more and also to appreciate the potential of classical learning for shaping a young mind and a young heart.

But that’s not all. Her poetry is profoundly Christian. She writes about the Law and the Gospel, … about the Cross, about Jesus and what He did for her. She shows just how deep catechesis in God’s Word can go, even in someone whom we might not expect. I give you one of her poems, quoted with permission: Solemnity

Dr. Gene Edward Veith: Provost of Patrick Henry College, Professor of Literature, and author of over 19 books on topics such as classical education, Christianity, and culture.

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See on this cross what thorns did say.

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"Look, Mom, I've finished memorizing the first declension!"

I was in third grade and ecstatic. My two older sisters had been studying Latin with Cheryl Lowe for a year or two already, and I was anxious to prove I could do it too.

"Then let's hear you recite it," was my sister's reply.

"A, ae, ae, am, ae, ae, arum, is, as, is," I chanted.

"Aha! You got it wrong! The ablative is a, not ae," she happily pointed out. And so she humbled me as only an older sister can. But that did not stop me from studying Latin. It was impossible for me to imagine not studying Latin since I was innocent of the fact that others were educated differently. From my perspective, Latin was as central as math. I returned to my Latin book and this time I mastered the first declension correctly.

Over the next ten years, I received a classical education—although I wouldn't have been able at that time to say that's what it was.

My mother was my teacher and she was only passing on what she herself had received: a traditional, common-sense education. She began with phonics and added Latin at third grade. Math facts were drilled.

Unbeknownst to us, she made sure that every game in the house had an educational purpose: Monopoly was permitted because it involved arithmetic; Scrabble reinforced spelling.

My mother also understood the necessity of teaching virtue. One small way she instilled good habits was by teaching responsibility. She made sure I knew the work expected of me each week, but it was up to me to decide when I was going to do it.

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my responsibility. This virtue did not noticeably spill over into other areas of my life immediately, but later it would.

Much to my disappointment, when I was about to enter the sixth grade, my mother decided to remove me from the cottage school where I had studied and enroll me in a full-time private school. I found myself back in the same level of Latin I had completed in the third grade.

One of the first things I noticed was how the teacher prepared us for a test. Shortly before the test, the teacher would hand out completed copies of the test as a study guide. Most of the tests were matching, so we all quickly realized that we could prepare by memorizing "A7, B2, C4" more quickly than by actually knowing the material. This was when my sense of responsibility started to kick in. I knew the point of the test was knowing the material, so I would actually study the subject matter.

In the interest of full disclosure, there were a few times I took the wayward path of memorizing the letters and numbers. But don't tell my mother.

Until I entered school I had been taught in order to know. Now I was being taught in order to take a test. In a classical school, recitation is done to solidify central information taught within context. We were being implicitly encouraged to memorize useless codes to get passing grades.

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For high school I chose to attend a boarding school in the northeast United States. It was there, for the first time, that I realized not everyone learned Latin!

While Latin was required at my new school, very few students arrived with any knowledge of the classical language. Every student was also required to learn Spanish and ancient Greek. I enjoyed those studies, since I was used to a grammar-first approach with frequent recitation and exercises. It is worth noting that the school used this approach even though their goal was that the students would one day speak Spanish and Latin. As soon as the grammar was mastered, all of us were immediately asked to translate Vergil’s Aeneid.

To get passing grades, I had to translate ten lines every 45 minutes. While this was impossible for everyone at first, after a couple months most of us were translating twenty lines in that same time.

What I really enjoyed was science and math. To enable integration of the two subjects, science and math were taught by one teacher for each grade.

Aristotelian logic was taught as an introduction to Euclidean geometry at the same time as Plato’s and Aristotle’s metaphysical principles were being taught as a necessary prerequisite to modern chemistry. Geometrical proofs were shown to be the basis of algebraic formulae even though algebra had been taught in earlier grades.

In algebra, I had accepted the concepts and methods because they seemed to work. But while I could solve for x easily in an equation like 4x2 + 4x + 1 = 0, I did not have the slightest idea what that equation meant. When I finally saw the quadratic equation geometrically (in other words, expressed in a way that reflected nature), a light bulb went on: Geometry is an expression of what we find around us (for example, circles, lines, squares, etc.); algebra is an abstraction of that expression.

Chemistry class began with the ancient Greeks.

After reading Aristotle’s Physics, we knew that the building blocks of nature were matter and form and that they came together to form a unity called "substance." This understanding cautioned me against an atomic, deterministic understanding of the periodic table. When the class proceeded to learn about the periodic table, it was in a historical way. We accompanied the great scientists in their discovery of the elements and thereby grasped that the periodic table is a reflection of nature and evidence of the order in Creation.

In college I first studied what were called the "humanities." The point of the program was to learn "who man is." Though we were daily nourished on Scripture and Christian spirituality, we were encouraged to learn about the strengths and weaknesses of men and women through art, music, history, literature, and language. As I read War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, I was able to feel the social pressure felt by Pierre, the main character, and yet reach a different conclusion from the author about whether men have free will. By studying what humankind had produced over thousands of years, I gained knowledge of the virtues and vices common to all.

But I did not appreciate how different my education was until my last year of college. I transferred to a university that called itself a "liberal arts" school.

Because I had concentrated on the humanities and, later, philosophy, I was required to take a few basic science courses, one of which was chemistry.

As I went through that class, I realized that my prior education had conditioned me to ask why iron and sulfur would react to form iron sulfide, but all I was told to do was "follow the chart" to figure out how they were created. The entire class was an exercise in mere memory, not understanding. I wanted to know, in the Aristotelian sense of the word. Aristotle says we know a thing when we know its four causes: material, formal, agent, and final.

All I was receiving in that chemistry course was the material cause. Sadly, even though my grades showed that I had mastered the course, I felt I had learned nothing.

Proverbs says, "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." Our training has a tremendous effect on who we are—to the point that it can be hard to fathom anything else. My education was not perfect, but it instilled in me everything a classical education strives for: a thirst for wisdom and a love for virtue, a deep understanding of the linguistic and quantitative (the trivium and quadrivium), the assurance of the unity of truth and the ability to reason from principles.

Reasoning is proper of the nature of man. It is what makes us different from everything else on earth. This is what classical education did for me: It gave me my humanity.

“Train up a child in the way he should go:

and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

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Which Latin program is right for your student? (page 20)

Prima Latina

An Introduction to Christian Latin

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This course was developed for children in 1st-4th grades who are still becoming familiar with English grammar and wish to learn Latin at a slower pace and learn English grammar in the process. Its goal is to teach and reinforce an understanding of the basic parts of speech while introducing Latin. It benefits the student by teaching him half of the vocabulary in Latina Christiana I and grounding him in the fundamental concepts of English grammar, the key to Latin study.

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Prima Latina is also the perfect preparation for Latina Christiana.

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Exercises reinforce memory work and teach grammar in incremental steps through simple translation. Grammar coverage includes 1st-2nd declension nouns, 1st-2nd conjugation verbs, 1st-2nd declension adjectives, the irregular verb to be, and 1st-2nd person pronouns.

The Teacher Manual includes a complete copy of the student book with overlaid answers and provides detailed weekly lesson plans, comprehensive teaching instructions, tests, weekly quizzes, and keys. The thirty lessons can be completed in a year for young students or in less time for older students.

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First Form's grammar-based approach is perfect for the grammar stage student. It is also the best approach for any age because every student is in the grammar stage when he begins a subject.

The syntax knowledge required in translationbased programs is a logic or rhetoric stage skill, which can easily overwhelm a beginning student unless he has first learned the grammar at a slow and gentle pace and is taught for mastery. Based on 20 years of teaching experience, the Forms series, beginning with First Form, has been used sucessfully by countless home and private schools because it helps the student make sense of what many consider a difficult subject.

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Why Latin Is NOT an Option W

hen you ask a fellow teacher or homeschool parent what classical education is, you're likely to get a different answer every time. To one person it is the study of history chronologically, to another it is simply a challenging academic curriculum. To many, particularly in recent decades, classical education is seen as the application of Dorothy Sayers' developmental model—the grammar, logic, and rhetoric stages of learning.

What is the sine qua non of classical education?

Translated literally, the term sine qua non means "without which not." What is the thing "without which" an education would "not" be classical at all?

This was the question asked in a recent issue of the Society of Classical Learning's Journal—a valuable publication for classical educators. "What," it asks, "are the sine qua nons of classical education?" There were many answers proposed in the SCL Journal articles. In one, E. Christian Kopff eloquently explains the depth of confusion around this question.1 He relates the story of attending a meeting of classical educators at which a pastor in the audience asked, "At my school we use Saxon Math and Writing Road to Reading. What else do we need to be classical?"

It was inquirers like these that Tracy Lee Simmons must have had in mind when he pointed out, "We apply 'classic' or 'classical' to anything we believe to be excellent or universal."2 But is that all it is?

One of the first things to do when you are looking for what a term means is to look at how it was used historically. What was the original meaning of the term "classical education"?

E. Christian Kopff is the author of The Devil Knows Latin. He is Associate Director of the Honors Program of the University of Colorado, Boulder.

2 Tracy Lee Simmons, Oxford University graduate in classics, author of Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin.

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Until recently, classical education meant only one thing: The "older definition of classical education," said Simmons, was "a curriculum grounded upon—if not strictly limited to—Greek, Latin, and the study of the civilization from which they arose."

If you reread the debates that took place in the early twentieth century, when classical education was under attack by the progressives, it was the teaching of Latin and Greek, and whether these two languages were still important in the modern world, that was the central flash-point of the debate.

The chief argument of the progressives was that the classical languages were outdated. The use of these languages to read the classics was simply unnecessary, they argued, given the wide availability of English translations. But classical educators knew that these arguments assumed a narrow view of the benefits of classical languages. This is why, when classical educators met at Princeton College in 1917 to try to regroup their forces in the face of the progressive onslaught, they chose to take their stand on the benefits of Latin. Two books which eloquently communicate the enormous benefits of the study of the classical languages are R.W. Livingstone's A Defense of Classical Education (1917) and Charles Bennett's, The Teaching of Latin and Greek in Secondary Schools (1900).

In fact, it was these benefits of Latin that were a centerpiece in the document that rebooted classical

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education in the late 1980s—Dorothy Sayers' essay "The Lost Tools of Learning." That essay and the book, Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning, by Douglas Wilson, together spawned the modern classical education movement that is even now asking what it is and what it is for.

And those who consider Sayers’ stages of learning as the thing that makes an education classical would do well to heed her advice as to how to conduct the first of these stages: Let us begin, then, with Grammar. This, in practice, means the grammar of some language in particular; and it must be an inflected language. The grammatical structure of an uninflected language is far too analytical to be tackled by any one without previous practice in Dialectic. Moreover, the inflected languages interpret the uninflected, whereas the uninflected are of little use in interpreting the inflected. I will say at once, quite firmly, that the best grounding for education is the Latin grammar. I say this, not because Latin is traditional and medieval, but simply because even a rudimentary knowledge of Latin cuts down the labor and pains of learning almost any other subject by at least fifty percent. It is the key to the vocabulary and structure of all the Teutonic languages, as well as to the technical vocabulary of all the sciences and to the literature of the entire Mediterranean civilization, together with all its historical documents.

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In other words, in order to gain a competent grasp of grammar, one needs to study a language other than English since English is uninflected and therefore too analytical and abstract. Second, because it is an inflected language, Latin is the best language to use because it makes the study of grammar concrete and because of the historic ties of Latin to our own language and culture.

The advantages of Latin in terms of vocabulary and grammar have been solidly established and widely extolled—by Sayers and others. But it is the ability of Latin to teach students how to think that is the most underrated of its benefits. A grammar-based Latin study is not simply a grammatical study, but an exercise in what modern educators like to call "critical thinking skills."

"The hard, precipitous path of classical education," said Simmons, "ideally led not to knowledge alone, but to the cultivation of mind and spirit." Writing to some friends about the education of his daughter, the Victorian essayist John Ruskin observed about the

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inflected Greek grammar what we can also say about the Latin: "To have learned one Greek verb accurately will make a difference in her habits of thought for ever after."

Kopff, too, sees the fundamental intellectual advantages of a classical education based on the classical languages: "A curriculum does not aim at producing experts in each subject studied, but encouraging students to think critically and respond creatively in many areas, including topics not formally studied."

Comparison and contrast are the two basic thinking skills, and the Latin grammar is full of them.

"It need not be pointed out," says Livingstone, "that the study of a language like this is a good mental discipline, an exercise in precise expression, in correct dissection of thought." There is no better critical thinking skills program than Latin.

The classical languages, in short, have a value far beyond their use in reading great books. The classical scholar Eva Brann relates a favorite story her father (who was educated in a German classical gymnasium) told about his Greek professor. The professor was saddened that one of his students was being taken out of school for a business apprenticeship. "What a pity he couldn’t stay for the irregular verbs!" he said. "One more month and he’d have had something to sustain him in life."

In commenting on the increasing interest among private and home educators in classical education, Simmons expresses his sympathy with them, but with a caveat: "I will only say to all these good people that extending 'classical' to mark an approach or course of study without reference to Greek and Latin seems an unnecessarily promiscuous usage."

The classical languages are too historically bound up with classical education to allow for their separation without a cost. It is not too much to say that a classical education requires the teaching of a classical language, and, historically, that language was Latin. This was the hill on which the old classical educators chose to fight and die, and it was the lynchpin in Dorothy Sayers' case for the trivium.

For the classical educator, Latin is not an option—it is an essential. It is the sine qua non, that "without which" a classical education is "not" classical.

A classical education requires the study of a classical language.

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The Story of the Thirteen Colonies & the Great Republic $39.95 set (text, student, teacher) We have combined Guerber's The Story of the Thirteen Colonies and The Story of the Great Republic into one edited volume that makes it a perfect one-year survey of American history for the middle school years. The study guide includes important facts, vocabulary, and comprehension questions for each chapter, as well as enrichment activities such as mapwork, drawings, research, writing assignments, and more!

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This two-year American history course for high school addresses social, economic, and political issues using the excellent Concise History of the American Republic text. Our study guides provide reading notes for each chapter, as well as comprehension questions that help students focus on the most important information from each chapter. The Teacher Guide for each year includes three tests.

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Volume I (to 1815): This level covers Western European and American societies from 1600 to 1815, exploring themes such as the right to claim power and govern others, the role of religion in society, and the common elements of long-lasting cultures.

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Pray for fair winds! And may it please my father, once my city is built with temples in his name, that I offer him these rites year in, year out (5.67-74).

This three-fold connection suggests that the funeral rites are not only important, but symbolic, indicative of destiny and the formation of a nation.

The initiation of the ceremonial rites at Anchises’ tomb also contains key symbolic elements. Aeneas ascends the tomb to pour libations in honor of his father. Aeneas’s son, Ascanius, and other young men follow suit (5.90). Here, in this funereal space, are three paternal generations of Roman identity and formation: Anchises, in the tomb, represents the Trojan past; Aeneas, atop the tomb, represents the present and vital link between the past and the future; and Ascanius, approaching the tomb with the other young men, represents the Roman future. In this sacred moment Aeneas says, Hail, my blessed father, hail again! I salute your ashes, your spirit and your shade ... ... Not with you would it be my fate to search for Italy’s shores and destined fields (5.97-101).

... look, a potent marvel destined to shape the future! So the outcome proved when the awestruck prophets sang the signs to later ages.

(5.575-77)

The fact that Virgil frames the history and future of the Roman race in the context of religious rite suggests the sacred calling and destiny of the Roman people— they are born from unmixed wine, fresh milk, and hallowed blood (5.95)—a race chosen by the gods and destined for greatness.

So what is the role of the Aeneid in classical education? Perhaps reading the Aeneid is a kind of liturgical calling, born from the sacred education of the past, necessary and essential for our children’s literary formation. To understand this, let us return for a moment to the picture of Aeneas ascending the tomb to pour libations. In this scene we find an unexpected crisis, an arresting image that activates students' thoughts and piques their interest in symbol and allusion: As Aeneas finishes his eulogistic words, "a serpent slithered up from the shrine’s depths, / drawing its seven huge coils … calmly enfolding the tomb, gliding through the altars" (5.104-106). Aeneas stops, struck by the sight. "The snake slowly sweeping / along his length among the bowls and polished goblets / tasted the feast, then back he slid below the tomb" (5.108-111).

Why does Virgil inhabit this sacred scene with a snake? Is the snake, as Aeneas asks, "the genius of the place or his father’s familiar spirit?" Or does the snake foreshadow something disturbing about the future Roman state—perhaps the entangled cost of

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empire? The inherent complexity and allusive nature of the Aeneid is why it remains a valuable read for those pursuing a classical education. Its multiple layers engender literal and analogous reading, thinking, and discovery.

Following this scene, the funeral games begin.

When the ship race gets underway, it too can be seen as symbolic: The Trojans are "off to the races"—racing for Roman identity (in the text) and empire (in real life). And this, I think, was Virgil’s intent; he was writing as much for his Roman countrymen as he was for Augustus. One purpose for his epic was to write a nation into being, to form, from the power of verse, a country with purpose and design, myth and history.

Do you recall the image of the arrow bursting in to flame? This prophetic sign happens during the archery contest. Acestes raises his bow and launches an arrow high into the air. Right before the citizens’ eyes, the arrow turns to flame and blazes out in fire:

The Trojans froze and prayed. Aeneas identifies this as an omen, the flaming arrow here a symbol of expectation and destiny.

Finally, but perhaps most importantly, the games peak with the arrival of the last event, the equestrian games. Ascanius and the young men ride in on horses, "trim in their ranks before their parents’ eyes" (5.607).

As they parade by, the onlookers "murmur a hum of admiration" (5.611). For the Trojan remnant, the young men reflect the potential and hope for a new nation, a new people. After all, the equestrian games are mock displays of war—the very activity from which nations and empires are born.

I cannot help but think of our children, "trim in their ranks" before us, formed and ordered by the great education—a remnant of hope for the preservation of Western civilization.

I cannot help but think of our children, standing on the Aeneid, becoming before our eyes high-whipped arrows blazing into flames—"potent marvels destined to shape the future!"

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Famous Men of Rome, Famous Men of the Middle Ages, Famous Men of Greece, & Famous Men of Modern Times (pp. 46-47)

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Alphabet & Numbers Recommended for Ages 4-5

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Learning the alphabet is the critical first step in learning how to read.

The Alphabet Book teaches letter recognition, letter formation, and pencil grip through repetition and tracing. Activities, created with the younger student in mind, make learning each letter simple and fun.

This book also introduces initial and ending sounds, providing a gentle introduction to phonics. The Alphabet Book acts as a great supplement to any primary program or full-year preschool/kindergarten program.

The Numbers Book is the perfect introduction to numbers, counting, and patterns. Lots of tracing practice also makes this book ideal for the slightly older student who has already mastered counting, but still needs extra practice writing numbers. The activities (mazes, coloring, pattern recognition, connect the dots, and more!) are so much fun that your student won't be able to wait for the next lesson!

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Visual aids reinforce each letter of the alphabet while young students learn to read and write or practice their penmanship.

With beautiful letters, colors, and simple hand-drawn illustrations, they also make great educational posters for your home and/ or classroom!

These flashcards are modeled after our manuscript Alphabet Wall Charts. Each letter is on one side of the card, and the image beginning with that letter is on the flip side. These are perfect for reinforcing your child's letter recognition and beginning sounds.

Have you been searching for jr. kindergarten activities that are fun and instructional? These coloring books have simple line drawings on uncluttered pages. The Alphabet Coloring Book has a 2-page spread for each letter, and the Numbers Coloring Book has two sets of 2-page spreads for numbers 0-12. The perfect supplement to any Jr. K program.

Also try our Alphabet Wall Poster (page 32).

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Scissors Books Help your child develop hand strength, fine-motor skills, and independence with one or both books in this set. In My Very First Scissors Book, the child learns to open and close his scissors to cut along thick lines which fade, grow wavy, and create shapes as the pages progress. In My Very Own Scissors Book, the activities coordinate with alphabet lessons in Simply Classical Curriculum Level C (p. 12) or may serve as a useful precursor to the Jr. K Book of Crafts. Both books feature perforated pages and large "cutting boxes" to promote the child's success.

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The Book of Crafts These crafts have been carefully chosen to promote skill growth and coordination, but the most important component is fun.

Includes a craft project for each read-aloud in our Jr. K and Kindergarten programs, and additional crafts that focus on art concepts.

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First Start Reading Phonics, Reading, and Printing

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$42.95 set (Books A, B, C, & D + Teacher Guide) Your children can begin reading instantly as they progress through 4 simple student books and 34 phonetic stories. The Teacher Guide includes helpful assessments, tips, and more!

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FSR is a balanced, age-appropriate approach to phonics and reading, with a serious focus on correct pencil grip and letter formation. Also, while many phonics programs today use the ladder approach (consonant-vowel blending), we prefer the more traditional (vowelconsonant) approach combined with word families. Mastery of short vowels is the sine qua non of phonics programs, but few programs provide adequate practice. *Note: Printing, an important pathway of the learning process, is an integral part of FSR. Some children, however, are reading-ready before their motor skills are developed enough for printing. If this is the case with your child, you may use FSR without the printing component.

Classical Phonics A Child's Guide to Word Mastery

by Cheryl Lowe Classical Phonics consists of phonetically-arranged word lists for students to practice their growing word recognition skills. In a word list there are no context clues, so the learner must rely on his mastery of letter sounds. If your child can pronounce each word in this list correctly, he knows his short vowel sounds, and you can move on to long vowels! Classical Phonics is the most effective tool we know of to address the repetition that young ones need when learning to read. It can be used as a supplement to any phonics program and covers nearly all English phonograms and sounds taught through second grade.

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Phonics from A to Z is a readable and accessible manual for parents and teachers who want to go deeper into the subject of phonics and reading.

It begins with a succinct history of the controversies surrounding phonics followed by a wealth of information on every aspect of how children best learn to read. It provides reliable, accurate, and common sense advice as well as extensive lists of resources that will ensure that you can teach reading successfully. This is the best resource on teaching phonics and reading we have ever found. Highly recommended, especially for schools that may need multiple strategies to meet the needs of all students.

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Enrich your child's primary educational experience with beautiful pieces of art from the most influential artistic movements in history, including the Renaissance, Romanticism, Impressionism, and more! These supplements are coordinated with our primary Classical Core Curricula.

These supplemental guides are organized by week, matching our Classical Core Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade programs. Each guide includes an overview of each read-aloud book, author and illustrator biographies, oral reading questions, and a simple language lesson. These activities will help bring each readaloud book alive for your student. Also included are resources for the history, culture, and science lessons, biographies of the artists and composers, and poetry lessons.

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These three-in-one wonders include memory passages, copybook exercises, and drawing pages. We have selected Scripture from the King James Bible and classic children’s poems, such as those by Robert Louis Stevenson, which describe the world in charming detail.

Our copybooks introduce basic strokes and margin/spacing guidelines, along with alphabet practice pages with traceable characters and instructions for difficult letters.

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This new copybook is a perfect supplement to our Third Grade Classical Core Curriculum. It includes the Scripture passages from Christian Studies I, the 15 brightest stars from Astronomy, the major Greek gods from Greek Myths, and more!

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Composition & Sketchbooks Our Composition & Sketchbooks allow each student to write and illustrate compositions.

They are great resources for all subjects and become a journal of your child's work for each year.

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These wall charts match our manuscript Alphabet Wall Charts, using the New American Cursive font. With beautiful letters, colors, and hand-drawn illustrations, they also make great educational posters!

My Thankfulness Journals (New American Cursive font)

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• Large font and spacing for beginners • Dotted lines for tracing on every page • Correct form for letter writing • Numbered list (1-5) for the body of every letter, rather than paragraph writing • Begins, "Dear God," and closes, "Yours," with a space for the child's name

Intermediate Journal • More advanced, smaller-size font • Less tracing as exercises progress • Correct form for letter writing • Space to write in paragraph form • Begins, "Dear Heavenly Father," and closes, "Your child," with space for the signature

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Alphabet Poster Give your child purposeful writing practice, open your child's eyes to God's daily mercies, cultivate a habit of appreciation, reveal the necessity of reflection in prayer, and draw your child to the Source of all goodness.

(manuscript & cursive alphabet) (22'' x 34'') This poster-sized chart has the entire alphabet listed in manuscript and New American Cursive. If you don't have the space for our manuscript or cursive wall charts, this is the perfect resource for you!

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Cursive Grades 1-4

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New American Cursive Penmanship Programs

by Iris Hatfield New American Cursive 1 New American Cursive 2: Famous Quotations & Scripture New American Cursive 2: Quotations from Famous Americans New American Cursive 3: Scripture & Lessons on Manners Some people think computers have made cursive writing skills obsolete, but good handwriting and computers are not mutually exclusive. Should we stop teaching language arts because a child can now text?

Startwrite CD: This New American Cursive supplemental software is available for easy, customizable worksheets to integrate handwriting practice with any subject. (Windows only)

Before the early 1920s, children were taught cursive in the first grade. Research shows that when third graders begin writing cursive, they return to a first grade speed level. By learning cursive earlier, students can focus more on other subjects once they reach the upper grades.

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Teach Yourself Cursive Create a Cursive That Fits You

by Iris Hatfield

Penmanship program for older students and adults: • • • • • •

Focus on accuracy and legibility Simplified classic letter forms 125 Instruction and exercise lessons 8-page teaching guide Multi-sensory teaching methods Takes only 15 min./day Natural right slant (easier for beginners & lefties) Bound at the top for right or left-handers Illustrations/Exercises for letter connections

Easy methods to make learning cursive a pleasure Step-by-step lesson plan Just 15 minutes a day for remarkable results 14 tips for left-handers Helps develop your individual style Handwriting improvement techniques

“Iris Hatfield has done it again! Teach Yourself Cursive makes practice easy and interesting, with plenty of guides and incentives to keep us improving in handwriting that is consistent, legible, and, yes, faster than printing. Above all, New American Cursive is proven to be based on positive psychological principles."

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Classical Education Resources The Great Tradition: Classic Readings in What

Climbing Parnassus:

It Means to Be an Educated Human Being edited by Richard Gamble

A New Apologia for Greek and Latin

by Tracy Lee Simmons

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The Latin-Centered Curriculum: A Home

The Well-Trained Mind:

Educator's Guide to a Latin-Centered Curriculum

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A Guide to Classical Education at Home, 3rd Edition

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The Great Books: A Journey Through 2,500 Years

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of the West's Classic Literature

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A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had

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OST OF US, MOST OF THE TIME, do not know what we are doing. It's not that we can't tell where we were on a certain date, or what we had for dinner last night, or who we had a meeting with this morning. It's not even that we are incapable of performing our tasks. What I mean is that, too often, we cannot articulate the meaning and purpose for those tasks.

What Is Classical Education?

by Andrew Kern

W

e classical educators suffer from this problem like everyone else. As a consultant to classical schools around the country, I have spoken to hundreds of teachers, administrators, board members, parents, and even students over the last seven years about classical education. But when I ask them to define what they are doing—in other words, what classical education is—many respond in vague generalities, undefined formulas, or, occasionally, confusion.

Happily, I also find that classical educators are VERY anxious to understand what they are doing and why.

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What Is Classical Education? by Andrew Kern

The Blind Men and the Elephant As classical educators it is essential that we be able to say—to others and ourselves—what classical education is. But the various definitions I hear of classical education remind me of the Indian parable of the blind men and the elephant. You've probably heard some version of it.

Six blind men wished to find out what an elephant was. When they encountered one, each of them touched a different part of the animal, and each described his conclusion. The first man touched the

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elephant's side, and concluded it was like a wall. The second man touched the tusk, and decided it was like a spear. The third felt its trunk, and thought it was like a snake. To the one who felt the elephant's leg, it was like a tree, and to the one who touched its ear, it was like a fan. To the last man, who grabbed the elephant's tail, the animal seemed like a rope.

Each man drew different conclusions about the elephant, and each disputed the opinions of the others, who, he was quite confident, were mistaken.

"Though each was partly in the right," said the poet John Godfrey Saxe, "all were in the wrong." Each could say what one part of the elephant was like, but each missed the nature of the whole elephant.

The Cultivation of Wisdom and Virtue In a way, classical educators are in the same predicament as the six blind men. We rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean And prate about an elephant Not one of them has seen

Some define classical education as the trivium: grammar, logic, and rhetoric; others define it as a great books education; still others associate it with the conventional classroom practices they remember from when they were in school, which were anything but traditional. We have all been led to the classical education beast, and we have all come away with different impressions about its essence.

How, then, do we describe the whole "elephant"?

When I talk with teachers and educators who are doing classical education, I point out to them that classical education is something much more than the trivium, or the great books, or "the way education used to be done." Classical education, I tell them, is the cultivation of wisdom and virtue by nourishing the soul on the Good, the True, and the Beautiful.

Western Civilization There is another way we could express the meaning of classical education. We could say also that it is the passing on of Western civilization: the civilization that was conceived on the fields of Ilium, gestated in the womb of the Greek dark age, and born, with Homer as its midwife, in the text of the Iliad. It is the culture that reached adolescence in the argumentative Sophists, approached maturity in Plato, embraced manhood in Aristotle, grew senile in Hellenism, and died in the academics. It was the

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civilization that was resurrected and raised to glory in the Christ of John's gospel.

This last point is crucial. Western civilization is the civilization of the idea. It is rooted in the belief that there is a central organizing and originating principle of all that is—a "rational governing principle of the universe" as the Encyclopedia of Philosophy expresses it. Greek philosophy was the quest for that idea. They often labeled this idea with the Greek word Logos (the word in John's gospel that we translate "Word"). Some, such as Plato and Aristotle, more often used the Greek word nous, but they were referring to essentially the same thing.

The belief in the Logos, and that Christ is its incarnation, is what makes Christianity, and thus Christian education, what it is. And it is this understanding, and this understanding alone, that enables classical education to find its fulfillment in Christian education.

The beginning words of John's gospel are an implicit affirmation that Christ is the central organizing principle sought by the ancients. Wisdom and virtue, two expressions of this principle, have been presented to us in Christ, and only by cultivating an understanding of them can we say that we are engaging in education— classical, Christian, or otherwise.

The Logos—the wisdom and virtue incarnated in Christ—came, in part, so that the blind might see. And only by being cured of our blindness will we see the whole elephant.

This article was published in the 2004 edition of The Classical Teacher.

Summer Reading Grades 1-8

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The Story of the World by Susan Wise Bauer Volume 1: Ancient Times Volume 2: The Middle Ages

Volume 3: Early Modern Times Volume 4: The Modern Age

Susan Wise Bauer's Story of the World fits perfectly as an overview to the time periods students study in our Classical Core packages (pp. 8-9).

They make great supplemental summer reading!

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Science & nature Grades 3+

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Do you know the story of the sky? One of the most important themes of classical education is order. Using the system of the Greeks and Romans, your student will cover stars, constellations, the motion of the earth, and the zodiac. The perfect way to order the stars! For children of all ages.

With a classic reader that takes a narrative approach to the life of insects and a workbook that takes your student through the different kinds of insects, this course will enthrall your student by taking creatures many of us revile and making a fascinating study!

Teaches students the anatomy of birds and how they live. Workbook includes facts to know, comprehension questions, and characteristics of each bird. Students will learn about 30 common birds, as well as several incredible birds! Add Tiner's Exploring the History of Medicine and make it a full year science course!

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$59.00 set (text, student, teacher, field guide, Tree Book) Does your student know that the very gift of breath is the result of the oxygen that trees and plants put into the air? Or that trees and plants provide the means of sustenance for all life on earth? Our Trees Reader, along with a student workbook and teacher key, will teach your student the different parts and different kinds of plants, as well as about photosynthesis and respiration. Other chapters cover flowers and fruits and other wonders of creation.

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Choose From: Exploring the History of Medicine Exploring Planet Earth Exploring the World of Mathematics Exploring the World of Chemistry Exploring the World of Physics Exploring the World of Biology Exploring the World of Astronomy

John H. Tiner's Science We love John H. Tiner's science books for middle school students. He writes from a biblical perspective and has won numerous awards for his books on science and medicine for young people. They are excellent introductions to the people and places central to the planet earth, the history of medicine, biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, and most recently, astronomy.

These illustrated books have review questions and activities after every chapter, and Memoria Press has added additional supplemental review questions to each chapter, unit reviews, unit tests, and a final exam for each book in the series.

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The World of Animals This book investigates and describes the anatomy, behavior, and habitats of over 1,000 animals. It makes a great additional science resource for use with our Kindergarten, First, and Second Grade Classical Core Curriculum packages (pp. 6-7).

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by Dr. Carol Reynolds

Dr. Carol Reynolds is a uniquely talented and much sought-after public speaker for arts venues and general audiences. She combines her insights on music history, arts, and culture with her passion for arts education to create programs and curricula, inspire concert audiences, and lead arts tours. Never dull or superficial, Carol brings to her audiences a unique mix of humor, substance, and skilled piano performance to make the arts more accessible and meaningful to all.

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lassical educators know that the quadrivium includes music as one of four core subjects along with arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy. This list can strike our modern minds as puzzling. If we are to approach music as a classical subject, we need to rethink our terminology and what it really means to study music.

Today, “studying music� generally implies learning to play an instrument.

But music in the quadrivium was not focused on mastering a physical object (instrument), as valuable as that can be. The ancient Greeks were not preparing kids to join the band.

By including music in the quadrivium as an essential subject for everyone, the ancient Greeks placed music within the broad category of mathematics. Just as with music, we tend to think of mathematics in practical terms—learning to calculate and solve problems. But it would be more accurate to view the quadrivium as dealing with all of math and science and, in particular, how the universe is ordered.

Music exemplifies scientific and mathematical order. For example, music can be approached as physics in the study of acoustics. Music can be approached as logic and math through the study of harmony and form. Music composition is, in many ways, akin to engineering. These are all mathematically oriented, to be sure. But for the Greeks, all of the quadrivium entailed the study of aesthetics. The ancients discovered mathematical and scientific order in the universe, and they saw that it was beautiful.

To teach classically, you must open the door to the vast experience of Beauty.

We all strive to teach our students to discern Beauty, to seek it out, and to use it as a reliable guidepost to what is good and true. Thus, to study music classically is to study Beauty. Music is comprised of important principles of Beauty: form, proportion, and motion. These principles do have mathematical explanations, but experiencing them transcends our often meager sense of what math is.

A classical curriculum honors and reinforces history. What then happens when we study music historically? We focus our students' attention on the path of aesthetic development throughout the stages of Western culture. All cultures express themselves through music and the arts because all people, even in the direst circumstances, seek Beauty.

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The historical record of Western culture is strongly based in the arts—and this is the point I try to drive home in all of my teaching. The arts tell us what has mattered to a particular people at a particular time, whether it be Charlemagne’s Europe or American society during The Depression. The arts document how each generation has sought to find order and Beauty in the universe.

What would education be without the study of Beauty, perhaps even the goal of Beauty? We see the troubling answer in schools where music and the arts have been eliminated. We see it in a society that believes creative accomplishment is a mouse-click away. And we see it in a culture where pragmatism has set Beauty off to the side as a matter merely of individual opinion. This skewed view of Beauty impoverishes everything we study.

So how can a classical study of music become your gateway to Beauty? The first step is the simplest: listen to it. To do that you must put away all your multitasking. If possible, discard the earbuds in favor of good speakers or headphones where the full range of musical sound can be heard. Best of all, try to hear music made in real time by real people. Include in your listening the music that has earned the label “classical.”

Many of us have chosen classical education because it honors the best thinking of generations before us.

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Discovering Music 300 Years of Interaction in Western Music, Art, History, and Culture

by Dr. Carol Reynolds

Limited Time Memoria Press Offer! $149 (Complete Curriculum + Teacher Manual CD) "Discovering Music is absolutely the BEST product we have tried for our Fine Arts studies.

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Give their verdict on music its due before rejecting it for something you find more automatically pleasing or comfortable.

The second step involves moving from simply listening to discerning, and this requires some study.

Let music history and the history of the Fine Arts in general become the key to understanding. Whether it be the social dances done by George Washington or the power of Gregorian chant that unified Medieval Europe, the study of music history can singlehandedly bring the complexities of history into focus.

An historical approach to music will provide context for understanding aesthetics.

Of course we do want to encourage children to sing or learn to play instruments. It is enormously enlightening. The practice of music helps them understand that Beauty, not to mention hard-earned accomplishment, will never come from simply flipping a switch. Take them to concerts, especially youth concerts where they can sit up front and watch eager young performers struggle and sweat.

This exploration of Beauty is the goal. It has motivated me and my husband Hank to turn our attention to creating courses in the Fine Arts to help students and their families discover music as a key ingredient in Western cultural history. We all gain when we see music and the arts classically—as the manifestation of our constant search for Beauty. It is a key element of classical principles and values. It’s the quadrivium in action!

Memoria Press pairs with Professor Carol!

If you have seen Professor Carol speak, you know the knowledge and infectious enthusiasm she brings to the teaching of the history of music and culture of Western civilization. We here at Memoria Press have long been among her greatest fans. Now, we are offering her excellent program as part of the Memoria Press family of products. If you follow Memoria Press, you know that most of what we offer are products we create and publish. Beyond that, we are very, very choosy. So you know that when we do offer something else, it must be good. So trust us when we say that this program will bring Western culture alive through the study of music for your student. The program features a DVD of Professor Carol as she travels the world using music as the window into the history of thought and culture, along with a unit-by-unit Teacher's Manual to step you through it. Don't miss this incredible program.

About Discovering Music ...

This unique curriculum connects music with visual arts, political and economic history, and Western culture from 1600 to 1914. Music was recognized in ancient times as one of the seven essential subjects comprising the Liberal Arts, and music has always been central to classical education. By connecting music history to political and cultural history, we make all of history more memorable and more interesting.

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Poetry & Composition Grades 3+

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Introduction to Composition

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American Literature

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Intended for use in the grammar school years as a supplemental study of the poetry students memorize in our literature study guides. Includes questions to help analyze the meanings of the poems, including vocabulary work. Poems increase in difficulty as students move through the book over four years.

Have you forgotten the Old World elegance of Irving’s prose or the range of Poe’s romanticism? Perhaps your poetic sensibilities could be warmed by the Fireside Poets— Longfellow, Whittier, and Holmes. Rediscover the rich, varied authenticity of American literature with this anthology & study guide.

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This introductory writing program focuses on the concepts of narration, outlining, dictation, and copywork. The goal is to help students become more proficient in listening and writing skills, a great preparation for Classical Composition. Composed of 30 lessons and some supplemental lessons, this is a year-long writing course that goes along perfectly with Memoria Press’ Third Grade Literature Guides, but can be used independently as well.

Poetry, Prose, & Drama The Old English & Medieval Periods The Classics and English Literature are two vast and worthy domains of learning.

Yet the two are further apart than we often assume. Are the origins of English literature in the Greek and Roman classics? C. S. Lewis argues they are not. The true sources are Anglo-Saxon and Old French. Here are translations of the great works of our mother tongue: epic verse, elegies, riddles, ballads, allegory, and romance.

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Renaissance and Augustan poets sought to craft verse with excellence and formality. Their aim was to create poetry by imitation—first to grasp the essential meaning of an experience, and then to convey the central idea in a recognized and appropriate form. This could well be the apex of English poetry: Spencer, Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, Milton, et al.

Reawaken your wonder for beautiful things through the power of the imagination.

Nature, emotion, spontaneity: These giants of romanticism looked backward to heights of poetic achievement and forward to what could be in poetry, achieving intimations of immortality.

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English Grammar Recitation Memoria Press’ English Grammar Recitation is a manual of approximately 150 grammar questions, answers, and examples designed to be studied and memorized much like a catechism. It is perfect for the serious Latin student who needs an English grammar program that coordinates with his study of Latin over the five years of Latina Christiana through the Forms series. Each two-page lesson covers two to three grammar questions along with practice exercises. English Grammar Recitation also covers common capitalization and punctuation rules by means of concise style sheets.

It is hoped that this course can be completed in much less time than the typical English grammar course, leaving more time for composition and Latin.

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Christian Studies IV: A Chronological Overview of the Bible Takes students back through the highlights of the Bible, reviews drill questions, memory passages, and more! Can serve as a review course for Christian Studies I-III or as a survey study of the Bible. Allows student to read through the Bible by touching on the major stories and characters.

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The Book of the Ancient World by Dorothy Mills

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"There will not be left a stone upon a stone."

Our children may know Christ's prophecy, but do they learn about its fulfillment?

Josephus, a Jew turned Roman citizen, is regarded as the most trustworthy source on the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. A follow-up study of Scripture and the best introduction to the history of Christianity.

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The Fall of Jerusalem

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The Golden Children's Bible: Chosen for its simplified, but poetically appealing King James text along with its beautiful, accurate, and age-appropriate illustrations. This is important because we believe students should learn to revere the Bible as a sacred book, distinct from stories with cartoon heroes.

Christian Studies Suggested Timeline

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The City of God

by St. Augustine, Vernon J. Bourke edition The City of God, arguably Augustine's greatest book, is the source of some of Western society's greatest and most cherished beliefs. The book serves as the cultural fountainhead of all that followed, and it is unlikely that it will ever be equaled. The Teacher Guide contains helpful chapter summaries as well as a thorough introduction to teaching this course effectively.

The Story of Christianity: A History of 2,000 Years of the Christian Faith

by David Bentley Hart In this book, David Bentley Hart, a widely revered Christian scholar, gives a scholarly but readable portrait of the Christian Church from its origins in Judaism to the "house churches" in contemporary China.

This is a great overview of the history of the church that is perfect for study before delving into the more difficult church historians such as Josephus and Eusebius.

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Memoria Press Book Rev iews The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

E.D. Hirsch, a first-rate scholar and the author of Cultural Literacy, masterfully exposes the philosophy behind progressive education to its source in 19th century Romanticism, a European literary movement that produced some beautiful poetry, but was disastrous as an education philosophy.

Why, he asks, does a shallow and fallacious Romanticism continue to dominate American education, when Europe, after a brief flirtation, quickly returned to tradition?

His “Critical Guide to Educational Terms and Phrases,” in which he analyzes the deceptive rhetoric of modern education, will open your eyes and clear away the fog that has resulted from a century of confused and erroneous education slogans that have seduced a nation. This is the best book ever written on what has caused the chaos in American education and what we can do to change it.

As a classical Christian educator, do you really understand the difference between modern progressive education and traditional education? If not, this is the book for you. Progressive education is so seductive that we like to compare it to the sirens’ song—it is almost irresistible. This book will give you the knowledge and understanding you need to be forever immune to the appeal of “progressive” education.

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Preface to Paradise Lost C. S. Lewis

Most of us know that C.S. Lewis was a great Christian apologist and author of the Narnia Chronicles. What most of us don’t know is that, as Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at both Oxford and Cambridge, Lewis was first and foremost a great literature scholar. Proficient in Latin, Greek, and Old English, he was one of the most influential literary scholars of the 20th century. In this small book on Milton, Lewis set the standard for modern Miltonian scholarship. Even though it is a scholarly book, it is still accessible for the educated layman and exhibits that clarity of thought and style for which Lewis is so famous. Its benefit for classical Christian educators is that in defending Milton’s Paradise Lost, Lewis first gives us a mini-course in the nature, style, and purpose of primary epic (Homer, Beowulf) and secondary epic (Vergil, Milton). The Christian scholar sees deeper into the true meaning of literature, and no one sees deeper than C.S. Lewis. For teachers and parents studying the epic tradition of Western Civilization, this little volume is priceless.

From Achilles to Christ Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics Louis Markos

A common question asked of classical Christian educators is why we should read the pagans. If you had to buy one book to help you answer this question, this is it.

Markos, one of the most exciting Christian writers today, explains how Homer, Hesiod, the Greek dramatists, and Virgil foreshadowed the Christian revelation. Markos joins his voice with that of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and G. K. Chesterton— not to mention St. Augustine—in arguing that a knowledge of the pagan classics not only does not undermine Christian belief, but bolsters it. Markos shows how the imaginations of these great classical writers both foreshadow and find their fulfillment in the Christian revelation.

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Introduction to Classical Studies Grades 3-8

Grades 3-8

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D'Aulaires' Greek Myths

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Golden Children's Bible)

This guide shows you how to teach, learn, and master the stories fundamental to a classical education. Includes a three-year reading plan.

Perfect course for older students needing to catch up.

Myths are everywhere in Western art and literature and are the essential background for a classical education. An ideal beginning book regardless of age! Each of the 30 lessons presents facts to know, vocabulary, comprehension questions, and a picture review and activities section.

Famous Men Series Grades 4-8

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Famous Men of Rome

Famous Men of Greece

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Famous Men of Rome is ideal for beginners of all ages who are fascinated by the action and drama of Rome. Inside are 30 stories, covering all the great historical characters of ancient Rome’s history, from its founding to its demise. Through this biographical approach to history, witness the rise and fall of a great civilization through the lives of larger-thanlife figures.

If the Romans were history’s great men of action, the Greeks were history’s great men of thought. Dive into the lives and minds of thirtytwo famous Greeks through stories detailing the rise, Golden Age, and fall of Greece. Learning about the triumphs of Aristotle, Ptolemy, Odysseus, Pericles, Alexander the Great, and many others will enable your students to understand why the scope of Greek accomplishment is still known today as “The Greek Miracle.”

Dorothy Mills Histories Grades 6+

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The Book of the Ancient World

The Book of the Ancient Greeks

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Dorothy Mills takes the student on an adventure, exploring the geography, culture, architecture, and most prominent people of Egypt, Persia, the Hittites, Israel, and more. Not only does she teach the valuable history and lessons of the ancient peoples, but she gives the students an understanding of the people and neighbors out of which Christianity sprung.

The journey continues, starting in Crete and ending in the Hellenistic Age ushered in by Alexander the Great. Students learn about the development of democracy, the primordial defense of democracy in the Persian wars, the heyday of Athens (also known as the Golden Age), and that sad self-destruction known as the Peloponnesian Wars. But it is not history alone—culture, values, and life lessons are taught.

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If you don’t begin your classical education until middle or high school, we would suggest that you start with Year 5 and move forward from there. Before beginning your study of the classics, it is always helpful if your student has a basic knowledge of Greek mythology (D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths [p. 46]) and has read a retelling of the Trojan War (Olivia Coolidge’s The Trojan War [p. 48]).

Classical Studies Suggested Timeline Year 1

D'Aulaires' Greek Myths

Year 2

Famous Men of Rome

Year 3

Famous Men of the Middle Ages

Year 4

Famous Men of Greece, The Trojan War, and Horatius at the Bridge

Year 5

Iliad, Odyssey, and The Book of the Ancient Greeks

Year 6

The Aeneid and The Book of the Ancient Romans

Year 7

Greek Plays (Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus)

Year 8

The Divine Comedy (Dante)

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Famous Men of the Middle Ages

Famous Men of Modern Times

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The story of the Middle Ages is told through the colorful lives of Attila the Hun, Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, Edward the Black Prince, and Joan of Arc, among others. This course guides students through the turbulent “dark age” of history and illustrates the transition from the end of ancient times to the birth of the modern era. This book is a perfect precursor to Famous Men of Modern Times.

Modern history—history, that is, after the fall of Constantinople in 1453—can sometimes seem like a confusing jumble of unrelated events. As a result, many curricula needlessly avoid this exciting period of history. Famous Men of Modern Times will bring the events of the last 500 years to life. These stories provide great insight into the foundations of the modern world.

Grades 6+

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The Book of the Ancient Romans

The Book of the Middle Ages

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After the Greeks, all roads lead to Rome. And like any good Roman course, this one begins with the she-wolf who nurses the legendary founders of Rome: Romulus and Remus. The rise and fall of a monarchy, the embrace of a republic with the simultaneous dislike for kings, and finally the ironic rise of the Roman Empire teach unforgettable principles about human nature and society.

See how Christianity spread out, building a new civilization on the remnants of the Roman Empire. From the foundation of monasteries to the bell towers of universities, from the crowning of Charlemagne to the execution of Joan of Arc, this program will give your student a guided tour through the rise of Christendom.

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Classical Literature Grades 6+

Grades 6-8

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The Aeneid for Boys & Girls Horatius at the Bridge $19.95 set (book, medal, pin) This study of Macaulay's 70-stanza ballad includes vocabulary, maps, character and plot synopses, meter, comprehension questions, teaching guidelines, and a test. Send us a recording of your students reciting the poem, and we'll send them a Winston Churchill Award certificate to present with the medal.

by Alfred J. Church

The Trojan War

by Olivia Coolidge This retelling of the Trojan War is the best preparation for reading Homer. Each lesson has reading notes, vocabulary, comprehension questions, and an enrichment section with discussion topics, writing, art, and map work.

Your student will know the main characters, the gods and goddesses, and the storyline of the Iliad and Odyssey.

Iliad Text $12.00 Iliad eBook $7.00 Iliad Student $11.95 Iliad Teacher $12.95 Iliad DVDs $45.00

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Odyssey Text $12.00 Odyssey eBook $7.00 Odyssey Student $11.95 Odyssey Teacher $12.95 Odyssey DVDs $45.00

Alfred Church's retelling of Virgil's Aeneid is a great introduction to Aeneas, who escaped from the burning city of Troy and founded Rome, the New Troy. After reading this novel, students will have a good grasp of the characters and story of the Aeneid and be ready to tackle the more difficult prose in Virgil.

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The Iliad & Odyssey Samuel Butler translation

Western civilization begins with the Iliad and Odyssey. This is a perfect place to start your study of the Great Books. Our study guides will help bring Homer’s great works alive for your student.

Our Teacher Guide has inset student pages with answers, teacher notes for each lesson, quizzes, and tests, giving the teacher all the background information needed to teach these books.

Classical/Christian Supplement Grades 3-6 Timeline Composition & Sketchbook $9.95 Timeline Handbook $9.95 Timeline Student Flashcards $12.95 Timeline Wall Cards $12.95

Timeline Set for the Grammar Stage Events from Ancient to Modern Times

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Students will master a total of 60 events over the course of four years (3rd-6th grades). History is a very unsystematic subject, and time is very abstract. Students need a timeline that they memorize, build on, and recite every year.

Timeline Composition & Sketchbook: A two-page spread for each event: a picture frame for illustrating on one side and a page of blank lines for a summary on the other side.

To be completed over four years.

Timeline Handbook: Teaching guidelines, charts by grade and time period, and summaries of each event.

Timeline Flashcards: One side has the date and the reverse side has the event. These cards are color-coded to the Timeline Wall Cards.

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Timeline Wall Cards: The date and event on the same side. Cards are added throughout the year as students study history in Classical/Christian Studies and American Studies.

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Grades 8+

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The Aeneid

The Oresteian Trilogy

The Three Theban Plays:

David West translation

by Aeschylus, Translated by Philip Vellacott

by Sophocles, Translated by Robert Fagles

After Homer, the Aeneid is your next logical Great Book to study. Virgil's epic story of the founding of Rome will come alive when read with the help of our study guide as you continue your quest to master the classics. After reading Homer and Virgil, your students will have completed their first big step on the road to being classically educated! This is a great preparation for Latin AP Virgil also. Our Teacher Guide has inset student pages with teacher notes and background information for each lesson.

Aeschylus was the first of the three great tragic playwrights. The Oresteia is the exciting trilogy about the end of the curse of the House of Atreus. Join Orestes as he seeks to revenge his father’s murder, but discovers, along with us, that revenge only begets revenge—that mercy and litigation are the better ends of justice.

Sophocles, “famous for wisdom,” won the playwright competition at the Festival of Dionysus many times. Here is the story of Oedipus, fated to unknowingly kill his father and marry his mother. This is the great myth, influencing all subsequent literature. Fate, free will, the quest for knowledge and truth—the glory and downfall of Western civilization.

Grades 10+

Grades 10+

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On Obligations

The Republic & the Laws

by Cicero, Translated by P. G. Walsh

by Cicero, Translated by Niall Rudd

Cicero was a man trying to give the politicians of his day solid principles to live by as they drove his fatherland, Rome, down the royal road of decay. His work On Obligations played a large role in Western Christendom but is daunting to read alone. Let us accompany your highschooler as he learns the principles of justice, wisdom, beneficence, courage, and propriety.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, a Roman statesman from the first century B.C., was convinced that the upright moral life was the happier life.

The Republic became the blueprint of the U.S. government almost 2,000 years after it was written. In The Laws, Cicero defends his understanding of the upright moral life and becomes the foundation for the West's philosophical discussion on the natural law.

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Classical Supplement

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The Divine Comedy Ancient Civilization Wall Maps Make the ancient civilization stories come alive on your classroom walls. These color wall maps are perfect for any classical education classroom. Each set includes individual maps of Greece, Italy, the City of Rome, and the Roman Empire. These maps contain all the hot spots in the classical world.

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by Dante Alighieri, Ciardi translation The Divine Comedy is one of the crown jewels of both Western and Christian literature. This epic, allegorical poem illustrates Dante’s spiritual journey of redemption that takes him through the pit of Hell (the Inferno) to the Beatific Vision of God (the Paradiso). The Student Guide contains helpful study questions, and reading notes for difficult lines.

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"We hear more and more often these days about the intelligence of animals and how this shows how close they are to humans.

Some of these accounts directly challenge the traditional view that man is essentially different from the animal."

W

hen I was in junior high school, I had a horse named Lady Anne that could count to three. I would say, "Count to three!" and she would scrape the ground three times with her right hoof. She could do it for one and two as well.

She also nodded her head when she was told to say "Yes," and shook her head for "No." For me it was a chance to impress my friends. For her it involved a carrot. I have often wondered how much time I could have saved over the ensuing years if I could have taught her how to do my math homework.

I grew up watching Roy Rogers on TV. Although Lady Anne was smart, Roy Rogers' horse Trigger was even smarter. According to the movie credits, he was the "smartest horse in the movies." There was no doubt about it.

There is one scene in "Son of Paleface" in which Bob Hope, unaware that he is sharing a bed with a horse, fights with Trigger over the blanket. And there is one movie in which Trigger actually dances to a song. It's pretty amazing.

We hear stories more and more often these days about how intelligent animals are and how this shows how similar they are to humans. Some of these accounts directly attack the traditional view that man is essentially different from the animal. The modern theory that man is essentially the same as the animal often stems not from accounts of animals who can count or dance, but who can speak.

Perhaps the most famous example of this is Koko the gorilla, whose handler has said that she understands more than 1,000 signs based on American Sign Language and 2,000 words of spoken English. Koko is used as an example of an animal that seems practically human.

But does this really mean that humans are not different in kind from animals, but just in degree? Are humans just advanced animals?

The traditional view is based on a longstanding set of distinctions that originate with Aristotle. These distinctions are articulated most clearly in the "Porphyrian Tree," a division of the different kinds of substances.

The Porphyrian Tree shows the metaphysical distinctions between substances, bodies, organisms, animals, and men. Each one of these things is distinguished on the basis of an essential difference (the first column in the tree). a BODY is a material SUBSTANCE an ORGANISM is a living BODY an ANIMAL is a sentient ORGANISM and a MAN is a rational ANIMAL [See chart on the next page]

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What does this rationality consist of?

Three things: 1. the ability to conceptualize 2. the ability to predicate 3. the ability to logically infer Lady Anne could eat a carrot. She could probably even think about eating a carrot. But she couldn't think about the idea of "eating a carrot"—or the idea of "eating" or the idea of "carrot." This involves some kind of abstract conceptual realization of which animals are incapable, but of which humans, as rational animals, are capable. Presumably this was the case with Trigger's acting and dancing. He did it because he knew he would be rewarded for doing so, and that's about it. But he couldn't abstractly reflect upon having done it.

Animals can think, but they can't think about thinking.

This conceptual aspect of speech is accompanied in humans by the ability to predicate. When I say, "Some horses are able to dance," I not only abstract the idea of "horse" from all particular horses and "the ability to dance" from all particular instances of dancing

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The Porphyrian Tree Category:

SUBSTANCE Material

Remote genus:

Non-material (spirit)

BODY Living

Non-living

Remote genus:

(mineral)

ORGANISM Sentient

Proximate genus:

From Traditional Logic I by Martin Cothran, Figure 2-1

Each of these differences—materiality, life, sentience, and rationality—mark off a specific set of things from a more general set of things on the basis of some essential feature.

As we see from this, the faculty that distinguishes the species MAN from the genus ANIMAL is rationality, and this rationality has been said to consist of some inherent metaphysical abilities unique to humans.

The modern view is opposed to this. "There is nothing special about being human," says Henry Gee in his book The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution, "any more than there is anything special about being a guinea pig or a geranium ... humans are just one twig in the thicket, and they could easily have never sprouted at all."

The fact that animals are intelligent is hard to deny.

But the question is not whether these animals are intelligent. The question is whether they are rational.

Rationality is a specific kind of intelligence.

Speech has always been seen as the chief distinguishing characteristic of human beings.

But while we have always known that animals communicate—beavers flap their tails to communicate danger, dogs bark to ward off intruders, cats urinate to communicate the boundaries of their territory—the kind of speech that is thought uniquely human is rational speech. The traditional view has always held that humans are rational and brute animals are not.

Non-sentient (plant)

ANIMAL Rational

Logical species:

Non-rational (brute)

MAN

You are here. (in other words, conceptualize them and treat them as if they existed apart from the things or actions themselves). I do something else. I also connect the two concepts "horse" and "the ability to dance" together in predication.

Finally, we can take the statements in which we predicate one thing of another and infer other statements from them: No cat is able to dance Lady Anne is able to dance Therefore, Lady Anne is not a cat In the first statement, I predicated the inability to dance of cats and, in the second, the ability to dance of horses. And from this I am able to logically infer that, if these two statements are true, then no horse can be a cat.

In order to logically infer, I must be able to predicate. And in order to predicate, I must conceptualize. These three faculties are what make up the process of rationality.

Lady Anne could think about carrots, but she couldn't rationalize about them. She couldn't logically infer because she couldn't predicate, and she couldn't predicate because she couldn't conceptualize.

If she could have done it, I would have given her another carrot.

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Classical Rhetoric with Aristotle is a guided tour through the first part of the greatest single book on communication ever written: Aristotle’s Rhetoric. With questions that will help the student unlock every important aspect of the book, along with fill-in-the-blank charts and analyses of great speeches, this companion text to Aristotle’s great work will send the student on a voyage of discovery from which he will return with a competent knowledge of the basic classical principles of speech and writing.

The Ancient Art of Thinking • The ten ways something can exist • Five ways to say something about something else • The four definitional questions • Three questions to ask when analyzing an idea • Definition & classification

This is more than just a course in English or public speaking. It involves a study of the fundamental principles of political philosophy, ethics, and traditional psychology. A student learns not only the elements of a political speech, but also the elements of good character; not only how to give a legal speech, but also the seven reasons people act; not only how to give a ceremonial speech, but what elicits specific emotions under particular circumstances and why.

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An Introduction to First Philosophy Material Logic is not only a textbook on critical thinking skills, but an introduction to the basic rudiments of classical philosophy. Most of the book's content is derived from the metaphysical works of one of history's greatest thinkers: Aristotle.

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