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Winter 2013

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Our educational establishment is

very good at making promises, but not very good at keeping them.

Every couple of years, a new initiative is launched to give us hope that things will get better.

The initiative is launched amidst great fanfare, agreements are signed, money is exchanged, meetings are held, acronyms are assigned, and for a while the initiative takes on a life of its own.

And then ... a new initiative takes its place and the old one, having failed, is then forgotten.

A lot of work is involved in shifting chairs on the deck of the Titanic, and it involves a high degree of inventiveness and creativity to make it look convincing: Nongraded primary classrooms, whole language instruction, portfolios, the New Math, year-round calendars, numerous federal and state assessment initiatives, school-to-work programs, diversity programs, the list goes on.

They promise smoother sailing, but only end up slowing things down, like barnacles on a ship.

Educational technology is the newest new idea promising to bring about positive change in schools.

The only difference is that it is bigger, more allencompassing, and will probably last a lot longer than other fads, tied-in as it is with broader cultural trends.

We have seen how technology has improved so many other things—communication, travel, industrial productivity; it is hard to imagine how it could not also improve education. Every home now has at least one computer, usually more: Why would not a school benefit from having them too?

Online education, done well, certainly seems to have benefits, particularly for homeschoolers who have no access to a good school.

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Heading Letter from Goes the Here Editor

Computer rooms became a fixture of schools as far back as the 1990s, and many schools now encourage and even require that every child bring an iPad to school.

The argument for this would appear straightforward: With a computer ready at hand, a student can increase his or her educational productivity. A computer makes it easier to write, easier to research, and easier to communicate.

Unfortunately, it also makes it easier to become distracted—and easier to distract others.

According to Todd Oppenheimer, author of The Flickering Mind: The False Promise of Technology in the Classroom and How Learning Can Be Saved, computers in the classroom tend to enhance whatever tendency a child already possesses. If the child is already proficient and productive, then it can make him more proficient and productive. But if the child is inefficient and easily distracted, it will make him even more inefficient and distracted.

Unfortunately, as we all know, most students are not efficient and productive, but quite the opposite. In fact, it is interesting to note how little actual evidence there is that computers in the classroom make education any easier or more effective.

Education technology is like a lot of things: It can be helpful if used wisely, but can make things worse if it is implemented without considering all its consequences. www.MemoriaPress.com

THE CLASSICAL TEACHER

CONTENTS

Winter 2013

FEATURED ARTICLES

CHRISTIAN STUDIES

2 11 12

Letter From the Editor by Martin Cothran Can I Really Do This? by Cheryl Swope The History of the Natural Method of Teaching Latin

18 32 42 50

Informing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman The Siren Song of Education Technology by Martin Cothran Taking With Us What Matters by David M. Wright Why Should Christians Read the Pagan Classics?

Reason #7: Religion by Cheryl Lowe

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Christian Studies I-IV The City of God

Lesson Plans by Subject New! Primary Curriculum Packages Jr. K-2nd Grade Grammar School Curriculum Packages 3rd-6th Grades 7th Grade Curriculum Package New! Memoria Press Curriculum Map

48

Book of Astronomy Book of Insects What's That Bird?

Book of Trees J. H. Tiner Series New!

Science & Enrichment Sets New! Jr. Kindergarten & Phonics

46

Kindergarten, First, & Second Grade

47

Alphabet Books, Coloring Books, First Start Reading, Classical Phonics, Book of Crafts, Alphabet Flashcards

24 25

New American Cursive, Alphabet Charts, & Copybooks

16 20 22 44 51

35 36

Grades 6+ Grades 5+

Traditional Logic I & II Aristotle's Material Logic Classical Rhetoric Logic and Rhetoric Supplements:

Grades 7-12 Grades 9-12 Grades 9-12

Grades 4-12 Grades 1-8

Introduction to Classical Studies, Ancient Wall Maps, Horatius at the Bridge Grades 6+ D’Aulaires’ Greek Myths Grades 3-8 Famous Men Series Grades 3-8 Rome, Greece, the Middle Ages, and Modern Times

Dorothy Mills Histories

37

Grades 3-12

38

Grades 3-12

Grades 6+

Ancient World, Ancient Greeks, Ancient Romans, & Middle Ages

The Trojan War Grades 6-8 The Iliad & the Odyssey Grades 7+ The Aeneid Grades 8+ The Divine Comedy Grades 10+ Timeline Set, On Obligations & The Republic and the Laws (Cicero), The Wars of the Jews (Josephus), Christian Studies Wall MapsNew!

Grades 3+

AMERICAN / MODERN

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LATIN, GREEK, & FRENCH

14 15

Grades 5+

Handbook of Christian Apologetics, Socrates Meets Jesus, Aristotle's Rhetoric, Figures of Speech, and How to Read a Book

Numbers Books, Enrichment Guides, Art Cards, Composition & Sketchbooks, Read-Aloud Programs New!

English Grammar (Grammar Stage)New! Classical Composition Literature Study Guides Poetry Anthologies New! Introduction to Composition

Grades 4+

CLASSICAL STUDIES

LITERATURE, GRAMMAR, & WRITING

10 23 40 43

Grades 3+

LOGIC & RHETORIC

PRIMARY YEARS

5 45

Grades 10-12

SCIENCE

by Henry Wingate

CLASSICAL CORE CURRICULUM

4 6 8 10 28

Grades 3-8

Prima Latina & Latin Supplements Grades 1-4 Latina Christiana & Latin Supplements Grades 3-6 Latin Recitation CD/DVD New! First Form Latin Series & Supplements Grades 5-12 Henle Latin Series Grades 8-12 Roots of English, Book of Roots Latin Copybook Cursive, Latin Grammar for the Grammar Stage, Lingua Biblica Greek Alphabet Book, NLE Prep Guides Grades 5+ First Start French I & II Grades 5-8 Publisher | Cheryl Lowe Editor | Martin Cothran Managing Editor | Tanya Charlton Copy Editor | Jennifer Farrior Senior Graphic Designer | Karah Force

The Story of the Thirteen Colonies & the Great Republic 200 Questions About American History States & Capitals; U.S. Review Artner Reader's Guide (American History) Geography I & II Geography I Review

Grades 5-8 Grades 5-8 Grades 3-6 Grades 3-8 Grades 4+ Grades 4+

OTHER

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Latin § Logic § Phonics § Penmanship § Composition § Literature History § Math § Science § Bible NEW

E v e ry t h i ng you n ee d for on e y e a r , i nc lu di ng da i ly le sson p l a ns ...

D on 't n ee d a n e n t i r e c u r r ic u lu m pac k age?

You can now offer your child a complete and comprehensive classical Christian education. Although the program itself is new, the ideas and practices have been in use at Highlands Latin School for over a decade.

The content your child will study is the curriculum all children in good schools once studied, only made easier to teach. It is a curriculum in which your student will learn the knowledge that once characterized a cultured person, and the core ideas and concepts of what was once called the “Christian West.”

It is a study of our cultural heritage based on a careful selection of texts and focused on the classical model of structure and repetition that ensures mastery in all subject areas, from language to mathematics.

Homeschooling gives you the flexibility to choose the curriculum that specifically meets the needs of your students. Memoria Press' new lesson plans by subject allow you to tailor the Classical Core Curriculum to your own needs. These plans retain our week-at-a-glance layout, which gives you the standard program for that grade for individual subjects.

Lesson Plans by Subject $3.00 - $15.00 per subject

✓✓ Prima Latina ✓✓ Latina Christiana ✓✓ First Form Series ✓✓ First Start Reading ✓✓ literature ✓✓ read-aloud enrichment ✓✓ copybooks ✓✓ New American Cursive ✓✓ Famous Men ✓✓ grammar & spelling ✓✓ Dorothy Mills history books

✓✓ Iliad & Odyssey ✓✓ Aeneid ✓✓ States & Capitals

✓✓ Geography ✓✓ American history ✓✓ math

✓✓ Christian Studies ✓✓ Book of Insects ✓✓ Book of Astronomy ✓✓ What's That Bird? ✓✓ Book of Trees

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Classical Core Curriculum

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NEW for the Classical Core Curriculum Supplemental Science & Enrichment Sets

Supplemental Reading Programs

“The world is so full of a number of things/ I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.” Those were Robert Louis Stevenson’s words, and how true they are. God’s creation is a fascinating place, and learning the simple truths about it is one of the joys of childhood. Memoria Press’ new Science and Social Studies Resource Kits are a simple way to introduce your children to these simple truths.

Memoria Press' new read-aloud sets for 4th-6th grades bring you the same classic, high-quality content that you have come to expect from our read-aloud selections. Your student will be introduced for the first time to Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Rudyard Kipling, as well as the stories of Shakespeare's great plays in Charles and Mary Lamb's classic Tales from Shakespeare.

The Resource Kits are supplements to their regular study that includes books on nature and our use of it. Your students will learn how a plant grows, how birds find their way home, what snow is, and the transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly. These are wonderful books about wonderful things. Your children will love it!

What's the best way to save Western civilization? By reading to your children. Pass this great literary tradition down to your students.

Kindergarten Set

$325

4th Grade Included: An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving, The Story of the Treasure Seekers, The Birds' Christmas Carol, Peter Pan, The Apple and the Arrow, Farmer Giles of Ham, The Black Stallion, Swallows and Amazons, The Reluctant Dragon, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, and Just So Stories

$120 NEW

Included: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Prince and the Pauper, A Christmas Carol, Number the Stars, A Wrinkle in Time, The Winged Watchman, Call It Courage, Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Book of Three, The Incredible Journey, and Black Beauty

Kindergarten Complete Set $325 NEW

5th Grade

1st Grade Set

$350

$100 NEW

6th Grade

Included: Oliver Twist, Little Women, The Story of the Other Wise Man, Tales from Shakespeare, Where the Red Fern Grows, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, and Across Five Aprils

1st Grade Complete Set $350 1st Grade Continuing Set $250

(omits the books that are the same in the Kindergarten & 1st Grade Sets)

$50

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$140

$290

Jr. Kindergarten

Kindergarten

$140 Complete Set (all books + Lesson Plans) $45 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $30 Lesson Plans for One Year (only)

$290 Complete Set (all books + Lesson Plans) $80 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $30 Lesson Plans for One Year (only)

• Jr. Kindergarten Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year • Counting With Numbers • Inside and Outside • Prayers for Children • Alphabet Books 1 & 2 • Coloring Books: Alphabet & Numbers • Richard Scarry's Mother Goose • Big Thoughts for Little People (Devotional) • Hailstones and Halibut Bones (Poetry) • Memoria Press Manuscript Wall Charts • Alphabet Flashcards • The Book of Crafts

• Kindergarten Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year • Kindergarten Enrichment Guide • Copybook I • Composition & Sketchbook • The Golden Children's Bible • Christian Liberty Nature Reader (Book K) • Animal Alphabet Coloring Book • First Start Reading: A, B, C, D & Teacher Guide • Classical Phonics & SRA Phonics 1 • Primary Phonics Readers (20 books total) • Rod & Staff Beginning Arithmetic 1: Student (Part 1), Teacher, & Practice Sheets • Numbers Books 1 & 2 • Soft and White, Fun in the Sun, & Scamp and Tramp • 1/2" ruled penmanship tablet • Kindergarten Art Cards

Supplemental Read-Aloud Program $340.00 A set of 34 classic picture books chosen for their beauty in prose and illustration. A great addition to any children's library, one book is read aloud and discussed each week in Jr. Kindergarten.

Supplements:

Read-Aloud Set $275 | Read-Aloud Set with Poetry $295 | Supplemental Science & Enrichment Set $325

Jr. K

Reading & Phonics

Christian Studies Alphabet Books (p. 45) Alphabet Coloring Book (p. 45) Richard Scarry's Mother Goose Hailstones and Halibut Bones

Prayers for Children Big Thoughts for Little People

K

SRA Phonics 1 Classical Phonics (p. 45) First Start Reading (p. 45) Animal Alphabet Coloring American Language Readers Nature Reader K Primary Phonics Readers

The Golden Children's Bible (p. 39)

1st

SRA Phonics 2 Classical Phonics (p. 45) 1st Grade Literature Set (p. 40) Supplemental readers

The Golden Children's Bible (p. 39)

Latin

2nd

SRA Phonics 3 Classical Phonics (p. 45) 2nd Grade Literature Set (p. 40)

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Classical Core Curriculum

Prima Latina (p. 14)

The Golden Children's Bible (p. 39)

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$325

$370

1st Grade

2nd Grade

$325 Complete Set (all books + Lesson Plans) $105 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $275 Continuing MP Student Set $30 Lesson Plans for One Year (only)

$370 Complete Set (all books + Lesson Plans) $130 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $340 Continuing MP Student Set $30 Lesson Plans for One Year (only)

• First Grade Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year • First Grade Enrichment Guide NEW • Copybook II • Composition & Sketchbook • New American Cursive 1 • The Golden Children's Bible • Classical Phonics • SRA Phonics 2 • Rod & Staff Beginning Arithmetic 1: Student (Parts 1-2), Teacher, & Practice Sheets • First Grade Literature: Study Guides w/ Novels • A Little House Christmas Treasury • Christmas in the Big Woods • Winter on the Farm • 1/2" ruled penmanship tablet • First Grade Art Cards • Alphabet Wall Poster

• Second Grade Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year • Prima Latina complete set • Prima Latina Copybook • Copybook Cursive Scripture and Poems • Composition & Sketchbook • New American Cursive 2 • The Golden Children's Bible • SRA Phonics 3 • Rod & Staff Math 2: Student (Units 1-5), Teacher, & Blacklines • Classical Phonics • Second Grade Literature: Study Guide Sets w/ Novels • 1/2" ruled penmanship tablet • Second Grade Art Cards

Supplements:

Read-Aloud Set $290 | Read-Aloud Set with Poetry $305

Supplements:

Read-Aloud Set $290 | Read-Aloud Set with Poetry $305 | Supplemental Science & Enrichment Set $350 (Complete) $250 (Continuing)

Writing & Penmanship

Math Numbers Coloring Book (p. 45) Counting With Numbers Inside and Outside

Alphabet Books (p. 45)

Book of Crafts (p. 45) Alphabet Flashcards (p. 45)

Art Cards (p. 46) Kindergarten Enrichment (p. 46)

Numbers Books (p. 46) Rod & Staff Math 1, Part 1

Copybook 1 (p. 47) Composition & Sketchbook (p. 46)

Copybook 2 (p. 47) Composition & Sketchbook (p. 46) New American Cursive 1 (p. 47)

Prima Latina Copybook (p. 14) Copybook Cursive (p. 47) Composition & Sketchbook (p. 46) New American Cursive 2 (p. 47)

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Enrichment

Art Cards (p. 46) First Grade Enrichment (p. 46) Alphabet Wall Poster (p. 47)

Rod & Staff Math 1, Parts 1-2

Rod & Staff Math 2

Art Cards (p. 46)

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$400

$400

3rd Grade

4th Grade

$400 Complete Set (all books + Lesson Plans) $150 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $30 Lesson Plans for One Year (only)

$400 Complete Set (all books + Lesson Plans) $150 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $30 Lesson Plans for One Year (only)

• Third Grade Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year • Latina Christiana I complete set + Review Worksheets • Third Grade Literature: Study Guide Sets w/ Novels • D'Aulaires' Greek Myths set • Christian Studies I set • New American Cursive 3 • States & Capitals set • Astronomy set • Rod & Staff Math 3 set • Rod & Staff Spelling 4 set • English Grammar Recitation & Workbook I set • Introduction to Composition set • Poetry for the Grammar Stage • The Best Christmas Pageant Ever • Timeline Program NEW!

• 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 of the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe set • United States Review set • The Book of Insects set • Rod & Staff Math 4 set • Rod & Staff Spelling 5 set • English Grammar Recitation Workbook 2 set • Classical Composition: The Fable Stage set

Supplements: Supplemental Read Aloud Program: Novels (11 books) $150.00 | Picture Books (25 books) $300.00 Summer Reading: Story of the World, Vol. 1 (before 4th grade; p. 54)

*included in 3rd grade package

**included in K-2nd grade packages (also sold on p. 39)

Supplements: Read-Aloud Program $120.00 Summer Reading: Story of the World, Vol. 2 (before 5th grade; p. 54)

Literature The Moffats Farmer Boy Charlotte's Web (p. 41)

Latina Christiana I (p. 15)

Greek Myths (p. 36)

Christian Studies I (p. 39)

First Form Latin (p. 16)

Famous Men of Rome (p. 36)

Christian Studies II (p. 39)

Lassie Come-Home Heidi The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (p. 41)

Famous Men of the Middle Ages (p. 36)

Christian Studies III (p. 39)

Adam of the Road Robin Hood The Door in the Wall King Arthur (p. 41)

6th

5th

3rd

Classical & Christian Studies

4th

Latin & Greek

Resources Included in Previous Year Packages: Timeline Program* $39.95 | Poetry for the Grammar Stage* $24.95 | English Grammar Recitation* $9.95 | Golden Children's Bible** $17.95

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Second Form Latin (p. 16)

Third Form Latin (p. 17) Greek Alphabet Book (p. 51)

Classical Core Curriculum

Famous Men of Greece Trojan War Horatius at the Bridge (pp. 35-37)

Timeline Set (p. 38)

Christian Studies IV (p. 39)

The Hobbit Anne of Green Gables The Bronze Bow Treasure Island (p. 41)

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$425

$450

5th Grade

6th Grade

$425 Complete Set (all books + Lesson Plans) $150 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $30 Lesson Plans for One Year (only)

$450 Complete Set (all books + Lesson Plans) $150 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $30 Lesson Plans for One Year (only)

• Fifth Grade Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year • First or 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 • Rod and Staff Arithmetic 5 set • Rod and Staff Spelling 6 & English 5 sets • What's That Bird? set • Exploring the History of Medicine set • Classical Composition: The Narrative Stage set

Resources Included in Previous Year Packages: Timeline Program* $39.95 | Poetry for the Grammar Stage* $24.95 | English Grammar Recitation* $9.95 | Golden Children's Bible** $17.95 *included in 3rd grade package

**included in K-2nd grade packages (also sold on p. 39)

Supplements: Read-Aloud Program $100.00 Summer Reading: Story of the World, Vol. 3 (before 6th grade; p. 54)

English

Spelling

Writing

• Sixth Grade Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year • First, Second, or Third Form Latin complete set • Sixth Grade Literature: Study Guide Sets w/ Novels • Famous Men of Greece set, Horatius at the Bridge, The Trojan War set • Christian Studies IV set • Rod and Staff Arithmetic 6 set • Rod and Staff Spelling 7 & English 6 set • The Story of the Thirteen Colonies and The Great Republic, 200 Questions About American History, & Everything You Need to Know About American History Homework • The Tree Book, Peterson First Guide: Trees • Classical Composition: The Chreia/Maxim Stage set • Greek Alphabet Book set

Resources Included in Previous Year Packages:

Timeline Program* $39.95 | Poetry for the Grammar Stage* $24.95 | English Grammar Recitation* $9.95 | Golden Children's Bible** $17.95 *included in 3rd grade package

**included in K-2nd grade packages (also sold on p. 39)

Supplements: Read-Aloud Program $50.00 Summer Reading: Story of the World, Vol. 4 (before 7th grade; p. 54)

Modern St.

Math

Science

English Grammar, Workbook I (p. 10)

Rod & Staff Spelling 4

Introduction to Composition (p. 43)

States & Capitals (p. 49)

Rod & Staff Math 3

Book of Astronomy (p. 48)

English Grammar, Workbook II (p. 10)

Rod & Staff Spelling 5

Classical Composition: The Fable Stage (p. 23) Writing, Year 1

Geography I: The Middle East, North Africa, & Europe (p. 49)

Rod & Staff Math 4

Book of Insects (p. 48)

Rod & Staff English 5

Rod & Staff Spelling 6

Classical Composition: The Narrative Stage (p. 23) Writing, Year 2

Geography II: Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Oceania, & the Americas (p. 49)

Rod & Staff Math 5

What's That Bird?

The History of Medicine (p. 48)

Rod & Staff English 6

Rod & Staff Spelling 7

The Thirteen Colonies and the Great Republic (p. 49)

Rod & Staff Math 6

The Book of Trees (p. 48)

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Classical Composition: The Chreia/Maxim Stage (p. 23)

Classical Core Curriculum

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NEW

NEW for 7th Grade The Classical Core Curriculum has now graduated to the upper school. In the important step from the 6th grade to the 7th, students need to take the basic skills and knowledge they have mastered in the lower elementary grades 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 7th Grade Core Curriculum package does just this. Students begin advanced study in Latin grammar, and, having completed arithmetic, begin their study of pre-algebra. Having studied the basic characters and events in ancient history, they begin their study of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. In literature, they begin their study of Shakespeare.

And if your student missed some or all of the Classical Core Curriculum before this? No worries. They can begin or continue Latin where they are and still pick up the basic outlines in ancient history and literature in preparation for Homer. In addition, the Shakespeare plays begin in the 2nd semester, allowing the student time to get ready.

Don’t let your student miss out on the only complete and fully developed classical curriculum available.

7th Grade $475 Complete Set (all books + Lesson Plans) $150 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $30 Lesson Plans for One Year (only)

• Seventh Grade Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year • First, Second, Third, or Fourth Form Latin complete set • Seventh Grade Literature: Study Guide Sets w/ Novels • Book of the Ancient Greeks set • Book of the Ancient World set • Iliad & Odyssey set w/ Novels • Poetry for the Seventh Grade • College of the Redwoods Pre-Algebra • Rod and Staff English 7 set • Geography: Exploring & Mapping the World set • Exploring Planet Earth set • Classical Composition: Refutation - Confirmation Stage set

English Grammar Recitation Grades 3+ 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 Form Series. The contents of English Grammar Recitation are thus divided into five sections, each of which has a corresponding workbook, shown opposite, providing thirty lessons to be completed in one year. 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.

Brief exercises, including some diagramming, do accompany these grammar questions; however, the mastery of the English grammar catechism is the primary goal of this course, not its application. English Grammar Recitation also covers capitalization and punctuation through recitation. Students recite the rules and demonstrate their correct use through dictation of model sentences. 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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English Grammar Recitation

English Grammar Recitation $9.95 Workbook I (Grades 3+) Student $11.95 | Teacher $12.95 Student $11.95 | Teacher $12.95 Workbook II (Grades 4+)

Workbook III (Grades 5+) Workbook IV (Grades 6+) Workbook V (Grades 7+)

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Can I Really Do This?

Parents of struggling students ask common questions* such as these:

Q. Should I bring home my special-needs son and

teach him alongside my other children?

How would I modify the materials?

How would I arrange for his therapies?

Can my special-needs child study Latin? I already feel like giving up!

A. Bringing your special-needs or struggling student home

Cheryl Swope, M.Ed. has homeschooled her 18-year-old adopted special-needs twins from their infancy with classical Christian education. She holds a lifetime K-12 state teaching certificate in the areas of Behavior Disorders and Learning Disabilities. She has worked with special-needs children, youth, and adults for over thirty years.

Cheryl is the author of Simply Classical: A Beautiful Education for Any Child.

for his education can be a wise and loving thing to do, especially if you cannot find an accommodating classical school nearby. As the child grows older, social rules become more complex. Expectations for organizational skills exceed abilities. Transitions prove challenging. Classical Christian homeschooling may sidestep these difficulties with a tutorial approach to include classical teaching methods, a classical curriculum, character formation, and nurturing instruction in the Christian faith.

Even with earned degrees in special education and the strong desire to offer the benefits of a classical education to my children, I was tempted to give up years ago too. No one else seemed to be bringing a classical education to specialneeds children! Be encouraged. You can do this. Emphasize the beautiful, humanizing, and edifying elements of classical education. “Elegance of speech and beauty of voice cannot be separated from beauty of mind, and are the mark of excellent talent and noble nature.�1

Enjoy classical teaching materials, but modify. Progress more slowly or at a lower level. Do some lessons orally, instead of requiring all written components. Enjoy supplementary resources. For example, when teaching Latina Christiana I, include the puzzles in Ludere Latine I and the beautiful music from Lingua Angelica. If your child receives therapies, inquire about obtaining speech, occupational, or physical therapy privately or through the public school. Incorporate some of his therapy exercises into your academic program.

For an ongoing reference guide with true stories, lists of resources and specific strategies, tips for individualized assessment, and encouragement to assist you with any child in your own school or homeschool, consider Simply Classical: A Beautiful Education for Any Child from Memoria Press.

1. from The Latin Letters of Roger Ascham and Johann Sturm, 1550, quoted in The Great Tradition. Richard Gamble, ed. Wilmington: ISI, 440.

*Questions from our Struggling Student online discussion group, memoriapress.com/forum.

Simply Classical: A Beautiful Education for Any Child

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T

he centuries-old and nearly universally accepted method of teaching Latin is known as the "grammar/translation" method. But for well over a hundred years there has existed, mainly in England and the United

States, a small but devoted segment of the Latin teaching community that has advocated a very different method of Latin instruction.

This group of dissenters has viewed the grammar/translation method, with its heavy dependence on memorization of the complicated grammatical forms of Latin and its emphasis on written translation exercises, as being too tedious, too difficult, too boring, and too likely to lead to a loss of student interest.

This new approach is known by a number of different names, the principal ones currently being the "Natural Method," the "Direct Method," and "Living Latin." But whatever name is employed, the methods are essentially the same in that they are all conversational methods and rely heavily on the use of spoken Latin in the classroom and purport to be a return to the methods of medieval times and the Renaissance when the vernacular began to replace Latin as the language of the universities.

Advocates of this newer method believe that all instruction by the teacher, all student responses and questions, and all textbooks must be in Latin only, with no English permitted in the instructional process.

These practices are seen by its adherents as a remedy to the "grammar grind" that has prevailed for over a thousand years.

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The History of the Natural Method of Teaching Latin

But the Natural/Direct Method was never generally used as a teaching method. It is quite true that Latin was spoken in place of the vernacular almost entirely in the universities of Europe and England until the seventeenth century, and it is true that it was spoken a great deal during the last three or four years of grammar school instruction, but this concept was never a part of the teaching methodology during the six centuries in which the grammar school held sway in Europe.

The standard books used by boys entering those schools, be they the Colloquies of Corderius or Lily’s Grammar, contained English. Boys were taught in their native language until they knew the Latin grammar and syntax quite thoroughly and had spent a thousand hours or more reading, writing, memorizing, and reciting Latin. Not until the students had been instructed thoroughly in Latin grammar by use of their mother tongue and had acquired a large Latin vocabulary did the classroom become Latin-only territory, as that was the main point of the grammar school—to prepare them for the complete Latin environment of the universities.

This was the practice at Eton, St. Paul's, Ipswich, and Winchester, says T. W. Baldwin, author of a famous book on Shakespeare. The main instruction www.MemoriaPress.com

in the language had been accomplished using the mother tongue. What was required after that was practice, practice, and more practice in speaking, reading, and writing Latin. According to Baldwin, students first memorized their grammatical forms, then memorized their rules of construction in Latin and English, then made and memorized constructions in Latin on the basis of this knowledge, and began acquiring a vocabulary.

It simply would not have occurred to a Latin teacher in 1500 to attempt to teach beginning students Latin without the use of the student’s native language.

The Natural/Direct Method grew out of efforts in the late nineteenth century to reform the teaching of modern foreign languages. By the mid-nineteenth century, theories were sprouting up in France and England and particularly in Germany that proposed new ways of teaching modern languages.

In 1852, J. S. Blackie, a Scot, delivered two lectures advocating banishing the mother tongue from the classroom and teaching by a “direct association of objects with the foreign word” so as to break the "evil habit of continuing to think in the mother tongue." In 1874, Lambert Sauveur, a Frenchman, advocated much the same thing. It was Sauveur’s controversial teaching method which became known as the "Natural Method."

Blackie and Sauveur were just two of the forerunners of what became known after 1882 as the "Reform Movement."

The movement’s batt le cry was "Death to rules and sentences!" This expression, derived from a pamphlet by one of its leaders, the German Wilhelm Vietor, was taken up by modern language teachers across Europe. The diverse group of Reform proponents advocated the primacy of speech, the centrality of the connected text, and the priority of an oral methodology in the classroom.

This movement marched under many names, including the "Conversational

Method" and the "Anti-Grammatical Method," and the "Natural Method."

The period of reform lasted from 1882 to about 1914, and the method was never generally adopted in any country. Eventually, its advocates failed to show the effectiveness of their methodology. A 1912 report by the British government Board of Education, a 1917 book by Harold Pinter, and finally the "Leathes Report," judged the results of the Natural Method "disappointing.”

In the grammar schools of England, the European mainland, and the American colonies, there was never any effort prior to the late nineteenth century to “banish the mother tongue from the classroom” before a student had developed a firm grasp of Latin grammar, vocabulary, and syntax.

Part II of this article in the next issue of The Classical Teacher will discuss the final judgment of the Natural Method in the early twentieth century and what happened when it was applied afterward to the teaching of Latin.

It simply would not have occurred to a Latin teacher in 1500 to attempt to teach beginning students Latin without the use of the student's native language.

Henry Wingate spent his professional career as a librarian, working for the Library of Congress, Western Carolina University, and the University of Virginia for twenty-five years. He retired as the Director of the Darden School Library. He holds an MLS from Catholic University and an MBA from the University of Virginia. He has been a private Latin tutor for homeschooled children since his retirement. Mr. Wingate's article "The Natural Method of Teaching Latin: Its Origins, Rationale, and Prospects" appeared in vol. 106, no. 3 (2013) issue of Classical World.

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Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose.

ith one exception I have never heard anyone speak seriously and comprehensively about the disadvantages of computer technology, which strikes me as odd. After all, anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a Faustian bargain: Technology giveth and technology taketh away, and not always in equal measure. A new technology sometimes creates more than it destroys. Sometimes, it destroys more than it creates. But it is never one-sided.

School teachers, for example, will, in the long run, probably be made obsolete by television, as blacksmiths were made obsolete by the automobile, as balladeers were made obsolete by the printing press. Technological change, in other words, always results in winners and losers.

In the case of computer technology, there can be no disputing that the computer has increased the power of large-scale organizations like military establishments or airline companies or banks or tax collecting agencies.

And it is equally clear that the computer is now indispensable to high-level researchers in physics and other natural sciences.

But to what extent has computer technology been an advantage to the masses of people? To steelworkers, vegetable store owners, teachers, automobile mechanics, musicians, bakers, bricklayers, dentists, and most of the rest into whose lives the computer now intrudes? These people have had their private matters made more accessible to powerful institutions.

They are more easily tracked and controlled; they are subjected to more examinations, and are increasingly mystified by the decisions made about them. They are more often reduced to mere numerical objects. They are being buried by junk mail. They are easy targets for advertising agencies and political organizations. The schools teach their children to operate computerized systems instead of teaching things that are more valuable to children. In a word, almost nothing happens to the losers that they need, which is why they are losers.

This article is an abridged version of a speech given to the German Informatics Society in 1990

by Neil Postman, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death and Technopoly.

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Informing Ourselves to Death

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Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose. We may well ask ourselves, then, is there something that the masters of computer technology think they are doing for us which they and we may have reason to regret? I believe there is.

I will try to explain what is dangerous about the computer, and why. Now, I think I can begin to get at this by telling you of a small experiment I have been conducting, on and off, for the past several years.

There are some people who describe the experiment as an exercise in deceit and exploitation, but I will rely on your sense of humor to pull me through.

Here's how it works: It is best done in the morning when I see a colleague who appears not to be in possession of a copy of The New York Times.

"Did you read The Times this morning?" I ask. If the colleague says yes, there is no experiment that day.

But if the answer is no, the experiment can proceed.

"You ought to look at page 23," I say. "There's a fascinating article about a study done at Harvard

University." "Really? What's it about?" is the usual reply. My choices at this point are limited only by my imagination. But I might say something like this: "Well, they did this study to find out what foods are best to eat for losing weight, and it turns out that a normal diet supplemented by chocolate eclairs, eaten six times a day, is the best approach.

It seems that there's some special nutrient in the eclairs—encomial dioxin—that actually uses up calories at an incredible rate."

Unless this is the second or third time I've tried this on the same person, most people will believe or at least not disbelieve what I have told them. Sometimes they say, "Really? Is that possible?" Sometimes they do a double-take, and reply, "Where'd you say that study was done?"

And sometimes they say, "You know, I've heard something like that."

Now, there are several conclusions that might be drawn from these results, one of which was expressed by H. L. Mencken fifty years ago when he said that there is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it.

But I think there is still another and more important conclusion to be drawn, related to Orwell's point but rather off at a right angle to it.

I am referring to the fact that the world in which we live is very nearly incomprehensible to most of us. There is almost no fact—whether actual or imagined—that will surprise us for very long, since we have no comprehensive and consistent picture of the world which would make the fact appear as an unacceptable contradiction. We believe because there is no reason not to believe. No social, political, historical, metaphysical, logical, or spiritual reason.

We live in a world that, for the most part, makes no sense to us. Not even technical sense.

Perhaps I can get a bit closer to the point I wish to make with an analogy: If you opened a brandnew deck of cards, and started turning the cards over, one by one, you would have a pretty good idea of what their order is. After you had gone from the ace of spades through the nine of spades, you would expect a ten of spades to come up next.

And if a three of diamonds showed up instead, you

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would be surprised and wonder what kind of deck of cards this is. But if I gave you a deck that had been shuffled twenty times, and then asked you to turn the cards over, you would not expect any card in particular—a three of diamonds would be just as likely as a ten of spades. Having no basis for assuming a given order, you would have no reason to react with disbelief or even surprise to whatever card turns up.

The point is that, in a world without spiritual or intellectual order, nothing is unbelievable; nothing is predictable, and therefore, nothing comes as a particular surprise.

The belief system of the Middle Ages was rather like my brand-new deck of cards. There existed an ordered, comprehensible worldview, beginning with the idea that all knowledge and goodness come from God. What the priests had to say about the world was derived from the logic of their theology. The medieval world was, to be sure, mysterious and filled with wonder, but it was not without a sense of order.

Ordinary men and women might not clearly grasp how the harsh realities of their lives fit into the grand and benevolent design, but they had no doubt that there was such a design, and their priests were well able, by deduction from a handful of principles, to make it, if not rational, at least coherent.

The situation we are presently in is much different. And I should say, sadder and more confusing and certainly more mysterious. It is rather like the shuffled deck of cards I referred to. There is no consistent, integrated conception of the world which serves as the foundation on which our edifice of belief rests. And therefore, in a sense, we are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

There was a time when information was a resource that helped human beings to solve specific and urgent problems of their environment. It is true enough that in the Middle Ages there was a scarcity of information, but its very scarcity made it both important and usable. This began to change, as everyone knows, in the late 15th century when a goldsmith named Gutenberg, from Mainz, converted an old wine press into a printing machine, and in so doing, created what we now call an information explosion.

Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have not been free of it since.

But what started out as a liberating stream has turned into a deluge of chaos. Everything from telegraphy and photography in the 19th century to the silicon chip in the twentieth has amplified the

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The belief system of the Middle Ages was rather like my brand new deck of cards. There existed an ordered, comprehensive worldview. din of information, until matters have reached such proportions today that for the average person, information no longer has any relation to the solution of problems.

The tie between information and action has been severed. Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance one's status. It comes indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don't know what to do with it.

And there are two reasons we do not know what to do with it. First, as I have said, we no longer have a coherent conception of ourselves, and our universe, and our relation to one another and our world. We no longer know, as the Middle Ages did, where we come from, and where we are going, or why. That is, we don't know what information is relevant, and what information is irrelevant to our lives. Second, we have directed all of our energies and intelligence to inventing machinery that does nothing but increase the supply of information. As a consequence, our defenses against information glut have broken down; our information immune system is inoperable. We don't know how to filter it out; we

don't know how to reduce it; we don't know how to use it. We suffer from a kind of cultural AIDS. Now, into this situation comes the computer.

It would be fatuous of me to warn against every conceivable use of a computer. But there is no denying that the most prominent uses of computers have to do with information. When people talk about "information sciences," they are talking about computers—how to store information, how to retrieve information, how to organize information. The computer is an answer to the questions, how can I get more information, faster, and in a more usable form? These would appear to be reasonable questions.

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If children die of starvation in Ethiopia, does it occur because of a lack of information? If criminals roam the streets of New York City, do they do so because of a lack of information?

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I believe you will have to concede that what ails us, what causes us the most misery and pain—at both cultural and personal levels—has nothing to do with the sort of information made accessible by computers. The computer and its information cannot answer any of the fundamental questions we need to address to make our lives more meaningful and humane.

The computer cannot provide an organizing moral framework. It cannot tell us what questions are worth asking. It cannot provide a means of understanding why we are here or why we fight each other or why decency eludes us so often, especially when we need it the most. The computer is, in a sense, a magnificent toy that distracts us from facing what we most needed to confront—spiritual emptiness, knowledge of ourselves, usable conceptions of the past and future. Does one blame the computer for this?

Of course not. It is, after all, only a machine. But

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it is presented to us, with trumpets blaring, as a technological messiah.

I said a moment ago that computers are not to blame for this. And that is true, at least in the sense that we do not blame an elephant for its huge appetite or a stone for being hard or a cloud for hiding the sun. That is their nature, and we expect nothing different from them. But the computer has a nature as well. True, it is only a machine but a machine designed to manipulate and generate information. That is what computers do, and therefore they have an agenda and an unmistakable message.

The message is that through more and more information, more conveniently packaged, more swiftly delivered, we will find solutions to our problems. And so all the brilliant young men and women, believing this, create ingenious things for the computer to do, hoping that in this way we will become wiser and more decent and more noble. And who can blame them? By becoming masters of this wondrous technology, they will acquire prestige and power and some will even become famous.

In a world populated by people who believe that through more and more information, paradise is attainable, the computer scientist is king. But I maintain that all of this is a monumental and dangerous waste of human talent and energy.

Imagine what might be accomplished if this talent and energy were turned to philosophy, to theology, to the arts, to imaginative literature, or to education?

Who knows what we could learn from such people— perhaps why there are wars, and hunger, and homelessness and mental illness and anger.

Here is what Henry David Thoreau told us: "All our inventions are but improved means to an unimproved end." Here is what Goethe told us: "One should, each day, try to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it is possible, speak a few reasonable words." And here is what Socrates told us: "The unexamined life is not worth living."

And here is what the prophet Micah told us: "What does the Lord require of thee but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory. `

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Ancient writers invented a way of teaching writing known as the progymnasmata, which provided a method of teaching composition that not only taught budding writers a disciplined way to approach communication, but also helped them appeal to the heads of their audience. The progymnasmata gave them the stylistic tools to appeal to their hearts as well.

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The Traditional Logic program is an in-depth study of the classical syllogism. In Book I, students will gain a basic understanding of terms, statements, and simple categorical arguments. (Each book can be used as either a one-semester or one-year course.)

The principles of material logic, an important part of trivium language study, are now almost completely forgotten—a casualty of the almost exclusive modern secular emphasis on the quantitative sciences. This has resulted in the rise of systems of modern logic that are more math than logic. Formal logic was once termed minor (or lesser) logic, while material logic usually went by the name of major (or greater) logic—possibly a measure of how important classical thinkers considered it.

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In 1969, philosopher Henry Veatch wrote a book called Two Logics: The Conflict Between Classical and Neo-Analytic Philosophy.

It scandalized the philosophical establishment of the day.

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he book challenged the underlying assumptions behind the new logic that had been taught in colleges and universities for over fifty years. The issues addressed in the book were complex, but the main issue was clear: There was a difference between modern and classical logic, and this difference constituted a clash of worldviews.

Most people who have been to college have encountered modern logic somewhere along the way, usually in a mathematics class. While traditional or classical logic sticks close to human language, modern logic favors formulations such as "P ⊃ Q" (which means "If P, then Q"), "P ∨ Q" ("Either P or Q"), and "P ∧ Q" ("P and Q").

In practice, the systems look very different. The symbolic, mathematical look of modern logic is a striking contrast to the traditional logic's emphasis of ordinary human language. It was Veatch's point that the difference between the two systems was not just cosmetic—that, in fact, modern logic reflects a particular worldview, one much different than that assumed by traditional logic.

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Modern logic was a product of the logical positivism that became popular in the 1920s through the work of Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and A. J. Ayer (this was the "neoanalytic philosophy" of Veatch's title).

In one sense, logical positivism was an outworking in philosophy of the religion of science—the idea that the only legitimate avenue to truth was through either mathematics or natural science. In the case of the positivists, this took the form of the belief that the only logically meaningful statements were either statements that were true by definition or statements that could be empirically verified.

Under this belief, a statement like "A bachelor is an unmarried male" is logically meaningful because it is true by definition. And the statement "All crows are black" is logically meaningful because it can be checked out scientifically. But the statement "God exists" is not logically meaningful because it is neither true by definition nor can it be empirically verified. The statement "God exists," in other words, is neither true nor false: It is simply meaningless.

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It was this view of meaning and language that flowed into the development of modern logic. Its central manifesto was the book Principia Mathematica, written by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead, a book that became required reading in philosophy programs until the late twentieth century. And lurking in the authorial background was Wittgenstein, whose book Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus had infiltrated the thinking of the two authors.

The Tractatus, as it came to be known, cast a sterile and frightening vision of a world bereft of meaning and purpose. "The world," said Wittgenstein, "is everything that is the case." In other words, the only meaning in the world is formal logical meaning, which consists exclusively of definitional and scientific truths as they are expressed in logical propositions.

For the logical positivists, truth was merely a property of propositions. Under this philosophical regime, "truth" became "truth value"—the assigning to a statement of either a "T" (True) or an "F" (False). In fact, it was Wittgenstein who invented "truth tables," a mechanism of modern logic whereby the truth or falsity of a statment could be determined solely on the basis of the truth value of its components.

In other words, the truth of a statement like "It is sunny (P) and hot outside (Q)" is true if, on the one hand, P is true, and if, on the other hand, Q is also true. But if either P or Q are not true, or if neither is true, then the whole statement is false.

Quantifying language in this way allowed the positivists to make all meaningful language into a sort of calculus: You could "solve" for the truth value in the same way you "solve" an equation in mathematics. In fact, all computer languages are based on modern logic.

The positivists, of course, were mostly atheistic as well, and so there was the additional benefit that religious language was rendered meaningless.

What Russell and Whitehead thought they had discovered was a purely scientific language which encompassed all meaningful statements which could then be used to solve all scientific problems.

Such a language had been a dream of modern philosophers since at least Gottfried Leibniz in the eighteenth century.

Although this system of logic went on to displace the old Aristotelian system in colleges and

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Modern logic lives on in a kind of zombie existence: It has lost its soul, but it lives on anyway. universities, at least one of the original authors, as well as Wittgenstein himself, later repudiated many of the key assumptions behind the Principia.

Not only that, but the philosophy that produced it (logical positivism) has since gone out of fashion among many professional philosophers.

The philosophical establishment never answered Veatch's challenge 40 years ago, and the system of modern logic he defied is still studied and taught today, but with little understanding of its nowrejected foundation. It continues to live on in a kind of zombie existence: It has lost its soul, but it lives on anyway. It has become the philosophical equivalent of The Walking Dead.

Traditional logic is not a calculus by which we can "solve" for the truth. Modern logic speaks the language of the computer, which was created by men; traditional logic speaks the language of men, who were created by God. While modern logic is how computers think, traditional logic is how human beings think. We are not computational beings and our language is not some kind of mathematical calculus. When we think and speak and write, we do it not as human machines, but as logocentric (language-centered) creatures. And we need a logic that takes this into account.

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Those of us educated in the 60s and 70s will remember the mimeograph machine, which spat out pages of blue type the teacher then handed to her students. Some of us still remember holding the fresh sheets of paper to our noses for the unique and pleasant smell of the ink. And some of us can still hear the distinctive sound of the film projector, rattling as it threw up on the screen some poorly animated attempt to inculcate a bit of knowledge or impart some important principle.

As Neil Postman has pointed out, even writing is a technology. In his book Technopoly, he recounts Plato’s story of Thamus, King of Egypt, who was said to have once entertained the god Theuth, the inventor of many things. Theuth exhibited his many inventions to Thamus, but his proudest invention was that of writing, which, Theuth claimed, would improve both wisdom and memory.

But Thamus responds to Theuth, saying: You, who are the father of writing, have out of fondness for your offspring attributed to it quite the opposite of its real function. Those who acquire it will cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful; they will rely on writing to bring things to their remembrance by external signs instead of by their own internal resources. What you have discovered is a receipt for recollection, not for memory.

And as for wisdom, your pupils will have the reputation for it without the reality: They will receive a quantity of information without proper instruction, and in consequence be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant. And because they are filled with the conceit of wisdom instead of real wisdom they will be a burden to society.

In this older, oral culture, wisdom was upheld and informed by unaided memory. It is not recorded what Thamus (who spoke for and

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Some want it only because it is the newest thing―the educational equivalent of a fashion accessory.

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and the third is to "prepare the current generation of young people for the future workplace."

It is easy to see how administrators could use computers for more efficient record-keeping, how teachers could use them to more easily keep track of grades, and how students could conduct research more efficiently. Many schools already do this.

But it is more problematic than most people think for schools to use technology to prepare students for the future workforce. For one thing, because of bureaucratic red tape, elementary and secondary schools are themselves seldom outifitted or even familiar with the most recent technology. In addition, schools have shown themselves to be poor prophets when it comes to predicting what will be needed in the economy of the future. The students of my generation who were taught Fortran and Pascal can tell you how that came in handy when they graduated and discovered that those computer languages were already on their way out. Seymour Pepert once called the computer the "Proteus of machines": He can foretell the future, but will change his shape to avoid having to.

Every technology has both its benefits and its characteristic costs.

And as for "transforming teaching and learning," how would computers do this? In fact, the goal of education technology in the classroom is about as hostile to traditional education as it is possible to be. Cuban, a progressive educator himself, laments that technology has not changed the teacher's role in the classroom. Cuban is one of many promoters of technology who want to move teachers out of their traditional role of imparting knowledge, understanding, and wisdom to being mere "coaches."

Both Cuban and Postman understand that the computer has an agenda and that it is not friendly to the traditional conception of the classroom. Cuban is disappointed that it has not weakened the role of the teacher and Postman is concerned that it will.

"What we need to consider about the computer has nothing to do with its efficiency as a teaching tool," says Postman. "We need to know in what ways

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it is altering our conception of learning, and how in conjunction with television, it undermines the old idea of school." Postman is writing these words in 1993, and so perhaps he would now have more concern with technologies like the Internet.

Classical educators needn't be conflicted about the use of computers as tools that can enable more efficient administration, and they can have a limited comfort level with a limited use in preparing students for the workplace, but they should be positively alarmed by any technology that presumes to replace them.

Schools need to think through what education technology can and cannot do for them, and in the process of determining what it can do for them, they need to realistically assess what it can do to them. In this regard, classical educators especially should be concerned with a technology that aspires to disarm them from doing the very thing their students need them to do: make sense of their world.

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ne of the most important things we should expect education to do is to order our experience. The world has an inherent structure―not just the natural world, but the larger reality within which we live, think, decide, and feel.

There is a natural reality we can apprehend through mathematics and the sciences, and there is also an ontological reality which we apprehend through literature and philosophy.

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St. Thomas Aquinas defined the wise man as that man who "orders things rightly." It is in showing students how to do this that we make them wise. Ordering reality is an essential part of education, and that job has been helped by the advent of the computer, but it has also been made more difficult. Modern culture does not suffer from a lack of information; it suffers instead from the inability to make sense of too much information.

The very relation between information and human purpose, says Postman, has been severed: "[I]nformation appears indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, in enormous volume and at high speeds, and disconnected from theory, meaning, or purpose."

These words were written in 1992, before the rise of the Internet, and the mention of only one word is required to show that Postman's prophecy has been completely fulfilled: Google.

Digital technology holds out to us the promise of power over information, but at the same time threatens to give information power over us.

The computer can help us order reality, but more often it does the opposite―and it is more likely to do the opposite if the teacher is sidelined by a machine. The computer has done a lot to open the floodgates of random information, and very little in the way of ordering and integrating it. When a school simply hands out iPads to its students, it has made it more likely that students will be buried further under the modern avalanche of disordered information, and less likely that they will be able to make sense of a complicated world.

The computer can help us order reality, but more often it does the opposite.

But it is not only the vertical order of truth that the unchecked use of the computer can separate our students from, but the horizontal ordering of time. In his book Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now, Douglas Rushkoff argues that the new technology has brought about what he calls "presentism." The digital age not only doesn't help, but actually militates against many of our stated educational goals, which include teaching a knowledge of the past and how to prepare for the future. It is a "diminishment of anything that www.MemoriaPress.com

isn't happening right now―and the onslaught of everything that supposedly is": It's why the world's leading search engine is evolving into a live, customized, and predictive flow of data branded "Google Now," why email is giving way to texting, and why blogs are being superseded by Twitter feeds. It's why kids in school can no longer follow linear arguments; why narrative structure collapsed into reality TV; and why we can't engage in meaningful dialogue about last month's books and music, much less long-term global issues.

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hen we respond to the siren song of education technology, there are some things we should demand, and among these are that it not cut us off from the past―or the future.

There are two functions of technology in our schools. The first is as a means to teach other things, and the second is as a thing to be taught. The two things we should be most concerned to teach are wisdom and virtue. But the best means to teach these are not computers. The computer can help in a limited role, but it will not do the job for us.

The best education "technology" is the liberal arts: the set of language and math skills that allow us to learn everything else. If we spent half as much time talking about these technologies as we now talk about computers, our students would be a lot better off.

Introduction to Classical Studies Grades 3-8

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Student $11.95 | Teacher $12.95 Newly reformatted, this guide now includes a student workbook for easier use. Designed for use with D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths, Famous Men of Rome, and The Golden Children's Bible, this guide will show you how to teach, learn, and master the stories fundamental to a classical education. The guide contains a three-year reading plan and is a great way for older students to catch up if starting their classical studies late.

Ancient Civilization Wall Maps For All Ages!

Large (24'' x 33'') $35.00 Small (11'' x 17'') $19.95 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, including the famous cities, countries, rivers, lakes, mountains, and oceans.

Horatius at the Bridge Classical Studies Suggested Timeline If you don't begin your classical education until middle or high school, it is never too late! We would suggest that you start with Year 5 of our Classical Studies Map 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. 36]) and has read a retelling of the Trojan War (Olivia Coolidge's The Trojan War [p. 37]).

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Famous Men of the Middle Ages (p. 36)

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The Aeneid (Virgil) and The Book of the Ancient Romans (p. 37)

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Greek Plays (Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus)

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The Divine Comedy (Dante) (p. 37)

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$19.95 set (book, medal, pin) Book $14.95 This guide contains the complete text of Thomas Babington Macaulay's 70 stanza ballad and a comprehensive study guide, including vocabulary, maps, character and plot synopses, meter, comprehension questions, teaching guidelines, and a test.

Medal $5.00 | Lapel Pin $2.00

Students at Highlands Latin School memorize and recite this entire poem and receive the Winston Churchill Award certificate, medal, and lapel pin.

We are now offering the same opportunity to all students. You can purchase the medal and pin in a set with the book or individually. 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.

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D'Aulaires' Greek Myths Grades 3-8

Famous Men of the Middle Ages Grades 5-8

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Text $19.95 | Student $17.95 | Teacher $17.95 | Flashcards $12.95 This is an ideal beginning book for your child’s classical education journey, regardless of age! Superbly written and illustrated, this classic introduces timeless tales that have enchanted people for thousands of years. Because they are everywhere in Western art and literature, Greek myths are the essential background for a classical education. You can hardly read Shakespeare without them!

Each of the 30 lessons in the Student Guide presents important facts to know, vocabulary, comprehension questions, and a picture review and activities section. It also points out the many references to Greek mythology in the modern world.

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Text $16.95 | Student $17.95 | Teacher $17.95 | Flashcards $12.95 The story of the Middle Ages is told through the 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.

Famous Men of Greece Grades 5-8

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Famous Men of Rome Grades 4-8

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Text $16.95 | Student $17.95 | Teacher $17.95 | Flashcards $12.95 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 of ancient Rome’s history, from its founding to its demise. Witness the rise and fall of a great civilization through the lives of larger-than-life figures.

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Text $16.95 | Student $17.95 | Teacher $17.95 | Flashcards $12.95 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 thirty-two famous Greeks through stories detailing the rise, Golden Age, and fall of Greece. Learning about the triumphs of Aristotle, Ptolemy, Ulysses, 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

The Book of the Ancient World

Grades 6+

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Novel $16.95 | Student $17.95 | Teacher $17.95 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.

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The Book of the Ancient Greeks

Grades 6+

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Novel $16.95 | Student $17.95 | Teacher $17.95 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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Famous Men of Modern Times Grades 6-8

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Text $16.95 | Student $17.95 | Teacher $17.95 | Flashcards $12.95 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.

Memoria Press’ 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.

The Iliad

Samuel Butler translation Grades 7+

$32.00 set

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The Odyssey

Samuel Butler translation Grades 7+

$32.00 set

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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.

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Grades 6+

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Novel $16.95 | Student $17.95 | Teacher $17.95 After the Greeks, all roads lead to Rome.

And like any good Roman course, this one begins with the she-wolf and 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.

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by Olivia Coolidge Grades 6-8

Novel $6.95 | Student $11.95 | Teacher $12.95 This retelling of the Trojan War is the best preparation for reading Homer. Each lesson in the study guide has reading notes, vocabulary, comprehension questions, and an enrichment section that includes extra discussion topics, writing projects, art, and map work. After studying The Trojan War with our guide, your student will know Homer's main characters, the gods and goddesses, and the main storyline of the Iliad and Odyssey.

The Aeneid

David West translation Grades 8+

Novel $12.00 | Student $16.95 | Teacher $16.95 After you have completed your study of 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.

The Divine Comedy

Novel $12.00 | Student $11.95 | Teacher $12.95

The Book of the Ancient Romans

The Trojan War

Ciardi translation Grades 10+

Novel $20.00 | Student $16.95 Teacher $16.95 | Quizzes $5.00 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.

The Book of the Middle Ages

Grades 6+

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Novel $16.95 | Student $17.95 | Teacher $17.95 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, the travel through Christendom unfolds beautifully.

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On Obligations NEW! Cicero

Translated by P. G. Walsh Grades 10+

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Timeline Set for the Grammar Stage NEW! Events from Ancient to Modern Times Grades 3-6

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We haven't been so excited about a new product in a long time! Our new Timeline program will enable students to 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—and Memoria Press is bringing it to you!

Timeline Composition & Sketchbook $9.95 These books will be completed over the four-year period in which this timeline is completed. Each event has a 2-page spread with a picture frame for illustrating the event on one side and a page of blank lines for writing a summary of the event.

Timeline Handbook $9.95 The Timeline Handbook includes teaching guidelines, charts of the dates studied by grade and by time period, and summaries of each event to help students complete their Composition & Sketchbook.

Student Flashcards $12.95 Each student should have his/her own set of flashcards for drill and practice. One side has the date and the reverse side has the event. These cards are color-coded identically to the Timeline Wall Cards.

Timeline Wall Cards $12.95 (see below) Cards for the wall timeline have 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. The wall timeline should be in a prominent place in the classroom throughout the year, beginning in grade 3.

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.

The Republic and the Laws NEW! Cicero Translated by Niall Rudd Grades 10+

Novel $12.95 | Student $17.95 | Teacher $17.95 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 first person outside of Scripture to ever posit the existence of natural law. Studying such perennial works is a boon to everyone.

The Wars of the Jews: NEW! The Fall of Jerusalem

by Josephus Grades 9+

Novel $10.00 | Student $11.95 | Teacher $12.95 "There will not be left a stone upon a stone." We teach our children Christ's prophecy, but do they ever learn about the fulfillment of it? Josephus, a Jew turned Roman citizen from the first century A.D., is regarded as the most trustworthy source for the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. This short course is the follow-up to a study of Scripture as well as the best introduction to the history of Christianity.

Christian Studies NEW! Wall Maps For All Ages!

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Since understanding geography is important to Biblical studies, we have developed a set of five Christian studies wall maps.

They include three maps for the Old Testament and two for the New Testament. These maps are an ideal supplement for Memoria Press' Christian Studies I-IV or for any Bible program.

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Christian Studies IV

A Chronological Overview of the Bible Grades 6-8 Student $17.95 | Teacher $20.95

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Christian Studies I Student $17.95 | Teacher $20.95 All Major Bible Stories up to the Entry into Canaan Grades 3-6 Student $17.95 | Teacher $20.95 Christian Studies II The Rise and Fall of Israel, the Period of the Prophets Grades 4-6

Christian Studies IV takes students back through the highlights of the Bible, reviewing drill questions, Scripture memory passages, and more! This study guide can serve as a review course for Christian Studies I-III or stand alone as a survey study of the Bible. We give you the Scripture passages where the answers to the drill questions can be found so that you can read through the Bible by touching on the major stories and characters. This course is a great preparation for studying early church history in the upper school years.

Student $17.95 | Teacher $20.95 Christian Studies III All Major New Testament Stories Grades 5-6

City of God

Vernon J. Bourke edition Grades 10-12

Christian Studies I-III Grades 3-6 This three-year series thoughtfully guides your child through The Golden Children's Bible, teaching him/her the fundamentals of Bible stories, history, and geography, with solid detail at a manageable pace. Students do not merely skim the surface; they embark on a three-year Bible reading course that builds faith by teaching Salvation History as real history. Using these guides, your student will be well prepared for the good work of advanced Christian studies.

Students work through one-third of The Golden Children's Bible in each year. The Student Book offers 30 lessons, each comprised of: • • • • •

Weekly memory verses Map and timeline work Review lessons and tests every 5 lessons Comprehension, drill, and discussion questions References The Golden Children's Bible page numbers as well as actual Scripture references

The Teacher Manual offers: • Insight and background information for each lesson • Additional discussion, composition, or research prompts • Helpful notes for the teacher

The Golden Children's Bible $17.95 This book was chosen because of its slightly 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.

"I love the way it is written, and the pictures keep my 4-year-old's attention." - Kim

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Novel $13.95 | Student $17.95 | Teacher $20.95 | Quizzes/Tests $5.00 The City of God, arguably Augustine's greatest book, influenced Western society more powerfully than perhaps any other book except the Bible. To study the City of God is to study 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 study guide aids students in comprehending Augustine's masterpiece. The teacher guide contains helpful chapter summarizations as well as a thorough introduction to teaching this course effectively.

Don't let your students miss the study of this influential book that helped to shape some of the most important intellectual, theological, and political issues of theWestern world that are just as relevant today as 1,500 years ago.

COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

1. In Chapter 1, Augustine is criticizing the enemies of the City of God. What is the criticism he is leveling against them?

Augustine is criticizing these individuals because they sought safety from the invaders in the __________________________________________________________________________________ sanctuaries of Christian churches, and now they are attacking Christianity itself. They did not hesitate __________________________________________________________________________________ to claim they were Christian in order to be saved, but once they were saved from the attackers, they __________________________________________________________________________________ failed to show gratitude for their safety. __________________________________________________________________________________

2. Summarize Augustine’s point about suffering in Chapter 8.

Suffering has a twofold purpose: __________________________________________________________________________________ 1. It serves as a punishment for the unrighteous. __________________________________________________________________________________ 2. It teaches the good to be patient. __________________________________________________________________________________ The difference, Augustine says, is “not in what people suffer but in the way they suffer.” __________________________________________________________________________________

3. In Chapter 9, Augustine criticizes Christians for not reproving the wicked. Why, in Augustine’s opinion, have Christians failed to do this?

Because of the effort required to do so, because of the fear of antagonizing them, waiting for a more __________________________________________________________________________________ opportune moment, or for fear that a rebuke may actually make them worse. __________________________________________________________________________________

4. In Chapter 19, Augustine presents the case of Lucretia, who committed suicide. What reason does Augustine give for her suicide?

She was unable to bear the burden of shame. The shame comes from a fear that people would think she __________________________________________________________________________________ was a willing participant, and the only way she could prove her innocence was to take her own life. __________________________________________________________________________________ 5. According to Chapter 21, does Augustine ever see a justifiable reason for killing another human being.

If so, what is the reason or reasons?

Yes. When God authorizes killing by a general law, when He gives an explicit commission to an __________________________________________________________________________________ individual for a limited time, or when the State punishes criminals. __________________________________________________________________________________

6. In Chapter 27, Augustine says there may be only one justifiable reason for suicide. What is that reason, and does he ultimately agree with it?

To keep one’s self from falling into sin. Augustine does not agree with this reason. __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________

7. In Chapter 33, Augustine gives a strongly worded reason for why Rome suffered the humiliation of defeat. Describe what Augustine has to say.

He says it is because Rome was already declining from within. He cites the examples of spiritual __________________________________________________________________________________ disease, degeneration, and a decline into immorality and indecency. He asks the opponents of the City __________________________________________________________________________________ of God why they take no responsibility for the tragic situation. Instead of learning from their adversity, __________________________________________________________________________________

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CHRISTIAN STUDIES SUGGESTED TIMELINE Grade

Program

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Christian Studies I (Major Bible stories up to the entry into Canaan) p. 39

4+

Christian Studies II (Rise and Fall of Israel & Period of the Prophets) p. 39

5+

Christian Studies III (Major New Testament stories) p. 39

6+

Christian Studies IV (Chronological Overview of the Bible) p. 39

7+

The Book of the Ancient World (Egyptians, Hittites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Phoenicians, Hebrews) p. 36

8-9 +

Early Christian history taught through primary sources

10 +

City of God (Augustine) p. 39

11 +

Christian Apologetics (Lewis, Chesterton, Kreeft)

(Luke, Ignatius, Clement, Eusebius, and more)

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Sometimes our study of literature resembles a kind of clinical laboratory lesson. We encircle the text in our white coats, ready to dissect the story like a dead animal.

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r, if this sounds too invasive or scientific, then we analyze the text in order to extract the “Elements of Literature” (the title of a recent big-press high school English textbook)—to know the work by studying its parts. Or perhaps we analyze simply to have a meaningful artistic engagement with the text.

All of these, though, fall short of what our true purpose and intent should be when reading a Great Work. But ironically, this very purpose may be the most overlooked.

What we are missing in our modern study of literature is a conscious effort to uncover the soul of the work, the essence from which it derives its being—a fundamental, ontological reality that I have named the Central One Idea. Searching for and determining the Central One Idea profoundly shapes our interaction with the work and the trajectory of our study.

There are six reasons why this is so.

First, we honor the work. Just as we notice an innate hierarchy in the natural world, in societies, organizations, and families, we insist that a kind of hierarchy exists in the work as well: There is one idea at the heart of the story; one idea burning as the sun in its solar system, with many planets (literary elements) in rotation around it. This idea gives the work its ultimate meaning and its greatest expression. In this idea, the other elements find their raison d’être.

David M. Wright is the Writer and Second, I often ask my students, “What’s in a Director of the Upper-School title?”—to which they reply, “Everything.” Then I Literature at Memoria Press. He ask, “What’s in a name?” and they promptly reply, has taught AP Literature and “Everything.” I repeatedly ask this not only because English with a focus on the Great repetition is the mother of learning, but also because Books for the last ten years. He received his master’s degree in English Lit. from I do not want them to miss what is right in front of DePaul University, and is currently working on a them: The title of a work often hints at, points toward, PhD at the Univ. of Louisville. He is the Founder and or outright expresses the Central One Idea.

Director of the annual Climacus Conference.

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I chose the name Central One Idea carefully so that its nature and purpose would be inherent: It is central; it is one; and it is an idea.

In other words, it is at the center of the work; it is singular; and it is a complete idea, that is, a proposition with a subject and a predicate, not just a subject.

Third, when we consider the essay, the dissertation, or any non-fiction work, we insist that it must have a thesis. For the thesis is everything to that particular work—so much so that, ontologically, the work derives its being from its thesis. And the title usually encapsulates the thesis. Take, for example, the academic bestseller some years ago: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.

Here Jared Diamond argues that the varied developments of human societies on different continents is the result of environmental determinism—geography, population, and agriculture. And more specifically, that Eurasian technological and economic rise and dominance stemmed from their superior weapons (guns), their diseases which weakened indigenous populations (germs), and their centralized government which fostered powerful military organizations (steel). One can almost read the title, absorb the thesis, and devote 500 pages to something else, say Hugo’s Les Misérables.

Is a novel, poem, or play really any different than a work of non-fiction? Does not fiction express a thesis just as non-fiction? I believe it does. If not explicitly, then implicitly—for it must express something, and that something is the Central One Idea. As well, that essential idea is that which compels the author to put pen to paper, or the artist to put brush to canvas. The novel, poem, or painting is simply (and profoundly) the artistic medium or rendering of the idea.

So what, then, does a Central One Idea look like? In Charles Dickens’ Hard Times, the owner of a school instructs his students in “nothing but facts” and finally realizes that his program ruins the humanity of his students.

The Central One Idea: Life should be lived with imagination rather than by an overemphasis on

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Introduction NEW! to Composition Grades 3+

Student $10.00 | Key $10.00 Introduction to Composition focuses on the concepts of narration, dictation, and copywork. The goal of this first writing course is to help students become more proficient in listening and writing skills, a great preparation for Classical Composition. Introduction to Composition is composed of 30 lessons, a year-long writing course that goes along perfectly with Memoria Press’ Third Grade Literature Guides (Farmer Boy, Charlotte’s Web, and The Moffats), but can be used independently as well.

Poetry for the Grammar Stage Grades 3-6

Student $14.95 | Key $10.00 This poetry book is intended for use in the grammar school years as a supplemental study of the poetry students memorize in our literature study guides. Poetry study includes questions to help students analyze the meanings of the poems, including vocabulary work. Poems increase in difficulty as students move through the book over a four-year period.

Poetry & Short Stories: NEW! American Literature Grades 7+ Text $19.95 | Student $14.95 | Teacher $16.95

Perhaps you’ve forgotten the old-world elegance of Irving’s prose or the range of Poe’s romanticism. Or perhaps your poetic sensibilities could be warmed by the Fireside Poets—Longfellow, Whittier, and Holmes. Rediscover the rich and varied authenticity of American literature with this thorough anthology and extensive Study Guide.

Poetry Anthologies Grades 7+

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Book 1 (The Old English and Medieval Period) Book 2 (The Elizabethan to the Augustan Age) Book 3 (The Romantic to the Victorian Age)

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Did you ever wish you didn't have to sort through all the thousands of poems that have been written over the years to find the best of the best? Cheryl Lowe has done the work for you in these three volumes of British poetry. These anthologies will be a great supplement to your student's literature studies in these time periods.

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In previous ages, the idea and truth had a kind of unity and primacy that is lost in modernity. logic and cold facts. (Yes, this could be said another way; and yes, another could be argued for, but I’ll get to this in point five.)

Fourth, reading for the Central One Idea moves our methodology back toward the classical and medieval, toward what C. S. Lewis called the discarded image. In previous ages, the idea and truth had a kind of unity and primacy that is lost in modernity. I think here of Plato and his forms, Aristotle and his organized classification of reality, Dante in his fixed and ordered cosmology. The moderns prefer fragmentation, subjectivism, and deconstruction of both the idea and truth. More comfortable with truth shattered into shards, this age insists that reality is broken and disconnected, not whole and unified.

Approaching a work of literature with this broken and distant framework means students are uncomfortable asserting any one truth about a story, too afraid to insist: This is the fundamental idea that drives this novel. They’d rather point out various elements in the work or express how the novel makes them feel. As well, they may focus undue attention on a character they like or dislike based on whether the character behaves in a way acceptable to contemporary (politically correct) standards.

Fifth, determining the Central One Idea engenders logical thought and rhetorical speech.

It demands close reading and analysis, supporting evidence and proof; it generates critical discussion and rhetorical writing. The nous (in patristic thought, the eye of the heart) of a work is not always easy to find. Sometimes it is everywhere present but cannot be directly seen. Sometimes it has to be wrestled for in the midst of competing ideas. Sometimes it seems too obvious and simple. But nonetheless, this methodology requires the student to stake a claim for one central idea, which he or she then must defend with evidence from the text, the study guide, scholarly sources, or his or her own logic. And this stimulates fruitful class discussion and debate, and leads directly to the essay and composition.

Finally, reading for the Central One Idea is the essential way to study literature because it is an act of discovery. Since we desire by nature to know, we experience joy when we discover new things and complete gaps in logical sequences. We seek so that we may find. The joy of learning springs from the Elysian fount of discovery. May our search for and insistence upon the Central One Idea become the logos of our study of the Great Works, and let us find there wisdom and virtue.

Latin Copybook Cursive: Hymns & Prayers Grades 4+

$14.95 This copybook has simple, clean pages to provide handwriting practice. It starts with an introduction to forming letters and numbers. Then students move to classroom Latin followed by sayings and hymns from Latina Christiana and the First Form Latin series. While improving their handwriting, students will memorize timeless Latin sayings and beautiful hymns.

Latin Grammar for the Grammar Stage

by Cheryl Lowe (All Ages)

$14.95 A Latin grammar is a compendium of grammar forms and syntax in a systematic, concise, and easily accessible reference book. Designed specifically for students, Latin Grammar for the Grammar Stage includes all conjugations and declensions, plus a very basic introduction to Latin syntax (how to use the grammar). An essential resource for mastery and review, it can be used with the First Form series or any other Latin program.

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Lingua Biblica:

Old Testament Stories in Latin (Translation Course)

by Martin Cothran Grades 9+

Student $19.95 | Teacher $19.95 This is an exciting supplementary translation program based on the Vulgate Bible. It provides a sampling of Bible story translations and exercises that will fortify the student’s knowledge of Latin vocabulary and grammar. A great companion to the Henle series, each lesson includes three levels of study. Level I has the easiest sentence translations. Level II includes more advanced sentence translations. Finally, Level III includes the entire translation with advanced exercises.

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Alphabet Books NEW! Recommended for Ages 4-5

$30.00 (2 book set) 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.

Coloring Books NEW!

Alphabet & Numbers Recommended for Ages 4-5

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Have you been searching high and low for junior kindergarten activities that are fun and instructional? Look no further! 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. These books are the perfect supplement to any junior kindergarten program.

The Book of Crafts NEW!

for Junior Kindergarten Classical Core Curriculum Supplement

by Tara Luse

$16.95 The creative arts are an essential part of the primary school education. By using the activities in this book, you can reinforce number and letter recognition, strengthen fine motor skills, and foster creativity and confidence. This book is for the youngest crafters and is intended to be a supplement to our Junior Kindergarten curriculum. For easy reference, the crafts are separated into three categories: Literature Crafts, Letter Crafts, and Review Day Crafts.

While the crafts in this book have been carefully chosen to promote skill growth and coordination, the most important component is fun. Enjoy each of your creations and the time spent together making them!

Alphabet Flashcards NEW! $10.00 (4¼'' x 5½") 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.

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First Start Reading:

Phonics, Reading, and Printing

by Cheryl Lowe Recommended for Kindergarten

$39.95 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!

• consonants • short & long vowels • 57 common words • manuscript printing • artist-drawn coloring pictures • drawing pages for every letter 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 (vowel-consonant) 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 Grades K-2

$14.95 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. For instance, if your child can pronounce each word in this list correctly – pot, pat, pit, put, pet – he knows his short vowel sounds, and you can move on to long vowels! If not, he needs more practice, and 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. Classical Phonics is your go-to resource for phonics practice and for building confident readers.

Classical Phonics is a teacher and student guide all in one. It provides thorough, concise phonics explanations at the bottom of most pages, giving you the background you need to teach phonics even if you never learned it yourself.

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Numbers Books

by Leigh Lowe Recommended for Kindergarten

$30.00 (2-book set) Written by Leigh Lowe (author of Prima Latina), 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!

Kindergarten Enrichment Guide $19.95

First Grade Enrichment Guide NEW $19.95 These supplemental guides are organized by week, matching our Classical Core Kindergarten and First 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 read-aloud book alive for your student. Also included are resources for the social studies and science lessons, biographies of the artists and composers, and poetry lessons.

Primary Art Cards

Kindergarten $9.95 | 1st Grade $9.95 | 2nd Grade $9.95 (5½" x 8½") 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.

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Choose from: I, II, or III

Composition & Sketchbook I, II, & III Our Composition & Sketchbook allows each student to write and illustrate compositions. This book is a great resource for all subjects and becomes a journal of your child's work for each year. And now we have expanded our line of Composition & Sketchbooks to include two new titles: Composition & Sketchbook I: NEW 5/8" Ruled for Younger Students This font is ruled with a middle dashed line, and each page is divided in half so that students draw on the top half of the page and write on the bottom half. So, 4-5 year old students aren't overwhelmed by a 2-page spread.

Composition & Sketchbook III: NEW College-Ruled for Older Students This book is laid out in a 2-page spread with an entire page for a picture on the left-hand side and a page of collegeruled lines on the right-hand side. Grammar school students will be very comfortable with this more mature format.

Memoria Press Read-Aloud Programs for the Primary Grades Classical Core Curriculum Supplement Jr. Kindergarten - Grade 2 Literature is fundamental to a strong classical education. Our supplemental reading programs will help your child develop a taste for quality literature from an early age. These stories will not only motivate children to become great readers, but they will also teach them about history, geography, holidays, science, and more! These supplemental books are coordinated with our packaged curricula for each grade, but they can also be purchased for use as a stand-alone children's library. It is never too early to begin building your child’s library of beautiful books.

Jr. Kindergarten $340 | Kindergarten $275 | Kindergarten with Poetry $295 1st Grade $290 | 1st Grade with Poetry $305 2nd Grade $290 | 2nd Grade with poetry $305

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Memoria Press Copybook Series

by Cheryl & Leigh Lowe Grades K-2

$39.95 set (Copybooks I-III) Copybook I $14.95 | Copybook II $14.95 | Copybook III $14.95 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.

Copybook Cursive:

Scripture & Poems (New American Cursive)

$14.95 Now get our original Copybook III in cursive!

Filled with the same Scripture and poetry in our original Copybook III, but formatted in the New American Cursive font, our second graders complete this copybook alongside New American Cursive 2. Also a good choice for older students who need cursive practice.

Alphabet Wall Charts (11''x17'') Manuscript Charts $14.95 Cursive Charts $14.95 (New American Cursive font) Visual aids reinforce each letter of the alphabet while young students learn to read and write or practice their cursive penmanship. With beautiful letters, colors, and hand-drawn illustrations, they also make great educational posters for your home and/or classroom!

Alphabet Wall Poster NEW! $7.00 (22'' x 34'') We created this chart upon the request of our homeschool customers. This poster-sized chart has the alphabet listed in manuscript and cursive. If you don't have the wall space for our Alphabet Wall Charts, this poster is the perfect resource for your students!

New American Cursive 1

by Iris Hatfield Grades 1-4

$22.95 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 message?

Before the early 1940s, virtually all 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.

Simple, clear, & effective! ✓ 8-page teaching guide ✓ 125 Instruction and exercise lessons ✓ Illustrations/Exercises for letter connections ✓ Journaling pages ✓ Practice includes Bible verses and quotes ✓ Simplified classic letter forms ✓ Focus on accuracy and legibility ✓ Natural right slant (easier for beginners & lefties) ✓ Takes only 15 min./day!

New American Cursive 2 Grades 2-4

$22.95 ea. (available in two versions: Scripture passages or quotes from great Americans)

Students continue working on cursive fluency with New American Cursive 2. Practice pages include characterbuilding passages from Scripture or great Americans.

As students gain confidence in their cursive, exercises in creative writing are added.

New American Cursive 3 Scripture & Lessons on Manners Grades 3-4

$22.95 New American Cursive 3 is designed to enhance the student’s development of cursive writing skills while teaching good manners and correspondence protocol.

It combines proven teaching methods with the needs of the contemporary student for a fast, legible script.

Startwrite CD

New American Cursive supplement

$29.95 This New American Cursive supplemental software is available for easy, customizable worksheets to integrate handwriting practice with any subject.

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Book of Astronomy Grades 3+

Student $14.95 | Teacher $16.95 This astronomy program covers stars, constellations, and the motion of the earth, as well as the sky as seen throughout all the seasons, including the “Summer Triangle” and seasonal zodiacs. This program was developed with third graders in mind, but it is also great for older students!

Book of Insects Grades 4+

$45.00 set

(reader, student, teacher, Peterson Guide)

Student $14.95 | Teacher $14.95 | Reader $14.95 | Peterson Guide $6.95 This set includes 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.

Book of Trees NEW

Grades 6+

$57.00 set (reader, student, teacher, Peterson Guide, Tree Book for Kids & Their

Grown-Ups)

Student $14.95 | Teacher $14.95 | Peterson Guide $6.95 | Reader $14.95 | Tree Book for Kids and Their Grown-ups $15.95 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 new Trees Reader, along with a student workbook and teacher key, will teach your student both plant morphology and taxonomy (the different parts and different kinds of plants), as well as photosynthesis and respiration. Other chapters cover flowers and fruits.

As much of modern science instruction becomes increasingly dominated by a focus on technology and scientific abstractions, teachers, parents, and students will appreciate programs like this one that return to the traditional focus on the wonders of nature.

What’s That Bird?

Grades 5+

$48.00 set (reader, student, teacher, Peterson Guide, coloring book) Student $11.95 | Teacher $12.95 | Reader $14.95 | Peterson Guide $6.95 | Coloring Book $8.95

What’s That Bird? teaches students about birds, their anatomy, and how they live. The workbook includes facts to know, comprehension questions, and characteristics of individual birds. Students will learn about 30 common birds, as well as several incredible birds!

Turn this Birds Unit Study into a full-year science course with the addition of J. H. Tiner’s Exploring the History of Medicine.

The World of Animals $24.99

(K-2nd grades)

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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J. H. Tiner Series NEW!

Complete with Memoria Press Quizzes, Reviews, & Tests Text $13.99 ea. | Quizzes, Reviews, & Tests $8.00 ea.

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

Grades 5+ Grades 6+ Grades 6+ Grades 6+ Grades 6+ Grades 6+

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, and physics.

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 Story of the Thirteen Colonies & the Great Republic Grades 5-8

$39.95 set (text, student, teacher)

Novel $16.95 | Student $17.95 | Teacher $17.95

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!

States & Capitals Grades 3-6

$30.00 set (text, student, teacher) Text $7.99 | Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95

In this study guide each state is given a 2-page spread that includes a map with room to write the state capital, nickname, abbreviation, and fun facts about the state. By the end of this year-long course, students will be able to map all 50 states and capitals. We recommend that this guide be used with Don’t Know Much About the 50 States.

Geography I:

The Middle East, North Africa, & Europe Grades 4+

Text $14.95 | Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 A unique geography program designed for students pursuing a classical education, Geography of the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe covers the area that constituted the ancient Roman Empire. Each region is explored in its historical context in “History’s Headlines” as well as in the present in “Tour of Today.”

The United States

Review of States & Capitals (shown above) Grades 4+ Workbook $5.00 | Key, Quizzes, Tests $7.95

This study guide will help students retain the knowledge they gained in their study of States & Capitals. This review takes very little time and makes a great companion to Geography I.

$48.00 set (Geography I Text,

Workbook, and Teacher Guide + United States Review Workbook & Teacher Key)

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200 Questions About American History Guide $9.95 | Key $5.00

We have compiled a list of 200 questions that everyone should know about American history. The questions come directly from our newly edited The Story of the Thirteen Colonies & the Great Republic (left), Everything You Need to Know About American History Homework, and Story of the World, Vol. 4.

Everything You Need to Know About American History Homework $9.99 This book, filled with charts, maps, timelines, and short summaries of important facts about American history, makes a great companion to Guerber's The Story of the Thirteen Colonies and the Great Republic (top left).

The Artner Reader's Guide to American History Grades 3-8

$14.95 The Artners have read and researched, selected and catalogued, the best of children’s American history books— both in and out of print.

Geography II:

Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Oceania, & the Americas Grades 5+ Text $14.95 | Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95

After studying Geography I, students are ready to cover areas of the world outside the ancient Roman Empire. Each lesson includes physical features, history, and culture. Students will continue to deepen their understanding of past and present as they learn about ancient and modern countries.

Geography I Review

The Middle East, North Africa, & Europe Grades 4+ Workbook $5.00 | Key, Quizzes, Tests $7.95

This study guide will help students retain the knowledge they gained in their study of Geography I. This review takes very little time and makes a great companion to Geography II.

$48.00 set

(Geography II Text, Workbook, and Teacher Guide + Geography I Review Workbook & Teacher Key)

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The Top 10 Reasons:

Why should

Christians read the

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Reason #7: Religion by Cheryl Lowe

aint Augustine in his Confessions tells us that after many years of wandering in the desert of indecision, it was Cicero who led him to Christ. Cicero’s Hortensius set him on the path to Christian conversion by implanting in him a longing for the immortality of wisdom. The text of Hortensius did not make it to the modern world and thus is probably the most famous lost treatise in world literature. Wouldn’t we all love to read this work that St. Augustine praises so highly? Well, I have read a lot of Cicero and, like most writers, he repeats himself a lot, so I can assure you that if you read Cicero, you too can read many of the same thoughts that so inspired St. Augustine.

As believers, we give our children the answers before they have the questions, which is only natural and good. We have the answers that God gave us in His Word. However, the answers make more sense and are learned better if we ask the questions first and really want to know the answers.

This is what young people do when they reach high school and college and start to ask questions about their faith and the values we have tried so hard to instill in them. But as parents, we worry about our children asking questions and experimenting with the wrong answers, as St. Augustine did for so

many years. Wouldn't it be great if there were a way to ask fundamental questions about life and explore answers in an orderly, safe academic setting? There is: the pagan classics.

Let me give you an example. In Cicero’s work On the Nature of the Gods, Cicero lets the Epicurean Velleius expound on his philosophy at length.

Here are some of the brilliant ideas espoused by the Epicureans: • • • • •

Religion is the oppression of the human race.

Our lives are ruled by chance, not the gods.

Everything can be explained by natural causes.

Nothing exists by the design of a superior being.

All things are made of atoms, and the material universe is all there is.

• When man is finally freed from religion he will be able to enjoy life.

Sound familiar? Notice that the Epicureans, unlike modern atheists, were not impious enough to suggest the gods did not exist, only that they were irrelevant. And to give them credit, they did get one thing right—the world is made of atoms. The Epicureans even anticipated multiple universes when they suggested that there are multiple worlds that come into and out of existence.

But then Cicero devotes page after page to rebutting, ridiculing, and generally showing, through reason, the shallowness of the Epicurean worldview. What a great benefit

The Greeks are our guides because they asked all of the right questions, and asking the right questions is half the battle.

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First Start French I

Introduction to the French Language

by Danielle Schultz Grades 5-8

$39.95 set (student, teacher, pronunciation CD) Student $17.50 | Teacher $17.50 | Pronunciation CD $4.95

Reading Assignment: On the Nature of the Gods by Cicero

to the young to read about this philosophy and see that the trendy, chic ideas of our celebrity atheists—Daniel Dennett, the late Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and company—are not new, but rather old, recycled, unoriginal, and wrong, already rebutted, ridiculed, and dismissed by the giants of the human intellect.

Let Cicero, Plato, and Aristotle do the work for you. When it comes to the existence of God and the immortality of the soul, they are on our side.

Human wisdom can be used as a defense of divine revelation, for it is all God's wisdom.

We are all Greeks when we come to God: searching, asking, debating, questioning, doubting, wondering. The Greeks are our guides because they asked all of the right questions, and asking the right questions is half the battle. And they explored answers with a depth and insight that is astounding. It was Cicero, building on this Greek inheritance, that led Saint Augustine to Christ. It was Vergil, who used Homer as his model, that led Dante up to the gates of Heaven.

The pagan classics can do the same for us.

Modeled after the Latina Christiana format, each of the lessons covers 10-15 vocabulary words, a French saying or proverb, a grammar form, and a short dialogue in French. Your students will practice conversation, reading and translation, and are introduced to French culture. The Teacher Manual helps keep you ahead of your student, while quizzes and answer keys make it easy to check progress.

First Start French II $39.95 set (student, teacher, pronunciation CD) Student $17.50 | Teacher $17.50 | Pronunciation CD $4.95

Introduction $9.95 Level I $14.95 Level II $19.95

Memoria Press Guides to the National Latin Exam NEW

by Cheryl Lowe, Grades 5+

The National Latin Exam provides an opportunity for students to compare their Latin knowledge with students across the nation. Nearly 150,000 students take this exam annually. Our Guides to the National Latin Exam include the vocabulary, grammar, and syntax, as well as the Roman culture, history, mythology, and geography commonly found on these exams. Guides are broken down for each level, beginning with the Introduction level of the NLE. Our NLE guides, paired with previous exams you can download from the NLE website, make a great preparation for student success on the National Latin Exam.

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Greek Alphabet Book

by Cheryl Lowe, Grades 5+

Student $15.00 | Key $10.00

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