Late Summer 2015 Classical Teacher

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n a recent article in The Wall Street Journal, Mark Schatzker makes an observation that is at once obvious and seldom thought about: There is a natural connection between the good taste of food and its nutritional value.

Decades ago, most foods in stores were locally grown, left on the plant longer, and not only tasted better, but were better for you. The tomatoes you bought in the store twenty-five years ago tasted more like the ones you might grow in your garden today.

And, along with being more delicious, store-bought natural foods of long ago were better for you. Today they are increasingly bland and lacking in nutrients.

Whereas before we ate the things that tasted good which also happened to be good for us, we now eat food that tastes good but that is not good for us.

What happened?

Before the onset of artificial flavoring, good food tasted good, and bad food did not. But now, while food that should be good for us no longer tastes like it used to, we are able to make bad food taste good and so we eat more of it.

This is one of the factors in the rise of obesity: The connection between deliciousness and nutrition has been severed. We no longer know good food by its taste. Nutritionally bad food predominates, but we like it because it is more delicious than the formerly more nutritious foods we used to favor.

We have the same problem in education: There was once a connection between the joy of learning and good academics, but that link has been broken. The stories we once told children were good stories, stories they enjoyed reading. If you doubt this, go back and look at the books written for children and young people in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Jacob Abbot, James Baldwin, Alfred J. Church, Padraic Colum, Edward Eggleston, as well as H. A.

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Guerber, Andrew Lang, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Charles Morris, Howard Pyle, and Eva March Tappan were not only good children's writers, but their writings were good for children.

Through stories about Joseph and his brothers, the strength of Samson, and the visit of the Magi, children were not only entertained, but learned about the Bible.

Through stories about the twelve labors of Hercules, King Alfred and the cakes, and Honest Abe, students not only were enchanted, but familiarized with history.

Through stories about Icarus and Daedalus, Horatius at the Bridge, St. George and the dragon, and retellings of King Arthur, Roland, and the Trojan War, they became acquainted with the great stories of literature.

From stories like these students learned not only what it was to be good, but what they might aspire to be.

The stories that once taught—and charmed— children have been largely removed from the menu of the modern curriculum, replaced by tasteless content written by anonymous authors with little that would nourish the soul. Under the banner of Common Core and under the guise of "college and career readiness," narrative stories in general are being cut back in favor of bland "informational nonfiction."

We have at once made education less delicious—and less nourishing. Not only that, but we have put artificial educational flavoring in young adult literature that has less nutritional value than the classical children's literature and the great books students once read.

But the old stories are still available, many of them from Memoria Press, and they have not lost their power to inspire and instruct.

There is still a connection between what students enjoy and what they need—a natural connection that we would do well to remember.

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Late Summer 2015 FEATURED ARTICLES

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Letter from the Editor by Martin Cothran

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Athenians & Visigoths by Neil Postman

LOGIC & RHETORIC

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The Four Principles of Latin Instruction by Cheryl Lowe Horatius at the Bridge ... and the Definition of Leadership

261 Highlands Latin School Students Receive NLE Awards Special-Needs Q & A with Cheryl Swope Toward a Definition of a Classical Education by David M. Wright Chesterton's Orthodoxy: A Book Review by Martin Cothran What Is the Christian Worldview? by Martin Cothran

Curriculum Packages & Supplements

Jr. K - Grade 8

New from the Classical Core Curriculum

Jr. K - Grade 8

Curriculum Map Yearly Outlook

Jr. K - Grade 12

Special-Needs Curriculum Packages

Ages 2+

Alphabet, Numbers, & Enrichment

Ages 4+

Reading & Phonics

16 17 18 20

Prima Latina & Supplements

Grades 1-4

Latina Christiana & Supplements

Grades 3-6

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Elementary Greek, Greek Alphabet Book, Latin & Greek Supplements

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Grades K-4

Literature Study Guides Intro to Composition, Poetry, IEW Writing, & English Grammar

Grades 2+

Classical Composition

Grades 4-12

Grades 3+

Novare Physical Science & General Chemistry

Grades 6+

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Christian Studies I-IV

Grades 3-9

D’Aulaires’ Greek Myths Famous Men Series Dorothy Mills Histories

Grades 3-8 Grades 3-8 Grades 6+

Classical Literature & Supplements

Grades 6+

FINE ARTS

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Discovering Music Exploring America's Musical Heritage

Grades 8+

RESOURCES

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Memoria Press Online Academy Classical Education Resources

Grades 3+

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American Studies, Modern European History, States & Capitals, Geography I-III

Grades 8-12 Grades 5-8

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AMERICAN / MODERN

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Grades 5-12

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

Ages 5+

Copybooks & Journals, New American Cursive

SCIENCE & NATURE

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First Form Latin Series & Supplements

CLASSICAL/CHRISTIAN STUDIES

LITERATURE, GRAMMAR, & WRITING

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Grades 9-12 Grades 9-12

LATIN, GREEK, & FRENCH

PRIMARY YEARS

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Grades 7-12

Classical Rhetoric & Supplements Aristotle's Material Logic

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CLASSICAL CORE CURRICULUM

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Traditional Logic I-II & Supplements

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StoryTime Treasures $14.95 Teacher Key* $10.00

More StoryTime Treasures $14.95

Novels:

(*for StoryTime & More StoryTime Treasures)

Novels:

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Little Bear $3.95 Little Bear's Visit $3.95 Caps for Sale $6.99 Blueberries for Sal $7.99 Make Way for Ducklings $7.99

Grade 1, Part Two $52 Set + Novels (More StoryTime Treasures + novels)

Billy and Blaze $5.99 Blaze and the Forest Fire $5.99 The Story About Ping $3.99 Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie $6.95 Stone Soup $6.99 The Little House $6.95 Miss Rumphius $7.99

Grade 2 Animal Folk Tales of America, Prairie School, The Courage of Sarah Noble, Little House in the Big Woods, Tales From Beatrix Potter, and Second Grade Teacher Key

$65 Set (student guides + teacher key) $115 Set + Novels (student guides, key, novels) $12.95 Second

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Animal Folk Tales of America

Prairie School

The Courage of Sarah Noble

Little House in the Big Woods

Tales from Beatrix Potter

Student $11.95 Novel $12.95

Student $11.95 Novel $3.99

Student $11.95 Novel $4.99

Student $11.95 Novel $6.99

Student $11.95 Novels $6.99 ea.

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Grammar School Literature

Grade 3 $95 Set (student & teacher guides) $125 Set + Novels (guides & novels) Farmer Boy

Charlotte's Web

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $8.99

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $8.99

A Bear Called Paddington Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $7.00

Mr. Popper's Penguins Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $6.99

Grade 4 $95 Set (student & teacher guides) $137 Set + Novels (guides & novels) The Cricket in Times Square Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $6.99

Homer Price

The Blue Fairy Book

Dangerous Journey

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $5.99

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $10.00

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $25.00

Heidi

Lassie Come-Home

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $4.99

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $7.99

Grade 5 $69 Set (student & teacher guides) $94 Set + Novels (guides & novels) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $8.99

Grade 6 $95 Set (student & teacher guides) $118 Set + Novels (guides & novels) Adam of the Road

The Door in the Wall

Robin Hood

King Arthur

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $6.99

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $5.99

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $4.99

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $4.99

$10 MIX & MATCH Mix and match any 10 (or more) Memoria Press literature guides and the price drops to $10 each!

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Curriculum Change:

These literature packages have changed based on the Classical Core Curriculum modifications we have made. See note on p. 13 that explains that change.

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Upper School Literature

Grade 7 $95 Set (student & teacher guides) $129 Set + Novels (guides & novels) The Trojan War

Anne of Green Gables

The Bronze Bow

The Hobbit

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $6.95

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $9.95

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $6.95

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $10.99

Treasure Island

Wind in the Willows

As You Like It

Tom Sawyer

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $9.95

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $9.95

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $9.95

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $9.95

Beowulf, the Warrior

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

The Canterbury Tales

Henry V

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $14.95

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $9.95

Grade 8 $95 Set (student & teacher guides) $129 Set + Novels (guides & novels)

Grade 9 $95 Set (student & teacher guides) $140 Set + Novels (guides & novels)

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $10.95

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $11.00

Alternative Literature Choices

Grades 3-4

Grades 5-7

Grades 8+

Grades 9+

Grades 9+

Grades 9+

The Moffats

The Twenty-One Balloons

To Kill A Mockingbird

Robinson Crusoe

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $8.99

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $7.95

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Merchant of Venice

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $9.95

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $5.95

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $6.95

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Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $6.99

Literature

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$140

$330

Jr. Kindergarten

Kindergarten

$140 Complete Set (all books + Curriculum Manual) $45 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $30 Curriculum Manual (only)

$330 Complete Set (all books + Curriculum Manual) $80 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $30 Curriculum Manual (only)

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

• Kindergarten Curriculum Manual • Kindergarten Enrichment Guide • Copybook I • Composition & Sketchbook I • 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 & Core Skills Phonics K & 1 • Primary Phonics Readers Sets 1-4 (40 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 • The Book of Crafts: Kindergarten Supplements: • Read-Aloud Set without Poetry $275 • Read-Aloud Set with Poetry $295 • Science & Enrichment Set $325

Jr. K

Reading & Phonics Alphabet Books (p. 30) Alphabet Coloring Book (p. 30) Richard Scarry's Mother Goose Hailstones and Halibut Bones

Prayers for Children Big Thoughts for Little People

K

Core Skills Phonics K-1 Classical Phonics (p. 31) First Start Reading (p. 31) Animal Alphabet Coloring American Language Readers Nature Reader K Primary Phonics Readers

1st

Core Skills Phonics 2-3 Classical Phonics (p. 31) Spelling Workout B 1st Grade Literature Set (p. 5) Supplemental readers

2nd 8

Christian Studies

Spelling Workout C Classical Phonics (p. 31) 2nd Grade Literature Set (p. 5)

Classical Core Curriculum

The Golden Children's Bible (p. 44)

The Golden Children's Bible (p. 44)

Latin Prima Latina (p. 16)

The Golden Children's Bible (p. 44)

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$370

1st Gr ade

2nd Gr ade

$365 Complete Set (all books + Curriculum Manual) $105 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $315 Continuing MP Student Set $30 Curriculum Manual (only)

$370 Complete Set (all books + Curriculum Manual) $130 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $340 Continuing MP Student Set $30 Curriculum Manual (only)

• First Grade Curriculum Manual • First Grade Worksheets (Cursive Practice Sheets & Spelling Lists) • First Grade Enrichment Guide • Copybook II and Composition & Sketchbook II • New American Cursive 1 • The Golden Children's Bible • Classical Phonics & Primary Phonics Readers Sets 5-6 (20 books total) • Core Skills Phonics 2-3 • Spelling Workout B (student, teacher) • Rod & Staff Beginning Arithmetic 1: Student (Parts 1-2), Teacher, & Practice Sheets • First Grade Literature: Study Guides w/ Novels (StoryTime & More StoryTime) • 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 Manual • Second Grade Worksheets (Phonics & Spelling Worksheets & Lists) • Second Grade Enrichment Guide • Spelling Workout C (student, teacher) • Prima Latina complete set • Prima Latina Copybook • Copybook Cursive Scripture and Poems • Composition & Sketchbook II • New American Cursive 2 • The Golden Children's Bible • 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 without Poetry $290 • Read-Aloud Set with Poetry $305 • Science & Enrichment Complete Set $350 • Science & Enrichment Continuing Set $175

Supplements: • Read-Aloud Set without Poetry $290 • Read-Aloud Set with Poetry $305 • Science & Enrichment Complete Set $350 • Science & Enrichment Continuing Set $250

Writing & Penmanship

Math

Alphabet Books (p. 30)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rod & Staff Math 1, Parts 1-2

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

Rod & Staff Math 2

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

Classical Core Curriculum

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$400

$300

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4th Gr ade

$400 Complete Set (all books + Curriculum Manual) $150 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $30 Curriculum Manual (only)

$300 Complete Set (all books + Curriculum Manual) $100 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $30 Curriculum Manual (only)

• Third Grade Curriculum Manual • Latina Christiana I complete set + Review Worksheets + Games & Puzzles • Third Grade Literature: Study Guides w/ Novels • The Best Christmas Pageant Ever • D'Aulaires' Greek Myths set + Flashcards • Christian Studies I set • New American Cursive 3 • States & Capitals set • The World of Animals & "The Science of Living Things" readers • Rod & Staff Math 3 set (student, teacher, blacklines, speed drills) • Spelling Workout D set (student, teacher) • English Grammar Recitation & Workbook 1 set • All Things Fun & Fascinating (IEW) • Poetry for the Grammar Stage set • Timeline Program

• Fourth Grade Curriculum Manual • Fourth Grade Literature: Study Guides w/ Novels + Christmas stories • Book of Astronomy set • Rod & Staff Math 4 set (student, teacher, drills, tests) • Spelling Workout E set (student, teacher) • Classical Composition: The Fable Stage set • Copybook Cursive II *Resources Included in Third Grade Package: • Timeline Program • Poetry for the Grammar Stage set • Latina Christiana I set & LCI Review Worksheets • D'Aulaires' Greek Myths set & flashcards • Christian Studies I set • States & Capitals set • English Grammar Recitation 1 set • Introduction to Composition set • The Golden Children's Bible (included in K-2nd grade)

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

*Those transitioning to our Classical Core Curriculum in 4th grade should complete the Accelerated 3rd or 4th grade packages, which can be found at MemoriaPress.com.

Supplements: • Lingua Angelica I Set $39.95 set • Read-Aloud Program: 11 Novels $150 | 25 Picture Books $300 • American/Modern Studies novels $120 set

• Read-Aloud Program $120 • Story of the World, Vol. 1 $16.95 (summer reading before 5th grade) • American/Modern Studies novels $80 set

Classical & Christian Studies

3rd

Latin

Supplements:

Greek Myths, Christian Studies I, and the Timeline Set (pp. 44, 46, 48)

5th

First Form Latin (p. 18)

Famous Men of Rome (p. 46) Christian Studies II (p. 44)

6th

4th

Latina Christiana I (p. 17)

Second Form Latin (p. 18)

Famous Men of the Middle Ages (p. 47) Christian Studies III (p. 44)

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Classical Core Curriculum

Literature Farmer Boy Charlotte's Web A Bear Called Paddington Mr. Popper's Penguins (p. 6)

The Cricket in Times Square Homer Price The Blue Fairy Book Dangerous Journey (p. 6)

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Heidi Lassie Come-Home (p. 6)

Adam of the Road Robin Hood The Door in the Wall King Arthur (p. 6)

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$425

5th Gr ade

6th Gr ade

$400 Complete Set (all books + Curriculum Manual) $130 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $30 Curriculum Manual (only)

$425 Complete Set (all books + Curriculum Manual) $150 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $30 Curriculum Manual (only) • Sixth Grade Curriculum Manual • Second Form Latin complete set • Sixth Grade Literature: Study Guides w/ Novels • Famous Men of the Middle Ages set + Flashcards • Christian Studies III set • Rod & Staff Math 6 set (student, teacher, tests, quizzes) • Spelling Workout G set (student, teacher) • English Grammar Recitation Workbook III set (student, teacher) • Geography II set (student, teacher) + Geography I Review set (student, teacher) • What's That Bird? set, Exploring the History of Medicine set • Classical Composition: The Chreia/Maxim Stage set

• Fifth Grade Curriculum Manual • First Form Latin complete set • Fifth Grade Literature: Study Guides w/ Novels • Famous Men of Rome set + Flashcards • Christian Studies II set • United States Review set • Geography I set • Rod & Staff Math 5 set (student, teacher, tests) • Spelling Workout F set (student, teacher) • English Grammar Recitation Workbook II set (student, teacher) • Book of Insects set • Classical Composition: The Narrative Stage set

Resources Included in Previous Year Packages:

Resources Included in Previous Year Packages:

• Timeline Program $39.95 (included in 3rd grade) • Poetry for the Grammar Stage set $30.00 (included in 3rd grade) • English Grammar Recitation $9.95 (included in 3rd grade)

• Timeline Program $39.95 (included in 3rd grade) • Poetry for the Grammar Stage set $30.00 (included in 3rd grade) • English Grammar Recitation $9.95 (included in 3rd grade) • The Golden Children's Bible $17.99 (included in K-2nd grade)

Supplements: • Read-Aloud Program $50.00 • Story of the World, Vol. 3 $16.95 (summer reading before 7th grade)

Supplements: • Read-Aloud Program $100.00 • Story of the World, Vol. 2 $16.95 (summer reading before 6th grade)

English

Spelling Workout D

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Square

and the

Spelling

English Grammar Recitation, Workbook I (p. 42) Spelling Workout E

Writing & Penmanship All Things Fun & Fascinating (p. 42) New American Cursive 3 (p. 33)

Modern St.

Math

Science

Rod & Staff Math 3

Animal Studies (p. 25)

Rod & Staff Math 4

Book of Astronomy (p. 25)

States & Capitals (p. 27)

Classical Composition: Fable Stage (p. 43) Copybook Cursive II (p. 32)

English Grammar, Workbook II (p. 42)

Spelling Workout F

Classical Composition: Narrative Stage (p. 43)

Geography I (p. 27)

Rod & Staff Math 5

Book of Insects (p. 25)

English Grammar, Workbook III (p. 42)

Spelling Workout G

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

Geography II (p. 27)

Rod & Staff Math 6

What's That Bird? and The History of Medicine (p. 25)

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$450

$475

7th Gr ade $450 Complete Set (all books + Curriculum Manual) $150 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $30 Curriculum Manual (only)

• Seventh Grade Curriculum Manual • Third Form Latin complete set • Seventh Grade Literature: Study Guides w/ Novels • Famous Men of Greece set + Flashcards, Horatius at the Bridge • Christian Studies IV set • College of the Redwoods Pre-Algebra (text, solutions manual, quizzes/tests, key) • Story of the Thirteen Colonies & the Great Republic, 200 Questions About American History set, Everything You Need to Know About American History Homework • Rod & Staff English 8 set (student, teacher worksheets, tests) • Spelling Workout H set (student, teacher) • Book of Trees set & The Tree Book for Kids and Their Grown-ups • Exploring the World of Biology set • Classical Composition: Refutation-Confirmation Stage set • Greek Alphabet Book set (student, teacher) Resources Included in Previous Year Packages: • Timeline Program $39.95 (included in 3rd grade) • Poetry for the Grammar Stage set $30.00 (included in 3rd grade)

8th Gr ade $475 Complete Set (all books + Curriculum Manual) $150 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $30 Curriculum Manual (only) • Eighth Grade Curriculum Manual • Fourth Form Latin set • Eighth Grade Literature: Study Guides w/ Novels • The Bard of Avon • Poetry and Short Stories: American Literature set • The Book of the Ancient Greeks set • The Book of the Ancient World set • Iliad & Odyssey set w/ novels • Algebra I (text, quizzes, key) • Classical Composition: Common Topic set • Geography III set (text, student, teacher) & Classroom Atlas • Exploring Planet Earth set Resources Included in Previous Year Packages: • Rod & Staff English 8 (included in 7th grade) $48.40 Required Supplement: • Henle Latin I set $28.45

Required Supplement: • Story of the World, Vol. 4 $16.95 (required for 7th Grade American Studies)

Latin & Greek (pp. 19, 21) Third Form Latin; Greek Alphabet Book

7th 8th

Classical & Christian Studies

Fourth Form Latin (p. 19)

7th

English, Spelling, & Writing Classical Composition: Refutation-Confirmation (p. 43) Spelling Workout H

Modern St.

Math

(pp. 44, 46, 48) Famous Men of Greece; Horatius at the Bridge; Christian Studies IV

The Story of the Thirteen Colonies & the Great Republic; 200 Questions About American History (p. 26)

PreAlgebra

(pp. 46, 48) The Book of the Ancient World and Ancient Greeks; The Iliad; The Odyssey

Geography III (p. 27)

Algebra 1

Literature

Science Book of Trees; Exploring the World of Biology (p. 25)

(p. 7) The Trojan War Anne of Green Gables The Bronze Bow The Hobbit

8th

Rod & Staff English 8

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Classical Composition: Common Topic (p. 43) Rod & Staff English 8

Classical Core Curriculum

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Don't make the mistake of thinking a student can learn Latin without mastering the grammar.

In his 1911 book The Teaching of Latin and Greek, Charles Bennett listed the central principles of Latin instruction. Although this book has long been out of print, it contains what I believe to be the most helpful explanation of how Latin should be taught. It is these principles which underlie Memoria Press' Forms series.

Here is an explanation of each of these principles.

Principle #1: Memorize the Latin Grammar Setting priorities is the key to success. There are many good things to do, but there is one essential thing. Do it, and let everything else take second place.

In Latin, that one essential thing is to learn the Latin grammar—the declensions and conjugations, which we also call the "forms." Work through the grammar systematically, not as a collection of random chants, or a declension here, a conjugation there. Teach the grammar as a system. Focus on it. Learn it. Master it.

Remember that in the past, students and teachers had very little beyond the Latin grammar. Could that have been the key to their success?

A Latin grammar manual is a reference that contains the grammar forms and rules of syntax; there are no exercises. Whatever course you are using, be sure to purchase a Latin grammar. Latin Grammar for the Grammar Stage is a good and inexpensive choice.

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Principle #2: Recite the Latin Grammar Orally The Latin grammar is too much to only memorize visually or learn by writing over and over. Oral recitation of declensions and conjugations is an invaluable aid to the memory. Recite declensions and conjugations every day. This should not be an option.

Students can recite all the basic Latin grammar forms in a single chant that lasts from 5-10 minutes from memory. Beginners hear forms they are going to learn, advanced students practice forms they have already learned. Everybody overlearns.

Principle #3: Drill Grammar Forms for Mastery It is a great accomplishment to be able to recite and write all of the declensions and conjugations perfectly, but it is not enough. It is necessary to be able to give an immediate response to a "form" request. Ask your students for the "accusative plural of stella," "of the laws," "in the river," "I had walked," "we were seeing," or "they have been attacked." You get the idea. Strive for immediate recall. Drill 5-15 minutes every day.

Immediate recall will take several years to attain.

Only when students have immediate recall are they actually ready to do any serious translation work.

Translation work before mastering the grammar is a serious waste of time and energy. It leads to frustration and is the near universal error in Latin instruction today. We make this same mistake in all areas of teaching. In mathematics, for example, students do word problems, long division, and even algebra before they have mastered basic math facts.

Principle #4: Overlearn When you think your students know the grammar, they probably don't. Only students who

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on these isolated words and phrases. Complete sentences were almost unknown." Lest you think this method is beneath middle and high school students, I should point out that I have taught adults who are just as happy as third graders, perhaps more so, to concentrate on grammar forms.

A good Latin program will have a modest vocabulary, present grammar forms systematically, drill isolated forms, and delay translation work until Corollary I: Vocabulary the grammar has been mastered. Translation work Do not have your students memorizing long while learning the grammar should be limited to vocabulary lists which they have no opportunity to simple drills of inflected forms and use unless you intend to let them very basic model sentences. Englishforget the words each week or Failure to master basic to-Latin sentence translation is too invest serious time in flashcard skills leads to creation of difficult and should be limited and drill. Vocabulary is best learned only done in the classroom with the in context when the students a glass ceiling. When this assistance of the teacher. are actually reading Latin, or by happens, it is we who have Our Prima Latina, Latina Christiana, memorizing prayers and music. and Forms series programs conform Invest your time in mastering failed our students. closely to these principles. the grammar and teach a basic As educators, we are tempted to push higher-level vocabulary of 500-1,000 words over a period of skills into the lower grades, thinking we are doing 3-4 years. In other words, aim for a small, usable advanced work. This occurs in every subject, but vocabulary that students can remember. It is too much especially Latin and mathematics, where students to ask for elementary students to master the grammar often try translation before learning grammar forms, and acquire a large vocabulary at the same time. and algebra before mastering arithmetic. Parents are impressed, and the program looks advanced, but the Corollary II: Translation and Syntax student suffers the consequences of our pride—for that The study of syntax and translation are logicis what it is. level skills and are best postponed until the logic Failure to master basic skills, whether it's long stage (grades 6-8). Referring to the traditional division or Latin grammar forms, leads to creation approach to teaching Latin that he advocated, of a glass ceiling. The students are unable to reach Bennett states, "During the acquisition of forms high levels in math, Latin, or other subjects because (grammar), little attention was paid to syntax. Only a the foundation is so weak that it eventually crumbles few indispensable principles of the most elementary under the weight of advanced academic demands. kind were introduced at this stage .... During the Student frustration increases and they drop out before acquisition of the declension of nouns, adjectives, calculus or Cicero or Shakespeare. When this happens, and pronouns, and largely during the study of it is we who have failed our students. the conjugations, the pupil was fed in the Reader have overlearned have even a faint chance of actually applying their knowledge when the time comes to use it.

I hope you have noticed that all four of these principles have to do with mastery of grammar forms.

To bring these principles into clearer focus, let me tell you what not to do.

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

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Prima Latina is also the perfect preparation for Latina Christiana.

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Latina Christiana Introduction to Christian Latin

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Latina Christiana I is, quite simply, the best grammar-based Latin course available for beginning students. Cheryl Lowe’s clear explanations, easy instructions, and step-by-step approach have led thousands of teachers and students to declare, “I love Latin!”

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

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First Form Latin

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

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

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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.

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The Greek alphabet is different enough from our own to be a major impediment to the study of Greek. Our Greek Alphabet Book is a tour of the Greek letters, their formation, and sounds. A page is devoted to each letter and includes a letter diagram with arrows showing proper formation, printing lines showing placement of letters above and below the lines, letters to trace and copy, interesting facts and hints, and questions.

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Handwriting practice and Latin practice are combined in this copybook. While improving handwriting, students memorize Latin sayings and beautiful hymns from Latina Christiana and First Form Latin.

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$39.90 Set (student & teacher) This translation program based on the Vulgate Bible is a great companion to the Henle series.

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Horatius at the Bridge ... And the definition of leadership

by Robert B. Charles Robert B. Charles was a former Assistant Secretary of State, who received degrees from Dartmouth College, University of Oxford, and Columbia University. Mr. Charles is a friend of the Mangione family, and sent this letter to A.J. Mangione, a student at Highlands Latin School, when he was informed that A.J. had memorized all 70 stanzas of Lord Macaulay's Horatius at the Bridge. This is an exercise that all sixth grade students at HLS are encouraged to attempt.

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am overdue in providing this congratulations to A.J., a remarkable young man, for having so superbly, nobly, and with strength of conviction and singularity of purpose, first memorized, and then recited publicly, the entire epic poem "Horatius at the Bridge," by Lord Macaulay. This is no small feat. This is a feat with meaning beyond this day, as Horatius' own resolve was. I also want to congratulate all who attempted this feat, and particularly those who were able to achieve the complete recitation.

To A.J. first, I offer a great "Congratulations!"

You―and any who did it with you―have done a remarkable thing! May it give you enduring

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confidence in what you can do in the future, and light your way to more remarkable things.

But there is more to this note, since I feel that this challenge itself should be rewarded. What you all have done is so very important. I wonder if you even realize how important this exercise is. You have chosen to highlight, recognize, and reward some timeless truths in this process. You are doing so at a time when these educational truths are everywhere being put to the test, watered down, disparaged and set aside. You have all―A.J., parents, and school―deliberately set the bar high, and without apology. Your school is a standout, since it has dared to put a real challenge in front of kids. And of course A.J., and some of his classmates, dared to step up and to accept it. That―that right there―is the definition of leadership―on both ends of your proposed challenge. So, I just wanted to express how gratifying, encouraging, and uplifting it is to know that somewhere in America this is still happening, that young men and women, boys and girls, are being challenged to look out over the edge of the box, and do something that is genuinely remarkable.

What A.J. has done, and what you all have allowed him to do, is a triumph of far more importance than

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mere mental concentration. Here is a triumph of the human spirit―of self-discipline, self-reliance, resolve, persistence, and personal commitment—or in a word, heart. These elements define a true leader, not just a true scholar.

Perhaps you know all this, but if so, humor me.

I grew up in a little town of 500 people. By good fortune, I attended Dartmouth College, Oxford University in England, and Columbia Law School.

Later, I taught at Harvard University's Extension School. Coming from a family of teachers, I believe in the transformative power of a good education.

When I was a young man in England, I found myself taken with the history of Winston Churchill.

Thus, on odd days, I would pedal my bicycle from Oxford up to Blenheim, to see Churchill's childhood home. I walked the grounds and wondered what his thoughts had been, decades earlier. On other days, I would cycle up and quietly visit Bladen, where this extraordinary leader, a man of unwavering conviction and defender of our Western World―if you will, defender at our own "bridge"―is buried. He is buried simply―not in any grand tomb, not even a big church or churchyard, although he might have been. Instead, he left as he was born, humbly.

This great leader, Winston Churchill, is buried under a thin vertical stone, no bigger than this piece of paper. In that little village, under that little stone, no hoopla, no gates, no guards, lies the man who with so many other brave men and women of heart rose to defend freedom, and to win against the odds in what he called "our finest hour." So, we all owe him a debt and we repay it, in part, by remembering. And remembering what he did.

Winston Churchill, as a young man, was buffeted by the winds of life. Not all things came easily to him―actually few did. As a young student, one of his leading biographers said, he was of "somewhat doubtful provenance." He suffered disappointments in family and challenges as a scholar.

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he turning point came when a lower-school English teacher, Robert Somervell, heard young Churchill "flawlessly reciting 1,200 lines of Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome." Horatius, as you know, is one of the four poems in that work. According to Roy Jenkins, arguably Churchill's most complete biographer, "for this he gained a prize open to the whole school ...." In this act of tenacity, courage, and sheer will, Churchill demonstrated he was made of tougher stuff, mentally and as a matter of character.

Although not gifted in all areas, he left Harrow for the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He proved―

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as we all know―an exceptional leader and writer.

He was accepted, in part, because "his memory was phenomenal, as was shown by the Macaulay feat," wrote Jenkins.

So how does this feat translate today? I think just as well, maybe better. The need for such concentration of mind and heart is, if anything, greater today. The ability, will, and stick-to-it-ness that leads a student to accomplish this feat is as strong an indicator of future success as any test or challenge of which I can think.

Why? Because we live in highly consequential times, and the qualities most needed are again patience and clear-headedness, courage to accept outsized challenges, and the capacity for singlemindedness— that rare concentration of purpose. Most of all, what is needed in this hour―our hour―is genuine heart and follow-through, the willingness to set a high bar and show the integrity to reach for it. What this poem's recitation does is to pull into a student's grasp what he did not know was even within his reach. And that is the triumph of heart, not to mention also the triumph of Horatius, of Churchill, of A.J., and those who with him reached toward an impossible goal.

Not so many years ago, I was Colin Powell's Assistant Secretary of State. I came to that job after working in the White Houses of Ronald Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush, two exceptional presidents and men, and after serving as Counsel to Speaker Hastert, another American of good heart and a teacher for sixteen years of his life. In Secretary Powell's service, I was charged with a number of things, among them creating a plan of action and setting up training facilities for hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Afghan police officers.

There could not be a better way to identify young men and women of strength and character, determination and intellect, purpose and promise, than to select those who have committed to reciting, top to bottom, Lord Macaulay's Horatius at the Bridge.

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and watch this night of terror go unanswered? The The world is an unsettled place, and there were Americans, of whom I am still very proud, decided to other missions too. We were trying to seed or promote get involved. or help others understand an idea often called "rule They gathered and defended the small enclaves. of law." One place we also worked was called Kosovo, They succeeded in saving many lives that night, a place in southern Europe, part of a country that not young and old. In a critical moment, too long ago was called Yugoslavia. a set of bridges was involved. An And here is where the contents (see page 48) armed mob of thousands was of Macaulay's poem Horatius, the Grades 6+ descending on a Kosovo town called principles that Churchill personified, Pristina. The American trainers made and the resolve and wit of students Book $14.95 an educated guess. They believed like A.J., all come together. What I Medal $5.00 Lapel Pin $2.00 that this dangerous mob would have am about to write has never been to cross a river―on which there was printed in the Western press, but it is Horatius at the Bridge a key bridge. And so they took old as true as true can be. cars over to the bridge, and set them On a moonless night in March $19.95 set (book, medal, pin) ablaze to physically block the bridge.

2004, a sudden and terrifying series of They were not exactly Horatius, but events emerged in what we now call they were heroic and their plan worked. It proved a "Kosovo." These events swept the country for more than pivotal and courageous decision. That move stopped a day, and they called for great courage. In that place at the raging mobs, blocked the bridge entirely from that time, a few Americans were training the Kosovo passage, and permitted vulnerable people to find police. These young American trainers worked for my refuge and, ultimately, to live. Ironic, is it not, that group within the State Department. These American such a piece of history should so strangely match the trainers were men and women, all civilians and all distant past? History never actually repeats itself, but focused on their mission. They did not expect the it does unfold in patterns and with situations that events of that long March night to occur. often resemble each other. How fitting that this one in Kosovo―still newly configured at the time―had a sense reflects some of that heroic poem. The spirit a series of small villages, literally fenced-off villages, of can-do and never-give-up also attended Churchill's called "Serbian enclaves." These villages were filled leadership, and even now attaches in a small way to with churches―and with people. Meantime, the the act of memorizing a long and difficult poem.

Albanian Kosovar (largely Muslim) populations lived So keep thinking big, taking on the big challenges, outside these enclaves. And making matters still more and exceeding expectations. This challenge and complicated, Kosovo was located in a larger Serbian collective achievement―reciting this long and epic state. So, if you can imagine the situation, Christian poem, as Churchill once did―is exactly the sort of villages were contained within a larger Muslim heart and commitment, scholarship and courage, Kosovo, which was itself contained within a still character and resolve that will always define larger former Serbian Christian State. If I have drawn leadership and leaders. I am not on the admission the picture properly, you can see that a tinderbox committee of any institution I attended or at which of raw emotions existed, since all this existed after I have taught, but if I were ... I would say this: There a war had been fought between these peoples. Two could not be a better way to identify young men and populations that did not like each other were living at women of strength and character, determination and close quarters, ironically situated within each other's intellect, purpose and promise, than to select those territories, like Russian nesting dolls. Although it has who have committed to reciting, top to bottom, Lord gotten better today, you can see how this would be Macaulay's Horatius at the Bridge. very awkward.

So, well done! Once again, I congratulate A.J. and Here is what happened. A conspiracy erupted his classmates, the committed parents, school, and all among the Kosovo Albanians and a nationwide those involved in this remarkable practice. This must attack began. It spread quickly, unsettling the Serbian be a remarkable school. My heart is lifted by hearing enclaves; many Serbian monasteries and churches of all this, and I do think that those who pursue this were suddenly under real attack. And now we come have something special. What it is will exceed the back to those American trainers who worked for me. moment. It reveals a gift that will continue to unfold There was a choice that had to be made. Would the throughout life. Thank you for letting me in on this Americans―who were not in the military but were achievement, for one and all! all civilians―get involved, or would they stand back

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

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Scissors Books Help your child develop hand strength, fine-motor skills, and independence with one or both books in this set. In My Very First Scissors Book, the child learns to open and close his scissors to cut along thick lines which fade, grow wavy, and create shapes as the pages progress. In My Very Own Scissors Book, the activities coordinate with alphabet lessons in Simply Classical Curriculum Level C (p. 39) or may serve as a useful precursor to the Jr. Kindergarten Book of Crafts. Both books feature perforated pages and large "cutting boxes" to promote the child's success.

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Reading & Phonics Recommended for Kindergarten

Grades K-2 $15.95

First Start Reading

Phonics, Reading, and Printing

by Cheryl Lowe

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

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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 (vowelconsonant) approach combined with word families. Mastery of short vowels is the sine qua non of phonics programs, but few programs provide adequate practice. *Note: Printing, an important pathway of the learning process, is an integral part of FSR. Some children, however, are reading-ready before their motor skills are developed enough for printing. If this is the case with your child, you may use FSR without the printing component.

Classical Phonics

A Child's Guide to Word Mastery

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

Perfect for any phonics program!

Phonics from A-Z

$25.99

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

It begins with a succinct history of the controversies surrounding phonics, followed by a wealth of information on every aspect of how children best learn to read. It provides reliable, accurate, and common-sense advice as well as extensive lists of resources that will ensure that you can teach reading successfully.

This is the best resource on teaching phonics and reading we have ever found. Highly recommended, especially for schools that may need multiple strategies to meet the needs of all students.

Classical Core Curriculum supplement

Classical Core Curriculum supplement

Kindergarten $9.95 1st Grade $9.95 2nd Grade $9.95

Kindergarten $19.95 1st Grade $19.95 2nd Grade $19.95

Art Cards (5½" x 8½")

Enrichment Guides

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

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

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Copybooks Grades K-2

Grades 1-4

Grades K-6

$14.95 ea

$14.95 ea.

$8.50 ea.

Copybooks I-III

Copybook Cursive I & II

$39.95 set (Copybooks I-III)

Our original Copybook III formatted in the New American Cursive font. Our second graders complete Copybook Cursive I alongside NAC 2, but it also makes a good choice for older students needing more practice.

by Cheryl & Leigh Lowe

(New American Cursive font)

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

Ages 4-11, chronological age or skill level

Ages 6-12, chronological age or skill level

My Nature Journal

Savor small moments of wonder with your child as he learns the simple beauty of nature. Create a keepsake for your child as you witness improvement in his knowledge, attention to detail, and writing skills through the exercises. Help your child make essential connections between oral language and written language, even as you assist his ability to observe and enjoy the wonders of nature.

This book can stand alone as a delightful supplement to any program.

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

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

Composition & Sketchbook I: 5/8" Ruled for Younger Students Composition & Sketchbook II: 1/2" Ruled for 1st-2nd Grade Students Composition & Sketchbook III: College-Ruled for Older Students

Supplements $14.95

Beginner Journal $8.50 Intermediate Journal $8.50

$8.95

by Cheryl Swope

Composition & Sketchbooks

My Thankfulness Journals (New American Cursive font)

by Cheryl Swope

Alphabet Wall Charts

These journals let students practice their cursive writing while thinking about God's daily blessings in their lives. Each page begins "Dear Heavenly Father," and closes, "Your child," with space for the child's signature.

In between is room for students to list their blessings each day. The Intermediate Journal is a smaller font size and has less tracing as students progress.

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

(New American Cursive font) (11'' x 17'')

$7.00

Simply Classical Copybook I

by Cheryl Swope

$8.95

Ages 5-8, chronological age or skill level

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Copybook is a time-honored activity in which students copy Scripture, maxims, poetry, and other literature selections. Through Simply Classical Copybook I, students strengthen penmanship, spelling, punctuation, vocabulary, and memory. Students learn habits of accuracy, neatness, and patience. Even more, they receive truth and comfort from Holy Scripture.

In Simply Classical Copybook I, shorter verses help accommodate for any writing difficulties while providing the full benefits of copybook and memory work.

Copybooks & Penmanship

Alphabet Poster

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

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Cursive Grades 1-4

Simple, clear, & effective!

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Workbooks $22.95 ea.

Startwrite CD $29.95

New American Cursive Penmanship Programs

by Iris Hatfield

New American Cursive 1 New American Cursive 2: Famous Quotations & Scripture New American Cursive 2: Quotations from Famous Americans New American Cursive 3: Scripture & Lessons on Manners

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

Some people think computers have made cursive writing skills obsolete, but good handwriting and computers are not mutually exclusive. Should we stop teaching language arts because a child can now text?

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

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

Grades 5-Adult $22.95

Teach Yourself Cursive

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

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

Create a Cursive That Fits You

by Iris Hatfield

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

–Willa W. Smith, Ed. D.

Classical Education Resources The Great Tradition: Classic Readings in What

Climbing Parnassus:

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The Latin-Centered Curriculum: A Home

The Well-Trained Mind:

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

Educator's Guide to a Latin-Centered Curriculum

by Andrew A. Campbell

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The Great Books: A Journey Through 2,500 Years

A New Apologia for Greek and Latin

by Tracy Lee Simmons

A Guide to Classical Education at Home, 3rd Edition

by Susan Wise Bauer & Jessie Wise

$27.95

The Well-Educated Mind:

of the West's Classic Literature

by Anthony O'Hear

A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had

by Susan Wise Bauer

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Athenians

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embers of the faculty, parents, guests, and graduates, I have chosen as my topic the complex subject of your ancestors. Not, of course, your biological ancestors, about whom I know nothing, but your spiritual ancestors, about whom I know a little. To be specific, I want to tell you about two groups of people who lived many years ago but whose influence is still with us. They were very different from each other, representing opposite values and traditions. I think it is appropriate for you to be reminded of them on this day because, sooner than you know, you must align yourself with the spirit of one or the spirit of the other.

The first group lived about 2,500 years ago in the place which we now call Greece, in a city they called Athens. We know a great deal about their accomplishments. They were, for example, the first people to develop a complete alphabet, and therefore they became the first truly literate population on earth.

They invented the idea of political democracy, which they practiced with a vigor that puts us to shame.

They invented what we call philosophy. And they also invented what we call logic and rhetoric. They came very close to inventing what we call science, and one of them—Democritus by name—conceived of the atomic theory of matter 2,300 years before it occurred to any modern scientist. They composed and sang epic poems of unsurpassed beauty and insight. And they

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How to Quell Your Inner Barbarian

by Neil Postman

Neil Postman is the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death and other books about education and culture. This article is the text of a graduation speech he never gave, but would have, he said, if ever given the opportunity.

wrote and performed plays that, almost three millennia later, still have the power to make audiences laugh and weep. They even invented what, today, we call the Olympics, and among their values none stood higher than that in all things one should strive for excellence.

They believed in reason. They believed in beauty. They believed in moderation.

About 2,000 years ago, the vitality of their culture declined and these people began to disappear. But not what they had created. Their imagination, art, politics, literature, and language spread all over the world so that today it is hardly possible to speak on any subject without repeating what some Athenian said on the matter 2,500 years ago.

The second group of people lived in the place we now call Germany, and flourished about 1,700 years ago. We call them the Visigoths. They were spectacularly good horsemen, which is about the

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own convenience, good manners are an affectation only pleasant thing history can say of them. They and a burden, and history is merely what is in were marauders—ruthless and brutal. Their language yesterday’s newspaper. lacked subtlety and depth. Their art was crude and To be an Athenian is to take an interest in public even grotesque. They swept down through Europe affairs. Indeed, the ancient Athenians had a word destroying everything in their path, and they overran for people who did not. The word was the Roman Empire. There was nothing idiotes, from which we get our a Visigoth liked better than to burn word “idiot.” A modern Visigoth a book, desecrate a building, or You must be an Athenian is interested only in his own smash a work of art. From the or a Visigoth. Of course, it is affairs and has no sense of the Visigoths, we have no poetry, much harder to be an Athenian, meaning of community. no theater, no logic, no science, for you must learn how to be And, finally, to be an no humane politics.

Athenian is to esteem the Like the Athenians, the one, you must work at being one, discipline, skill, and taste that Visigoths also disappeared, but whereas we are all, in a way, are required to produce enduring not before they had ushered in natural-born Visigoths. art. Therefore, in approaching the period known as the Dark a work of art, Athenians prepare Ages, from which it took Europe their imagination through learning and almost a thousand years to recover. experience. To a Visigoth, there is no measure of Now, the point I want to make is that the artistic excellence except popularity. What catches the Athenians and the Visigoths still survive, and they do fancy of the multitude is good. No other standard is so through us and the ways in which we conduct our respected or even acknowledged. lives. All around us—in this hall, in this community, Now, it must be obvious what all of this has to do in our city—there are people whose way of looking at with you. Eventually, like the rest of us, you must be the world reflects the way of the Athenians, and there on one side or the other. You must be an Athenian are people whose way is the way of the Visigoths. I do or a Visigoth. Of course, it is much harder to be an not mean, of course, that our modern-day Athenians Athenian, for you must learn how to be one, you roam abstractedly through the streets reciting poetry must work at being one, whereas we are all, in a and philosophy, or that the modern-day Visigoths are way, natural-born Visigoths. That is why there are killers. I mean that to be an Athenian or a Visigoth is so many more Visigoths than Athenians. And I to organize your life around a set of values. must tell you that you do not become an Athenian To be an Athenian is to hold knowledge, and merely by attending school or accumulating especially the quest for knowledge, in high esteem. To academic degrees. My father-in-law was one of contemplate, to reason, to experiment, to question are, the most committed Athenians I have ever known, to an Athenian, the most exalted activities a person and he spent his entire adult life working as a can perform. To a Visigoth, the quest for knowledge is dress cutter on Seventh Avenue in New York City. useless unless it can help you to earn money or to gain On the other hand, I know physicians, lawyers, power over other people. and engineers who are Visigoths of unmistakable To be an Athenian is to cherish language because persuasion. You must not doubt for a moment you believe it to be humankind’s most precious gift. that a school, after all, is essentially an Athenian In their use of language, Athenians strive for grace, idea. I have no difficulty imagining that Plato, precision, and variety. And they admire those who Aristotle, or Democritus would be quite at home in can achieve such skill. To a Visigoth, one word is as our classrooms. A Visigoth would merely scrawl good as another, one sentence indistinguishable from obscenities on the wall. another. A Visigoth’s language aspires to nothing And so, whether you were aware of it or not, the higher than the cliché. purpose of your having been at this university was to To be an Athenian is to understand that the thread interest you in the Athenian way. We cannot know on which holds civilized society together is thin and this day how many of you will choose that way and vulnerable; therefore, Athenians place great value how many will not. But I will tell you this, with which on tradition, social restraint, and continuity. To an I will close: I can wish for you no higher compliment Athenian, bad manners are acts of violence against than that in the future it will be reported that among the social order. The modern Visigoth cares very little your graduating class the Athenians mightily about any of this. The Visigoths think of themselves outnumbered the Visigoths. as the center of the universe. Tradition exists for their

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Classical Latin School Association

H L S L at i n awa r d s Highlands Latin School students have once again taken home a load of awards from the National Latin Exam. Every year, HLS students take the NLE, which is administered by the National Junior Classical League to measure the knowledge of Latin students across the country. HLS always performs well, and this year is no different.

Of the 291 HLS students who took the NLE, 261 (90%) received awards. Of the students who received awards, 89 received the Gold Summa Cum Laude award; 55 received the Silver Magna Cum Laude award; and 16 the Magna Cum Laude award. And 23 students received perfect scores on their tests.

One student, Andrew Thibaudeau (bottom, right), won his sixth Gold Medal.

"Our performance on the NLE is a direct reflection of the effectiveness of our curriculum and our teachers," said Michelle Luoma, head of the Latin program at HLS. "We are so proud of our students this year, and particularly proud of those who received awards. Two of our seniors are eligible to apply for college scholarships through the NLE. What a testament to the value of consistent study and diligent preparation!"

HLS students begin their Latin study with Latina Christiana I, then First through Fourth Form Latin, and then continue with the study of Caesar and Cicero through the Henle Latin program. Many students continue on to the study of Virgil's poetry.

Interested in joining the CLSA?

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New Special-Needs Level 1 EV ERY THING YOU NEED FOR ONE Y E AR

Sentences, Sums, & Stories In Level 1, your child becomes a student. With explicit, step-by-step instruction, you will help him grow in reading, writing, and arithmetic skills. We provide tactile, sensory, and movement activities to help you teach your student to: • • • •

read and write words and sentences achieve mastery of foundational arithmetic facts and skills learn timeless biblical stories with memory verses appreciate beautiful books

Enjoy his delight with Level 1: Wonder, Beauty, and Imagination, a gently paced introduction to literature, poetry, music, art, history, geography, science, and the world. Share his joy as he acquires knowledge and confidence through this unique curriculum designed especially for children with special learning needs.

Limited Time Discount: $350 $325 Complete Set (all books + Curriculum Manual) $30 Curriculum Manual (only) • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Simply Classical Curriculum Manual: Level 1 Phonics From A to Z Primary Phonics Readers Sets 1, 2, & 3 Core Skills Phonics K & 1 First Start Reading: Books A-D Fun in the Sun; Soft and White; Scamp and Tramp The Story Bible The Creation Story for Children A Child’s Book of Poems This First Thanksgiving Day: A Counting Story Hailstones and Halibut Bones Kindergarten and First Grade Art Cards The Days Gone By CD Rod & Staff Math 1, part 1 (student, flashcards, teacher, and practice sheets) Best Counting Book Ever My First Nature Journal Simply Classical Copybook I GeoPuzzle Animals

Resources Included in Level C Package: • First Start Reading Teacher Guide $14.95 • Classical Phonics $15.95 • Simply Classical Letters & Numbers Desk Charts $12.95

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Supplemental Read-Aloud Program

Science & Enrichment Set

The Important Book; Ox-Cart Man; Bread and Jam for Frances; The Story of Ferdinand; This Is the Feast; A Tree Is Nice; The Little Fir Tree; Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree; The Twelve Days of Christmas; Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening; Gregory’s Shadow; Pancakes, Pancakes!; Paddle-to-the-Sea; Come On, Rain!; The Seven Silly Eaters; A House for Hermit Crab; Owl Moon

Apples; The Vegetables We Eat; Bugs Are Insects; From Seed to Plant; Hide and Seek Fog; Follow the Dream: The Story of Christopher Columbus; How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World; The Big Dipper; A Tree Is a Plant; Where Are the Night Animals?; Snow Is Falling; Wonders of Nature; All Things Bright and Beautiful; Milk: From Cow to Carton; From Tadpole to Frog; From Caterpillar to Butterfly; Owls

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Special-Needs

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with Cheryl Swope, author of Simply Classical

I have a young son who has several special-needs issues. He is severely autistic, nonverbal, and significantly developmentally delayed. His cognitive age was just recently rated at 2 years. He is learning to use Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) cards to communicate and does approximated sign language for a few words. What concerns me, however, is wondering if the Simply Classical Curriculum is going to be compatible to his ability levels. How easy would it be to adapt this curriculum to my child's specific needs and developmental skill levels?

The Simply Classical Curriculum can help you address global delays in specific, structured ways. If you found that your son's ability level in one area (receptive language) exceeded his ability in other areas (fine-motor skills and expressive language), you could adapt the lesson plans in any of the following ways: elevating your own vocabulary during each lesson, offering "yes" or "no" questions based on the lesson plans, or coordinating his responses with his known PECS cards, signing, and other unspoken answers. We also offer stand-alone resources, such as the Scissors Books, to provide additional practice in various areas. All of our complete curriculum levels are based on beautiful read-alouds to promote attentiveness.

As you know, any curriculum is only as useful as its teacher.

Exploring the stories with wonder and enjoyment, even amidst the very serious skills taught throughout the program, will assist the curriculum's adaptability and the child's progress! We link your daily lessons to a collection of delightful books just for this purpose.

We also intend for the child to receive his needed specific therapies (speech, language, occupational, and physical therapy) alongside the curriculum at each level. You can incorporate the child's therapy homework into the daily lessons. For example, in recitations or in poetry, omit the final word of an often-repeated verse or phrase to elicit speech approximations. Each planner includes space to write your child's therapy homework.

Visit ClassicalSpecialNeeds.com, "Where Do I Begin?" to take the full online assessments in areas such as cognitive, language, finemotor, and social-emotional development. The guidelines help you match the appropriate level to your child's abilities. Look for more levels to come, as we intend to provide these for ages 2-21!

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Special-Needs Full-Year Classical Curriculum

Level A

Level B

Level C

$225 Core Package (all books + Curriculum Manual) $30 Curriculum Manual (only)

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Readiness, Rhythm, and Rhyme

Essentials, Etiquette, and Ear Training (Ages 3-4)*

Animals, Alphabet, and Aesop

Level A seeks to nurture wonder and language through an early love of books.

Level A helps you strengthen your child's readiness skills through music, movement, and poetry. The child receives gentle lessons in colors, numbers, letters, vocabulary, shapes, Mother Goose rhymes, and prayers.

Through the beauty of simple stories, lessons, and songs, Level A guides the child through improvement in each of these areas: oral language, fine-motor (small muscle) and gross-motor (large muscle) movement, and daily living skills.

Level B provides extensive practice in readiness skills with an emphasis on finemotor skills. The child learns how to hold a pencil properly and how to color. Alphabet and number lessons integrate fine-motor practice every day. In Level B, the child learns manners. He practices saying please and thank you. He learns to win and lose games gracefully. To inspire a love of words, this level includes children's poetry set to beautiful music. Lessons introduce the names and sounds of letters, the names and values of numbers, as well as games, and stories.

Through simple Bible stories, daily prayers, and memory verses from Holy Scriptures, the child learns of God's holiness, love, and mercy in Christ.

Level C helps your child gain a stronger memory, better listening skills, a longer attention span, and a sense of amazement.

Guide your child through an amazing study of animals, even while he learns the alphabet and numbers. Level C helps prepare the child for reading, writing, and early arithmetic. In this highly integrated program, alphabet lessons correspond to animal studies, books, and memory verses, while read-alouds coordinate with oral language and fine-motor activities.

Recitations and review help foster mastery of knowledge.

(Ages 2-3)*

*For approximate skill level or chronological ages 2-3 (children with cognitive, language, or motor abilities at an introductory level).

Included: Simply Classical Curriculum Manual: Level A; Prayers for Children; Jesus Is With Me; Jesus Hears Me; Jesus Knows Me; Big Red Barn; The Best Mouse Cookie; Little Fur Family; Bunny's Noisy Book; From Head to Toe; Goodnight Moon; Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?; Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?; Numbers, Colors, Shapes; The Very Busy Spider; Good Night, Gorilla; The Tale of Peter Rabbit; Fuzzy Yellow Ducklings; My Very First Book of Shapes; ABC: Amazing Alphabet Book; Put Me in the Zoo; Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb; Cars and Trucks From A to Z; My First Counting Book; The Animals' Christmas Eve; Big Dog ... Little Dog; Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?; My First Real Mother Goose; 1 Is One

Text $24.95 eBook $22.00

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

Included: Simply Classical Curriculum Manual: Level B; A Child's Garden of Bible Stories; How Can I Help?; A Child's Garden of Verses; My First ABC Book; Please and Thank You; Prayer for a Child; Bible Pictures to Color; Counting With Numbers; Adventures With Books; Big Thoughts for Little People; Alphabet Coloring Book; Simply Classical Crafts, Book One; Alphabet Flashcards; Numbers Coloring Book; Richard Scarry's Best First Book Ever!; My First Body Board Book; My Big Animal Book; A Child's Garden of Songs CD; Back to the Garden CD

(Ages 4-5)*

*For approximate skill level or chronological ages 4-5 or older special-needs children who need a year of instruction before beginning to read. Even the older child who needs remediation in oral language or letters of the alphabet will appreciate the content of this level.

Included: Simply Classical Curriculum Manual: Level C; The ABC Bible Verse Book; Richard Scarry's The Best Mother Goose Ever; Going on Eagerly; Alphabet Books One & Two; Numbers Books One & Two; First Start Reading, Book A; First Start Reading, Teacher Guide; Christian Liberty Nature Reader K; Simply Classical Crafts, Book Two; Animal Alphabet; Animals, Animals; Aesop's Fables for Children; Classical Phonics; My Very Own Scissors Book; Letters and Numbers Desk Charts

Supplements: • Prayers for Children (included in Level A) • Supplemental Read-Aloud Program $335

Supplements: • Prayers for Children (included in Level A) • Supplemental Read-Aloud Program $125

"Simply Classical is the best book I have ever read on homeschooling a specialA Beautiful Education for needs child. I have two such children and Any Child the tips and suggestions for curriculum

by Cheryl Swope are wonderful. I felt as if a dear friend took me by hand, sat down This book guides parents and teachers in implementing the beauty of a classical education with special-needs and to tea with me, and let me know struggling students. The love of history, music, literature, and Latin instilled in her own children by a classical that yes, I can do this ..." - Susan education created in Cheryl the desire to share the message that classical education offers benefits to any child.

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Toward a Definition of

Classical Education The Invention of Meaning Through Comparison

by David M. Wright

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odern education occupies a great deal of time—nine months per year, six hours per day, and countless hours keeping up with homework.

Yet, how much do most American students actually know by the end of twelfth grade? Can they solve basic math problems in their mind without using a calculator on their cellphones? Are they able to read challenging material with fluency?

Can they write well, maintaining purpose, clarity, and coherence? Are they able to reflect upon and articulate the philosophical and moral questions of life? Have they read a number of the great books that have shaped the Western mind? Have they been trained in at least one of the foundational languages of Western civilization—Hebrew, Greek, or Latin?

Unfortunately, the answer to most of the questions above is “no” or “not very well.” And surprisingly, the answers remain the same for many students in even the best public and private schools.

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Something is surely wrong; something is not working.

But determining what can be difficult. Merely looking at GPAs and test scores can be quite misleading, as standardized test prepping and grade inflation often give us a false sense of comfort.

A still more disconcerting brokenness in modern education exists in the extirpation of the soul from the activity of teaching and learning. Wisdom and virtue are no longer the foci of education. Belief in objective truth, and in our ability to discover it through a range of epistemological modes—e.g., reason, imagination, intuition, tradition, and experience (allowing for a fuller means of knowing)— has also been excised. The paideia of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle in their pursuit of truth, justice, the immortality of the soul, virtue, love, and “the examined life” have been discarded in favor of naturalism and relativism: hallmarks of sophism.

In ancient Greece, the sophists emphasized the useful and successful over the metaphysical and moral. They espoused the manipulative use of rhetoric to win any position on an issue, with disregard for the truth. The sophists were secular humanists of an agnostic spirit who offered intellectual training for social success. For a not-so-modest price, they offered instruction in how to live successfully in a world in which, according to them, all moral standards were conventions and all human knowledge was relative.1 [1] Richard Tarnas. The Passion of the Western Mind. (New York: Ballantine, 1991) 26, 32.

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Third, classical education fosters complex and higherSo what must we seek to mend in our modern order (polyphonic) thinking skills, enabling the student sophistic education? As Col. C. E. Wheat said in his to work with and master challenging fields of inquiry. cadet prayer, “Make us to choose the harder right Fourth, it is “plucked with the fingernails," insisting instead of the easier wrong, and never to be content that learning happens most effectively through hard with a half truth when the whole can be won.” Let work and natural methods, with fewer us seek, then, the whole truth—that shortcuts and technological aids— which is good, right, and true in reading, writing, translating, and education. We should seek a form "Make us to choose doing math (in the mind). of education that reflects the truth the harder right instead Fifth, classical education has about ourselves and the world in a historic repertoire, and it could which we live—a form free of half of the easier wrong, and be argued, a 5,000-year history— truths, free of brokenness, and never to be content with stretching back as far as the Hebrew free of irony. and Egyptian traditions, and To help illumine the model a half truth when the certainly the Greek and Roman. we seek, let us begin with the whole can be won."

Sixth, the shape, construction, and grammar of understanding: material signify Aristotle’s four causes: definition. Defining key terms is The material—the skills and content essential, and what better term to of the trivium and quadrivium; the efficient—the begin with than classical? Because simplicity is an student striving to gain mastery of skills and content; essential tenet of classical education, we shall look the formal—the way or method of the grammar, logic, for a simple, common-sense definition of the term by and rhetoric stages, and Socratic discussion; and the means of our innate method of learning: comparison. final—the purpose, the end goal or object of classical We will look at another classical art form to see education: the cultivation of wisdom and virtue. what it might reveal about the term, and hence what Finally, just as all kinds of music are performed on it might reveal about classical education. Certain the classical guitar, so it is with classical education. It words and phrases are bound to increase our overall educates the student holistically and intrinsically by understanding. As well, we will be able to see how means of the septem artes liberales (the seven liberal the authority and perception of the art form changes arts—basic skills necessary for success in academic when the word classical is added. study), preparing him well for whatever endeavor he Since I cannot play the guitar and know rather little may wish to pursue. All kinds of interests, disciplines, about the instrument or its history, I'll use classical and careers are performed on an education that is guitar for this exercise. Here is a sample of key terms classical, on an education that greatly liberates the from the entry on Wikipedia: person to rule himself, and to succeed in any vocation ✓✓ comprehensive technique ✓✓ known to borrow from the he judiciously chooses. ✓✓ allows the soloist to repertoires of a large variety Perhaps we now have a helpful definition: perform complex of instruments Classical education is a traditional, historical, timemelodic and polyphonic ✓✓ long history; has been tested education of the highest quality, emerging material popular for 5,000 years ✓✓ plucked with the ✓✓ shape, construction, and from the most elevated cultures of the past. It has fingernails (as opposed material a long, rich, and fairly unified history, and uses to some piece of ✓✓ all kinds of music (folk, specific tools and content to effectively educate the technology) jazz, flamenco, etc.) are human person. Its method, skills, and content are ✓✓ historic repertoire performed on it encompassed in the trivium and quadrivium, the seven liberal arts or enkuklios paideia (“education in Most of these very phrases and words can be a circle”): grammar, logic, and rhetoric; arithmetic, aptly applied to classical education. They are, in astronomy, music, and geometry. Its purpose is to fact, what distinguish it from other forms. First, cultivate wisdom and virtue, to elicit and develop classical education insists on technique—proceeding “the good” in the student, and to provide him with through the grammar, logic, and rhetoric stages; the skills for a lifetime of learning. and determining truth through Socratic discussion By restoring the classical to education, we are able and dialogue. Second, it is comprehensive. It insists to, as G. K. Chesterton says, pass the soul of our on immersion in and mastery of the verbal arts (the society from one generation to another. trivium) and the quantitative arts (the quadrivium).

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Composition Bible Heroes: Writing Lessons in Structure and Style

Grades 3+ Student $10.00 Key $10.00

Introduction to Composition

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Students will get to know the heroes of the Bible while working through six of IEW's nine units in this course. A variety of games teach vocabulary, reinforce elements of style, and add to the fun!

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This introductory writing program focuses on the concepts of narration, outlining, dictation, and copywork. The goal is to help students become more proficient in listening and writing skills, a great preparation for Classical Composition. Composed of 30 lessons and some supplemental lessons, this is a year-long writing course that uses focus passages from Charlotte's Web, Farmer Boy, and The Moffats.

All Things Fun & Fascinating: Writing Lessons in Structure and Style

Humorous characters and fascinating creatures will help young students enjoy learning to write with structure and style.

Grades 3-5 $29.00

Both courses come with the IEW Structure and Style Overview DVD for teacher training and a free download of the teacher e-book.

Memoria Press pairs with IEW IEW is familiar to homeschool families everywhere through the work of their founder Andrew Pudewa. In addition to being a popular and effective writing instructor, Andrew is also a classical educator. We are proud to welcome Andrew and IEW into the Memoria Press family by offering these fine products to our customers.

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

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

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Intended for use over the grammar school years, this guide includes questions to help analyze the meanings of poems, including vocabulary work. Poems increase in difficulty as students move through the book each year.

Revisit the Old World elegance of Irving’s prose and the range of Poe’s romanticism.

Enjoy the Fireside Poets—Longfellow, Whittier, and Holmes. Rediscover the rich, varied authenticity of American literature with this anthology & study guide.

American Literature

Poetry, Composition, & Grammar

Poetry Anthologies In these anthologies, we have selected simply the best-written poems in British history. They are a great supplement to your student's literature studies in these time periods.

Poetry, Prose, & Drama (Book I): The Old English & Medieval Periods Poetry (Book II): The Elizabethan to the Augustan Age Poetry (Book III): The Romantic to the Victorian Age

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Classical Composition

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hat if you could teach your child using the same writing program that produced such masters of the language as John Milton, William Shakespeare, and Benjamin Franklin? What if you could have the same basic composition curriculum used by Quintilian, the greatest teacher of ancient rhetoric, and Cicero, the greatest persuasive speaker of all time?

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 14 exercises, organized from the simplest and most basic to the most complex and sophisticated, were the core education of a classical speaker, designed to produce what Quintilian once called, "the good man, speaking well."

Jim Selby has blown the dust off of the writing curriculum that was used in schools for over 1,500 years and put it in an easy-toteach format that will revolutionize your curriculum. Presented clearly and systematically, Classical Composition will give you a clear road map to writing excellence.

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Christian Studies Grades 3-6 Student $17.95 ea.

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Golden Children's Bible $17.99

Teacher Manual: Insight and background for each lesson; additional discussion, composition, and research prompts.

Christian Studies I-III $119.95 set (Christian Studies I-III: Student Books & Teacher Manuals + The Golden Children's Bible) Christian Studies I: All Major Bible Stories up to the Entry into Canaan Christian Studies II: The Rise and Fall of Israel, the Period of the Prophets Christian Studies III: All Major New Testament Stories This series thoughtfully guides your students through The Golden Children's Bible, teaching them the fundamentals of Bible stories, history, and geography, with solid detail at a manageable pace. This is a three-year Bible reading course that builds faith by teaching Salvation History as real history.

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

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The Story of Christianity:

Christian Studies IV:

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

A History of 2,000 Years of the Christian Faith by David Bentley Hart

The Wars of the Jews:

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

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

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

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

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

The Fall of Jerusalem by Josephus

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History of the Early Church

The City of God

by Cody King

by St. Augustine, Vernon J. Bourke edition

Students are invited to continue on from a historical study of the Hebrew people to an investigation of the history of the church. This was so evidently necessary to Christians of the 4th century that one of their own, Eusebius, the bishop of Caesarea, wrote the first book to recount the struggles and victories of the first followers of Christ. Students can now dedicate an entire year to learning the material those Christians began investigating almost 1,700 years ago.

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

In this course, Henry Chadwick's The Early Church is used as the main text. Students are directed to Eusebius' History of the Church when ancient testimony is appropriate.

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Book Review by Martin Cothran G. K. Chesterton was said never to have produced a masterpiece. The reason is not because he never wrote a great book, but because he wrote so many. But if we had to pick one of Chesterton's books as his best, it might be Orthodoxy—his case for Christianity.

Chesterton became famous in 1904, when he responded to the provocations of Robert Blatchford, the atheist editor of the Clarion (a popular newspaper of the time), who invited his audience to respond to his attacks on religious belief. Chesterton's four responses are now classics in Christian apologetics and were published in a small out-of-print pamphlet titled, "The Religious Doubts of Democracy." But these little apologetic gems have since come to be known simply as "The Blatchford Controversies."

He next wrote a book called Heretics, a critique of the great thinkers of the Edwardian England of the first decade of the twentieth century in which he lived. This elicited a challenge from a friend: Now that he had pointed out what was wrong with the beliefs he opposed, wasn't it time to tell the public what he considered to be the correct view of the world? This is what caused him to write Orthodoxy.

Chesterton begins by describing his own search for truth, in which he managed to construct a worldview that made sense of everything, only to discover, once he had put the finishing touches on it, that it was Christianity.

Chesterton starts his critique of modern worldviews by stipulating that modern thinkers

begin their thought by doubting the only Christian doctrine that can be empirically proved: original sin. But, while they reject the idea of sin, what they do accept is the existence of insanity.

Proceeding on this common ground, Chesterton spends the rest of the book showing how every modern philosophy, from materialism to existentialism displays the unique features of insanity.

The most salient feature of insanity, he points out, is its narrowness. It is the tendency to bring an idea "to one painful point." It is to consider one idea in isolation from all the rest. It is distortive of reality.

Chesterton proceeds to show that what modern thinkers have done is to ransack the wreckage of Christendom and found a school of thought on one part of the wreck.

Materialism, Marxism, and the existentialism of Nietzsche have the same sort of "insane simplicity."

They have "at once the sense of ... covering everything and ... leaving everything out." The ideas championed by modern intellectual heresies are not bad in themselves, but only insofar as they are isolated from other truths. "The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad."

Even reason itself has been taken by the rationalists, isolated from the imagination and turned into an intellectual madness.

Chesterton's defense of Christianity is also a defense of sanity itself, a sanity that can only be maintained through a Christian worldview.

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Christian Studies Wall Maps

The Story of the World by Susan Wise Bauer

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.

Volume 1: Ancient Times Volume 2: The Middle Ages

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Susan Wise Bauer's Story of the World fits perfectly as an overview to the time periods students study in our Classical Core packages (pp. 10-12). They make great supplemental summer reading!

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Introduction to Classical Studies Grades 3-8

Grades 3-8

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Introduction to Classical Studies

D'Aulaires' Greek Myths

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Golden Children's Bible)

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

Perfect course for older students needing to catch up.

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

Famous Men Series Grades 4-8

Grades 5-8

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Famous Men of Rome

Famous Men of Greece

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$39.95 set (text, student, teacher)

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

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

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Grades 6+

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The Book of the Ancient World

The Book of the Ancient Greeks

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$39.95 set (text, student, teacher)

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

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

Classical Studies

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

Classical Studies Suggested Timeline Year 1

D'Aulaires' Greek Myths

Year 2

Famous Men of Rome

Year 3

Famous Men of the Middle Ages

Year 4

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

Year 5

Iliad, Odyssey, and The Book of the Ancient Greeks

Year 6

The Aeneid and The Book of the Ancient Romans

Year 7

Greek Plays (Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus)

Year 8

The Divine Comedy (Dante)

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Famous Men of the Middle Ages

Famous Men of Modern Times

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

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

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The Book of the Ancient Romans

The Book of the Middle Ages

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Like any good Roman course, this one begins with the she-wolf who nurses in infancy 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 rise of the Roman Empire teach unforgettable principles about human nature and society.

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

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Classical Literature Grades 6+

Grades 6-8

Grades 6-8

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The Aeneid for Boys & Girls

by Alfred J. Church

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

The Trojan War

by Olivia Coolidge

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

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

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

$60.00 set (Iliad & Odyssey novels, student guides, teacher guides) $32.00 set (Iliad or Odyssey text, student, teacher)

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

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

Grades 7+

The Iliad & Odyssey Samuel Butler translation

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

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

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

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

$39.95 set (Composition & Sketchbook, Handbook, Wall Cards, Flashcards)

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

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

To be completed over four years.

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

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

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The Aeneid

The Oresteian Trilogy

The Three Theban Plays:

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

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

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

by Aeschylus, Translated by Philip Vellacott

David West translation

by Sophocles, Translated by Robert Fagles

Grades 10+

Grades 10+

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On Obligations

The Republic & the Laws

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

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

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

by Cicero, Translated by P. G. Walsh

by Cicero, Translated by Niall Rudd

Grades 10+

Classical Supplement

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

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

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“This is the best exposition of Aristotelian logic I have yet seen aimed at homeschoolers ...”

- Mary Pride

Traditional Logic I

Traditional Logic II

Introduction to Formal Logic

Advanced Formal Logic

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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.

Traditional Logic II covers the figures of the traditional syllogism, forms of rhetorical arguments, kinds of hypothetical syllogisms, kinds of complex syllogisms, as well as relational arguments. The book also includes a wealth of examples of famous arguments throughout history. Some examples include:

(Each book can be used as either a one-semester or one-year course.)

Basic Logical Terms, Concepts, & Procedures • Truth, validity, soundness • 4 ways statements can be opposite • 3 ways statements can be equivalent • Distribution of terms • The 7 rules for validity

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... and how to know it when you see it.

One of the most overused terms in the Christian education lexicon is the expression "worldview."

And although it is frequently used, it is almost never defined. We are told how important "worldview" is.

We are supposed to have a "worldview" and make sure we teach "worldview" to our children. We are warned about other "worldviews" different from our own "worldview" and told that we must learn to distinguish our "worldview" from all the other ones.

Or so the rhetoric seems to run.

But exactly what is a "worldview"? How do we know a good one when we see it? And how did this expression make it into our vocabulary anyway?

The expression "worldview" originated in German with the word Weltanshauung. It first appeared in the eighteenth-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment.

The word has been variously translated "world picture," "philosophy of life," "worldview," or, as one of Kant's translators put it, our "intuition of the world."

In his lecture, "A Philosophy of Life," Sigmund Freud notes how difficult it is to translate the German word Weltanshauung into another language. To him it meant "an intellectual construction which gives a unified solution of all the problems of our existence in virtue of a comprehensive hypothesis—a construction,

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therefore, in which no question is left open and everything in which we are interested finds a place."

A worldview, or Weltanshauung, is a sort of unified field theory of existence. It is not just the set of beliefs we happen to have about God, the world, and ourselves, but the fundamental assumptions that lie behind most of our beliefs—the small set of basic presuppositions that underlies the rest of our thought.

To ask what a worldview is means asking not what we believe, but why we believe what we believe.

While we may disagree with Kant or Freud's worldviews (Kant's involved a radical bifurcation between our mind and the world, and Freud's worldview was based on his theory of psychoanalysis), we would do well to learn from the care with which they tried to define the term itself.

So what are these underlying beliefs that make up a worldview? If we were to go back to Kant, the originator of the term, we might consider his "Four human questions": 1.

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What can I know?

What should I do?

What may I hope?

What is man?

To ask "What can I know?" is to ask a question about epistemology, from the Greek word that means the "study of knowledge." This question has to do with the True and how we can know it.

To ask "What should I do?" is to ask a question about ethics. Our theory of ethics (or axiology) is the

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"study of right action." It has to do with the Good. It is to ask "What is the good?" and "How do we know right actions from wrong ones?"

To ask "What may I hope?" is a question about our affections and whether they are rightly directed. What do we long for and what should we long for? It is also a question about aesthetics, the study of the Beautiful, or the Sublime.

These first three questions would seem more fundamental than Kant's fourth question—"What is man?"—since they have to do with the three most fundamental things: the True, the Good, and the Beautiful—what the ancient philosophers called the "Trancendentals"—the universal characteristics of everything that exists.

Still, the question "What is man?" seems a very fundamental one to us, since we are all human beings.

To ask it is to ask a question about anthropology, the "study of man."

Is there anything missing here? I think there is, but we will have to go back further than Kant to find it.

We will have to search beyond the eighteenth century and go back to the Middle Ages, and ultimately to ancient times, in order to find one more question that is behind them all.

It is the question, "What is reality?" To ask this question is to ask a question about ontology (literally, the "study of being") or metaphysics.

Kant did not give this one in his list, perhaps because he came after René Descartes, who set this question aside in the sixteenth century when he re-centered human thought away from reality to the self. Descartes is considered the first modern philosopher because he changed the way we think. To him, all knowledge of reality must begin with the self.

Descartes inverted the Ontology ancient order in which The Study of Reality ontology came first and psychology last.

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Have we left anything else out? Perhaps so.

If we are going to include anthropology, we should probably also include theology, the "study of God," and natural philosophy, or science, which is the "study of nature," since these three things make up the basic elements of all that is.

What is a worldview? It is your view of what, at bottom, reality is, followed by your fundamental beliefs about the True, Good, and Beautiful, and lastly, who and what God, man, and nature are.

Starting with Kant's four questions, we have added a fifth, sixth, and seventh. It would seem that if we put these seven questions together, we might have struck upon the elements of a worldview. We might say that to ask "What is your worldview?" is to ask "What is your ontology, your epistemology, your ethics, aesthetics, theology, anthropology, and natural philosophy?"

Furthermore, if we are wise, which St. Thomas Aquinas defined as the ability to "order things rightly," we should see that these questions form a hierarchy: The nature of reality (ontology) is the most fundamental thing, second are the characteristics of reality (the Transcendentals), and third are the elements of reality (God, man, and the world). It is a progression—from the most fundamental to the relatively less fundamental. Our view of the Transcendentals will be essentially affected by our ontology, and our view of God, man, and nature will be fundamentally affected by our view of what reality exists and how reality exists.

Now that we know this, we can answer the question many Christian educators ask (and ask their students to ask): "What is the Christian worldview and how does it differ from other worldviews?" We now have seven ways to confidently answer this question, and if we use these seven ways, we will discover what the Christian worldview is.

How does Christianity answer the ontological question, "What is reality?"

There have been three main views on the nature of reality over the course of Western Aesthetics The Study of Beauty thought. The first is Plato's view that the essences of all the things in this world exist in Heaven. Humans exist in the world, but human nature exists in Heaven.

Horses exist in the world, but "horseness"—the horse essence Natural or nature universal in all Philosophy horses—exists in Heaven.

The Study of Nature Trees exist in the world, but

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"treeness"—the essence common to all trees—exists in Heaven. The things in this world are imperfect imitations of these Heavenly essences, or forms. In this sense, the things of this earth—men, animals, plants, etc.—are less real than the really real things in Heaven.

The late medieval thinker William of Ockham, on the other hand, questioned the existence of any essences at all. There are no human, animal, or plant essences, he said, and we call the things by these labels (man, horse, tree) only because they happen to have similar outward features.

The classical Christian view on ontology settled on by the early Middle Ages was Aristotle's view, closer to Plato than to Ockham, in which (unlike Ockham) the essences of things were considered to exist, but (unlike Plato) resided not in Heaven but in the things themselves. Human nature is in every man, horse nature is in every horse, tree nature in every tree. The essences are, indeed, the really real things, put there by the Creator. The essences are intrinsic to the things; they are what makes things what they are.

How does Christianity answer the epistemological question, "What can I know and how can I know it?"

The Greeks and Romans believed there were three ways to know truth: through reason, through the senses, and through divine revelation—but the true God had not revealed Himself to them. Christianity too acknowledges these three ways of attaining truth,

but because it is in possession of the true revelation of God, its knowledge is superior to the knowledge of the ancients. Still, Christianity does not reject reason in favor of revelation, since reason is part of the reflection of the image of God in man.

Rather, it considers that both reason and revelation strive for the same truth.

What about ethics? Modern ethics is divided between rulebased ethics (deontology) and consequentialism. We either believe with Kant that ethics consists in following rules, or with John Stuart Mill that the rightness of our actions lies in their good consequences. Neither is a full view of morality. The reigning view of ethics before the Enlightenment was what we now call "Virtue Ethics," which says that an action is right if it is in accordance with our natures— natures that were effaced by the Fall but not erased; damaged but not destroyed. This is the classical Christian view. According to this view, we are created with an intrinsic nature and purpose. To act according to our nature and to accomplish the purpose we were made to serve is to do right, and to violate our nature or interfere with the purpose in us is to do wrong.

The aesthetics, like truth and morality, are, in the Christian view, objective and universal. The modern view that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" is only a very recent one historically speaking. It is attractive to us because the standards we need to determine

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from which to work. It also makes anthropology a much easier science, since it tells us about the nature of man, a creature created in God's own image. Likewise, our natural philosophy will be informed by the idea that the order of the world is the result of an Orderer, and that the mysteries we see in nature are ultimately resolved in the Being who made it.

God is at once the most fundamental aspect of the Christian worldview, since He is the ultimate ontological reality, and the object of our theology. He is at the core of our study of human nature, because it is a nature made in His image and likeness. He is also the operating principle informing our study of nature, since the essences of things in the world were of His own design.

the difference between those things which naturally appeal to our imagination and those that repulse it are not cut and dry. But just because standards of judgment are hard to determine does not prove that they don't exist. Beauty and the sublime exist, despite the difficulty in saying exactly what they are.

Christianity agrees with Plato, who thought that the True, the Good, and the Beautiful all find their ultimate origin in God. It is no accident that the catechisms of both St. Thomas and Martin Luther are divided into three sections—sections that mirror the order of Transcendentals and the question that accompanies each. To the question "What can I know?" Christianity answers with the contents of the Apostle's Creed; to the question "What should I do?" Christianity answers with the litany of the Ten Commandments; to the question "What may I hope?" Christianity answers with the Lord's Prayer.

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