Classical Teacher, Spring 2015

Saving Western civilization one student at a time

Spring 2015

Once Upon a Time at Home Martin Cothran

Milton's Defense of Classical Education Louis Markos

Unlocking the Treasure Chest of Latin Paul Schaeer

Love in the Heart of This Fairy Tale is out of This World David M. Wright

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bout a year ago, Universal Pictures released the movie Oblivion, starring Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman. It is about a man and a woman (Cruise and Andrea Riseborough) stationed on a post-apocalyptic earth. They are charged with maintaining the drones which protect a number of orbiting installations, mining water for the human encampment now situated on one of Jupiter's moons.

Earth's moon has been blown up, devastating the earth, which is now barely livable. Cruise plays "Jack," who tries to keep the defensive drones operational in the face of constant attacks from roving bands of alien invaders called "scavs" (short for "scavengers"). Jack has had a memory wipe as a security precaution.

But one day while repairing a damaged drone, Jack is captured and knocked unconscious by the scavs.

He wakes up tied to a chair under an intense light. A voice comes from out of the darkness: And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods.

Jack knows these words because on one of his missions he has discovered an old library, from which he has taken several books (in apparent violation of policy). One of them is Horatius at the Bridge, by Lord Macaulay. The scavs have seen him do this.

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From the direction of the voice, we hear the lighting of a match, and we see the face of a man, the light of the match reflected in his goggles. It is Beech (played by Morgan Freeman). "We've been watching you, Jack," he says.

Far from being aliens, Beech explains, the scavs are really human survivors of the alien invasion. They tell the at-first-unbelieving Jack the real story of what has happened to the earth, and allow him to leave their encampment to find out for himself.

As the story progresses, we, along with Jack, find out that he is just one of many Jacks patrolling various parts of the earth, all seemingly identical clones, unaware of the others. The scavs were telling him the truth: Earth was taken over by aliens who are bleeding it dry of its resources. The only humans left are the scavs, who are huddled in caves in the earth, protecting what is left of humanity. Jack has been fighting for the wrong side.

Beech has let him live because he knows of Jack's secret passion for these books and suspects that they have awoken something inside him. In reading them, Jack has been transformed from a memoryless copy of himself, unquestioningly following the orders of what he now knows to be the very creatures who have destroyed his civilization. A man who was the servant of machines has become a master of his own soul.

In the end, the now fully humanized Jack sacrifices himself in defense of the scavs, uttering Macauley's lines as he does so.

We are now in the process of producing a whole race of Jacks. If you doubt the truth of this charge, go look at the recent federal social studies standards, which include no historical content whatsoever.

We have been taken over by cultural aliens. We are producing memoryless copies of ourselves.

Lost in the mindless devotion to so-called "critical thinking skills" and "college and career readiness"—not to mention our servitude to machines—are the ancient stories and venerable truths that schools once taught as a matter of course—ideas and values that made us human, not just cogs in an economic machine.

Classical education's purpose is not to teach job skills or to reform society, although without aiming at these goals it achieves them better than these other methods do. Classical education is about passing on our culture. If we don't do it, we risk a world as culturally desolate as the physical world Jack sacrifices himself to save.

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Spring 2015 FEATURED ARTICLES

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LATIN, Greek, & French

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Letter from the Editor by Martin Cothran Unlocking the Treasure Chest of Latin by Paul Schaeffer What Is Literature? by Martin Cothran Once Upon a Time at Home by Martin Cothran Special-Needs Q & A by Cheryl Swope

Christian Education by Louis Markos, edited by Martin Cothran

Classical Core Curriculum Curriculum Packages & Supplements

Jr. K - Grade 8

New from the Classical Core Curriculum

Jr. K - Grade 8 Jr. K - Grade 12

Special-Needs Curriculum Packages

Ages 2+

30 Alphabet, Numbers, & Enrichment 31 Reading & Phonics 32 Copybooks & Journals, New American Cursive

Ages 4+ Ages 5+ Grades K-4

literature, Grammar, & Writing

5 Literature Study Guides 42 Intro to Composition, Poetry, IEW Writing,

Grades 1-12

43 Classical Composition

Grades 4-12

Grades 2+

& English Grammar

science & Nature

51 Astronomy, Insects, Birds, Trees,

Grades 3+

Tiner series, Nature's Beautiful Order, & more!

American / Modern Grades 3+

States & Capitals, Geography I-III

LOGIC & RHETORIC

Aristotle's Material Logic

Grades 5-12

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

Grades 8-12 Grades 5-8

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

Grades 3-9

48 Classical Literature & Supplements

Grades 6+

Famous Men Series Dorothy Mills Histories

Grades 3-8 Grades 3-8 Grades 6+

Fine Arts

36 Discovering Music

Grades 8+

Exploring America's Musical Heritage

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

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24 Traditional Logic I-II & Supplements 25 Classical Rhetoric & Supplements

First Form Latin Series & Supplements

CLASSICAL/Christian Studies

52 The Trouble With Truth: John Milton's Vision of Classical

26 American Studies, Modern European History,

Grades 3-6

Latin & Greek Supplements

St. John's Academy by Martin Cothran

Curriculum Map Yearly Outlook

Grades 1-4

Latina Christiana & Supplements

21 Elementary Greek, Greek Alphabet Book,

Love in the Heart of This Fairy Tale Is out of This World by David M. Wright

45 Memoria Press Book Review by Paul Schaeffer 50 Classical Latin School Association on

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Prima Latina & Supplements

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

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Homer Price

The Blue Fairy Book

Dangerous Journey

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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

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Robin Hood

King Arthur

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Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $5.99

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $4.99

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

Anne of Green Gables

The Bronze Bow

The Hobbit

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Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $9.95

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $6.95

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Treasure Island

Wind in the Willows

As You Like It

Tom Sawyer

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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)

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Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $11.00

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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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$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-2 • 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-2 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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$365

$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)

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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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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. 51)

Rod & Staff Math 4

Book of Astronomy (p. 51)

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. 51)

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. 51)

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$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)

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f you were to walk into a gym today, you would see men and women doing repetitive exercises that are seemingly pointless. Take, for example, lifting weights. Someone who had never been to a gym before would be confused. “Why does he keep lifting that heavy piece of metal and putting it back where it was before?” he would ask. Then he would see a person running on a treadmill and exclaim, “But she is going nowhere!” “But they are getting fit,” we would say.

We constantly do things to reap their secondary Our predecessors were not incompetent at benefits. We could be moving bales of hay—a translation. They could have provided the classics productive activity—and thereby acquire a more in translation. They chose not to because they knew attractive and healthy form, but instead we repeatedly translation is an art, not a science. Words express lift blocks of metal that serve no other purpose than to concepts, and concepts often contain much more than increase the size of our muscles. the words signify. Consider the word “republic.” For Latin is frequently viewed through this same us, it means a form of government in which elected lense. “Latin will increase your vocabulary!” officials choose what is best for the nation. we cry from the rooftops. “It For the Romans, it had the same So many of our teaches you how to think! It’s the significance but also literally real critical thinking program!” meant “the public affair.” It was culture's greatest works are But some people ask a similar their joint project, something locked away in the treasure question to that which the gym that expressed the nature of visitor would ask: "Why not learn their community. Translating res chest of Latin. a modern language, then, and publica as “republic” neuters it—and acquire the ability to communicate with the concept brought to the mind of the another people while also acquiring these modern English speaker differs significantly same benefits?" from the concept in the Roman mind.

While there are plenty of answers to Connotations also differ widely, but this question that focus on those same this too gets lost in translation. Ferus skills, there is another answer: Vergil. and agrestis both mean “wild,” but ferus And another: Cicero. And still more. Latin (from which the English word “feral” should be taught so that the student can is derived) refers to a more savage read the classics of Western civilization wildness, in contrast to agrestis, in the original language. In fact, until which has more of a rural feel. When the twentieth century, that was the only the reader is confronted in translation reason Latin was taught. The linguistic with “The boy was wild,” he does not benefits were an extra boon, not the know which connotation to apply. central goal.

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inquietum est cor nostrum donec requiescat in te.” It did for emphasis while most modern languages use it for not convey anything different from the familiar “You meaning. We can only emphasize our point by our made us for yourself and our hearts are restless until tone of voice or by using italics, capital letters, or the they rest in you” (though the ad te does imply motion, like. Cicero, however, had the option of rearranging making the meaning more like, “You made us to come his sentences to serve his purpose. His language to you”), but the beauty of the language struck me as generally places the subject at the beginning of the something valuable and attractive beyond the concept sentence and the verb at the end. When he breaks that it transmitted. typical Latin word order by moving the subject next to Another moment ingrained in my memory was the verb, the effect is like the explosion of a firework. slaving through the opening lines of Vergil's Aeneid. It Just as we hear the whistle as it ascends before it was my introduction to Latin poetry, and lights the sky, the reader first gets a taste at the time it was not enjoyable. of what is to come, and then in Inflected languages use word But as I returned to it over the a clarifying instant he hears years, I entered the ranks of and sees the beauty of Cicero’s order for emphasis while most those that loved the Aeneid communication. All this is lost for its lyrical beauty. “I sing of in translation. modern languages use it for arms and a man” just does not For these reasons, it is meaning. have the same ring to it as “Arma clear that every translation is an virumque cano.” It is like Michelangelo’s interpretation. Ostensibly the translator Pietà—a glimpse of its beauty can be seen in photos, but only interprets by word choice (e.g., whether “wild” beholding it in person reveals its irreproducible quality. is better than “savage”), and if that was the only The fullness of so many of our culture’s greatest issue, perhaps we could overcome these drawbacks works are locked away in the treasure chest of Latin— by including myriad footnotes with the translation. as they should be. Who appreciates a treasure more However, the translator also struggles unconsciously than one who devoted his life to unlocking it? And with preconceived notions and personal tendencies. He who will appreciate Cicero’s Pro Archaia more than the does not translate in vacuo, as much as we would like student who has devoted at least four years to learning him to. The selection of “wild” or “savage” does depend Cicero’s language? on the translator’s knowledge of the source language, Imagine how the works of Shakespeare must suffer but it is also affected by whether he likes or dislikes the when translated into another language. Can you even character being described. When reading the Iliad in conceive of hearing “A rose by any other name would class, invariably there is a student who sees Achilles as smell as sweet” in Spanish? Or “Haply I think on the hero and another that reveres Hector. The translator thee,—and then my state” from “Sonnet 29” will fall into one of those categories, and that in French? English works are meant to will prejudice the translation—and the be read in English—for good authors worst part about it is that the reader It is clear that every are not called wordsmiths for naught. will be oblivious to this problem. translation is an Latin works should be read in Poetry adds a host of new problems Latin—and what a tragedy it would be to translation. The translator, acting interpretation. for a student to spend two years or more as a bridge from the author to us, must mastering the language and never get to dialogue in decide whether to put his translation into poetic the company of Augustine, Cicero, and Vergil. form or into prose. If prose, then an integral part of the work is lost. If poetry, then, as Tracy Lee Simmons puts it, “The burden of translation is compounded, perhaps beyond the breaking point, with lyric poetry, which is, even in the best hands, not so much translated as guessed and poked at” (Climbing Parnassus, p. 219). In other words, because of the nature of poetry, which includes short and long syllables, rhyming patterns, About the Author imagery, and more, any attempt to translate it will be Paul Schaeffer was a student of Cheryl Lowe nothing more than an approximation. when she was beginning Highlands Latin There are so many works worth reading in School. He is currently the Assistant Director of the Classical Latin School Association and a Latin. I will never forget the time I was reading St. consultant for schools and homeschoolers.

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Prima Latina

An Introduction to Christian Latin

by Leigh Lowe Grades 1-4 Are you looking for a gentle introduction to Latin and a course that prepares your young student for a more advanced study of the language? Prima Latina is specifically designed for students and teachers with no Latin background.

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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Teacher Manual • Student book w/ answers keyed • Tests

The grammar lessons are set forth in a form appropriate for primary grades. The review lessons that follow each unit provide the consistent review needed to master Latin. With clear explanations and easy-to-read lessons in a two-color format, Prima Latina is perfect for those teachers and parents who would like to start their students on an early study of Christian Latin.

Prima Latina is also the perfect preparation for Latina Christiana.

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Latin prayers and hymns, beautifully sung by a six-voice Gregorian chant choir.

Enrichment activities to help students master Latina Christiana vocabulary & grammar.

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Move straight to First Form Latin after Latina Christiana I (see p. 18).

Latina Christiana Introduction to Christian Latin

by Cheryl Lowe Grades 3-6

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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Each lesson consists of a grammar form, ten vocabulary words, and English derivatives to help build vocabulary and a Latin saying that teaches students about their Christian and classical heritage. Five review lessons help ensure that your student has mastered the material.

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

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

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First Form Latin

Second Form Latin

Latin Grammar Year One

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by Cheryl Lowe Grades 5+ (or any age if completed Latina Christiana I)

by Cheryl Lowe Grades 6+

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

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Introduction to the French Language

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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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Latin Cursive Copybook

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Hymns & Prayers

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.

The Book of Roots

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Latin and Greek Roots for Beginners Roots of English presents careful analysis of Latin and Greek word elements. Students learn not only the modern meanings of the words, but also their underlying, ancient meanings. This course corresponds to the Latina Christiana I Latin vocabulary set.

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hat is the classical view of literature and art? In his book The Mirror and the Lamp, M. H. Abrams observed that art could be viewed from four different perspectives: First there is the emphasis on the universe of art, that is, the thing or idea the work is about, its subject; for example, Mona Lisa herself. Second, there is the audience for the work of art—those for whom it was painted, or written or sculpted; for example, us when we go to the museum and see the Mona Lisa. Third, there is the artist who produced the work; for example, Leonardo da Vinci himself. And finally, there is the artistic work itself; for example, da Vinci’s painting, the Mona Lisa. The universe, the audience, the artist, and the work: These are the four elements of art.

Abrams’ delineation of these elements roughly parallels Aristotle’s Four Causes: 1. Formal Cause: What kind of thing it is, its pattern (the universe—the thing or idea the work is about) 2. Final Cause: What the thing is for (the audience and its aesthetic pleasure) 3. Efficient Cause: What produced the thing (the artist who produced the work) 4. Material Cause: What a thing consists of (the work itself)

The Pragmatic View Abrams calls the view of art that emphasizes the effect of a work on an audience the pragmatic view of art. The most notable advocate for the pragmatic view of art was Philip Sidney (1554-1586). Under this view, the purpose of art is to teach and delight the audience.

Poets, he argues, do not imitate “what is, hath been, or shall be,” but rather “what may be and should be.”

Art, therefore, should be judged by how effectively the delight it brings leads the audience to moral truth.

This results in an emphasis on the rules and principles by which its moral effect can be produced—an emphasis on the “how to” of art.

The pragmatic view of art took hold in the sixteenth century and was the dominant view of art in the Western world until the early nineteenth century.

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The Expressive View The view that displaced the pragmatic view was the expressive view of art. Under this view, it is not the effect on the audience that is primary, but the artist himself. Art is primarily the expression of the feelings of the artist.

It is the internal sentiments of the artist made external in the work of art. Under the expressive view it is the spontaneity of the artist that is all important.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) attempts to do this in his poetry, as do Keats and Shelley. The philosopher John Stuart Mill explicitly advocates this view: Poetry is the uttering forth of feeling.

The Objective View The expressive view of literature and art was largely overtaken in the mid-to-late twentieth century by the objective theory of art. This view advocates that the work of art should be considered on its own merits—not in light of the effect on its audience (which its advocates call the “affective fallacy”) or the feelings of the artist (which it calls the “intentional fallacy”).

The nature and value of art lies in the work itself.

Nothing extraneous should be considered other than the poem, the story, the painting, or the sculpture.

This view became dominant in another form in English and American literature in the mid-to-late

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twentieth century with the rise of the New Criticism.

Figures such as Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks popularized this view with their popular midtwentieth-century English textbooks.

The Mimetic View The other view of literature and art is the original, or classical view. The mimetic view of art focuses on the universe we mentioned above. Art is fundamentally the imitation either of the divine essences (according to Plato) or things themselves (according to Aristotle). In this view—the original view of art—the artist, the audience, and the work itself all play important roles, but they are all oriented toward the conformity of the work with the universe. The purpose of art is to aesthetically represent what is.

The most representative expression of this view is Aristotle’s Poetics, which held sway among literary critics until about the time of Sidney in the sixteenth century.

The Postmodern View The postmodern view of art and literature subverts all four views by questioning the traditional, logocentric basis of thought that produced them. Philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) questioned the dichotomy between the objective and the subjective. Later figures such as Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) questioned all dichotomies. As postmodernism asserted itself in academia in the late twentieth century, it was allowed to question the most fundamental assumptions and values of art and literature.

In the postmodern view, literature is to be “deconstructed” by the critic, who questions the seemingly self-evident motives of the author and apparent assertions of the text. The critic can read his own ideas into the text, ideas that are allowed to have equal standing with those of the author. This becomes possible because of the postmodern rejection of any kind of hierarchy in reality, including that of truth.

Postmodernism questions the basic tenet of classical logocentrism, which is the possibility of the conformity of the work with reality.

Where do we go from here?

The question postmodernism raises is whether anything we say or write or create can have anything to do with the world as it really is. The assumption that art cannot represent reality does not only undermine traditional criticism, it undermines postmodernism itself. One reason to reject postmodernism is that, if it is true, we wouldn’t even be able to discuss whether to reject it or whether it is true because it rejects the very idea of truth. The more pressing question for us, therefore, is which of the traditional views we should go back to.

The problem with most schools of thought on art and literature is that they are reductive. The pragmatic view reduces art to the reaction of the audience, the expressivist view to the feelings of the artist, and the objective view to the work of art by itself outside of any context.

It could be argued that the mimetic view, too, is reductive, since it emphasizes one of the four elements of art (universe over art, artist, and audience). Of these elements, the universe is the most essential. The artist could exist without the work, and the audience without the work—the work could even exist apart from the artist and the audience. Things other than art can express the feelings of a person, and things other than art can please people, but only art does these things through imitation. If art did not imitate something, then it wouldn’t be art at all.

In addition, imitation can achieve the stated goals of the other views in a way they themselves do not: The less art imitates something, the less it seems to please people (witness the unpopularity of so-called “public art,” which many times imitates nothing), and the less art imitates something, the less it seems to fully capture the feelings of the artist (which cannot be captured in any non-concrete way).

The world or universe is the only one of the four elements of art that can meaningfully act as the ordering principle for all the rest—although it needs the rest in order to perform its artistic function. If there is to be an emphasis and an ordering principle to art and literature, it should be that thing without which it would not be art, and this is imitation, the element of art that lies at the heart of the classical view.

The world or universe is the only one of the four elements of art that can meaningfully act as the ordering principle for all the rest.

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

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

Also try our Alphabet Wall Poster (page 32).

Primary Enrichment Classical Core Curriculum supplement My Very First Scissors Book $6.00 My Very Own Scissors Book $6.00

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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Classical Core Curriculum supplement Jr. K Book of Crafts $16.95 Kindergarten Book of Crafts $16.95

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

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

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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.

"I did the kindergarten core with my son this last school year, and I can't say enough about it. What a perfectly paced year. His progress has been tremendous, and I am so glad we shared this experience together."

—Anastasia

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

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$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

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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

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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

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$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.

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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

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“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:

$20.00

$15.00

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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Text $17.95 eBook $12.95

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

$22.00

$25.00

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Once Upon a Time at Home

by Martin Cothran

O

ne Saturday many years ago, when even my oldest children were young, we had a visit from two friends, Jim and Renee. They were not quite my parents’ age,

but they were old enough that they had just become grandparents.

This is the first benefit of reading aloud: It makes a community out of those who had been mere individuals.

e invited them in, and, as happened when anyone entered our home at that time, they were beset with children. Not everyone takes such things well, but for these friends, it was a welcome imposition. After a few formalities, Jim sat down on our living-room couch and grabbed a children’s picture book, and my two oldest children, my son and my daughter, automatically sat down next to him. He read them a story as my wife and I—and Jim’s wife, Renee—looked on.

In that one moment there was an immediate bond of shared wonder between these two friends and my children, woven from a simple story.

Something about the act of reading aloud is communal. To read by yourself is to involve only one person, but to read aloud is to involve you and someone else—perhaps several people, all of whom are hearing the same thing at the same time from the same book read in the same voice. This is the first benefit of reading children’s stories—and reading them aloud: It makes a community out of those who had been mere individuals.

I don’t remember what Jim read to my children that day. Maybe it was Green Eggs and Ham, or The Story of Ferdinand, or possibly Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel. It could have been a hundred others—we had them all.

I spend a lot of my time writing and speaking on education issues, and I frequently have occasion to extol the virtues of reading aloud to children. In my opinion, it is one of the most important ways, not only of bringing our individualistic modern selves together, but of simply introducing children to the wonder of reality.

This is its second benefit: It brings a sort of enchantment into their everyday lives.

A very young child, of course, does not recognize the distinction between reality and magic. To a child, everything seems fantastic. A child of seven, said G. K. Chesterton, “is excited by being told that Tommy opened a door and saw a dragon.

But a child of three is excited by being told that Tommy opened a door.”

When our first child was about a year old, we began reading to him at bedtime.

We ushered him into the world of “Wynken, Blynken, and Nod.” He had no trouble at all with the idea that three children, one night,

W

Sailed off in a wooden shoe— Sailed on a river of crystal light, Into a sea of dew.

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To him it would have seemed no more fantastic to sail off in a shoe than sailing off in a ship.

Many of the books we read were very small. We read Little Toot, The Little Red Hen, The Three Little Pigs, and The Little Engine That Could. We read The Little Princess, Little Women, Little Britches, and Stuart Little. We read The Little Farm, The Little House, and Little House on the Prairie. Then, of course, there was The Story of Doctor Doolittle and the Little Golden Books, as well as Policeman Small, Fireman Small, Farmer Small, and last—as well as least, The Teeny Tiny Woman.

There were certain picture book illustrators and authors who became perennial family favorites: Bill Peet (The Caboose Who Got Loose, Cyrus the Unsinkable Sea Serpent, and Hubert's Hair-Raising Adventure), Paul Galdone (Henny Penny, The Gingerbread Boy, and Hansel & Gretel), and Edward Lear (“The Owl and the Pussycat,” “The Jumblies,” and “The Pelican Chorus”).

Each book was a fairy wand, waved over our home. Whenever we heard a loud explosion, it was Drummer Hoff, firing it off. Our home was not just good, it was The Best Nest. Sometimes the last one into the house got a swat, just like the Chinese duck in The Story About Ping.

And every bean was a magic bean.

When additional children were added to our merry band, they too were taught the consequences of kissing a frog, and not to talk to strange wolves on the way to grandmother’s house. They knew better than to build their houses out of straw and to have a healthy fear of giants, poisoned apples, and old women living in houses made out of candy. And none of them suffered any doubts about whether the dish ran away with the spoon.

We plied them with favorites such as Dr. Seuss’ The Sleep Book, our copy of which still bears, inside the front cover, an annotation: “1122 Bedroom Lane, Storybookland.” It was written there by my wife when she was a little girl.

The kitchen was often a place of instruction and admonition in practical wisdom born of books. There was more than one cake baked there about which it was asked, “Who will eat this cake?”

And always there was a chorus of “I will” from the very voices who had answered “Not I” when the question was who would help to make it.

But it wasn’t only delight we found in books. One night, my wife came back into the living room after having read a chapter in Anne of Green Gables to my daughter, the half-opened book hanging limply from her hand. I could tell she had been crying.

Matthew, Anne’s beloved adoptive uncle, had died.

Bedtime wasn’t the only time our children were read to.

As part of our homeschool day, they were read to in the early afternoon, usually after lunch. Some of my fondest memories are the many times I passed by the living room and poked my head in to see my wife sitting on the sofa, with one child in her lap, one sitting next to her coloring in a book, and another on the floor quietly playing as she read the Bible.

And this is a third benefit that comes from reading children’s stories: They were not only learning by listening; they were learning to listen. Listening, like reading and writing and calculating, is a skill.

Many of the books used in the Cothran home are available in Memoria Press' ReadAloud programs. See pages 8-11.

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And this training in how to listen extended even to the dinner table. After supper, I would push the dishes away and begin reading. The Little House on the Prairie books and the Chronicles of Narnia were books we read again and again as dessert was served, in addition to Booth Tarkington’s Penrod, and The Lord of the Rings.

Everything these stories touched was transformed, and even the most mundane of circumstances was cast in a new light—for everyone, including the adults.

Occasionally I would notice my wife missing, and after searching for a few minutes would find her sitting up on our bed reading a magazine, her back propped up on a pillow. Around her wriggled the signs that her search for a few moments of solitude had been unsuccessful. She would look up at me, put a loving hand on the head of the squirming child nearest her, and with a bemused expression say, in Seussian tones, “I do not like this bed at all. A lot of things have come to call.”

More than once I would be working at the diningroom table long after the voice of my wife, reading in the next room, had become background noise. All of a sudden I would realize that the children had all escaped to the backyard long ago, and there was silence in the house. I would poke my head in the living room,

where she would still be sitting on the couch, lost in the book she had been reading to the children.

“Are you okay?” I would ask. “Yes,” she would say, “but listen to this …,” and she would share some pearl of wisdom she, an adult, had learned from a book meant for children.

In Virginia Lee Burton’s The Little House, a woman passes by a little dilapidated house in the city one day.

It turns out that the house had once been out in the country, but the city had grown all around it. “No one wanted to live in her and take care of her anymore.”

The woman finds out that the house actually belonged to her great-great grandfather, and that it “couldn’t be sold for silver or gold.” So she had the little house moved out into the country so she could live in it.

We too own a house in the country, having moved from the suburbs before our children were born.

When my wife gets in one of her cleaning moods, she wonders out loud what the many children’s books we have acquired might go for at a yard sale. No one wants to read or take care of them anymore.

Some of them may need to go. But someday our grandson—or his future siblings and cousins—may walk by those shelves, and some of those books may be moved to his own bookshelf at 1122 Bedroom Lane, Storybookland. And that’s why they can never be sold—for silver or gold.

Memoria Press pairs with Professor Carol!

If you have seen Professor Carol speak, you know the knowledge and infectious enthusiasm she brings to the teaching of the history of music and culture of Western civilization. We here at Memoria Press have long been among her greatest fans. Now we are offering her excellent program as part of the Memoria Press family of products.

Grades 5+

Limited Time Memoria Press Offer: $39.95 (2 DVDs totaling more than 4 hours)

Exploring America’s Musical Heritage: Through

Discovering Music:

Art, Literature, and Culture with Dr. Carol Reynolds

300 Years of Interaction in Western Music, Art, History, and Culture with Dr. Carol Reynolds

In this course, Professor Carol—along with 38 other historians, scholars, and artists—takes you on a journey through America’s musical history. The arts give us a valuable way to connect with the past. When we sing the songs our great-grandparents learned around a campfire, read the poems they recited, and study the paintings or quilts they created, we visit the past in a tangible way. We connect with our legacy.

This program features a DVD of Professor Carol as she travels the world using music as the window into the history of thought and culture, along with a unit-by-unit Teacher's Manual to step you through it. Music has always been central to classical education, and by connecting music history to political and cultural history, we make all of history more memorable. Discovering Music brings Western culture alive for students.

Supplementary articles, interviews, and notes are available on Professor Carol's website.

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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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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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with Cheryl Swope, author of Simply Classical

Our school uses Memoria Press K-8 classical curriculum.

Currently we have a child with Down Syndrome in first grade. We are looking for any help you could offer with new modifications to the existing curriculum.

Children with Down Syndrome can vary widely in ability, but these initial thoughts might spark more ideas of your own:

1. Create a Strategy Team • Include his parents, K and 1st grade teachers, someone in your school with special-education training or experience, and his therapists (speech, OT, PT).

• Discuss his unique strengths within the MP curriculum.

• Determine his most pressing areas of need (e.g., recitations, reading).

• Brainstorm ways to modify instruction (e.g., more visual or manipulative materials, more repetition through regular tutoring at home or after school).

• Plan ways to adjust his required responses (e.g., fewer written answers).

• Set realistic short-term and long-term goals with a plan to reconvene each quarter.

2. Obtain Necessary Support • Secure a thorough evaluation (cognitive, speech and language, academic) and request professional recommendations for specific academic modifications.

• Provide recommended equipment (e.g., postural or writing aids for low muscle tone).

• Ensure recommended therapies, if he does not yet receive these.

3. Plan for the Future • Plan for needed modifications in second grade and beyond.

If you foresee a need for more intensive help, you might consider creating a resource room or a tutorial K-3 and 4-6 classroom for students with significantly different learning needs. Our new slower-paced, multi-sensory Simply Classical Curriculum (pp. 37 & 39) is designed for such a situation.

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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

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*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

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*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

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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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B

in the Heart of This Fairy Tale Is out of This

by David M. Wright

ecause our most fundamental realities are immaterial —like love and death—few artistic forms remain as capable as fairy tales and poetry for housing such depths. Fairy tales carry us from the prosaic landscape of our workaday rhythm to mountain streams of simple wonder and truth.

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o filter necessary to drink of this pure water, just the reawakening of your childhood imagination.

Fairy tales are as old as man and rooted deep in oral tradition. Eventually they became a literary tradition.

In the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, writers such as Charles Perrault, E. T. A. Hoffman, the Grimm brothers, Hans Christian Andersen, and Andrew Lang compiled and wrote down numerous oral fairy tales from various traditions, imbuing them with a distinct literary style. And some even invented their own fairy tales, like Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio, George Macdonald’s The Princess and the Goblin, and Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince, and Other Tales.

I can think of few more illuminative fairy tales than Oscar Wilde’s “The Nightingale and the Rose.”

Interestingly, as licentious, conflicted, and satirical as Wilde was in his life and letters, his fairy tales are set apart, revealing a spectrum of moral wisdom and beauty. This suggests an important point about fairy tales: They distill truth by means of their simple, direct style and clear moral distinctions, and they amplify truth through metaphor and symbol.

In “The Nightingale and the Rose,” each character (or entity) in the tale is named according to what kind of thing it is—what it is in its essence: the Student, the Professor’s Daughter, the Nightingale, the Rose Tree, Love, etc. This is significant, as we will see later.

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s the story goes: The young Student is heartbroken because he cannot find a red rose to give to his beloved, the Professor’s Daughter, who

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said she would dance with him if he brings her a red rose. From a nearby tree, the Nightingale hears his plight and takes pity on him. She understands how wonderful Love is, and possesses a deep reverence for it. So the Nightingale seeks out several rose trees in search of a red rose, but to no avail. Finally, she is directed to the Rose Tree that grows beneath the Student’s window. But it is the middle of winter, and he cannot grow any roses in the harsh, bitter cold.

Yet after the Nightingale’s unrelenting insistence, the Rose Tree discloses the only way that he can produce a single red rose: through the Nightingale’s death.

She must sing to him all night long with a thorn against her breast, which will pierce her heart, and her life-blood will flow into the tree and become his— producing one beautiful red rose.

She chooses to die for Love. Through her death the most beautiful red rose in the world is created. The Student sees the red rose, which he attributes to luck, and presents it to the girl. She rejects him: the rose will not match her dress, and she is now interested in the wealthy Chamberlain’s nephew who has sent her jewels and who wears silver buckles in his shoes.

Dejected, the Student tosses the red rose into the

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This presents the tale’s climax, its highest moment street, where it is crushed by a cartwheel. Jaded, he of tension: Will the Nightingale sacrifice her life for returns to his books, disbelieving in love.

Love? Indeed, that which is most precious rarely With an ending like that, you may be thinking that comes without a great test of will. Her decision is you’d rather not read Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales. But fraught with struggle: permit me to suggest otherwise: There is much more in the heart of this fairy tale than a sad ending of Death is a great price to pay for a red rose. Life is very dear to all. unrequited love.

It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and to watch the Sun in his Let’s begin with the Nightingale, the moral center chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the of the story. Just a few lines into the tale, we scent of the hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the sense something different about her: hill. Yet Love is better than Life ...

“From her nest in the holm-oak tree By faith, the the Nightingale heard him, and she The Nightingale reminds us that Nightingale has believed looked out through the leaves, and existence is a blessing. Her vivid wondered.” She has the capacity to in and recognized the sensual description of nature conveys wonder. She thinks deeply about the the beauty of Life for which we must ineffability of Love.

Student and about Love: be thankful. “Life is very dear to all,” she says. Yet she ultimately concludes that Here at last is a true lover. Night after night have I sung of him, though I knew him not; night after night have I “Love is better than Life.” told his story to the stars, and now I see him. His hair is dark The death of the Nightingale for Love proceeds in a as the hyacinth-blossom, and his lips are red as the rose of his harrowing progression throughout the night:

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desire; but passion has made his face like pale ivory, and sorrow has set her seal upon his brow.

y faith—“though I knew him not”—the Nightingale has believed in and recognized the ineffability of Love—for she has sung about it to the stars night after night. For her, only the unfathomable stars seem infinite and transcendent enough to receive her songful musings about Love. As well, she now sees this Love embodied in the Student, signified by descriptive similes and metaphors: “His hair is dark as the hyacinth-blossom,” “his lips are red as the rose of his desire.” Moreover, the Nightingale elaborates on the spiritual and transcendent nature of Love by contrasting it with material possessions: Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, nor can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.

Next, the Nightingale flies to each rose tree in search of a red rose, offering what she believes to be her greatest gift, her music: “Give me a red rose, and I will sing you my sweetest song.” In her visits to the first two trees, she does not realize that much more than a song will be asked of her, that she will be capable of greater spiritual heights—offered by the third Rose Tree: "If you want a red rose,” said the Tree, “you must build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with your own heart’sblood. You must sing to me with your breast against a thorn.

All night long you must sing to me, and the thorn must pierce your heart, and your life-blood must flow into my veins, and become mine."

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• So the Nightingale pressed closer against the thorn, and louder and louder grew her song ... But the thorn had not yet reached her heart, so the rose’s heart remained white ...

• So the Nightingale pressed closer against the thorn, and the thorn touched her heart, and a fierce pang of pain shot through her. Bitter, bitter was the pain, and wilder and wilder grew her song, for she sang of the Love that is perfected by Death, of the Love that dies not in the tomb.

• And the marvelous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Then she gave one last burst of music.

How extraordinary it is that love and death remain inextricably linked. Perhaps the deepest love can only be understood in the pain of death.

With the crucifixion of our Lord, a gravely poignant death happened because of love. Through death, transcendent love poured forth. Without death, there was no resurrection unto life.

In this fairy tale, we are called forth to wonder, like a child, at the Love that is both immanent and transcendent, in this world and out of it. When the Nightingale gave up her spirit in death for the Love of a man, all of creation was shaken: the white moon heard it and forgot the dawn, the red rose heard it and trembled, Echo bore it to her purple cavern in the hills and woke the sleeping shepherds from their dreams. It floated through the reeds of the river, and they carried its message to the sea. That Grades 4+ message is here, too, in the heart Th e Blue Fairy Book of this fairy tale, and in the center

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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.

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

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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

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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.

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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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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:

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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

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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.

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t. Parnassus was considered by the ancients to be the dwelling place of the Greek god Apollo and the nine muses. They were the inspiration for almost all knowledge and expression: science, philosophy, art, music, etc. The ancients constantly looked towards Parnassus as a symbol of “poetic inspiration and perfection.” These last words are author Tracy Lee Simmons’, a man who was classically educated himself. As he put it, "Climbing Parnassus" eventually became a code for the painfully glorious exertions of Greek and Latin. The hard, precipitous path of classical education ideally led not to knowledge alone, but to the cultivation of mind and spirit.

Thus begins the analogy he uses to write one of the most unapologetic apologias for classical education.

Contrary to other works on education, Climbing Parnassus is an enjoyable read. The language is polished and eloquent, and the arguments are as clear as a sunny day atop a mountain. Simmons starts with an exhortation about why we would even want to climb $15.00

Climbing Parnassus:

A New Apologia for Greek and Latin

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Parnassus. What are we looking for at the top? He asks several perfect questions, just as the Greeks constantly asked the right questions time and time again: If education is not to promote material success, what should it do? Must we lend any legitimacy to an older idea that education exists primarily to form the inner man as well as to impart those all-important skills for making a living? Have we in fact grown out of that ideal? Or have we fallen so far short of it that we cannot even spy its majestic peaks?

From there he draws distinctions between different understandings of “culture” and “knowledge,” key elements to any discussion of classical education.

Once we have our motivation, we are led to do our research: we see step by step how Parnassus was scaled in ancient times and how that has changed through the centuries, whether for better or for worse. Finally, we find ourselves at the summit, seeing the “realms of gold.” Simmons shows us what education once was and the beauty that training in Latin and Greek wrought throughout the centuries.

Of particular note, he shows the influence of classical education on America’s Founding Fathers.

This book is truly Good and Beautiful—an enjoyable read for those seeking to walk out of the cave of modern schooling and behold the sun from the top of Mount Parnassus.

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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.

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Introduction to Classical Studies Grades 3-8

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Introduction to Classical Studies

D'Aulaires' Greek Myths

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

Perfect course for older students needing to catch up.

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

Famous Men Series Grades 4-8

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Famous Men of Rome

Famous Men of Greece

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

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

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The Book of the Ancient World

The Book of the Ancient Greeks

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

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

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

Classical Studies Suggested Timeline Year 1

D'Aulaires' Greek Myths

Year 2

Famous Men of Rome

Year 3

Famous Men of the Middle Ages

Year 4

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

Year 5

Iliad, Odyssey, and The Book of the Ancient Greeks

Year 6

The Aeneid and The Book of the Ancient Romans

Year 7

Greek Plays (Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus)

Year 8

The Divine Comedy (Dante)

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Famous Men of the Middle Ages

Famous Men of Modern Times

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

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

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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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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

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

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The Iliad & Odyssey Samuel Butler translation

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

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

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

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

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

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

To be completed over four years.

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

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

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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

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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.

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The independent, inter-denominational school has, like many small Christian schools, struggled during economic hard times. But in recent years the school has thrived through the generosity and sacrifice of its families and faculty. "We are determined to uphold the vision of classical education and not be blown about by the wind," says Headmistress Wallis Brooks, "or by every new trend that presents itself as the latest and greatest."

Mrs. Brooks is the founding headmistress of the school and has seen it through bad times and good. She points to the accomplishments of the school's graduates as evidence of the contribution the school has made to their lives. "I am forever grateful for the training I received in thinking critically and accepting challenges presented to me," says one graduate—a pre-med student. "I am always so proud to see the way my daughter handles herself in a group of adults," says a proud parent of another graduate.

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St. John's students have been accepted into advanced programs such as the Cambridge Advanced International Certificate of Education Program (AICE), the International Baccalaureate Program, and the Honors Program. The school has strengthened its middle school Latin program and recently received a perfect score on the National Latin Exam's Intro to Latin test and a Silver Maxima Cum Laude in Latin I. St. John's is expecting to continue its growth in the hopes of adding a high school.

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John Milton's Vision of Classical Christian Education

by Louis Markos

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here is an early Protestant whose vigorous embrace of both Christianity and humanism afforded him an intellectual and aesthetic grasp of the unity of Truth that rivals, and complements, that of the Catholic Dante. I speak of John Milton (1608-1674). Like Origen, Aquinas, and Erasmus before him, and Newman after him, Milton understood that all truth is God’s truth. Indeed, so strong was his belief that biblical Christianity could not and must not be divorced from classical humanism, that, although he pledged his allegiance to the flag of the Puritans—they who closed down the theaters—he was himself one of the earliest and greatest opponents of censorship.

To this day, his logical, eloquent, and deeply felt defense of the freedom of the press, “Areopagitica” (1644), remains one of, if not the, crowning expression of the need for a Christian society to ensure liberty in the humanistic realms of thought. And, as such, it offers as well a timeless meditation on the status of Truth in a fallen world that has direct relevance to classical Christian schools devoted to giving their students the finest education that the combined Judeo-Christian, Greco-Roman tradition can offer. All schools who claim as one of their goals the study and dissemination of Truth—not to mention the formation of virtuous character—would do well to consider carefully the chief claims and arguments of “Areopagitica.”

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In choosing his somewhat obscure title, Milton calls us back to the birthplace of humanism, fifthcentury B.C. Athens, where the Areopagus, a council of elders, would, like the Parliament of Milton's day, hear cases and render judgment. He calls us back as well to the early days of Christianity, when the Apostle Paul (Acts 17) invited the members of the Areopagus to open their hearts and minds and to make a smooth and natural transition from their limited pagan belief in an unknown God to a fuller faith in an invisible Father who has made himself known through the Incarnation, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of his Son. Despite his sympathies with the goals of the Puritan Revolution, Milton could not condone any abridgment of man’s right to study and seek after truth; his Christian humanist view of truth was too vigorous for that. “Truth,” he writes, “is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.” Truth, like the Bible itself, is ever active and alive, sharper and swifter than any double-edged sword: She needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious, those are the shifts and the defenses that error uses against her when she sleeps, for then she speaks not true, as the old Proteus did, who spake oracles only when he was caught and bound, but then rather she turns herself into all shapes, except her own, and perhaps tunes her voice according to the time, as Micaiah did before Ahab [1 Kings 22], until she be adjured into her own likeness. Yet is it not impossible that she may have more shapes than one.

To censor truth is to all but compel it to mingle itself with error, to hide itself even further from our view. Rather than try to suppress it, we must allow it to follow its own winding course; then only will we be able to seek it out in all its forms.

For Truth, though it entered our world in a perfect form and shape, was later torn and scattered to the four winds like the limbs of the Egyptian god Osiris.

“From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth,

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such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.” Should it not be one of the chief functions of classical Christian schools to play the role of Isis, to help in the re-gathering and re-assembling of truth?

That Milton would surely agree is attested to in part by the fact that his greater vision of truth as a living, if fragmented, presence in our world included a more specific view of the Great Books of our tradition as vivid, animated vessels of this Truth: For books are not absolutely dead things, but contain a potency of life in them, rendering them as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth, and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.

Milton did not merely study books; he dined, conversed, and struggled with them as he would with living, breathing men. Reading the ancients was no more a passive activity for Milton than it is for classical Christian educators. On the contrary, as he took into himself the ideas incarnated in each work, he would actively measure and square these ideas with the truths he knew from his personal and intimate encounter with both the Bible and the God of the Bible.

Milton took seriously the freedom granted him by his Creator to choose and to discern what is right and wrong, good and evil:

guarding his mind from error, he is exercising those very faculties of mind—consciousness and reason, conscience and volition—that most closely mimic the nature of that God in whose image he was created.

Indeed, to make a proper and effective use of those faculties is to move closer to God and to that Truth of which he alone is the source.

As a Christian humanist, Milton believed that such choosing was real and possible, and that it justified any risks that the freedom of the press might entail. After all, Milton reminds us, Moses and Daniel “were skillful in all the learning of the Egyptians [and] Chaldeans,” and Paul “thought it no defilement to insert into Holy Scripture the sentences of three Greek poets [Acts 17:28, 1 Corinthians 15:33, and Titus 1:12], and one of them a tragedian.” The true Christian, Milton assures us, whose eyes are fixed on the pure love and truth of Christ, need not fear defilement from pagan works, even as God released Peter (Acts 10) from the kosher

When God gave [Adam] reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions [puppet shows]. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force. God therefore left him free, set before him a provoking object, ever almost in his eyes; herein consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence.

When a classical Christian student wrestles with a Great Book, when he seeks to extract from it its essence of Godborn Truth while simultaneously

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laws of the Old Testament with the liberating command that he not call unclean what God had made clean.

To illustrate further this assurance, Milton then recounts a tale from the early Church that classical Christian educators would do well to keep in mind: Dionysius Alexandrinus was, about the year 240, a person of great name in the Church for piety and learning, who had wont to avail himself much against heretics by being conversant in their books; until a certain presbyter laid it scrupulously to his conscience, how he durst venture himself among those defiling volumes. The worthy man, loth to give offence, fell into a new debate with himself what was to be thought; when suddenly a vision sent from God (it is his own epistle that so avers it) confirmed him in these words: Read any books whatsoever come to thy hands, for thou art sufficient both to judge aright, and to examine each matter. To this revelation he assented the sooner, as he confesses because it was answerable to that of the Apostle to the Thessalonians, Prove all things, hold fast that which is good. And he might have added another remarkable saying of the same author: To the pure, all things are pure; not only meats and drinks, but all kind of knowledge whether of good or evil; the knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

Milton expresses here a three-fold faith that must ever function as the backbone of any school that would invite its students to explore both Athens and Jerusalem:

1. That it is more the state of the mind/soul that

considers than the object that is considered that purifies or defiles.

2. That the saint, unlike the sinner, is qualified

by God to examine and judge whatever is presented to his mind.

3. That, in fact, “a wise man, like a good refiner,

can gather gold out of the drossiest volume, [while] a fool will be a fool with the best book, yea, or without book.”

If Christian educators cannot rest on this threefold faith, then truly must they fear the introduction of pagan texts into the classroom. Indeed, if they are fair and consistent in their fears, then they must exclude even the Bible itself from their curriculum: “for that oft-times relates blasphemy not nicely, it describes the carnal sense of wicked men not unelegantly, it brings in holiest men passionately murmuring against Providence through all the argument of Epicurus.”

The postmodern educator—like the radical egalitarian—allows all books into his classroom on an equal basis because he believes that they are all of equal value: that is to say, equally non-authoritative, equally non-binding, and, finally, equally worthless.

But the true Christian educator includes all manner of fare in his banquet of learning, for he knows that the properly trained palate will be able to distinguish the Velveeta from the Camembert, the hamburger from the filet mignon.

To Milton’s mind, the true Christian, if he is to grow in wisdom and mature in virtue, must employ all his natural and acquired skills of discernment not merely to separate the true from the false, but to encounter the true in and through the false: Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil, and in so many cunning resemblances hardly to be discerned, that those confused seeds which were imposed upon Psyche as an incessant labor to cull out, and sort asunder, were not more intermixed. It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say of knowing good by evil. As therefore the state of man is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

As sojourners in a fallen world, we must understand, and develop strategies for dealing with, the sad fact that pure goodness, pure beauty, and pure truth no longer exist on this earth. Of course, these things were partially restored by the entrance into our world of One who was—and is—pure Goodness, Beauty, and Truth, and yet, even for Him, the road to the spotless glory of resurrection lay through the shame and horror of crucifixion. The stable yet finally futile laws that control our present, temporal existence are such that the wheat and tares not only grow

Louis Markos (www.Loumarkos.com) Professor in English and Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University, holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities; his books include From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics, Literature: A Student’s Guide, and Heaven and Hell: Visions of the Afterlife in the Western Poetic Tradition.

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of that path, if we allow fear or guilt to stop us from “dirtying” our hands with pagan or “sub-Christian” or even heterodox literature, if we shy away from that which is painful, disturbing, or impure, we will miss out on a host of higher truths that can only be reached through such problematic avenues of investigation.

Milton, who lived and participated in a volatile age of schism, rebellion, and reform, calls out to us from across the centuries to see and to accept that “there must be many schisms and many dissections made in the quarry and in the timber ere the house of God can be built. And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world.” May we adopt Milton’s metaphor of the contiguous house of God, rather than the egalitarian and relativistic metaphors of postmodern educators, as our distinctive badge and emblem. Only then shall we be empowered to seek after Truth in a way that would please both the Protestant Milton and the Catholic Newman; only then shall we be enabled to produce students who both practice virtue and love Truth.

When a classical Christian student wrestles with a Great Book, he is exercising those very faculties of mind— consciousness and reason, conscience and volition— that most closely mimic the nature of that God in whose image he was created. up together, but the latter cannot be fully weeded out without damaging or even destroying the former (Matthew 13:24-30).

Absolute Truth does exist and is, at least partly, knowable and communicable, but the rising path that carries us upward toward that Truth is a thorny one in which good and evil, truth and error, are cunningly and often deceptively interwoven. Further, if we refuse or are prevented from exploring the full stretch

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