Classical Teacher, Summer 2015

Saving Western civilization one student at a time

Summer 2015 Science in the Classical School Jerey Mays

Knowing What Nature Is Christopher Blum

There Is No Nature Without Mother David M. Wright

Does Science Explain Anything?

Martin Cothran

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M

y wife and I were staying at a little inn in the mountains recently. We woke up one morning and she opened the window blinds. "Oh!" she said. "A tractor!" There was a parking lot for some cabins next to us and there was a tractor parked there. For some reason at first unclear to me, she had found this astonishing.

On hearing the remark, I made a subconscious mental note to find out exactly what was so remarkable about a tractor sitting in a parking lot.

I was still too groggy to ask when she said it. But a few moments later, she giggled, and explained how babysitting our 1 1/2 year-old grandson several times a week had affected her way of looking at the world.

"When he and I see something even as mundane as that, we get pretty excited about it."

G. K. Chesterton points out that this is what fairy tales do for us: They plug us back into what he calls "the ancient instinct of astonishment" that we had when we were children: These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

My wife went on to explain how this wonder at the world which our grandson has helped re-awaken in her operated not only with man-made things, but natural things as well. In fact, perhaps especially with natural things. This wonder at God's creation affects many things, not the least of which is our view of God Himself.

In one of John Updike's short stories, "Pigeon Feathers," a young boy, David, has questions about his Christian faith. How do we know God exists? How do we know He cares for each of us? How do we know God will save us—and how can he, David, know that God will save him? Will he really live forever? They are questions neither his parents nor his Sunday School teacher are able to answer.

One day, David's mother asks him to shoot a flock of pigeons that are making a big mess in their barn.

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These questions still on his mind, he takes his gun and shoots them. When he goes to place the birds in a hole he has dug for them in the forest, he picks up one of the birds.

The feathers seem "trimmed to fit a pattern" that worked itself out across its body in "geometrical tides": And across the surface of the infi nitely adjusted yet somehow effortless mechanics of the feathers played idle designs of color, no two alike, designs executed, it seemed, in a controlled rapture, with a joy that hung level in the air above and behind him.

As he drops each bird into its grave, he notices that each one is different—one "banded in slate shades of blue," another "mottled all over in rhythms of lilac and gray," and yet another "almost wholly white, but for a salmon glaze at its throat."

Something about the unique design of these birds ends up addressing his questions about divine reality and his eternal destiny in a way that his family and friends never could: As he fitted the last two, still pliant, on the top, and stood up, crusty coverings were lifted from him, and with a feminine, slipping sensation along his nerves that seemed to give the air hands, he was robed in this certainty: that the God who had lavished such craft upon these worthless birds would not destroy His whole Creation by refusing to let David live forever.

He is assured, not by the abstract answers we think we need, but by the simple wonder of God's creation.

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Summer 2015 FEATURED ARTICLES

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LATIN, GREEK, & FRENCH

Letter from the Editor by Martin Cothran Au Means ... Gold? by Paul Schaeffer Knowing What Nature Is by Christopher Blum Science in the Classical School by Jeffrey Mays Classical Latin School Association on St. Mary's by Martin Cothran Special-Needs Q & A by Cheryl Swope

Curriculum Packages & Supplements

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Elementary Greek, Greek Alphabet Book, Latin & Greek Supplements

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Jr. K - Grade 8

New from the Classical Core Curriculum Curriculum Map Yearly Outlook

Jr. K - Grade 8

Reading & Phonics

Ages 5+

Copybooks & Journals, New American Cursive

Classical Composition

Grades K-4

Grades 1-12

Intro to Composition, Poetry, IEW Writing, & English Grammar

Grades 2+ Grades 4-12

SCIENCE & NATURE Astronomy, Insects, Birds, Trees, Tiner series, Nature's Beautiful Order, & more!

Grades 3+

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

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Grades 8-12 Grades 5-8 Grades 3+

Christian Studies I-IV

Grades 3-9

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

Grades 3-8 Grades 3-8 Grades 6+

Classical Literature & Supplements

Grades 6+

FINE ARTS

56 Ages 4+

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Grades 5-12

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

Ages 2+

Alphabet, Numbers, & Enrichment

Literature Study Guides

First Form Latin Series & Supplements

Jr. K - Grade 12

Special-Needs Curriculum Packages

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Grades 3-6

CLASSICAL/CHRISTIAN STUDIES

Does Science Explain Anything? by Martin Cothran

LITERATURE, GRAMMAR, & WRITING

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Grades 1-4

Latina Christiana & Supplements

Memoria Press Book Review by David M. Wright

PRIMARY YEARS

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Prima Latina & Supplements

There Is No Nature Without Mother by David M. Wright

CLASSICAL CORE CURRICULUM

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Grades 3+

Discovering Music Exploring America's Musical Heritage

Grades 8+

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Traditional Logic I-II & Supplements

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Classical Rhetoric & Supplements Aristotle's Material Logic

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Curriculum Change:

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Wind in the Willows

As You Like It

Tom Sawyer

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Beowulf, the Warrior

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

The Canterbury Tales

Henry V

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The Twenty-One Balloons

To Kill A Mockingbird

Robinson Crusoe

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Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $7.95

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Merchant of Venice

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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 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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$300

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4th Gr ade

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Classical & Christian Studies

3rd

Latin

Supplements:

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

5th

First Form Latin (p. 18)

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

6th

4th

Latina Christiana I (p. 17)

Second Form Latin (p. 18)

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

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Classical Core Curriculum

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

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

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

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

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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

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Spelling

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

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

Modern St.

Math

Science

Rod & Staff Math 3

Animal Studies (p. 25)

Rod & Staff Math 4

Book of Astronomy (p. 25)

States & Capitals (p. 27)

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

English Grammar, Workbook II (p. 42)

Spelling Workout F

Classical Composition: Narrative Stage (p. 43)

Geography I (p. 27)

Rod & Staff Math 5

Book of Insects (p. 25)

English Grammar, Workbook III (p. 42)

Spelling Workout G

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

Geography II (p. 27)

Rod & Staff Math 6

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

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$450

$475

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

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

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

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

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

7th 8th

Classical & Christian Studies

Fourth Form Latin (p. 19)

7th

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

Modern St.

Math

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

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

PreAlgebra

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

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I often address parents at schools that are trying to add Latin to their curriculum. At one meeting in particular, I was under the impression that there were several scientists and doctors in the room.

As I extolled the benefits of Latin, I wondered how they were going to take my assertions that Latin would help someone who wanted to pursue medicine or the sciences.

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the end, it was a scientist and a doctor who were the most vocal opponents of Latin. Their 114.818 concern was that the time could be better spent learning a modern language or something more "practical." I made my case, and other parents also spoke out in favor of Latin.

Only after the meeting, when I had a chance to speak to the doctor personally, did I find out that he had been a Latin teacher himself!

Here lies exposed one root of opposition to Latin: adults who have used it as a stepping stone in the pursuit of their career (whether willingly or unwillingly) but do not recognize the fruits it bore for them. They have sacked the Troy of ignorance, and

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while rejoicing in the victory, they forgot that instead of assaulting the walls, they used a hollowed-out horse to get in—both valid ways, but one more astute than the other. The glorification of what is “practical” and the desire to be successful in college and in a career lead people to confuse the order of knowledge and the order of learning. Some things are more valuable to know than others but can only be learned after having mastered lesser things. It is obviously a higher level of knowledge to know how to cure the human body than it is to know how to decline mensa. But declining mensa should be learned first so that the pursuit of the higher knowledge will be made easier.

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our "research-based" world, some will want to see the results of studies that examine 114.818 whether students have an easier time in the sciences after studying Latin. Such research is impossible since "ease" is not quantifiable. Every failed education reform in the past 100 years has been "research-based" (and a 2014 study by Makel and Plucker shows that fewer than .1% of education studies to date have been successfully replicated). So let's take the Aristotelian approach and see if reason can defend this conclusion.

First, a child who has studied Latin to the point of translating the traditional introductory text De Bello Gallico, Caesar's account of his campaigns during the Gallic Wars, will assuredly recognize the Latin terms for the main parts of the body. In the study of medicine, the battle of learning the scientific names for the body is already half over before it begins, since they come straight from the Latin. Femur is the Latin for 'thigh,' cerebrum means 'brain,' and scapula is 'shoulder.' There are other terms that are easily deduced: Radius means 'rod' or 'staff,' thereby becoming the name for one of the bones in the forearm (which is used to hold a staff).

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Thorax means 'chest,' which gives us the term 'thoracic' in 'thoracic cavity.' 'Dorsal' is derived from dorsum meaning 'back.' The student then has no memory work when learning the term 'dorsal cavity.'

The scientific discipline in which Latin is most evident is chemistry. The abbreviations used in the periodic table are often taken from the Latin words for the elements. The abbreviation for lead (Pb) comes from the Latin word plumbum. Gold also gets its shortened form Au from its Latin parent, aurum.

Students often confuse Au with Ag, but if they know that the Latin word for silver is argentum, they can always refer to those words to help recall which abbreviation to use.

While physics does not have many terms derived from Latin, key works are written in Latin. Newton's seminal work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, and Kepler's Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae were both originally published in Latin.

While a scientist probably would not make it his priority to read these works in the original Latin, it goes to show that many influential works have been written in Latin—and thus they affect our language by passing vocabulary on to us. It was Kepler who first used the term 'inertia' in its scientific sense, taking it from the Latin term meaning 'inactivity or 'laziness.'

Newton would later modify the concept, and when his work was translated, 'inertia' was brought into the English language.

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cience and medicine by their very nature require a high degree of logical thought, 32.06 since logical reasoning is what enables someone to deduce the cause of what he perceives. A doctor must be able to look at symptoms and find their root cause. It is not as simple as memorizing the manifestations of an illness. Multiple diseases can show the same symptoms. And one person could have multiple maladies at the same time, further complicating the diagnosis.

A scientist must look at phenomena in the world and seek to explain each with a coherent theory. This is often very difficult and has only gotten harder with technology that can more accurately measure natural events. For example, when Max Planck discovered his constant which proved that light had particle-like attributes, the results did not fit with the prevailing theories of the time. He had to be able to logically reason through what he saw in nature, even though it did not fit common conceptions.

The second reason Latin helps the future scientist is that by studying Latin, the student is forced to

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If the student is asked to translate the sentence Marcus gladio sanguineo Gallum occidit, he must first identify the declension (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th) that each noun belongs to and what gender (masculine, feminine, neuter) it is. Then, by examining the endings of the words, he must figure out what case (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative) and number (singular, plural) each noun is. He has to look carefully at the adjective sanguineo to determine its case, number, and gender. He has to identify the verb and deduce its conjugation, person, number, tense, voice, and mood. Then he has to piece it all together. However, forms like gladio are somewhat ambiguous. The reader cannot be sure outside of context whether it is dative singular or ablative singular. If it is in the dative, it is the indirect object; if in the ablative, then it is the means by which something is done. Only by looking at it in the context of the whole can he be sure that it is in the ablative. As you can see in the diagram below, there are many possible combinations but only one possible correct answer. After all of this identifying and examining of details, the student can fi nally come up with the correct translation: “Mark killed the Gaul with the bloody sword.”

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Imagine doing that exercise multiple times every day for years. That develops critical thought. And it solidifies it to the extent that it becomes a habit. Then the doctor has the habit of asking, “Do you have any other symptoms?” and, “Could this perhaps be caused by allergies?” and the scientist inquires, “Does this correspond to what I saw in previous experiments?” and, “What does this mean?”

Again, this is unquantifiable. It cannot be measured. But it is logical. And even children understand it. I was recently at a homeschool convention where I was approached by a young girl. She asked if I could explain our Latin programs to her. We headed over to the table that displayed those books and she said, “I’m planning on being a horticulturalist, so I thought Latin would be a good place to start.”

Out of the mouths of babes ofttimes come gems.

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

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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Prima Latina is also the perfect preparation for Latina Christiana.

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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.

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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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Greek Charts This set of two charts makes a great visual aid for the teacher, classroom, and home.

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Nature’s beautiful order was created for us to understand, to delight in, and to give thanks for.

by Christopher Blum

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anifestum est enim quod homo per intellectum cognoscere potest naturas omnium corporum, said St. Thomas Aquinas: "For it is manifest that man is able to know physical things through the intellect." The truth that the human mind is able to know the natures of all bodily things may indeed be manifest, as St. Thomas Aquinas here testifies, but it is no less noble for being evident. By this statement, Aquinas did not mean that any one of us in fact knows all things, nor did he mean that the natures of material things are all equally open to our knowing them, nor indeed that our knowledge exhausts their intelligibility or even attains the specific differences of natural bodies. Yet he certainly did mean to point to the universality of the mind as a power of knowing. The mind is not an organ like the eye that has but one proper object—color—and can say nothing about the proper objects of the other senses. The savor, aroma, and temperature of a glass of Burgundy are things that the eye cannot see. The mind, however, roams freely over the material Creation, never once stopping to say of the world that surrounds it: “I have found my limit; it is here that my knowing must come to an end.” Even the wildest speculations of today’s cosmologists, who with reckless abandon reify time, multiply dimensions, and propagate multiverses, merely confirm Aquinas’s dictum and Aristotle’s insight: The only limit acknowledged by the human mind is the limit of reality itself.

The mind, as such, is open to the knowledge of all things, which is why the mind, as mind, must be immaterial: In order to be capable of receiving the forms of things into itself, it must not already be determined to a particular form, but be in itself a perfect receptive openness to all forms.

It is this very principle of the universality of the human intellect, so essential to understanding the dignity of the human person, that makes the

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multifarious manifestations of modern science at once so very important and so very vexing. For modern science, like the Roman god Janus, has two faces. One of those faces is open to all of reality, from the primeval atom through the eons of stellar clusters and the steady growth of life on earth, to the human mind itself as an image of the first cause and final end of all that exists, that immaterial intelligence identified by the Sage as “thought thinking itself.” This face of modern science looks upward with wonder and awe, and with a thoughtful puzzlement, ponders the seemingly inexaustible order and intelligibility of the cosmos, day-by-day unfolded in laboratory, classroom, field station, and observatory.

The other face—how very tragic it is—glares, winces, and even sometimes snarls. This is the face that rejects the search for the first cause, insists that science attend only to what its instruments reveal—but not as a wise and humble matter of practice, rather as a dogmatic injunction—for it holds to be real only those things revealed by its instruments. This is the science that refutes itself by suggesting that all things in nature and human affairs are determined by material causes alone, that these causes themselves are radically unintelligible because they work only by probabilities and chances, and—though it does not trumpet the embarrassing claim loudly, it must ultimately admit what its principles declare—that man is not really a knower.

The first face of modern science, the calm countenance of pious learning, is the face worn by the vast majority of those who study nature today: stargazers, birdwatchers, homeschooling mothers, all children, many armchair philosophers and some professional ones, and a surprising number of field and laboratory scientists. They have learned from Galileo that the moon is made of rocks, from William Harvey that the blood circulates, from Joseph Lister that they ought to wash their hands, and from many scientists many other truths besides. They are comfortable with the periodic table, unafraid of what the geological record may reveal, and even pay a respectful if somewhat quizzical regard to the mysteries of quantum physics. And many of them regularly worship Nature’s God. The second face of modern science is similarly widespread, and seems to hold what T. S. Eliot once called “all the most valuable advertising space,” enjoying bully pulpits in academia and the media, from which it trumpets in dreary monotony the dirge of chance and necessity, of the land beyond freedom and dignity, and of the universe without a cause.

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What do men of faith require in order to find in that first science the great good of truths lasting and significant? What can men of faith do to offer some measure of composure and peace to those now wearing the anguished and angry faces of that second science?

Such questions admit of no brief and easy answers. Yet the essays in this issue do speak to them and together offer a way forward. But what these essays hold in common is two-fold: a determination to use with great care the words that we employ to formulate our claims about nature, and a confidence that nature’s deep and beautiful order points the way back to its Creator. These two qualities do not themselves offer all that we seek, but they are the essential starting points for inquiry.

The first of these principles is methodological: The only adequate science is one whose findings can at last be expressed in the terms of—or at least in continuity with—the same ordinary language that we use to give an account of our everyday experiences. From this methodological principle follows the need to make the most careful sifting possible of the words that we choose to formulate our findings about nature. Such care is all too often absent from the speech of the popularizers of an agnostic or atheistic science. Hand-waving and obfuscation are there the norm, as when Francis Crick asks us to ponder the “hypothesis” that we "are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules,” but then are treated to a remarkable spectacle of hideand-seek in which all the essential explanatory terms remain unexamined. At times, however, the kind of shell game with words that modern science can devolve into is revealed by one of its players with shocking candor, as when Richard Feynman, in the course of answering a question he has posed for himself—“What is energy?”—declares that “it is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is.”

Feynman’s ensuing discussion is, of course, not lacking in value. Yet although a Nobel Prize-winning

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physicist is forced to admit that this word he is putting into constant use—energy—lacks a definition, this same word can nevertheless be posed as a foundation stone in a much larger edifice, as in this startling definition in an otherwise admirably sober book: “Physics is the study of energy and its interaction with matter.”

And this declaration is, perhaps predictably, soon to be followed by a discussion of “the best-known equation in the world,” E=mc², from which we learn to consider that “energy has mass, and mass is a form of concentrated energy.” So energy is matter, and matter is energy, and “physics” is the study of them both. It is very far from being self-evident that the Aristotelian definition of physics as the study of “nature” or of “mobile being” is inferior to this misty conception. And if modern science has such a difficult time explaining what it is that it studies, should we be surprised to find that its theories and conclusions are often similarly expressed in terms that baffle and amaze? Our response must first be always carefully to attend to the meaning of the words that we employ to express what we have apprehended of nature’s intelligibility.

The second principle is one of attitude rather than method: the conviction that nature’s beautiful order was created for us to understand, to delight in, and to give thanks for. It is a corrupt version of modern science, and an ideology rather than any form of knowledge, that would seek chiefly to dominate nature or to reinvent it according to our whim rather than to understand it. When Richard Rorty declared that the “undesirable sense of wonder” of “Plato, Aristotle, and orthodox monotheism” should be set

aside, he recommended in its place a program of truly astonishing Prometheanism: The hundred-odd years spent absorbing and improving on Darwin’s empirical story have, I suspect and hope, unfitted us for listening to transcendental stories.

In the course of those years we have gradually substituted the making of a better future for ourselves, constructing a utopian, democratic society, for the attempt to see ourselves from outside of time and history.

Antiessentialism is one expression of that shift. The willingness to see philosophy as an aid to creating ourselves rather than to knowing ourselves is another.

Nature is either the source and the measure of our knowledge, or, if it is somehow beneath us and we are somehow its measure, then nature—including human nature—is merely some kind of cosmic playdough that we manipulate at will. The dire practical implications of such a view are evident to all men and women of good will. How is it to be refuted? Not so much by argument—for this view does not repose upon argument—as by example. It is by the patient and sober, but loving and attentive study of nature, and by the careful exposition and sharing of the results of that study, that confidence will be restored in the harmonious vision of nature as an ordered cosmos through which man the wayfarer makes his way home to his Creator.

Christopher O. Blum (B.A. Biology / Ph.D. History & Philosophy of Science) is Professor of History & Philosophy at the Augustine Institute.

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Nature's Beautiful Order Christopher O. Blum & John A. Cuddeback

"The selections from the Classical naturalists in Nature's Beautiful Order combine rigorous biological thought and the accessibility of a lighthearted style. Who could ask for more to engage a middle-school reader?"

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"Indebted to both Aristotle and C. S. Lewis, Professors Blum and Cuddeback clearly and simply but profoundly make the classic rationalist-scholastic arguments about nature and organisms. Their approach was once the common coin of the learned realm. Its replacement by reductionist and mechanistic assumptions and models—'nothing but-ery'—has been a catastrophe, both the external environment of our fellow creatures and our common living setting and the internal environment of our thoughts, feelings, and beliefs."

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"What sets Nature’s Beautiful Order apart from many science texts used in schools is its admiration and reverence for the natural world. The authors kindle the reader’s sense of wonder through narratives which integrate specialized information with human experience. Students who embrace the challenge of this book will find a rich field for their imagination and gain a deep appreciation for the marvels of the animal world."

Sister Mary Anne Zuberbueler, O.P. Dean, School of Education, Aquinas College, TN

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

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The World of Animals This book investigates and describes the anatomy, behavior, and habitats of over 1,000 animals. It makes a great additional science resource for use with our Kindergarten, First, and Second Grade Classical Core Curriculum packages (pp. 8-9).

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An Introduction to the Study of Animals Taught by the Classical Naturalists

by Christopher O. Blum & John A. Cuddeback This introduction to natural history instills in the beginning student of biology a love for the beauty and intelligibility of the animal kingdom through the eyes of the classical naturalists. The writers presented here, including John James Audubon and Jean-Henri Fabre, were some of the greatest observational biologists of all time. They remain useful guides, for the advances in biological science that have happened since they wrote cannot invalidate our first-hand experience of organisms as unified living beings.

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200 Questions About American History These 200 questions everyone should know about American history are compiled from The Story of the Thirteen Colonies & the Great Republic, Everything You Need to Know About American History Homework, and The Story of the World, Vol. 4.

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

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American/Modern Supplemental Reading What a great way to study American history as a young student—by reading good books and immersing oneself in the lives and culture of those who have made history!

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In addition to studying the atmosphere above the earth, geographers also explore beneath the earth. Geology is the study of the earth's core and physical structure.

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

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

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

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

Also try our Alphabet Wall Poster (page 32).

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.

Classical Core Curriculum supplement

Classical Core Curriculum supplement

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

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

Art Cards (5½" x 8½")

Enrichment Guides

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

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

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Copybooks Grades K-2

Grades 1-4

Grades K-6

$14.95 ea

$14.95 ea.

$8.50 ea.

Copybooks I-III

Copybook Cursive I & II

$39.95 set (Copybooks I-III)

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

by Cheryl & Leigh Lowe

(New American Cursive font)

These three-in-one wonders include memory passages, copybook exercises, and drawing pages. We have selected Scripture from the King James Bible and classic children’s poems, which describe the world in charming detail. Our copybooks introduce basic strokes and margin/spacing guidelines, along with alphabet practice pages with traceable characters and instructions for difficult letters.

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

Ages 4-11, chronological age or skill level

Ages 6-12, chronological age or skill level

My Nature Journal

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

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

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

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

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

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Beginner Journal $8.50 Intermediate Journal $8.50

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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

by Cheryl Swope

$8.95

Ages 5-8, chronological age or skill level

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

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

Copybooks & Penmanship

Alphabet Poster

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

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Cursive Grades 1-4

Simple, clear, & effective!

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Workbooks $22.95 ea.

Startwrite CD $29.95

New American Cursive Penmanship Programs

by Iris Hatfield

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

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

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

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

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

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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."

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Classical Education Resources The Great Tradition: Classic Readings in What

Climbing Parnassus:

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The Latin-Centered Curriculum: A Home

The Well-Trained Mind:

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

Educator's Guide to a Latin-Centered Curriculum

by Andrew A. Campbell

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The Great Books: A Journey Through 2,500 Years

A New Apologia for Greek and Latin

by Tracy Lee Simmons

A Guide to Classical Education at Home, 3rd Edition

by Susan Wise Bauer & Jessie Wise

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The Well-Educated Mind:

of the West's Classic Literature

by Anthony O'Hear

A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had

by Susan Wise Bauer

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Science in the Classical S

by Jeffrey Mays

Science education sometimes creates

a quandary for classical educators. Its origins in the West are from Greek philosophy (for example, Aristotle developed genera and species and other classifications for plants and animals), but with the possible exception of astronomy, science is not explicitly included in the seven liberal arts and therefore has been considered something of a stepchild in many of the more purist classical schooling environments.

But although the names of the scientific disciplines do not themselves appear in the lists of the liberal arts, most modern sciences constitute an application of either arithmetic or geometry, two of the quantitative liberal arts. In addition, the proper study of the sciences shares pedagogical principles classical education already employs in the teaching of the other liberal arts: mastery learning and subject integration.

The employment of these principles can rescue science from the mediocrity that now plagues it.

That it needs improvement should be considered a given in light of the decline in ranking of the United States compared to other Western nations in science education and the number of students requiring

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remedial study before they can begin college courses.

If you ask most students if they consider themselves “good in science,” most will say they do not.

The first step to improving academic performance is to critique the way we define success in our classes. One “method” is what I will call the Cram‑Pass‑Forget cycle. In this cycle, students cram for their tests, pass them, and then soon forget most of what they crammed. Success in such an environment often involves completing banal or ineffective daily assignments, putting off serious engagement with course content until the last moment, and jumping through assessment hoops to get a grade.

Mastery.

Such methods should have no place in classical education. The word 'mastery' connotes learning that is several echelons above what we have historically considered acceptable for a passing grade. Is it conceivable that students could remember material from the early chapters of the book as late as the spring semester? If students forget 90% of course content by the second week of summer, what does that say about their education?

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Mastery requires culling the material, eliminating the unnecessary and tangential topics, and boiling it down to the essential elements. A curriculum reduced in scope enables students to learn a reasonable amount of material more deeply instead of paying hurried attention to dozens of topics that they can neither process nor adequately assimilate. Students who learn in a mastery context in 7th-12th grades typically outperform their peers as they move to college classes.

Leading students to mastery and retention requires teaching tools and methods designed to produce these results. Pedagogy designed for mastery and retention involves continuous review, ongoing accountability for retention of previously studied material, and the embedding of basic skills into new material.

Integration.

A second principle of excellent science education is that instruction must be integrative. A method of integrated teaching begins with removing the strict compartmentalization of disciplines of learning. Instead of unnaturally isolating science and math concepts from other areas of human knowledge and experience, curriculum should employ critical points of integration. Some of these include:

• Regular use of mathematical skills in science material • Maximizing opportunities to develop fluent written expression on exams, lab reports, and papers

• Pausing regularly in the narrative of the text to observe key historical connections that serve to enhance understanding

• Exploring the nature of scientific knowledge and the role

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it plays in leading us toward truth, goodness, and beauty; also, considering the evidence for and the implications of design in the universe

• Whenever appropriate, tying in connections to music, architecture, literature, ethics, etc.

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"Mastery, Integration, and Kingdom perspective ..."

Novare Physical Science, 2nd Ed. John D. Mays

Novare Science and Math is committed to a mastery-learning paradigm. Aesthetically mature graphics, accurate explanations, and thorough treatment of the foundational principles of the physical sciences characterize this course from start to finish.

The Resource CD includes course overview, quizzes, teacher keys, weekly review guides, experiment manual, suggested answers to verbal questions, annual schedule, and more!

Designed for students in grades 6-8.

Novare General Chemistry

John D. Mays

This fresh, lucid text brings students into the real world of chemistry with beautiful color images, charts, and graphs. The history of chemistry, real-world exercises, and modern-day applications are integrated in a way that makes this textbook especially rich. The Resource CD contains course overview, exams, quizzes, answer keys, and a lesson schedule. Experiment manual sold separately. Designed for high school students.

Christian Use.

Finally, it is no trivial question to ask how a science text is best made suitable for Christian use. The most common and least effective way to accomplish this is by peppering texts with Bible verses and devotional insets. But teaching science in a Christian context affords many enriching opportunities for discipleship, service, and worship.

We would not miss such an opportunity.

There is an artificial conflict between faith and science, and many voices in the culture strive to separate the two. Good science education should regularly point out that there can be no inherent conflict between faith in the One who made the world, and the study of the world He made.

We should endeavor to inculcate and invigorate a sense of wonder, an aspect of scientific pursuit that is virtually lost today. Students’ minds are renewed and uplifted when the nature and complexity of God’s world is made apparent to them by those who marvel at its features. Historically, Christians have always spoken of the revelatory aspect of creation taught in Psalm 19 and other scriptures. A textbook most apt for Christian school use will avoid the impulse to prooftext nature and instead draw students into a mature engagement with God's Book of Works.

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F e at u r e d S c h o o l I

f you were looking for the oldest parochial school in Tennessee, you would find it in Jackson, where St. Mary's School has been operating for over 100 years. Having done it that long, the school can claim to know a thing or two about how to educate children in an atmosphere of faith.

The school was originally established in 1878 in downtown Jackson, and in 1900 its administration was taken over by the Dominican Sisters of the St. Cecilia Congregation in Nashville. In 1960, the school merged with St. Joseph, its companion school run by the Josephite fathers which had served African American children since 1919, and in 1970 moved to its current facility, where it currently serves children from preschool to 8th grade.

Its mission statement, inspired by Christ’s words, “I came that they may have life and have it to the full,” describes the school well: St. Mary’s Catholic School dedicates itself to the education of the whole child—spiritually, intellectually, emotionally, and physically—in a nurturing environment permeated by a Christ-centered atmosphere.

Being fully aware of moral challenges posed by our culture, students are directed toward an unending pursuit of God in all that is true, good, and beautiful.

The school's historical connection with the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia continues today with a new generation of sisters from this growing and increasingly influential order. In recent years, the Dominican Sisters have become a sought-after resource.

Every year, Catholic schools across the country, attracted by the order's brand of traditional Catholic teaching and spiritual emphasis, request assistance from the order.

Unfortunately, although their membership is growing dramatically, the order can only accommodate a limited number of requests.

With a few modifications to account for its distinctively Catholic character, St. Mary's uses Memoria Press' Classical Core Curriculum. With its placement of Latin grammar at the center of the language arts and its stress on fundamental skills in math, the curriculum fits in well with the school's emphasis on traditional education.

Interested in joining the CLSA? Learn how:

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

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

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

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

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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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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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Q&A QQ. AA.

with Cheryl Swope, author of Simply Classical

How will my special-needs child benefit from literature?

Some special-needs children enjoy messages conveyed through simple picture books. In Frederick by Leo Lionni, a little mouse cannot assist his family in the usual manner of hard, physical labor. He is not strong like the others. Instead, in days of distress Frederick shares his small but unique gifts of poetry. My poetic daughter appreciates this book.

An older or higher-functioning child may appreciate more complex stories. My son, a young man with autism, learning disabilities, and mental illness, sometimes wonders about his usefulness in the world; but when he finished A Wrinkle in Time, he urged me to read it. I finally did. The book's main character, a teenage girl named Meg, is bright in mathematics but “different” in so many other ways that she has social difficulties and gets into trouble at school. “I'm a delinquent,” Meg concludes grimly. She grapples with thoughts that waver from honesty to self-pity. “I think I'm a biological mistake.” “I hate being an oddball.” “I try to pretend, but it isn't any help...”

Meg's mother tells her, “Oh, my darling ..., your development has to go at its own pace. It just doesn't happen to go at the usual pace.” In the midst of a grave challenge, Meg receives comfort as from an angel: “My child, do not despair. Do you think we would have brought you here if there were no hope? We are asking you to do a difficult thing, but we are confident that you can do it.”

As A Wrinkle in Time unfolds, the reader gains wisdom through the Holy Scriptures and classical writers, such as “Nothing is hopeless” from Euripedes. Over time, love and loyalty compel Meg to move outside of her own despondency and into active courage. Meg's new friend Calvin has delighted in her all along, just as we readers do.

Upon meeting Meg and her rather odd family, the equally unusual Calvin exclaims with relief, “Isn't it wonderful? ... I'm not alone any more! Do you realize what that means to me?”

We share good books with our children for many reasons. Literature promotes insight into the frailties of the human condition. Furthermore, a compelling story can elevate our minds beyond our circumstances.

Perhaps most appealing of all, literature reminds us we are not alone.

For comprehensive literature lists categorized by the child's ability, see Simply Classical: A Beautiful Education for Any Child. For a specialneeds program uniquely centered on good books, see the new Simply Classical Special-Needs Curriculum.

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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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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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What I Learned From My Mother Julia Kasdorf

I learned from my mother how to love the living, to have plenty of vases on hand in case you have to rush to the hospital with peonies cut from the lawn, black ants still stuck to the buds. I learned to save jars 5 large enough to hold fruit salad for a whole grieving household, to cube home-canned pears and peaches, to slice through maroon grape skins and fl ick out the sexual seeds with a knife point.

I learned to attend viewings even if I didn’t know 10 the deceased, to press the moist hands of the living, to look in their eyes and offer sympathy, as though I understood loss even then.

I learned that whatever we say means nothing, what anyone will remember is that we came.

15 I learned to believe I had the power to ease awful pains materially like an angel.

Like a doctor, I learned to create from another’s suffering my own usefulness, and once you know how to do this, you can never refuse.

20 To every house you enter, you must offer healing: a chocolate cake you baked yourself, the blessing of your voice, your chaste touch.

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zra Pound shrewdly reminded aspiring poets to “go in fear of abstractions.” He was trying to convey the necessity, when crafting verse, to speak about abstract truths by means of particular things in the natural world. In Kasdorf's poem, "What I Learned from My Mother," we find a beautiful expression of the love and grace inherent in mother nature, harnessed in mothers, and richly taught to children through particular, physical acts of empathetic love. The result is a poetic homage to motherhood, nature, and compassion—not to mention a most useful guide on how to really live.

Take a moment to read Kasdorf's poem. Now that you've read it, let's begin our reflection with the proto-Mother, Mary, as depicted in the icon at left. Christ's mother, the Theotokos ("God Bearer"), provides an archetypal example of how to “love the living" (ll. 1-2). For the life and rebirth of mankind, she accepted God’s calling. She risked ridicule, doubt, and marital strain. She parted with her earthly passions. She loved her Christ child as only a mother can, yet she sacrificed a normal relationship with Him for the life of the world. In a certain sense, the “God Bearer” died for her Son, who died for us. Magnificently, she modeled how to “love the living” by bearing and caring for Him who bore the dark weight of the world for love.

Presence, the act of "being there," contains remarkable power and restorative potential. Mary, present at the foot of the cross, shows us how to "ease the awful pain" (ln. 16) of this world’s insidious sting.

From this archetype of motherly love we can better understand the particular, human manifestation of being present: I learned to believe I had the power to ease awful pains materially like an angel. (ll. 16-17)

The word “materially,” implies the concrete, the physical—but it is nothing without the spiritual, the abstract—made evident by the simile “materially like an angel.” The spiritual sustains the material,

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by David M. Wright for nothing comes into being or remains so without the work of God and his dominion of spiritual helpers, as Matthew 10:29-30 reminds us, “Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.”

So, just as we learn how to love from our protomother Mary, we also learn such profundities from our earthly mothers. Sure, some mothers are not good, as some people are not good. But in this poem we see that Kasdorf’s mother taught her much. After all, motherhood derives from mother nature. A mother fulfills herself most fully through nurturing, not by, for example, workplace accolades, which provide only ephemeral, delusive power. The opening line, ”I learned from my mother how to love the living” veritably illustrates the magnitude of maternal influence. Corporate success, academic degrees, worldly possessions, physical pleasures—none of these have the ability to teach a child how to love the living.

So how did Kasdorf learn to "love the living" from ? Give Peace her mother? Was she taught to a Chance? Eracism? I'm afraid the world of the abstract bumper sticker is much too easy. After all, as Elder Zosima reminds Madame Khokhlakov in The Brothers Karamazov, “It is hard to love particular humans and not just humanity in general.”

In the spirit of Zosima's point, Kasdorf learned from her mother how to love particular individuals. In her poem she reveals a series of concrete, physical actions that convey such love: ... to have plenty of vases on hand in case you have to rush to the hospital with peonies cut from the lawn, black ants still stuck to the buds. (ll. 2-5)

Here we recognize the blessing of offering a vase and flowers to someone suffering ill health. The fact that black ants remain on the buds implies the haste with which we must attend to the one in need. Do not fuss; cut the flowers and go. The freshly cut blossoms invigorate with their fragrance; the lively ants transmit being and vitality.

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In lines 10-13 Kasdorf relays a simple, yet profound lesson from her mother: I learned to attend viewings even if I didn’t know the deceased, to press the moist hands of the living, to look in their eyes and offer sympathy ...

The act of attending a viewing of someone we do not know warrants consideration, and the activity leads to a most purposeful end: the healing offer of sympathy.

The poem continually expands our circle of typical behavior, moving us beyond ourselves toward authentic love for others, which we find perfectly represented in the poem's highest theme, lines 14-15: I learned that whatever we say means nothing, what anyone will remember is that we came.

These lines, rich in implication, proclaim an essential point: What are words not given body, made flesh? So for the uncountable sacrifices that mothers make, and in honor of mothers everywhere, I affirm: You have chosen to do more than just speak words, you have given them particular body. "Whatever we say means nothing." The world is changed and continually upheld by your meaningful presence. All of nature derives from your particular actions and profound being.

Specific acts of compassion and charity, like those Kasdorf can now offer others, are in large part made possible because of mothers.

Likewise, the unifying principle of reality, the Logos, was made flesh. Christ didn't just send down words of love and forgiveness. He came to earth; he was present with us, before and after the resurrection.

The poem's closing lines reinforce the exigency of concrete, specific love: To every house you enter, you must offer healing: a chocolate cake you baked yourself, the blessing of your voice, your chaste touch.

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Composition Bible Heroes: Writing Lessons in Structure and Style

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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.

Grades 3-5 $29.00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

American Literature

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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Christian Studies Grades 3-6 Student $17.95 ea.

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Golden Children's Bible $17.99

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

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

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

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The Story of Christianity:

Christian Studies IV:

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

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

The Wars of the Jews:

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

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

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

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

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

The Fall of Jerusalem by Josephus

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History of the Early Church

The City of God

by Cody King

by St. Augustine, Vernon J. Bourke edition

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

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

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

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hough written in the late 1940s, Ideas Have Consequences by Richard M. Weaver remains more relevant and prescient than ever. The work, grounded in political philosophy, theology, virtue, and history, presents a piercing assessment of modern culture. Yet these fields are incorporated for the sole purpose of revealing the truth about us—our modern culture and way of thought. Thus, the work is not filled with academic jargon, but straight truth for the common thinker and scholar alike.

In the book, Weaver locates the beginning of the decline of the West in William of Occam's nominalism in the fourteenth century, which denies that universals and abstract objects have any existence or reality; only particular, concrete things are real. What follows is a rejection of absolute truth, since no truth can exist outside of man—outside of physical, particular things.

Weaver traces the decline teleologically, by a string of "consequences" that follow from the mistaken idea of nominalism. These consequences are presented in each chapter, beginning with the negation and erosion of "distinction and hierarchy," essential notions for the preservation of society.

The fallacious idea of "equality" is untenable and deceptive, creating a society of confusion, alienation, and self-promotion—as Plato says, "a 'democracy' filled with wonderful variety and disorder." Instead, Weaver suggests the much older and reliable concept of fraternity—brotherhood—which goes "immeasurably deeper in human sentiment," an organic social order of uniting parts that are distinct.

Further consequences are presented in the chapters "Fragmentation and Obsession," "Egotism in Work and Art," and "The Great Stereopticon," a phrase that encapsulates the technology and media construct that manipulates the worldview of society, separating us from reality, truth, and our humanity.

"This deceitful construct keeps the ordinary citizen from perceiving the vanity of his bookkeeping and the emptiness of his domestic felicities"—i.e., his materialism and consumerism.

Though the diagnosis is dire and horrifying, Weaver does offer a measure of hope. The first means of reform is to preserve the right to private property, "the last metaphysical right," which is "a sanctuary, a self-justifying right." The second is to restore meaning to language, which he outlines in "The Power of the Word." He professes that a "divine element is present in language, ... that speech is the vehicle of order, ... and that all education is learning to name rightly." This chapter fruitfully parallels Wendell Berry's superb collection Standing By Words.

In the closing chapter, Weaver exhorts a return to piety, justice, and reverence—virtues that restore in us a proper relationship to nature, our neighbors, and the past.

Ideas Have Consequences should scare the cultural deception right out of us, offering radical clarity, repair of sentiment, and redress of soul.

David M. Wright is the Writer and Director of the Upper-School Literature at Memoria Press. He has taught AP Literature and English with a focus on the Great Books for the last ten years. He received his master’s degree in English Lit. from DePaul University, and is currently working on a PhD at the Univ. of Louisville. He is the Founder and Director of the annual Climacus Conference.

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

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Introduction to Classical Studies Grades 3-8

Grades 3-8

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Introduction to Classical Studies

D'Aulaires' Greek Myths

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

Perfect course for older students needing to catch up.

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

Famous Men Series Grades 4-8

Grades 5-8

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Famous Men of Rome

Famous Men of Greece

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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.

Classical Studies

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

Classical Studies Suggested Timeline Year 1

D'Aulaires' Greek Myths

Year 2

Famous Men of Rome

Year 3

Famous Men of the Middle Ages

Year 4

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

Year 5

Iliad, Odyssey, and The Book of the Ancient Greeks

Year 6

The Aeneid and The Book of the Ancient Romans

Year 7

Greek Plays (Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus)

Year 8

The Divine Comedy (Dante)

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Famous Men of the Middle Ages

Famous Men of Modern Times

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

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

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The Book of the Ancient Romans

The Book of the Middle Ages

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Like any good Roman course, this one begins with the she-wolf who nurses in infancy the legendary founders of Rome: Romulus and Remus. The rise and fall of a monarchy, the embrace of a republic with the simultaneous dislike for kings, and finally the rise of the Roman Empire teach unforgettable principles about human nature and society.

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

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Classical Literature Grades 6+

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The Aeneid for Boys & Girls

by Alfred J. Church

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

The Trojan War

by Olivia Coolidge

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

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

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

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

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

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

Grades 7+

The Iliad & Odyssey Samuel Butler translation

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

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

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

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

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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

Grades 10+

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On Obligations

The Republic & the Laws

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

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

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

by Cicero, Translated by P. G. Walsh

by Cicero, Translated by Niall Rudd

Grades 10+

Classical Supplement

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

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

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

- Mary Pride

Traditional Logic I

Traditional Logic II

Introduction to Formal Logic

Advanced Formal Logic

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The Traditional Logic program is an in-depth study of the classical syllogism. In Book I, students will gain a basic understanding of terms, statements, and simple categorical arguments.

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

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

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

Clear & Systematic Presentation • Daily exercises to ensure mastery • Historic argument case studies • Emphasis on language, not math

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What we now call 'science' was once called 'natural philosophy.'

But although in one sense these two terms mean the same thing, there is a sense in which they are still very different. Modern science came out of natural philosophy, but has changed into something else.

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n the old natural philosophy, the purpose of inquiry into nature was to better know what creation is.

It taught nomenclature (the names of things), taxonomy (how the thing fits in with other things), morphology (how things are internally structured), and scientific method (how to investigate natural things).

It was focused on the wonder and mystery of creation itself. It was focused on apprehending the natures of natural things and thereby appreciating them. It was a philosophy of wonder.

Much of modern science, however, has a different agenda. Francis Bacon (and, to a lesser extent, René Descartes) began to change the very purpose of investigation into nature. For the first time, the belief arose that nature was not there primarily to be known, but to be used or controlled. Bacon said he wanted to put nature on the rack to give up its secrets—not primarily so that we could understand or behold it, but so that we could use it for our own betterment or advantage.

"Knowledge," Bacon said, "is power."

Bacon and Descartes seem to have meant well: They wanted to use science to improve the human condition. But once science came to be seen as an instrument to control nature for an extrinsic purpose—which it has done rather convincingly—the

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other purposes, such as that of understanding and wonder, tend to get shunted to the side.

Its success in accomplishing its new purpose has also caused science to develop a rather big head.

Many modern scientists have become so enamored of the power of science that they now think that scientific inquiry can answer all of our questions.

This belief—that science is the chief or even the only way to determine truth—is called "scientism": the religion of science.

Whereas in the old natural science there was no competition between belief in God and the study of nature, the scientism that began to gather strength in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries eventually resulted in the view that science and theology were competing modes of belief and that as science gained explanatory power, it would eventually push out religion.

It is said that Pierre-Simon Laplace, the famous French scientist, once gained an interview with Napoleon in order to present him with a copy of one of his books. "They tell me," said the Emperor, "that you have written this large book on the system of the universe, and have never even mentioned its Creator."

"Sire," Laplace famously responded, "I have no need of that hypothesis."

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T H e "GOD OF T H e Ga Ps" In fact, one of the arguments offered by nonbelieving scientists against religious belief is called the "God of the gaps" argument. If you look at the history of science, they say, what you see is that, at first, there were many questions which science could not answer. These questions were simply dismissed as unanswerable and attributed to God. In other words, if there was some question science couldn't answer, we would simply say, "God did it," and that was considered the final word.

But, say these scientists, as science has grown in power and subtlety, there are fewer and fewer questions science is unable to answer. There are fewer and fewer mysteries about which we have to resort to the "God did it" solution. Furthermore, if we follow this trajectory into the future, we can see that, as science continues to grow in its explanatory effectiveness, it will one day be able to answer all the questions about nature that we have formerly had to invoke God in order to explain.

In short, soon science will have explained everything and God will be made irrelevant.

We will have "no need for that hypothesis."

But is this true? Are these scientists right to say that the fund of unanswered questions about nature is being slowly diminished by science, and that it will one day have answered all of these questions?

The answer is "No."

W H Y T H e "GOD OF T H e Ga Ps" a RGU M en T DOes nOT WOR K There is an assumption underlying the "God of the gaps" argument that is ridiculous on the face of it. In fact, it is a great example of the static analysis fallacy— the fallacy of assuming that what you are examining is somehow fixed and not in the process of changing.

The assumption of the "God of the gaps" argument against religious belief is that there is a fixed number of questions about the natural world, some of which have been answered and some of which have not, so that every question that is answered reduces the number of unanswered questions by one.

Now this is obviously absurd, since science does not operate in a world in which there is a fixed and unchangeable number of questions. In fact, as science proceeds in its path of discovery, it not only discovers answers to unanswered questions, it discovers new questions which it never would have thought to ask.

New discoveries not only answer old questions, they produce new questions.

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This problem becomes even more pronounced after a scientific paradigm shift. When Einstein's theory of relativity displaced Newtonian mechanics, it offered an improved system of explanation. But it also redefined mass, energy, time, and space, creating a whole new set of problems needing a solution.

Quantum mechanics too introduced a whole new set of questions which no one would ever have thought to ask until Neils Bohr, Wolfgang Pauley, and Werner Heisenberg thought to ask them.

Some would argue that the number of unanswered scientific questions is not diminishing at all—that, in fact, because of the rate of the appearance of new questions compared to the number of questions having already obtained answers, the number of unanswered questions is actually increasing all the time.

Natural mysteries for which science has no answer, far from being eliminated, are actually multiplying.

Think of it this way: If you take a flashlight and point it straight down, close to the ground, you will see a small circle of light. And if you raise the flashlight higher from the ground you will see a much larger circle of light. Our scientific flashlight today illuminates much more than the small circle of knowledge we had in the past. But notice this: The small circle of light borders only a small portion of darkness, but the larger circle of light reveals a much larger circumference of darkness. So, too, does the circumference of our ignorance increase as the area of our scientific knowledge becomes greater.

The more we know, the more we realize how much we do not know. Science is a light in the darkness of physical reality, but as its light increases, so does its estimate of the amount of darkness that is in need of light.

Many scientists postulate that they are in the process of closing in on some ultimate terminus in

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but it brought the whole purpose of science as an explanatory construct into question. Events at the quantum level, it found, are governed by the rules of probability. At the level of the smallest and most elemental things—where we finally get to the bottom of things—it turns out that nature does not follow the scientific script.

So confounding have been the findings of quantum physics that its original and chief exponent, Niels Bohr, finally gave up on science as an explanatory discipline altogether. He talked of a new "epistemological situation" brought about by particle physics in which we can no longer apply the concepts of causality at all. And with causality goes logic itself.

"Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory," said Bohr, "has not understood it."

C a n sc i enc e Traditional Christian theism does not believe in a e x p l a i n a n y t h i ng?

"God of the gaps" whose relevance can be eliminated by the progress of science. God is not there to answer One of the themes of modern science has been that a knowledge of the parts of things reveals more our "how" questions. Many of these can be explained by studying the world He created, complete with the clearly the nature of the things themselves. This is inherent mechanisms implanted in it that make it why much of modern scientific investigation involves go. God is there to answer our "why" questions—the analyzing the most elemental parts of something. questions science can't even begin to answer.

This is just what quantum mechanics has done. The Science, in Bohr's view, is problem is that when they no longer in the explanation finally found the tools to Science is a light in the business. "It is wrong to think that investigate the behavior darkness of physical reality, but the task of physics is to find out of the subatomic world, as its light increases, so does scientists did not find what [what] nature is. Physics concerns they thought they would what we can say about nature." its estimate of the amount of find. What they found, far All it can do is describe and darkness that is in need of light. from making nature more predict. It can only say "how," it understandable, has made it can never say "why." even more paradoxical.

Modern science began with mysteries it could Light, which logically cannot be both a wave and a not explain; it has brought itself full circle. When particle, is both (a photon). Certain particles disappear science launched off on its own and shed the label and then reappear somewhere else instantaneously 'natural philosophy,' it set off on a journey to explain (a quantum leap). Subatomic particles do not exist everything. But here we are at the beginning of the anywhere until we observe them (said Neils Bohr). twenty-first century and we are still being told by Measurement defines what is being measured (said Bohr's scientific descendants that not only can science not explain the why of everything, it can't explain Heisenburg). "The more successes the quantum theory anything, a position that radically undermines the enjoys," said Einstein, "the more stupid it looks." But rationalistic pretensions of many modern scientists. even Einstein could not stop it. Though he rejected it until the day he died, he could not refute it.

Maybe the goal of science should not be to resolve As with relativity, quantum physics redefined mysteries. The classical view of nature—as something basic scientific concepts—'particle,' 'wave,' 'position,' to wonder at instead of to take apart—has virtues that 'momentum,' 'trajectory'—all had to be given new we would do well to remember. meanings. As it turned out, many of the old questions Under the classical view, the role of science is not to that had been "answered" were not the right questions solve every question presented by nature, but rather to to ask in the first place. bring us face to face with things themselves—things Not only did quantum physics show that many which are essentially mysterious. Science tells us how of the assumptions of classical Newtonian physics the mystery operates; philosophy, why it is here at all; were incomplete (and in some cases simply wrong), and theology, Who is behind it all. which our understanding of nature—and our ability to control it—are perfect: a sort of scientific utopia. But the idea of arriving at some position of full knowledge of nature becomes increasingly implausible as we see such a terminus move further away from us the closer we think we're getting.

This problem—of never being able to make headway toward a comprehensive explanation of nature—has been underscored by the investigations of quantum physics. According to many of its chief architects and many of its most devoted adherents, quantum mechanics has not only failed to make the nature of reality clearer, but has fundamentally undermined confidence in science as a mode of explanation at all.

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