The Classical Teacher - Late Summer 2017

Saving Western civilization one student at a time.

Late Summer 2017 Reason & Imagination

by Martin Cothran Beauty Is Not Boring

by Dr.Carol Reynolds

More Important Than the Cosmos Itself

by R. W. Livingstone

Letter From the Editor

THE WELL-STOCKED LIBRARY

by Martin Cothran

I

n his new book, Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture, Anthony Esolen contrasts what Western culture was and what it is now by asking us to imagine a library in an old manor house.

The lower half of this library would be stocked with books from modern Europe—"novels, collections of poetry, histories, biographies, travelogues, and so forth"—many of these in European languages other than English.

Here, too, we would find the classic books for young people—Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island, The Jungle Book, along with maybe Peter Pan, The Secret Garden, and Winnie the Pooh.

But the upper half of the room—perhaps built higher than the rest and accessible by several stairs—would be home to more intellectual literature—works in ancient languages, Latin and Greek, and books dealing with philosophy, divinity, political constitutions, law, and natural science.

"It was the library," says Esolen, "of a learned man interested in everything human and divine." In fact, such libraries were not at all uncommon in cultured homes a hundred years ago. Most of the books Esolen mentions were familiar to anyone who was culturally aware, which was most people.

Esolen asks us to imagine what this library would be like today. The wheels in the channels of the ladder are coated with grime and mold. Rain has found its way through the neglected roof, and water is dripping from the ceiling. The books are mouseeaten and mildewed.

There are a few signs of more recent life, but they consist of trunks of outworn clothing, tacky souvenirs from a trip to Disneyland, and several "glossy hardcover biographies of celebrities, like Elvis Presley and Jim Morrison."

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The great library is no more. It has fallen into disuse and disrepair. It is the victim of neglect by modern people who have not only forgotten the names of the authors of the Great Books, but who are in many cases no longer even capable of understanding them or appreciating their beauty of expression.

Meditate on this library, and ask yourself whether you do not see there the condition of our own culture, rich with neglected treasures—forgotten, junked up, misused.

Meditate also on what kind of person would have had such a library, and ask yourself why such people are so hard to find anymore. We have specialists today who could read and understand this or that book in such a library. But who is left who could read and appreciate all of them?

The only way to save such a library is to throw open the windows, repair the roof and ceiling, replace the damaged books, and perhaps add a few new things of demonstrable worth, while reassessing a few old things to see if they still hold up.

Our culture is like a library: It is either wellstocked with the classics or cluttered with trivialities.

We could say the same thing about our own souls.

This is perhaps the central purpose of classical education: to reacquaint ourselves with our history and culture, and to throw open the windows of our souls to the best things that have been thought and said, and, while we're at it, to get rid of some of the tacky cultural trivialities which now clutter our minds.

Both our real and mental libraries should be stocked with the timeless, not the trivial.

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Late Summer 2017 FEATURED ARTICLES

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AMERICAN / MODERN

38 American Studies & Modern European History 39 Geography

Letter from the Editor by Martin Cothran The Justification for Latin by Charles E. Bennett The Five Most Common Arguments by Martin Cothran More Important Than the Cosmos Itself by R. W. Livingstone An Interview with Michelle Swope

Preschool - Grade 10 JK - Grade 6 JK - Grade 10

SIMPLY CLASSICAL CURRICULUM Level A - Level 3 Ages 4+

PRIMARY YEARS

48 49 50 51

Alphabet, Numbers, & Enrichment

Ages 4+

Reading & Phonics

Ages 5+

Copybooks & Journals

Grades K-6

New American Cursive

Grades K-Adult

LITERATURE, GRAMMAR, & WRITING

54 Literature Study Guides 56 Introduction to Composition, Poetry,

Grades 1-12

57 Classical Composition

Grades 4-12

Grades 2+

IEW Writing, & English Grammar

CLASSICAL/CHRISTIAN STUDIES D’Aulaires’ Greek Myths & Famous Men Series

Grades 3-8

Dorothy Mills Histories

Grades 6+

Classical Literature & Supplements Christian Studies

Grades K+ Grades 3+

LATIN, GREEK, & FRENCH

Reason & Imagination by Martin Cothran

CLASSICAL CORE CURRICULUM

64 65 66 68

17 Arithmetic & Math 58 Science

Four Stages to the Central One Idea by David M. Wright

43 Special-Needs Curriculum Packages 45 Special-Needs Spelling, Reading, & Writing

Grades 3+

SCIENCE & MATH

Beauty Is Not Boring by Dr. Carol Reynolds

4 Curriculum Packages & Supplements 5 Read-Aloud Programs 34 Curriculum Map Yearly Outlook

Grades 2+

Grades 6+ Grades K-12

20 21 22 24

Prima Latina & Supplements

Grades 1-4

Latina Christiana & Supplements

Grades 3-6

First Form Latin Series & Supplements

Grades 5-12

Upper School Latin, NLE Prep Guides, & French

Grades 5-12

25 Grammar School Greek & Supplements 26 First Form Greek

Grades 4+ Grades 8-12

LOGIC & RHETORIC

30 Traditional Logic & Supplements 31 Classical Rhetoric & Supplements 31 Aristotle's Material Logic

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

ART & MUSIC

33 Discovering Music 58 Art Posters, Art Cards, Creating Art,

Grades 8+ Grades K+

Exploring America's Musical Heritage, Early Sacred Music

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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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KINDERGARTEN PHONICS & SPELLING First Start Reading set; Classical Phonics; Phonics Flashcards (p. 49); Christian Liberty Nature Reader, Book K; Scamp and Tramp; Soft and White; Fun in the Sun; Animal Alphabet Coloring Book; Primary Phonics Readers 1-4 sets (40 books total); Core Skills Phonics K & 1

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Kindergarten Enrichment; Kindergarten Art Cards; Kindergarten Book of Crafts (p. 48); Animals, Animals; A Child's Book of Poems; Music Enrichment

Numbers Book set; Rod & Staff Arithmetic 1 Student (part 1), Teacher, and Practice Sheets (p. 17); FlashKids Addition & Subtraction Flashcards

PENMANSHIP Copybook I; Composition & Sketchbook I (p. 50)

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LITERATURE StoryTime Treasures set; More StoryTime Treasures set; Teacher Key (p. 54); Winter on the Farm, Christmas in the Big Woods, Little House Christmas Treasury

PHONICS & SPELLING

PENMANSHIP

Primary Phonics Readers 5-6 sets (20 books total); Core Skills Phonics 2; Spelling Workout B set; Phonics Guide for Reading and Spelling, Grade 1

Copybook II; Composition & Sketchbook II; New American Cursive 1; Cursive Practice Sheets; Alphabet Wall Poster (pp. 50-51); Penmanship Tablet

CURRICULUM MANUAL Lesson Plans for One Year

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MATH Rod & Staff Arithmetic 1 Student (Parts 1-2) and Speed Drills (p. 17)

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LATIN

SCIENCE

Prima Latina complete set (p. 20)

Rod & Staff Patterns of Nature

Lesson Plans for One Year

AMERICAN/ MODERN Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans (p. 38)

LITERATURE

MATH

Second Grade Literature set (p. 54); Second Grade Literature Dictionary (p. 54)

Rod & Staff Arithmetic 2 Student (Units 1-5), Teacher (Parts 1-2), Blacklines (p. 17)

PENMANSHIP

PHONICS & SPELLING

New American Cursive 2 (p. 51); Copybook Cursive I; Composition & Sketchbook II (p. 50); Prima Latina Copybook (p. 20); Penmanship Tablet

Phonics Guide for Reading and Spelling, Grade 2; Spelling Workout C set; Core Skills Phonics 3

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Classical Phonics; Phonics Flashcards; A Child's Book of Poems; Animals, Animals; Music Enrichment; The Story Bible; Christian Studies Enrichment; FlashKids Addition & Subtraction Flashcards

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RETAIL

816.25

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GRADE 3

PACKAGE PRICE

505

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Curriculum Manual Only $30 Consumables Only $195

LATIN

SCIENCE

Latina Christiana set, LC Review Worksheets set (p. 21); Ludere Latine set (p. 20)

Mammals set (p. 58)

CURRICULUM MANUAL Lesson Plans for One Year

AMERICAN/MODERN

WRITING

PENMANSHIP

MATH

States & Capitals set; FlashKids States and Capitals Flashcards (p. 39)

All Things Fun & Fascinating (p. 56)

New American Cursive 3 (p. 51)

Rod & Staff Arithmetic 3 Student, Teacher, Supplemental Worksheets and Key, Blacklines, Speed Drills; FlashKids Multiplication and Division Flashcards (p. 17)

CLASSICAL

GRAMMAR

SPELLING

D'Aulaires' Greek Myths set (p. 64); Timeline set (p. 67)

English Grammar Recitation and Workbook I set (p. 56); Core Skills Language Arts 3

Spelling Workout D set

CHRISTIAN

LITERATURE/POETRY

Christian Studies I set; The Golden Children's Bible; Memory Verse Flashcards; Old Testament Flashcards (p. 68)

Third Grade Literature set (p. 54); Poetry for the Grammar Stage set (p. 56); The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

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Latina Christiana Flashcards $14.95

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GRADE 4

Curriculum Manual Only $30 Consumables Only $105 CURRICULUM MANUAL

465.49

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PACKAGE PRICE

SPELLING

MATH

Spelling Workout E set

Rod & Staff Arithmetic 4 Student, Teacher (Parts 1-2), Tests, Speed Drills, Speed Drill Packet (p. 17)

Lesson Plans for One Year

RETAIL

355

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LITERATURE Fourth Grade Literature set (p. 54); Papa Panov's Special Day; More About Paddington; The Christmas Story; Good King Wenceslas

WRITING

SCIENCE

PENMANSHIP

GRAMMAR

Classical Composition I: Fable Student, Teacher, DVDs (p. 57)

The Book of Astronomy set (p. 58)

Copybook Cursive II (p. 50)

Core Skills Language Arts 4

Transitioning to the Classical Core Curriculum in Grade 4?

In our third grade package, students complete half of D'Aulaires' Greek Myths, Latina Christiana, Christian Studies I, English Grammar Recitation I, and States & Capitals, as well as parts of Poetry for the Grammar Stage, which they will contintue to use through seventh grade.

The purchase of this package assumes that you have the books that are in our third grade package and have completed the first half of them.

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RETAIL

755.80

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GRADE 5

PACKAGE PRICE

Curriculum Manual Only $30 Consumables Only $145

LATIN

455

$

CURRICULUM MANUAL

First Form Latin complete set (p. 22); Lingua Angelica I set (p. 20)

Lesson Plans for One Year

WRITING

GRAMMAR

MATH

Classical Composition II: Narrative Student, Teacher, DVDs (p. 57)

English Grammar Recitation Workbook II set (p. 56); Core Skills Language Arts 5

Rod & Staff Arithmetic 5 Student, Teacher (Parts 1-2), Tests, Speed Drills (p. 17)

AMERICAN/MODERN

CLASSICAL

CHRISTIAN

Geography I set, including The United States Review set; Geography Flashcards (p. 39)

Famous Men of Rome set (p. 64)

Christian Studies II Student and Teacher (p. 68)

SPELLING

SCIENCE

LITERATURE

Spelling Workout F set

The Book of Insects set (p. 58)

Fifth Grade Literature set (p. 54)

NEW USER ADD-ON SET $108 – New to Memoria Press? You need these items from prior years.

Timeline Program, Poetry for the Grammar Stage set, English Grammar Recitation, The Golden Children's Bible, Old Testament Flashcards, Memory Verse Flashcards

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GRADE 6

Curriculum Manual Only $30 Consumables Only $165 CURRICULUM MANUAL

LATIN

AMERICAN/MODERN

Second Form Latin complete set (p. 22)

Geography II set, including Geography I Review set (p. 39)

Lesson Plans for One Year

MATH Rod & Staff Arithmetic 6 Student, Teacher (Parts 1-2), Quizzes & Speed Drills, Tests (p. 17)

RETAIL

763.38

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PACKAGE PRICE

495

$

WRITING

CLASSICAL

Classical Composition III: Chreia/Maxim Student, Teacher, DVDs (p. 57)

Famous Men of the Middle Ages set (p. 64)

GRAMMAR

SPELLING

SCIENCE

English Grammar Recitation Workbook III set (p. 56); Core Skills Language Arts 6

Spelling Workout G set

What's That Bird? set (p. 59); Exploring the History of Medicine set (p. 59)

LITERATURE

CHRISTIAN

Sixth Grade Literature set (p. 54)

Christian Studies III Student and Teacher; New Testament Flashcards (p. 68)

NEW USER ADD-ON SET $113 – New to Memoria Press? You need these items from prior years.

Timeline Program, Poetry for the Grammar Stage set, English Grammar Recitation, The Golden Children's Bible, Memory Verse Flashcards, Geography Flashcards

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RETAIL

901.20

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GRADE 7

PACKAGE PRICE

550

$

Curriculum Manual Only $30 Consumables Only $175

LATIN

WRITING

Third Form Latin complete set (p. 23)

Classical Composition IV: Refutation & Confirmation Student, Teacher, DVDs (p. 57)

CURRICULUM MANUAL Lesson Plans for One Year

SPELLING

AMERICAN/MODERN

CLASSICAL

Spelling Workout H set

The Story of the Thirteen Colonies & the Great Republic set (p. 38); 200 Questions About American History set and Flashcards (p. 38); The Story of the World, Vol. 4 (p. 16)

Famous Men of Greece set (p. 64); Horatius at the Bridge (p. 66); The Greek Alphabet set (p. 25)

CHRISTIAN Christian Studies IV Student, Teacher, & Reader (p. 68)

MATH

SCIENCE

College of the Redwoods Pre-Algebra set (p. 17)

The Book of Trees set; Exploring the World of Biology set (p. 59)

GRAMMAR

LITERATURE

English Grammar Recitation Workbook IV set (p. 56); Core Skills Language Arts 7

Seventh Grade Literature set (p. 55)

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Timeline Program, Poetry for the Grammar Stage set, English Grammar Recitation

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GRADE 8

Curriculum Manual Only $30 Consumables Only $160 CURRICULUM MANUAL Lesson Plans for One Year

CLASSICAL

GRAMMAR

The Book of the Ancient Greeks set (p. 65); The Iliad set & DVDs (p. 66); The Odyssey set & DVDs (p. 66)

Rod & Staff English 8 set

RETAIL

1,010.04

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PACKAGE PRICE

620

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LATIN

WRITING

CHRISTIAN

Fourth Form Latin complete set (p. 23); Henle Latin I set (p. 24)

Classical Composition V: Common Topic Student, Teacher, DVDs (p. 57)

The Book of the Ancient World set (p. 65)

MATH

SCIENCE

AMERICAN/MODERN

Prentice Hall Classics Algebra 1 set (p. 17)

Exploring Planet Earth set (p. 59)

Geography III Text, Student, Teacher and Classroom Atlas (p. 39)

LITERATURE/POETRY

OPTIONAL

Eighth Grade Literature set (p. 55); Poetry & Short Stories: American Literature set (p. 56); Bard of Avon

First Form Greek (p. 26)

Algebra 1 Online Instructional Lessons (p. 17)

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Geography Flashcards $19.95

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RETAIL

1123.65

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GRADE 9

PACKAGE PRICE

825

$

Curriculum Manual Only $30 Consumables Only $170

LATIN

CHRISTIAN

Henle Latin II Lesson Plans, Quizzes & Tests, Text, and Key (p. 24); Latin Grammar for the Grammar Stage (p. 25)

The Story of Christianity set (p. 68)

CURRICULUM MANUAL Lesson Plans for One Year

LOGIC

WRITING

SCIENCE

Traditional Logic I & II complete sets (p. 30)

Classical Composition VI: Encomium, Invective, & Comparison Student & Teacher (p. 57)

Novare Physical Science Text and Resource CD (p. 59)

CLASSICAL

MATH

AMERICAN/MODERN

The Book of the Ancient Romans set (p. 65); The Aeneid set and DVDs (p. 66)

Prentice Hall Classics Algebra II set (p. 17)

A Concise History of the American Republic, Year I Student and Teacher (p. 38)

LITERATURE/POETRY Ninth Grade Literature set (p. 55); Poetry, Prose, & Drama: Book I set (p. 56); The Book of the Middle Ages text (p. 65)

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GRADE 10

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RETAIL

1246.31

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PACKAGE PRICE

LATIN

CHRISTIAN

WRITING

Mueller's Caesar (De Bello Gallico) Text, Teacher's Guide, and Lesson Plans (p. 24)

History of the Early Church set (p. 68)

Classical Composition VII: Characterization Student, Teacher (p. 57)

875

$

CLASSICAL

LOGIC

MATH

Medea & the Other Plays set & DVDs; The Three Theban Plays set & DVDs; The Oresteian Trilogy set & DVDs (p. 66)

Material Logic complete set (p. 31)

McDougal Littell Geometry set (p. 17)

AMERICAN/MODERN

LITERATURE/POETRY

A Concise History of the American Republic, Year II Student and Teacher (p. 38)

Tenth Grade Literature set (p. 55); Poetry & Prose: Book II Set (p. 56)

Science Recommendations: Modern Biology is an extremely well-designed text and is the one used at Highlands Latin School, where, because the text contains a section on evolution not acceptable to many Christians, a teacher can treat issues of human origins and development separately. But we also have a high regard for the specifically creation-oriented A Beka text (designed for Christian schools) and Apologia (for homeschools). We have removed science from the 10th grade package in order to give you the opportunity to choose the right course for your family.

Apologia Exploring Creation with Biology Modern Biology A Beka Biology

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A Concise History of the American Republic Text $148.95

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SUPPLEMENTS Grades 1-8

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The Story of the World

by Susan Wise Bauer

Lesson Plans by Subject $3.00 - $16.00 per subject Memoria Press' lesson plans by subject allow you to tailor the Classical Core Curriculum to your own needs. These plans retain our week-at-a-glance layout, which gives you the standard program for that grade for individual subjects.

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VOL. 1: Ancient Times

VOL. 3: Early Modern Times

$16.95 paperback $39.95 audiobook

$16.95 paperback $49.95 audiobook

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(summer reading before 7th grade)

VOL. 2: The Middle Ages

VOL. 4: The Modern Age

$16.95 paperback $44.95 audiobook

$17.95 paperback $54.95 audiobook

(summer reading before 6th grade)

(summer reading before 8th grade)

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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. 9-12). They make great supplemental summer reading!

Grades K-2 Kindergarten $35.00 First Grade $35.00 Second Grade $35.00

11"x17" Art Posters Coordinates with Art Cards included in Classical Core Curriculum packages (pp. 5-7). For more information, see page 56.

Classical Education Resources The Schools We Need:

The Well-Trained Mind:

$17.95

$39.95

And Why We Don't Have Them

by E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

Climbing Parnassus:

The Well-Educated Mind:

A New Apologia for Greek and Latin

by Tracy Lee Simmons

A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had

by Susan Wise Bauer

$15.00

$35.00

A Preface to Paradise Lost

by C. S. Lewis $29.95

The Great Tradition: Classic Readings in What It Means to Be an Educated Human Being edited by Richard M. Gamble

$20.00

From Achilles to Christ:

The Great Books: A Journey Through 2,500 Years

$24.00

$22.00

Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics

by Louis Markos

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A Guide to Classical Education at Home, 4th Edition

by Susan Wise Bauer & Jessie Wise

Classical Core Curriculum

of the West's Classic Literature

by Anthony O'Hear

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Math Kindergarten

Numbers Book: Part One $15.00 | Numbers Book: Part Two $15.00 FlashKids Addition Flashcards $3.95 | FlashKids Subtraction Flashcards $3.95

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he question as to the educational worth of any study must always be a pertinent one. If Latin is not of fundamental importance in the high-school curriculum, then large numbers of students are making a prodigious error in pursuing the subject, and the sooner we understand this, the better for our civilization. If, on the other hand, the increase is the result of wise choice or even of wise instinct, we must, while rejoicing at the greater recognition Latin is securing, at the same time admit our own vastly increased responsibility for its wise direction and promotion.

Before considering the special reasons that exist in favor of studying Latin, let us first consider the function of language in general as an instrument of education. The function of education is purportedly to prepare pupils to be useful members of society. To make them such, it is essential that they be taught to understand as fully as possible the nature and character of the national life—social, civil, political, religious—in which they are born or in which their lot is cast. To a certain extent, also, it is essential that they learn to apprehend the nature and character of the larger life of the nation.

What now is the instrument best adapted to the attainment of this end? It is language. Language is the supreme instrument in education, i.e. the higher education, because of its universal nature. It promotes intellectual discipline and brings intellectual power, because the study of language brings us at every turn face to face, as nothing else does, with subjects and questions of intellectual concern and intellectual interest. Language deals with ideas; it touches perpetually on problems of the relations of man to man, of man to society, and of man to the State. The analysis of language demands refined and precise thinking. So long then as ideas are important, and so long as the underlying conceptions which reflect the national life of a people are important, the supreme value of the mastery of these through language study will continue to be recognized.

By the study of language is meant the study of one’s own language, but the study of one’s own language is achieved incomparably better by the indirect method of studying another language. Only so can the necessary processes of comparison be effectively instituted. Latin is of value because it confers a mastery over the resources of one’s mother Excerpt from Charles. E. Bennett's The Teaching of Latin in the Secondary School, 1903.

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tongue. This mastery comes as the direct and necessary words mean; the pupil is learning to differentiate result of careful daily translation—a process involving related concepts, acquiring sense for form and style, on the one hand a careful consideration and analysis and if he be so fortunate as to be endowed with any of the thought of the author read, and on the other a native gifts of thought having reached maturity, severe and laborious comparison of the value he has that indispensable equipment of the of alternative English words, phrases, and educated person—the capacity to say Language sentences, with the consequent attainment what he says with directness, clearness, of skill in making the same effective as precision, and effect. deals with vehicles of expression. No one, I think, There has been a great outcry in ideas; it touches will undertake to deny that the results recent years about the importance here claimed are actual, and if actual, of English, and it has been one perpetually on it can hardly be denied that they with which I think the body of problems of the constitute an important justification thoughtful persons have in large for the study of Latin. relations of man to measure sympathized. All have Training in English, then, as the cheerfully acknowledged the great man, of man to result of careful translation from Latin, importance of an ability to use is here set down as the first and most society, of man one’s native idiom with skill and important reason for studying Latin. To power. It is because I sympathize so to the State. heartily with this sentiment that I enter my own mind this reason weighs more than all others combined. Let us examine this defense of translation. It is because more in detail how translation from Latin translation from Latin to English seems to gives such admirable training in English. me such a stimulating, vitalizing exercise, and so Translation is a severe exercise. The lexicon or helpful to the student who would attain mastery of vocabulary tells the meanings of words, and his own language—it is because of this that I find full the grammar states the force of inflected forms, justification for the study of Latin. but it is only after the pupil, provided with this equipment, has attacked his Latin sentence with a view to translation that the real struggle begins.

An Ideal Latin Sequence His vocabulary may have given him a dozen or even twenty meanings under a single verb or Primary Grammar Prep noun, and the pupil must reflect and carefully *Prima Latina discriminate before he can choose the right word, Grades 2+ p. 20 (Beginning program for grades 1-4) the one just suited to the context. Further, his *Latina Christiana Latin sentence may be long, complex, and periodic, Grades 3-4+ (Beginning p. 21 program for grades 3-6) entirely different in structure from anything we know in English; such a sentence must be broken Grammar Stage up and so arranged as to conform to our English Memorize the Latin grammar mode of expression. The Latin sentence may have *First Form Latin Grades 5+ p. 22 one of those Protean ablative absolutes—an idiom (Beginning program for grades 5-12) that our English style practically abhors. Every Grades 6+ Second Form Latin p. 22 such ablative absolute has to be examined with care prior to an English rendering. It may express Logic Stage time, cause, concession, condition, attendant How to use the grammar - syntax & translation skills circumstance, means, or what not, and must be Grades 7+ Third Form Latin p. 23 rendered accordingly. Again the Latin sentence may secure by its arrangement of words certain effects of Fourth Form Latin/Henle I pp. 23-24 Grades 8+ (syntax & Caesar prep) emphasis which English can bring out only by the employment of very different resources.

Henle II (Caesar prep) Grades 9+ or *Henle Latin I for those beginning Latin p. 24 Every teacher knows how difficult translation is, in grades 9+ and knows that it is serious work, often slow work, but also what it means to the pupil who submits to Rhetoric Stage Read Latin literature it. The teacher knows that such a pupil is gaining a mastery over the resources of his mother tongue.

Mueller’s Caesar Grades 10+ p. 24 Factual knowledge, except to a very limited degree, (covers AP lines from De Bello Gallico) the student is not gaining, but he is learning what

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Prima Latina

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Introduction to First Form Latin by Cheryl Lowe | Grades 3-6 Latina Christiana is, quite simply, the best grammar-based Latin course available for beginning students. Cheryl Lowe’s clear explanations, easy instructions, and step-by-step approach have led thousands of teachers and students to declare, “I love Latin!”

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

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

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

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Latin Grammar Year One

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5 noun declensions 1st-2nd declension adjectives 1st-2nd conjugations in 6 tenses (active voice) Sum in 6 tenses Syntax: nominative and accusative cases; complementary infinitive; subject-verb agreement; noun-adjective agreement; predicate nouns and adjectives First Form Latin Review - see p. 24

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

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$28.45 set (text, grammar, & key) $65.00 set (text, grammar, key, Units 1-2 & 3-5 Test/Quiz Packages, Units 1-5 Teacher Manual) In the First Year text, a limited vocabulary of 500 words allows students to master grammar without being overwhelmed with large vocabulary lists. Repetitious Latin phrases and copious exercises produce mastery rather than frustration.

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Mueller's Caesar

Selections from De Bello Gallico

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76.00 set

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Mueller's text and accompanying Teacher Guide will lead students through Caesar's fascinating account of his wars in Gaul. Perfect first texts for Latin students who are ready to translate, the books include vocabulary, footnotes, historical background, and other resources, preparing interested students for the Caesar portion of the AP Latin Exam. Memoria Press' Lesson Plans (strongly recommended) schedule the work and teach, step by step, how to approach Latin translation.

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Advanced Christian Latin

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Memoria Press Guides to the National Latin Exam

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

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Latin Grammar for the Grammar Stage

Hymns & Prayers

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Roots of English

This compendium of grammar forms and syntax is a systematic, concise, and easily accessible reference. It includes all conjugations and declensions, plus a very basic introduction to Latin syntax.

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Advanced Vocabulary Building From Latin Roots More advanced than Roots of English, this book offers a comprehensive listing of derivatives for Latina Christiana, along with Latin definitions, English derivatives, and etymology.

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 Latin vocabulary set.

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Greek Alphabet Charts

Old Testament Stories in Latin

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

One chart has the upper- and lowercase letters of the Greek alphabet with their names in English and Greek. The second chart lists diphthongs, accent marks, pronunciation helps, and syllable names.

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

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Greek Alphabet Book

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The Greek alphabet is different enough from our own to be a major impediment to the study of Greek. Our Greek Alphabet Book is a tour of the Greek letters, their formation, and sounds.

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"First Form Greek has the same logical structure and helpful teaching tools of the Latin Forms series. The complete recitation list and Greek Sayings Analysis references in the Teacher Guide make even the novice Greek teacher feel confident that they can guide the student through this challenging material." — Kristin Walukas

FIRST FORM GREEK Introduction to Ancient Greek

by Cheryl Lowe & Michael Simpson Based on the revolutionary First Form Latin series, First Form Greek is written for parents and teachers with or without a Greek background.

Its goal is to present the grammar so logically and so systematically that anyone can learn it. At the same time, we have adapted the Latin Forms series to account for the differences between Greek and Latin, such as the new alphabet, overlapping sounds, more variation within paradigms, and less regularity. First Form Greek overcomes these challenges with the addition of weekly vocabulary reviews, more frequent recitation, and an “expanded” dictionary entry for Greek verbs.

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Student Workbook • Approximately 6 pages of exercises for each lesson • Logical progression of work spread over 4 days • 2-page weekly reviews (Lesson 4 ff.) of vocabulary, and later, grammar • Blank drill forms for additional practice

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LO GIC

THE FIVE MOST

COMMON ARGUMENTS

by Martin Cothran

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ne of the things a logic student learns is that, of the 64 possible kinds of arguments (also called syllogisms), only 19 of them are valid. Let's take the most common argument form of all: PREMISE #1: All flowers are plants (A) PREMISE #2: All roses are flowers (A) CONCLUSION: Therefore, all roses are plants (A)

T h is a rg u ment for m is ca l led a "BARBARA" (for reasons we will explain in a minute). If we converted eac h of t he ter ms i nto a let ter (S=roses, P=plants, and M=flowers), the argument above would look like this: PREMISE #1: All M is P PREMISE #2: All S is M CONCLUSION: Therefore, all S is P

The Five Most Common Arguments

BARBARA, CELARENT, DARII, FERIO

In the Middle Ages, William of Sherwood gave names to the 19 valid arguments.

When we put an argument into symbols like this, we call it the "form" of the argument. It is just an easy way to see how the argument is structured.

In the BARBARA syllogism above, all the statements are A statements, which just means they are constructed in the form "All S is P." There are three other kinds of statements: E statements use the form "No S is P," I statements use the form "Some S is P," and O statements use the form "Some S is not P." If we take into account all four of these kinds of statements, we could come up with the 64 possible kinds of arguments.

But of these 64 kinds of arguments, only 19 are valid. Validity just means that the argument is structured so that, if the premises are true, the conclusion must also necessarily be true. Of the 64 28

possible arguments, only 19 of them are structured this way. In the other forms—the invalid forms— there is no guarantee that the conclusion is true if the premises are true.

In the Middle Ages, a philosopher named William of Sherwood gave names to these 19 valid syllogisms and put them in a four-line verse (the most common ones are in bold):

CESARE, CAMESTRES, FESTINO, BAROCO DARAPTI, DISAMIS, DATISI, FELAPTON, BOCARDO, FERISON BRAMANTIP, CAMENES, DIMARIS, FESAPO, FRESISON

The names are not accidental.

The vowels and some of the consonants in each name tell us something about each syllogism.

The advanced logic student learns what these letters mean. But the most basic thing they tell you is what kind of statements make up each argument. A BARBARA, for example (like the one above), is made up of three A statements.

Note that all three statements in our first argument—the two premises and the conclusion—are A statements: BARBARA. We could also call it an AAA argument, or, simply, an AA argument, since it is according to the kind and arrangment of the premises by which we categorize arguments.

You will see both A and E statements (but not I and O statements, curiously) in the five most common argument forms. In addition to BARBARA, there are: MemoriaPress.com

CELARENT: No flowers are trees (E) All roses are flowers (A) Therefore, no roses are trees (E) CESARE: No trees are flowers (E) All roses are flowers (A) Therefore, no roses are trees (E) CAMESTRES: All roses are flowers (A) No trees are flowers (E) Therefore, no trees are roses (E) CAMENES: All roses are flowers (A) No flowers are trees (E) Therefore, no trees are roses (E)

Notice that the middle term (the term in both of the premises but not the conclusion) is in bold in the arguments above. It is the position of the two middle terms that dictated on what line William of Sherwood put these syllogisms in his verse.

The first line of the verse includes only syllogisms in which the middle term is the subject of the first premise and the predicate of the second premise—like the CELARENT above and the BARBARA we showed in the beginning of this article. Syllogisms in which the middle terms are in the predicates of both premises—like the CESARE and the CAMESTRES above—are in the second line. The third line of Sherwood's verse includes only those in which the middle term is in the subjects of both premises, and the fourth only those with the middle terms in the predicate of the first premise and the subject of the second (like the CAMENES above).

Of these five common argument forms, the first, BARBARA, is the most common. Most of the arguments in Euclid's Elements, for example, the great classical work on analytic geometry, are BARBARAs. There is no obvious reason why these five arguments should be the most commonly used, although, if we analyzed them for long enough, we would see that they are conceptually the most simple and straightforward.

Many logic students only learn enough of the subject to test arguments for validity. They would see one of the 64 forms, perform seven tests, and see if the argument passes all of these tests. But imagine how much simpler it would be for the student if he had simply memorized the 19 valid forms (the ones in William of Sherwood's verse). He wouldn't have to worry about all those validity tests: He would simply look at the argument, and see if it was one of the 19 forms he had memorized.

If it was, then it would be valid; if not, then it would be invalid.

This is what the logic student who sticks with the subject will learn. He will have mastered a difficult subject, and will end up with a simple procedure for analyzing arguments.

Martin Cothran is the author of Traditional Logic I and II (p. 30) as well as Material Logic and Classical Rhetoric (p. 31).

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W is not

BORING How Classical Music Speaks Across Time and Space

by Dr. Carol Reynolds

e all do it, don’t we? We carefully defend the bold choice we’ve made to educate our children seriously and rigorously. Friends or relatives may assert that we are choosing outdated traditions, irrelevant in our techno-saturated world. Latin in elementary school? Whatever for? The Great Books?

Aren’t they terribly boring? Handwriting and memory work? We have computers for that kind of thing.

Then, there’s the decision to commit ourselves to our priceless tradition of the Fine Arts: painting and sculpture, theater and dance, plus, of course, music.

That, to many, seems even more of an accessory or frill. How do we explain laboring to instill an understanding of the masterpieces our modern society no longer values?

Teaching the fine arts is not about turning children into professional artists, dancers, or violinists. It’s not even about taking lessons. It’s about teaching the substance of the fine arts. It’s about opening students’ minds to a world of color, movement, and sound that they won’t encounter easily otherwise. It’s about training the ear to listen, the eye to see, and the soul to drench itself with beauty.

Panos Karan playing music for children in a community of Napo River in Peru, December 2011. Photograph taken by Eloise Campbell

The case for what we tend to call “classical music” is one of the hardest to make. Music can seem so ephemeral. Literature more easily conveys a sense of heritage and ongoing relevance. Visual art, such as painting and sculpture, confronts a viewer with a physical presence.

But music? Its substance disappears once the notes no longer sound in the air. Music’s meaning can be hard to grasp. So classical music, lacking a clear connection to daily lives, seemingly can be dismissed without much remorse.

Yet in some parts of the world classical music is flourishing as never before. Look at the roster of names from the string sections of today’s orchestras or international piano competitions. The players come from nations, many of them non-Western, where the discipline required to achieve virtuosity continues to be taught and culturally embraced.

This phenomenon may be encouraging, but can classical music flourish in parts of the world where such traditions have never existed? Can it speak to people fully unversed in such musical styles?

The answer is an enthusiastic “yes.” I’ll share one story to underline the searing power of classical music to communicate. To my own surprise, I learned this story while giving a lecture series on a ship sailing the Indian Ocean.

A musician named Panos Karan was performing on the same ship as I. An impressive British pianist of Greek parentage, he has plenty of credentials to his name. As a youth, he set himself the iconic goal of performing in Carnegie Hall. Through talent, persistence, and good fortune, he did. But afterwards, still in his twenties, he found himself thinking, “Now what?” Or, to use his own words: I had gotten all this training and failed to ask the most important question: Why am I playing music? ... Why am I only playing for people that can afford to buy a ticket? In the middle of this crisis, and with the thought very clearly in my head that perhaps I should stop playing music altogether and do something else, I thought I would give it one more try and go as far away as possible from the concert hall that I knew and try to find a completely new audience that knows nothing about the music that I was playing.

Unsure what he might accomplish, he set out on a voyage to the source of the Amazon River. Trekking through the jungle with a full-scale electronic piano and a power generator, he proceeded to play the same music he had performed on the concert stage for whomever would listen. As he says, “I wanted to see with my own eyes and feel in my hands what the music I was playing can really do.”

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Building on these experiences, Karan moved to the next stage of his endeavor. With Western backers, he began to put instruments in kids’ hands, supported their training, and even launched youth orchestras that later were able to perform in places like London and Boston.

You can take many lessons from Panos Karan’s experiences. But the most important lesson, for me, involves reemphasizing Western classical music’s vital content. It is not an elite, dusty remnant of the past. It speaks across time and place to everyone.

Its complexity and refinement are not barriers, but rather invitations to experience its continuously gratifying richness.

The notes may vanish in the air once sounded, but the power of classical music makes a connection to the listeners’ daily lives—one not easily dismissed. We who have such easy access to the treasury of Western arts can experience this daily. So let us educate our children with music of the most uplifted and uplifting kind, music rich in melody, vibrant in harmony, strong in structure, and transcendent in beauty.

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Student $17.95 ea.

Teacher $17.95 ea.

A historical study of the greatest minds and cultures of preceding generations is an essential pillar of classical education. The three components of this course include the history of ideas, biography, and key cultural developments, particularly in Western European and American societies. The texts include helpful maps, timelines, and illustrations. Our study guides provide comprehension questions that help students focus on the most important information from each chapter. The Teacher Guide for each year includes three tests.

by Edward Eggleston

Eggleston says in his preface that "the primary aim of this book is to furnish the little learner reading matter that will excite his attention and give him pleasure" and "to make the mind of the pupil familiar with some of the leading figures in the history of our country by means of personal anecdote." We have included Eggleston's original illustrations in addition to our own.

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Grades 5+

Text $7.99 Student $12.95 Teacher $12.95 Flashcards $3.95

Geography II Text $14.95 Geography II Student $12.95 Geography II Teacher $14.95 Geography I Review Workbook $5.00 Geography I Review Teacher $7.95

Geography II: Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Oceania, & the Americas

States & Capitals $35.00 set (text, student, teacher, flashcards) In this study guide, each state is given a two-page spread that includes a map with room to write the state capital, nickname, abbreviation, and fun facts about the state. By the end of this year-long course, students will be able to map all 50 states and capitals. We recommend that this guide be used with Don’t Know Much About the 50 States.

Flashcards: This set includes 50 cards, with the name of each state and a map of the state’s location within the United States on one side of the card, and the capital and detailed shape of the state on the other. Also included are 34 country cards that introduce key world countries and their capitals. Helpful teaching hints and suggested activities are also included.

$48.00 set

(text, workbook, teacher + Geography I Review workbook & teacher)

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

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

Grades 4+

Grades 7+

Geography I Text $14.95 Geography Student $12.95 Geography Teacher $14.95 U.S. Review Workbook $5.00 U.S. Review Teacher $7.95 Geography Flashcards $19.95

Text $16.95 Student $17.95 Teacher $17.95 Classroom Atlas $12.00 Geography Flashcards $19.95

Geography I: The Middle East,

Geography III:

$65.00 set (text, workbook, teacher + U.S. Review

$76.00 set (text, workbook, teacher, classroom

North Africa, & Europe

workbook, teacher, and flashcards)

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

The United States Review: Help students retain the knowledge they gained in their study of States & Capitals. This review takes very little time and makes a great companion to Geography I. Geography I-III Flashcards: We have a big fan club for our geography books. Our customers like the basic maps that give you just the essentials of world geography in a straightforward manner. Now we have the flashcards to go with it. Covering the material from Geography I, II, and III, these flashcards will help your student master the physical and cultural geography of the world.

Exploring and Mapping the World atlas, flashcards*)

Students learn to map the world in our Geography I and Geography II programs.

Geography III solidifies these mapping skills and requires students to label major landforms and topography. Students will study the climate, recent and current history, culture, and religion of every continent. This text has many illustrations of famous landmarks, architecture, and people from around the world, and the workbook requires students to practice mapwork weekly. In addition to labeling maps, students will learn to draw each continent using the Robinson Map Project. This is a thorough world geography course that is perfect for middle school students before their advanced European and American history courses in high school.

Classroom Atlas: Detailed political, economic, environmental, and topographical maps of global regions. This is a recommended supplement for Geography III. *same as flashcards in Geography I set

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by R. W. Livingstone

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the dangers of a self-willed, impetuous, and ignorant hy study literature? This question is democracy. This democracy is called to vote on problems often asked by indignant parents, who of government at home and abroad, to decide between want to know why their children, the policies presented to it, to discern whether truth destined for business, learn fancy resides in the glib tongues of its leaders and the facile subjects instead of things serviceable to them in life. pens of its daily papers. Without some knowledge of An open and alert mind—which understands itself, and its neighbours in the world, of the ideals that human nature and its possibilities, which can judge sway or have swayed its own and other countries, of and sympathise, which, because of its wide survey the judgments that history records on the experiments, and outlook on the world, creates new opportunities crimes, and blunders of past ages, the steps of humanity and developments, prospers in commerce or in any will be more blind and blundering than ever. work—is the child of a varied education, not of narrow Metallurgical or chemical analysis needs highly technical training. Your student will get his commercial trained skill and knowledge; but the analysis of political and professional knowledge, but the first task is to give and moral problems is at least as complicated and urgent, him a general training, to open windows on the world, and it is work which cannot be handed over entirely to and thus give him a glimpse of its possibilities, and a experts. If we do not all take some share in it, we are all, sense of proportion. Commerce will not flourish the as voters, called to pronounce a decision upon it. better if I send into it men of narrow outlook and untrained minds. And in the end, my Justifying the Humanities method will pay you, even in mere How do we justify the prominence coin of the realm. of the humanities in education?

The great gap in science is As science reveals As science reveals to us the that it tells us hardly anything to us the physical physical constitution of ourselves about man. The man who is constitution of ourselves and of the world round us, so our friend, enemy, kinsman, and of the world round us, the humanities reveal to us partner, colleague, with whom so the humanities reveal man. There is no science of man.1 we live and do business, who to us man. governs or is governed by us, has Anatomy and biology, while they never once come within our view. have much to say about his body, That is why it is impossible to throw little light upon his behaviour, base our education on physical nor explain why he makes a French science. It omits a branch of knowledge Revolution or a European war, why he is which everyone needs. It is possible for the a miser or a spendthrift, a Machiavelli or a Frederick ordinary man to dispense with a knowledge of the Great. Physical science does not deal with this kind physical science: He can go to specialists who will do of thing. Yet the "science" which everyone needs, and his business for him better than he can do it for himself. statesmen above all, is such a knowledge of man.

Considering that the world reposes on physical science, Now there is, if not a science, yet a record and it is wonderful how well most of us can get along account of man. We call it by the various names of without any knowledge of it, provided our occupation literature, history, philosophy. Generally speaking, does not demand actual scientific knowledge. the subject of that education is man—man viewed in The layman, in spite of his ignorance of physiology, himself and his proper nature, viewed as literature enjoys no worse health than a doctor. views him, as a being with feelings and prejudices, But no one can dispense with a knowledge of man. virtues and vices, ruled by intellect, or perverted by Everyone needs it, and is using it each minute he is in passion, inspired by ideals, torn by desires, acting on relation with human beings, whether he is speaking to plan and calculation, or carried away by unreflecting them, or reading what they have written, or engaged emotion, sacrificing his life, now for gold, now for an in work which at any point touches them. We need ideal—an adulterer, a patriot, a glutton, a dreamer; this knowledge as private individuals. And still more, Aegisthus, Oedipus, Hamlet, Macbeth, Faust. we need it as citizens and voters. Our need of science Or man, viewed as a being governed by the laws may be great, but our need of political and moral of a universe outside him, viewed as philosophy views wisdom is greater, not less obvious, more difficult to him, subject to limitations of time and space, of his remedy, and more dangerous to the state.

1 Today we might think of psychology as such a science, but even The storms that loom above us and threaten to psychology would not encompass all the aspects of man that, for break in most disastrous ruin are political. They are Livingstone, would constitute a complete accounting of him.

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Here physical science gives no help. In literature own origin, nature and destiny, related to beings the mind must continually be moving from one place and forces outside him, adapting himself to those to another; in twenty-five pages the reader must relations and modifying his action according to his successively become Polonius, Hamlet, Horatio, Laertes, conception of them.

Gertrude—to mention no other characters of the play.

Or man, viewed as a political and social being, as In fact, he must do what the merchant does who wishes history views him, creating states and overthrowing to sell goods in half a dozen different markets, or the them, making laws and refusing to be bound by them, statesman who has to consider the interests and temper opposing religion to politics, and freedom to law, of half a dozen different classes and nationalities. But binding art and politics, empire and freedom, public science keeps on one plane. It is not puzzled by the subtle and private life into a harmonious whole, or crowning and profound variations of outlook which separate a one to the exclusion of the rest, fighting, colonizing, Russian from an Englishman, a Herefordshire farmer making money and spending it, treating his neighbor from a Tyneside artisan. Minerals and nerves, alkalis as a fellow-being, or using him as a tool for the and engines have no point of view, no outlook on life, production of wealth—monarchist, parliamentarian, into which it is necessary to enter; understanding them socialist, anarchist; Pericles or Augustus, Cromwell is very different from understanding Shakespeare or Robespierre. or Euripides. You deal with them and all Before the student of literature, the while remain your own insulated philosophy, and history are displayed self. Science does not train sympathy, all the forces and ideas that have because nothing in its subject matter has governed man, personal, religious, A man learns above feelings with which we can sympathize. or political— to see why he has all from the study of So instead of handing rejected this and espoused that, literature and history to our youth over wholly to why this failed and that was put himself in the place of other mathematics, to live with successful, what are liberty men, races, and times, to identify the abstract skeleton of the and religion, family affection himself with them, to see world, or to science, to study and personal greed, and in a what they mean and the causes of the phenomena of the word, to study Man. As he reviews how they felt. physical universe, we hand him them, and compares them with the over to literature, to the prophets of present, he can forecast in some humanity, in the hope that he may degree the future, and by virtue of learn to see the world as they saw it, his knowledge guide the streaming forces, and catch something of their joy, nobility, and and shape the molten mass, serve his country, and inspiration. This is not to surrender him to idleness use to the best advantage his own powers. or daydreams. Shakespeare and Milton, Bacon and Burke were not worse men of business because they Literature Teaches Thinking Skills had genius. Indeed imagination is necessary to the One of the chief objects of education is to train highest success in any way of life. Its possession flexibility of mind, to make a man quick to comprehend raised Rhodes above a mere money-maker, and made other points of view than his own. Obviously, no power Gladstone and Disraeli more than mere politicians. is more necessary in dealing with men. We spend half Without it, a man may be a "flourishing earthworm." of our time in misunderstanding our neighbour, and in He will never be great, he will hardly be a man. most controversies misunderstanding is the dividing While supporting any attempt to improve the line between the parties concerned. Now the power of teaching of science where it is deficient, and to bring sympathetic insight is trained by a literary education. more science where it is needed in national life, we shall A man learns above all from the study of literature and remember that an education based solely on physical history to put himself in the place of other men, races, science would not only leave the mind unflexible, and times, to identify himself with them, to see what unsympathetic, unimaginative, undeveloped, but would they mean and how they felt. And so, by continual ignore what is more important than the Cosmos itself. practice, he becomes quick at seizing the views of other Our motto was written 2,500 years ago on the walls of people than himself, seeing what is in their mind, and the temple of Apollo at Delphi, "Know thyself." accommodating himself to it.

This essay is excerpted from R. W. Livingstone's A Defense of Classical Education.

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Full-Year Classical Core Curriculum Packages for Special-Needs Students Visit ClassicalSpecialNeeds.com to obtain detailed information about each level and to take readiness assessments.

LEVEL A

Ages 2-3 (Chronological Age or Skill Level)

$225 Full Set (all books + Curriculum Manual) $30 Curriculum Manual Only

Curriculum Manual Only $30 Consumables Only $34 Supplemental Read-Aloud Program $125 CURRICULUM MANUAL Lesson Plans for One Year

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Level A Curriculum Manual 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

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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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LEVEL B

Ages 3-4 (Chronological Age or Skill Level)

CHRISTIAN STUDIES, MEMORY, & MANNERS

RETAIL

209.10

$

PACKAGE PRICE

185

$

A Child's Garden of Bible Stories, Bible Pictures to Color, Prayer for a Child, Please and Thank You Book, Big Thoughts for Little People, How Can I Help?

PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS, PHONICS, & READING Alphabet Coloring Book (p. 48), My First ABC Book, Simply Classical Crafts Book One, Alphabet Flashcards (p. 48)

ENRICHMENT

ARITHMETIC & FINE-MOTOR

My First Body Book, Do It Carefully, My Big Animal Book, A Child's Garden of Verses, A Child's Garden of Songs CD, Back to the Garden CD, Best First Book Ever!

Numbers Coloring Book (p. 48), Adventures with Books, Everywhere We Go, Counting With Numbers

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You need this item from Level A. Prayers for Children $4.99

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Simply Classical Curriculum RETAIL

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Curriculum Manual Only $30 Consumables Only $85 Supplemental Read-Aloud Program $335

LEVEL C

Ages 4-5 (Chronological Age or Skill Level)

PACKAGE PRICE

PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS, PHONICS, & READING

200

$

Alphabet Books 1-2 (p. 48), Classical Phonics (p. 49), First Start Reading Student Book A (p. 49), First Start Reading Teacher (p. 49), Simply Classical Letters & Numbers Desk Charts (p. 45)

CHRISTIAN STUDIES, MEMORY, & MANNERS

CURRICULUM MANUAL

Wee Folks Bible ABC Book

ARITHMETIC & FINE-MOTOR

Lesson Plans for One Year

Numbers Books 1-2 (p. 48), Going on Eagerly, My Very Own Scissors Book (p. 48)

ENRICHMENT Animals Animals, Simply Classical Crafts Book 2, Aesop's Fables, Richard Scarry's Best Mother Goose Ever, Finding the Answers, Hearing and Helping, Christian Liberty Nature Reader Book K, Animal Alphabet Coloring Book

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Simply Classical Curriculum RETAIL

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PACKAGE PRICE

350

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LEVEL 1

Ages 5-6 (Chronological Age or Skill Level) PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS, PHONICS, & READING Fun in the Sun, Soft and White, Scamp and Tramp, Primary Phonics Readers Sets 1-3, Core Skills Phonics K-1, First Start Reading Student Books A-D (p. 49), Phonics from A to Z (p. 49)

ARITHMETIC & FINE-MOTOR Rod & Staff Arithmetic 1 Student (part 1), Teacher, Flashcards, Practice Sheets (p. 17), Best Counting Book Ever, This First Thanksgiving Day

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Curriculum Manual Only $30 Consumables Only $70 Supplemental Read-Aloud Program $150 Supplemental Science & Enrichment Set $125

Special-Needs

CHRISTIAN STUDIES, MEMORY, & MANNERS The Story Bible, The Creation Story for Children, Simply Classical Copybook I (p. 50)

ENRICHMENT Kindergarten & First Grade Art Cards (p. 58), Hailstones and Halibut Bones, A Child's Book of Poems, Days Gone By CD, My Nature Journal (p. 50), Animals! GeoPuzzle

CURRICULUM MANUAL Lesson Plans for One Year

New to Simply Classical? You need these items from Level C. Classical Phonics $15.95 Letters & Numbers Desk Charts $12.95 First Start Reading Teacher $14.95

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Curriculum Manual Only $30 Consumables Only $125 Optional Extended Literature Set $19.50 Supp. Literature, Science, History, & Geography Read-Aloud Set $240 Supp. Arithmetic Read-Aloud Set $50

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Rod &Staff Arithmetic 1 Student (part 2), Speed Drills (p. 17)

LEVEL 2

Ages 6-8 (Chronological Age or Skill Level)

RETAIL

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PACKAGE PRICE

LITERATURE, COMPOSITION, & GRAMMAR

275

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Simply Classical Writing (Read-Aloud Ed.), Simply Classical StoryTime Treasures Student and Teacher, Little Bear, Little Bear's Visit, Blueberries for Sal, Caps for Sale, At the Farm

ENRICHMENT Second Grade Art Cards (p. 58), Animal Tales CD

PHONICS & SPELLING Moose Moments: Silent E, Moose Moments: Short Vowels, Moose Moments: Digraphs, Core Skills Phonics 2-3, Phonics Flashcards (p. 49), Core Skills Spelling 1, Simply Classical Spelling: Book One

CHRISTIAN STUDIES, MEMORY, & MANNERS

CURSIVE Cursive Practice Sheets (p. 50), New American Cursive I (p. 51)

SC Copybook 2: Manuscript (p. 50)

New to Simply Classical?

You need these items from previous levels.

Classical Phonics $15.95 Arithmetic 1 Teacher $20.95 Arithmetic 1 Practice Sheets $16.50 Arithmetic 1 Flashcards $17.80 Child’s Garden of Bible Stories $11.99

Special-Needs materials Ages 4-7, chronological age or skill level $12.95

Simply Classical Writing: Books 1 & 2 Ages 6-9, chronological age or skill level Student $19.95 ea. | Teacher (Book 2 only) $10.00 (choose from Read-Aloud or Bible Story editions)

The "progressive" approach leaves beginning writers ill-prepared. This series combines classical copybook, grammar rules, and composition into one carefully sequenced series of explicit instruction, so students can practice early writing skills with confidence.

Simply Classical StoryTime Treasures $40 set (student, teacher, & 4 novels)

Simply Classical More StoryTime Treasures $40 set (student, teacher, & 4 novels)

Blossoming readers need to discover the riches of a good story. With simplified exercises in word study, composition, and oration, this delightful guide provides a joyful introduction to children's literature.

Simply Classical Spelling: Step-by-Step Words

Ages 6-9, chronological age or skill level Book 1 $14.95 | Book 2 $14.95

This series gives your struggling writer an incremental, multisensory approach with an oral/aural emphasis. Each week includes targeted Word Study exercises to promote linguistic awareness, cognitive flexibility, and improved spelling skills.

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Simply Classical Letters & Numbers Desk Charts (Sold in Level C)

Reinforce your teaching with desk charts formatted to accompany lessons. Bold, targeted letters assist visual discrimination.

Simply Classical Enrichment Guide: Level 3 $19.95

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LEVEL 3

Ages 7-9 (Chronological Age or Skill Level)

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300

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Curriculum Manual Only $30 Consumables Only $130 Optional American History Read-Aloud Set $225 Supplemental Arithmetic Read-Aloud Set $60.00

ARITHMETIC & FINE-MOTOR

LATIN

Rod & Staff Arithmetic 2 Student Units 1, 2, and 3, Teacher Units 1-2 and 3-5, and Blacklines (p. 17), Write-On / Wipe-Off Demo Clock

Prima Latina Student, Teacher, and Pronunciation CD (p. 20)

LITERATURE, COMPOSITION, & GRAMMAR

ENRICHMENT

Simply Classical More StoryTime Treasures Student and Teacher, Billy and Blaze, The Story About Ping, Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie, Stone Soup, Wagon Wheels, Prairie School, Prairie School Student Guide, Simply Classical Writing Two (Read-Aloud Ed.)

SC 3 Enrichment Guide, Map of the U. S. Sticker Picture Book, States & Capitals Flashcards

CURRICULUM MANUAL Lesson Plans for One Year

CHRISTIAN STUDIES, MEMORY, & MANNERS Copybook Cursive 3

PHONICS & SPELLING

CURSIVE

First Start Reading Book E Student and Teacher (p. 49), Core Skills Phonics 4, Core Skills Spelling 2, Sounds of the Sea, On the Trail, Simply Classical Spelling: Book 2

New American Cursive 2 - Famous Americans (p. 51), My Thankfulness Journal - Beginner (p. 50)

NEW USER ADD-ON SET $95 New to Simply Classical?

You need these items from prior years.

Classical Phonics, The Story Bible, K, 1st, and 2nd Grade Art Cards, Phonics Flashcards, Core Skills Phonics 3

Simply Classical: A Beautiful Education for Any Child by Cheryl Swope Text $24.95 | eBook $22.00

This revolutionary book guides parents and teachers in implementing the beauty of a classical education with specialneeds and struggling students. Cheryl is an advocate of classical Christian education for special-needs students. The love of history, music, literature, and Latin instilled in her own children has created in Cheryl the desire to share the message that classical education offers benefits to any child.

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Increase your child’s academic success.

Restore your child’s love of learning.

Regain confidence to teach any child.

Renew your vision of hope for your special-needs child.

Receive help navigating the daunting process of receiving a diagnosis.

• Learn how to modify existing resources for your child’s needs.

• Find simple strategies any parent or teacher can implement immediately.

• Appreciate a spiritual context for bringing truth, goodness, and beauty to any child.

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An Interview With Michelle Swope* What is the hardest thing about the different challenges you face in your life?

The hardest challenges of my life are not being able to do what I dream about in my life, such as marry, drive a sky-blue bug that is a convertible, act well, sing, dance ballet professionally (Giselle in Swan Lake, Clara or Sugar Plum Fairy in Nutcracker, Aurora or Carabosse in Sleeping Beauty). I have autism and schizophrenia. I'm dyslexic (reading, spelling). I see this especially when I read hard books. I often prefer children's books to adult books, even though I am an adult.

How has a classical education helped you?

From a very early age I remember different things, such as Mom teaching me to read and Dad teaching me through Shakespeare the love of poetry and acting and the fine arts. I studied the language of Latin, very basic French, and grammar. All of this helped me spell and associate grammar with writing.

What was your favorite area of study in your classical education?

My favorites in school differed in classes based on my age. From about age 3 to 9, my favorites were reading, history, and music. As an older child and teen, my favorites were music, history, spelling, grammar, Latin, and French. Famous Men of Rome helped me study the ancients in greater depth. I learned Latin from Latina Christiana. I loved Latin sayings and Latin vocabulary. I would recommend these to anyone who cares to learn.

What is your favorite thing about writing poetry?

Poetry takes care of worries and lifts me up high above every mundane care. Poetry explains me in a joyous way.

Why do you want other children with special challenges to receive a classical education?

I want other children to study not just anything, but to be educated through Simply Classical, because I learned from the best, my mom, and I believe that when my mom finished with us and took her teachings to the world, a whole new level began for children with special needs. I believe that your children can be the best if and when they learn from the best.

And, yes, you may quote me, for I am being frank about what I feel. My mom is the best and knows whereof she speaks.

Please share a closing poem with our readers.

The poem I'll close with is this: Love is First Rule Silence writes a letter, Talk speaks a note.

Friendship is golden.

Love is first rule in Family, faith, and future.

To my family with highest thanks, Michelle Lynn Swope *Michelle Swope is Cheryl Swope's daughter. Cheryl is the author of Simply Classical.

Cheryl Swope is the author of Simply Classical: A Beautiful Education for Any Child and Memoria Press' Simply Classical Curriculum.

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Alphabet & Numbers Recommended for Ages 4-5

Recommended for Kindergarten

$30.00 (2-book set)

$30.00 (2-book set)

Alphabet Books (Part I & Part II) by Leigh Lowe

Numbers Books (Part I & Part II) by Leigh Lowe

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

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

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

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

$10.00

Recommended for Ages 4-5

Recommended for Ages 4-5

Numbers $6.00 Alphabet $6.00

$15.00

Alphabet Flashcards

Coloring Books

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.

(4Ÿ'' x 5½")

Numbers & Colors

This book is ideal for a student who is just beginning to work with numbers. Along with introducing each number through 15, color words are taught. Plenty of practice is given with both numbers and color words through activities such as counting, connect the dots, coloring, number tracing, pattern recognition, and more! Additional skills of left and right, above and below, and grouping are also introduced.

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, finemotor 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. 44) 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

Classical Core Curriculum supplement

$16.95 ea.

$19.95 ea.

(Jr. Kindergarten, Kindergarten, First Grade, or Second Grade)

(Kindergarten, 1st Grade, or 2nd Grade)

The Book of Crafts The creative arts are an essential part of primary school education. These activities reinforce number and letter recognition, strengthen fine motor skills, and foster creativity and confidence. There is a craft project for each read-aloud in Memoria Press' K-2 curriculum packages, and additional crafts that focus on art concepts. Enjoy each of your creations and the time spent together making them.

Enrichment Guides 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 poetry lessons.

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Reading & Phonics Kindergarten

Grades K-2 $15.95

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.

First Start Reading, Book E

by Michelle Tefertiller In Book E we complete the program by covering long vowel teams, soft c and g, and three sounds of y. Once the student has mastered the basic phonics in the FSR series, he is ready to continue reading progress with real literature.

First Start Reading:

Phonics, Reading, and Printing by Cheryl Lowe

$59.90 set (Books A-E + Teacher Guides) 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 (vowel-consonant) approach combined with word families. Mastery of short vowels is the sine qua non of phonics programs, but few programs provide adequate practice.

Kindergarten Phonics & Spelling Set

The FSR program consists of 5 student books with artistdrawn pictures to color, drawing pages for each letter or phonogram, and over 30 stories. The Teacher Guide leads you through the program and provides helpful assessments and teaching tips. *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.

$250.00 set

Our outstanding Classical Core Curriculum phonics program is now available as a complete set. Included are our Kindergarten Phonics Lesson Plans, First Start Reading Books A-E (student & teacher), Classical Phonics, Core Skills Phonics K & 1, Phonics Flashcards, Animal Alphabet Coloring Book, Christian Liberty Nature Reader K, Primary Phonics Reader Sets 1-4, Soft & White, Scamp & Tramp, and Fun in the Sun. Completion of this program will help your child learn to read fluently and smoothly transition to our First Grade Curriculum Package.

Grades K-2

Classical Core Curriculum supplement

Perfect for any phonics program!

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Phonics From A to Z $25.99

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Music Enrichment If you have enjoyed the music enrichment sections of our grade-by-grade Enrichment Guides, you will love our new supplement devoted exclusively to music. Music Enrichment goes into more detail on each song presented in our Enrichment books, including a short backstory on each of the songs and its composer, as well as a few questions about the song being studied. Teach your child more about what the song is about, interesting facts about the instruments used in the song and how they work together, interesting aspects about the song's structure, and why the composer wrote it.

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Phonics Flashcards (5.5"x 4.25")

Phonograms are letters or letter teams that represent sounds. There are nearly 200 phonograms used to spell the 44 sounds used in the English language. In our Phonics Flashcards we have organized these phonograms into nine categories to give some rational order to the irregularities of English spelling. Phonogram cards can be combined and recombined to help students see the multiple ways a sound can be spelled, and the multiple sounds for a particular phonogram.

Phonics from A-Z A manual for parents and teachers who want to go deeper into the subject of phonics and reading. It includes information on every aspect of how children best learn to read as well as reliable, accurate, and common-sense advice, and extensive lists of resources.

Teaching Phonics & Word Study This book is an excellent resource for Grammar School teachers who desire additional help with phonics concepts in order to become better spelling teachers.

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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.

(New American Cursive font)

by Cheryl & Leigh Lowe 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 D'Aulaires' Greek Myths, and more!

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

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

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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My Nature Journal

by Cheryl Swope

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.

My Thankfulness Journals (New American Cursive font)

by Cheryl Swope

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.

Cursive Practice Sheets (New American Cursive font)

One question we hear repeatedly is how to get more worksheets to practice New American Cursive writing. We try to put extra sheets in our books, but it never seems to be enough. Our new Cursive Practice Sheets book includes pages for practicing each cursive letter, Scripture copywork, and blank practice sheets. Since the most important objective of the NAC program is mastery, the more your student is able to practice, the better!

Simply Classical Copybook Series

(Manuscript and New American Cursive fonts)

by Cheryl Swope

Ages 5-9, chronological age or skill level Simply Classical Copybook: Book One, Manuscript $8.95 Simply Classical Copybook: Book Two, Manuscript $8.95 Simply Classical Copybook: Book Two, Cursive $8.95 Simply Classical Copybook: Book Three, Cursive $8.95 More special-needs information & curriculum on pages 43-47.

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Copybook is the time-honored activity in which students copy Scripture, maxims, poetry, and other literature selections. Copybook can assist children with special needs, even those who might otherwise find writing difficult. Through Simply Classical Copybook, students can strengthen penmanship, spelling, punctuation, vocabulary, fine-motor skills, and memory, while they learn habits of accuracy, neatness, and patience. Even more, they can receive truth and comfort from Holy Scripture. Shorter selections help accommodate for writing difficulties while providing the full benefits of copybook exercises for all beginning writers.

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Choose from: Famous Quotations & Scripture Quotations from Famous Americans

Choose from: Scripture & Lessons on Manners Famous Quotes & Lessons on Manners

by Iris Hatfield

by Iris Hatfield

by Iris Hatfield

Simple, clear, & effective!

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?

Before the early 1920s, children were taught cursive in the first grade.

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

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Teach Yourself Cursive: Create a Cursive That Fits You

by Iris Hatfield

The New American Cursive Penmanship Program is an easy-to-follow method for learning cursive. Developed by Iris Hatfield, who has over 35 years experience as a handwriting specialist, NAC combines proven teaching methods with the student’s needs for a fast, legible script.

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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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Visual aids reinforce each letter of the alphabet while young students learn to read and write or practice their penmanship. These wall charts make great educational posters. Each illustration is hand-drawn. The cursive charts use the New American Cursive font.

Alphabet Wall Poster (22'' x 34'') Manuscript and New American Cursive $7.00

This poster lists the entire manuscript and cursive alphabets. It is the perfect resource if you don't have the space for our alphabet wall charts.

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STAGES

TO THE CENTRAL ONE IDEA

Using the Trivium to Uncover the Heart of a Work

BY DAVID M. WRIGHT

GRAMMAR

LOGIC

TRUTH

RHETORIC

iscovering and internalizing the Central One Idea in a great work is vital for proper reading and for cultivating wisdom and virtue.1 There are four stages of acquisition and expression that can be used to lead the student (and teacher) to this Central One Idea.

The four-stage sequence is rooted in the trivium— grammar, logic, and rhetoric. In the trivium, grammar is language, logic (dialectic) is thought, and rhetoric is expression. Put another way, in the grammar stage, one accumulates the fundamental elements, features, and facts of a body of knowledge. In the logic stage, one arranges, connects, organizes, compares, and reasons with the facts learned and draws a conclusion(s). In the rhetoric stage, one expresses that conclusion/truth to others.

Sister Miriam Joseph defined the trivium as the three arts of language pertaining to the mind: grammar is the art of inventing and combining symbols (letters and words); logic is the art of thinking; and rhetoric is the art of communication. She also states it in this way: grammar is concerned with the thing-as-it-is-symbolized; logic is concerned with the thing-as-it-is-known; and rhetoric is concerned with the thing-as-it-is-communicated.2 The trivium, she says, is the instrument of all education at all levels because the arts of grammar, logic, and rhetoric govern the means of communication— namely reading, writing, speaking, and listening.

The trivium is a movement from distinct parts into a synthesized whole. The three stages guide the student to relate the facts learned into a unified, organic whole.

Marguerite McGlinn, introducing Joseph’s work, says, “The trivium teaches us that language evolves from the very nature of being human. … We invent symbols to express the range of practical, theoretical, and poetical experiences that make up our existence.”

We can see, then, that the trivium has much to do with being human, with negotiating our lives. It reveals the ontological reality within us through our use of reason and language. The trivium embodies how we think, how we learn, and how we communicate.

In our particular context of studying a great work, the teacher has firmly in mind the abstract singular truth that he or she wishes the student to learn, which is the Central One Idea of the work. Though popular culture may be fond of saying, “It’s not the destination that counts, but the journey,” nothing should be further from classical teaching and learning. For both the journey and the destination count, but especially the destination, which is the understanding and expression of the central idea of the work.

This article is adapted from Memoria Press' Student Study Guide for Shakespeare's Henry V.

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they are deeper questions with the intent of leading the student toward the Central One Idea. Socratic To begin, the Pre-Grammar stage prepares the questions are intended for verbal discussion, and student for receiving and understanding the Central they also provide a good opportunity for the student One Idea by invoking his prior knowledge, experience, to develop his note-taking skills. or interests concerning that idea. Just as Socrates At the end of this stage, the student should be believed that the truth he wanted his interlocutor to ready to make a determination of what he thinks is understand was already within him, in some way the Central One Idea. This is not always easy, but or part, the Central One Idea is already within the the student should be encouraged to take this step, student. Thus, it is helpful to cultivate the soil in a kind of “leap of faith”—though not a huge leap preparation for planting the seed. In this preparatory over a dark chasm, but a short step relying on logic stage, the student is and evidence from close merely asked a few reading, study guide The Central One Idea is a kind of “leap questions about something work, notes in a literature of faith"—though not a huge leap over related to the Central One notebook, and attentive a dark chasm, but a short step Idea, or simply about the basic perception and reflection. plot or subject of the work—to relying on logic and evidence Stage 4: Rhetoric set him thinking in a certain from close reading, study Expression direction. This is the shortest stage guide work, notes in a and can take as little as five minutes In the final stage, the student literature notebook, (though fine if longer). expresses what he believes to be the Central One Idea. The student’s ability and attentive Stage 2: Grammar Presentation to organize and express his thoughts is an perception and important skill in this stage.

In the Grammar stage, the student is reflection.

In this section, the first question asks the presented with and discovers essential facts, student to briefly summarize the plot, and elements, and features of the story (or play, the second to express the Central One Idea in poem, etc.). Here the student encounters many a complete sentence. The reason for this is so the useful facts and learns new vocabulary words. student will be forced to distinguish between a plot In addition, the student becomes grounded in the summary and the Central One Idea. The two are quite basic features of the story through comprehension different. The former, of course, concerns the sequence questions and learns new literary and rhetorical terms. of events in the story. The latter concerns a larger abstract In this stage, the student is presented with the basic truth—the central proposition at the heart of the story. grammatical units—facts, elements, features, ideas— The third question asks the student to list three that comprise the work, and becomes familiarized supporting points for his determination of the with new subject matter. New types or particulars are Central One Idea. The fourth and fifth ask for the presented and discovered here. opening lead and the closing amplification. Finally, Stage 3: Logic Dialectic the student also writes down the teacher’s version of the Central One Idea—which is helpful for several In the Logic stage, the student reasons with the reasons, the first of which is that it enables the facts, elements, and features of the story or poem— student to draw a comparison. sorts, arranges, compares, and connects ideas—and In the last section of the Rhetoric stage, the begins to uncover and determine the Central One student is presented with the opportunity to write an Idea. He compares the new ideas and facts with essay—to express the Central One Idea as the thesis similar things already in the mind, which gives rise to be argued for and defended in the essay. This to new conclusions. Importantly, the final conclusion, improves the student’s writing skills and increases the Central One Idea, is often an abstract or general his rhetorical abilities. truth, though it may be expressed by means of a These four stages enable the student to fully story’s particulars, such as a character’s action and grasp the essence of what he is reading: the Central discovery, etc. The best method for leading the One Idea. student toward this new abstract truth is through the Socratic method. Socratic discussion questions in this 1 Sister Miriam Joseph. The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, stage are different than the comprehension questions Grammar, and Rhetoric. Ed. by Marguerite McGlinn. (Philadelphia: used in the previous stage because they go further Paul Dry Books, 2002), 3. up and further in to abstract thought. Simply put, 2 Ibid., 9.

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Reading requires an active, discriminating mind that is challenged to think, compare, and contrast. Students who have been challenged by good literature will develop into superior readers and will never be satisfied with poor-quality books. Each novel has been carefully selected to nourish your child's soul and improve his reading skills.

The study guides focus on vocabulary, spelling, comprehension, and composition—skills that train students to become active readers.

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Introduction to Composition This introductory program focuses on 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. This year-long writing course uses focus passages from Charlotte's Web, Farmer Boy, A Bear Called Paddington, Mr. Popper's Penguins, and The Moffats.

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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.

Workbooks I-IV are available to help students learn the rules. Each twopage lesson in the workbook 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.

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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.

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

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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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Do you know the story of the sky?

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They will create projects that relate to literature, science, Mesopotamian and Egyptian art, portraits, landscapes, still life, and much more!

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 Curriculum sets. Our art cards have been hugely popular: The best paintings by the best painters that you can hold in your hand.

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Exploring America’s Musical Heritage:

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

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Early Sacred Music:

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Here you will find a description and explanation of how Christians worshiped God in song for over a millenia. In addition to the sheer beauty of the songs themselves, you will learn how musical notation developed, who the great Christian composers were, and how historical circumstance affected the musical worship of the Church. Along with the texts, you get DVDs of musical performances and Professor Carol's unparalleled commentary.

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

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

What’s That Bird?

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$45.00 set (text, student, teacher) 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 classical naturalists like John James Audubon and Jean-Henri Fabre, who were some of the greatest observational biologists of all time.

Study the anatomy of birds and how they live.

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Within the context of the study of landforms, minerals, and planetary phenomena, this text covers many other topics including conservation of natural resources, climate change, pollution, environmental justice, and geologic history.

The Resource CD includes quizzes, teacher keys, weekly review guides, suggested answers to verbal questions, notes on teaching, and more!

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 modernday 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.

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by Martin Cothran

G. K. Chesterton and the Defense of the Christian West

n his Autobiography, G. K. Chesterton tells the story of having only recently come to public attention as a result of a running debate on the pages of The Clarion with that newspaper's editor, Robert Blatchford. Blatchford was a proud and voluble atheist who had issued an open challenge to readers to respond to his broadsides against Christianity.

Chesterton, a young and rising British journalist, had responded in four essays in 1904 that remain to this day classics of Christian apologetics.

Chesterton attended a dinner party at the time, put on by The Clarion, and noticed a gentleman sitting next to him, "one of those very refined and rather academic gentlemen from Cambridge," as he described him: "Excuse my asking, Mr. Chesterton, of course I shall quite understand if you prefer not to answer, and I shan't think any the worse of it, you know, even if it's true. But I suppose I'm right in thinking you don't really believe in those things you're defending against Blatchford?" I informed him with adamantine gravity that I did most definitely believe in those things I was defending against Blatchford. His cold and refined face did not move a visible muscle; and yet I knew in some fashion it had completely altered. "Oh, you do," he said, "I beg your pardon. Thank you. That's all I wanted to know." And he went on eating his (probably vegetarian) meal. But I was sure that for the rest of the evening, despite his calm, he felt as if he were sitting next to a fabulous griffin.

The Edwardian Era in which Chesterton came to prominence followed the late Victorian Era, a time in which the intellectual class—in what Julian Benda called "The Treason of the Clerks"—had abandoned Christianity as a living belief. Christianity was first replaced by traditional morality—to which the Victorians held the more strongly as the religion that had given it warrant was pulled out from underneath it.

Deprived of Christianity, the Victorians made morality their religion. But by the time of the Edwardians, This article is an abridged version of Martin Cothran's Introduction to Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton, newly published by Mud House Publishers and available from Memoria Press.

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skepticism, "an universal wolf" (to use Shakespeare's words), had undermined traditional morality too. In such circumstances, it is no wonder that Chesterton, an unapologetic apologist for both Christianity and the morality for which it was the only justification, would have been viewed in such exotic terms.

In fact, part of Chesterton's allure could be attributed to the interesting figure he cut as a defender of orthodoxy in an age in which heresy had become orthodox. Skepticism enjoyed the fashionable status that always accrues to the subversive and the revolutionary in modern societies. Cultural revolutionaries thrive on the conceit that they are outsiders living in defiance of a stuffy and inflexible establishment, and their very existence depends on the belief that they are insurgent radicals battling an entrenched elite.

But in a world in which skepticism had become established and the revolutionaries were in charge of the culture, it was the subversives who were now ripe for satire, and Chesterton was uniquely fitted to administer it. "There had been plenty of humor and wit and ridicule in the public controversy on religious matters," explained British writer Curtis Maycock, "but it had all been on the other side—everyone took for granted the ridiculing of tradition and orthodoxy. The idea of using such weapons in their defence was so novel as to be incomprehensible." It is Chesterton who was now the revolutionary, fighting those who would blind us to the obligations of the eternal.

It was a battle in which not only our religion, but our civilization, was at stake. For Chesterton, Western civilization was synonymous with Christendom, that majestic and all-pervading cultural ideal that still haunted the dreams of Europe well into the twentieth century. There was no separating Christianity from the West: Their history was intertwined and their fate was one. This is why Orthodoxy is not only a book of Christian apologetics, but one of the great defenses of the Christian West.

Chesterton's argument in the first part of Orthodoxy is this: Western man may have lost his belief in sin, but he retains at least a belief in sanity. But when we look to the philosophies of the modern world we find all the cultural signs of madness. Modern worldviews possess the very characteristics of insanity, the chief of which are fragmentation and reductionism—the inability to see the world whole and the obsession with some one idea at the expense of all others. According to Chesterton, The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered, … it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have

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gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone.

The most salient feature of modern worldviews is not necessarily that they are illogical, but that they are fractured, isolated, each founded on some one Christian doctrine, separated from other truths in the balance of Christian belief. We are all, said Chesterton, "the survivors of a wreck, the crew of a golden ship that had gone down before the beginning of the world," and as that great catastrophe has faded into history and receded in our collective memory, we have each in our intellectual and spiritual desperation sought refuge on some one piece of the wreck, thinking it the whole ship.

For the Marxist it is the brotherhood of man, for the materialist, the objectivity of nature, for the evolutionist, change itself.

So closely connected is Western civilization with Christianity that Western civilization, deprived of its religious foundation, is quite literally coming apart.

In the second half of Orthodoxy, Chesterton argues that the beliefs of Christianity fit the facts of the world, like a key fits a lock. And it isn't only that the beliefs fit the facts, but that the peculiarities of the facts of the world are explained by the equally peculiar beliefs of Christianity—and that the peculiarities match. This was an implicit articulation of John Henry Newman's "illative sense"—the idea he articulates in his Grammar

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of Assent that the real reason we come to a conviction about anything is not because there is one simple logical argument that proves it, but rather that everything seems to prove it. Chesterton makes a similar case: The secularist is not to be blamed because his objections to Christianity are miscellaneous and even scrappy; it is precisely such scrappy evidence that does convince the mind. I mean that a man may well be less convinced of a philosophy from four books, than from one book, one battle, one landscape, and one old friend.

The very fact that the things are of different kinds increases the importance of the fact that they all point to one conclusion.

false, but nothing can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is true. Zulus, gardening, butchers' shops, lunatic asylums, housemaids and the French Revolution—all these things not only may have something to do with the Christian God, but must have something to do with Him if He lives and reigns.

And yet if one were forced to resort to one book that best represented Chesterton's thoughts on Christianity, there really is no doubt which one it should be. It is said that he had no one masterpiece, not because none of his books were great, but because so many of them were.

There is truth to this. But while time has taken many of his books from our attention, it has perhaps also done us the service of concentrating our attention on this one The role of reason in Chesterton's defense of great book—a book, though written over a hundred metaphysical law and order took a particular and years ago, that speaks to us today in our cultural crisis unique form. Chesterton was a romantic rationalist. every bit as much as it did in the What sets him apart from any cultural crisis of the Edwardians. other writer is the way in which And it is able to do this because he combines both reason and

by G. K. Chesterton, the two crises are the same. imagination into what Gary Wills Introduction by It is the same crisis, and yet has called "the Chestertonian Martin Cothran our time seems darker even than dialectic." Here again, Chesterton's $12.99 Chesterton's. Cultural illiteracy thought is a return to an earlier G. K. Chesterton's majestic reigns. Sexuality has been synthesis and is at odds with his defense of Christianity. confounded. Marriage has been age. T. S. Eliot had spoken of the One of the great thinkers of the twentieth redefined. The tool of technology "dissociation of sensibility," and century, Chesterton here begins by threatens to turn into a tyrant. But describing his own search for truth, in Allan Tate of the "double retreat which he managed to construct a worldview if you read enough of Chesterton, from the moral center"—each that made sense of everything, only to you will know that he predicted referring to the bifurcation both in discover, once he had put the finishing these things, and still it didn't culture and discourse, as well as in touches on it, that it was Christianity. dampen his spirits. Why? Because the modern mind itself, of reason he knew it had happened before and imagination. and would likely happen again. The Phoenix of the To get the full scope of Chesterton's rational and Church might burst into flame, but it would rise again imaginative religious thought is no easy thing. One from the ashes: cannot decide, for example, to put aside his books on literature and poetry and economics and politics in Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in order to find out what he believes about Christianity. each one of them Christianity has died … But the first In fact, what he has to say about Christianity is extraordinary fact which marks this history is this: that said as much in his books on literature and poetry Europe has been turned upside down over and over again; and that at the end of each of these revolutions and economics and politics as in his books about the same religion has again been found on top. The Christianity. He talks as much about Christianity in Faith is always converting the age, not as an old religion his George Bernard Shaw as he does in Heretics, and it but as a new religion. is no less a consideration in The Return of Don Quixote than in The Everlasting Man. As Chesterton said in a Chesterton's own reputation has occasionally fallen Daily News column in 1903, into obscurity, but Orthodoxy has been republished again and again since its original printing in 1908.

You cannot evade the issue of God: Whether you talk Chesterton reminds us, not only that Christianity about pigs or the binomial theory, you are still talking about Him. Now if Christianity be … a fragment of is the true revolution, but that, unique among the metaphysical nonsense invented by a few people, then, systems of belief that populate the history of the of course, defending it will simply mean talking that world, Christianity has the power to effect its own metaphysical nonsense over and over. But if Christianity renewal: "Christianity has died many times and risen should happen to be true, then defending it may mean again," he said, "for it had a god who knew the way talking about anything and everything. Things can out of the grave." be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is

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Introduction to Classical Studies

D'Aulaires' Greek Myths

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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.

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

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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 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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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)

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. 64]) and has read a retelling of the Trojan War (Olivia Coolidge’s The Trojan War [p. 66]).

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The Book of the Ancient World

The Book of the Ancient Greeks

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

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

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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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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.

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.

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

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

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

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David West translation 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. 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.

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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.

Euripides further developed the tragedy, instituting the deus ex machina, a prologue with a background, and greater realism.

His heroes are less resolute and more psychological, fraught with internal conflict.

In his characters, we see the polar extremes to which human nature may go: cold reason and maniacal passion, nobility and cruelty, triumph and regret, grief and comfort.

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The Divine Comedy

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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.

Cicero was a man trying to give the politicians of his day solid principles to live by as they drove his fatherland, Rome, down the royal road of decay. His work On Obligations played a large role in Western Christendom but is daunting to read alone.

Let us accompany your highschooler as he learns the principles of justice, wisdom, beneficence, courage, and propriety.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, a Roman statesman from the first century B.C., was convinced that the upright moral life was the happier life. The Republic became the blueprint of the U.S. government almost 2,000 years after it was written. In The Laws, Cicero defends his understanding of the upright moral life and becomes the foundation for the West's philosophical discussion on the natural law.

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$39.95 set (Sketchbook, Handbook, Wall Cards, Flashcards) Students will master a total of 60 events over the course of four years (3rd-6th grades). History is a very unsystematic subject, and time is very abstract. Students need a timeline that they memorize, build on, and recite every year.

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

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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.

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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Grades 6-8

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.

Reader $11.95 Student $17.95 Teacher $20.95

Student Book: 30 lessons; weekly memory verses; maps & timelines; 5 review lessons & tests; comprehension, drill, and discussion questions; references Golden Children's Bible page numbers as well as actual Scripture references.

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

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.

Grades 9+

Grades 8+

Text $10.00 Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95

Text $15.99 Student $14.95 Teacher $16.95

The Wars of the Jews:

The Fall of Jerusalem by Josephus "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.

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. Our new Reader gives students an overview of each book of the Bible.

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

by David Bentley Hart

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

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

Grades K-2 Guide $12.95 Bible $29.99

Christian Studies Enrichment: The Story Bible

This guide facilitates oral discussion for each Story Bible lesson.

Grades 9+

Grades 10-12

Grades 8+

Student $17.95 Teacher $20.95 The Early Church $17.00 The History of the Church $18.00

Text $17.00 Student $17.95 Teacher $20.95 Quizzes/Tests $5.00

Text $9.95 Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95

History of the Early Church

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. In this year-long course, Chadwick's The Early Church is used as the main text, and students are directed to Eusebius' History of the Church when ancient testimony is appropriate.

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Christian Studies IV: Chronological Overview of the Bible

Christian Studies

The City of God

by St. Augustine, Vernon J. Bourke ed.

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.

Acts of the Apostles (King James Version) The history of Christianity, particularly that of the early Church, is something every Christian should know. But when we talk about what books about the history of the Church we should read, we often forget the most important and informative book: The Book of the Acts of the Apostles. Here is the exciting story of the travels, the teachings, and—in many cases—the martrydoms of the apostles themselves, as told by the author of the Gospel of Luke. Christian history starts here.

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