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A Consequential Life by Martin Cothran

you were offered a pill that allowed you to live forever, would you take it? I have asked that question several times with groups of students, and I find that many of them say "no." This has always shocked me. You get the chance to live forever, and you say "no"? But young people are sometimes wiser than we think. Maybe if they were actually faced with such a choice they would respond differently. It is hard to know. And one wonders whether there would be a different answer if we asked people who were older, people to whom the prospect of death is more immediate. Still, it is surprising. What I don't find surprising is that, after having discussed the question with the class, even more of them say they would not take the pill than when I first asked the question. The major reason for this frequent change of heart is, I think, that during this discussion we talk about the fact that each of our lives constitutes a story. In a story there is a beginning, a middle, and, just as importantly, an end. There are "characters" and there is a "setting" and a "plot." And, if we are living our lives correctly, there will be some purpose to it, what we would call a "theme." And that theme, or purpose, when pursued, often involves difficulties, which, if we were reading our own story, would look a lot like what we would term a "conflict": a thing that gives a story, and our lives, meaning. When we read a story, one in which all of these things are present, we are satisfied in a way that we are not when we read a story that does not have all of these elements. All of us have read stories in which there isn't much of a plot, or at least, not a very convincing one. Or one in which there is very little conflict, or no compelling characters. We tend to not like these stories very much. These elements are necessary to make the story interesting and worth reading—and worth living. For many people today, it seems, it is harder to lead a life with a purpose. We live in a time and in a country in which we now have most of the things we thought we wanted. We in the Western world are the richest, safest, most comfortable people who ever existed. But one of the costs of that is that our lives are at risk of resembling a story less than they once did. All stories have some problem that needs solving, some difficult quest that needs completing, some tension that needs to be resolved. And when they don't have that they are unsatisfying. Most of us are fortunate that our problems today have little to do with finding something to eat or a place to sleep. Rather, we struggle to find something interesting to do. When we have fewer real burdens to bear or dragons to fight, when survival becomes so easy that our chief trouble is just finding something to make it worth getting through the day, we become prone to despondency and depression. Our worst problem is that our problems are not very bad. This is one of the reasons, I think, that we need the old stories. If it is hard sometimes to see what the purpose of our own life is, it helps to experience the lives of other people who knew what they were living for. If we have accompanied Jason and the Argonauts on their search for the Golden Fleece, or gone on the quest for the Holy Grail with Sir Galahad, or traveled with Frodo on his journey to destroy the Ring of Power, we know better how consequential a life can be in the total scheme of things.

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A Consequential Life by Martin Cothran Memoria Press Literature Sequence by Cheryl Lowe How to Teach Literature in the Grammar School by Tanya Charlton Aesop vs. Grimm: The Difference Between a Fable and a Fairy Tale by G. K. Chesterton Why Story Matters by Martin Cothran Befriending Books by Dr. Leta Sundet

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Classical Core Curriculum 39 40 46

Read-Aloud Sets and Summer Reading Curriculum Packages and Supplements Curriculum Map Overview

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Phonics & Reading Spelling Primary Enrichment & Character Building Alphabet, Numbers, & Coloring New American Cursive & Penmanship

Literature, Grammar, & Writing 15 19 76

Literature Poetry Writing & English Grammar

Prima Latina & Latina Christiana Latin Forms Series Latin Supplements Upper School Latin & Courses for AP® Latin Greek French

Arithmetic & Math Science & Nature

Logic & Rhetoric 78

Traditional Logic, Material Logic, & Aristotle's Rhetoric

Art & Music 67 72 73

Latin, Greek, & French 4 6 8 10 31 31

American Studies, Medieval History, & Modern European History Geography

Science & Math

Primary Years 64 66 67 69 74

D'Aulaires' Greek Myths & Famous Men Series Dorothy Mills' Histories & Classical Studies Supplements Classical Literature Classical Philosophy Christian Studies

Primary Enrichment Professor Carol: Discovering Art & Music in the Younger Years, Discovering Music, Exploring America's Musical Heritage, & Early Sacred Music A Classical History of Art, Art Posters & Cards, Creating Art, Reading Music, & Music Appreciation

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Resource Books, Pamphlet Series, & Memoria College Press Simply Classical

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Latin Prima Latina: An Introduction to Christian Latin by Leigh Lowe | Grades 1-4 Prima Latina is a gentle introduction to Latin specifically designed for students and teachers with no Latin background. It teaches the basic parts of speech while introducing Latin, grounding students in the fundamental concepts of English grammar. Each lesson includes five Latin vocabulary words and English derivatives, a Latin saying, a Latin prayer, and grammar exercises. If you are looking for additional support in teaching your student, the author, Leigh Lowe, has recorded detailed Instructional Videos for every lesson that are sure to delight your young students! Prima Latina transitions seamlessly into Latina Christiana.

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Introduction to English Grammar Grades 1-4 Student Workbook $11.85 | Teacher Key $9.25

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$41.12 basic set (student, teacher, audio) Student $17.90 | Teacher $17.90 | Audio $10.00 Videos $55.00 | Digital Flashcards $13.10 Physical Flashcards $18.10

Help students make connections between the Latin grammar they are learning in Prima Latina and English grammar with these single-page worksheets. We highly recommend this companion book, which can also be used as a standalone review of English grammar to solidify concepts already learned if your student is not doing Prima.

Latina Christiana: An Introduction to First Form Latin by Cheryl Lowe | Grades 3-6 Begin your Latin study here or continue on from Prima Latina. 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. The Teacher Manual includes a complete copy of the student book with overlaid answers, and provides detailed weekly lesson plans, comprehensive teaching instructions, tests, and weekly quizzes and keys.

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Latina Christiana Review Worksheets Grades 3-6

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Prima Latina & Latina Christiana Practice Sheets Grades 1-6 Prima Latina Practice Sheets $6.20 Latina Christiana Practice Sheets $11.80 These books provide guided copywork for each lesson in Prima Latina and Latina Christiana, reinforcing correct spelling, meanings, and grammar forms. They're great practice for students and make independent work and teacher oversight simple.

Latina Christiana Games & Puzzles Grades 3-6

Review Worksheets $11.85

Games & Puzzles $14.05

Review Worksheets Key $6.20

Games & Puzzles Answer Key $6.20

We highly recommend Latina Christiana Review Worksheets as a companion to Latina Christiana. Two pages of cumulative review for every lesson of Latina Christiana will ensure your students get weekly reinforcement of old and new concepts.

In this activity book we've stuffed enrichment activities of every kind to help your students practice the vocabulary, grammar, and derivatives in Latina Christiana. Students will find hours of enjoyment playing Latin hangman, solving Latin crossword puzzles, and more!

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Latina Christiana Grammar Charts Wall Charts (33" x 17") (4 charts total) $22.70

Desk Charts (8.5" x 11") (4 charts total) $15.10

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What's Inside Latina Christiana

"I never thought I could teach Latin until I used Latina Christiana. Now, my third grader loves it!" — Jessica, Texas

Student Workbook has 25 lessons + 5 review lessons. Each lesson includes: • A grammar form • 10 vocabulary words with corresponding English derivatives • Latin saying teaching Christian or classical heritage • Consistent review Teacher Manual is a complete copy of student workbook with overlaid answers, plus: • Detailed weekly lesson plans • Comprehensive teaching instructions • Tests, quizzes, & keys Pronunciation Audio is available as a CD/ streaming on our website or app: • Complete verbal pronunciation of each lesson • Prayers & songs Instructional Videos are available as DVDs/ streaming on our website or app: • Comprehensive coverage of each lesson by a master teacher • Vocabulary practice and explanation of derivatives • On-screen notes, illustrations, & diagrams

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Latin

Path to Mastery Latin Forms Series

"I had never studied Latin myself, so I was nervous about teaching it. The Forms made it manageable. The lessons are clear, the practice really builds mastery, and before long my students were actually enjoying learning Latin!" — Emily, Ohio

The Latin Forms Series teaches through a steady rhythm of explanation, practice, and review. Each lesson introduces a single grammar form and a small set of vocabulary words so students can focus on mastery. Across the four forms, grammar steadily expands while earlier material is constantly reviewed, preparing students for advanced Latin study with confidence.

First Form

Foundations of Latin Grammar Learn core noun declensions, verb conjugations, and essential vocabulary.

Second Form

Expanding Grammar & Passive Voice Build on First Form's foundations, adding pronouns, passive verbs, and more.

Third Form

Advanced Grammar & Subjunctive Learn the subjunctive mood and more difficult grammatical structures.

Fourth Form

Advanced Constructions & Translation Apply grammar knowledge to increasingly complex sentences.

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Latin Forms Series

A grammar-based approach to learning Latin. The Latin Forms Series is based on decades of teaching experience and use in private schools and homeschools around the world. First Form is the ideal text for all beginners, grades 5 and up, or is a great follow-up to Latina Christiana. The uniqueness of the Forms Series lies in two features: 1) A systematic, grammar-first approach to learning Latin that is suitable for the grammar stage student—and all beginners, regardless of age, are in the grammar stage of learning. 2) Extensive workbook exercises that ensure skill mastery and rapid recognition of inflected forms. Our text and guides help every student (and teacher!) make sense of this difficult subject. A complete set includes: •

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34 two-page lessons in the Student Text are paired with 4-6 pages of Student Workbook exercises, weekly Quizzes, and unit Tests to make sure your students are mastering and retaining what they learn.

Latin Forms Series (First Form shown)

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The Pronunciation Audio and Flashcards provide constant practice of grammar forms and vocabulary.

(all 5 books, audio, videos, digital flashcards)

$77.11 basic set ea. (all 5 books + audio)

The scripted Teacher Manual and complete Teacher Key give even the most novice Latin teacher the tools to teach with confidence. Instructional Videos are also available, to bring the experience and expertise of a Highlands Latin School master teacher into your home.

First Form Latin: Latin Grammar, Year One

Second Form Latin: Latin Grammar, Year Two

Third Form Latin: Latin Grammar, Year Three

Fourth Form Latin: Latin Grammar, Year Four

by Cheryl Lowe Grades 5+ (Grades 4+ if completed Latina Christiana)

by Cheryl Lowe Grades 6+

by Cheryl Lowe Grades 7+

by Cheryl Lowe & Michael Simpson

First through Third Form Latin Review Summer Review Courses by Cheryl Lowe | Grades 5+ Student $15.10 ea. Key $11.85 ea.

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Grades 8+

Students are prone to forget what they have learned from year to year—an especially detrimental loss for the Latin student. To prevent this, Memoria Press has developed these summer courses that feature vocabulary review, form drills, and other exercises, all designed to foster mastery and retention.

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Latin Supplements Prima Latina Copybook

Latin Cursive Copybook

Latin Recitation CD/DVD

New American Cursive font

Hymns & Prayers

Grades 3+

Grades 1-4 | $16.80

Grades 4-6 | $16.80

Audio & Video (includes streaming) $17.35

This Latin copybook in the New American Cursive font, featuring vocabulary practice and a page to copy each prayer in Prima Latina, is a great way to help your children practice their Latin while developing penmanship skills.

Practice your cursive with Latin sayings and hymns and prayers from Latina Christiana, First Form Latin, and Lingua Angelica.

The entire Latin grammar, presented by Cheryl Lowe. Audio is recitation only. Videos include visual grammar charts.

Latin Grammar Recitation Program

Memoria Press Guides to the National Latin Exam

Grades 4+ | $27.15 set (*digital flashcards and handbook)

by Cheryl Lowe, Susan Strickland, and Jon Christianson | Grades 5+

Flashcards for every grammar form taught and recited in our Latin Forms Series and a handbook with a lesson-by-lesson schedule for coordinating with the recitations in First Form through Fourth Form. *Add on physical flashcards for only $5!

Introduction $11.85 | Beginning Latin Exam $17.90 Intermediate Latin Exam $22.65 Intermediate Reading Comprehension Exam $22.65 These guides include the vocabulary, grammar, syntax, Roman history, culture, mythology, and geography commonly found on the National Latin Exam. When paired with previous exams, these guides are perfect preparation for the NLE.

Latin Forms Series Grammar Charts Introduction to Lingua Angelica Latin Songs & Prayers (Introductory Translation Course) by Cheryl Lowe | Grades 3-6 Student $11.80 | Teacher $6.20

Wall Charts (33" x 17")

Desk Charts (8.5" x 11")

First Form (4 charts) $22.70

First & Second Form (6 charts) $15.10

Second Form (3 charts) $22.70

Third & Fourth Form (20 charts) $19.00

Latin Forms Series Grammar Question Flashcards First & Second Form Latin $15.30 (*digital flashcards) Third & Fourth Form $15.30 (*digital flashcards)

Latin Supplements

*Used for all Lingua Angelica programs

These introductory worksheets are perfect for introducing students to translation alongside Latina Christiana, First Form Latin, and Second Form Latin. They also help students with memorizing the songs of Christmas and Holy Week, along with several Latin prayers. This book is designed as a supplement for use in the beginning years of a student's Latin education. It is highly recommended for use alongside the Lingua Angelica Song Book and Audio, which includes professional recordings of all songs in the program.

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These flashcards transform the grammar questions from the appendices of our Forms Series Student Workbooks into a convenient, easy-touse format. The questions are meant to be recited energetically and answered immediately, reinforcing knowledge through repetition and active recall. The flashcards make it simple for parents and teachers to conduct rapid-fire review sessions at the beginning of class, during lessons, or on the go. *Add on physical flashcards for only $5!

Song Book* $11.85 | Audio* $12.55

Lingua Angelica I & II Latin Songs & Prayers (Translation Course) by Cheryl Lowe | Grades 7+ Student $14.05 ea. | Teacher $20.05 ea. Vocabulary work, interlinear translation exercises, and grammar word study exercises for 28 hymns sung by a six-voice Gregorian chant choir.

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Roots of English

The Book of Roots

Latin & Greek Roots for Beginners

Advanced Vocabulary Building from Latin Roots

Latin Grammar for the Grammar Stage

by Paul O'Brien

by Paul O'Brien | Grades 8+

by Cheryl Lowe

Student $27.00

All Ages | $17.90

Key $6.20

A compendium of Latin grammar forms and a basic introduction to Latin syntax. Includes all conjugations and declensions, making it an easily accessible reference.

Grades 6-8 $23.75 An introduction to English vocabulary through a study of Latin and Greek roots.

Your student will learn the definition and etymology of over 1,500 English derivatives, along with prefixes, suffixes, and supplemental Latin vocabulary lists.

Lingua Biblica: Old Testament Stories in Latin by Martin Cothran Grades 9+

Selections from the Vulgate: A Translation Course in Biblical Latin by Alex Long

Student $22.65 | Teacher $22.65

Grades 9+ | Student $21.95 | Teacher $21.95

Lingua Biblica is a supplementary Latin program that uses exercises based on the Vulgate to complement the study of any Latin grammar course. Each lesson includes three levels of study that will fortify a student's knowledge of Latin vocabulary and grammar. Level I includes the easiest sentence translations, Level II includes more advanced sentence translations, and Level III includes the entire translation with advanced exercises.

St. Jerome translated the Bible into "common Latin" from the original languages, striving not only for accuracy but also simplicity. The resulting Latin Vulgate was a version of the Bible that could be read and understood by people of the time, which also makes it excellent translation practice for Latin students today who have completed a study of the Latin grammar. This course contains ninety passages taken from the original translation by St. Jerome, both prose and poetry, from the creation of the world in Genesis to the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Each reading is accompanied by vocabulary and grammar notes, as well as parsing and analysis exercises to practice a close grammatical reading of each passage of Scripture.

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Latin Henle Latin First Year Advanced Christian Latin by Robert Henle | Grades 8+

$57.98 Text Set (Henle I text, key, grammar, and digital flashcards) $81.55 Units I-V Guides and Instructional Videos Set (I-V teacher manual, quizzes & tests, instructional videos)

$81.55 Units VI-XIV Guides and Instructional Videos Set (VI-XIV teacher manual, quizzes & tests, instructional videos)

Originally published in 1945, the Henle Latin Series teaches Latin the traditional way. Our Teacher Manuals split the work of Henle Latin First Year over two years, scheduling what to do every step of the way. The Manuals include scripted lessons for the teacher, additional explanations and practice for the student, and a full answer key. The Quizzes & Tests help you measure your mastery along the way.

*Henle Latin I Vocabulary Digital Flashcards $17.45 Henle Latin First Year Teacher Manual: Units I-V or VI-XIV $23.75 ea. Henle Latin First Year Quizzes & Tests: Units I-V or VI-XIV $11.85 ea.

Note: Though Henle is considered a Catholic text, its superiority as a teaching resource and the outstanding beneﬁts of its Christian perspective also make it appropriate for Protestants.

Henle Latin First Year Streaming Instructional Videos: Units I-V or VI-XIV $55.00 ea.

Henle Latin Second Year

Henle Latin Third Year

Advanced Christian Latin

by Robert Henle

Grades 9+

Grades 10+

$72.33 set (text, key, student,

$94.89 set (text, key, student,

quizzes & tests, digital flashcards)

teacher, quizzes & tests, dig. flashcards)

Text $21.99 | Key $7.99

Student Guide $19.00

Quizzes & Tests $11.85

Teacher Manual $23.75

*Digital Flashcards $15.30

Quizzes & Tests $11.85

After the completion of Henle Latin First Year or Memoria Press' Latin Forms Series, the next step for Latin students is Henle Latin Second Year, which rounds out the Latin grammar and introduces students to the text of Caesar's De Bello Gallico. Memoria Press offers a Student Guide with comprehensive guidance for each lesson as well as Quizzes & Tests to assess progress and mastery. These resources contain everything needed to succeed in the course and conquer the first step into the world of authentic Latin texts.

*Digital Flashcards $15.30

Henle Latin Fourth Year

Henle Latin Vocabulary Flashcards

Advanced Christian Latin

Grades 8+

by Robert Henle

Henle Latin First Year Flashcards: Digital $17.45 | Physical $22.45

Grades 11+

$28.48 set (text, key) Text $21.99 | Key $7.99 Henle Latin Fourth Year leads students through Cicero's Defense of Archias and the first six books of the culmination of Latin poetry, Virgil's Aeneid.

Caesar's account of his wars in Gaul is perfect for Latin students who are ready to translate. Mueller's text includes vocabulary, footnotes, historical background, and other resources. Memoria Press' new Student Notebook, Teacher Key, and Quizzes & Tests provide additional teaching guidelines and instructions to aid students in the translation process!

Henle I Text $21.99 | Henle I Key $7.99 | Henle Grammar $16.99

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Henle Latin Third Year teaches students to reach beyond grammar and grasp the rudiments of rhetoric with the help of Cicero, perhaps Rome's most illustrious orator. Memoria Press' Student Guide, Teacher Manual, and Quizzes & Tests are sources of invaluable support in learning and mastering rhetorical Latin, even without the guidance of an experienced teacher. These texts organize the course into a sensible schedule, offer a wealth of insight to assist students in their exercises, and provide levelappropriate assessments to determine mastery of Latin.

Henle Latin Second Year Flashcards: Digital $15.30 | Physical $20.30 Henle Latin Third Year Flashcards: Digital $15.30 | Physical $20.30

Mueller's Caesar: Selections from De Bello Gallico

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by Hans-Friedrich Mueller Grades 10+

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$68.83 set (text, student, teacher key, quizzes & tests) Text $45.00 | Student Notebook $12.00 Teacher Key $9.25 | Quizzes & Tests $6.20

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Courses for AP® Latin* Pliny: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts

Vergil: Selections and Suggested Companion Texts

by Jacqueline M. Carlon

by Barbara Weiden Boyd

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Student Text $49.00 | Workbook $33.00

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Designed for the new 2026 AP® Latin syllabus, this volume includes all required letters by Pliny the Younger, plus options for the exam's additional required readings, including ten other Pliny letters and companion texts from Eutropius, Rafael Landivar, Seneca, Augustus, and Cicero.

Designed for the new 2026 AP® Latin syllabus, this volume includes all required passages from Vergil's Aeneid, plus companion texts from Catullus, Horace, Ovid, Sulpicia, and Petrarch as options for the additional readings required for the exam.

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Literature

Sequence by Cheryl Lowe

he purpose of classical education is to form better human beings. One essential way we learn how to be better human beings is by reading literature. At Memoria Press, we have chosen the best of literature and poetry for our students, the traditional favorites and the classics that we believe every child needs to read. There is a shared heritage that every person needs to be familiar with, a heritage that connects us to each other and to past generations. The reading levels and content increase in difficulty and complexity each year in our literature program. Determining these parameters is somewhat subjective and depends on a number of factors: vocabulary, sentence structure, maturity of themes and content, and the amount of content. In the primary years, the characters in each book are similar in age to the students.

Third grade students are just stepping out of primary school. Their worlds are still small and so the family farm, the neighborhood, and American cultural life are appropriate for this age, but we can begin moving into more sophisticated themes in grammar school. In Farmer Boy we consider the benefits and trials of choosing an agrarian life over the more lucrative life of the town. With Charlotte's Web we explore friendship, death, and growing up. The Moffats depicts the interwoven community of neighborhood life when it still existed early in the twentieth century. This was a simpler time when children could play freely in their neighborhood and walk to school and the local store. But this book also examines the hardship of children growing up without a father and with a mother who is trying to support her family singlehandedly—and with a spirit of cheerfulness and joy. Fourth and fifth graders are securely situated in the grammar school, having left primary school far behind. They are growing up and are more mentally and physically confident. This is an age of sports, clubs, games, and adventures with friends. The books we have chosen take us further afield, from the fantasy worlds of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Blue Fairy Book to the Swiss Alps with Heidi, and from there to the United Kingdom with Winnie-the-Pooh and Lassie. But we also return to our American small town with Homer Price, and we introduce allegory through Dangerous Journey, a retelling of Pilgrim's Progress. Sixth graders are starting to look ahead as they finish up their grammar school years. They are more sophisticated and reflective, so we take them not only to another place, but also to another time—the Middle Ages. We start in the High Middle Ages with Adam of the Road, a coming-of-age adventure. We begin contemplating the value of every life, regardless of physical or mental limitations, in The Door in the Wall. We explore legend and its place in literature through the stories of Robin Hood and King Arthur. As students reach the threshold of leaving childhood behind and entering the upper school, we begin preparing them to read Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Students are ready to enter the advanced world of Greek, Roman, and English classics. To make this a successful transition, the reading selections are carefully chosen. One of the ways we prepare students for reading Homer is to introduce them to the plot and characters of the Iliad and the Odyssey in The Trojan War in seventh grade. Also, in Anne of Green Gables, students see the charming little girl Anne Shirley become a mature young woman who joyfully sacrifices her dream of college to care for Marilla, in an exchange that recognizes Marilla's care of that little orphan girl and pays it back in full. Students in this year are introduced to the masterful prose of J. R. R. Tolkien through The Hobbit, where we move back into the land of adventure and fantasy, and in The Bronze Bow, students encounter a beautiful expression of the Christian faith that masterfully transports them back to the time of Christ. Students at this age are comfortable with modern American prose and unaccustomed to prose and poetry of (502) 966-9115

earlier centuries, but the ability to read works from over five centuries of English literature is a major goal of our literature program. The educated person is not a prisoner of his own time and place but has the broad ability and background to read works from the whole canon of English literature. We begin the last year before high school with the pirate adventure Treasure Island and, to help broaden students' ability to read more difficult prose, Kenneth Grahame's delightful classic The Wind in the Willows. Grahame wrote in the classic English style that has much more demanding vocabulary and sentence structure than American prose. Often thought of as a children's book, the original is actually quite challenging and is an effective tool for raising the reading comprehension and vocabulary level of students. It is a classic book for all ages, pondering genuine friendship and the foolishness of youth. In this transition year we also introduce Shakespeare to students with Julius Caesar, a play based on a story that students are familiar with, easing their entry into the Elizabethan world of the Bard. Shakespeare will become a regular part of the literature selections throughout high school. Each year throughout primary and grammar school, students are also reading poetry selections that connect to their literature. For example, when reading Farmer Boy, third grade students memorize "The Happy Farmer." But beginning in eighth grade, we transition to poetry that is tied to specific time periods. Since America is such a young country, we don't have the centuries of beautiful literature and poetry that the British have, so we treat our students to one year of American poetry and short stories in eighth grade. In ninth through twelfth grades, students study three years of British poetry chronologically alongside their novels. They read six Shakespeare plays and a variety of works, from the medieval verse of Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to the American novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. They read Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, and Leo Tolstoy. The culmination of all the poetry and classic novels students read throughout the school years is Dante's The Divine Comedy, which we read in eleventh grade. We put it in this grade instead of twelfth because we know our students are starting to transition away from us in that last year of school and are distracted by thoughts of their future plans. We spend an entire year on Dante, reading this masterpiece in its entirety to give students the whole vision of The Divine Comedy. The decisions we have made about the literature our students read are not random. We put great thought into what we feel gives students the most meaningful experience, leading them in a connected, cohesive way to becoming whole human beings. Our culture today tends to treat children's literature lightly, sometimes not even reading actual books but instead focusing on anthologies filled with excerpts. But we need to be cautious because when all is said and done, we may realize that literature is the most important weapon we have in saving Western civilization. Cheryl Lowe was the founder of Memoria Press and the author of the Latin Forms Series, First Start Reading, and many other books. She also founded Highlands Latin School in Louisville, Kentucky, where all Memoria Press materials are developed and tested.

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How to Teach Literature in the Grammar School by Tanya Charlton

Our literature guides in the grammar school follow a typical format:

Pre-Reading:

Reading Notes: Have students take turns reading through these notes that introduce cultural terms or complex words students may not be familiar with. This should only take a couple of minutes. Vocabulary: The purpose of this exercise is to train students to discern the meaning of words they don't know. This is a tool that will benefit students throughout their reading lives.

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Put the vocabulary words on the board and talk about them. Ask students to read the context sentence in their guides and see if they can figure out a good synonym to replace the word. If they are randomly guessing, go ahead and give them the definition from the Teacher Guide. This is a good time to point out the part of speech too. Take advantage of this opportunity for a mini grammar lesson.

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Mark the words that are on the quiz or test coming up so that students will be prepared (unless you want them to master all of them).

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Prepare students to mark their books when they see a vocabulary word while reading. They can be trained to do this without losing the flow of their reading.

Reading:

Reading Aloud: Reading aloud fluently is a skill that is learned. Students need to read aloud every day. Focus on expression, punctuation pauses, reading audibly, and reading smoothly. As students get older, they still need to be reading aloud. Learning to read Shakespeare or Dante aloud is a challenge, so we continue to work on this throughout a student's education. It is fine to intersperse student reading with teacher reading to avoid student fatigue, to set the example for fluent reading, and to move the story along. Pre-Reading and Post-Reading: Some teachers prefer students to pre-read a chapter before class, but others want to experience the story with students the first time they engage in it. Either way is fine, but we do encourage a second silent reading of each chapter, whether it is before or after class.

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up with their own answers to write in their study guides. They don't need to be as thorough or as long as the teacher guide answers, but they should come directly from the student. This part of the lesson transitions through the grammar school in the following way:

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In third grade, we do all comprehension questions together, with the teacher asking for a student to give an oral answer to the question, then asking a student to put that oral answer into a good sentence. The teacher writes the student-given answer on the board and the class talks about it. Is it a sentence? Is it concise? Does it thoroughly answer the question? Once we have a good sentence on the board, students copy it into their study guides, using correct punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.

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We begin fourth grade in the same way we ended third grade, but we will quickly begin letting students try a question independently (finding the answer in the book and putting it into their study guides in a complete sentence). Then we ask one or two students for their answers and put one on the board (or have students come up and put them on the board). When we get to the last novel in fourth grade, we use the same method of talking about each question orally, but the teacher only puts key words on the board and students begin writing their own sentences independently.

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In third and fourth grades, students highlight or circle questions that will appear on tests so that they can use their study guides to prepare for tests.

Expressions, Quotations, Questions for Discussion: These activities vary from study guide to study guide. The purpose of them is to influence discussion of more abstract topics, requiring a higher level of thinking. So the discussion should be teacher-led and can be used at the teacher's discretion as far as time and interest permit. Enrichment: The enrichment activities are optional. They are for interest and honors work for motivated students who like an extra challenge. Choose among them as you have time, but they are supplemental. Tanya Charlton is the curriculum director and operations manager for Memoria Press. She homeschooled her two sons, has taught in Highlands Latin School classrooms, and is the author of several study guides.

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Aesop vs. Grimm: The Difference Between a Fable and a Fairy Tale by G. K. Chesterton

esop embodies an epigram not uncommon in human history; his fame is all the more deserved because he never deserved it. The firm foundations of common sense, the shrewd shots at uncommon sense, that characterise all the Fables, belong not to him but to humanity. In the earliest human history whatever is authentic is universal: and whatever is universal is anonymous. In such cases there is always some central man who had first the trouble of collecting them, and afterwards the fame of creating them. He had the fame; and, on the whole, he earned the fame. There must have been something great and human, something of the human future and the human past, in such a man: even if he only used it to rob the past or deceive the future. The story of Arthur may have been really connected with the most fighting Christianity of falling Rome or with the most heathen traditions hidden in the hills of Wales. But the word "Malory" will always mean King Arthur; even though

we find older and better origins than the Mabinogion; or write later and worse versions than the Idylls of the King. The nursery fairy tales may have come out of Asia with the Indo-European race; they may have been invented by some fine French lady or gentleman like Perrault: they may possibly even be what they profess to be. But we shall always call the best selection of such tales Grimm's Tales: simply because it is the best collection. The historical Aesop, insofar as he was historical, would seem to have been a Phrygian slave, or at least one not to be specially and symbolically adorned with the Phrygian cap of liberty. He lived, if he did live, about the sixth century before Christ, in the time of that Croesus whose story we love and suspect like everything else in Herodotus. There are also stories of deformity of feature and a ready ribaldry of tongue: stories which explain, though they do not excuse, his having been hurled over a high precipice at Delphi. It is for those who read the Fables to judge whether he was

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really thrown over the cliff for being ugly and offensive, or rather for being highly moral and correct. But whatever be fairly due to Aesop, the human tradition called Fables is not due to him. This had gone on long before any sarcastic freedman from Phrygia had or had not been flung off a precipice; this has remained long after. It is to our advantage, indeed, to realise the distinction; because it makes Aesop more obviously effective than any other fabulist. Grimm's Tales, glorious as they are, were collected by two German students. And if we find it hard to be certain of a German student, at least we know more about him than we know about a Phrygian slave. The truth is, of course, that Aesop's Fables are not Aesop's fables, any more than Grimm's Fairy Tales were ever Grimm's fairy tales. But the fable and the fairy tale are things utterly distinct. There are many elements of difference; but the plainest is plain enough. There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them. Aesop, or Babrius (or whatever his name was), understood that, for a fable, all the persons must be impersonal. They must be like abstractions in algebra, or like pieces in chess. The lion must always be stronger than the wolf, just as four is always double of two. The fox in a fable must move crooked, as the knight in chess must move crooked. The sheep in a fable must march on, as the pawn in chess must march on. The fable must not allow for the crooked captures of the pawn; it must not allow for what Balzac called "the revolt of a sheep." The fairy tale, on the other hand, absolutely revolves on the pivot of human personality. If no hero were there to fight the dragons, we should not even know that they were dragons. If no adventurer were cast on the undiscovered island—it would remain undiscovered. If the miller's third son does not find the enchanted garden where the seven princesses stand white and frozen—why, then, they will remain white and frozen and enchanted. If there is no personal prince to find the Sleeping Beauty she will simply sleep. Fables repose upon quite the opposite idea; that everything is itself, and will in any case speak for itself. The wolf will be always wolfish; the fox will be always foxy. So in all the fables that are or are not Aesop's all the animal forces drive like inanimate forces, like great rivers or growing trees. It is the limit and the loss of all such things that they cannot be anything but themselves: it is their tragedy that they could not lose their souls. This is the immortal justification of the Fable: that we could not teach the plainest truths so simply without turning men into chessmen. We cannot talk of such simple things without using animals that do not talk at all. Suppose, for a moment, that you turn the wolf into a wolfish baron, or the fox into a foxy diplomatist. You will at once remember that even barons are human, you will be unable to forget that even diplomatists are men. You will always be looking for that accidental good-humour that should go with the brutality of any brutal man; for that allowance for all delicate things, including virtue, that should exist in any good diplomatist. Once put a thing on two legs instead of four and pluck it of feathers and you (502) 966-9115

cannot help asking for a human being, either heroic, as in the fairy tales, or un-heroic, as in the modern novels. But by using animals in this austere and arbitrary style as they are used on the shields of heraldry or the hieroglyphics of the ancients, men have really succeeded in handing down those tremendous truths that are called truisms. If the chivalric lion be red and rampant, it is rigidly red and rampant; if the sacred ibis stands anywhere on one leg, it stands on one leg forever. In this language, like a large animal alphabet, are written some of the first philosophic certainties of men. As the child learns A for Ass or B for Bull or C for Cow, so man has learnt here to connect the simpler and stronger creatures with the simpler and stronger truths. That a flowing stream cannot befoul its own fountain, and that anyone who says it does is a tyrant and a liar; that a mouse is too weak to fight a lion, but too strong for the cords that can hold a lion; that a fox who gets most out of a flat dish may easily get least out of a deep dish; that the crow whom the gods forbid to sing, the gods nevertheless provide with cheese; that when the goat insults from a mountain-top it is not the goat

In the language of fables, like a large animal alphabet, are written some of the first philosophic certainties of men. that insults, but the mountain: all these are deep truths deeply graven on the rocks wherever men have passed. It matters nothing how old they are, or how new; they are the alphabet of humanity, which like so many forms of primitive picture-writing employs any living symbol in preference to man. These ancient and universal tales are all of animals; as the latest discoveries in the oldest pre-historic caverns are all of animals. Man, in his simpler states, always felt that he himself was something too mysterious to be drawn. But the legend he carved under these cruder symbols was everywhere the same; and whether fables began with Aesop or began with Adam, whether they were German and mediaeval as Reynard the Fox, or as French and Renaissance as La Fontaine, the upshot is everywhere essentially the same: that superiority is always insolent, because it is always accidental; that pride goes before a fall; and that there is such a thing as being too clever by half. You will not find any other legend but this written upon the rocks by any hand of man. There is every type and time of fable: but there is only one moral to the fable; because there is only one moral to everything. G. K. Chesterton was an early twentieth-century British journalist, novelist, essayist, and poet, now regarded by many as one of England's greatest writers. His prodigious writings on Christianity, politics, literature, philosophy, and culture earned him the respect of the greatest minds of his age, as well as a wide audience.

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Student Text features: • Timeless myths retold in vivid, accessible prose • Full-color illustrations Student Guide includes 25 lessons + 6 review lessons. Each lesson includes: • Facts to know & vocabulary • Comprehension questions • Picture review and activities • Connections between ancient myths and the modern world Teacher Manual provides: • Complete answers to every exercise • Notes and guidance • Tests and final exam Flashcards reinforce: • Places, people, & key story details Instructional Videos are available to stream on our website or app: • Walk students through each lesson • Highlight characters, themes, and essential background

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It would be hard to overstate the reverberating effects of this period on modern history. Politics, philosophy, art, theology—virtually no aspect of Western culture was left unchanged by the Renaissance and Reformation. Mills succeeds marvelously in giving readers a neutral ground on which to base their understanding of this time.

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The Adventures of Odysseus & The Tale of Troy by Padraic Colum | Grades 6-8 | $11.90 Padraic Colum introduces young readers to Odysseus, the Greek hero of the Trojan War, who has been away from his home and his family for twenty years. The Adventures of Odysseus & The Tale of Troy has all the essentials of Homer's epic: the son, Telemachus, searching for news of his father and learning about the events of the Trojan War; the faithful wife, Penelope, refusing to marry again despite a throng of suitors; and Odysseus himself, struggling against monsters, storms, and the wrath of gods to be reunited with his family and regain his place as king of Ithaka.

The Aeneid for Boys & Girls by Alfred J. Church | Grades 6-8 $11.90 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. Reading this first will help prepare students to tackle the more difficult writing of Virgil.

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hy is literature important? And why do we keep asking this question when we don't ask it about other academic subjects? I can't remember ever hearing a speech about why math is important or why science is important. I'm sure someone has given such a speech, but why is it that we tend to think the value of literature is more questionable? I think the fact that we do ask this question about literature is a measure of our academic disrespect for it. I know that, when I am asked this question about the value of books, I feel the same way I would feel if someone asked me "Why do you eat?" or "Why do you breathe?" All I can do is to point dumbly at the stack of books nearby and utter, somewhat inarticulately, "I cannot live without them." Maybe this is why we need to address the question. An answer like that simply won't do. We mean many things when we use the word "literature." We sometimes use it in its most general sense as referring to science, history, medicine, politics, gardening, and the like, but in an educational context we mean something different by it. We mean primarily imaginative or fictional literature: Dostoevsky and Dickens, Sophocles and Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Whitman. Novels and plays and poetry. And secondarily, we mean nonfictional literature: histories and essays and biographies and cookbooks. But I want first to separate out one kind of book for just a moment, to consider a problem I think we have in our teaching of literature. This kind of book is distinguished by its purpose. It is what I will call a "school book," a kind of book that has a special danger. Many of us will remember when we were in high school and there were certain books that populated the syllabus. In my time it was books like Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, or F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby—and last and most certainly least, J. D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. These books were assigned. They were the books we were supposed to study. They were to be analyzed and dissected and commented upon and written about in papers that we hated to write. They were didactic. No one read them in the real world (or so it seemed to me when I was in school), or in their spare time, or for enjoyment. Who would do that? These books were mostly of a certain kind. They even, I was to find out later, had their own name. They were called "modernist" books. And one of the features of modernist writing is its almost intentional difficulty. They intentionally tried to break from traditional forms. They were experimental; they were individualistic. Each author had a style unique to him (or her). And we were supposed to appreciate that style and admire its uniqueness and marvel at these authors' ability to "express" themselves in a way that marked each one of them off from all the other ones who were trying to express themselves. The authors constituted a veritable herd of individualists, all virtually identical to each other in their quest to be different. Meanwhile, what we students really wanted (502) 966-9115

(whether we realized it then or not) was a good story. And that's why so many of us at the time turned to comic books and pulp fiction of some kind, so we could enjoy a good story with a plot, characters, an interesting setting, and an exciting conflict. I later grew to love many of these modernist books, but in spite of my schooling (and not because of it), and only after I better understood stories in their more conventional form because I had read books that didn't fragment the narrative and engage in stream of consciousness and didn't confuse my young reader-self with multiple perspectives. Carpenters aren't expected to build a building until they know how to use a hammer, and a saw, and a drill; no one expects an accountant to conduct an audit until he has mastered debits and credits; no one expects a computer programmer to design a program until he knows code. In every other endeavor in life, you start with the basic thing and move to the more complex thing. Everywhere except—apparently—in education. So the first thing to consider is that, if we are serious about teaching literature, we must start with good stories. Prepare students by reading: Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows; Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island; Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles; Shakespeare's Julius Caesar; Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird; Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer; Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice; Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre; Charles Dickens' Hard Times (the most straightforward of his novels). And if we're going to do Hemingway and Steinbeck, we should first have our students read The Old Man and the Sea and The Pearl, which are more straightforward narratives. John Senior, who, along with Dennis Quinn and Frank Nelick led the now legendary Integrated Humanities Program at the University of Kansas in the 1970s, wrote a book called The Death of Christian Culture. The book is most famous for the idea that we should accustom ourselves to the good books before we attempt to read the great books: We should master the simpler thing before we attempt the more complex thing. The good books are not constructed, like modernist literature, as puzzles to be solved. They do not dare you to understand them. They take care to present a story straightforwardly and clearly. The first priority of education, from a classical perspective, is to help fashion our students into better human beings. To the Greeks (and later the Christians) there is such a thing as an ideal human being. We might not find him in this world, but we would find him if we pondered the essence of what a human being is (or, being Christians, see Him in the flesh). Man is the one creature who, in addition to being material and living and sentient, also possesses logos. "Know thyself" was the call of the Greek philosopher, but "Be like unto Christ," a similar but more specific imperative, is the call of Christianity. If this is really the purpose of education, then literature clearly should be among our chief priorities. You are Why Story Matters

going to run into far fewer equations in your life than you are people. You are going to have to conduct far more friendships than you are experiments. Literature should be a central study in a classical program. Literature was never an optional or subordinate subject in the old classical education. It was always central. Only people who have forgotten what education is for would question this. And one of the things that made literature central is that it was considered to be a moral science. There is something that literature does, that needs to be done, that it does to a greater extent even than the other moral sciences, history and philosophy. In literature, more than any other academic discipline, you can see how to be moral. Our thoughts and actions have meaning. They can be in conformance with reality; they can be good or bad, right or

wrong; and they can be inspiring to other people (or not, if they are bad actions). Literature helps us develop our understanding of morality and it helps us to be more moral. A story is the only context in which things can be right or wrong, and this is because a story is the only context in which anything has moral meaning. What do we mean by saying this? The morality of an action is entirely dependent upon five things. If we think about it, we realize that an action is judged good or bad based on whether the action is done: • to or with the appropriate person • at the appropriate time • in the appropriate place • for the appropriate reason • in the appropriate way

If any of these criteria are not met—even one—then the action is wrong. Only if these demands are all met is it a right action. And the only way to determine the propriety of each of these considerations is to view it in the context of a story. The exact same action can be right in one story and wrong in another. How do we tell? The story will tell us what is "appropriate" and what is not. 30

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A man may be with his wife, but not with another woman. A judgment may be made after all the facts have been considered, but not before. Certain actions may be done in private that cannot be done in public. We may do things for a good reason that we should not do for a bad one. And there are ways of doing the very same thing that are either right or wrong. Who, when, where, why, and how? The only way to answer these questions is to know what the larger story is. The only way they may be answered is by knowing the narrative in which they are taking place. This goes for fictional stories (imaginative fiction) and nonfictional stories (like history), and it goes for you and me in the stories of our lives. Our lives have a beginning, a middle, and an end. They have a setting and characters and, when we look back, we will see (or we should see) that they had a plot. And in that plot, if we have lived our lives rightly and for a purpose, we should see that there has been a conflict, one between good and evil, and that the good of our lives has defeated the evil in it. Every good story must have a conflict. If yours does not have a conflict, if you are not fighting for something (or against it), if you are not risking something of yourself to bring about some good, if you're not on any kind of quest—it's probably because you didn't fight back when you should have. It could be that you let the dragon get away with it. It is in the conflict primarily that you will see the meaning of your life. At the end of it, if you ask whether your life was well-lived, your answer will have something to do with how you handled that conflict. Did you play the part of the hero or were you the villain in your own story? The moral courage shown by Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, the choice of compassion over strict justice in Les Miserables, the choice of divine over carnal love in The End of the Affair, the overcoming of pride and prejudice in Jane Austen's great novel of that name—all of these show us what virtue is like, and inspire us to act in the same way. It is this perspective that the simple, but virtuous Sam Gamgee voices near the end of the The Two Towers: All the big important plans are not for my sort. Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course; but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards. And people will say: "Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring!" And they'll say: "Yes, that's one of my favourite stories."

Sam sees the meaning in his unexpectedly adventurous life by casting it in his mind in the form a story. It's a lesson from which we can all benefit. Martin Cothran is editor of The Classical Teacher, author of Traditional Logic Books I & II, Material Logic, Classical Rhetoric, and the forthcoming Civilization by Candlelight: Essays on Literature and the Romance of Reality, and provost of Memoria College.

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The Greek Alphabet by Cheryl Lowe | Grades 3+ | $32.05 set (student, teacher, digital flashcards) Student $17.90 | Teacher $11.85 | *Digital Flashcards $7.95 Master the Greek alphabet, letter by letter, before tackling First Form Greek. Our new flashcards are an excellent tool to help students master the sounds and shapes of the Greek alphabet with quick recall.

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Designed to be used as a full course for teaching children as young as fourth grade, Elementary Greek may also serve as a self-teaching program for teens and adults. No previous knowledge is necessary, and each concept is covered thoroughly and reviewed regularly throughout the course. Thirty weeks of daily lessons ensure a complete school year of brief, incremental lessons with no additional planning.

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First & Second Form Greek: Introduction to Hellenistic Greek, Years 1 & 2 Grades 7+

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The Greek Forms Series is written for parents and teachers with or without a Greek background. The grammar is presented logically and systematically so that anyone can learn it. Based on the Latin Forms Series, this series has been adapted to account for the differences between Greek and Latin, such as the new alphabet, overlapping sounds, more variation within paradigms, and less regularity with the addition of weekly vocabulary reviews, more frequent recitation, and an "expanded" dictionary entry for Greek verbs. First and Second Form Greek are the first two years of our three-part series, which will cover all of the Greek grammar. Begin your systematic study of Greek grammar with our clear, concise *Add Student Texts and ample practice exercises in the Student Workbook, physical including substantial translation exercises in Second Form. Weekly Quizzes flashcards to & Tests ensure retention of the material, and the Teacher Manuals and any set for Teacher Keys provide lesson plans, additional notes, and a comprehensive only $5! answer key. The Pronunciation Audio and Flashcards allow students to practice quick recall for mastery. Instructional Videos are also available.

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Upper School Christian Studies The Story of Christianity by David Bentley Hart

Acts of the Apostles: King James Version

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Hart gives a scholarly but readable portrait of the rich history of the Christian Church, covering 2,000 years of persecution, belief, discord, and faith. Our study guide walks you through Hart's text with additional background and contextual information, comprehension questions, and discussion questions that tie the history to scriptural passages and explore modern-day issues of faith and belief.

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The Wars of the Jews: The Fall of Jerusalem by Josephus | Grades 9+ Text $11.90

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The Acts of the Apostles tells the exciting story of the travels, the teachings, and—in many cases—the martyrdoms of the apostles as they take the message of Jesus Christ from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth in the years immediately following Christ's life, death, and resurrection. This unit study will acquaint students with Christianity's infant stage.

"There will not be left a stone upon a stone." Our children may know of Christ's prophecy, but do they learn about its fulfillment? Josephus is regarded as the most trustworthy source on the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.

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Christian Studies I: All Major Bible Stories up to the Entry into Canaan

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Student $20.50 ea. | Teacher $23.75 ea. | Golden Children's Bible $25.99 Memory Verse Digital Flashcards $16.35 | Memory Verse Physical Flashcards $21.35 | Old Testament Digital Flashcards $13.10 Old Testament Physical Flashcards $18.10 | New Testament Digital Flashcards $13.10 | New Testament Physical Flashcards $18.10 Biblical literacy is just as important as cultural, moral, and functional literacy, and the material we use to teach children their faith should be just as rigorous and demanding as any other important subject. Our Christian Studies series is a systematic study of the major events and characters in Salvation History, using The Golden Children's Bible. Students work through a Bible timeline from Creation to Christ, memorize Bible geography, the books of the Bible, people and events in order, and discuss vocabulary and basic theological concepts common to all Christian faith traditions. At the end of this course your student will be thoroughly grounded in the knowledge necessary for advanced Christian studies.

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Christian Studies IV: A Chronological Overview of the Bible

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We chose this Bible to use with our Christian Studies I-III series for its simplified but poetically appealing King James text and beautiful illustrations. The stories are broken into small, digestible chunks, and written on a third-sixth grade reading level.

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Christian Studies Enrichment $15.10 The Story Bible is written especially for children who are beginning to read. The enrichment guide helps facilitate oral discussion for each Bible lesson.

Student $20.50 Teacher $23.75 This course takes students back through the highlights of the Bible, and reviews drill questions, memory passages, and more! It can serve as a review course for Christian Studies I-III or as a survey study of the Bible. Our text gives students an overview and background information for each book of the Bible.

History of the Early Church

City of God by St. Augustine, Vernon J. Bourke ed.

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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' The History of the Church when ancient testimony is appropriate.

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City of God, arguably Augustine's greatest book, is the source of some of Western society's greatest and most cherished beliefs. Augustine's 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 and an answer key for the Student Guide.

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WHAT Are We READING? During Lent, I started reading For the Glory: Eric Liddell's Journey from Olympic Champion to Modern Martyr by Duncan Hamilton. The first act of Liddell's life was dramatized in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire. In the 1928 Olympics he refused to compete in his signature event, the 100-meter race, as the heats were held on a Sunday. While the book does cover his running career, it focuses on his post-Olympic life, where he left fame behind to become a missionary, culminating in his death in an internment camp in occupied China during World War II. While at times the author's passion for his subject hinders his writing, I applaud him for telling the ending of Liddell's story that Hollywood did not. GKINHOU I just finished The End of the Affair by Graham Greene, and I highly recommend it. Through a twisted love story, Greene illustrates the moral disquiet of atheism. If there is no God, why not simply follow one's desires wherever they may lead? It is also a beautiful story of how anyone—no matter how far fallen—can come into faith through redeeming grace. I will be thinking about this story for a very long time. KELSEY I'm almost finished with The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim. It's one of my favorite seasonal rereads and is an enlivening paean to the power of beauty. Along with the blooming daffodils, it does wonders for my mood every spring to shake off any lingering winter doldrums. KATIE These contributions are from members of the Memoria Press Forum. If you'd like to find out what some of the Memoria Press staff are reading, check out our podcast, Classical Et Cetera!

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was going to write an essay about why everyone should read Jane Austen's novels. I was going to make an impassioned case that her books are not just the smart girl's romance novels or guides for men seeking to understand the female mind but truly great books, as insightful in their way into the nature of reality and the human soul as Homer or Dante's poems. But I realized that, in general, the only people persuaded by those arguments (probably the only people who read those arguments) are the people already convinced. Instead, what to say to the person who wouldn't read that essay— to the person who says of a book (Austen or otherwise), "Look, I tried. I just couldn't get into it. Why waste time reading what I know I won't appreciate? I'll pick something else that will actually do me some good." I understand the logic—I've used it many times. We tend to be somewhat utilitarian in our approach to literature. We're interested in what we can "get out" of books— whether information, a moral vision, a jolt of conviction, or simply entertainment, wish-fulfillment, escape. We generally know which we want at any given time, and before we invest in a book we want to know what the book will deliver. If we find, as we read, that a book is not delivering, we discard it. None of the above are bad reasons to read. Reading, as a leisure activity, should to some degree be dictated by our desires. But if we think of our literary lives merely in terms of brief encounters that are either worthwhile or not, that either succeed or not, we miss the fact that neither people nor books really work that way. To truly know a person takes a real investment of time, attention, and even affection. People reveal themselves over time in response to curiosity and love. Good books are no different. I want to make a case that we should think of our relationships with texts as relationships—that we should be in the business of cultivating friendships with books. Since my own most potent experience of literary friendship thus far has been with one of Austen's novels, I'll use it as a touchstone. But the way her novels work on a reader over time teaches us how all great texts work. If we bring to our reading the virtues that we bring to friendship— charity, attention, patience, long-suffering—books reward us the way that human friendships reward us: with more than we expected to "get out" of them, with more than we thought to ask for from them—with unanticipated challenge, surprising understanding, unexpected delight. Mansfield Park was my gateway book to Austen. I read most of it on a plane home for Christmas break in college—a cheap edition I'd picked up somewhere. I can't remember why I suddenly decided to read it. I hadn't managed to get through any of Austen's other novels. I sympathized—painfully so—with the heroine of Mansfield Park, Fanny Price—with her anxiety and social awkwardness; but I also felt all that was compelling in her rival, Mary Crawford, who is so effortlessly charming. So I was surprised, more than surprised, when Fanny Price got her happy ending. I was deeply

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touched that Austen would consider this little nobody of a character and her happiness. It felt like the time when I was six years old playing tag with a bunch of kids and this little girl I barely knew slipped her hand into mine and wanted to be my friend. I remember the sudden glow of heart, the feeling of gratitude. You're with me? Many people find Austen's novels very easy to make friends with. They're cheerful, they're witty, and they make you feel intelligent while you read them—like a good friend should. But Mark Twain also spoke for many people when he said of Austen's novels, "[H]er books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy … and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the head with her own shin-bone."

What I'm most intrigued by is "every time"—by the fact that apparently Twain kept right on trying to read Pride and Prejudice. Was he a glutton for selfpunishment? Did someone keep forcing him to make yet another attempt? Or did he find something compelling about it even though he detested it? Was this his grudging attempt to be friends? My second or maybe third reading of Mansfield Park was for an Austen class in grad school; I wrote a long, rambling

paper defending the "villain" of the piece, Henry Crawford, convinced Austen had a soft spot for him because I had a soft spot for him. I wanted the book to say things it didn't quite say. I felt the novel's stubbornness, though I wouldn't acknowledge it. After that paper was finished, I didn't read the novel again for a while—it had left a bad taste in my mouth. It's hard to feel a book or friend set their jaw like a bulldog and resist you. Joseph Conrad addresses the following to readers who "demand specifically to be edified, consoled, amused; who demand to be promptly improved, or encouraged, or frightened, or shocked, or charmed" by his stories: My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see …. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm—all you demand; and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask.

As convicting as these words are, they also give me hope. Eventually, however bad a reader you might be, a book will give you that for which you "forgot to ask." The greatest texts are written to require re-reading— that is, to reward our friendship. With any thing of real depth, be it art or human, misunderstanding and inadequate understanding are part of the process of coming to know the thing. And the affection that develops from giving that thing attention over a long period of time likewise transforms the way we see. To read something with love is to read it with new eyes. You know what moves me deeply about Mansfield Park, even as I write this? The thought of what happens after the novel is over. It's a novel about mothers, I realize more and more, about a terrible lack of mothers, about a girl who longs for a mother but maybe more deeply than that longs to be a mother and has no one to be a mother to. And when, at the end, Austen with typical Austen reticence just touches on a future, just brushes with her little finger a vision of the future in which this character's person and story at last blossom into full life, I feel burning behind my eyes and in my throat. Oh my friend. My friend. When people talked about good books getting better with time, I used to nod and agree without realizing what they meant. I thought you just noticed more things on subsequent readings, or maybe your own life experience contributed to a better understanding. I didn't realize that a book could become a lifelong companion with all that that entails: that it could astonish, disappoint, delight, speak hard words, frustrate, reassure, refuse to talk to you, suddenly speak too much at once, be unpredictable, be steadfast, be a continual, changing object of wonder. Dr. Leta Sundet received her Ph.D. in literature from the University of Dallas. Her dissertation research explored narrative surprise in the work of Jane Austen, Isak Dinesen, and Flannery O'Connor. She is currently an associate professor of English at Hillsdale College and teaches for Memoria College.

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Reading aloud to your children is one of the best gifts you can give them. The books we have chosen for our supplemental Read-Aloud Sets are beautiful in their art and their prose, and will help your child develop a taste for quality literature from an early age. Kindergarten Read-Aloud Set pictured. For a complete list of books in each set, visit MemoriaPress.com. Choose from: • Jr. Kindergarten Read-Aloud $387.65 • Kindergarten Read-Aloud $407.62 • Kindergarten Science & Enrichment $402.56 • First Grade Read-Aloud $397.58 • First Grade Science & Enrichment $257.57 • Second Grade Read-Aloud $398.55 • Second Grade Science & Enrichment $201.21 • Third Grade Read-Aloud Novels $182.83 • Third Grade Read-Aloud Picture Books $368.61 • Third Grade American $151.74 To complete the Literature & Enrichment portion of the K-2 curriculum, you will need the weekly read-alouds. You may already own many of these classic books, but you can also gather them at the library or purchase them from us. We schedule Literature ReadAlouds and American Studies Read-Alouds for older students in our 3rd-6th grade Curriculum Manuals. These grammar school sets are supplemental as time and interest permit.

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The Story of the World, Vol. 1 by Susan Wise Bauer $19.95

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The Story of the World, Vol. 2 by Susan Wise Bauer $19.95

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The Story of the World, Vol. 3 by Susan Wise Bauer $21.95

7th

The Story of the World, Vol. 4 by Susan Wise Bauer $21.95 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain $10.00 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott $16.50

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The Call of the Wild by Jack London $3.99

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Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C. S. Forester $17.99 9th

All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot $18.00

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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens $11.95

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The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton $11.99

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Galahad and the Grail by Malcolm Guite $34.99

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The Classical Core Curriculum is a complete classical Christian curriculum that emphasizes the traditional liberal arts of language and mathematics and the cultural heritage of the Christian West as expressed in the great works of history and literature. The curriculum has an early focus on the basic skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic, and a special emphasis on Latin. Latin is the best way to gain an academic vocabulary and to learn the formal system of grammar, and is, along with math, the best early critical thinking skills training. The study of the cultures of Athens and Rome, as well as biblical and Church history, is designed to provide a basis for a proper understanding of European and American history.

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English Grammar Recitation Handbook, Workbook I set and Flashcards; Core Skills Language Arts 3

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Third Grade Literature set; Poetry for the Grammar Stage set; The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

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Student Bible Atlas

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WRITING

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Classical Composition I: Fable Student, Teacher, Videos

The Book of Astronomy set

English Grammar Recitation Workbook II set; Core Skills Language Arts 4

Copybook Cursive II

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Literature, Phonics, & Spelling

1st

Alphabet Books; Alphabet Flashcards; Alphabet Coloring Book (p. 69); My Very Own Scissors Book (p. 67); Manuscript Charts (p. 74)

Kindergarten Phonics Supplemental Workbook; Classical Phonics; First Start Reading A-D; 100 Days of Summer Reading I; Phonics Flashcards (p. 64); Animal Alphabet Coloring Book; American Language Readers; Nature Reader K

Traditional Spelling I (p. 66); StoryTime and More StoryTime Treasures Literature Sets (p. 15); 100 Days of Summer Reading II; First Start Reading Book E (p. 64)

2nd

Traditional Spelling II (p. 66); 100 Days of Summer Reading III (p. 64); Second Grade Literature Set (p. 15)

Latin & Greek

Jr. K

Prayers for Children; Big Thoughts for Little People

The Story Bible; Christian Studies Enrichment (p. 33)

Counting With Numbers; Numbers Coloring Book; Numbers & Colors (p. 69)

Numbers Books; Memoria Math Challenge A; Rod & Staff Arithmetic 1, Part 1 (pp. 68-69)

Rod & Staff Arithmetic 1, Part 2; Rod & Staff Arithmetic 2, Unit 1; Memoria Math Challenge B (pp. 68-69)

Rod & Staff Arithmetic 2, Units 2-4; Memoria Math Challenge C (pp. 68-69)

Copybook I; Composition & Sketchbook I; Summer Manuscript (p. 75)

Copybook II; Composition & Sketchbook II; New American Cursive 1; Penmanship Tablet; Alphabet Wall Poster; Cursive Practice Sheets; Summer Cursive (pp. 74-75)

New American Cursive 2 (p. 74); Copybook Cursive I; Composition & Sketchbook II (p. 75); Prima Latina Copybook (p. 8); Penmanship Tablet

Kindergarten Art Cards (p. 73); Kindergarten Enrichment; Book of Crafts, K; Music Enrichment (p. 67); Animals, Animals; A Child's Book of Poems

First Grade Art Cards (p. 73); First Grade Enrichment; First Grade Book of Crafts; Music Enrichment (p. 67); Animals, Animals; A Child's Book of Poems

Second Grade Enrichment; Second Grade Book of Crafts; Music Enrichment (p. 67); Second Grade Art Cards (p. 73); Patterns of Nature; Animals, Animals; A Child's Book of Poems

The Alphabet Books and Numbers & Colors are used for Penmanship practice.

Book of Crafts, Jr. K (p. 67); Richard Scarry's Mother Goose; Hailstones and Halibut Bones

American/ Modern

Grammar & Logic

Science & Enrichment

Penmanship & Writing

Math

Classical & Christian

Prima Latina (p. 4)

English Grammar Practice (p. 76); Introduction to English Grammar (p. 4)

Kindergarten Enrichment is used for American/Modern Studies.

First Grade Enrichment is used for American/Modern Studies. Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans (p. 59)

3rd

4th

5th

6th

Traditional Spelling III (p. 66); Third Grade Literature Set (p. 15); Poetry for the Grammar Stage (p. 19)

Traditional Spelling IV (p. 66); Fourth Grade Literature Set (p. 15); Poetry for the Grammar Stage (p. 19)

Traditional Spelling V (p. 66); Fifth Grade Literature Set (p. 16); Poetry for the Grammar Stage (p. 19)

Traditional Spelling VI (p. 66); Sixth Grade Literature Set (p. 16); Poetry for the Grammar Stage (p. 19)

Latina Christiana; Latina Christiana Review Worksheets (p. 4); Introduction to Lingua Angelica (p. 8)

First Form Latin (pp. 6-7)

Second Form Latin (pp. 6-7)

D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths (p. 22); Timeline Program (p. 24); Golden Children's Bible; Christian Studies I (p. 33)

Famous Men of Rome (p. 22); Golden Children's Bible; Christian Studies II (p. 33)

Famous Men of the Middle Ages (p. 22); Golden Children's Bible; Christian Studies III (p. 33)

Rod & Staff Arithmetic 3; Memoria Math Challenge D (pp. 68-69)

Rod & Staff Arithmetic 4; Memoria Math Challenge E (pp. 68-69)

Rod & Staff Arithmetic 5 (p. 69)

Rod & Staff Mathematics 6 (p. 69)

Introduction to Composition (p. 76); New American Cursive 3 (p. 74)

Classical Composition: Fable (p. 76); Copybook Cursive II (p. 75)

Classical Composition: Narrative (p. 76); Copybook Cursive III (p. 75)

Classical Composition: Chreia & Maxim (p. 76); Copybook Cursive IV (p. 75)

Mammals (p. 70)

Book of Astronomy (p. 70)

Book of Insects (p. 70)

Book of Birds; Exploring the History of Medicine (p. 70)

English Grammar Recitation I (p. 76); Core Skills Language Arts 3

Core Skills Language Arts 4

States and Capitals (p. 60)

English Grammar Recitation II (p. 76)

Core Skills Language Arts 5

Geography I & United States Review (p. 60)

English Grammar Recitation III (p. 76); Core Skills Language Arts 6

Geography II & Geography I Review (p. 60)

Literature, Phonics, & Spelling Latin & Greek

8th

Seventh Grade Literature Set (p. 16); Poetry for the Grammar Stage (p. 19)

Eighth Grade Literature Set (p. 16); Poetry & Short Stories for the Logic Stage (p. 19)

9th

10th

Ninth Grade Literature Set (p. 17); The British Tradition I (p. 19); Book of the Middle Ages (p. 24)

Tenth Grade Literature Set (p. 17); The British Tradition II (p. 19)

Third Form Latin (pp. 6-7); Greek Alphabet (p. 31)

Fourth Form Latin (pp. 6-7); Henle I (p. 10); First Form Greek (p. 31) (optional)

Henle Latin II (p. 10); Latin Grammar for the Grammar Stage (p. 9); Second Form Greek (p. 31) (optional)

Caesar: Selections from his Commentarii De Bello Gallico (p. 10)

Famous Men of Greece (p. 22); Horatius at the Bridge (p. 26); Christian Studies IV (p. 33)

Book of the Ancient World & Ancient Greeks (p. 24); Iliad & Odyssey (p. 25)

Book of the Ancient Romans (p. 24); Aeneid (p. 25); Story of Christianity (p. 32)

Greek Tragedies (p. 26); History of the Early Church (p. 33)

Memoria Pre-Algebra (p. 68)

Memoria Algebra I (p. 68)

Memoria Algebra II (p. 68)

VideoText Geometry

Classical Composition: Refutation & Confirmation (p. 76)

Classical Composition: Common Topic (p. 76)

Classical Composition: Encomium, Invective, & Comparison (p. 76)

Classical Composition: Characterization and Description (p. 76)

Book of Trees; Exploring the World of Biology (p. 70)

Physical Science (p. 71)

General Biology (p. 71)

General Chemistry (p. 71)

English Grammar Recitation IV (p. 76); Core Skills Language Arts 7

English Grammar Recitation V (p. 76); Core Skills Language Arts 8

Traditional Logic I & II (p. 78)

Material Logic (p. 78)

200 Questions About American History; 13 Colonies (p. 58); Story of the World, Vol. 4

Geography III (p. 60)

Renaissance & Reformation Times (p. 24)

A History of Medieval Europe (p. 58)

American/ Modern

Grammar & Logic

Science & Enrichment

Penmanship & Writing

Math

Classical & Christian

7th

11th

12th

The Divine Comedy (p. 26) Twelfth Grade Literature Set (p. 17); The British Tradition III (p. 19)

Henle Latin III (p. 10)

The Republic and The Laws & On Obligations (p. 26); City of God (p. 33)

Precalculus

Courses for AP® Latin (p. 11)

Christian Apologetics and Introduction to Classical Philosophy (p. 27)

Calculus

Classical Composition: Thesis & Law (p. 76)

Anatomy & Physiology with Memoria Academy Physics (p. 71)

Classical Rhetoric (p. 78)

A History of Europe in the Modern World (p. 58)

A Concise History of the American Republic (p. 58)

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MATH

Classical Composition II: Narrative Student, Teacher, Videos

Core Skills Language Arts 5 and Rod & Staff English 5 Worksheets

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

AMERICAN/MODERN

CLASSICAL

CHRISTIAN

Geography I set, including The United States Review set and Geography Flashcards

Famous Men of Rome set

Christian Studies II set; Copybook Cursive III

*Videos available as streaming only.

OPTIONAL

SCIENCE

LITERATURE

The Book of Insects set

Fifth Grade Literature set

Summer Reading Set

Monarch Butterfly • Lepidoptera [Greek: λεπιδος + πτερα] means "scale-winged" • Cabbage butterfly, sphinx moth, monarch butterfly, brush-footed butterfly, swallowtail butterfly, luna moth • Complete metamorphosis • Characteristics: large wings and coiling mouthparts • Also includes: tiger moth, cecropia moth, skipper butterfly

Honeybee • Hymenoptera [Greek: υµεν + πτερα] means "membrane-winged" • Paper wasp, yellow jacket, hornet, carpenter ant, fire ant, honeybee, bumblebee • Complete metamorphosis • Characteristics: slender waist and stingers • Also includes: saw fly, mud dauber, bulldog ant, sweat bee

NEW USER ADD-ON SET $224.19 – New to Memoria Press? You need these items from prior years. Timeline Program; Poetry for the Grammar Stage set; English Grammar Recitation Handbook, Flashcards, and Workbook II set; The Golden Children's Bible; Old Testament Flashcards; Memory Verse Flashcards; Introduction to Lingua Angelica set

Video, audio, and flashcards available in digital and physical versions!

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Classical Core Curriculum

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Curriculum Manual Only $30 Consumables Only $246.94

GRADE 6

Supplemental Read-Aloud Sets also available! LATIN

WRITING

Second Form Latin complete set

Classical Composition III: Chreia & Maxim Student, Teacher, Videos

CURRICULUM MANUAL Lesson Plans for One Year

RETAIL

995.37

PACKAGE PRICE

704.19

MATH

AMERICAN/MODERN

CLASSICAL

Rod & Staff Mathematics 6 Student, Teacher (Parts 1-2), Quizzes & Speed Tests, Tests

Geography II set, including Geography I Review set

Famous Men of the Middle Ages set

*Videos available as streaming only.

GRAMMAR

SPELLING

SCIENCE

English Grammar Recitation Workbook III set; Core Skills Language Arts 6

Traditional Spelling VI set

The Book of Birds set; Exploring the History of Medicine set

OPTIONAL

LITERATURE

CHRISTIAN

Sixth Grade Literature set

Christian Studies III set; New Testament Flashcards; Copybook Cursive IV

Summer Reading Set

Video, audio, and flashcards available in digital and physical versions!

NEW USER ADD-ON SET $206.39 – New to Memoria Press? You need these items from prior years. Timeline Program; Poetry for the Grammar Stage set; English Grammar Recitation Handbook and Flashcards; The Golden Children's Bible; Memory Verse Flashcards; Geography Flashcards; Introduction to Lingua Angelica set

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GRADE 7

RETAIL

1,207.84

PACKAGE PRICE

829.59

CURRICULUM MANUAL

Curriculum Manual Only $30 Consumables Only $265.26

LATIN

WRITING

Third Form Latin complete set

Classical Composition IV: Refutation & Confirmation Student, Teacher, Videos

Lesson Plans for One Year

*Videos available as streaming only.

CHRISTIAN

AMERICAN/MODERN

CLASSICAL

Christian Studies IV set

The Story of the Thirteen Colonies & the Great Republic set; American History Outline set; 200 Questions About American History set and Flashcards; The Story of the World, Vol. 4

Famous Men of Greece set; Horatius at the Bridge set; The Greek Alphabet set

AaWw 24

alpha

/ah/ or /uh/ – drama

*Videos available as streaming only.

REVIEW

MATH

SCIENCE

Geography & Timeline Review

Memoria Pre-Algebra set

The Book of Trees set; Exploring the World of Biology set

*Videos available as streaming only.

GRAMMAR

LITERATURE

English Grammar Recitation Workbook IV set; Core Skills Language Arts 7

Seventh Grade Literature set

NEW USER ADD-ON SET $114.60 – New to Memoria Press? You need these items from prior years. Timeline Program; Poetry for the Grammar Stage set; English Grammar Recitation Handbook and Flashcards

OPTIONAL Summer Reading Set

Video, audio, and flashcards available in digital and physical versions!

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GRADE 8

Curriculum Manual Only $30 Consumables Only $208.30 GRAMMAR

CLASSICAL

English Grammar Recitation Workbook V set; Core Skills Language Arts 8

The Book of the Ancient Greeks set; The Iliad set; The Odyssey set

CURRICULUM MANUAL

RETAIL

1,339.95

PACKAGE PRICE

912.62

Lesson Plans for One Year

Video, audio, and flashcards available in digital and physical versions!

LATIN

WRITING

CHRISTIAN

Fourth Form Latin complete set; Henle Latin First Year

Classical Composition V: Common Topic Student, Teacher, Videos

The Book of the Ancient World set

MATH

SCIENCE

AMERICAN/MODERN

Memoria Algebra I set

Novare Physical Science Text and Digital Resources

Geography III Text, Student, Teacher, and Classroom Atlas

*Videos available as streaming only.

LITERATURE/POETRY Eighth Grade Literature set; Poetry & Short Stories for the Logic Stage: 19th and 20th Centuries set; Bard of Avon

OPTIONAL First Form Greek

Summer Reading for Girls: Little Women

Summer Reading for Boys: The Call of the Wild & Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

NEW USER ADD-ON SET $43.60 – New to Memoria Press? You need these items from prior years. Geography Flashcards; English Grammar Recitation Handbook and Flashcards

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Classical Core Curriculum

RETAIL

1,463.31

PACKAGE PRICE

1,001.40

GRADE 9 CURRICULUM MANUAL Lesson Plans for One Year

Curriculum Manual Only $30 Consumables Only $229.73

LATIN

CLASSICAL

Henle Latin Second Year Student Guide, Flashcards, Quizzes & Tests, Text, and Key; Latin Grammar for the Grammar Stage

The Book of the Ancient Romans set; The Aeneid set

LOGIC

WRITING

CHRISTIAN

Traditional Logic I & II complete sets

Classical Composition VI: Encomium, Invective, & Comparison Student, Teacher, Videos

The Story of Christianity set

LITERATURE/POETRY

AMERICAN/MODERN

Ninth Grade Literature set; The British Tradition I: Poetry, Prose, & Drama set; The Book of the Middle Ages

Renaissance & Reformation Times set

SCIENCE

MATH

OPTIONAL

Novare General Biology Text, Digital Resources, and Apprentice's Companion; Biology Coloring Workbook; Science Roots

Memoria Algebra II set

Summer Reading: All Creatures Great and Small

*Videos available as streaming only.

Video and flashcards available in digital and physical versions!

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GRADE 10

Curriculum Manual Only $30 Consumables Only $241.95 CURRICULUM MANUAL Lesson Plans for One Year

RETAIL

1,880.75

LATIN

CHRISTIAN

PACKAGE PRICE

Caesar: Selections from his Commentarii De Bello Gallico set

History of the Early Church set

1,181.76

Video available in digital and physical versions!

CLASSICAL

AMERICAN/MODERN

Medea & Other Plays set; The Three Theban Plays set; The Oresteian Trilogy set

A History of Medieval Europe set

WRITING

LITERATURE/POETRY

Classical Composition VII: Characterization and Classical Composition VIII: Description Student, Teacher, Videos

Tenth Grade Literature set; The British Tradition II: Poetry & Prose set

SCIENCE

LOGIC

MATH

Novare General Chemistry Text, Digital Resources, Complete Solutions Manual, Student Lab Report Handbook, and Experiments for High School at Home

Material Logic complete set

VideoText Geometry (Modules A-E)*

*only Module A is pictured

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OPTIONAL Summer Reading: Great Expectations

Classical Core Curriculum

Classical Core Curriculum RETAIL

877.72

PACKAGE PRICE

656.74

GRADE 11 CURRICULUM MANUAL

Curriculum Manual Only $30 Consumables Only $143.88

NEW

LATIN

WRITING

Henle Latin Third Year set

Classical Composition IX: Thesis & Law Student & Teacher

Lesson Plans for One Year

CLASSICAL

AMERICAN/MODERN

On Obligations set; The Republic and The Laws set

A History of Europe in the Modern World set

LITERATURE

CHRISTIAN

The Divine Comedy complete set

City of God set

*Videos available as streaming only.

SCIENCE Novare Physics: Modeling Nature Text, Solutions Manual

MATH The Eleventh Grade Curriculum Manual includes lesson plans for Precalculus, Seventh Edition by Larson and Hostetler. Unfortunately, this text is out of print and not available from Memoria Press, but you may be able to find it online (ISBN: 9780618643448). We do not oﬀer a Teacher Manual or Tests for this course. If you need additional support, we highly recommend enrolling in the Memoria Academy Precalculus class.

OPTIONAL Summer Reading: The Man Who Was Thursday

(not included)

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Curriculum Manual Only $30 Consumables Only $141.09

NEW

CURRICULUM MANUAL Lesson Plans for One Year

GRADE 12

RETAIL

1,252.43

LATIN

PACKAGE PRICE

Pliny Text, Teacher's Guide, Workbook, Teacher's Manual, and Notebook; Vergil Text, Teacher's Guide, Workbook, Teacher's Manual, and Notebook; The Aeneid

944.36

Video available in digital and physical versions!

CLASSICAL

CHRISTIAN

AMERICAN/MODERN

Introduction to Classical Philosophy set

Mere Christianity and Orthodoxy

A Concise History of the American Republic set

*Videos available as streaming only.

LITERATURE/POETRY

RHETORIC

Twelfth Grade Literature set; The British Tradition III: Poetry set

Classical Rhetoric basic set

OPTIONAL

MATH

Summer Reading: Galahad and the Grail

The Twelfth Grade Curriculum Manual includes lesson plans for Calculus, Eighth Edition by Larson, Hostetler, & Edwards. Unfortunately, this text is out of print and not available from Memoria Press, but you may be able to find it online (ISBN: 9780618503001). We do not oﬀer a Teacher Manual or Tests for this course. If you need additional support, we highly recommend enrolling in the Memoria Academy Calculus class.

Science Recommendation

(not included)

Science is not included in the twelfth grade package. If you have already completed Biology, Chemistry, and Physics, we recommend enrolling in the Anatomy & Physiology course oﬀered at Memoria Academy.

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Classical Core Curriculum

American/Modern Studies American History Outline Grades 5-8 Student $9.25 | Teacher $6.20

The Story of the Thirteen Colonies & the Great Republic

This is a valuable tool for helping students learn to study well. Use this in conjunction with The Story of the Thirteen Colonies & the Great Republic and The Story of the World, Vol. 4 to teach students how to recognize, organize, and retain key pieces of information from what they read.

200 Questions About American History

$58.01 set (text, student, teacher) Grades 5-8 Text $20.05 | Student $20.50 | Teacher $20.50 We have combined Guerber's The Story of the Thirteen Colonies and The Story of the Great Republic into one edited volume that makes for a perfect one-year survey of American history in the middle school years. The guide includes important facts, vocabulary, and comprehension questions, as well as enrichment activities such as mapwork, drawings, research, writing assignments, and more!

Grades 5-8 Student $11.85 | Teacher $6.20 Digital Flashcards $12.65 Physical Flashcards $17.65 Compiled from The Story of the Thirteen Colonies & the Great Republic and The Story of the World, Vol. 4. The Flashcards are based on our study guide, but can be used with any good American history course.

A Concise History of the American Republic

U.S. Presidents Flashcards

$309.60 set (text, student, teacher, quizzes & tests)

All Ages (4¼'' x 5½")

Grades 9+ | Text $268.99 | Student $22.70 Teacher $28.00 | Quizzes & Tests $6.20

NEW

$17.45

This year-long course traces the development of the American Republic from its founding through the 1960s. Students examine how the nation has endured conflict, crisis, and change, and how the American story fits within the broader human narrative. The Student Guide includes key terms, dates, figures, and primary source studies, while the Teacher Manual provides chapter summaries, answers, and instructional support.

These feature full-color images of every president alongside key details—birth and death dates, term years, party, vice president, major events, and significant roles.

A History of Europe in the Modern World $51.21 guide set (student, teacher, quizzes & tests) Grades 10+ Student $22.70 | Teacher $28.00 Quizzes & Tests $6.20 Text (12th Ed.) $158.49 This course covers the political, societal, and religious upheavals, particularly in Western Europe, that have shaped and reshaped the continent in the last seven hundred years. Students will study events leading to the rise of Europe through the formation of contemporary Europe, including the French Revolution, Napoleonic Europe, World War I & II, and the Cold War. The texts include helpful maps, timelines, and illustrations. The Student Guide requires students to note Key Terms, Key Figures, Key Dates, and Key Structures, in addition to comprehension questions, short essay questions, and timeline and map activities. The Teacher Manual has answers to the Student Guide plus background information for the teacher, and an overview, summary, and conclusion for each lesson, focusing on the material students need to master.

American & Modern Studies

A History of Medieval Europe: From Constantine to Saint Louis $113.05 set (text, student, teacher, quizzes & tests) Grades 10+ Text $71.95 | Student $22.70 | Teacher $24.75 Quizzes & Tests $6.20 This course covers the tumultuous transformation of Europe in the Dark Ages and the High Middle Ages, from the barbarian invasions and the conversion of Constantine to the Crusades and the rise of feudalism. The study guide helps the student pull out key terms, figures, and events, and provides comprehension and short answer essay questions.

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Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston Grades 1-3 | $15.10

Supplemental Reading for American Studies Sets (third grade shown)

Discussion Questions for American Studies Supplemental Sets

Third Grade $151.74 set | Fourth Grade $86.90 set

Third Grade $15.10 | Fourth Grade $15.10

Fifth Grade $73.88 set | Sixth Grade $68.90 set

Fifth Grade $15.10 | Sixth Grade $15.10

Geography States and Capitals $48.91 set (text, student, teacher, flashcards, desk charts)

Grades 3-6 Text $11.99 Student $15.10 Teacher $15.10 Flashcards $5.95 | Desk Charts $6.20

NEW

Not in set but also available: Wall Maps $25.00 By the end of this 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. Desk Charts (new!) include one side labeled and one side blank for practice.

Geography II: Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Oceania, & the Americas Grades 5+

$60.58 set (text, student, teacher + Geography I Review student & teacher)

Geography II Text $18.35 Geography II Student $16.20 Geography II Teacher $17.30 Geography I Review Student $6.20 Geography I Review Teacher $9.25

Geography I: The Middle East, North Africa, & Europe

Students continue to deepen their understanding of past and present as they learn to map the rest of the countries and capitals not covered in Geography I. At the end of this course, students will have mapped the entire world.

Grades 4+

$78.58 set Geography I Text $18.35 | Geography I Student $16.20

Geography III: Exploring & Mapping the World

Geography I Teacher $17.30 | U.S. Review Student $6.20

Grades 7+

U.S. Review Teacher $9.25 | Geography Digital

$89.97 set

Flashcards $20.00 | Geography Physical Flashcards $25.00

(text, student, teacher,

(text, student, teacher, digital flashcards + U.S. Review student and teacher)

A unique geography program designed for students pursuing a classical Christian education, this course covers the area that constituted the ancient Roman Empire and the geography relevant to the Bible. Each region is explored in its historical context, providing interesting and thoughtprovoking facts, but the main goal of this course is for students to learn to map the countries and their capitals.

NEW

classroom atlas, digital flashcards*)

Text $20.05 | Student $20.95 Teacher $20.95 | Atlas $18.80 *Geography Flashcards: Digital $20.00 | Physical $25.00 *same as flashcards in Geography I set

This more advanced geography course solidifies the mapping skills learned in Geography I-II but adds a study of the landforms, topography, famous landmarks, climate, culture, and religion of each continent. This is a perfect prelude to high school history.

Geography Wall Maps These wall maps are the perfect complement to Geography I and Geography II. Maps are grouped by region and provided in pairs: a blank map for student practice with outlined countries, and a labeled map showing countries and capitals with names for reference and review. Geography I & II Large Wall Maps (22" x 34") | $36.05 ea. Geography I & II Small Wall Maps (11" x 17") | $21.65 ea.

Geography

Practice Map Pad: United States notepad of 50 two-sided sheets (11" x 17") | $11.85

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Full-Year Curriculum Packages for Students with Special Needs

The Simply Classical Curriculum has been adapted especially for students ages 0-21 who have significant learning challenges. All curriculum packages are fully customizable to fit your needs and goals and your student's strengths and weaknesses. With a slower pace and ample review, the curriculum makes the rich, beautiful content of classical Christian education accessible to all.

Readiness Levels

Grammar Levels

• My First Words (Ages* 0-2) $132.82

• Level 4 (Ages 8-10): Mozart, Maps, & Myths $524.74

• Level A (Ages 2-3): Readiness, Rhythm, & Rhyme $240.49

• Levels 5 & 6† (Ages 9-12): Grammar, Greece, & Gratitude $748.97

• Level B (Ages 3-4): Essentials, Etiquette, & Ear Training $195.91 • Level C (Ages 4-5): Animals, Alphabet, & Aesop $231.22

Primary Levels • Level 1 (Ages 5-6): Sentences, Sums, & Stories $392.77 • Level 2 (Ages 6-8): Comprehension, Calculations, & Character $208.61 • Level 3 (Ages 7-9): Literature, Latin, & Liberty $339.15 *All age ranges refer to chronological age or skill level.

Scholar Levels • Levels 7 & 8† (Ages 11-14): Poetry, Pleiades, & Promises $613.96 • Levels 9 & 10† (Ages 13-16): Knights, Knaves, & Knowledge $830.47

Advanced Levels

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• Levels 11 & 12† (Ages 15-18): History, Homer, & Heroes $614.64 Available in a one- or two-year pace. Two-year pace price shown.

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Simply Classical: A Beautiful Education for Any Child by Cheryl Swope | $26.00 The humanity of the child with special needs—the humanity of any child—must determine the education he receives. In this revolutionary book, Cheryl Swope guides parents, teachers, and schools in implementing the beauty, depth, and richness of a classical education for students with significant learning challenges.

Simply Classical: Copybooks & Cursive Simply Classical Copybook Series

Simply Classical Prima Latina Copybook

by Cheryl Swope | Ages 5-8, chronological age or skill level $10.30 ea. Book 1, Manuscript Book 2, Manuscript or Cursive Book 3, Manuscript or Cursive Book 4, Cursive

by Leigh Lowe Ages 8+, chronological age or skill level

Strengthen penmanship, spelling, punctuation, vocabulary, fine-motor skills, and memory through the time-honored tradition of copybooks. Habits of accuracy, neatness, and patience are taught through the truth and comfort of Holy Scripture. Shorter selections help accommodate for writing difficulties while providing the full benefits of copybook and memory work, and the simple, clean pages help students focus on the task at hand.

My Thankfulness Journals

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff

by Cheryl Swope

Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll

These journals let students practice cursive while thinking about God's daily blessings in their lives. The Intermediate Journal has a smaller font size and less tracing.

This copybook in the New American Cursive font features Latin vocabulary and prayer copy practice that correlates to the lessons in Prima Latina. These simplified copy exercises are a great way to help your students practice Latin while developing penmanship skills.

Numbers

Letters & Numbers

Ages 6-12, chronological age or skill level Beginner or Intermediate $9.75 ea.

$10.30

9 10

Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr

11 12 13 14 15 Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

16 17 18 19 20

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz

Letters & Numbers Desk Charts Ages 4-7, chronological age or skill level | $15.10 (3 manuscript letter charts, 3 number charts) Reinforce your teaching with desk charts. Bold, targeted letters assist visual discrimination.

My Nature Journal by Cheryl Swope Ages 4-11, chronological age or skill level $10.30 Savor small moments of wonder with your child as he learns the simple beauty of nature. This book can stand alone as a delightful supplement to any program.

Aesop Copybooks by Cheryl Swope | Ages 9+, chronological age or skill level Aesop Copybook, Cursive $10.30 Aesop Copybook, Manuscript $10.30 Aesop's Fables $14.99 The Aesop Copybook is a lovely companion to Aesop’s Fables. It will strengthen your student's writing and composition skills while giving the opportunity to contemplate the timeless wisdom of Aesop's fables and learn from the gentle moral instruction they provide.

NEED HELP? NOT SURE WHERE TO START? Visit SimplyClassical.com to take a free readiness assessment or join the discussion on our forum. Or email us at specialneeds@memoriapress.com.

Simply Classical: Character Building Myself & Others

Simply Classical

Lessons for Social Understanding, Habits, & Manners

Guide Books $21.60 ea.

by Cheryl Swope | Ages 3-13, chronological age or skill level

Book One Core Set $63.23

These 14-week sets provide simple, standalone lessons in common courtesy, character, and compassion that often seem neglected today, as well as lessons in developing good safety and health habits. With easy-to-teach instructions, each book provides 4-day lessons that can be taught in as little as 30-60 minutes per day over a single semester or summer. The lessons cover five areas: Rules, Health, Safety, Manners, and Listening.

Book One Read-Aloud Set $106.81 Book Two Core Set $24.83 Book Two Read-Aloud Set $113.83 Book Three Core Set $61.17 Book Four Core Set $37.60

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Simply Classical: Language Arts Simply Classical Spelling: Books 1 & 2 by Cheryl Swope Ages 6-9, chronological age or skill level $17.30 ea. This series gives your struggling writer an incremental, multi-sensory approach with an oral/aural emphasis. Each week includes targeted Word Study exercises to promote linguistic awareness, cognitive flexibility, and improved spelling skills. √ Improve auditory discrimination √ Increase cognitive flexibility √ Strengthen listening skills √ Build spelling confidence

Simply Classical Writing: Books 1 & 2 by Cheryl Swope Ages 6-9, chronological age or skill level Student $22.70 ea. | Teacher $11.85 ea. (Book 2 only) This series combines copybook, grammar rules, and composition into one carefully sequenced series of explicit instruction so students can practice early writing skills with confidence. Choose from Bible Story or Read-Aloud editions.

Simply Classical Writing Review by Cheryl Swope Ages 6-9, chronological age or skill level $22.70

Simply Classical StoryTime Treasures $49.36 set (student, teacher, Little Bear, Little Bear's Visit, Caps for Sale, & Blueberries for Sal)

Simply Classical More StoryTime Treasures $47.78 set (student, teacher, Billy and Blaze, The Story About Ping, Keep the Lights Burning Abbie, & Stone Soup) Ages 6-9, chronological age or skill level Blossoming readers need more than practice; they need to discover the riches of a good story. With simplified exercises in word study, composition, and oration, these delightful guides provide a joyful introduction to children's literature. Teach essential language arts skills as your students encounter stories of tenderness, bravery, and kindness. These adaptations of the Memoria Press originals have been created especially for struggling learners or students with special needs.

Use this book as a summer intensive, a supplemental resource alongside Simply Classical Writing, or as a focused review. Students will work with capital letters and end marks, types of sentences, common and proper nouns, parts of speech, and word selection. Each lesson is paired with practice exercises and a thought for further reflection. Exercises can be taught over 2-4 days for younger students, or 1-2 exercises can be covered per day for older or more advanced students.

Simply Classical: Enrichment Simply Classical Crafts 1 & 2 by Tara Luse Ages 3-5, chronological age or skill level $11.85 ea. These activities reinforce number and letter recognition, strengthen fine-motor skills, and foster creativity and confidence. Book One contains letter crafts from Memoria Press' Jr. K Book of Crafts. Book Two contains story crafts from Memoria Press' Jr. K Book of Crafts. Enjoy each of your creations and the time spent together making them!

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Simply Classical Enrichment: Level 3 Ages 7-9, chronological age or skill level | $22.70 This guide helps you teach American history, poetry, music, art, and science through the Simply Classical Level 3 American History ReadAloud set, maps, classical music selections, and art cards. Everything is scheduled for you weekly with thoughtful discussion questions, science activities, and topics for art and music appreciation that will enrich your year and expand your child's cultural, scientific, and general knowledge.

Simply Classical

Phonics & Reading by Cheryl Lowe | Grade K

Kindergarten Phonics Supplemental Workbook

$54.20 set (Books A-D + Teacher Guide)

by Amber Wheat | Grade K | $17.35

Student Books (A-D) $8.15 ea.

Designed to be used in conjunction with First Start Reading to reinforce the phonetic concepts learned each week.

First Start Reading: Phonics, Reading, & Printing

Teacher Guide for Books A-D $21.60 FSR is a balanced, age-appropriate approach to phonics and reading, with a serious focus on correct pencil grip and letter formation. The program uses the traditional (vowel-consonant) approach to phonics combined with word families. The FSR kindergarten program consists of 4 student books with artist-drawn pictures to color, drawing pages for each letter or phonogram, and over 40 stories. The Teacher Guide leads you through the program and provides helpful assessments and teaching tips.

Everything you need to teach your student to read fluently, including lesson plans!

by Amber Wheat | Grade K | $16.80 Provides the extra practice needed to master manuscript printing. Correlates with the letter students are working on in First Start Reading.

Kindergarten Phonics & Reading Streaming Instructional Videos

Kindergarten Phonics & Reading Set Grade K | $274.30 set

Manuscript Practice Sheets

$55.00 Let primary specialist Michelle Tefertiller teach your students how to read! These streaming videos use all the books in the Kindergarten Phonics & Reading Set.

by Michelle Tefertiller | Grade 1 Student Book E $8.15 Teacher Guide for Book E $11.85 We complete our phonics for reading program at the beginning of first grade with First Start Reading Book E, which includes long vowel teams, sounds of soft c and g, and the three sounds of y.

Classical Phonics

First Start Reading Storybooks A-E

by Cheryl Lowe

Phonics Flashcards

Grades K-2 | $20.05

Grades K-1

Grades K-2

These phonetically arranged word lists require students to rely on their mastery of letter sounds. Coordinates with First Start Reading, or is a good supplement to any phonics program.

$8.15-$10.85 ea.

(4¼'' x 5½")

These Storybooks feature the same targeted phonetic stories found in First Start Reading, with beautifully illustrated black and white pictures to help students stay engaged as they read.

$27.00

100 Days of Summer Reading Books I-III Grades K-2 | $9.25 ea. Reading is a subject that should continue through the summer to avoid regression. These summer reading journals are a perfect way to encourage young children to continue working on reading fluency. The font size gets smaller for each journal, and each page is divided in half for drawing and writing short summaries. Kindergarten has the unique goal of reading a book a day for 100 days!

First Start Reading, Book E

Phonics & Reading

Easy Reader Classics Grades K-2

$39.80 set (4 books) | $9.95 ea. Classic stories adapted from The Jungle Book, The Wind in the Willows, Tom Sawyer, and Doctor Dolittle so young children can read good stories on their level.

English spelling is the most complex and irregular of any of the modern Western languages. There are nearly 200 phonograms used to spell our 44 English sounds. These easy-to-use flashcards help your student master the complexities of English phonograms.

Phonics from A to Z $37.99

Leading phonics expert Wiley Blevins has created a superb manual for teachers who want to go deeper into the subject of phonics and reading.

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What's Inside First Start Reading

"I had no idea how I was going to teach my child to read, but First Start Reading made it so doable. The lessons are simple, the phonics makes sense, and my son started reading so quickly." — Amanda, Missouri

Learning to read is the most important task of the primary years—First Start Reading and accompanying materials provide students the best foundation to become confident readers. First Start Reading Books A-D: • Four workbooks that teach phonics, reading, and printing all together • Students blend sounds into words and begin reading sentences early • Drawing and handwriting reinforce phonograms and letter formation Teacher Guide: • Complete lesson plans for Books A-D • Clear teaching instructions, phonics background information, and assessments • Practical guidance for homeschool parents and classroom teachers Classical Phonics: • Phonetically organized word lists for easy review • Reinforces sound mastery and strengthens decoding skills Also available: • Storybooks, Phonics Flashcards, Supplemental Workbook, Instructional Videos, and Manuscript Practice Sheets

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Traditional

Spelling

"My children finally understand why words are spelled the way they are, and their spelling has improved so much." — Joy, Kansas

Traditional Spelling teaches students to see order within the English language. Rather than relying on memorization alone, students learn to recognize patterns, analyze phonograms, divide syllables, and understand why words are spelled the way they are. Through steady practice, spelling becomes not a guessing game but a skill grounded in logic and mastery. Across all six levels, students encounter increasingly difficult words while constantly reinforcing earlier concepts. The result is confident spelling built through understanding, attention, and repetition.

Spelling Traditional Spelling I-VI

by Cheryl Lowe and Michelle Tefertiller | Grades 1-6

$105.90 I & II set ea. (student, teacher, practice sheets, videos, supplemental workbook, supplemental workbook key)

$41.95 III set (student, teacher, practice sheets) $36.06 IV, V, and VI set ea. (student, teacher) Student $17.90 ea. | Teacher $20.05 ea. Practice Sheets (I-III only) $6.20 ea. Supplemental Workbook (I-III only) $9.25 ea. Supplemental Workbook Key (I-III only) $9.25 ea. Videos (I & II only) $55.00 ea.

Spelling

This comprehensive, phonetic approach to teaching spelling is the culmination of our phonics program. Once students have mastered reading "consonant-vowel-consonant" words with short vowels in kindergarten they are ready to begin a spelling program. Traditional Spelling is the perfect next step toward reading fluency and provides students with an extensive mastery-based study of phonics through sixth grade. Lessons feature a variety of phonetic activities that utilize each week's spelling words, including writing and oral dictation practice, crossword puzzles, color-coded phonogram activities, short stories or riddles on the student's reading level, and Greek and Latin root word exercises.

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Primary Enrichment Music Enrichment Classical Core Curriculum supplement Grades K-2 $15.10

Enrichment Guides Classical Core Curriculum supplement Grades K-2

The Book of Crafts

$22.70 ea.

Classical Core Curriculum supplement

These supplemental guides coordinate with 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, as well as resources for the history, culture, and science lessons, biographies of the artists, and poetry lessons. Lessons from Music Enrichment are scheduled here as well.

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' Jr. K-2 curriculum packages, and additional crafts that focus on art concepts. Enjoy each of your creations and the time spent together making them.

Grades Jr. K-2 | $20.05 ea.

Kindergarten Morning Work

Cut & Paste Book

Grade K

$17.35

$7.10

Kindergarten Morning Work is designed to practice quick recall of concepts already taught in the Kindergarten Curriculum. It purposefully does not introduce new concepts, but allows young students to build confidence and gives teachers the opportunity to gauge mastery. Two days a week students will review penmanship, phonics, color words, number awareness, and the manner of the week.

Music Enrichment goes into more detail about each song studied in our Enrichment Guides, including a short backstory on each song and its composer, as well as a few interesting facts and discussion questions. Purchase of this book also includes links to playlists so you can listen to good recordings of each piece.

Fine-motor skills are critical for primary students to master. We have paired this Cut & Paste Book with our kindergarten phonics and reading program so that students can practice their scissors skills, using glue, and tracing letters while working on mastery of beginning phonics sounds. The pages are in the same order that students study the alphabet in First Start Reading, with additional pages for the h-consonant teams of sh, th, ch, and wh as they are introduced.

Scissors Books Recommended for Ages 3-5 My Very First Scissors Book $7.10 My Very Own Scissors Book $7.10 Help your student develop hand strength, fine-motor skills, and independence with one or both of these books.

Character Building Manner of the Week Wall Charts & Flashcards Grades K+

Wall Charts (11” x 8 ½”) $17.90 Digital Flashcards $9.85 Physical Flashcards $14.85 Be respectful, listen carefully, look for opportunities to include others, chew with your mouth closed—these simple, thoughtful guidelines for good manners are a great aid for your classroom or homeschool. There are 36 manners, one for each week of your school year. Each week, hang up the wall chart as a helpful visual aid and use the short explanations and examples on the flashcards to discuss proper behavior at the dinner table, around the home, and out in public.

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Math Memoria Math Challenge

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Levels A-E | Grades K-4 | Student $19.35 ea. | Teacher $6.20 ea. Memoria Math Challenge provides students the daily practice and repetition needed to achieve mastery of basic arithmetic skills. Emphasis is placed on speed and accuracy. Level A focuses on writing numbers, counting, and addition to seven and subtraction facts up to six, Level B continues with addition and subtraction facts up to 10, Level C gives students practice with immediate recall of addition and subtraction facts up to 18, and Level D is designed for the year students are learning their multiplication and division facts. Level E (new!) provides continued practice with multiplication and division along with exercises in mixed computation, ciphers, and measurement equivalencies.

Memoria Pre-Algebra, Algebra I, and Algebra II Grades 7+ The Memoria Algebra Series covers the mathematical discipline of algebra in three books, beginning with Memoria Pre-Algebra. Transition seamlessly from arithmetic to the first principles of algebra in this exhaustive and logically sequenced program that fosters mastery rather than frustration. Students are guided carefully through definitions, examples, and increasingly challenging exercises, building confidence as they learn the language and structure of algebra step by step.

$140.00 Memoria Pre-Algebra set (text, teacher, solutions key, quizzes & tests, videos)

Student Text $35.00 | Teacher Manual $35.00 | Solutions Key (Student Text, Quizzes, & Tests) $30.00 | Quizzes & Tests $20.00 | Videos $55.00

Memoria Pre-Algebra Supplemental Exercises Not included in Memoria Pre-Algebra Set but available for extra practice: Supplemental Exercises $7.50 | Supplemental Exercises Solutions Key $7.50

$164.00 Memoria Algebra I and II set ea. (text, teacher, solutions key, quizzes & tests, videos)

Student Text $45.00 ea. | Teacher Manual $45.00 ea. | Solutions Key (Text, Quizzes & Tests) $40.00 ea. | Quizzes & Tests $20.00 ea. | Videos $55.00 ea.

$15 Transition to Memoria Algebra II set (text, teacher & solutions key)

Student Text $7.50 | Teacher Manual & Solutions Key $7.50 This 9-week course bridges the gap between other algebra programs and Memoria Algebra II, covering topics often missed from other curricula. Complete this course after other Pre-Algebra and Algebra I programs in order to master all prerequisite material for Memoria Algebra II.

Arithmetic Flashcards

Multiplication Flashcards

Division Flashcards

Addition & Subtraction, 0 to 18

0 to 12 Digital $9.85

Digital $9.85

Physical $14.85

Rod & Staff Arithmetic Rod & Staff Math books teach your student number facts and arithmetic skills to mastery using clear, uncluttered lessons and plenty of drill practice.

Grade 1 Arithmetic (3rd Ed.) Student Part 1 $8.50 | Student Part 2 $8.50 Practice Sheets $21.50 | Teacher Manual $25.95 Speed Drills $5.95

Grade 4 Arithmetic

Grade 2 Arithmetic (3rd Ed.) Student Unit 1 $8.50 | Student Unit 2 $8.50 Student Unit 3 $8.50 | Student Unit 4 $8.50 Practice Sheets 1 $9.50 | Practice Sheets 2 $9.50 Teacher Manual Units 1-2 $15.25 Teacher Manual Units 3-4 $15.25 Supplemental Pack $2.25

Grade 5 Arithmetic

Grade 3 Arithmetic (3rd Ed.) Student $15.50 | Tests $2.75 Teacher Manual Part 1 $15.25 Teacher Manual Part 2 $15.25

Grade 6 Mathematics

Student $17.95 | Tests $2.95 Teacher Manual Part 1 $14.75 Teacher Manual Part 2 $14.75

Student $17.95 Teacher Manual Part 1 $14.75 Teacher Manual Part 2 $14.75 Speed Drills $5.50 Tests $2.95

Student $17.75 | Tests $2.75 Teacher Manual Part 1 $14.75 | Teacher Manual Part 2 $14.75 Quizzes and Speed Tests $5.25

Alphabet, Numbers, & Coloring Alphabet Book Part One & Part Two

Numbers & Colors

by Leigh Lowe

Recommended for Ages 4-5

$17.35

$34.70 set (2 books)

This book introduces each number through 15 and color words with tracing and coloring activities.

Teaches letter recognition, letter formation, and pencil grip. This is a gentle introduction to phonics.

Numbers Book Part One & Part Two by Leigh Lowe Recommended for Kindergarten

Coloring Books Recommended for Ages 4-5

$34.70 set (2 books)

Alphabet $7.10 Numbers $7.10

Practice with numbers, counting, and patterns for the student who is ready to move beyond simple tracing. This a nice supplement to any kindergarten math program.

Practice number and letter recognition while developing fine-motor and coloring skills.

Alphabet Flashcards Digital $9.85 | Physical $14.85 Deck contains one card for each letter of the alphabet. Each card has the upper- and lowercase letter on one side and a simple illustration on the flip side that allows practice with the beginning letter sound.

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Math & Alphabet, Numbers, & Coloring

Science & Nature Mammals

Student $17.30 Teacher $19.45

Grades 3+

The World of Mammals $21.65

$74.39 set

What Is a Mammal? $9.95

(student, teacher,

What Is the Animal Kingdom? $9.95

The World of Mammals, What Is a Mammal?, What Is the Animal Kingdom?)

The young student's natural fascination with animals makes this in-depth study of the habitats, behaviors, and classification of mammals a wonderful grammar school course. Lessons draw from The World of Mammals, What Is the Animal Kingdom?, and What Is a Mammal? and include comprehension questions, drawing exercises, and observation pages.

Nature's Beautiful Order by Christopher O. Blum & John A. Cuddeback Grades 6+ Text $21.95 | Student $14.05 | Teacher $15.10

The Book of Astronomy Grades 3+ Student $17.30 | Teacher $20.50 Teach your student the story of the sky! This guide covers stars, constellations, the solar system, and the zodiac.

The Book of Insects

This introduction to natural history instills in the beginning student of biology a love for the beauty and order of the animal kingdom through the eyes of the classical naturalists. Students will be led from the invertebrate animals through the five great vertebrate classes to the culmination of the natural order, a consideration of man as the knowing animal and as a steward of Creation.

Grades 4+

$70.47 set (text, student, teacher, field guide, digital flashcards) Text $17.90 | Student $17.90 | Teacher $20.05 Monarch Butterfly • Lepidoptera [Greek: λεπιδος + πτερα] means "scale-winged" • Cabbage butterfly, sphinx moth, monarch butterfly, brush-footed butterfly, swallowtail butterfly, luna moth • Complete metamorphosis • Characteristics: large wings and coiling mouthparts • Also includes: tiger moth, cecropia moth, skipper butterfly

Honeybee • Hymenoptera [Greek: υµεν + πτερα] means "membrane-winged" • Paper wasp, yellow jacket, hornet, carpenter ant, ﬁre ant, honeybee, bumblebee • Complete metamorphosis • Characteristics: slender waist and stingers • Also includes: saw ﬂy, mud dauber, bulldog ant, sweat bee

eBook $12.00 | Peterson Guide $9.99 Digital Flashcards $12.45 | Physical Flashcards $17.45 A narrative approach to the life of insects that takes your student through classification, anatomy, and more!

The Book of Birds by Sarah Jo Davis and Kalee Miller | Grades 5+

$85.40 set (text, student, teacher, field guide, coloring book, digital flashcards) Text $20.50 | Student $17.90 | Teacher $20.05 Peterson Guide $11.99 | Coloring Book $11.99 Digital Flashcards $12.45 | Physical Flashcards $17.45 The Book of Birds is a thorough introduction to a fascinating avian world, covering everything from anatomy and the physics of flight to social habits and habitats.

The Book of Trees by Sean Brooks | Grades 6+

$69.53 set (text, student, teacher, field guide, Tree Book) Text $17.90 | Student $17.90 | Teacher $20.05 Peterson Guide $9.99 The Tree Book for Kids and Their Grown-Ups $15.95 Do you know that the very gift of breath is the result of the oxygen that trees and plants produce? Or that trees and plants provide the means of sustenance for all life on Earth? The Book of Trees, along with the Student Workbook and Teacher Guide, will teach your student both plant morphology and taxonomy (the different parts and different kinds of plants), as well as photosynthesis and respiration. Other chapters cover flowers and fruits. The second half of the course is dedicated to tree observation and classification.

Science & Nature

John H. Tiner's Science Grades 5-9 Text $18.99 ea. Supplemental Student Questions $6.20 ea. Teacher Key & Tests $9.25 ea. J. H. Tiner's illustrated science books for middle school students are written from a biblical perspective and have won numerous awards. Each includes review questions and activities for every chapter, and Memoria Press has written supplemental questions, unit reviews, and tests for each book. Choose From: Exploring the History of Medicine Exploring Planet Earth Exploring the World of Mathematics Exploring the World of Chemistry Exploring the World of Physics Exploring the World of Biology Exploring the World of Astronomy

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Berean Builders (Elementary Science) Grades K-7 See full book and price lists on MemoriaPress.com!

Novare Science Grades 6+ See full book and price lists on MemoriaPress.com! Novare is committed to a mastery-learning paradigm. Accurate explanations and a thorough treatment of the subject matter characterize these courses from start to finish. The Digital Resources download includes quizzes and exams, a teacher key, weekly review guides, and more. Choose From: Physical Science Earth Science Introductory Physics General Chemistry

Accelerated Chemistry Physics: Modeling Nature General Biology

Berean's Science In… series offers a history-based approach to science that works nicely as an optional supplement to Memoria Press' nature science studies in the primary and grammar school years for those students who just simply want more science! Choose from: Science in the Beginning, Science in the Ancient World, Science in the Scientific Revolution, Science in the Age of Reason, Science in the Industrial Age, and Science in the Atomic Age.

Berean Builders (Upper School Science) Grades 8+ See full book and price lists on MemoriaPress.com! Berean's Discovering Design with… series offers full-year, laboratory-based high school science courses in Earth Science, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. Explore the varied layers of the Earth, investigate the diversity of life on Earth from the microscopic to the mammoth, learn how to think like a chemist, and open your eyes to the underlying forces of the physical world around us.

Art & Music Discovering Art & Music in the Younger Years, Volume 1 with Dr. Carol Reynolds | Grades 3+

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$44.51 set (student book, teacher manual, digital flashcards) Student Book $20.50 | Teacher Manual $20.50 | Digital Flashcards $8.45 | Physical Flashcards $13.45 Discovering Art & Music in the Younger Years, Volume 1 introduces students to the language of beauty through great works of Western art and music. In paired lessons, students explore artistic principles alongside musical ideas—such as horizon and melody, color and tone. Teachers will gain practical guidance for cultivating attentive listening, careful observing, and joyful discovery with their students.

Discovering Music: 300 Years of Interaction in Western Music, Arts, History, and Culture (Second Edition)

Exploring America's Musical Heritage: Through Art, Literature, and Culture

with Dr. Carol Reynolds | Grades 8+

$49.95 set (2 DVDs totaling more than 4 hours)

with Dr. Carol Reynolds Grades 5+

$170 set (textbook, student workbook, DVDs, teacher manual download)

Textbook $39.95 | Student Workbook $29.95 | DVDs $106.10 Join Professor Carol as she travels the world using music as the window into political and cultural history. The expanded second edition includes a separate Textbook—now including art and additional information—and a Student Workbook—with more activities, questions, and timelines—which both still correspond perfectly to the first edition DVDs.

In this course, Professor Carol—along with 38 other historians, scholars, and artists—takes you on a journey through America's musical history. When we sing the songs our greatgrandparents 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.

Early Sacred Music: From the Temple through the Middle Ages with Dr. Carol Reynolds | Grades 8+

$119 set (text, workbook, DVDs) Text $24.95 | Assignments & Quizzes $22.95 Here you will find a description and explanation of how Christians have worshiped God in song for over a millennium. 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 circumstances affected the musical worship of the Church. DVDs include musical performances and Professor Carol's unparalleled commentary.

Reading Music: Introduction to Music Theory

Music Appreciation

by Patrick Fata | Grades 2+

Student Book $17.90

Text $17.50 | Student $17.50

Audio $10.00

Teacher $18.50 | Audio $10.00

This course aims to deepen your student's appreciation of music by grounding the greatest pieces in the canon of Western classical music in their historical context, and by introducing the foundational musical concepts of notation, rhythm, pitch, form, and melody to give a fuller understanding of the inner workings of the pieces and of music in general.

Open the door for your students into a new, melodic world. This course introduces the concepts of rhythm, meter, and musical notation in short, straightforward lessons in the Student Text and ample practice of concepts in the Student Workbook. The streaming audio tracks provide short clips of all concepts and examples, and the two-color Teacher Guide provides answers and tests.

Art Cards & Posters Grades K-2 Art Cards K-2 (5" x 7") $11.85 ea. Art Posters K-2 (11" x 17") $36.05 ea. Enrich your child's primary education 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.

by Patrick Fata | Grades 3+

Creating Art: Lessons & Projects for the Grammar Stage Grades 3-4 $23.75 Students will begin with color theory and basic art techniques. They will create projects that relate to literature, science, Mesopotamian and Egyptian art, portraits, landscapes, still life, and much more!

A Classical History of Art by Kyle M. Janke Grades 9+

$97.61 set (student, teacher, digital flashcards, videos)

Student $20.50 | Teacher $20.50 Digital Flashcards $12.45 | Physical Flashcards $17.45 Videos $55.00 In A Classical History of Art, the timeless qualities of Greek expression inform a succinct and cohesive survey of 5,000 years of Western art. From the prehistoric period to the beginning of modern art, this study demonstrates the significance of classical values in the development of the sculpture, architecture, and painting of the West. Focused on cultivating fruitful and revelatory discussion, this curriculum presents the features, terms, and pertinent discussion questions of each major period, supplemented by close analysis of major works, lessons in visual composition, master copy drawing assignments, and 80 color flashcards. In the Instructional Videos, Kyle Janke walks your student through the course in twelve lessons, with lectures and thoughtful discussion points that complement and supplement the student text. For the educator, student, or curious individual, this course will produce the ardent and enlightening dialogue necessary to direct your interactions with great art.

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Penmanship New American Cursive by Iris Hatfield Grades 1+ $25.75 ea. The New American Cursive (NAC) penmanship program is an easy-to-follow resource for learning cursive. Simplified letter forms and clear instructions teach your student to write in a fast, legible script. Developed by Iris Hatfield, an educator with 55 years of experience in the handwriting field, the workbooks improve the process of teaching handwriting and allow students to start at a younger age. Choose from:

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

In NAC 1, learn how to form each letter, step by step, with clear starting dots and direction arrows. Correct pencil grip, paper position, and posture are illustrated throughout. Fifteen minutes of workbook practice a day is all it takes! NAC 2 will continue to teach correct letter forms and how to easily connect each letter. Proper size, spacing, and slant are emphasized in 125 instructional exercises. In NAC 3 you will further enhance cursive skills by practicing your best handwriting while learning about manners and correspondence protocol.

Teach Yourself Cursive

NEW AMERICAN CURSIVE TEACHING CHARTS Letter Illustrations with Copy Words

(11” x 8.5”)

by Iris Hatfield Grade 5-Adult | $25.75 Whether you are a beginning older student or are fine-tuning your penmanship later in life, these self-guided lessons make learning cursive a pleasure. Practice just 15 minutes a day to get remarkable results.

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Penmanship Practice with Wisdom Scriptures by Iris Hatfield Grades 3+ $14.05

Create customizable worksheets in the New American Cursive font to integrate handwriting practice with any subject (Windows only).

Iris Hatﬁeld and Tara Luse

ISBN 978-1-7374731-9-0

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This easy-to-use supplemental resource for mastering a legible, attractive cursive enhances the pleasure of writing by practicing a different, inspiring wisdom Scripture verse each day. It also includes 50 helpful penmanship tips to improve cursive skills.

New American Cursive Teaching Charts by Iris Hatfield and Tara Luse Grades 1+ | $17.90 The New American Cursive Teaching Charts make great visual aids for the home or classroom. The charts feature letter illustrations for the entire cursive alphabet along with copy words. These charts make an excellent supplement to the New American Cursive program.

Penmanship Supplements Alphabet Wall Charts

Alphabet Wall Poster

Available in Manuscript (blue) or Cursive (green)

Manuscript and New American Cursive

(11'' x 17'') | $17.90 ea.

This poster lists the entire alphabet in manuscript and cursive. It is the perfect resource if you don't have the space for our Alphabet Wall Charts.

These visual aids reinforce each letter of the alphabet while young students learn to read and write or practice their penmanship. Each illustration is handdrawn. The cursive charts use the New American Cursive font.

Penmanship

(22'' x 34'') | $8.15

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Copybooks I-III by Cheryl & Leigh Lowe Grades K-2

$45.36 set (Copybooks I-III) $16.80 ea. Copybooks include memory passages, copybook exercises, and drawing pages, incorporating Scripture from the King James Bible and classic children's poems.

Composition & Sketchbooks I-III Grades K-6 $9.75 ea. I: 5/8" Ruled for Younger Students

Copybook Cursive I-IV

III: College-Ruled for Older Students

Cursive Practice Sheets I-III

(New American Cursive font)

Our Composition & Sketchbooks allow students to write and illustrate compositions.

Ages 6+ | $16.80 ea.

II: 1/2" Ruled for 1st-2nd Grade Students

Grades 1-6 | $16.80 ea. Copybook Cursive I is perfect for second graders alongside NAC 2 or older students needing more practice. Copybook Cursive II includes Scripture passages from Christian Studies I, the 15 brightest stars from Astronomy, and the major gods from D'Aulaires' Greek Myths. In Copybook Cursive III, students practice their penmanship with beautiful memory passages from Christian Studies II. The college-ruled lines of Copybook Cursive IV are perfect for older students honing their penmanship with the Scripture passages from Christian Studies III.

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Summer Penmanship Grades K-2 Manuscript or Cursive $16.80 ea. These workbooks are designed as summer practice for rising first and second graders. They are arranged in lessons to be completed three times a week during the summer.

(New American Cursive font) Our Cursive Practice Sheets include pages for practicing each cursive letter, Scripture copywork, and blank practice sheets. Book I is a good companion to NAC 1, Book II is extra practice for NAC 2, and Book III is wideruled for any older student who needs more practice.

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Writing Bible Heroes Grades 1-2 | $35.00 Get to know the heroes of the Bible while working through writing exercises that include key word outlining, paraphrasing, and summarizing stories. Teacher's Manual eBook is included.

Adventures in Writing

Introduction to Public Speaking

Grades 3-5 | $35.00

Grades 6+

This theme-based writing curriculum will help young students enjoy learning to take notes, summarize narrative stories, write from pictures, and compose creative essays.

$99.00 set

Introduction to Composition

(teacher manual, student packet, portable walls, DVDs)

This twelve-week course for middle and high school empowers teachers to help students become competent and confident public speakers.

This introductory program focuses on narration, outlining, dictation, and copywork to help students become more proficient in listening and writing skills, a great preparation for Classical Composition. This yearlong writing course uses focus passages from Charlotte's Web, Farmer Boy, A Bear Called Paddington, Mr. Popper's Penguins, and The Moﬀats.

Grades 3-4 Student $11.85 Key $11.85

Classical Composition by James A. Selby | Grades 4-12

$96.22 set ea. (student, teacher, videos) Student $21.95 ea. | Teacher $29.95 ea. Videos $55.00 ea. (available for I-VIII) Classical Composition is our study in the progymnasmata ("the before exercises"), a combination writing and pre-rhetoric program that teaches students the fundamental writing skills of style, arrangement, and invention in clear and systematic lessons. The nine stages of Classical Composition will not only teach the art of communication, but are designed to produce what Quintilian once called "the good man, speaking well." The structured lessons in the Student Guides help students become confident writers as they thoroughly master the incremental skills of each stage. The Teacher Guides provide sample answers for every exercise as well as scripted Chalk Talk. Optional Instructional Videos are also available if you'd like the support of a master teacher to help guide you and your students through the lessons.

Starting late? No problem! Complete Fable and Narrative in one year and get a reduced price of $138.98 for both sets of Student and Teacher Guides and videos.

CLASSICAL COMPOSITION STAGES: I: Fable (pictured) II: Narrative III: Chreia & Maxim IV: Refutation & Confirmation V: Common Topic VI: Encomium, Invective, & Comparison VII: Characterization (1 semester) VIII: Description (1 semester) IX: Thesis & Law

Grammar English Grammar Recitation I-V Grades 3-8 English Grammar Recitation Handbook $11.85 Digital Flashcards $12.65 | Physical Flashcards $17.65 Student $14.05 ea. | Teacher $15.10 ea.

English Grammar Practice Grade 2 Student $9.25 | Teacher $11.85 Designed for the final year of primary school, this program is used as morning work or oral practice of many basic aspects of language arts, from capitalization and punctuation to language and reading skills.

Memoria Press' English Grammar Recitation is perfect for the student who needs an English grammar program that coordinates with his study of Latin. 150 grammar questions with answers and examples, designed to be studied and memorized much like a catechism, are compiled in the English Grammar Recitation Handbook. These questions are learned over the course of six years in just thirty minutes a week. Students are given practice exercises in the Student Workbook and the opportunity to practice immediate recall with the Flashcards. The Teacher Guide provides answers to all exercises. See also: Introduction to English Grammar (p. 4)

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Logic & Rhetoric Traditional Logic I and II cover the branch of logic called "formal logic," which is concerned with the form and structure of reasoning. It focuses on the procedural aspect of reasoning, its mechanics, how we properly get from two premises or assumptions to a conclusion. The program is designed to teach students a practical mastery of the art of argument. Traditional Logic I presents the four kinds of logical statements, the four ways propositions can be opposed, the three ways in which they can be equivalent, and the seven rules for the validity of syllogisms. In Traditional Logic II students will master the use of the nineteen valid categorical argument forms through the memorization of a medieval mnemonic device, and learn the three kinds of hypothetical arguments. Students will study examples of arguments from history and literature.

Traditional Logic I: Introduction to Formal Logic & Traditional Logic II: Advanced Formal Logic

The Texts explain challenging concepts in clear, concise language. The accompanying Student Workbooks include enough exercises to ensure that the student masters the material before moving on. The Teacher Keys include answers to the workbooks, quizzes, and tests. Instructional Videos are also available if you would like a little help from the author teaching the material.

by Martin Cothran | Grades 7+

$81.23 complete set ea. (text, workbook, key, quizzes, videos) $45.14 basic set ea. (text, workbook, key, quizzes) Text $16.25 ea. | Workbook $19.00 ea. | Key $11.85 ea. Videos $55.00 ea. | Quizzes & Tests $6.20 ea.

Material Logic: A Course in How to Think

Classical Rhetoric:

by Martin Cothran | Grades 9+

Aristotle's Principles of Persuasion

$97.48 complete set

by Martin Cothran | Grades 9+

(text, workbook, key, quizzes, videos)

$167.60 complete set

$47.98 basic set (text, workbook, key, quizzes)

(basic set + How to Read a Book & Figures of Speech)

$102.26 basic set

Text $16.25 | Workbook $19.00 Key $11.85 | Quizzes & Test $6.20 Videos $55.00

(student, teacher, quizzes, videos, Aristotle's Rhetoric)

Material Logic is a course in how to think. It covers the branch of logic called "informal logic" that deals with the content of argumentation. It can be used as a follow-up to Traditional Logic or simply as an introduction to the rudiments of classical philosophy for high school students. The program covers the ten ways something can exist, the five ways of saying something about something else, definition, and division.

Student $29.95 | Teacher $11.85 Quizzes & Tests $6.20 Videos $55.00 | Aristotle's Rhetoric $10.00 How to Read a Book $22.99 Figures of Speech $57.99 Classical Rhetoric is a guided tour through the first part of the single greatest book on communication ever written: Aristotle's Rhetoric. This course involves a study of the fundamental principles of political philosophy, ethics, and traditional psychology. Your student will not only learn the basics of political speech, but also the elements of good character, the seven reasons people act, and what elicits specific emotions under particular circumstances and why.

Logic Supplements

Rhetoric Supplements

Handbook of Christian Apologetics: Hundreds of Answers to Crucial Questions by Peter Kreeft & Ronald K. Tacelli $36.99 (optional supplement)

Socrates Meets Jesus: History's Greatest Questioner Confronts the Claims of Christ by Peter Kreeft $22.00 (optional supplement)

Logic & Rhetoric

Aristotle's Rhetoric

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

Figures of Speech: 60 Ways to Turn a Phrase

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by Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren

by Arthur Quinn

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$22.99

(optional supplement)

translated by W. Rhys Roberts

$57.99

(optional supplement)

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Learn to Reason Traditional Logic I

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In a culture full of confusion and careless argument, students need to learn how to reason well. Traditional Logic I equips students to do exactly that, teaching them to think clearly, argue carefully, and recognize truth from error. Rooted in the classical tradition, the course trains students to understand how arguments are formed, how conclusions follow from premises, and how sound reasoning works. The complete set includes a Student Text, Workbook, Quizzes & Tests, Teacher Key, and Instructional Videos, providing everything needed for guided study and mastery. As students work through terms, propositions, and syllogisms, they develop habits of attentiveness, precision, and intellectual discipline that strengthen every subject they study— and prepare them to engage the world with wisdom and confidence.

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