The Classical Teacher - Late Summer 2018 by Memoria Press

Saving Western civilization one student at a time.

Late Summer 2018

The Before Exercises Composition as Training in Virtue by Abigail Johnson

Three Classical Terms by Martin Cothran The Lord of the Rings and the Five Dimensions of a Story by Peter Kreeft

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

HADRIAN'S WALL by Martin Cothran

was talking with a homeschool mother recently and she told me that she had visited Britain. She was particularly impressed with Hadrian's Wall, which was built during the Roman occupation of the island. Hadrian's Wall is made of stone and runs some 84 miles, from Wallsend on the River Tyne to Bowness-on-Solway in the west. It was built by the Romans as a defensive fortification to keep out invading tribes from the north. That was its purpose. But the Romans eventually left Britain and their empire ult imately disappeared altogether. The wall itself is still there, and although some of it is in pretty good shape, a lot of it lies in ruins. Long after the Romans left, it became a de facto quarry. Its stones were taken by the people living around it and were used as building materials for castles and farms. In some cases the stones were used to build churches. With its original purpose gone, it began to be taken apart and used for other ends, some of them worthy, some of them less so. What is left of the wall stands as a mere tourist attraction, an outdoor museum exhibit for the historically curious. When something loses its purpose, it naturally begins to deteriorate. This is not only true of manmade structures, but of organic things as well. Plants, animals, and even people are structured in such a way that every particle that makes them up is organized around and oriented toward some animating principle. It was this animating principle in humansâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;this purposeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that classical thinkers called the "soul." We know what happens when a soul leaves a body. The body dies. Its parts are preserved for a short time, and then they disintegrate and are appropriated by something else for another purpose.

Letter from the Editor

What is true for man-made structures and for organisms is also true for institutions: Once they lose a sense of what they are for they tend to disintegrate. Today's schools have forgotten what education is for. Rather than forming adults through the passing on of their culture, schools have instead attempted to refashion themselves into umbrella social service agencies, providing meals, health care services, and job training. These things are good, of course, but they have little to do with the special purpose of education. In a few places the educational structures are in good repair. But, increasingly, real learning is having to take refuge in places outside of mainstream schools. Our schools once had a specific and well-understood purpose: to form wise and virtuous human persons by passing on to them the accumulated wisdom and the great examples of virtue in Western culture. Perhaps the most important role the classical education movement plays in modern culture is to restore to education what has been lost. To build something new is hard, but to rebuild something old is harder. In rebuilding we must not only rewrite the blueprints, but we must find the workers who still know the old ways of building. Classical education requires a knowledge of things we ourselves have not been taught. How do we teach Latin if we do not know it? Whom do we get to teach Homer and Virgil when there are so few of us who have read them? We must teach ourselves the things we should have been taught. We must pass on the things that were never passed on to us.

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Late Summer 2018 FEATURED ARTICLES

2 17 18 30 40

AMERICAN / MODERN

38 American Studies & Modern European History 39 Geography

Letter from the Editor by Martin Cothran School Spotlight: Lexington Latin School The Language That Rose from the Dead by Dr. Scott Randall Paine Science's Useful Fallacy by Martin Cothran The Before Exercises: Composition as Training in Virtue by Abigail Johnson

48 The Easiest Way to Strengthen Your Child by Cheryl Swope 54 There Is a Special Providence by David M. Wright 60 The Lord of the Rings and the Five Dimensions of a Story by Peter Kreeft

64 Three Classical Terms by Martin Cothran CLASSICAL CORE CURRICULUM

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

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

Grades 1+ Grades 3+

SCIENCE & MATH

63 Science & Nature 68 Arithmetic & Math

Grades 3+ Grades K+

LATIN, GREEK, & FRENCH

22 23 24 26

Prima Latina & Supplements

Grades 1-4

Latina Christiana & Supplements

Grades 3-6

First Form Latin Series & Supplements

Grades 5-12

Upper School Latin, NLE Prep Guides, & French

Grades 5-12

27 Grammar School Greek & Supplements 28 First Form Greek

Grades 4+ Grades 7+

LOGIC & RHETORIC

PRIMARY YEARS

43 Alphabet, Numbers, & Enrichment 44 Reading & Phonics 45 Spelling 46 New American Cursive 47 Copybooks & Journals

Ages 4+ Ages 5+ Grades 1-2 Grades 1-Adult Grades K-6

LITERATURE, GRAMMAR, & WRITING

29 Classical Composition, IEW,

Grades 1-12

56 Literature 58 Poetry

Grades K-12

& English Grammar

Grades 1-12

32 Traditional Logic & Supplements 33 Classical Rhetoric & Supplements 33 Aristotle's Material Logic

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

ART & MUSIC

62 Art Posters, Art Cards, Creating Art,

Grades K+

Music Appreciation, Exploring America's Musical Heritage, Early Sacred Music, & Discovering Music

RESOURCES

16 Classical Education Resources 28 Memoria Press Online Academy

CLASSICAL / CHRISTIAN STUDIES

50 51 52 59

D'Aulaires' Greek Myths & Famous Men Series

Grades 3-8

Dorothy Mills Histories

Grades 6+

Classical Literature & Supplements

Grades 6+

Christian Studies

NEW!

Grades K-12

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The Very Busy Spider Good Night, Gorilla The Tale of Peter Rabbit Fuzzy Yellow Ducklings My Very First Book of Shapes ABC: Amazing Alphabet Book Put Me in the Zoo Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb Cars and Trucks From A to Z My First Counting Book The Animals' Christmas Eve Big Dog ... Little Dog Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? My First Real Mother Goose 1 Is One

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Character Building Supplement: Myself & Others Book I Core Set $52.00 (p. 44) Supplemental Read-Aloud Program $340.00 A set of 34 classic picture books chosen for their beauty in prose and illustration. A great addition to any children's library, one book is read aloud and discussed each week in Jr. Kindergarten.

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Jr. Kindergarten Read-Aloud $340 Kindergarten Read-Aloud $285 Kindergarten Science & Enrichment $325 First Grade Read-Aloud $290 First Grade Science & Enrichment Complete $350 Second Grade Read-Aloud $290 Second Grade Science & Enrichment Complete $350 Third Grade Read-Aloud Novels $150 Third Grade Read-Aloud Picture Books $300 Third Grade American/Modern $120 (p. 38) Fourth Grade Read-Aloud $120 Fourth Grade American/Modern $80 (p. 38) Fifth Grade Read-Aloud $100 Fifth Grade American/Modern $55 (p. 38) Sixth Grade Read-Aloud $50 Sixth Grade American/Modern $50 (p. 38)

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KINDERGARTEN PHONICS & SPELLING 100 Days of Summer Reading Book I (p. 44), First Start Reading A-D; Classical Phonics (p. 44); Phonics Flashcards (p. 45); Christian Liberty Nature Reader, Book K; Scamp and Tramp; Soft and White; Fun in the Sun; Animal Alphabet Coloring Book; Core Skills Phonics K & 1

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Numbers Book set; Rod & Staff Arithmetic 1 Student (Part 1), Teacher, and Practice Sheets (p. 68); FlashKids Addition & Subtraction Flashcards

PENMANSHIP Copybook I; Composition & Sketchbook I (p. 47)

OPTIONAL Primary Phonics Readers, Sets 1-4

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LITERATURE StoryTime Treasures set; More StoryTime Treasures set (p. 56); Winter on the Farm; Christmas in the Big Woods; Little House Christmas Treasury; 100 Days of Summer Reading Book II (p. 44)

PHONICS & SPELLING

PENMANSHIP

Core Skills Phonics 2; First Start Reading Book E (p. 44); Traditional Spelling I, Spelling Practice Sheets (p. 45)

Copybook II; Composition & Sketchbook II; New American Cursive 1; Cursive Practice Sheets; Alphabet Wall Poster (p. 47); Penmanship Tablet

MATH

OPTIONAL

Rod & Staff Arithmetic 1 Student (Parts 1-2) and Speed Drills (p. 68)

Primary Phonics Readers, Sets 5 & 6

CURRICULUM MANUAL Lesson Plans for One Year

ENRICHMENT First Grade Enrichment (p. 43); First Grade Book of Crafts (p. 43); First Grade Art Cards (p. 62)

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GRADE 2

LATIN

SCIENCE

Prima Latina complete set (p. 22)

Rod & Staff Patterns of Nature

Lesson Plans for One Year

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

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395

PENMANSHIP

MATH

New American Cursive 2 (p. 46); Copybook Cursive I; Composition & Sketchbook II (p. 47); Prima Latina Copybook (p. 22); Penmanship Tablet

Rod & Staff Arithmetic 2 Student (Units 1-5), Teacher (Parts 1-2), Blacklines; Rod & Staff Arithmetic 1 Speed Drills (p. 68)

LITERATURE

ENRICHMENT

Second Grade Literature set (p. 56); Second Grade Literature Dictionary (p. 56); 100 Days of Summer Reading Book III (p. 44)

Second Grade Enrichment (p. 43); Second Grade Art Cards (p. 62); Second Grade Book of Crafts (p. 43)

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PHONICS & SPELLING Traditional Spelling II, Spelling Practice Sheets (p. 45)

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RETAIL

831.20

GRADE 3

PACKAGE PRICE

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LATIN

SCIENCE

Latina Christiana set, LC Review Worksheets set (p. 23); Ludere Latine set (p. 22)

Mammals set (p. 63)

CURRICULUM MANUAL Lesson Plans for One Year

AMERICAN/MODERN

WRITING

PENMANSHIP

MATH

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

All Things Fun & Fascinating (p. 29)

New American Cursive 3 (p. 46)

Rod & Staff Arithmetic 3 Student, Teacher, Supplemental Worksheets and Key, Blacklines, Speed Drills; FlashKids Multiplication & Division Flashcards (p. 68)

CLASSICAL

GRAMMAR

SPELLING

D'Aulaires' Greek Myths set (p. 50); Timeline set (p. 53)

English Grammar Recitation and English Grammar Recitation Workbook I set (p. 29); Core Skills Language Arts 3

Spelling Workout D set

CHRISTIAN

LITERATURE/POETRY

Christian Studies I set; The Golden Children's Bible; Memory Verse Flashcards; Old Testament Flashcards (p. 59)

Third Grade Literature set (p. 56); Poetry for the Grammar Stage set (p. 58); The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

New to Memoria Press? You need this item from Second Grade. Latina Christiana Flashcards $14.95

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GRADE 4

Curriculum Manual Only $30 Consumables Only $115 CURRICULUM MANUAL

459.69

PACKAGE PRICE

SPELLING

MATH

Spelling Workout E set

Rod & Staff Arithmetic 4 Student, Teacher (Parts 1-2), Tests, Speed Drills, Speed Drill Packet (p. 68)

Lesson Plans for One Year

RETAIL

355

LITERATURE Fourth Grade Literature set (p. 56); Papa Panov's Special Day; Twelve Days of Christmas; A Promise Kept: The Story of Christmas; Good King Wenceslas

WRITING

SCIENCE

PENMANSHIP

GRAMMAR

Classical Composition I: Fable Student, Teacher, DVDs (p. 29)

The Book of Astronomy set (p. 63)

Copybook Cursive II (p. 47)

Core Skills Language Arts 4

Transitioning to the Classical Core Curriculum in Grade 4? In our third grade package, students complete half of D'Aulaires' Greek Myths, Latina Christiana, Christian Studies I, English Grammar Recitation I, and States & Capitals, as well as parts of Poetry for the Grammar Stage, which they will continue to use through seventh grade. The purchase of this package assumes that you have the books that are in our third grade package and have completed the first half of them. If you are starting the Classical Core Curriculum in fourth grade, we have a discounted transitional package for you: $555 Grade 4 for New Users Visit www.MemoriaPress.com for a complete book list and more information.

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RETAIL

771.75

GRADE 5

PACKAGE PRICE

Curriculum Manual Only $30 Consumables Only $165

LATIN

455

CURRICULUM MANUAL

First Form Latin complete set (p. 24); Lingua Angelica I set (p. 25)

Lesson Plans for One Year

WRITING

GRAMMAR

MATH

Classical Composition II: Narrative Student, Teacher, DVDs (p. 29)

English Grammar Recitation Workbook II set (p. 29); Core Skills Language Arts 5

Rod & Staff Arithmetic 5 Student, Teacher (Parts 1-2), Tests, Speed Drills (p. 68)

AMERICAN/MODERN

CLASSICAL

CHRISTIAN

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

Famous Men of Rome set (p. 50)

Christian Studies II Student and Teacher (p. 59), Copybook Cursive III (p. 47)

SPELLING

SCIENCE

LITERATURE

Spelling Workout F set

The Book of Insects set (p. 63)

Fifth Grade Literature set (p. 56)

First Form Latin Streaming Instructional Videos Available! (p. 4)

NEW USER ADD-ON SET $120 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; New to Memoria Press? You need these items from prior years. Timeline Program, Poetry for the Grammar Stage set, English Grammar Recitation, The Golden Children's Bible, Old Testament Flashcards, Memory Verse Flashcards

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GRADE 6

Curriculum Manual Only $30 Consumables Only $190 CURRICULUM MANUAL

LATIN

AMERICAN/MODERN

Second Form Latin complete set (p. 24)

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

Lesson Plans for One Year

MATH Rod & Staff Arithmetic 6 Student, Teacher (Parts 1-2), Quizzes & Speed Drills, Tests (p. 68)

RETAIL

767.38

PACKAGE PRICE

495

WRITING

CLASSICAL

Classical Composition III: Chreia/Maxim Student, Teacher, DVDs (p. 29)

Famous Men of the Middle Ages set (p. 50)

GRAMMAR

SPELLING

SCIENCE

English Grammar Recitation Workbook III set (p. 29); Core Skills Language Arts 6

Spelling Workout G set

What's That Bird? set; Exploring the History of Medicine set (p. 63)

LITERATURE

CHRISTIAN

Sixth Grade Literature set (p. 56)

Christian Studies III Student and Teacher; New Testament Flashcards (p. 59)

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RETAIL

873.63

GRADE 7

PACKAGE PRICE

550

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LATIN

WRITING

Third Form Latin complete set (p. 25)

Classical Composition IV: Refutation & Confirmation Student, Teacher, DVDs (p. 29)

CURRICULUM MANUAL Lesson Plans for One Year

SPELLING

AMERICAN/MODERN

CLASSICAL

Spelling Workout H set

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

Famous Men of Greece set (p. 50); Horatius at the Bridge (p. 52); The Greek Alphabet set (p. 27)

CHRISTIAN Christian Studies IV Student, Teacher, & Reader (p. 59)

MATH

SCIENCE

College of the Redwoods Prealgebra set (p. 68)

The Book of Trees set; Exploring the World of Biology set (p. 63)

GRAMMAR

LITERATURE

English Grammar Recitation Workbook IV set (p. 29); Core Skills Language Arts 7

Seventh Grade Literature set (p. 57)

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GRADE 8

Curriculum Manual Only $30 Consumables Only $185 CURRICULUM MANUAL Lesson Plans for One Year

CLASSICAL

GRAMMAR

The Book of the Ancient Greeks set (p. 51); The Iliad set & DVDs; The Odyssey set & DVDs (p. 52)

RETAIL

996.07

PACKAGE PRICE

English Grammar Recitation Workbook V set (p. 29); Core Skills Language Arts 8

620

LATIN

WRITING

CHRISTIAN

Fourth Form Latin complete set (p. 25); Henle Latin I set (p. 26)

Classical Composition V: Common Topic Student, Teacher, DVDs (p. 29)

The Book of the Ancient World set (p. 51)

MATH

SCIENCE

AMERICAN/MODERN

Prentice Hall Classics Algebra I set (p. 68)

Exploring Planet Earth set (p. 63)

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

LITERATURE/POETRY

OPTIONAL

Eighth Grade Literature set (p. 57); Poetry & Short Stories: American Literature set (p. 58); Bard of Avon

First Form Greek (p. 28)

First Form Greek, Algebra I, Iliad, and Odyssey Streaming Instructional Videos Available! (p. 4)

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GRADE 9

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825

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LATIN

CHRISTIAN

Henle Latin II Lesson Plans, Quizzes & Tests, Text, and Key (p. 26); Latin Grammar for the Grammar Stage (p. 27)

The Story of Christianity set (p. 59)

CURRICULUM MANUAL Lesson Plans for One Year

LOGIC

WRITING

SCIENCE

Traditional Logic I & II complete sets (p. 32)

Classical Composition VI: Encomium, Invective, & Comparison Student & Teacher (p. 29)

Novare Physical Science Text and Resource CD (p. 63)

CLASSICAL

MATH

AMERICAN/MODERN

The Book of the Ancient Romans set (p. 51); The Aeneid set and DVDs (p. 52)

Prentice Hall Classics Algebra II set (p. 68)

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

LITERATURE/POETRY Ninth Grade Literature set (p. 57); Poetry, Prose, & Drama: Book I set (p. 58); The Book of the Middle Ages text (p. 51)

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GRADE 10

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RETAIL

1275.94

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LATIN

CHRISTIAN

WRITING

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

History of the Early Church set (p. 59)

Classical Composition VII: Characterization Student, Teacher (p. 27)

875

CLASSICAL

LOGIC

MATH

Medea & Other Plays set & DVDs; The Three Theban Plays set & DVDs; The Oresteian Trilogy set & DVDs (p. 52)

Material Logic complete set (p. 33)

McDougal Littell Geometry set (p. 68)

AMERICAN/MODERN

LITERATURE/POETRY

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

Tenth Grade Literature set (p. 57); Poetry & Prose: Book II Set (p. 58)

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

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Climbing Parnassus:

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A New Apologia for Greek and Latin

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The Well-Trained Mind:

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A Preface to Paradise Lost by C. S. Lewis $29.95

The Great Books: A

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From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics

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LEXINGTON LATIN SCHOOL by Martin Cothran "The wonderful, interesting, and age-appropriate Several months ago, I had just gotten on a plane curriculum," Davis says, "is worth its weight in gold for at the Bluegrass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, on educating students. We have rich student books and easymy way to speak at a conference. A young woman to-follow teacher guides that the teachers love to use." was in the seat next to me, and we struck up a Lexington Latin began with two students in Davis' conversation. She asked me what I did and I told home, and has grown to 270 students at two campuses. her I worked with Memoria Press and had helped "Besides the blessings of God’s providence, which has to found Highlands Latin School in Louisville, just sent us extraordinary teachers and precious families," up the road from Lexington. She said there was she says, "we are greatly blessed by Memoria Press' a Latin school in Lexington too: Lexington Latin outstanding curriculum." School. Her best friend sent her children there and As one proof of the school's success, Davis points they loved it. to students like Maddie Asbridge, who started at LLS I came to realize that if you bring up the name of in kindergarten and graduated this year. She was Lexington Latin in the Bluegrass area, you're likely awarded a full scholarship by Xavier University and to hear similar exclamations: "Oh, I've heard great will attend there in the fall. things about that school!" or "Friends of ours were "When I started school," says Asbridge in her college just telling us about LLS." admissions essay, "my parents enrolled me in Lexington Jeannie Davis, the school's headmistress, has Latin School. LLS is not your typical school: It only meets similar stories. Her husband's dental hygienist had three days a week and some classes consist of two people heard you could get a great education there at an … one being the teacher. … Looking back on those times affordable price; someone sitting behind her at her I see the extreme benefits of this uncommon education. grandson's baseball game had heard good things A classical Christian education about it from a neighbor who has taught me to have a strong sent her kids there. appreciation for the arts and has "Doctors, pastors, and shown me how the arts and the counselors suggest us to their world are connected." clients and congregations," says Asbridge concludes: "As I Davis. "Our applicants all tell us The Classical Latin am preparing to graduate, I feel they have heard amazing things School Association? confident going into my college about our curriculum, teachers, years because of my ability to do and school culture, either from something as simple as think." having talked to parents with "Families are telling us that students in the school or just CLSA Member School: they have heard it's a great small having heard." 30% off Teacher Training community with a wonderful It is this kind of buzz that is education," says Davis. "They one of the signs of a great school. Registration note that we have small class Davis received what amounted sizes, teacher-led classes, and to a classical education herself, On-site Teacher Training strong classical curriculum. A having read and loved classic majority of our growth comes literature growing up. When her Accreditation from good word of mouth. childhood friend, Cheryl Lowe, "We hear from people often came to her with a curriculum that LLS is the best kept secret she had developed, Davis knew ClassicalLatin.org in Lexington." Well, maybe not that this was a curriculum she so secret anymore. could use.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;A language must die to be immortal.â&#x20AC;?

hen it comes to expressing the eternal and immutable truths of the Christian faith, the only good language is a dead language. Chesterton once made a disarming retort to the customary detraction of Latin as a dead language. He simply remarked that to say this is not a detraction at all, for quite in contrast to the detractor's intentions, it throws into profile the clear ascendancy of Latin over all the "living" languages of today. It is the question of a dead language and a dying language. Every living language is a dying language, even if it does not die. Parts of it are perpetually perishing or changing their sense; there is only one escape from that flux; and a language must die to be immortal.1

Yes, indeed, pagan Latin eventually bit the dust, and the Western mind turned with relish to the new throng of spawning tongues which began to mottle the linguistic map of Europe. Among them, the intense lucidity of French, the irresistible bounce of Italian, the vehement velocity of Spanish, and the nasal sincerity of Portuguese entered upon their long evolutions, each of them drawing a thousand voices of secular discourse into their new constellations of emphases. But the golden tongue of Cicero was on its way out, and along with the Empire whose body was dismembered and put to seed for a new garden of nations, that ancient tongue was almost buried too. But then came one of those bizarre turns in human history that makes us wonder just how human it really was. After Rome had lost its imperial dignity to Byzantium, and furthermore taken the moral nosedive of

soaking its arenas in Christian blood, it would have surprised no one had the last dying syllables of the Empire's language remained inaudible to history. But at the opening of the fifth century, the idiom that once vibrated on the tongue of Cato was strongly and brilliantly ringing out again and in the very midst of the collapsing walls of the Empire. The Vandals had moved into northern Africa from Spain, and in twenty years time would sally northwards and sack the imperial capital itself. Meanwhile, within the African walls of Hippo, St. Augustine was penning the last chapters of The City of God and must have looked up from his desk every few minutes or so, wondering if Genseric's hordes were going to bring his episcopal residence down on his head. With the grace of God, he finally brought his book to an end, but in the interim, the Vandals had also brought Hippo to an end.

atin died to the world. This was in 430 A.D. Just years before, St. Jerome had completed his Latin translation of the Bible, destined to become the most influential Biblical text ever. St. Jerome did his work largely in Palestine, as St. Augustine had in Africa. But in Rome itself, where the Hellenized Jewish converts had arrived with the Good News from Palestine, many of them turned their energies to the translation of the Greek Gospel and liturgy into a Latin the waning Romans could understand. The language was dying, but the souls of those who still spoke it were nonetheless in need of salvation. To everyone's surprise, there rose upon the field of this purely instrumental effort something like a linguistic renaissance, as a host of prefaces, collects, orations, secrets, and post-communions grew into what is known to us today as the Leonine Sacramentary. Roman civilization went on and died; the last emperor unceremoniously left the scene in 476. But paradoxically, the heart of the Latin language was still beating strongly, and its conjugations and declensions were carried on the breath of a new host of talkers. But there was a difference: for what these men were talking about was something hitherto unheard of on the street corners of history, and statements were being made that no period of Cicero's had even remotely embraced. This is Chesterton's point. The Latin language died, indeed, but the death it died it died to the world. In the small enclave of the Christian Church, the same

Father Scott Randall Paine is a priest of the archdiocese of Brasilia and professor of philosophy at the University of Brasilia. He is author of The Universe and Mr. Chesterton (Sherwood Sugden, 1999) and various articles on philosophy and theology in Portuguese and English. This article first appeared in the July, 1990 edition of The Homiletic Pastoral Review.

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language experienced nothing less than a miraculous resurrection; and the analogy can be pursued to the end. The bloodless carcass of the language, filled to the skin with the earthbound schemes of the ancients, could no longer respond to the soul of paganism; like every merely natural body, the life that had sustained it was merely mortal. So history slowly dragged it off to the grave, that one more might be added to the thousand withered tongues of time. But then came Latin's Easter sunrise, for after the Gospel of Christ had been rejected by the Jews, the Prince of the Apostles sealed his witness to the Master by reddening a hill in Rome we now call the Vatican. And then, like a hurricane abruptly changing course, the full fury of Christ's message turned itself suddenly and excitedly upon this prostrate language of the Romans, and, lifting a hand over its lifeless heap of words— all of them tongue-tied by centuries of unanswered questions—it cried out, "Ephphatha!"—and the tongue was loosed, and Christian Latin began to speak to the world.

e will never appreciate the enormous importance of the Latin language for our Church and our faith until we grasp the supernatural character of what I have just described. In Christ, history itself was conditioned by God, and nothing, including language, has looked the same since. The Church did not adopt Latin just because it was a ready-made tool which historical conditions furnished and which she then appreciatively picked up. It would be as big a lie as saying that Bach took up the fugue because everyone else was taking it up, when, in fact, everyone else was dropping it. The fact that fugues loom so large in the history of music is in no small way because Bach did pick it up when everyone else was tired of it; ignoring the "winds of change," he breathed his own storm of genius into the old form, while the others, red in the face and with throbbing temples, turned at last to the tamer challenges of novelty. In the same way, the Church picked up the discarded morphemes of Latin. We labor under a particular handicap when we try to grasp this point today. The churchmen of the Renaissance, and to a greater extent, the Jesuits of the Counter-Reformation, were both anxious not to play second fiddle to the humanists; so they began dragging the paradigms of classical Latin into the ecclesiastical academies and reluctantly nodded when the Christian language of St. Augustine and St. Bernard was demoted beneath the flaunted standards of the ancients. Not a little of the disaffection of modern clergy with Latin has to do with their being terrorized by the tortuous language of many Church documents, The Language That Rose from the Dead

ordinary linguistic evolution; and what the literati including the modern encyclicals, and being made to mistake for barbaric unsophistication is rather the study Cicero and Virgil when all they wanted to do was dignified simplicity demanded by the mysteries of a offer Mass. Rather than enjoying the more accessible God who is Simplicity Itself. The anointment of the prose of many of the Fathers and the simple Latin of Spirit seems to force this Latin to move about more St. Thomas' Summa, the drilling of the mind in the modestly, with a kind of self-forgetful gait, but for all complexities and subtleties of ancient Latin was taken this it moves far closer to the hushed world of God's as the unavoidable baptism of fire in the Church's native most intimate secrets. tongue. And many got predictably burnt out. Classical Latin is indisputably grand, undeniably his is the first claim I should like to make for majestic, and irrevocably dead; for the Renaissance did Christian Latin, namely that it was the same not resurrect it, but only dragged the skeletons out of language that had "known" the wisdom the tombs and taught us to marvel over the intensely of Greco-Roman antiquity, but had died a interesting way the bones are joined together. The natural death as that wisdom exhausted its resources. It classical scholars may get more or less close to imagining then was resurrected from the dead by the supernatural the meat and feeling the pulse of the language in its Truth of Christ. After much malignment, academic true Sitz im Leben ("sociological setting"), and a few opinion has come to acknowledge this quasi-miracle, men like Erasmus can certainly make this sort of thing especially after the 19th century researches of Ozanam, engaging. But the language is not living again, neither as Roensch, Goelzer, and others. it did in antiquity, nor through the infusion of a new life; The second claim I raise is the first for the humanist has no new life to give. of two consequences of the first claim, When framed in this unnatural medium, and it is this: though Christian Latin the simple, sublime assertions and quasiwas not born with Christianity itself, inspired neologisms of Christian theology Christian Latin it was nonetheless born with Christian seem to bang about clumsily amidst all was resurrected theology, and thus, not only its the flourish and measured earnestness of from the dead by characteristic simplicity (at least when Ciceronian constructions. compared with classical Latin), but Moreover, all this is so time-wasting, the supernatural also its new world of meanings grew for the Christian mysteries have already Truth of Christ. apace with the new understanding forged their own language, and there, as of the faith. Here, certainly, Christian nowhere else, they unfold their truths Latin was deeply beholden to Christian not only accurately, but also naturally. Greek, at least in the early centuries. This was St. Augustine's great Still, the unique powers of Western speculation, discovery about the Latin Bible; for after first turning to starting with Augustine and one day to climax in the it after years of Cicero, he found the style cropped and overwhelming Latin edifice of Aquinas, were fruits barbaric, making him wonder what crude doctrines borne in the language in which Christian thought were lurking behind such ingenuousness. Indeed, the first moved and matured. Within the grammar and Scriptures "seemed to me unworthy of comparison with vocabulary of Latin, pious reflections on Christ's the grand style of Cicero." But once he was touched by revelation had taken their inaugural steps, fashioned the mysteries behind the style, he discovered the reason their first conceptual tools, and demanded of syntax for the plainness: and morphology that they yield to the sovereign … [w]hat I saw was something that is not discovered by the proud and is not laid open to children; the way in is exigencies of the WORD's own Word. All this made low and humble, but inside the vault is high and veiled Christian theology and Christian Latin into correlative in mysteries ... these Scriptures would grow up together realities—each, in turn, a mother to the other. with a little child; I, however, thought too highly of myself to become a little child; I, swollen with pride, I was, in my The third claim I raise is the most pertinent of all, own eyes, grown-up.2 at least for us who ride on the stampede of modern The Christian Latin which we find in the Vulgate, progress. Chesterton had observed that the only in St. Augustine, in the Latin Fathers, and in the early way for a language to be truly living is to die and to resurrect by the agency of a higher, life-giving force Sacramentaries is not just a salvaged Latin, shaken, (such as the Church). The common, vernacular tongues dusted off, and clumsily recycled in an age that had of everyday life are immersed in the contingencies of lost the inspiration of the days of Virgil and Horace. time and subject to the vagaries of the world's currents This was the Renaissance view of the matter. It is rather of change. Words are dying almost every day, with a language reborn through obstetrics irreducible to

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new ones rising to take their place. Through the king-of-the-mountain flurries of technological change, one on the heels of the other, many of our words seem to lose their targets on the very tip of our tongue. Soâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I repeat in a funereal toneâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the English language is dying and with it, all the other "living" languages of the world. And sometimes they are even splitting in the middle. What is happening to Brazilian Portuguese when compared with continental Portuguese (as I have experienced firsthand) is an even more dramatic case than American English compared with British. All the spoken languages of the world are undergoing slow deaths, and parts of them are being draped every day in black. But the only reason I bring all this up is the effect it has on our ability to think and talk about immutable doctrines.

f it is true that we are in possession of a supernatural revelation regarding truths that are not dying, that is, that are rooted in eternity and not subject to clocks and calendars, then it stands to reason that they will be imperfectly preserved if the only receptacles we have are the leaky old wineskins of contemporary idioms. If the truths of the faith are forever new (as they most definitely are), then we should keep them well nested within a language that has already been lifted above this linguistic mortuary we inhabit, invested with some share in the unchanging status of eternity, and thus made dead to this world and alive to another. For us in the Western Church, the forever new wineskin has always been Latin, and if this beverage is to refresh us all the way to eternity, we had better turn a skeptical eye to all the new, improved wineskins being offered us today. Certainly we need to speak supernatural truths in the vernacular as well, but I am afraid we will have to drink the doctrine fast, for these old wineskins are hardly better than paper sacks, and the weakness of our fickle contemporary tongues is tearing leaks in the fabric of the language almost as fast as we utter our words. Sometimes it is impossible to find words whose bottoms do not fall right out of them when you try to put truth into them. Try, for instance, to put the doctrine of the Trinity or the Incarnation into modern American English without feeling the need of a page of paraphrasing to bring something close to theological content to the words "person" and "nature" as we use them today. And when trying to speak of the substance of the Eucharist, the need will be even more acute. Without at least a considerable body of Latin in the background of our memory, all three of these fundamental notions (and with them, the burden of our faith) could easily be lost to the English words they originally generated. The words, tossed around by history, and, unable to signify anything beyond history, may well race out of the past and hasten into the future, leaving a rendezvous with the present as only a rare and puzzling accident. Latin lives in eternity.Â The whole glory of Christian Latin is that it abides in the greatest present tense of all: the "now" of eternity. Never needing to be up-to-date, it stands free of the danger of ever getting out-of-date. And we who spend hours speaking interminably about things that pass, must be able to turn in theological reflection to God's unchanging mysteries, and in a language still inspired by a Breath from the land of the living. 1 G. K. Chesterton, "Some of Our Errors," The Thing (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1930), p. 193. 2 The Confessions of St. Augustine, trans., Rex Warner (New York: MentorOmega, 1963), p. 57.

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SCIENCEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S USEFUL FALLACY

by Martin Cothran

he expression "the science is settled" has been invoked as a way to end numerous discussions of scientific importance. On issues involving evolution, dietary science, or exercise physiology, it is not uncommon for one side to claim that the research has settled the issue. But, however much evidence there may be for any particular scientific theory, is the science of it ever really "settled"? Although many scientists don't like to hear it, the nature of scientific reasoning itself prevents any scientific theory from ever being settled. The problem of the level of certainty in scientific judgments goes much deeper than any specific issue. It has to do with the very kind of logic science must employ in order to come to its conclusions. To put it bluntly, scientific reasoning is based on a logical fallacy, and because of this fact, science is never settled.

HOW SCIENTISTS REASON Science largely involves the use of hypothetical arguments. A hypothetical argument looks like this: If all men are mortal, then Socrates is mortal All men are mortal Therefore, Socrates is mortal Martin Cothran is the editor of The Classical Teacher and author of Traditional Logic Books I & II, Material Logic, and Classical Rhetoric.

Science's Useful Fallacy

There are four possible forms of hypothetical arguments, and only two of them are valid. The example above is a modus ponens ("the way of affirmation"): If P, then Q P Therefore, Q

We affirm the first part of the first statement ("All men are mortal") and therefore affirm the second part of the first statement in the conclusion ("Socrates is mortal"). The other valid form of hypothetical reasoning looks like this: If all birds fly, then an ostrich can fly But an ostrich cannot fly Therefore, it is not true that all birds can fly

This is called modus tollens ("the way of negation"): If P, then Q Not Q Therefore, not P

In modus ponens, we say, "If P, then Q," then we affirm P, and therefore affirm Q. In modus tollens, we say, "If P, then Q," then "not Q, therefore not P." The first is the way of affirmation and the second the way of negation.

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other reason than rain. Someone might have turned on the sprinklers. It might be wet because some children So how does scientific reasoning work? It is, as we were playing in water. There are many other reasons said, hypothetical in nature. It takes a hypothesis about the pavement could be wet, which is why this form of whether one thing results in another. It then conducts reasoning is usually considered suspect. an experiment to see whether, when we have that one The Einstein example seems pretty convincing. But thing, we get the other. it does not eliminate the possibility that some theory In 1916, Albert Einstein had published his theory other than relativity could explain the bending of light. of general relativity. Among the implications of the In fact, relativity theory has still not been reconciled theory was that light would bend when it encountered with quantum physicsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one explains some things and the gravity of a large astronomical object. But the the other other things. Einstein himself thought that theory had not been confirmed. In 1919, there was an there must be some other theory, not yet discovered, eclipse of the sun in the southern hemisphere. It just that would explain everything. so happened that, at the same time, the sun would Numerous scientific theories have been victimized cross the path of the Hyades star cluster. If by this fallacy: The Q that they thought was Einstein was correct, the eclipse would being caused by the P was really being allow scientists to tell whether the caused by an R or an S or a T. This is light from this star cluster bent as what prompted Karl Popper to say Certain theories it came around the sun: that we can never justify scientific If general relativity is true (P), theories; we can only make efforts may be said to be then light of the Hyades star to refute them. (In other words, cluster will bend around the well-established, but the you can prove that your P doesn't sun (Q) cause your Q, but you can never findings of science are When the results of the be completely sure, no matter how experiment came in there were always to some many experiments you do, whether cheers from many scientists. it is really P and not something else extent tentative. The light indeed had bent that is actually causing Q.) around the sun. The theory (at least this predication of the theory) IS SCIENCE EVER was born out. PROVEN? If general relativity is true, then light of the Hyades star cluster will bend around the sun The light of the Hyades star cluster bends around the sun Therefore, general relativity is true

But hold on. We said that there were only two valid forms of hypothetical reasoningâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;modus ponens (If P, then Q; P; therefore Q) and modus tollens (If P, then Q; not Q; therefore not P). But this scientific syllogism doesn't do either. Rather than argue either of these two ways, it argues as follows: If P, then Q Q Therefore, P

Instead of affirming P (modus ponens) or denying Q (modus tollens), it affirms Q. In formal logic this is known as the "Fallacy of Affirming the Consequent." Suppose I were to say: If it rains, then the pavement will be wet The pavement is wet Therefore, it must have rained

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It was this problem that was behind Morris Cohen's quip: "All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first half, on deductive logic, the fallacies are explained. In the second half, on inductive logic, they are committed." For many years scientists put confidence in experiments that suggested something they called phlogiston was the cause of burning (it turned out to be a reaction between fuel and oxygen); they assumed for a while that there was an ether through which light waves had to travel (then light was discovered to be a photon or a "wave-particle"); and the expanding universe hypothesis has gone back and forth numerous times between the static and the dynamic. In all of these cases the original P that was thought to cause the Q really didn't cause it at all, despite the fact that, at least for a while, every time they did P, they got Q. Scientific theories are never "proven" in the strictest sense, but only corroborated. The fact that the chief mode of scientific reasoning is a fallacy is not an excuse for dismissing science. Far from it. But it should be a lesson to us that, though certain theories may be said to be well-established, the findings of science are always to some extent tentative. Science's Useful Fallacy

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Traditional Logic II

Traditional Logic I Introduction to Formal Logic

Advanced Formal Logic

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by Martin Cothran Grades 8+

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Online Class (p. 28)

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

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

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• Rene Descartes' famous enthymeme ("I think, therefore, I am") • C. S. Lewis’ disjunctive syllogism proving the deity of Christ • Christ’s injunction ("You cannot serve both God and mammon") • David Hume’s famous dilemma stating the problem of evil • St. Thomas Aquinas’ cosmological argument for the existence of God

By the end of Traditional Logic II, the student will be able to analyze a variety of argument forms, including enthymemes, sorites, and epicheirema, as well as recognize and respond to dilemmas. The level of understanding attained in this course would be more than that typically attained in a college course. Advanced Concepts & Argument Forms • Figure & mood in syllogisms • Syllogism reduction • Hypothetical reasoning • Chain arguments • The dilemma • The oblique syllogism

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Online Class (p. 28) Whether you want a follow-up course to Memoria Press' popular Traditional Logic program, or simply an introduction to philosophy for high school students at a little more advanced level, this program is a valuable tool in teaching your student how to think. The Ancient Art of Thinking • The ten ways something can exist • Five ways to say something about something else • The four definitional questions • Three questions to ask when analyzing an idea • Definition & classification

Classical Rhetoric is a guided tour through the first part of the greatest single book on communication ever written: Aristotle's Rhetoric. With questions that will help the student unlock every important aspect of the book, along with fill-in-the-blank charts and analyses of great speeches, this companion text to Aristotle's great work will send the student on a voyage of discovery from which he will return with a competent knowledge of the basic classical principles of speech and writing. This is more than just a course in English or public speaking. It involves a study of the fundamental principles of political philosophy, ethics, and traditional psychology. A student learns not only the elements of a political speech, but also the elements of good character; not only how to give a legal speech, but also the seven reasons people act; not only how to give a ceremonial speech, but what elicits specific emotions under particular circumstances and why.

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Core Skills Phonics K-1; Classical Phonics; Phonics Flashcards; First Start Reading A-D; 100 Days of Summer Reading I (p. 44); Animal Alphabet Coloring Book; American Language Readers; Nature Reader K

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Traditional Spelling II (p. 45); 100 Days of Summer Reading III (p. 44); Second Grade Literature Set (p. 56)

Latin & Greek

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The Story Bible; Christian Studies Enrichment (p. 59)

Numbers Books (p. 43); Rod & Staff Arithmetic 1, Part 1 (p. 68)

Rod & Staff Arithmetic 1, Parts 1-2 (p. 68)

Rod & Staff Arithmetic 2 (p. 68)

Math

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Prima Latina (p. 22)

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Book of Crafts, Jr. K (p. 43); Richard Scarry's Mother Goose; Hailstones and Halibut Bones

Kindergarten Art Cards (p. 62); Kindergarten Enrichment (p. 43); Book of Crafts, K (p. 43); Music Enrichment (p. 43); Animals, Animals; A Child's Book of Poems

Copybook II; Composition & Sketchbook II; New American Cursive 1; Penmanship Tablet; Alphabet Wall Poster; Cursive Practice Sheets (pp. 46-47)

First Grade Art Cards (p. 62); First Grade Enrichment (p. 43); First Grade Book of Crafts (p. 43); Music Enrichment (p. 43); Animals, Animals; A Child's Book of Poems

Modern Studies

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Counting With Numbers; Numbers Coloring Book; Numbers & Colors (p. 43)

New American Cursive 2 (p. 46); Copybook Cursive I; Composition & Sketchbook II (p. 47); Prima Latina Copybook (p. 22); Penmanship Tablet

Second Grade Enrichment; Second Grade Book of Crafts; Music Enrichment (p. 43); Second Grade Art Cards (p. 62); Patterns of Nature; Animals, Animals; A Child's Book of Poems

Prima Latina is used for grammar.

Kindergarten Enrichment is used for History and Modern Studies.

First Grade Enrichment is used for History and Modern Studies. Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans (p. 38)

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Spelling Workout E; Fourth Grade Literature Set (p. 56); Poetry for the Grammar Stage (p. 58)

Spelling Workout F; Fifth Grade Literature Set (p. 56); Poetry for the Grammar Stage (p. 58)

Spelling Workout G; Sixth Grade Literature Set (p. 56); Poetry for the Grammar Stage (p. 58)

Second Form Latin (p. 24)

Latina Christiana (p. 23); Ludere Latine (p. 22)

First Form Latin (p. 24); Lingua Angelica I (p. 25)

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Famous Men of Rome (p. 50); Golden Children's Bible; Christian Studies II (p. 59)

Famous Men of the Middle Ages (p. 50); Golden Children's Bible; Christian Studies III (p. 59)

Rod & Staff Arithmetic 3 (p. 68)

Rod & Staff Arithmetic 4 (p. 68)

Rod & Staff Arithmetic 5 (p. 68)

Rod & Staff Mathematics 6 (p. 68)

All Things Fun & Fascinating (p. 29); New American Cursive 3 (p. 46)

Classical Composition: Fable (p. 29); Copybook Cursive II (p. 47)

Classical Composition: Narrative (p. 29); Copybook Cursive III (p. 47)

Classical Composition: Chreia & Maxim (p. 29)

Mammals (p. 63)

Book of Astronomy (p. 63)

Book of Insects (p. 63)

What's That Bird?; Exploring the History of Medicine (p. 63)

English Grammar Recitation II (p. 29); Core Skills Language Arts 5

English Grammar Recitation III (p. 29); Core Skills Language Arts 6

Geography I & United States Review (p. 39)

Geography II & Geography I Review (p. 39)

Core Skills Language Arts 3

English Grammar Recitation I (p. 29)

States & Capitals (p. 39)

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Spelling Workout H; Seventh Grade Literature Set (p. 57); Poetry for the Grammar Stage (p. 58)

Eighth Grade Literature Set (p. 57); Poetry & Short Stories Set (p. 58)

Ninth Grade Literature Set (p. 57); Poetry, Prose, & Drama Book I (p. 58); Book of the Middle Ages (p. 51)

Third Form Latin; Greek Alphabet (pp. 25, 27)

Fourth Form Latin (p. 25); Henle I (p. 26); First Form Greek (p. 28) (optional)

Famous Men of Greece (p. 50); Horatius at the Bridge (p. 52); Christian Studies IV (p. 59)

Prealgebra (p. 68)

Classical Composition: Refutation & Confirmation (p. 29)

10th

Tenth Grade Literature Set (p. 57); Poetry & Prose Book II (p. 58)

Henle Latin II (p. 26); Latin Grammar for the Grammar Stage (p. 27)

Mueller's Caesar (De Bello Gallico) (p. 26)

Book of the Ancient World & Ancient Greeks (p. 51); Iliad & Odyssey (p. 52)

Book of the Ancient Romans (p. 51); Aeneid (p. 52); Story of Christianity (p. 59)

Greek Tragedies (p. 52); History of the Early Church (p. 59)

Algebra I (p. 68)

Algebra II (p. 68)

Geometry (p. 68)

Classical Composition: Common Topic (p. 29)

Classical Composition: Encomium, Invective, & Comparison (p. 29)

Classical Composition: Characterization (p. 29)

Biology: Your choice of Biology program (p. 15) (Biology is currently not included in the Classical Core Curriculum.) Book of Trees; Exploring the World of Biology (p. 63)

Exploring Planet Earth (p. 63)

Physical Science (p. 63)

English Grammar Recitation IV (p. 29); Core Skills Language Arts 7

English Grammar Recitation V (p. 29); Core Skills Language Arts 8

Traditional Logic I & II (p. 32)

Material Logic (p. 33)

200 Questions About American History; 13 Colonies (p. 38); Story of the World, Vol. 4 (p. 16)

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Concise History of the American Republic, Year 1 (p. 38)

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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, to learn the formal system of grammar, and is, along with math, the best early critical thinking skills training. The curriculumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 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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Full-Year Curriculum Packages for Special-Needs Students Visit ClassicalSpecialNeeds.com to obtain detailed information about each level, to take readiness assessments, or to sign up for the Simply Classical Journal.

Supplemental Reading Sets

Read-Alouds K - 6th (p. 5)

Science & Enrichment K - 2nd (p. 5)

American Studies 3rd - 6th (p. 38)

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American/Modern Studies Grades 5-8

200 Questions About American History

Grades 5-8

Text $16.95 Student $17.95 Teacher $17.95

These 200 questions everyone should know about American history are compiled from The Story of the Thirteen Colonies & the Great Republic and The Story of the World, Vol. 4.

Guide $9.95 Key $5.00 Flashcards $12.95

The Story of the Thirteen Colonies & the Great Republic $48.00 set (text, student, teacher) We have combined Guerber's The Story of the Thirteen Colonies and The Story of the Great Republic into one edited volume that makes it a perfect one-year survey of American history for the middle school years. The study guide includes important facts, vocabulary, and comprehension questions for each chapter, as well as enrichment activities such as mapwork, drawings, research, writing assignments, and more!

Flashcards: These cards are based on our 200 Questions About American History study guide, but can be used with any good American history course. Grades 3-8

Artner Reader's Guide to American History

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

Grades 9+ Text $148.95 (use for Year I and Year II) Year I Student $17.95 Year I Teacher $17.95 Year II Student $17.95 Year II Teacher $17.95

Supplemental Reading What a great way to study American history as a young student—by reading good books and immersing oneself in the lives and culture of those who have made history! Third Grade $120.00 set Fifth Grade $55.00 set

Fourth Grade $80.00 set Sixth Grade $50.00 set

A Concise History of the American Republic Year I: $175.90 set (text, student, teacher) | Year II: $35.90 set (student, teacher) This two-year American history course for high school addresses social, economic, and political issues using the excellent Concise History of the American Republic text. Our study guides provide reading notes for each chapter, as well as comprehension questions that help students focus on the most important information from each chapter. The Teacher Guide for each year includes three tests. Year I: Pre-1615 life in North America through the Reconstruction years, ending in 1877. Year II: End of Reconstruction (1877) to the Reagan years (1980s).

Grades 10+ Text $150.00 ea. Student $17.95 ea. Teacher $17.95 ea.

Discussion Questions for American Studies Supplemental Sets Third Grade $12.95 Fourth Grade $12.95 Fifth Grade $12.95

These little teacher books facilitate oral discussion of the books in our 3rd-5th grade American History Sets, aiding teachers in talking with their students about what they have read and increasing student comprehension, retention, and enjoyment.

A History of Europe in the Modern World Year One: Volume I (to 1815) | Year Two: Volume II (since 1815) A historical study of the greatest minds and cultures of preceding generations is an essential pillar of classical education. The three components of this course include the history of ideas, biography, and key cultural developments, particularly in Western European and American societies. The texts include helpful maps, timelines, and illustrations. Our study guides provide comprehension questions that help students focus on the most important information from each chapter. The Teacher Guide for each year includes three tests.

Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston Grades 1-3 $12.95

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

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Geography Grades 3-6

Grades 5+

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

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

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

States & Capitals $35.00 set (text, student, teacher, flashcards) In this study guide, each state is given a two-page spread that includes a map with room to write the state capital, nickname, abbreviation, and fun facts about the state. By the end of this year-long course, students will be able to map all 50 states and capitals. We recommend that this guide be used with Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Know Much About the 50 States. Flashcards: This set includes 50 cards, with the name of each state and a map of the state's location within the United States on one side of the card, and the capital and detailed shape of the state on the other. Also included are 34 country cards that introduce key world countries and their capitals. Helpful teaching hints and suggested activities are also included.

$48.00 set

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

After studying Geography I, students are ready to cover areas of the world outside the ancient Roman Empire. Each lesson includes physical features, history, and culture. Students will continue to deepen their understanding of past and present as they learn about ancient and modern countries. Geography I Review: This study guide will help students retain the knowledge they gained in their study of Geography I. The review takes very little time and makes a great companion to Geography II.

Grades 4+

Grades 7+

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

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

Geography I: The Middle East, North Africa, & Europe $65.00 set (text, workbook, teacher + U.S. Review workbook, teacher, and flashcards)

A unique geography program designed for students pursuing a classical education, Geography of the Middle East, North Africa, & Europe covers the area that constituted the ancient Roman Empire. Each region is explored in its historical context in "Historyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Headlines" as well as in the present in "Tour of Today." The United States Review: Help students retain the knowledge they gained in their study of States & Capitals. This review takes very little time and makes a great companion to Geography I. Geography I-III Flashcards: We have a big fan club for our geography books. Our customers like the basic maps that give you just the essentials of world geography in a straightforward manner. Now we have the flashcards to go with them. Covering the material from Geography I, II, and III, these flashcards will help your student master the geography of the world.

Geography III:

Exploring and Mapping the World

$76.00 set (text, workbook, teacher, classroom atlas, flashcards*)

Students learn to map the world in our Geography I and Geography II programs. Geography III solidifies these mapping skills and requires students to label major landforms and topography. Students will study the climate, recent and current history, culture, and religion of every continent. This text has many illustrations of famous landmarks, architecture, and people from around the world, and the workbook requires students to practice mapwork weekly. In addition to labeling maps, students will learn to draw each continent using the Robinson Map Project. This is a thorough world geography course that is perfect for middle school students before their advanced European and American history courses in high school. Classroom Atlas: This atlas contains detailed political, economic, environmental, and topographical maps of global regions. It is a recommended supplement for Geography III. *same as flashcards in Geography I set

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Composition as Training in Virtue by Abigail Johnson

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O my people, hear my teaching, listen to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter hidden things, things from old—what we have heard and known, what our fathers have told us. Psalm 78: 1-2

he aim and objective of classical education is to instill in students wisdom and virtue, focusing on the ideal person we are trying to form and the models we can use to accomplish this. This central idea is nowhere clearer than in the progymnasmata, the ancient writing method utilized in Memoria Press' Classical Composition by James A. Selby. The progymnasmata, a Greek word that translates as "the before exercises," encompassed the pre-rhetoric study of all the educated West from ancient Greece to Paul, from Quintilian, Aphthonius, Augustine, and Aquinas up until Lewis and Tolkien. Because our Christian philosophy and expression are so steeped in this tradition, it might be better to ask "Why not?" instead of "Why?" study the progymnasmata. In addition to its tradition, there are two absolutely critical reasons why the progymnasmata holds a significant place in classical education. The first has to do with the quality of virtue we intend when we set out to train a child, and the latter with the quality of mind. The ancient Greek Stoics, founded by Zeno in the 300s B.C., hit on what I consider to be the greatest ever secular argument for the necessary morality of man: Since the things that are the most honorable and right will always lead to the best outcome, we have an obligation to strive for those things. An educated man, therefore, was not only one whose mind was crammed full of knowledge, but one whose heart had learned to adhere to the virtuous. In fact, the Stoics first proclaimed the four cardinal virtues that were later adopted into the seven Christian virtues of the Church. Quintilian stated in his Institutio Oratoria that "the perfect orator … should be a good man, and consequently we demand of him not merely the possession of exceptional gifts of speech but in all of Abigail Johnson lives in Kansas City, Missouri, with her husband and three children. Classically educated herself, she has taught Classical Composition, literature, and Latin for the past six years with the Memoria Press Online Academy.

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the excellences of character as well." Indeed, a man who had been educated but remained immoral and selfish would be to the Stoics, as Paul described, a person without true love, "a clanging cymbal," an unwelcome, brutish noise to be silenced as quickly as possible. Their perspective on the successful citizen inextricably combined a discerning mind with a strong morality, and thus no well-taught student was without appetite for the good in addition to a solid grounding in knowledge. Enter the progymnasmata. I love Psalm 78 because it speaks of teaching good through story—that shaping the mind involves plot, action, decisions, good guys, bad guys, and just outcomes. The progymnasmata focuses constantly on developing an appetite for good and a hatred of evil while simultaneously filling a student's "basket of writing tools," as I call them. The Fable and Narrative stages of Classical Composition teach through the use of well-known morality tales and engaging plots. In the third stage, Chreia & Maxim, students invent characters that accept or reject wisdom, to their success or downfall. Refutation & Confirmation teaches the invention of arguments for or against an action, based on the six Heads of Purpose, one of which is solely concerned with what is honorable and praiseworthy. In Common Topic, students examine the full extent of a sinner's decisions, which are based on faulty, selfish reasoning and a carelessness of others, and have cataclysmic consequences for himself and others. Encomium, Invective, & Comparison reaches into the background of both the virtuous and the corrupt, seeking to understand their origins and actions, and their farreaching effects on society. Further stages employ the development of empathy for the deserving and rejection of the unworthy, the basis of "universal law." With Christ as our universal law we have the completed centerpiece—the cornerstone—of the design the ancients envisioned, and it truly is phenomenal to see "good" as inextricable from "reason." The Before Exercises

Pursuant to that, we must cultivate the mind as well as the heart, and Classical Composition thoroughly answers this challenge as well. At its most foundational, Classical Composition is successful in teaching good writing because it concerns itself first with ordering the mind. After all, writing is but a coded, visual representation of what is going on in thought, so it follows that to have good writing, one must first have good thought. One of the largest failures of "modern composition" is its inexcusable habit of putting the cart before the horse. Proponents are fixated on the formulated structure supporting the reasoning in an argument (the dreaded five-paragraph essay), but give no instruction whatsoever about how to come up with the supporting reasons in the first place. This is the equivalent of asking someone who's

of rhetoric who lived in the early centuries A.D. His clear, concise writing is ideal for learning writers to imitate. Once again the progymnasmata stands above modern techniques that require students to "have something to say" before they can begin writing. Instead, it always provides students with content and allows them to explore a given topic creatively, but not ex nihilo. Also, by using models that are purposeful down to the very structure of each sentence and the ordering of each point, students learn elevated style, argument development, and expression just by writing as Aphthonius demonstrated. Students are not expected to come up with their own standard of "what sounds good to them," but are given a good example to imitate, a "universal law" to follow, which is a profoundly familiar concept for we who seek to imitate Christ. Whether at home in the kitchen, online at the faithful family computer, in the church basement at a cottage school, or in the halls of a private school, Classical Composition is useful for teaching all kinds of students— and is especially helpful when teaching a broad spectrum of natural abilities and ages in the same class. Because it focuses on specific skills that have infinite applications, the "natural" writer is challenged to become more fluid, subtle, and eloquent in the very same lesson that encourages the less enthusiastic student with clear steps to take and examples to follow, not leaving him to his own less-developed resources. In this way, Classical Composition provides flexibility and integration of abilities and ages in classrooms and homes, instead of breaking students into groups based on "natural ability." As Christians, we are not concerned just with being good citizens of Christ ourselves (though this is crucial), or with merely raising professionally successful children, but ultimately with equipping our children for every good work for the benefit of others. Our desire is to make the next generation eager and ready to labor for Christ, or as Augustine put it, to defend "the glorious City of God against those who prefer its own gods to its Founder." This requires a firm, surefooted understanding of what is right and good and what is not, along with the ability to clearly explain and persuade others of that good—an act that draws both the speaker and the audience closer to God. Classical Composition addresses the two aspects of man's fallen nature—the damage to the soul and the damage to the mind—which can help repair the ruin we have made of our culture and ourselves.

An educated man, therefore, was not only one whose mind was crammed full of knowledge, but one whose heart had learned to adhere to the virtuous. new in town to pick up a gallon of milk for you at the store, but not telling him what store, or where the store is, or how to get there. The task is given, but not the means of being successful at it. Instead, after instilling both the broad and deep skills of clear description and explanation in the first three stages, Classical Composition goes on in Refutation & Confirmation to show a student, step-by-step, how to invent arguments under six different categories. A trip to the store is much easier when you have detailed directions and a map, and you are much more confident if you already know the area well and can choose the best of several routes. This is the beauty of the Heads of Purpose: They give students the ability to both invent and select the best argument to suit the needs of a position. Couple these writing stages with Traditional Logic and good, rich literature, and in a few years you will have a formidable mind—and righteous heart—to contend with! Parents often humorously lament to me that their adolescent students become more difficult to beat in an argument after Refutation & Confirmation, which is music to my ears. In addition to teaching vivid description and boundless argumentation, Classical Composition offers students extensive practice in the areas of arrangement, style, and content through the use of models to emulate for each and every stage. The models for Classical Composition come from extant essays written by a man called Aphthonius, a teacher 42

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Primary Enrichment Classical Core Curriculum supplement

Classical Core Curriculum supplement

$16.95 ea.

$19.95 ea.

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

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

My Very First Scissors Book $6.00 My Very Own Scissors Book $6.00

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

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

Classical Core Curriculum supplement

Music Enrichment

$12.95 (Used in Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd Grades)

Music Enrichment goes into more detail on each song presented in our Enrichment Guides, including a short backstory on each of the songs and its composer, as well as a few interesting facts and discussion questions about the song being studied.

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

Alphabet & Numbers Recommended for Ages 4-5

Recommended for Kindergarten

$30.00 (2-book set)

Alphabet Books (Part I & Part II)

Numbers Books (Part I & Part II)

by Leigh Lowe

Learning the alphabet is the critical first step in learning how to read. The Alphabet Book teaches letter recognition, letter formation, and pencil grip through repetition and tracing. Activities, created with the younger student in mind, make learning each letter simple and fun. This book also introduces initial and ending sounds, providing a gentle introduction to phonics. The Alphabet Book acts as a great supplement to any primary program or fullyear preschool/kindergarten program.

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

Alphabet Flashcards (4Âź'' x 5Â˝") $10.00

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

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Coloring Books

Recommended for Ages 4-5 Numbers $6.00 Alphabet $6.00

These coloring books have simple line drawings on uncluttered pages. The Alphabet Coloring Book has a 2-page spread for each letter, and the Numbers Coloring Book has two sets of 2-page spreads for numbers 0-12. The perfect supplement to any Jr. K program.

Numbers & Colors

This book is ideal for a student who is just beginning to work with numbers. Along with introducing each number through 15, color words are taught. Plenty of practice is Recommended given with both numbers for Ages 4-5 and color words through $15.00 activities such as counting, connect the dots, coloring, number tracing, pattern recognition, and more! Additional skills of left and right, above and below, and grouping are also introduced.

Primary Education

Reading & Phonics

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First Start Reading:

Grade 1

Phonics, Reading, and Printing by Cheryl Lowe Grade K Student Books (A-D)

Student Book E

$7.00

Teacher Guide for Book E $9.95

$7.00 ea. $14.95

Teacher Guide for Books A-D

$42.95 set (Books A-D + Teacher Guide) Your children can begin reading instantly as they progress through 5 simple student books and 34 phonetic stories. The Teacher Guide includes helpful assessments, tips, and more! • consonants • short & long vowels • 57 common words

• manuscript printing • artist-drawn coloring pictures • drawing pages for every letter

FSR is a balanced, age-appropriate approach to phonics and reading, with a serious focus on correct pencil grip and letter formation. Also, while many phonics programs today use the ladder approach (consonant-vowel blending), we prefer the more traditional (vowel-consonant) approach combined with word families. Mastery of short vowels is the sine qua non of phonics programs, but few programs provide adequate practice. The FSR kindergarten program consists of 4 student books with artist-drawn pictures to color, drawing pages for each letter or phonogram, and over 30 stories. The Teacher Guide leads you through the program and provides helpful assessments and teaching tips.

First Start Reading, Book E

by Michelle Tefertiller We complete our phonics for reading program at the beginning of first grade with First Start Reading Book E. After students have completed Books A-D in kindergarten, they are ready for the long vowel teams, sounds of soft c and g, and the three sounds of y in Book E. Once the student has mastered the basic phonics in the FSR series, he is ready to continue reading progress with real literature, and continue his phonics studies with Traditional Spelling.

*Note: Printing, an important pathway of the learning process, is an integral part of FSR. Some children, however, are reading-ready before their motor skills are developed enough for printing. If this is the case with your child, you may use FSR without the printing component.

Classical Phonics

Grades K-2 A Child's Guide to Word Mastery $16.95 by Cheryl Lowe Classical Phonics consists of phonetically arranged word lists for students to practice their growing word recognition skills. In a word list there are no context clues, so the learner must rely on his mastery of letter sounds. Classical Phonics is the most effective tool we know of to address the repetition that young ones need when learning to read. It can be used as a supplement to any phonics program, and covers nearly all English phonograms and sounds taught through second grade.

Grade K

$150.00 set

100 Days of Summer Reading Books I-III

Grades K-2 $7.95 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 small summaries. Kindergarten has the unique goal of reading a book a day for 100 days!

Kindergarten Phonics & Spelling Set Our outstanding Classical Core Curriculum phonics program is now available as a complete set, including lesson plans. Completion of this program will help your child learn to read fluently and smoothly transition to our First Grade Curriculum Package.

Character Building Myself & Others:

Lessons for Social Understanding, Habits, and Manners by Cheryl Swope These 14-week sets provide simple, standalone lessons in common courtesy, character, and compassion that often seem neglected today. 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. Myself & Others has five components: Rules, Health, Safety, Manners, and Listening. To view guide samples and full book set lists, visit MemoriaPress.com.

Reading & Phonics

Ages 4-13 Guide Books $19.95 ea. Book One Core Set $52 Book One Read-Aloud Set $95 Book Two Core Set $22 Book Two Read-Aloud Set $92 Book Three Core Set $55 Book Four Core Set $48

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Spelling

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Traditional Spelling I & II by Cheryl Lowe Student $14.95 ea. | Teacher $16.95 ea. Spelling Practice Sheets $5.00

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Memoria Press is proud to introduce the Traditional Spelling series. It is a comprehensive, phonetic approach to teaching spelling, and is the culmination of our primary Reading & Phonics program. It is designed to follow completion of the Kindergarten Curriculum Package or First Start Reading Books A-D, which ensure students have mastered reading "consonant-vowel-consonant" words with short vowels. Paired with StoryTime and More StoryTime Treasures in first grade, or with the literature study guides in second grade, Traditional Spelling provides your student with an extensive mastery-based study of phonics for spelling and reading. The Traditional Spelling program incorporates reading, writing, and dictation of spelling words. Each lesson has a four-page spread of written activities in the student book, vocabulary definitions, and teacher-directed classroom activities and educational games. Students will enjoy the consistent format of the lessons. Teachers and parents will appreciate the ease of use. View more samples at MemoriaPress.com. What is special about Traditional Spelling? • No incorrect words. Students are never given a list of incorrect spelling words and asked to choose the one that is spelled correctly. Incorrect words tend to confuse spellers who are working to master and remember correct spelling, and the visual of an incorrectly spelled word can stick with young readers. • Color-coded phonograms. The main focus of each lesson is on the phonograms being taught, but all aspects of each word are addressed. In each lesson, students identify consonants and consonant teams/blends with one colored pencil, and vowels and vowel teams with another. This aids in visualization of each word and its phonetic chunks, and makes students better decoders as they begin to see patterns in words. • Words in context. In addition to workbook activities, each lesson features a short story on the student's reading level that utilizes that week's spelling words. • Sound dictation. Through oral dictation, students practice writing phonograms in isolation, words by themselves, and writing complete sentences containing select list words. These activities auditorily train students to hear phonetic differences and to visually highlight phonetic chunks. • Vocabulary building. Students get practice through workbook activities and scheduled skill-building activities with the various meanings of list words.

Grades K-2

Perfect for any phonics program! Phonics From A to Z $25.99

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Phonics Flashcards

(5.5"x 4.25")

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

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Teaching Phonics & Word Study

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

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

Phonics & Spelling

Cursive • vw The New American Cursive (NAC) penmanship program is an easy-to-follow resource for learning cursive at any age. It presents simplified letter forms using multisensory methods to aid in learning the motor skills necessary to write well. Developed by Iris Hatfield, an educator with 35 years of experience in the handwriting field, the workbooks improve the process of teaching handwriting and allow students to start at a younger age.

New American Cursive 1 by Iris Hatfield $22.95 NAC 1 is for the first grader or older beginning cursive student. The character Mr. Meerkat is the book's guide; he makes learning cursive a pleasure as he shows how to form each letter step by step with clear starting dots and directional arrows. Emphasis on correct pencil grip, paper position, and posture are illustrated throughout this delightful workbook. A threepage teaching guide is included, as well as 105 instructional lessons and fun artwork exercises to help build fine-motor skills. Fifteen minutes of workbook practice a day is all it takes!

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New American Cursive 2

New American Cursive 3

$22.95 ea.

Choose from: Famous Quotations & Scripture Quotations from Famous Americans

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

In NAC 2, Mr. Meerkat continues the process of teaching correct letter forms and how to easily connect each letter. Proper size, spacing, and slant are emphasized in this enjoyable workbook. A seven-page teaching guide is included, along with 125 instructional exercises, lessons to develop creative writing skills, and reproducible practice pages.

In NAC 3, students build on the skills they developed with workbooks 1 and 2. To further enhance cursive skills, they practice writing in their best cursive while learning about manners and correspondence protocol. NAC 3 combines proven teaching methods with the needs of the contemporary student for a fast, legible script. Includes a seven-page teaching guide, 100 instructional lessons, journaling pages, and progress evaluations.

by Iris Hatfield

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. The workbook includes a stepby-step lesson plan, practical tips for working on the size, spacing, and slant of your letters, and writing tips for left-handers. These handwriting improvement techniques will help you develop a legible, attractive, individual writing style.

Teach Yourself Cursive Grade 5-Adult

by Iris Hatfield $22.95

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

New American Cursive

Improved neural connections in the brain Increased ability to read cursive Increased writing speed Improved fine-motor skills Improved reading and spelling ability Increased self-discipline and eye-hand coordination • Improved attractiveness, legibility, and fluidity of one’s signature • Increased self-confidence, continuity, and fluidity when communicating with the written word

Startwrite CD $29.95 (also available as downloadable software)

Use this New American Cursive supplemental software to create customizable worksheets to integrate handwriting practice with any subject. (Windows only)

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Copybooks Grades K-2

Grades 1-5

Grades K-6

$14.95 ea.

$8.50 ea.

Copybooks I-III

Copybook Cursive Books I-III

by Cheryl & Leigh Lowe

Copybook Cursive I is our original Copybook III formatted in the New American Cursive font— perfect for second graders alongside NAC 2 or an older student needing more practice.

Our Composition & Sketchbooks allow each student to write and illustrate compositions. They are great resources for all subjects and become a journal of your child's work for each year.

Copybook Cursive II includes Scripture passages from Christian Studies I, the 15 brightest stars from Astronomy, the major Greek gods from D'Aulaires' Greek Myths, and more!

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

In Copybook Cursive III, students practice their penmanship with beautiful memory passages from Christian Studies II.

Composition & Sketchbook III: College-Ruled for Older Students

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$39.95 set (Copybooks I-III) These three-in-one wonders include memory passages, copybook exercises, and drawing pages. We have selected Scripture from the King James Bible and classic children’s poems, which describe the world in charming detail. Our copybooks introduce basic strokes and margin/spacing guidelines, along with alphabet practice pages with traceable characters and instructions for difficult letters.

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My Nature Journal

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by Cheryl Swope

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

(New American Cursive font) by Cheryl Swope

These journals let students practice their cursive writing while thinking about God's daily blessings in their lives. Each page begins "Dear Heavenly Father," and closes, "Your child," with space for the child's signature. In between is room for students to list their blessings each day. The Intermediate Journal has a smaller font size and less tracing as students progress.

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

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THE EASIEST WAY TO STRENGTHEN YOUR CHILD by Cheryl Swope The highest end of true education is capable, compassionate service to others.

hen our children struggle with learning, or face challenges such as medical conditions, we can devote extraordinary amounts of time and effort to help them. We cancel plans and sacrifice money so they can receive therapies and see specialists. We change diets, find special curricula, and spend our evenings learning ways to help even more. We try to give our children everything. But in our quest to give them the best, do we sometimes neglect that which might help them most?

More Than Self Even as we serve our children, let us lead them to think of others. Even if he is still in diapers, a child can be encouraged to look, smile, or wave, rather than ignore someone when he is spoken to. In a high chair he can be helped to set down his cup, rather than drop it on the floor for someone else to pick up. As he grows into the preschool years, simple chores can be expected because "we all pitch in!" A simple visual list of tasks can assist this practice. In the classroom or homeschool the child can have a job that suits him. My daughter used to sharpen pencils for us every Tuesday. This bilateral task aided her own goals, as she helped prepare all of us for the homeschool day. As the child grows, so can his areas of service to the family. We can expand service to neighborhood, church, and extended family. The child might help bake cookies or bring flowers to a next door neighbor recovering from surgery. He can color a stained glass image to present a church member when visiting the hospital. He can copy a verse of Scripture to insert into a card to Grandma. As he learns that all people in all roles need kindness, he can begin to replace innate inward preoccupation with a life of service. Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo. —A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

Go Further Dr. Temple Grandin, a renowned animal researcher diagnosed with autism, says that as the child enters the teen years, it becomes "essential for him or her to get outside the house and accept responsibility for tasks that other people want done. Dog-walking. Volunteering in a soup kitchen. Shoveling sidewalks."1 Find his interests, or simply find a need. Sometimes we must serve in ways that do not interest us! This, too, is good and right. Create a life of seeing—and easing—need. "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."2 For years, despite the challenges of her childhood-onset schizophrenia, my daughter was given the daily task of placing cool water in the dog's water bowl for our next door neighbor. Each day our neighbor went to work, and his dog was left in a run in the wooded backyard. My daughter could do this task, so she did. Our neighbor paid Michelle a small amount each week, and her service mattered. When she realized this, she took that first job seriously. "I think Chloe needs company," she would tell me. Then I would watch her from the window 48

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as she would settle to the ground, petting the grateful Brittany spaniel and reading the book she had brought along to occupy herself. Children's literature can help foster compassion in your child. If a young child seems to lack compassion, cultivate this through picture books. Explore the faces of the characters. Ask, "Does he feel sad? How do you know? Why do you think he feels that way? How might you help him, if you were there?" As the child grows older and reads stories of hardship, he can notice how other people helped the main character take heart in dire trials. We can link our own situations to those in stories we read. Draw upon timeless lessons learned through literature. This theme will present itself again and again, as Seneca the Younger reminds us: "Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness."

Service Lord willing, someday our children with special needs will be adults. We try hard to remediate disabilities, but we must not hinder abilities. Instead, we must help them to know what they can accomplish. As Dr. Grandin reminds us, "Look at what they can do, not what they cannot do."3 This will serve them well, even as they serve others. Two summers ago my adult daughter confided in me. Among her other disabling conditions, she had just been diagnosed with kidney disease, and we had both grown sober about her future. I asked her if there was anything she wanted. She said yes. More than anything, she wanted to work. She longed

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to be able to give money to church, contribute to the household, and have money to spend like everyone else, she told me, big tears welling in her eyes. She already volunteered at a nursing home, but if it could be possible, she said, she wanted a job. I listened, but I did not know whether it would be possible. She was not contagious, so this was not my concern; she was weakened physically. I knew that a job would help her look outside herself to serve in a more formal way, but I did not know whether anyone would hire her. After Michelle gave voice to this desire, she took matters into her own hands. On her volunteering day, she walked into the director's office and closed the door behind her. She made this earnest plea: "I've been volunteering here for several years. It would be an honor for me to work here as your employee, if you have an opening." Michelle now works as an activities aide in the nursing home. She works two days a week, four hours at a time. This accommodates for her physical limitations and gives her the desire of her heart. When she is dressing for work, putting on her badge, and then whistling or chatting cheerily to residents as she wheels them to the dining room, I know that during those Godgiven hours of service, she is thinking not of herself or her troubles. She is thinking of the people in her care. 1 Temple Grandin, The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum. (Mariner Books, 2014), 188. 2 Aesop, The Lion and the Mouse 3 Temple Grandin, quoted by David Chandler, speech at MIT, http://news.mit.edu/2015/temple-grandin-talk-0318, accessed September 23, 2016.

Simply Classical Journal Sign up today: MemoriaPress.com/SCJournal Do you wish there was a Classical Teacher magazine devoted entirely to specialneeds education? Well, now there is. The new Simply Classical Journal, edited by Cheryl Swope, author of Simply Classical: A Beautiful Education for Any Child, has the same features as the Classical Teacherâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;insightful, informative articles, and descriptions of new and existing programsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but geared toward you as a parent or teacher trying to provide a classical education to your student with special needs, whatever his or her challenges may be.

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Myths, Golden Children's Bible)

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

This guide shows you how to teach, learn, and master the stories fundamental to a classical education. It includes a three-year reading plan and is the perfect course for older students needing to catch up.

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

If the Romans were history’s great men of action, the Greeks were history’s great men of thought. Dive into the lives and minds of 32 famous Greeks through stories detailing the rise, Golden Age, and fall of Greece. Learning about the triumphs of Aristotle, Ptolemy, Odysseus, Pericles, Alexander the Great, and many others will enable your students to understand why the scope of Greek accomplishment is still known today as “The Greek Miracle.”

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

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

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If you don’t begin your classical education until middle or high school, we would suggest that you start with Year 5 and move forward from there. Before beginning your study of the classics, it is always helpful if your student has a basic knowledge of Greek mythology (D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths [p.50]) and has read a retelling of the Trojan War (Olivia Coolidge’s The Trojan War [p. 52]).

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

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

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

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

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

This retelling of the Trojan War is the best preparation for reading Homer. Each lesson has reading notes, vocabulary, comprehension questions, and an enrichment section with discussion topics, writing, art, and mapwork. Your student will know the main characters, the gods and goddesses, and the storyline of the Iliad and Odyssey.

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

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Western civilization begins with the Iliad and Odyssey. This is a perfect place to start your study of the Great Books. Our study guides will help bring Homer's great works alive for your student. Our Teacher Guide has inset student pages with answers, teacher notes for each lesson, quizzes, and tests, giving the teacher all the background information needed to teach these books.

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David West translation After Homer, the Aeneid is logically your next Great Book to study. Virgil's epic story of the founding of Rome will come alive when read with the help of our study guide as you continue your quest to master the classics. This is a great preparation for Latin AP Virgil also. Our Teacher Guide has inset student pages with teacher notes and background information for each lesson.

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

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

Euripides further developed the tragedy, instituting the deus ex machina, a prologue with a background, and greater realism. His heroes are less resolute and more psychological, fraught with internal conflict. In his characters, we see the polar extremes to which human nature may go: cold reason and maniacal passion, nobility and cruelty, triumph and regret, grief and comfort.

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

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

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

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$39.95 set (sketchbook, handbook, wall cards, flashcards) Students will master a total of 60 events over the course of four years (3rd-7th grades). History is a very unsystematic subject, and time is very abstract. Students need a timeline that they memorize, build on, and recite every year. Timeline Composition & Sketchbook: A two-page spread for each event: a picture frame for illustrating on one side and a page of blank lines for a summary on the other side. To be completed over four years. Timeline Handbook: Teaching guidelines, charts by grade and time period, and summaries of each event. Timeline Flashcards: One side has the date and the reverse side has the event. These cards are color-coded to the Timeline Wall Cards.

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Timeline Wall Cards: The date and event on the same side. Cards are added throughout the year as students study history in Classical/Christian Studies and American Studies.

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

Since understanding geography is important to Biblical studies, we have developed a set of five Christian Studies wall maps. They include three maps for the Old Testament and two for the New Testament. These maps are an ideal supplement for Memoria Press' Christian Studies I-IV or for any Bible program.

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THERE IS A SPECIAL PROVIDENCE Hamlet's Fitting Response

“T

he time is out of joint," utters Prince Hamlet to his close friend Horatio after encountering the Ghost of his recently deceased father, King Hamlet, on the battlements of Elsinore. Hailing from a purgatorial realm, the Majesty of Buried Denmark has come to inform Hamlet of the true nature of his death—that he was murdered by his brother Claudius, Hamlet's uncle—and to bid Hamlet to restore justice by avenging his most unnatural death. In the play, Hamlet encountered circumstances— both earthly events and metaphysical reality—that were too large for his rational understanding, and his response involved four key stages: 1) astonishment and incomprehension; 2) belief and acceptance; 3) the use of classical learning to help understand human nature, sin, and God, and to help deal with doubt and despair; and 4) his recognition that God is in control, and his readiness to act courageously when the time is right.

David M. Wright is the director of the upper-school literature curriculum at Memoria Press.

There Is a Special Providence

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The stages of Hamlet's response can provide a process for how we might deal with the tumultuous circumstances that surround us in our age. After all, if the purpose of dramatic art is "to hold, as 'twere, the mirror/up to [human] nature; to show virtue her own feature,/scorn her own image, and the very age and body/of the time his form and pressure," then we, too, can learn about ourselves and our age in Hamlet. The first stage is significant because it involves Hamlet's initial response to his circumstances. When he encounters the Ghost, he is utterly awestruck. He reacts with a mixture of intuition ("O my prophetic soul!"), horror, fear, and astonishment. He implores the Ghost, "What may this mean/That thou, dead corpse, … So horridly to shake our disposition/With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?" The Ghost astonishes Hamlet to such a degree that his thoughts run beyond the reaches of his soul; his thoughts cannot be contained. Earthly and metaphysical reality have confounded his rational understanding. MemoriaPress.com

In fact, much of the play features the interrogative mood. The play opens with the question "Who's there?" and proceeds through many more questions in dialogue and soliloquy until it culminates in the deepest conundrum of all: "To be, or not to be—that is the question." The play is replete with questions because reality is shocking and bewildering, and we are left with more questions than answers. In the second stage of his response, Hamlet confirms his belief in the supernatural, which he knows intuitively through his experience and reason. He declares to Horatio, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,/Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Moreover, he comes to accept reality for what it is—to accept the circumstances for what they are. As well, he acknowledges the metaphysical weight of his situation: "The time is out of joint. O [dreadful fate],/That ever I was born to set it right!" The third and longest stage in Hamlet's response encompasses various dramatic events and scenes in Acts 1-4. In this stage, Hamlet draws upon the classical education he received at the University of Wittenberg to help him understand human nature, sin and suffering, and God's relationship with man.1 In Act 1, scene 2, when Gertrude asks Hamlet why he "seems" to be taking matters so personally, he answers by drawing upon Aristotle and Aquinas in making a distinction between the essence of things and their external characteristics.2 Hamlet responds to her,

and explains to them the nature of his despondency. In his answer, he echoes Pico della Mirandola’s quintessential Italian Renaissance essay, "Oration on the Dignity of Man," which serves as a good example of an optimistic view of man that Hamlet can no longer believe. With a kind of dark irony, he reveals his despair and loss of faith in man: "What a piece/of work is a man! How noble in reason! … how infinite in faculties! … the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And/yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?" There are others, but in Act 3, scene 4, Hamlet draws upon a strand of prophecy in the Book of Isaiah where God may occasionally choose a human agent in a certain time and place to help thwart evil and restore justice. Sometimes the agent chosen may already be evil, a "scourge" who commits atrocities on his own, like a persecuting despot. At other times, the agent chosen may be ethically good—a prophet or a kind of "minister" of God's justice. After accidentally killing Polonius, Hamlet seems to consider himself a combination of both. He tells his mother,

The stages of Hamlet's response can provide a process for how we might deal with tumultuous circumstances.

Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not seems. … [Outward appearances] seem; For they are actions that a man might play; But I have that within which passes show.

In Act 1, scene 4, just before Hamlet meets the Ghost, he hears the flourish of trumpets and the drunken revels of King Claudius and his court. This triggers Hamlet to consider Aristotle's theory of hamartia, the tragic flaw, to help make sense of Denmark's drunkenness—which he deems to be the country's tragic flaw, soiling its reputation and achievements. Rather quickly, Hamlet moves his argument from the general to the particular—to help him understand the corruption that he suspects in his uncle and mother: So, oft it chances in particular men That, for some vicious [defect] of nature in them, … His virtues else, be they as pure as grace, … Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault …

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For this same lord [Polonius] I do repent; but Heaven hath pleas'd it so, To punish me with this, and this with me, That I must be their scourge and minister.

These words signal the end of an intellectual and spiritual journey, yet they also mark a new beginning. Thus far, Hamlet has struggled through learned theories, perspectives, and personal moods to help him make sense of his irrational, degenerate circumstances. Now he arrives at the final stage with a newfound faith and purpose. On his voyage to England, Hamlet senses the grace of God in preserving him from certain death and providing him a safe return to Denmark. When Act 5 begins, Hamlet has traveled through the mind and into the heart. He has relinquished his desire to control things—both intellectually and physically. Now he is able to allow God, who sees all and is above all, to hold his omnipotent governance over the world. In a way, Hamlet embodies the maxim, "Let go, and let God." Yet ironically, through this recognition and faith, he finds a new freedom—a freedom to act courageously when necessary—for now his action no longer depends on the variables of his will, pride, or fear of death—but rather on the "special providence [that exists] in the fall of a sparrow … the readiness is all." 1 "The Causes of Tragedy," William Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, Tragedies. The Great Courses, 1999. 2 Joseph Pearce, "Introduction," Hamlet: Ignatius Critical Editions. Ignatius Press: San Francisco, 2008, p. xi.

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Continue on from a historical study of the Hebrew people to an investigation of the history of the church. This was so evidently necessary to Christians of the 4th century that one of their own, Eusebius, the bishop of Caesarea, wrote the first book to recount the struggles and victories of the first followers of Christ. In this year-long course, Chadwick's The Early Church is used as the main text, and students are directed to Eusebius' The History of the Church when ancient testimony is appropriate.

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

Acts of the Apostles (King James Version) The history of Christianity, particularly that of the early Church, is something every Christian should know. But when we discuss what books about the history of the Church we should read, we often forget the most important and informative book: The Book of the Acts of the Apostles. Here is the exciting story of the travels, the teachings, andâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in many casesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; the martrydoms of the apostles themselves, as told by the author of the Gospel of Luke. Christian history starts here.

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The Lord of the Rings

and the Five Dimensions of a Story by Peter Kreeft

very story, long or short, has five dimensions. They are usually called its 1) plot, 2) characters, 3) setting, 4) style, and 5) theme. We could call them respectively, the story's 1) work, 2) workers, 3) world, 4) words, and 5) wisdom. "Philosophy" means "the love of wisdom." So a story's philosophy is one of its five basic dimensions. Which "dimension" sold The Lord of the Rings? All five. To be great, a work of art must be great in not just one dimension, but all, just as a healthy body needs to be healthy in all its organs, a healthy soul in all its powers (mind, will, and emotions), and a morally good act in all its dimensions (the deed, the motive, and the circumstances). A great story must have, first of all, a good plot, a great deed, a good work, something worth doing. You cannot write a great story about saving a button on a sweater and nothing more. You can, however, write a great story about saving the world, which is what Tolkien did. Second, a great story must also have great characters, or at least one great character (greatly drawn, at least) for readers to identify with, to find their identity in. We become the characters—in spirit, in imagination. No story is great unless it sucks us in, takes us up out of our bodies, and gives us an out-ofbody experience, an ekstasis, standing outside ourselves and in another. Great stories give us the grace of a mystical experience, on the level of imagination. We can identify with nearly all of Tolkien's characters—even Ents. Who would have believed that any author could conjure up, in adult human beings, literary belief in talking trees? And who else has ever

Peter Kreeft is a professor of philosophy at Boston College and the author of numerous books on Christianity, culture, and philosophy. This article is an excerpt from The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind The Lord of the Rings.

The Lord of the Rings and the Five Dimensions of a Story

given us more credible Elves? We know these are the real Elves; we must have in innate Elf detector, an innate Jungian archetype of true Elvishness. Even inanimate things—forests, horns, swords—are characters with memorable, credible personalities. Third, a great story also should have a great setting, an interesting world. Sometimes it is a familiar part of this world, sometimes an unfamiliar part of this world, and sometimes another world. The Lord of the Rings setting is not another world, but a historically unfamiliar portion of this world: its mythical past. "Middle-earth" is an old name for "the third rock from the sun." Sometimes, the setting is at a minimum (e.g., in The Three Musketeers, the book, not the movie). Sometimes it is at a maximum, when the setting is the most memorable dimension of all (e.g., City of Joy, again, the book, not the movies, or Hal Clement's sci-fi classic Mission of Gravity). The importance of the setting varies with the genre. It is the most in epic and the least in drama. Many readers find the setting of The Lord of the Rings—Middle-earth itself—to be its most captivating aspect. People come together to stage day-long outdoor reenactments of the plot, using many acres of land, many characters in costumes (usually playing multiple roles), weapons, battles, etc. This has never been done for Death of a Salesman. What of the fourth dimension, style? Sometimes a great story is told in a plain style (e.g., the Koine Greek of Mark's Gospel), or even a bad style (e.g., the fairy tales of George MacDonald). A great style can sometimes make up for a small story (Sartre, Samuel Beckett, Ernest Hemingway, John Gardner, James Stephens), but more often a bad style ruins a good story (Thomas Wolfe, Olaf Stapledon, David Lindsay, even George MacDonald). Even his most severe critics admit Tolkien's excellence in one aspect of style: language, especially his proper

names. Tolkien tells us that the whole of The Lord of the Rings emerged from this preoccupation. But surely the most valuable of all the gifts a story can give us is its fifth dimension: its wisdom, its philosophy, its world-and-lifeview, its insight into ourselves and our lives and our world. Stories do not communicate this worldview directly and deliberately (as preaching does) or abstractly (as philosophy does), but t hey do it. It is t herefore perfectly proper to explore this crucial dimension, this depth dimension of The Lord of the Rings, especially if The Lord of the Rings is "the greatest book of the century" and this is, in some ways the greatest dimension of a book. Though Tolkien's philosophy can be gleaned from the story, the story is not simply a vessel for philosophy. A true work of art, as opposed to a work of propaganda, never is.

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

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

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

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III. MUSICAL CONCEPT

CHAPTER 9

Leopold Mozart, 1719-1787 I. LISTEN II. A LITTLE HISTORY

Music Appreciation

this is the second piece we are studying by the composer who is more known because of his children than because of his own compositions! As we learned in chapter 7, Leopold Mozart dedicated his life to furthering the musical gifts and careers of his boy, Wolfgang, and his girl, nannerl. Besides teaching them the piano, the violin, and musical composition, and organizing concert tours throughout Europe, he also composed music specifically for them to play during their lessons. These compositions were always matched to their musical level. on nannerl’s eighth birthday, Leopold gave her a music notebook with 48 blank pages in it. Over the next four years, he filled it little by little with pieces that both he and his son, Wolfgang, composed for nannerl to play. the minuet we are studying in this chapter comes from this notebook.

IV. ABOUT THE PIECE The first movement of this Bach concerto starts very boldly, with both the orchestra and soloist playing the opening theme. this theme is the ritornello, and will be heard again through the movement. it is a moody, energetic theme; some people even say it sounds like Bach was letting off some steam in the midst of his busyness!

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Western classical music is as orderly and logical as mathematics, and yet capable of expressing and connecting with the whole range of human emotions. It consists most often of only twelve notes, a few simple rhythms, and a variety of aural textures that manifest in thousands of complex and distinctive styles and forms. It follows a system of rules set in place long ago, but these rules are flexible enough that new music is always being created, building on what previous generations composed, ever expanding. III. MUSICAL CONCEPT

In Chapter 6, we learned that there are 12 different notes that can be repeated over and over to make up the music we hear. Seven of these notes have the letter names A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. To learn how these notes fit together, it is helpful to see how they are placed on a piano keyboard.

The pattern of white and black keys makes it easy to see how the notes repeat. For example, the note D is always found between in the middle of the group of two black keys. every time the note D repeats, it is always in the same place in relation to the black keys. in chapter 7, we learned that the distance between two notes is called an interval. the interval between two notes of the same name is called an octave. it is, for example, the distance between a G and the very next G either above or below it. this word derives from the Latin word octo, describing the fact that it is the distance between a note and the eighth note from it.

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When we studied the Vivaldi spring concerto, we learned that a concerto is a musical interaction between a solo instrument and an orchestra. in this case, the soloist plays a keyboard instrument. Bach first performed it on a harpsichord, but today it can be heard on a harpsichord or piano, depending on the preference of the musicians. Like we saw with Vivaldi, this interaction between musicians in a concerto is always well organized, following a specific form. The most popular form for a concerto in Bach’s time was the ritornello form, in which the orchestra—or tutti—plays a recurring section which alternates with the solo section. Tutti, in italian, means “all,” and is the name for the orchestra when everyone is playing during a piece. When the main instrument plays alone, it is the solo; when the whole orchestra, it is the tutti.

Minuet in F Major

Discovering Music:

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Using the system of the Greeks and Romans, your student will learn the story of the sky. This guide covers stars, constellations, the motion of the earth, and the zodiac.

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We love John H. Tiner's science books for middle school students. He writes from a biblical perspective and has won numerous awards for his books on science for young people. These illustrated books have review questions and activities after every chapter, and Memoria Press has written supplemental review questions, unit reviews, and tests for each book.

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Classical Terms

by Martin Cothran

have given many speeches and written many articles on the subject of what classical education is. One of the things I have realized in doing so is that, among the many impediments to understanding what classical education is, there is the simple problem of the lack of clarity in the words we use to talk about it. There are three terms that those of us involved in classical education like to throw around, terms we sometimes use interchangeably and simultaneously or in some other way that obscures their meanings. We are in no danger of being arrested by the language police over this, but our approach to classical education and our execution of it depend on our understanding of what these terms mean and how they are distinct. The three terms are: "classical," "liberal arts," and "humanities."

The Definition of "Classical" The original and still primary meaning of the term "classical" is, of course, "of or having to do with the cultures of Greece and Rome." These are the two classical cultures. Its secondary meaning refers to the entire subsequent civilization which derived from these two cultures as they confronted the culture of the Hebrews, and as they were digested, transformed, and later revived by the Christian culture of the Middle Ages. It was the civilization composed of these elements which was handed down, from generation to generation, through Western Christian education, until the mid-twentieth century in America (later in Europe) when it began to be displaced in our schools in favor of other more political and pragmatic concerns. By the term "classical education," we mean the system of education that emphasizes Western civilization—the cultures of Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem—and that attempts to pass it on to the next generation. It is the project of reviving the modes of thought that assumed and the body of knowledge that undergirded the ideals and values of the West. This system of education has two chief and theoretically distinct components: the liberal arts and the humanities—the first being the traditional set of learning skills, and the second being classical content. In other words, when we say "classical education," we mean the liberal arts and the humanities—language and mathematics on the one hand, and on the other, as Matthew Arnold put it, the best that has been thought and said. Martin Cothran is the editor of The Classical Teacher and author of Traditional Logic Books I & II, Material Logic, and Classical Rhetoric.

In his 1847 "Lectures on the Advantages of Classical Education," James Pycroft made the distinction between the forming of the mind and the filling of it. The forming of the mind is the job of the liberal arts. The filling of the mind is the business of the humanities.

"We should not be learning the liberal arts," explained the ancient Greek thinker Isocrates, making the same point, "we should have learned them." "By studying them," continues Mulroy, "one could discover thought's basic patterns, which are what bind the seven liberal arts together. In contemporary terms, their subjects are the The Definition of "Liberal Arts" procedures that are hard-wired in our brains and do "The cultivation of the mind," said Pycroft, "like not differ from topic to topic." that of a field, requires that we should first prepare And I should probably distinguish this account of the soil, and then sow the seed. You must sharpen the the liberal arts from Dorothy Sayers' use of the terms tools," he says, varying the metaphor, "before you "trivium" and "quadrivium," which, in fact, sparked can make any progress in your work." much of the classical education movement If the instructor does not form the mind we see today. Hers is not a description of of his pupil before he fills it in earnest, the historical liberal arts. It is rather an said Pycroft, then "the labour of the analogical use of the classical trivium The instructor is like that of the Danaids, to explain her developmental in mythological story: doomed to analogy. I don’t think Sayers had fill leaky vessels." any intention of redefining filling of the Even though we often the liberal arts, with which call classical education the vast majority of her mind is the business in general a "liberal Oxford audience arts education" (often would have been of the humanities. The forming con fou nd i ng t he familiar, but I think liberal arts and the she simply meant to of the mind is the job humanities), the term use the historical trivium "liberal arts" historically has as a convenient metaphor of the liberal a more specific definition. The for the developmental stages liberal arts consist of the academic of the child as they relate to arts. skills we have inherited from the education—just as she used the ancient world, which are the three historical quadrivium as a metaphor for language arts of the trivium—grammar, logic, the division of subjects. and rhetoric—and the four mathematical arts of Sayers' developmental analogy is indeed the quadrivium—arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, useful, but when I use the terms "trivium" and and music. The liberal arts are a set of generalizable "quadrivium," I am referring to the traditional intellectual skills, originally considered to be nine, definition that Sayers herself would have known. I including architecture and medicine. But they were am referring, not to what Dorothy Sayers said, but to winnowed down to seven when, as Martianus Capella what she assumed. tells it, the arts (represented as young maidens) were The Definition of "Humanities" presented as servants to the goddess Philology, during her wedding to Mercury, and architecture and medicine If the liberal arts constitute the forming of the mind, were told—because of their concern solely for earthly the humanities constitute its filling. If the liberal arts things—to sit down and be quiet. are the how, the humanities are the what of our culture. The linguistic and mathematical arts included The term "humanities" refers primarily to three under the liberal arts serve a purely instrumental things: history, literature, and philosophy. The formal purpose. "The liberal arts are the ground rules of study of philosophy, being an advanced subject, is thought," says David Mulroy, in his excellent book, generally best studied in college. For elementary and The War Against Grammar, "not its end." "In Aristotelian secondary education purposes, the humanities consist terms," he says, "they are not speculative disciplines, of literature and history. aimed at learning ultimate truths, but practical ones The humanities are not a means to anything else designed to serve ulterior purposes. The value of the other than wisdom and virtue. They are not quite an liberal arts, in other words, is instrumental—but no end in themselves, but they are a very fundamental less necessary for being so." means. It is through literature and history that we

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find out who we are as human beings. They tell us the story of who we are, how we should act, and what and whom we should admire. For most of history, education served as the means by which a culture's ideals and values were passed from one generation to the next. The Greek ideal was embodied in works such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The ideals of the Romans were embodied in works such as Virgil's Aeneid. In the Christian culture of the Middle Ages, the equivalent would be Dante's Divine Comedy, in which Christian ideals were informed and contrasted with the natural knowledge of the classical cultures. Though the humanities are technically only the studies of history, literature, and philosophy, they include the mythologies of both Greece and Rome, which, while not true in fact, are rich in insights about human nature. T he g reat medieval a nd Renaissance stories, such as the tales of Chaucer a nd S h a k e s p e a r e, who were themselves nurt ured on t he classics, show how these great classical works could be transformed by a Christian consciousness. And then there were the stunning philosophical a nd t heolog ical ac h ievements of philosophers such as St. Thomas Aquinas, taking the insights of the ancients and placing them in the service of the Christian religion. American culture is the beneficiary, through England primarily, of this heritage, which is why a classical education does not ignore our own heroes, men such as Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton, who themselves studied the classical heroes and classical cultures in a way that prepared them for their roles in the forming of this nation.

The Earliest Definition of Education And so we have established that classical education consists of two things: the humanities and the liberal arts. We can see it in the earliest definition of classical education, which is in Book IX of Homer's Iliad. Phoenix is counseling Achilles and he says, "To thee did the old knight Peleus send me the day he sent thee to Agamemnon forth from Phthia, a stripling yet unskilled in equal war and in debate wherein 66

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men wax pre-eminent. Therefore sent he me to teach thee all these things, to be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds." Since speaking and thinking are two sides of the same coin (we could add writing as well), we can say that classical education is teaching students how to think and what to doâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which is just another way of saying "wisdom and virtue."

An Aside About Science I have left out the term "science" in this discussion, since it has not had as great a role in the confusion attending the term "classical education." But a complete categorization of education would, of course, include it. To ancient and medieval thinkers the word "science" simply indicated any organized body of knowledge. There were the arts (skills) and the sciences (bodies of knowledge). Today we think of science only in terms of natural science, which is the organized body of knowledge about the natural world. But there are also the moral or humane sciences (the humanities, as we've just defined them), as well as the theological sciences, which study the nature of God and our relation to Him. The passing on of a civilization as an educational ideal and the formal development of the mind came under hostile scrutiny at the turn of the twentieth century, and was eventually displaced by other agendas. The old classical curriculum was slowly replaced by the new progressivism, which was more interested in reforming future society than in reading past classics, and by the pragmatic curriculum which demanded more specific job training rather than general mental training. A curriculum that stressed how to think and what to do was turned upside down in the new curriculum, where the dual priority was not on how to think and what to do, but on what to think (indoctrination in political ideology) and how to do (vocational training). But man is more than a political activist and an employee. As Aristotle pointed out, he is a knower, a doer, and a maker, and any education worthy of the name should address all of these. MemoriaPress.com

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