The Classical Teacher - Summer 2018 by Memoria Press

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Summer 2018

at he n s jerusalem by Dr. John Mark N. Reynolds

Humanism Is Not the Problem by Martin Cothran The Myth Made Fact by Louis Markos

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

WHAT HATH ATHENS TO DO WITH JERUSALEM? by Martin Cothran

hat does reason have to do w it h f a i t h? W h a t d o e s t he i ntel lec t ua l have to do w i t h t h e s p i r i t u a l? W h a t does philosophy have to do with Christianity? These are q u e s t io n s t h at Te r t u l l i a n , one of the early fathers of the Church, summed up when he asked, "What hath Athens to do with Jerusalem?" Tertullian's question seems to pit t he c u lt u r e of t he s e two ancient cities against one another, as if they are somehow inconsistent. And, indeed, there are important differences. T here h ave be e n ma ny answers given to Tertullian's question over the last 2,000 years. Some agree with him that there is something irreconcilable about the two cultures—one based on the reason of man, and the other on the revelation of God. Christians were the inheritors of the classical culture that came from the Romans and the Greeks. As Rome fell, it left the scattered remains of the learning of antiquity among the other ruins of its culture. It was left to the Church to collect and preserve the things that remained. Thomas Cahill, in his book How the Irish Saved Civilization, tells the story of how Irish monks copied and recopied the ancient texts throughout the Dark Ages to preserve them for posterity. In the tenth and eleventh centuries these manuscripts containing the learning of the ancients were rediscovered by the Christian scholars of the West, who compared them with what they knew from the Scriptures, and placed them in the service of their faith. The learning of the Greeks and Romans, transformed by the Christians of the Middle Ages, became what we now know as "classical education." 2

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It was handed down generation by generation and became the foundation of the Christian culture of Europe and America. Classical education was what the Puritans brought with them and institutionalized in schools such as Harvard and Princeton, and it was the system of learning on which the founding fathers were nourished. The response of the historic Church to Tertullian's question was not Tertullian's answer. It was Augustine's answer. What Augustine knew was that what some call "human reason" was not really human at all. The "reason" that we call "human" is really our own ability to perceive, by virtue of the image of God in us, the truths we find in the created world. Augustine, acknowledged by many as the greatest thinker of the first thousand years of the Church—and himself thoroughly classically educated—argued in his great work, On Christian Doctrine, that the learning of the ancients was "Egyptian gold." As the Hebrews left Egypt, the Egyptians, chastened by the plagues sent from God, showered the Hebrews with gold, which the Hebrews took with them into the wilderness (Exodus 12:35). With it they foolishly made a golden calf—but they also used it to fashion, at God's command, the vessels of the Tabernacle. The truths of classical learning were discovered by pagans, but they were still gold. They were "taken," said Augustine, "from the mines of God's providence" so that we might do with them, not as the pagans had done, but as God would have us do. MemoriaPress.com

Summer 2018 FEATURED ARTICLES

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AMERICAN / MODERN

38 American Studies & Modern European History 39 Geography

Letter from the Editor by Martin Cothran School Spotlight: Bishop Ryan Catholic School Why Caesar? by Bonnie Graham Rojas

SCIENCE & MATH

Stephen Hawking's Many Universes by Martin Cothran

63 Science & Nature 68 Arithmetic & Math

Athens & Jerusalem by Dr. John Mark N. Reynolds Humanism Is Not the Problem by Martin Cothran Evangelium Eternum by Cheryl Swope

20 21 22 24

So What If Beethoven Was Deaf? by Carol Reynolds The Myth Made Fact by Louis Markos

CLASSICAL CORE CURRICULUM Preschool - Grade 10 JK - Grade 6 JK - Grade 10

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

27 Classical Composition, IEW,

Grades 1-12

56 Literature 58 Poetry

Grades 1-12

& English Grammar

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

Grades 3-8

Dorothy Mills Histories

Grades 6+

Christian Studies

NEW!

Grades 1-4

Latina Christiana & Supplements

Grades 3-6

First Form Latin Series & Supplements

Grades 5-12

Upper School Latin, NLE Prep Guides, & French

Grades 5-12

25 Grammar School Greek & Supplements 26 First Form Greek

Grades 4+ Grades 7+

30 Traditional Logic & Supplements 31 Classical Rhetoric & Supplements 31 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 Grades K-12

Classical Literature & Supplements

Prima Latina & Supplements

LOGIC & RHETORIC

PRIMARY YEARS

50 51 52 59

Grades 3+ Grades K+

LATIN, GREEK, & FRENCH

Wardrobes Are for Grown-Ups Too by Joseph Pearce

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

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Grades 6+ Grades K-12

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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)

NEW USER ADD-ON SET $128 New to Memoria Press? You need these items from prior years. Classical Phonics; Phonics Flashcards; A Child's Book of Poems; Animals, Animals; The Story Bible; Christian Studies Enrichment; Rod & Staff Arithmetic 1 Teacher Manual and Practice Sheets; FlashKids Addition & Subtraction Flashcards; Music Enrichment

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LATIN

SCIENCE

Prima Latina complete set (p. 20)

Rod & Staff Patterns of Nature

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

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523.48

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395

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MATH

New American Cursive 2 (p. 46); Copybook Cursive I; Composition & Sketchbook II (p. 47); Prima Latina Copybook (p. 20); 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)

NEW USER ADD-ON SET $98 New to Memoria Press? You need these items from prior years. Classical Phonics; Phonics Flashcards; A Child's Book of Poems; Animals, Animals; Music Enrichment; The Story Bible; Christian Studies Enrichment; FlashKids Addition & Subtraction Flashcards

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

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RETAIL

835.20

GRADE 3

PACKAGE PRICE

505

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LATIN

SCIENCE

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

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. 27)

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 RecitationWorkbook I set (p. 27); 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. 27)

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

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Curriculum Manual Only $30 Consumables Only $165

LATIN

455

CURRICULUM MANUAL

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

Lesson Plans for One Year

WRITING

GRAMMAR

MATH

Classical Composition II: Narrative Student, Teacher, DVDs (p. 27)

English Grammar Recitation Workbook II set (p. 27); 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)

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GRADE 6

Curriculum Manual Only $30 Consumables Only $190 CURRICULUM MANUAL

LATIN

AMERICAN/MODERN

Second Form Latin complete set (p. 22)

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

Lesson Plans for One Year

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

RETAIL

766.38

PACKAGE PRICE

495

WRITING

CLASSICAL

Classical Composition III: Chreia/Maxim Student, Teacher, DVDs (p. 27)

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

GRAMMAR

SPELLING

SCIENCE

English Grammar Recitation Workbook III set (p. 27); 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. 23)

Classical Composition IV: Refutation & Confirmation Student, Teacher, DVDs (p. 27)

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. 17)

Famous Men of Greece set (p. 50); Horatius at the Bridge (p. 52); The Greek Alphabet set (p. 25)

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

MATH

SCIENCE

College of the Redwoods Pre-Algebra 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. 27); 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

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English Grammar Recitation Workbook V set (p. 27); Core Skills Language Arts 8

620

LATIN

WRITING

CHRISTIAN

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

Classical Composition V: Common Topic Student, Teacher, DVDs (p. 27)

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

MATH

SCIENCE

AMERICAN/MODERN

Prentice Hall Classics Algebra 1 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. 26)

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RETAIL

1144.18

GRADE 9

PACKAGE PRICE

825

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LATIN

CHRISTIAN

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

The Story of Christianity set (p. 59)

CURRICULUM MANUAL Lesson Plans for One Year

LOGIC

WRITING

SCIENCE

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

Classical Composition VI: Encomium, Invective, & Comparison Student & Teacher (p. 27)

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)

Aeneid, Algebra II, and Traditional Logic I Streaming Instructional Videos Available! (p. 4)

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GRADE 10

Curriculum Manual Only $30 Consumables Only $170 CURRICULUM MANUAL Lesson Plans for One Year

RETAIL

1266.54

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

Material Logic complete set (p. 31)

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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CULTIVATING A PASSION FOR THE IDEALS OF A CLASSICAL LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION by Fr. Jadyn Nelson our actions. That kind of education is simply not happening in the context of public, private, or even many religious schools that do not take on the problem of secular and progressive curricular materials. I am naturally cautious about declaring something As a Catholic priest, I received an education that opened to be a success until it has proven itself over time. It will my eyes to the perennial importance of classical authors, take more time to fully evaluate the effectiveness of the as well as the tremendous importance that culture has in curriculum. Nevertheless, what we have seen so far is our ability, both individually and socially, to be happy and nothing short of astounding. Our elementary teachers, remain faithful to God. In my role as president at BRCS, many of whom are veteran teachers, are totally and my dissatisfaction with the banal and religiously sanitized completely won over by the curriculum in only seven materials produced by the major educational publishing months of use. The amount of growth that they have seen in houses in the areas of language arts, literature, and history their students at this point is beyond what they thought was led me to seek an alternative. So I directed my principals to reasonable to expect. Even more exciting is the confidence try and find a classical curriculum, which I knew would be and enthusiasm that our parents are exhibiting about the our best chance to find something that would work for us. new curriculum. In short, I couldn't be happier with what A simple internet search led us to Memoria Press. we are experiencing as a result of moving to Memoria Press. My hope is that this curriculum will be a catalyst for our At this point, we are making students and teachers to discover an preparations to extend our use of approach to learning and teaching Memoria Press materials into the that is aligned with the nobility of middle school and high school. the human person created in God's I believe that Latin, logic, and image. We live in a world that is The Classical Latin Memoria Press literature selections largely influenced by utilitarianism School Association? are the most obvious elements to and pragmatism. While education begin with at those levels. Beyond certainly ought to assist students adopting new curriculum, though, in their ability to participate in CLSA Member School: remains the important work of society and the economy, it is most cultivating passion for the ideals certainly not reducible to those 30% off Teacher Training of classical liberal arts education ends. Above all, I agree with the Registration amongst our faculty and providing Italian educator Fr. Luigi Giussani opportunities for them to experience that education is an "introduction to On-Site Teacher Training for themselves the fruits of the reality."1 In other words, education kind of education we are trying to is the means by which we are made Accreditation provide for our students. capable of living intelligently and freely because we grasp the truth of 1 Luigi Giussani, The Risk of Education: things and have been taught how to ClassicalLatin.org Discovering Our Ultimate Destiny. New York: relate to these "things" virtuously by Crossroads Publishing Co., 2011, p. 50. Bishop Ryan Catholic School in Minot, North Dakota, was founded in 1958 and currently has over 430 students in PreK-12th grades. Fr. Jadyn Nelson, the president of BRCS, is leading the implementation of Memoria Press' curriculum at the school.

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Classical Core Curriculum

SUPPLEMENTS Don't need an entire package? Lesson Plans by Subject $3.00 - $16.00 per subject Memoria Press' lesson plans by subject allow you to tailor the Classical Core Curriculum to your own needs. These plans retain our week-at-a-glance layout, scheduling the individual subjects of each grade so you can mix and match as you need.

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Grades 1-8

The Story of the World by Susan Wise Bauer VOL. 1: Ancient Times (before 5th)

VOL. 3: Early Modern Times (before 7th)

$17.95 paperback $39.95 audiobook

$17.95 paperback $49.95 audiobook

VOL. 2: The Middle Ages (before 6th)

VOL. 4: The Modern Age (before 8th)

$17.95 paperback $44.95 audiobook

$17.95 paperback $54.95 audiobook

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Susan Wise Bauer's The Story of the World fits perfectly as an overview to the time periods students study in our Classical Core Curriculum packages (pp. 4-14). They make great supplemental summer reading!

Classical Education Resources

Orthodoxy

Climbing Parnassus:

by G. K. Chesterton Introduction by Martin Cothran

A New Apologia for Greek and Latin

$12.99

$15.00

The Well-Trained Mind:

A Guide to Classical Education at Home, 4th Edition by Susan Wise Bauer & Jessie Wise

by Tracy Lee Simmons

The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had by Susan Wise Bauer $35.00

$39.95

Why Knowledge Matters: Rescuing Our Children from Failed Educational Theories E. D. Hirsch, Jr. $31.00

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

The Great Books: A

Journey Through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature by Anthony O'Hear

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

by Louis Markos $24.00

The Great Tradition:

Classic Readings in What It Means to Be an Educated Human Being edited by Richard M. Gamble $20.00

$22.00

The Schools We Need:

Why Freshmen Fail

Simply Classical:

by E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

and how to avoid it! by Carol Reynolds, Ph.D.

A Beautiful Education for Any Child by Cheryl Swope

$17.95

$21.95

$24.95

And Why We Don't Have Them

Classical Core Curriculum

LATIN

WHY CAESAR? by Bonnie Graham

hy is reading Julius Caesar's account of his conquest of Gaul the next logical step for a student who has completed a study of grammar forms and basic syntax? There are sound reasons that Caesar's Commentarii De Bello Gallico (Commentaries on the Gallic War) has traditionally been the preferred choice for the first immersion in reading Latin.

CAESARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S STYLE OF WRITING Caesar's concise, lucid prose and elegant style are challenging but not overwhelming. The great orator Cicero himself praised Caesar's prose as "unadorned, straightforward, and graceful." Literary scholar J. W. Mackail wrote of Caesar: "He used the Latin language with a purity and distinction that no one else could equal." It is widely acknowledged that Caesar adhered to the rules of the Latin language more closely than any other Roman author. The reader of Caesar is able to systematically apply the rules of Latin syntax. He is not forced to Bonnie Graham is currently writing a Memoria Press study guide for Henle Second Year Latin. A homeschooling mother for 13 years and a Latin tutor, she is fascinated by Caesar's De Bello Gallico, the writings of Caesar scholar T. Rice Holmes, and the Latin language.

Why Caesar?

contend with the oddities of poetic license before he is ready to do so. Poets had license to bend, break, and ignore rules. When faced with an irregularity in Caesar's prose, the student is able to logically work out the reason, to see Caesar's intended effect, and to advance his understanding of Latin. Reading Caesar prepares the student to progress to Cicero's more intricate style and to Virgil's poetry. This is the logical way to master a subject: first learn to apply the rules and later deal with more complicated applications and exceptions.

THE LESSONS OF THE GALLIC WAR In Caesar we learn about ancient concepts of honor and glory. More importantly, we are steeped in matters that transcend timelines and cultures. De Bello Gallico provides a profound study of loyalty to comrades, decision-making and bravery under duress, man's burning desire for freedom, and valorous defense of family and homeland. The great classical historian Theodor Mommsen commented, "The noble work deserves all the labour that can be spent upon it. The enormous difference between these Commentarii and everything else that is called Roman history cannot be adequately realized."

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CAESAR’S PLACE IN HISTORY

CONCRETE AND EXTENDED MEANINGS

A study of De Bello Gallico also provides a wealth of knowledge about European geography and an important period of Roman history and politics. T. Rice Holmes, often cited in the Henle text, called Caesar "the greatest man of action who has ever lived." He was the first Roman to lead an army across the Rhine into Germany and the first Roman general to cross the English Channel to Britain. He wrote the first eyewitness account of Britain and the Britons. He also wrote the first authentic accounts of Gauls/ Celts and Germans. So high was interest in De Bello Gallico in the Middle Ages that in 1469 it was one of the first books to be printed on the newly invented printing press. Such was Caesar's influence that his name has lived on in the titles of some of history's most powerful r u l e r s: t h e C a e s a r s o f Ro m e followi ng Julius h imself, t he Kaisers (German), and the Czars (Russian). This is not to claim that Caesar was necessarily a model for emulation, but he was an exemplary military leader and a gifted politician and statesman. A s M a c k a i l n o t e d , "…t h e combination of literary power of the very first order with his unparalleled military and political genius is perhaps unique in history." And Caesar was not just a brilliant general and important writer. Military historian Theodore Dodge described him as "the patron of learning who founded libraries in all the great towns, and filled Rome with men of science, culture, and letters, as the legislator who drafted laws that still control the jurisdiction of the world, as the profound scholar who dictated the correction of the calendar…." For two millennia, people have acknowledged that he was remarkable in what he undertook and accomplished. Dante, Petrarch, and Longfellow featured him in their works. Shakespeare, no less, devoted a play to him, and Handel, an opera.

Another benefit of reading Caesar is the opportunity to learn the many words he uses with a concrete meaning. This makes it easy to recognize derived figurative meanings in other writers. For example, Caesar's concrete obsidio, or "siege" in battle, becomes the figurative obsidio of Cicero, the "pressing danger" to the Republic. The soldier's heavy sarcina ("pack, bundle") filled with grain and personal belongings later becomes the more figurative "burden, weight, or sorrow." To look at one small example in more detail: The student of Caesar learns that angustiae is a narrow place, like the pass in Gaul through which 368,000 Helvetians could pass only in a long, narrow train. The student learns that it connotes danger and is related to the adjective angustus, which means "narrow," or "tight." He easily sees that this word may have related concrete meanings as in a narrow strait, bridge, gate, or harbor. When the student meets the word in other writers, he will extrapolate from its concrete meanings to understand its abstract meanings of "a tight spot," "difficulties," "distress," "tribulations," and even "troubled times." When he sees a reference to the Mass by Haydn, Missa in Angustiis, composed when Napoleon was turning Europe upside down, the student will at once comprehend the title. He will understand the English word "anguish" and its German cousin angst. Countless rich rewards are gleaned from reading Caesar.

Caesar's concise, lucid prose and elegant style are challenging but not overwhelming.

AP LATIN EXAM Caesar still endures as a fascinating topic of study and speculation. Furthermore, a very pragmatic reason for studying Caesar was provided by the redesign of the AP Exam in Latin, effective in 2013, to expand its scope from the poetry of The Aeneid to include the prose of De Bello Gallico.

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A CHALLENGE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR THE STUDENT All readers of De Bello Gallico have the chance to delve more deeply into the genius of the Latin language. But many treasures lurk within the pages of Caesar's work, and they may be different for different readers. Some students are fascinated by Caesar, the great commander and politician. Some may find themselves rooting for the Celts struggling to defend their homeland. Some are fascinated by the might and discipline of the Roman military. Some are intrigued to see which characters Caesar singles out for special mention, and why. Some have an interest in travel and European geography and will someday visit the countries in which the Gallic War was fought. What will you find for yourself in the pages of De Bello Gallico?

Why Caesar?

Prima Latina

An Introduction to Christian Latin by Leigh Lowe | Grades 1-4 Are you looking for a gentle introduction to Latin and a course that prepares your young student for a more advanced study of the language? Prima Latina is specifically designed for students and teachers with no Latin background. This course was developed for children in 1st-4th grades who are still becoming familiar with English grammar and wish to learn Latin at a slower pace and learn English grammar in the process. Its goal is to teach and reinforce an understanding of the basic parts of speech while introducing Latin. It benefits the student by teaching him half of the vocabulary in Latina Christiana and grounding him in the fundamental concepts of English grammar, the key to Latin study.

Prima Latina $90.90 complete set (student, teacher, CD, DVDs, flashcards)

$34.95 basic set (student, teacher, CD)

Student $15.00 Teacher $15.00 CD $8.95 DVDs $45.00 Flashcards $14.95

Student Book • 25 lessons + 5 review lessons • Latin vocabulary words with corresponding English derivatives • Latin prayers • Grammar skills appropriate for primary grades • Consistent review

Teacher Manual • Student book w/ answers keyed • Tests

The grammar lessons are set forth in a form appropriate for primary grades. The review lessons that follow each unit provide the consistent review needed to master Latin. With clear explanations and easy-to-read lessons in a two-color format, Prima Latina is perfect for those teachers and parents who would like to start their students on an early study of Christian Latin. Prima Latina is also the perfect preparation for Latina Christiana. "Prima Latina is particularly well suited to Latin-fearful parents. The simple layout of the lessons allows for easy implementation with little to no preparation, and the material is at a level that any willing parent can easily learn." —Martha Robinson, homeschoolchristian.com "Order Leigh Lowe’s Prima Latina, along with the accompanying teacher’s guide and supplementary CD." —Susan Wise Bauer & Jessie Wise "If you are beginning Latin and have no Latin background, this is the curriculum for you." —Julie A., www.homeschoolreviews.com

Pronunciation CD • Complete verbal pronunciation • Four Lingua Angelica songs

DVDs • 3 discs, 9 hours (~40 min./lesson) • Comprehensive teaching by Leigh Lowe • Recitation & review, vocabulary practice, and explanation of derivatives • On-screen notes, diagrams, & examples • Self-instructive format

"We are into our fifth week of Prima Latina and loving every minute of it. My young daughters like feeling that they are getting smarter than their peers." —Alice Helmuth Christopher View samples online: MemoriaPress.com

Flashcards • Vocabulary with derivatives • Latin sayings • Conjugations & declensions

Supplements Grades 1-4

For All Ages!

Grades 3+

$14.95

(Full program on p. 23)

Ludere Latine $12.00 Ludere Answer Key $4.95

Song Book $9.95 Music CD $11.95

Prima Latina Copybook

Lingua Angelica

Ludere Latine

Help your children practice their Latin while developing their penmanship skills.

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

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

New American Cursive font

Latin

Latin Songs & Prayers

for Latina Christiana

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Move straight to First Form Latin after Latina Christiana (see p. 22).

Latina Christiana

Introduction to First Form Latin by Cheryl Lowe | Grades 3-6 Latina Christiana is, quite simply, the best grammar-based Latin course available for beginning students. Cheryl Lowe’s clear explanations, easy instructions, and step-by-step approach have led thousands of teachers and students to declare, “I love Latin!” Each lesson consists of a grammar form, ten vocabulary words, English derivatives to help build vocabulary, and a Latin saying that teaches students about their Christian and classical heritage. Five review lessons help ensure that your student has mastered the material.

Latina Christiana $98.90 complete set (student, teacher, CD, DVDs, flashcards)

$41.95 basic set (student, teacher, CD)

Student $16.00 Teacher $20.00 CD $8.95 DVDs $55.00 Flashcards $14.95

Online Class (p. 26)

Exercises reinforce memory work and teach grammar in incremental steps through simple translation. Grammar coverage includes 1st-2nd declension nouns, 1st-2nd conjugation verbs (in three tenses), 1st-2nd declension adjectives and the irregular verb to be. The Teacher Manual includes a complete copy of the student book with overlaid answers and provides detailed weekly lesson plans, comprehensive teaching instructions, tests, weekly quizzes, and keys. The thirty lessons can be completed in a year for young students or in less time for older students. "I have taught my own children using your LC books and Henle, and yours is the best curriculum available." —V.B., Latin teacher "My daughter said, 'Mom, this is the first one that makes sense and explains things so you can understand what's going on.'" —D.S., parent

Student Book • 25 lessons + 5 review lessons • 10 vocabulary words per lesson w/ corresponding English derivatives • Latin sayings, songs, and prayers

Teacher Manual • • • •

Student book w/ answers keyed Weekly lesson plans Tests, quizzes, & keys Comprehensive teaching instructions

Pronunciation CD • Complete verbal pronunciation • Latin prayers & songs

DVDs • 3 discs, 5.5 hours (avg. 15 min./lesson) • Comprehensive teaching by Jessica Watson • Recitation & review, vocabulary practice, and explanation of derivatives • On-screen notes, diagrams, & examples • Self-instructive format

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Flashcards • Vocabulary with derivatives • Latin sayings • Conjugations & declensions

Worksheets $9.95 Answer Key $5.00

8.5" x 11"

Grades 3+

(4 charts total)

CD & DVD $14.95

$12.95

Latina Christiana Review Worksheets

Contains 2 cumulative review pages for each Latina Christiana lesson to promote mastery.

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Grammar Desk Charts

Latin Recitation CD/DVD

Grammar forms on convenient, compact charts help students see the organization of the Latin grammar at a quick glance.

This CD/DVD combination includes a recitation of the entire Latin grammar. The DVD has visual charts with the grammar as Cheryl Lowe pronounces it.

for Latina Christiana

Latin

"This is the best-structured course on any subject I have ever seen." Andrew Pudewa, Institute for Excellence in Writing

First Form Latin

Second Form Latin

Latin Grammar Year One

Latin Grammar Year Two

$125 complete set (all 5 books, CD, DVDs, flashcards) $65 basic set (all 5 books + CD)

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

by Cheryl Lowe Grades 6+

Text $13.50 Workbook $15.00 Teacher Manual $12.00 Teacher Key $14.95 Quizzes & Tests $5.00 CD $8.95 DVDs $55.00 Flashcards $14.95

Online Class (p. 26)

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

Text $13.50 Workbook $15.00 Teacher Manual $12.00 Teacher Key $14.95 Quizzes & Tests $5.00 CD $8.95 DVDs $55.00 Flashcards $14.95

2nd declension -er, -ir nouns and adjectives 3rd declension i-stem nouns 3rd declension adjectives of two terminations 1st and 2nd person pronouns and possessive pronoun adjectives Prepositions with ablative and accusative Adverbs and questions 3rd, 3rd -io, and 4th conjugations in 6 tenses (active voice) Present system passive of 1st-4th conjugations and -io verbs Syntax: genitive of possession; dative of indirect object; ablative of means and agent Second Form Latin Review - see p. 24

First Form's grammar-based approach is perfect for the grammar stage student. It is also the best approach for any age because every student is in the grammar stage when he begins a subject. The syntax knowledge required in translation-based programs is a logic or rhetoric stage skill, which can easily overwhelm a beginning student unless he has first learned the grammar at a slow and gentle pace and is taught for mastery. Based on 20 years of teaching experience, the Forms series, beginning with First Form, has been used sucessfully by countless home and private schools because it helps the student make sense of what many consider a diﬃcult subject. First Form is the ideal text for all beginners, grades 5 and up, or is a great follow-up to Latina Christiana. View samples online: MemoriaPress.com

Latin

Student Text • 34 two-page lessons on facing pages • Small, concise, unintimidating text in an attractive two-color format • Systematic presentation of grammar in five logical units • Appendices with English grammar, prayers, conversational Latin, vocab, index, & more!

Student Workbook • 4-6 pages of exercises for each lesson • Exercises for practice and mastery • Grammar catechism for daily rapid-fire review

Teacher Manuals • Key to workbook & quizzes/tests • Copy of student book inset with comprehensive teaching instructions • Recitation schedule • Chalk Talk scripted lessons • FYI notes for teachers with limited background

Quizzes & Tests • Reproducible weekly quizzes & unit tests

Pronunciation CD • Includes the pronunciation of all vocabulary, sayings, and grammar forms for each lesson

DVDs • 3 discs, 9 hours (15-20 min./lesson) • Superb explanations • On-screen notes, illustrations, & diagrams • Recitations, Latin parties, & more!

Flashcards • • • •

Vocabulary with derivatives Latin sayings Conjugations Declensions

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Third Form Latin

Fourth Form Latin

Latin Grammar Year Three

Latin Grammar Year Four

$125 complete set (all 5 books, CD, DVDs, flashcards) $65 basic set (all 5 books + CD)

$150 complete set (all 5 books, CD, DVDs, flashcards + Henle I text, key, & grammar) $90 basic set (all 5 books, CD + Henle I text, key, & grammar)

by Cheryl Lowe Grades 7+

by Cheryl Lowe & Michael Simpson Grades 8+

Text $13.50 Workbook $15.00 Teacher Manual $12.00 Teacher Key $14.95 Quizzes & Tests $5.00 CD $8.95 DVDs $55.00 Flashcards $14.95

Online Class (p. 26)

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Perfect system passive of 1st-4th conjugations and -io verbs 4th declension neuter nouns 3rd declension adjectives of one and three terminations Imperative mood, vocative case Nine irregular adjectives Regular and irregular comparison of adjectives and adverbs Pronouns: 3rd person, demonstrative, intensive, reflexive Active and passive subjunctive of 1st-4th conjugations and -io verbs Syntax: apposition; adjectives used as nouns; objective and partitive genitive; subjunctive in purpose clauses; exhortations; deliberative questions

Participles, infinitives, gerunds, and gerundives Deponent verbs Irregular verbs, including eo, fero, and volo Plural nouns Locative case Pronouns: relative and interrogative Syntax: double accusative; relative clauses; sequence of tenses and indirect questions; impersonal verbs; indirect statements (accusative with infinitive construction); gerundive of obligation

Fourth Form sets without Henle I:

$125 complete set (all 5 books, CD, DVDs, flashcards) $65 basic set (all 5 books + CD) *Henle Latin is required for Fourth Form. "This is a wonderful course and a FAVORITE under this apple tree! Very well constructed and organized. You need no previous Latin instruction to teach this course. How great is that?" —Richelle, Under the Apple Tree

Supplements Student $11.95 ea. Teacher $16.95 ea. Song Book* $9.95 Music CD* $11.95 *Used for both LA I and II

Lingua Angelica I & II

Latin Songs & Prayers (Translation Course) by Cheryl Lowe

$39.95 set (Lingua Angelica I or II student & teacher, Song Book, & CD) Lingua Angelica covers 28 beautiful hymns sung by a six-voice Gregorian chant choir. Because hymns have shorter, simpler sentences and clearer word structure than most Latin literature, the Christian Latin in this course is ideal when beginning Latin translation. The workbooks provide vocabulary work, space for interlinear translation, and grammar word study exercises.

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Wall Charts (33" x 17") First Form (4 charts) $20.00 Second Form (3 charts) $20.00

Desk Charts (8.5" x 11") First & Second Form (6 charts) $12.95 Third & Fourth Form (20 charts) $15.95

Latin Grammar Charts Seeing grammar forms organized on charts is a great visual aid for Latin grammar students. They are also a helpful reference for teachers during Latin recitations. Our grammar charts are available in a large and small easy-toread format that help students see the organization of the Latin grammar at a quick glance.

Latin

Henle Latin I

Grades 8+

Grades 9+

Henle Latin I Text $16.95 Henle Latin I Key $5.00 *Henle Grammar $9.50 Henle Latin I Teacher Manual: Units 1-5 $19.95 Henle Latin I Teacher Manual: Units 6-14 $19.95 Units 1-2 Quizzes & Test $9.95 Units 3-5 Quizzes & Test $9.95 Units 6-14 Quizzes & Test $9.95

Text $43.00 Teacher $24.00 Lesson Plans $14.95

Advanced Christian Latin by Robert Henle

*used all 4 years

$28.45 Henle Latin I Text Set (text, grammar, & key) $65.00 Henle Latin I Units I-V Guide Set (text, grammar, key, Units 1-2 & 3-5 quizzes & tests,

Units 1-5 Teacher Manual)

In the First Year text, a limited vocabulary of 500 words allows students to master grammar without being overwhelmed with large vocabulary lists. Repetitious Latin phrases and copious exercises produce mastery rather than frustration. Our guides will tell the student what to do at every step of the way. For Units 1-5, the newly-revised Teacher Manual also includes scripted lessons and additional explanations and practice. Detailed, thorough, and well-organized, with check-off boxes for completed work, both guides will ease your transition into Henle.

Mueller's Caesar

Selections from De Bello Gallico by Hans-Friedrich Mueller

$76.00 set

(text, teacher, print lesson plans)

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

Supplements: The Book of Roots, Roots of English, Lingua Angelica, and Lingua Biblica Note: Though Henle is considered a Catholic text, its superiority as a teaching resource and the outstanding benefits of its Christian perspective also make it appropriate for Protestants.

Grades 5+ Introduction $9.95 Level I $14.95 Level II $19.95

Grades 9+ Text $15.95 Key $5.00 Lesson Plans $14.95 Quizzes & Tests $9.95

$42.85 set

Henle Latin II

(Henle II text, key, lesson plans, quizzes & tests)

Advanced Christian Latin by Robert Henle These detailed lesson plans will guide you through the advanced grammar and syntax lessons in Henle II. We recommend completing this year of translation practice before attempting to read Caesar.

Henle Latin III-IV: $17.95 set (Henle III text & key) Henle Latin III Text $15.95 Henle Latin III Key $5.00

$17.95 set (Henle IV text & key) Henle Latin IV Text $15.95 Henle Latin IV Key $5.00

First & Second Form Latin Review

Memoria Press Guides to the National Latin Exam by Cheryl Lowe

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

French

by Cheryl Lowe

Grades 5-8

Grades 5+

Student $17.50 ea. Teacher $17.50 ea. CD $8.95 ea.

Student Book $12.95 ea. Answer Key $9.95 ea.

Students are prone to forget what they have learned from year to year. This loss is especially detrimental to the Latin student, who must remember vocabulary words, inflected forms, and grammar from previous years. To ensure that students carry over what they have learned, Memoria Press has developed the Form Series Review, summer courses which feature vocab review, form drills, and other exercises, including newlydevised translation workshops, all designed to foster mastery and retention.

Latin and French

$43.95 set

First Start French I-II

(French I or French II student, teacher, CD)

Introduction to the French Language by Danielle Schultz View samples online at MemoriaPress.com

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Latin & Greek Supplements Grades 4+

All Ages

Grades 6-8

$14.95

$19.95

Latin Cursive Copybook

Latin Grammar for the Grammar Stage

Hymns & Prayers

Handwriting practice and Latin practice are combined in this copybook. While improving handwriting, students memorize Latin sayings and beautiful hymns from Latina Christiana, Lingua Angelica, and First Form Latin.

Roots of English

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

Grades 8+

Grades 9+

Student $24.95 Key $1.95

Student $19.95 Teacher $19.95

The Book of Roots

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

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

by Cheryl Lowe

Wall Charts (22" x 34") (2 charts) $12.95 Desk Charts (8.5" x 11") (2 charts) $8.95

Lingua Biblica:

Greek Alphabet Charts

Old Testament Stories in Latin by Martin Cothran

This set of two charts makes a great visual aid for the teacher, classroom, and home. One chart has the upper- and lowercase letters of the Greek alphabet with their names in English and Greek. The second chart lists diphthongs, accent marks, pronunciation helps, and syllable names.

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

Greek Grades 4+

Grades 4+

Student $15.00 Key $10.00

Year I Text $13.50 Year I Workbook $15.00 Year I Tests $5.00 Year I Teacher Key $14.95

The Greek Alphabet by Cheryl Lowe

The Greek alphabet is different enough from our own to be a major impediment to the study of Greek. The Greek Alphabet is a tour of the Greek letters, their formation, and sounds. A page is devoted to each letter and includes a letter diagram with arrows showing proper formation, printing lines showing placement of letters above and below the lines, letters to trace and copy, interesting facts and hints, and questions.

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Elementary Greek Program by Christine Gatchell

$65.00 Year I set (text, workbook, CD, flashcards, tests, teacher key) $65.00 Year II set (text, workbook, CD, flashcards, tests, teacher key) $50.00 Year III set (text, workbook, CD, flashcards)

Year II Text $13.50 Year II Workbook $15.00 Year II Tests $5.00 Year II Teacher Key $14.95 Year III Text $18.95 Year III Workbook $12.95

Finally, a Greek text thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s both simple and substantial! Years I, II, or III: Designed to be used as a full course for teaching children as young as fourth Audio CD $8.95 ea. grade, Elementary Greek may also serve as a self-teaching program for teens Flashcards $12.95 per set and adults. No previous knowledge is necessary. Thirty weeks of daily lessons ensure a complete school year of brief, incremental lessons. Year One of this course introduces the Greek alphabet, basic vocabulary, grammar, and translation. The accompanying workbook is a vital resource that provides practice and application for each step of the way. An audio companion CD is available to aid in pronunciation of individual letters, words, grammar paradigms, and passages. The set also includes flashcards that cover every vocabulary word used in the text.

Latin & Greek Supplements and Greek

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Courses:

Memoria Press Online Academy serves grades 3-12 and features the Memoria Press curriculum.

Enroll Today at MemoriaPressAcademy.com. First Form Greek Introduction to Ancient Greek by Cheryl Lowe & Michael Simpson Grades 7+

$125 complete set (all 5 books, CD, DVDs, flashcards) $65 basic set (all 5 books + CD)

Text $13.50 Workbook $15.00 Teacher Manual $12.00 Teacher Key $14.95 Quizzes & Tests $5.00 CD $8.95 DVDs $55.00 Flashcards $14.95

Based on the revolutionary First Form Latin series, First Form Greek is written for parents and teachers with or without a Greek background. Its goal is to present the grammar so logically and so systematically that anyone can learn it. At the same time, we have adapted the Latin Forms series to account for the differences between Greek and Latin, such as the new alphabet, overlapping sounds, more variation within paradigms, and less regularity. First Form Greek overcomes these challenges with the addition of weekly vocabulary reviews, more frequent recitation, and an "expanded" dictionary entry for Greek verbs.

First Form Greek

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6 indicative active tenses of the omega verb Present tense of the to be verb First and second declensions, including 4 subtypes of the first The definite article First & second declension adjectives Personal & demonstrative pronouns Approximately 130 vocabulary words

Recommended Prerequisites: At least two years of Latin grammar and the Greek Alphabet Book. However, students who are new to Greek may spend additional time in Lesson 1 and learn the Greek alphabet that way.

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

Composition Take Classical Composition online! Online Academy p. 26.

Classical Composition by James A. Selby

Student Book $19.95 ea. Teacher Guide $29.95 ea. DVDs $45.00 ea. (available for stages 1-5) Set $85.00 ea. (Student, Teacher, and DVDs)

Suggested Sequence: Grade

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LOGIC

STEPHEN HAWKING'S MANY UNIVERSES

by Martin Cothran

tephen Hawking once pronounced that he thought his brain was little more than a computer and that, because of this, he was unafraid to die: "I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark." Hawking, a famous physicist who died in March, demonstrated by remarks like these the irrational lengths to which some are willing to go in order to deny that God exists and that He is the ultimate explanation of the world. Not long before Hawking made these remarks, he made another pronouncement: M-Theory predicts that a great many universes were created out of nothing. Their creation does not require the intervention of some supernatural being or God. Rather these multiple universes arise naturally from physical law.

DOES MULTIVERSE THEORY MAKE GOD UNNECESSARY? Hawking argued that if we assume there are multiple other universes than our own, then an explanation of how the universe got here without God is possible. And if there is a possible explanation of how the universe got here without God, then we need not bother about God. Martin Cothran is the editor of The Classical Teacher and author of Traditional Logic Books I & II, Material Logic, and Classical Rhetoric.

Stephen Hawking's Many Universes

What Hawking never explained was why the theory that there are multiple universes is any more rational an explanation than that God created the universe. Nor did he explain why one possibility necessarily excludes the other. Let's grant him for the sake of argument that multiverse theory is a possible explanation. Why is it a better explanation than the God hypothesis, if the God hypothesis is also a possible explanation? Why choose the former over the latter? The Oxford mathematician and philosopher John Lennox comments on the natural law out of which Hawking says these multiverses arise: [Hawking] asks us to choose between God and the laws of physics, as if they were necessarily in mutual conflict. But â&#x20AC;Ś laws themselves do not create anything, they are merely a description of what happens under certain conditions. What Hawking appears to have done is to confuse law with agency. His call on us to choose between God and physics is a bit like someone demanding that we choose between aeronautical engineer Sir Frank Whittle [who invented the turbojet engine] and the laws of physics to explain the jet engine.

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WHY IS MULTIVERSE THEORY ANY LESS FANTASTIC THAN THE GOD HYPOTHESIS? The second problem is that there are a lot of questions about whether multiverse theory is any less fantastic than the God theory. Scientists are constantly invoking the principle of "Occam's Razor": the idea that the simplest theory is the best one. But if you want to make the argument that multiverse theory is simpler than the God hypothesis, then you're going to have to explain why the God hypothesis, which is simple enough to be readily understood by the common person, is superior to the multiverse theory, which is so complicated that only highly trained physicists seem to really understand it. Another physicist, Paul Davies, points out that cosmologists envisage sweeping "meta-laws" that pervade the multiverse and spawn specific bylaws on a universe-by-universe basis. The meta-laws themselves remain unexplained—eternal, immutable transcendent entities that just happen to exist and must simply be accepted as given. In that respect the metalaws have a similar status to an unexplained transcendent god.

Is the theory that there are multiple universes any more rational than that God created the universe?

IS MULTIVERSE THEORY SCIENTIFIC AT ALL? The third problem is the status of multiverse theory as science. In fact, all of the things we are told science should do—be observable, be testable, and have predictive power—are absent to a large degree from multiverse theory. In other words, there is not only a question as to whether this scientific theory can explain God away, but there is a debate about whether the theory is scientific at all. And once all the purported advantages of being scientific are no longer possessed by a theory, then why are we to prefer that theory of the origin of things to the religious theory of the origin of things? "The core problem," says astrophysicist and scientific journalist Adam Frank, of newer theories like multiverse theory, is that, as of this writing, there is no experimental evidence that hidden dimensions or alternate universes exist. There might, indeed, be a multiverse and I like alternative universes as much as the next science fiction groupie. … Still how much effort do we put into explorations based on the potentially unobservable while shifting away from the tradition of exploring only the actual?

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In fact, it is precisely because such theories are inadequate as scientific theories that they have to be jerry-rigged with extra-scientific assumptions to make them work at all. This has happened in string theory, another unverifiable scientific hypothesis. Frank points out that string theory is one of the theories employed to explain quantum gravity. But, as it turns out, string theory cannot do this in a world of only four dimensions. So what do its proponents do? They posit six other equally unverifiable dimensions in order to salvage their theory, giving us ten in all. Presto! Instant scientific plausibility. It could be argued that the Oldest Theory of How the Universe Got Here (that God created it) involves far fewer intellectual contortions than this.

CAN NATURAL LAWS REPLACE GOD?

But even the scientists who acknowledge the problems with multiverse theory still have trouble explaining God away. Physicist Sean Carroll tries to salvage the atheist project by saying that you don't have to posit other universes in order to dispense with the necessity of God:

You could imagine an understanding of the universe— why it came into existence—without ever leaving the laws of nature—without ever invoking some divine, some supernatural being. The universe could just obey its own laws. It could be a natural, physical, real universe, obeying the laws of physics, and that can be a complete explanation of everything.

But natural laws must themselves be explained, a point that has apparently never occurred to Carroll. In fact, he goes further than Hawking seems himself to go: "The question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?'" Carroll says, "has been answered." It has? How exactly do you answer the question of why there is something rather than nothing by simply pointing to something (which is what he and other physicists do by positing an ostensibly empty space that is filled with fields and forces)? Lewis once asked how someone could say anything about anything outside nature "by simply studying nature?" In fact, the question "Why is there something rather than nothing?" is simply not a scientific question; it is a philosophical question. It's a bad mistake to confuse the two, since science and philosophy are two entirely different universes.

Stephen Hawking's Many Universes

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n God's providence, Christianity was born at a time when Greek and Roman thought dominated the ancient world and influenced everyone and everything—including the Jews and Judaism. Christendom, the culture of Christians after Jesus' life, death, and resurrection, was the product of Christians making sense of both Greek and Jewish heritages. Christianity in the East and the West formed cultures that had roots both in the classical world of Greece and Rome and in the faith of Jerusalem. This is true in the Christian West, where Greek and Jewish thought together shaped aesthetic and civic ideals that produced both the cathedrals of Paris and the parliamentary government of Great Britain. It is also true in the Christian East. Eastern Christendom formed a new empire that shielded Western Europe from invasion and destruction. For one thousand years the great capital city, Constantinople, John Mark N. Reynolds (Ph.D., University of Rochester) is president of The Saint Constantine School in Houston, Texas. This article was excerpted from his book When Athens Met Jerusalem (2009: Intervarsity Press).

Athens & Jerusalem

maintained unbroken study of both ancient biblical and pagan texts. It honored both the "inner wisdom" of the faith and the "outer wisdom" of the Greeks and Romans. Constantinople evangelized an entire commonwealth of states that stretched from the Balkans to Russia. This fusion of Athens and Jerusalem can be seen in the buildings and the books of cities in Britain, Ethiopia, Romania, and the United States. It is no accident that the United States Supreme Court is housed in a building with biblical references carved onto it—a structure built in the classical style of Rome and Greece. So then, how did the church deal with the massive intellectual and cultural heritage of this classical civilization? Generally speaking, there were three reactions. The first was to reject "secular learning" in order to keep the church "pure"—the idea being that theology had nothing to learn from philosophy. But Judaism itself had been influenced by Greek learning. There was no "pure" stream of knowledge that did not run through Athens. The very Greek language that the early Christians used to communicate their message was soaked in centuries of classical thought. Trying MemoriaPress.com

BY DR. JOHN MARK N. REYNOLDS

jerusalem to pry Athens and Jerusalem apart usually led to inconsistency and heresy. It was the Greeks who set down the rules for proper reasoning. Any attempt to understand the Bible requires the application of these rules. Christians often go on for years after their conversion with a fully functioning mind but without the proper guidance on how to use it. Faith needs reason. The second reaction was to go to the other extreme and worship Athens. Persecution made this rare, but it was still a problem. Origen, one of the greatest Christian thinkers of the early church, often pinned his understanding of Scripture more on his NeoPlatonic philosophy than on the biblical text. This extreme devotion to Plato caused Origen to develop a defective view of Christ and his nature. But there was a third reaction: Mainstream Christians, such as Augustine in the West and Basil in the East, found a middle way. Jerusalem gave the basic, rational, religious truth on which to build an understanding of the world. It was the starting place of wisdom. Athens gave the technical language and categories to help define and extend this truth. Out 1-877-862-1097

of this complementary coexistence came the classical Christian civilizations that shaped most of the world in which we live. For centuries these two cities, Athens and Jerusalem, were the driving forces of intellectual and cultural growth. Tensions between the rationalism of Athens and the faith of Jerusalem have always existed, but it was in the harmonious resolution of these tensions that the new Christian kingdom was established. The kind of culture that produced John Chrysostom, Thomas Aquinas, or C. S. Lewis no longer exists. For some Christians, the rationalism of Athens dictates the nature of reality. Other Christians have condemned Athens and left it to burn. Christians must recapture the middle way of Augustine and Chrysostom. Athens and Jerusalem are not two cities, but two districts in one city: the city of God. Christian schools and a few colleges have seized on the classical model. When allowed to coexist in creative harmony, Athens and Jerusalem caused a cultural explosion. They have done so in the past and will do so again, if an attempt at revival is made soon. Athens & Jerusalem

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Prima Latina (p. 20)

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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)

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Latina Christiana (p. 21); Ludere Latine (p. 20)

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Rod & Staff Arithmetic 3 (p. 68)

Rod & Staff Arithmetic 4 (p. 68)

Rod & Staff Arithmetic 5 (p. 68)

Rod & Staff Mathematics 6 (p. 68)

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Classical Composition: Chreia & Maxim (p. 27)

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Book of Astronomy (p. 63)

Book of Insects (p. 63)

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Mueller's Caesar (De Bello Gallico) (p. 24)

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

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

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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. 27)

Classical Composition: Encomium, Invective, & Comparison (p. 27)

Classical Composition: Characterization (p. 27)

Pre-Algebra (p. 68)

Classical Composition: Refutation & Confirmation (p. 27)

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Material Logic (p. 31)

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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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Humanism Is Not the Problem by Martin Cothran

hat precisely is Western culture? In a nutshell, it is the civilization that derives from the cultures of Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem, that was conquered and transformed by Christianity, and which has been handed down through the centuries by an education system which in more recent times has been referred to as "classical education." These three civilizations—what we might call the "Three Cultures"—each contributed something unique to European culture, the culture which was the foundation for our American culture. And the most important thing they contributed was the idea of what a human being is.

The Humanism of the Greeks The Greeks represented philosophical and artistic man. Alfred North Whitehead once said that "all philosophy is a footnote to Plato." Plato was Socrates' student, and Aristotle was Plato's. Dante said of Aristotle that he was the "master of those who know." And it wasn't only philosophy in which the Greeks excelled. With the possible exception of Shakespeare, there are few poets to equal Homer, and perhaps no playwrights comparable to Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. In many ways the Greeks can be said to have invented philosophy and art as we know it—and to have raised it to a level rarely rivaled since. The Greeks were humanists, a term we Christians often view with undue severity, partly because of the prevalence of the term "secular humanism." But secular humanism is not the only kind of humanism. I was recently in a panel discussion on classical education and one of the other panelists, when asked what was wrong with modern education, said, "Humanism." Humanism is exactly what is not wrong, either with the modern world or with modern education. In his book The Everlasting Man, G. K. Chesterton speaks of the sophistry that drives much of modern secular thought, a sophistry that works "first to soften the sharp transition from animals to men, and then to soften the sharp transition from Martin Cothran is the editor of The Classical Teacher and author of Traditional Logic Books I & II, Material Logic, and Classical Rhetoric.

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heathens to Christians." In other words, there are two distinctions essential to the Christian view of the world: that between man and beast, and that between God and man. It is these distinctions that modern thought obfuscates. What we need to understand about Greek thought is that it at least, unlike the paganism that preceded and still surrounded it, got the first part of this right: The Greeks knew the difference between man and beast. While other pagans were worshiping man-beasts fashioned out of stone―an idol with the body of a man and the head of a bird, or with the head of a man and the body of a lion― the Greeks alone among the pagans idealized the human form. "Wonderful are the world's wonders," said Sophocles, "but none more wonderful than man." Try to find in Greek statuary any such mongrel deities as those of the Egyptians or Babylonians, and you will look in vain. (Among the few exceptions are the centaur and the satyr, which largely served the symbolic purpose of representing the nature of man at his wildest and most bestial.) And while the Greeks did not understand the relation between the human and the divine—as evidenced by their own gods, who were merely men writ large—much of their philosophy and art reflected the subcreative imagination of beings made (though they did not know it) in the image of God. The humanism of the Greeks was remarkable for its belief in areté. This word has many shades of meaning, but it generally has the sense of some kind of human or moral

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excellence. To have areté was to live life according to one's essence or nature: It was the art of being human. Of course this assumed some kind of human ideal to which men were expected to approximate. The closer they approximated this ideal, the more they were thought to have areté. To the Greeks, human perfection involved two things primarily: strength and intelligence. These traits were on prominent display in the two works the Greeks looked to as the primary articulation of their ideals: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. It was the strength of Achilles and Ajax―and even the Trojan, Hector―that they admired, along with the craft and intelligence of "Odysseus of many wiles."

The Humanism of the Romans The Romans knew the Greeks to be their cultural superiors. They conquered the Greeks militarily, but intellectually and culturally the conquered were the conquerers. Well-to-do Romans sent their children to boarding schools in Greece to be educated, or employed well-educated Greek slaves to tutor them. And, like Russians in the nineteenth century who bowed to superior French culture and often spoke French in their homes, Greek was often spoken in Roman homes. Consequently, the Romans imbibed much of Greek culture and made it their own. The Romans, too, believed in a human ideal, although its makeup was slightly different from that of the Greeks. The Romans, like the Greeks, were humanists. The Romans called this human ideal humanitas (literally, "humanity"). The old Romans were people of civil order, and filial and sacred obligation. Unlike the Greeks, who speculated about the idea of the Good, the Romans were people of practical virtue. They brought Greek philosophy down to earth. Theirs was an ethical, more than an intellectual, culture, with Aeneas as their model. He was known to schoolboys as "Pious Aeneas" up until the beginning of the twentieth century. He was a Trojan prince who, in Virgil's epic Aeneid, flees the burning city of Troy, his father on his back and his family in tow, and who founds the "new" Troy on the banks of the Tiber River. Although the Romans bowed to the superiority of the Greeks in philosophy and art, they excelled them in administration and efficiency. The study of the Romans is a study in political and ethical man. The Romans, said Russell Kirk, "were a people of strong classical endowments, grand engineers, tireless political administrators, organizers of military success; most of all they were men of law and strong social institutions, who gave the world the pax romana, the Roman peace." If speculation was the watchword of the Greeks, it was order, both civil and moral, that characterized the Romans. Humanism Is Not the Problem

The Religion of the Hebrews But to this recipe for Western civilization, we must add the ingredient of the Hebrews. If the Greeks exemplified speculative man and the Romans practical, the Hebrews exemplified spiritual man. We look to the Hebrews to see how God deals with individuals and with nations. The Greeks speculated on the nature of wisdom and virtue; the Romans attempted to practice these ideals; the Hebrews alone among men knew their Author. The Greeks and Romans were the stepchildren of truth; the Hebrews were its natural offspring. Christianity came organically out of Judaism. But when the classical, pagan cultures of Greece and Rome were subsumed into Christianity, the fathers of the Church did not reject the best ideals of these cultures. The cardinal virtues―justice, temperance, courage, and prudence―were fully accepted by Christian thinkers, but at the same time they saw the insufficiency of these. To the cardinal virtues of the ancients they added the theological virtues: faith, hope, and charity. Rather than rejecting the concept of an ideal man, the Christians informed the concept with new life. While this human ideal for the Greeks and Romans was embodied in characters in stories written by men, the Christians could appeal to a character in a story written by God―a character who was not only real, but God in human flesh, the second Adam. While Achilles was born of a mortal father and an immortal mother, Christ was born of a mortal mother and an Immortal Father; while fictional Achilles was half-god, half-man, the historical Christ was "fully God and fully man."

of his higher possibilities. The gods of the Greeks were ill-conceived: products of their imaginations and projections of themselves. They worshiped deities made in their own image because they had no access to the revelation of the God in whose image they themselves were made. They had no revelation other than natural revelation, which could only take them so far. This understanding of man was an essential aspect of the classical worldview that was shared by Christian thinkers from Augustine and Thomas Aquinas to Richard Hooker, John Henry Newman, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien. It is why these thinkers are often called "Christian humanists." When Chesterton said that Christianity was the "fulfillment of paganism," this is what he meant: Not that Christianity was merely a further development of ancient paganism, but that Greek and Roman thought was the stunted form of a Truth that could be perceived but not truly known or understood until it was revealed in the full revelation of Christ. This is what Lewis meant too when he said that, in relation to Christianity, paganism was as a virgin, and modern secularism like a divorceé. While the Greeks and Romans accepted truths they had no way of truly knowing, modern secularism rejects the truth it has no excuse for not knowing. Modern thought, being fundamentally Darwinian, rejects any real distinction between man and animal, asserting that man is merely an animal, and rejects any distinction between man and God, contending that God does not exist at all. And it cannot accept the concept of an ideal man because it does not believe in man (the ideal), but only in men. In fact, it rejects all transcendent truth. Humanism is not the problem with modern education and culture; it is anti-humanism—not believing in a human ideal. While Christianity renounced the vices of the classical cultures, it did not reject their virtues. Modern thought rejects their virtues and has sought to revive their vices. This is why classical Christian education is needed today: to bring a fuller, Christian humanism to a generation which has abandoned it altogether.

While Christianity renounced the vices of the classical cultures, it did not reject their virtues. Modern thought rejects their virtues and has sought to revive their vices.

Christian Humanism The problem with classical humanism was not primarily that it was wrong—though it was in some cases—but rather that it was incomplete. This is something that we forget at our peril. It is not wrong to say that man is the highest and noblest of earthly creatures. He is, in fact, made in the image and likeness of God, and therefore he is all this―and more. The Greeks understood the proper metaphysical location of man―above the beast and below the divine. He was, as religious historian Mircea Eliade pointed out, the one animal who walks erect—a sign 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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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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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.

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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

(New American Cursive font)

$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.

Composition & Sketchbooks I-III

Ages 4-11, chronological age or skill level

Ages 6-12, chronological age or skill level

Ages 6-8, chronological age or skill level

$8.95

Beginner Journal $8.50 Intermediate Journal $8.50

$14.95

My Nature Journal

My Thankfulness Journals

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.

Cursive Practice Sheets (New American Cursive font)

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

Supplements Alphabet Wall Charts (11'' x 17'') Available in Manuscript (blue) or Cursive (green)

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Alphabet Wall Poster (22'' x 34'')

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

Manuscript and New American Cursive $7.00

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

Copybooks & Journals

SIMPLY CLASSICAL

EVANGELIUM AETERNUM by Cheryl Swope

ne evening my son came to me beaming: "Mom, you have to read this!" Earlier he had been "in a mood," so I had sent him to his room with clear instructions: "Do not to speak to anyone the rest of the night until you have read two chapters of your C. S. Lewis literature assignment for this week." C. S. Lewis often helps my son's thinking more effectively than I can, so I lean on the author heavily. Classically educated himself, Lewis expertly weaves truth into allegory that speaks to my son. Michael returned about an hour later, humble as if transfigured, ready to apologize and eager for me to read what he had seen. "I think it's Jesus," he said quietly. What I tell you is the evangelium [a]eternum. This has been known always: ancients and moderns bear witness to it. The stories of the Landlord in our own time are but a picture-writing which show to the people as much of the truth as they can understand. Stewards must have told you—though it seems that you neither heeded nor understood them—the legend of the Landlord's Son. They say that after eating of the mountain-apple and the earthquake, when things in our country had gone all awry, the Landlord's Son himself became one of his Father's tenants and lived among us, for no other purpose than that he should be killed. The Stewards themselves do not know clearly the meaning of their story; hence, if you ask them how the slaying of the Son should help us, they are driven to monstrous answers. But to us the meaning is clear and the story is beautiful. It is a picture of the life of the Spirit itself … for the whole world is nothing else than the Eternal thus giving itself to death that it may live—that we may live."1

Warring Within This was not the first time Lewis helped my son. Prone to sullenness, mood swings, and dabbling where he ought not, my son finds a sometimes reluctant solace in the writings of Lewis that heartily affirm all he learns, sings, and prays on Sunday mornings. Lewis has become a literary mentor in our home. A classical education is infused with eternal truths at every turn, and few accomplish this for us like this Christian writer. Respectful of a good book and its author, when Michael learned that Lewis wanted a person to read The Magician’s Nephew (Creation) prior to reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Redemption), Michael did. Good and evil war royally, majestically, spiritually in The Magician’s Nephew. Chilling portraits of the wickedly deceptive Jadis and her dangerously cruel tyranny sober the reader to silence. As we read, we realize the warring is not ethereal, but personal. "Let your world beware."2

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Then the sobered reader learns where to turn, as the children in Narnia look squarely into the face of Aslan. Miraculously, the gloriously warm and loving face of Aslan is as gracious and merciful as it is stern and just. In this my son finds comfort. So do I. The face seemed to be a sea of tossing gold in which they were floating, and such a sweetness and power rolled about them and over them and entered them that they felt they had never really been happy or wise or good, or even alive or awake, before.3

This is not just for the moment, we remember as we read. "As long as they both lived, if ever they were sad or afraid or angry, the thought of all that golden goodness … would come back and make them sure, deep down inside, that all was well."4 As a writer, C. S. Lewis never turns our children to himself but rather to our children's true source of life and hope. Only One can change—transfigure— our children in ways that matter for all time. "When he remembered the face of Aslan he did hope."⁵ This gives us hope.

Eternity As we continue to feed our children from the Fount of Goodness, we can look forward to the

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day when all necessary "ransacking of the Witch's fortress"⁶ will end for the eternal good of our child. Until that day, through hallowed teachings in the castle of our children’s minds we see "every door and window open and the light and the sweet spring air flooding in to all the dark and evil places which needed them so badly."⁷ When our own wisdom falters and our words fail us with our teens and older children, we can turn with confidence to those who think and write and breathe the faith more compassionately, more effectively, more beautifully than we do. We can lean on hymn writers, poets, writers of good literature, and especially the Holy Scriptures to give our children meaningful truth to refresh minds and nourish souls in ways that will continue to transfigure far beyond today.

C. S. Lewis, Pilgrim's Regress (Eerdmans, 1943), p. 129 C. S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew, (HarperTrophy, 1983), p. 194. The Magician’s Nephew, p. 194. The Magician’s Nephew, pp. 194-195. The Magician’s Nephew, p. 198. C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, (HarperTrophy, 1978), p. 171. 7 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, p. 171.

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WARDROBES ARE FOR GROWN-UPS TOO by Joseph Pearce

y any stretch of the imagination, and by any criteria, the Chronicles of Narnia are among the most popular books ever written. Several major surveys of the bestselling books of all time place The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in the Top Ten, a few places below The Lord of the Rings by C. S. Lewis' friend, J. R. R. Tolkien.1 Although exact global sales figures are hard to verify, it is estimated that 3.5 million copies of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe are sold annually around the world, in editions published in thirty-three languages, and these figures don't include the millions of copies of the other six titles in the series.2 Clearly it is no exaggeration to speak of a C. S. Lewis phenomenon or a C. S. Lewis industry. Such phenomenal success will do nothing to assuage the contempt with which the books are held by those who allow their judgment to be clouded

Joseph Pearce is the series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions, the Tolkien and Lewis Chair in Literary Studies at Holy Apostles College and Seminary, and the author of several biographies of major Christian literary figures.

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by the arrogance of ignorance. The response of such people was epitomized by the manner in which the triumph of The Lord of the Rings was greeted after it was voted "the greatest book of the century" in a nationwide poll in the UK in 1997. "Tolkienâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that's for children, isn't it?" scoffed the writer Howard Jacobson. "It just shows the folly of these polls, the folly of teaching people to read. Close all the libraries. Use the money for something else. It's another black day for British culture."3 Griff Rhys Jones on the BBC's Bookworm program was equally dismissive, stating that Tolkien's epic went no deeper than the "comforts and rituals of childhood,"4 a judgment he would no doubt extend to the Chronicles of Narnia. And yet, for all their superciliousness, and all their pride and prejudice, don't the critics have a point, at least where Narnia is concerned? Even if we concede that The Lord of the Rings is for grown-ups, surely the same can't be said of the Narnia books? Unlike The Lord of the Rings, the seven books that comprise MemoriaPress.com

the Chronicles of Narnia were written specifically for children. Surely they are just for kids. Not so, says anyone who sees the true value of fairy stories. Take G. K. Chesterton, for instance. Although he never had the pleasure of entering Narnia, having died before Narnia was born, we can be sure that he would have been one of its greatest champions. "[F]airy-tales are as normal as milk or bread," Chesterton wrote. Civilisation changes: but fairytales never change. Some of the details of the fairy-tale may seem odd to us; but its spirit is the spirit of folk-lore; and folk-lore is, in strict translation, the German for common sense. … The fairytale means extraordinary things as seen by ordinary people. The fairy-tale is full of mental health. … For all this fairy-tale business is simply the ancient and enduring system of human education. A seven-headed dragon is, perhaps, a very terrifying monster. But a child who has never heard about him is a much more terrifying monster than he is.5

If I were describing them in detail I could note many noble and healthy principles that arise from them. There is the chivalrous lesson of “Jack the Giant Killer”; that giants should be killed because they are gigantic. It is a manly mutiny against pride as such. … There is the lesson of “Cinderella,” which is the same as that of the Magnificat—exaltavit humiles ["he exalted the humble"]. There is the great lesson of “Beauty and the Beast”; that a thing must be loved before it is loveable. There is the terrible allegory of the “Sleeping Beauty,” which tells how the human creature was blessed with birthday gifts, yet cursed with death; and how death also may perhaps be softened to a sleep. But I am not concerned with any of the separate statutes of elfland, but with the whole spirit of its law, which I learnt before I could speak, and shall retain when I cannot write. I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.8

Fairy stories give us the moral framework necessary to see the world as it is, from the perspective of the way it should be.

Yes indeed! One thinks of that terrifying monster Eustace Clarence Scrubb at the beginning of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, who is much more terrible as a child than he is when he is transformed into a dragon later in the story. A few years later, Chesterton returned to the theme of fairy tales in the wonderful chapter, "The Ethics of Elfland," in his book Orthodoxy, a chapter that would greatly influence both Tolkien and Lewis. "Fairyland is nothing but the sunny country of common sense," he wrote. "It is not earth that judges heaven, but heaven that judges earth; so for me at least it was not earth that criticized elfland, but elfland that criticized the earth."6 Chesterton is not saying, of course, that heaven and the things of heaven are mere fairy stories. (Heaven forbid!) He is saying that heaven and the things of heaven, specifically the God of heaven, preceded the things of earth. The heavenly things came first. Indeed the heavenly Being made the earthly beings. Since the supernatural precedes the natural, and the natural proceeds from the supernatural, it is obvious that the supernatural supersedes the natural. This is why heaven judges earth and why earth does not judge heaven. The value of fairy stories is, therefore, discovered in the way that they reflect this heavenly reality. They serve as a lens by which the heavenly can be seen on the earth, a lens by which the deepest and most important realities are grasped. They allow us to judge evil from the perspective of the good, and the imperfect from the 1-877-862-1097

perspective of perfection. This is why Tolkien insisted that fairy stories are "plainly not primarily concerned with possibility, but with desirability."7 They show us what is from the perspective of what should be. "I deal here," Chesterton wrote, "with what ethic and philosophy come from being fed on fairy tales":

In other words, and to reiterate, fairy stories give us the moral framework necessary to see the world as it is, in all its glorious heights and goriest depths, from the perspective of the way it should be. We learn to value the underdog and spurn the tyrant; we learn that small things need to be defended from the power of the mighty. We learn to love the poor and rejoice in the exaltation of the humble; we learn that the ugly, the disfigured, and the disabled should be loved and not rejected; we learn that even the power of death can be defeated. Such lessons are not merely valuable and desirable, they are priceless and necessary. We are more than merely impoverished if we don’t receive such gifts—we are dehumanized. We become less than we should be, less than we are meant to be. We become dragons who devour the innocent and lay waste to the world around us. Christine Hall and Martin Coles, Children’s Reading Choices, London: Routledge, 1999, pp. 45-6. 2 Michael Ward, Planet Narnia, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, p. 224. 3 Sunday Times, January 26, 1997. 4 Bookworm, BBC1, July 27, 1997. 5 G.K. Chesterton, “Education by Fairy Tales,” Illustrated London News, November 18, 1905; reprinted in The Chesterton Review, Vol. XXVIII, nos. 1 & 2 (February/May 2002), p. 9. 6 G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1995, p. 54. 7 J.R.R. Tolkien, “On Fairy-Stories,” in J.R.R. Tolkien, Tree and Leaf, London: Unwin Paperbacks, 1988, p. 39. 8 Chesterton, Orthodoxy, p. 55. 1

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Revisit the Old World elegance of Irving's prose and the range of Poe's romanticism. Enjoy the Fireside Poets—Longfellow, Whittier, and Holmes. Rediscover the rich, varied authenticity of American literature with this anthology and study guide.

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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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The City of God

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

Acts of the Apostles (King James Version) The history of Christianity, particularly that of the early Church, is something every Christian should know. But when we 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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FINE ARTS

SO WHAT IF BEETHOVEN WAS DEAF? P by Carol Reynolds

eople often tell me they are teaching classical music through "Composer Studies," choosing one composer at a time, listening to his music, and reading about his life. But are biographies necessary or even a good tool for teaching the arts? Let me offer an example to explain why I am likely to say "no." Almost any child who knows Beethoven's name knows one specific fact: Beethoven was deaf. Kids are fascinated by this information and quickly develop an image of a man holding an ineffectual, trumpetshaped hearing device to his ear, desperately trying to hear the music he is writing. But this is wrong. First, a disclaimer: Few things are more fascinating for an adult to read than a thoroughly researched, Dr. Carol Reynolds is a speaker, an educator, and the widely acclaimed author of Discovering Music and other books on music, art, and architecture. She regularly leads arts tours throughout Europe and the Mediterranean for the Smithsonian Institute.

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well-written artist biography. Much understanding can be gained from such a book, not only of the subject, but of an entire era. Elementary and middle school students, however, do not yet read this kind of biography. Biographies for their ages are necessarily highly selective and simplified. Consequently, the "facts" that are presented can be problematic, distracting, or even distorting. Beethoven's deafness was real. But like many facts that children latch on to, it can be learned without context. Thus, wrong conclusions can be deduced. Similar cases might include memorizing facts about Van Gogh's self-mutilation of his ear or Bach's oftdescribed identity as the father of twenty children. In the case of Beethoven, children too easily conclude that he was great because he wrote music while deaf. They see overcoming this obstacle as his singular, miraculous achievement. Here's the truth about Beethoven's deafness: His loss of hearing began in young adulthood and MemoriaPress.com

progressed to the point of total deafness in his older years. It was a source of annoyance, frustration, and fear, as would be any medical handicap â&#x20AC;Ś but not because he couldn't hear to compose music. Beethoven from childhood had internalized the tones of string, wind, and percussion instruments. He knew the sounds and capacities of instruments like the organ and piano. And he understood how to wield vocal ranges and choral textures. B u t m o r e i m p o r t a n t l y, Beet hoven (like virt ually a ny composer) wrote music inside his head. If you stop and are quiet, you can replicate this experience, since most people can "hear" a familiar piece of music in their minds, whether it be a song, a dance, or a theme from a favorite movie. Yes, composers sometimes do use the stimulus of playing a keyboard (or other instrument) to reinforce their creative choices and test out sounds they are considering. But the physical sound waves from these instruments are rarely the source of a composer's ideas. Furthermore, composers usually draft their compositions on paper (or today in a computer-generated score). They wrestle internally with problems of form and content the same way writers do: try it, cross it out, try it again. Therefore, long after Beethoven was deaf, he could compose. He could sit at a piano and play through his works, hearing at least a version of them inside his head. He could still write a string quartet guided by his internal genius for compiling rhythm, harmony, melody, and form in extraordinary ways. Some scholars argue he could do it even better in his later "deaf" years, because he was not distracted by physical realities of the sounds, or more importantly, limitations of the instruments of his day. What he could not do, once fully deaf, was something flight attendants call a "cross-check." He could not double- and triple-check to make sure that the notes he had written would work well in an actual performance. He could not be sure that his coupling of an oboe and clarinet sounded as effective as he had intended in a given passage. He could not tell if a copyist had recorded a wrong note that his horn players were blithely reproducing. He also could not walk to the back of a hall during a rehearsal and assess the acoustical vagaries of the space where his music was to be performed. He had to rely on others for this information. Not surprisingly, his deafness made him grumpy, as such a limitation would make anyone. It made him

defensive and anti-social in the very years when he most needed his friends and patrons. He could not partake in social chit-chat or avail himself of opportunities such as crossing a drawing room to greet "Countess So-and-So" after overhearing a rumor that she was seeking a composer to write a festive overture. Such things had to be communicated in writing, or not communicated at all. The good news is that we moderns have inherited thousands of pages bearing one side of people's conversations with Beethoven, scribbled on miscellaneous sheets of paper and in little notebooks today called Konversationshefte (Conversation Books). It is a unique legacy. Does a child need to know all of this? Well, actually, I think so, or at least part of it. Otherwise I would discourage presenting the "Beethoven was deaf" badge as a starting point in introducing a student to his music. Like most biographical facts concerning any creative artist, it offers at best a very limited window of understanding. So much more could be learned from comparing Beethoven's music to Mozart's or Haydn's, or from discussing the enormous upheavals of Beethoven's time (which corresponded closely to the lifespan of Napoleon). None of this supersedes the power of the art itself to communicate. Children are very good at hearing, or seeing, that powerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;honing in exactly on what we might call the intrinsic value of an artistic creation. I've been amazed how many times I've witnessed young children identify shifts from major to minor keys, long before they have the vocabulary to do so. They respond instinctively to changes in tempo and orchestration. And they develop preferences very early about what is called texture in music: the stacking of musical voices from a "thin" or single melody line to a full palate of choral or orchestral lines woven together. Not only do children respond to the joyful, bombastic qualities of music, but they also embrace its poignancy. They gravitate towards what they like, yet they are marvelously open to the full gamut of artistic expression. So, yes, Beethoven went deaf. And yes, he was a musical genius, the like of which the world rarely sees. But the two facts are not connected in a causeand-effect relationship! If this example alone causes us to think more carefully about how we present an artist's biography, I'm willing to bet that Beethoven himself would smile.

Beethoven's deafness was real. But like many facts that children latch on to, it can be learned out of context.

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Enrich your child's primary educational experience with beautiful pieces of art from the most influential artistic movements in history, including the Renaissance, Romanticism, Impressionism, and more! These supplements are coordinated with our primary Classical Core Curriculum sets. Our art cards have been hugely popular: The best paintings by the best painters that you can hold in your hand. And now, we have printed larger versions of these beautiful paintings that you can display each week on your wall. Great art. Supersized.

Creating Art

Lessons & Projects for the Grammar Stage This curriculum is designed to challenge students and to develop an appreciation for art. Students will begin with color theory and basic art techniques. They will create projects that relate to literature, science, Mesopotamian and Egyptian art, portraits, landscapes, still life, and much more!

Early Sacred Music:

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From the Temple through the Middle Ages with Dr. Carol Reynolds

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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This course aims to deepen the student's appreciation of music by grounding the greatest pieces in the canon of Western classical music in their historical context, and by introducing the foundational musical concepts of notation, rhythm, pitch, form, and melody to give a fuller understanding of the inner workings of the pieces and of music in general. Students will listen to each piece of music and then read each chapter and listen to the corresponding tracks on the Audio Companion CDs, which will demonstrate the concepts discussed. The pieces are ordered mostly chronologically to illustrate the place each one holds in history and in the evolution of music.

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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

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300 Years of Interaction in Western Music, Arts, History, and Culture with Dr. Carol Reynolds This program features DVDs of Professor Carol as she travels the world using music as the window into the history of thought and culture, along with a unit-by-unit Teacher Manual to step you through it. Music has always been central to classical education, and by connecting music history to political and cultural history, we make all of history more memorable. Discovering Music brings Western culture alive for students. Course also available online. See MemoriaPress.com/DiscoveringMusic for details.

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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.

Young students love to study animals! Our Mammals Study Guide covers rodents, elephants, primates, marsupials, and much more! Students will answer comprehension questions and draw the animals they are studying. The Teacher Guide includes quizzes and tests.

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Study the anatomy of birds and how they live. The workbook includes facts to know, comprehension questions, and characteristics of each bird. Students will learn 31 common birds and several incredible birds! Add Tiner's Exploring the History of Medicine and make it a full-year science course: $72.00 set

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

$45.00 set (text, student, teacher) This introduction to natural history instills in the beginning student of biology a love for the beauty and order of the animal kingdom through the eyes of the classical naturalists.

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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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THE MYTH MADE FACT

BY LOUIS MARKOS

hough most readers are aware that C. S. Lewis spent many years as an atheist before becoming a Christian at the age of 32, fewer know that his conversion occurred in two distinct stages. Before embracing Christ

as the only-begotten Son of God, Lewis spent over a year as a theist, believing in the existence of God but still rejecting the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation. Among the events and influences that led Lewis to make the leap from theism to Christianity, the most important was a long evening talk he had with a close friend, a devout Roman Catholic named J. R. R. Tolkien.

As Lewis and Tolkien walked along the grounds of Magdalen College, Oxford, Lewis confided in Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, that his knowledge of mythology prevented him from accepting the gospel narrative as true. After all, the mythologies of the world were filled with stories of gods who came to earth, took on human form, died violent deaths, and returned again to life: Adonis, Osiris, Tammuz, Mithras, Balder, etc. Was not Christianity just another such myth, albeit a more sophisticated one? In response, Tolkien acknowledged the prevalence of god-men in pagan myths and legends, but then went on to suggest a different way of interpreting this phenomenon. What if, Tolkien challenged his skeptical friend, the reason the story of Christ sounded so similar to the pagan tales of dying and rising gods was because Jesus was the myth that came true? Tolkien's challenge revolutionized Lewis' way of viewing mythology and not many days would pass before he would surrender his life to Christ, the historical God-Man. No longer a stumbling block, the ancient Greek, Roman, and Norse tales that Lewis so loved would become for him one of the mainstays and bulwarks of his new faith. Rather than dismiss the miraculous elements of Christmas and Easter as

having no more historical validity than the scapegoat tales of Oedipus or Prometheus—as many moderns do—or reject the myths themselves as either irrelevant to faith or lies of the devil meant to deceive—as many Christians do—Lewis came to view the myths as glimpses, road signs, pointers to a greater truth that was someday to be revealed literally and historically in a specific time and place. For Lewis, it is just as vital that we proclaim and accept the full historicity of the Christian gospel as it is that we celebrate and experience its full mythic power. Yes, Lewis asserts, Christ is more than Balder, or Hercules or Dionysus, in the sense that His death and resurrection occurred in real time and had real consequences. But we must not allow His status as the historical Dying God to rob Him of His mythic splendor. Christ should speak not only to our rational, logical side, but to our sense of wonder and awe as well. If Christianity is true, then it means that the God who created both us and the universe chose to reveal Himself through a sacred story that resembles more the imaginative works of the epic poets and tragedians than the rational meditations of the philosophers and theologians. The historical enactment of the Passion did not render the old

Louis Markos (LouMarkos.com), Professor in English & Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University, holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities. His 18 books include On the Shoulders of Hobbits, Atheism on Trial, and two children's novels, The Dreaming Stone and In the Shadow of Troy, in which his kids become part of Greek mythology and the Iliad and Odyssey. This essay is adapted from the conclusion of his From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics, available from Memoria Press.

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pagan tales unclean; on the contrary, it had the reverse effect of baptizing and purifying them. The relationship between Mary and the baby Jesus has made potentially sacred the relationship between every mother and child, both B.C. and A.D.; in a like manner, the gospel story spreads out its light both forward and backward to uplift and ennoble all stories that speak of sacrifice and reconciliation, of messianic promise and eschatological hope. It was through the poetry of the Psalms and the Prophets, as well as through the more "epic" tales of the Old Testament—Abraham's long, circ uitous jour ney, Joseph and his brothers, the Passover and Exodus—that Yahweh prepared the hearts and minds of His people for the Incarnation of the Christ. Does it seem so unbelievable that He should have used the greatest poets, storytellers, and "prophets" of antiquity to prepare the hearts of the pagans? Indeed, as these pagans were without the Law and cut off from the direct (special) revelation given to the biblical writers, how else could God have reached them? Yes, God certainly spoke to them through the natural world (general revelation), but how was He to reach them at the deeper levels of their being? As Lewis argues in Book II, Chapter 3 of Mere Christianity, before the full revelation of Christ, God communicated with men in three basic ways: through their consciences, through His historical struggles with a single, chosen race of people (the Jews), and through what Lewis calls "good dreams: I mean those queer stories scattered all through the heathen religions about a god who dies and comes to life again and, by his death, has somehow given new life to men." Perhaps the most famous example of a pagan writer catching a glimpse of the myth that would become fact is to be found in Virgil's Fourth Eclogue (c. 40 B.C.), which celebrates the coming of a divine child who will bring peace and order to earth. Throughout the Middle Ages, Virgil's pre-Christian, Isaiah-like poem was interpreted as a pagan prophecy of Christ. In the twenty-second canto of the Purgatorio, Dante introduces us to Statius, a first-century pagan poet whom he portrays as having converted to Christianity late in life. Statius ascribes both his early yearnings for Christ and his final conversion, 66

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not to the Christian martyrs and theologians, but to Virgil. In an ecstatic, magic moment in which pagan myth reaches out to Christian fact and the two embrace, Statius exclaims: "You [Virgil] were the lamp that led me from that night. You led me forth to drink Parnassian waters; then on the road to God you shed your light. When you declared [in the Fourth Eclogue], 'A new birth has been given. Justice returns, and the first age of man. And a new progeny descends from Heaven'— you were as one who leads through the dark track holding the light behind—useless to you, precious to those who followed at your back. Through you I flowered to song and to belief."

Statius goes on to add that when he first heard the gospel preached, he hearkened to it immediately, for it agreed so well with what he had read in Virgil. In this lovely testimony of Statius, Virgil emerges as almost a Christ-figure, as one who sacrifices himself for others, who devotes his life to uncovering truths that, though useless to him, will provide light and guidance for those who come after. He is a bearer of good news, not of the full gospel of Christ, but of a lesser gospel that yet points to the greater: a candle that directs our eye to the moon; a moon that directs our soul to the sun. And what of today? Do we who live on this side of Calvary still need such mythic candles? I would say we do, that we need them even more, for the secular, rationalistic, postEnlightenment world in which we live has dissected, demythologized, and denied many of our most cherished myths. To make matters worse, Christians are often the first to distance themselves from that which is mythic, not, as they try to convince themselves, because they are believers, but because they have absorbed, usually unconsciously, the modern world's suspicion of fairy stories. Yet the hunger remains. Despite 250 years of Enlightenment rationalism, people still yearn for myth, and, if they yearn, then they can be wooed back: perhaps not directly to Christ, but at least to a pre-Christian mindset that will open the door for a later embrace of the historical God-Man. Childhood precedes adulthood as the seed the tree: just so, the pagan mind, whether B.C. or A.D., cannot perceive God face to face until it has first peered darkly into the crazy glass of myth. MemoriaPress.com

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