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Winter 2015-16 What Does Classical Education Mean Today?

Tracy Lee Simmons

What Is Classical Education?

Martin cothran

Herman melville's

literary Imagination Kyle M. Janke

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M

y wife and I live on a litt le hill on a country lane in Kentucky. From my front porch, which is surrounded by trees and flowers, I can see farmland for twenty miles or so. It is my favorite place to be. And my favorite thing to do is to sit there in my oak rocking chair and read on a summer afternoon.

I do it for no other reason than just to do it. I can sit there, listening to the birds, and ponder whatever book I happen to be in the middle of, which, right now, is William Faulkner's Light in August.

Of course, a good book is about more than what it's about. It points to realities larger than it describes. It makes you think about your life, or the lives of others, or the world around you. It can also make you think about God. What Faulkner made me think about was time. He uses it in his stories in a very interesting way, and the other day, I just had to close the book and ponder how we modern people think about the future.

The first problem with the way we think about the future is that, basically, that's all we think about.

We are always thinking about what we are going to do. We are always preparing for something that has not yet happened and is not yet happening. Everything we do seems to be for the sake of something else. We never do anything for its own sake.

Now there is nothing wrong with being prepared, but it would be kind of nice if what we were always preparing for would actually come to be so that we could enjoy it. We seem to spend our whole lives this way, always looking forward, sometimes looking back (usually to help us look forward better), but we never exist in the present.

When does now come?

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I was reminded of this little existential reflection recently when listening to a friend talk about whether schools should be wasting their time with things like literature and philosophy. He didn't mention it in his little diatribe, but he could easily have included the fine arts in his indictment.

In fact, it is interesting that the term "fine arts" refers to things done for their own sake. The word "fine" comes from the Latin finis, which means "end," as opposed to "means". Fine arts—for example, dancing, painting, architecture, music, poetry— means, literally, things done for their own sake. They are things we do, not in order to produce or bring about anything else; They are their own end.

We don't place the humanities—literature, history, and philosophy—under the fine arts, but they are similar in this regard: They too serve, to a great extent, as ends in themselves.

Why are we so tempted to think that school should be about means only, and not ends? We think that studying, say, business is worthwhile because it can help us make money. Or computer science because it will help us get a job.

In fact, we have our priorities upside down. The things that are really worth something—those for which we do everything else—are the very things we think are less valuable.

But what's wrong with spending some time in a curriculum studying the things that are worthwhile in themselves—those we would do once we had worked for years and had enough money?

Well, that's enough pondering. I've got to get back to Faulkner.

Now.

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LATIN

by Martin Cothran

If you are a classical educator—either a teacher in a school or a homeschooler—there is one question you will be asked again and again: Why teach Latin?

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his is probably because there seems on the surface to be no practical reason for doing it.

Why would we consider studying Latin with so many other priorities in our modern curriculum, like science, and math, and composition?

We could tell people about the sense of accomplishment our students will experience once they learn to read Virgil's Aeneid. But although it would be true to point that out, it is, unfortunately, not the kind of answer most parents are looking for. They are looking for something a little more down to earth.

So what do you tell them? Here's what I tell them.

T he FiRST ReaSon There are three reasons to study Latin in an academic curriculum. The first has to do with vocabulary. Over 60 percent of academic English is Latinate. That means that the words, although part of the English language, originally come from Latin.

As I write this, I am picking up an academic book I happen to have on the table near me. I have opened it up to a random page and am looking at a random paragraph. Here are a few of the words I notice immediately: "century" (from centum, meaning "one hundred"), "order" (from ordo, meaning "row," "rank,"

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"arrangment"), erode (from erodere, "to gnaw away," "consume")—and that's just in the first sentence.

There are some longer, harder words too: "predecessor" (from prae, meaning "before," and decessor, meaning "retiring official"), "evolution" (from evolutio, meaning "unrolling [of a book or scroll])"; and "envisage" (from in, meaning "in," and videre, meaning "to see"). All of these are from the second sentence.

These Latinate words are accompanied by a few mostly Greek and Anglo-Saxon words (these latter mostly from the French). A knowledge of Latin will help you not only to know many complex English words you have never seen before—as may be the case for a student with a word like "envisage"—but it will also help you to see deeper into the meaning of words you already know—as may be the case with a word like "evolution." Did you know before reading the previous paragraph that "evolution" had anything to do with the unrolling of a book or scroll?

Most of our vernacular language—the language we speak every day—is Anglo-Saxon. Why not learn Anglo Saxon? Wouldn't that have greater practical use? The problem is that Anglo-Saxon words don't carry meaning with them from word to word. Words like "light," "bright," "night," and "sight" all have the

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A study of Latin grammar is the best and easiest way to learn English grammar.

Anglo-Saxon "igh," but that doesn't help you from word to word. These four words have no relation in meaning to one another. If you learn the meaning of the root word for "bright," in other words (berht), you will be learning nothing about the meaning of the English word "bright."

Learning the Old Saxon behrt will only give you insight into "bright," but not about any other word with "igh" in it. Learning one Anglo-Saxon word will only help you with one English word. But learning one Latin word will help you with numerous English words. If you learn the meaning of the Latin word pater ("father"), you will know something not only about the English word "father," but about the words "patriarchy," "patrician," "patriot," "patronage," "paternal," "patristic," and so on.

Latin, then, is the most efficient method of studying English vocabulary.

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grammar in another language: because it prevents you from assuming too much. The unfamiliarity of a new language forces you to look at every word and think carefully at every step about how sentences must be put together.

Despite having been taught English grammar repeatedly over a number of years, the only grammar I knew when I graduated from high school was what I had learned after taking two years of Spanish and two years of German.

Second, English is very irregular and idiosyncratic.

It has a hidden grammar, but you have to fuss around with it and reorganize it in order to see it. There are five main functions of nouns, represented by the T he Second Reason five main Latin cases: nominative, objective, dative, possessive, and vocative. They are entirely hidden The second reason to learn Latin is that a study of in English, but you need to know them in order to Latin grammar is the best and easiest way to learn know such things as whether to use "who" or English grammar. "whom," and whether you should say, "It Now on the surface this doesn't seem to make much sense. Why wouldn't was he" or "It was him."

Latin, then, studying English grammar teach This is why we use sentence is the most you English grammar better than diagrams to teach English studying Latin grammar? There grammar. The process of efficient method of are several reasons for this. learning English grammar is just First, it is hard to learn the too abstract and cumbersome, studying English which is why most students never grammar of your own language. vocabulary. learn it very well.

By the time you are ready to study It would be far better to teach grammar (which you can't do to any grammar in a language in which the great extent until at least the third grade), grammar isn't hidden, in which you don't have to you already know how to speak English and write turn the language this way and that in order to see it at a rudimentary level, so you tend to look right the grammar in it. But not all languages are this way. through it. This is why it is always better to study

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The rules usually apply, but there are too many times In Spanish for example (and this would go equally when they don't. In Latin, however—particularly at for French), it was easy for me to understand the the basic level—there are very few exceptions. You grammar of verbs, but since Spanish, like English (and can almost always count on getting the right answer French), has little noun inflection, nouns were still a by simply applying the correct rule. This provides mystery to me. students with a safe grammar world in which to And by the way, "inflected" just means adding operate. There is regularity and order—like the Roman endings to show noun function. In English, if I say, people themselves.

"The boy loves the girl," "boy" is in the nominative case (the case of the subject—the boy is doing the T he T hird Reason loving) and is spelled b-o-y. If I say, "The girl loves the And this order is essential when we consider the boy," "boy" is now in the objective case (the case of the final of our three reasons for studying Latin: The study direct object—the boy is now receiving the loving), of Latin grammar is an unparalleled study in critical but it is spelled the same way: b-o-y. The only way I thinking. This is because of its complex grammar. can tell that it is in the nominative or objective case is Think about it. What do we do in terms of a where it appears in the sentence. I cannot know, just systematic, organized study on the language side from looking at the word, what case it is in. of our curriculum that matches in complexity and In an inflected language, I don't need to know sophistication what we do on the science side of our where the word is in a sentence in order to know curriculum in, say, mathematics? Every homeschool what case it is in. I can just look at the word. In parent can tell you how nervous they get when German, the word itself changes: In "Der Junge liebt breaking open the 8th or 9th or 10th grade math text das Mädchen," "Boy" is "Junge." It is in the nominative and trying to prepare to teach it. This is why everyone case, since it is the subject. But in "Das Mädchen liebt thinks that mathematics helps you learn how to think den Jungen" ("the girl loves the boy"), notice that critically. What language subject matches "boy," which was spelled J-u-n-g-e in the algebra for organization and complexity? first sentence, is now spelled J-u-n-gIs there anything on the qualitative side e-n. Why? Because that is the spelling The study of of our curriculum (as opposed to the in the objective case, since the boy quantitative, math-science side) that is now the direct object, and the Latin grammar matches geometry? case of the direct object is the Unless you are studying Latin, objective case. is an unparalleled the answers are probably, "Nothing," This is because German is study in critical and "None," and "No." Again, you an inflected language: Its nouns could do this in German or Russian change their endings depending thinking. or Greek, or any number of other on their function in the sentence inflected languages, but when you (what we mean by "case"). One of the consider the problem of the irregularity of things studying German does, therefore, these languages, you lose some of the similarities is force you to learn noun cases—cases you with math, which, like Latin, is very regular. Math is don't see in English. English assumes noun cases a good thinking skills subject, not only because it is but doesn't show them to you—nor does Spanish or complex, but because it always follows the rules.

French. But German doesn't just assume them—it There are two basic thinking skills: analysis shows them to you. And so you learn noun cases by and synthesis—contrast and comparison—making learning German declensions, the lists of noun forms distinctions and seeing similarities. Like math, Latin according to gender, number and case. is full of it. Matching a Latin adjective with the noun So why not learn German rather than Latin? it modifies means you have to identify the declension After all, German has the advantage that people of your adjective and the declension of your noun. still actually speak it. Well, for one thing, although Then you have to match them in case, gender, and there are a few German words in our language, it number. Just count the number of distinctions doesn't even compare to Latin in this respect. But you have to make in order to do this one thing— more importantly (and the third reason we use Latin distinctions which must be made to bring the two grammar to teach English grammar), Latin has words grammatically together. something that German doesn't: regularity.

Vocabulary, grammar, and thinking skills. What Like most languages (and English may be the other subject in the curriculum does so many things? worst example), German has a lot of exceptions in it.

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Henle Latin I

Advanced Christian Latin by Robert Henle

Henle Latin I Text $16.95 Henle Latin I Key $5.00 *Henle Grammar $9.50 Units 1-2 Study Guide $14.95 Units 1-2 Test/Quiz Package $9.95 Units 3-5 Study Guide $14.95 Units 3-5 Test/Quiz Package $9.95 Units 6-14 Study Guide $14.95 Units 6-14 Test/Quiz Package $9.95

An Ideal Latin Sequence Primary Grammar Prep Grades 2+ Grades 3+

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, and students enjoy the mixture of Christian and classical content.

Need a little more guidance on how to use Henle? Our student guides will tell the student what to do at every step of the way. Each is broken down into 30 weekly lessons with daily student activities. Detailed, thorough, and well-organized, with check-off boxes for completed work, these guides will ease your transition into Henle.

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.

p. 4

*Latina Christiana I

p. 5

(Beginning program for grades 3-6)

Grammar Stage Memorize the Latin grammar

*used all 4 years

$28.45 set (text, grammar, & key)

*Prima Latina (Beginning program for grades 1-4)

Grades 4+ Grades 5+

*First Form Latin

p. 6

(Beginning program for grades 5-12)

Second Form Latin

p. 6

Logic Stage How to use the grammar - syntax & translation skills

Grades 6+ Grades 7+ Grades 8+

Third Form Latin

p. 7

Fourth Form Latin/Henle I (syntax & Caesar prep)

Henle II

pp. 7 & 11

p. 11

(Caesar) or *Henle Latin I for those beginning Latin in grades 8+

Rhetoric Stage Read Latin literature

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

Henle Latin III-IV:

Henle Latin II

Advanced Christian Latin by Robert Henle

$17.95 set (Henle II text & key) 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.

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

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Grades 10+

Henle III

Grades 11+

Ovid

Grades 12+

AP Virgil

(Caesar)

p. 11

(Cicero)

p. 11

French Grades 5-8

Henle Latin IV Text $15.95 Henle Latin IV Key $5.00

by Cheryl Lowe

Introduction $9.95 Level I $14.95 Level II $19.95

Henle II

$17.95 set (Henle IV text & key)

Memoria Press Guides to the National Latin Exam

Grades 5+

Grades 9+

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.

Student $17.50 ea.

Teacher $17.50 ea.

CD $8.95 ea.

First Start French I-II

Introduction to the French Language

by Danielle Schultz

$43.95 set

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

Modeled after the Latina Christiana format, each of the lessons covers 10-15 vocabulary words, a French saying or proverb, a grammar form, and a short dialogue in French. Your students will practice conversation, reading and translation, and are introduced to French culture.

The Teacher Manual helps keep you ahead of your student, while quizzes and answer keys make it easy to check progress.

Latin & French

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Greek Grades 3+

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

Elementary Greek Program

Greek Alphabet Book

by Christine Gatchell

by Cheryl Lowe

The Greek alphabet is different enough from our own to be a major impediment to the study of Greek.

Our Greek Alphabet Book is a tour of the Greek letters, their formation, and sounds. 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.

$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 III Text $18.95 Year III Workbook $12.95

Choose from Finally, a Greek text that’s both simple and substantial! Designed to be used Years I, II, or III: as a full course for teaching children as young as third grade, Elementary Greek Audio CD $8.95 ea. may also serve as a self-teaching program for teens and adults. No previous Flashcards $12.95 per set 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 Grades 4+

All Ages

Grades 6-8

$14.95

$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 and First Form Latin.

The Book of Roots

Greek & Latin

by Cheryl Lowe

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

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

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Roots of English

Lingua Biblica:

Old Testament Stories in Latin

by Martin Cothran

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

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

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

Greek Alphabet Charts 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.

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New Preschool for 2-3 year-olds

Looking for something to keep your preschooler busy while your older students complete their school work? Here it is!

We have modified Cheryl Swope's Simply Classical Level A so that it can be used by all families who want to give their preschoolers a gentle introduction to school. This program introduces numbers, colors, and shapes, and is a great precursor to the Memoria Press Jr. Kindergarten program.

Preschool $225 Complete Set (all books + Curriculum Manual) $30 Curriculum Manual (only) • Preschool: Curriculum Manual • Prayers for Children • Jesus Is With Me • Jesus Hears Me • Jesus Knows Me • Big Red Barn • The Best Mouse Cookie • Little Fur Family • Bunny's Noisy Book • From Head to Toe • Goodnight Moon • Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?

• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? • Numbers, Colors, Shapes

New from the

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

Grades 3+

Grades K-2

Student $14.95 Teacher $16.95 The World of Animals $24.99 What Is a Mammal? $7.95 What Is the Animal Kingdom? $7.95

Kindergarten $35.00 First Grade $35.00 Second Grade $35.00 Coordinates with Memoria Press Art Cards on page 48.

Mammals: Lessons from The World of Animals

11"x17" Art Posters

Young students love to study animals, so we thought a study of mammals in grammar school would make for an exciting year. Our Mammals Study Guide uses The World of Animals as the primary text, alongside What Is the Animal Kingdom? and What Is a Mammal? (See full description on p. 48)

Our art cards have been hugely popular: The best paintings by the best painters that you can hold in your hand. But wouldn't it be nice if, in addition, you could have larger versions of these beautiful paintings to put on your wall? Great art. Supersized. We're on it.

Grades K-2

Grade 3

$24.95

$19.95

Phonics Flashcards (5.5"x4.25")

Creating Art: Lessons & Projects for the Grammar Stage

There are nearly 200 phonograms used to spell our 44 English sounds.

The nine phonogram categories in this set are organized for easy reference and 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.

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!

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Classical Core Curriculum

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$140

$330

Jr. Kindergarten

Kindergarten

$140 Complete Set (all books + Curriculum Manual) $45 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $30 Curriculum Manual (only)

$330 Complete Set (all books + Curriculum Manual) $80 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $30 Curriculum Manual (only)

• Jr. Kindergarten Curriculum Manual • Counting With Numbers • Inside and Outside • Prayers for Children • Alphabet Books 1 & 2 • Coloring Books: Alphabet & Numbers • Richard Scarry's Best Mother Goose Ever • Big Thoughts for Little People (Devotional) • Hailstones and Halibut Bones (Poetry) • Memoria Press Manuscript Wall Charts • Alphabet Flashcards • The Book of Crafts: Jr. K Supplemental Read-Aloud Program $340.00 A set of 34 classic picture books chosen for their beauty in prose and illustration.

A great addition to any children's library, one book is read aloud and discussed each week in Jr. Kindergarten.

• Kindergarten Curriculum Manual • Kindergarten Enrichment Guide • Copybook I • Composition & Sketchbook I • The Golden Children's Bible • Christian Liberty Nature Reader (Book K) • Animal Alphabet Coloring Book • First Start Reading: A, B, C, D & Teacher Guide • Classical Phonics & Core Skills Phonics K & 1 • Primary Phonics Readers Sets 1-4 (40 books total) • Rod & Staff Beginning Arithmetic 1: Student (Part 1), Teacher, & Practice Sheets • Numbers Books 1 & 2 • Soft and White, Fun in the Sun, & Scamp and Tramp • 1/2" ruled penmanship tablet • Kindergarten Art Cards • The Book of Crafts: Kindergarten Supplements: • Read-Aloud Set without Poetry $275 • Read-Aloud Set with Poetry $295 • Science & Enrichment Set $325 • Art Posters $35

Jr. K

Reading & Phonics Alphabet Books (p. 30) Alphabet Coloring Book (p. 30) Richard Scarry's Mother Goose Hailstones and Halibut Bones

Prayers for Children Big Thoughts for Little People

K

Core Skills Phonics K-1 Classical Phonics (p. 31) First Start Reading (p. 31) Animal Alphabet Coloring American Language Readers Nature Reader K Primary Phonics Readers

1st

Core Skills Phonics 2-3 Classical Phonics (p. 31) Spelling Workout B 1st Grade Literature Set (p. 42) Supplemental readers

2nd 14

Christian Studies

Spelling Workout C Classical Phonics (p. 31) 2nd Grade Literature Set (p. 42)

Classical Core Curriculum

The Golden Children's Bible (p. 23)

The Golden Children's Bible (p. 23)

Latin Prima Latina (p. 4)

The Golden Children's Bible (p. 23)

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$365

$370

1st Gr ade

2nd Gr ade

$365 Complete Set (all books + Curriculum Manual) $105 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $315 Continuing MP Student Set $30 Curriculum Manual (only)

$370 Complete Set (all books + Curriculum Manual) $130 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $340 Continuing MP Student Set $30 Curriculum Manual (only)

• First Grade Curriculum Manual • Phonics Guide for Reading and Spelling • First Grade Enrichment Guide • Copybook II and Composition & Sketchbook II • New American Cursive 1 • The Golden Children's Bible • Classical Phonics & Primary Phonics Readers Sets 5-6 (20 books total) • Core Skills Phonics 2 • Spelling Workout B (student, teacher) • Rod & Staff Beginning Arithmetic 1: Student (Parts 1-2), Teacher, & Practice Sheets • First Grade Literature: Study Guides w/ Novels (StoryTime & More StoryTime) • A Little House Christmas Treasury • Christmas in the Big Woods • Winter on the Farm • 1/2" ruled penmanship tablet • First Grade Art Cards • Alphabet Wall Poster

• Second Grade Curriculum Manual • Second Grade Worksheets (Phonics & Spelling Worksheets & Lists) • Second Grade Enrichment Guide • Spelling Workout C (student, teacher) • Prima Latina complete set • Prima Latina Copybook • Copybook Cursive Scripture and Poems • Composition & Sketchbook II • New American Cursive 2 • The Golden Children's Bible • Rod & Staff Math 2: Student (Units 1-5), Teacher, & Blacklines • Classical Phonics • Second Grade Literature: Study Guide Sets w/ Novels • 1/2" ruled penmanship tablet • Second Grade Art Cards Supplements: • Read-Aloud Set without Poetry $290 • Read-Aloud Set with Poetry $305 • Science & Enrichment Complete Set $350 • Science & Enrichment Continuing Set $175 • Art Posters $35

Supplements: • Read-Aloud Set without Poetry $290 • Read-Aloud Set with Poetry $305 • Science & Enrichment Complete Set $350 • Science & Enrichment Continuing Set $250 • Art Posters $35

Writing & Penmanship

Math

Alphabet Books (p. 30)

Copybook I (p. 32) Composition & Sketchbook (p. 32)

Copybook II (p. 32) Composition & Sketchbook (p. 32) New American Cursive 1 (p. 33)

Prima Latina Copybook (p. 4) Copybook Cursive I (p. 32) Composition & Sketchbook (p. 32) New American Cursive 2 (p. 33)

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Enrichment Numbers Coloring Book (p. 30) Counting With Numbers Inside and Outside

Book of Crafts (p. 30) Alphabet Flashcards (p. 30)

Numbers Books (p. 30) Rod & Staff Math 1, Part 1

Art Cards (p. 48) Kindergarten Enrichment (p. 31)

Rod & Staff Math 1, Parts 1-2

Art Cards (p. 48) First Grade Enrichment (p. 31) Alphabet Wall Poster (p. 32)

Rod & Staff Math 2

Second Grade Enrichment (p. 31) Art Cards (p. 48)

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$400

$300

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4th Gr ade

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

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

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

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

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

*Those transitioning to our Classical Core Curriculum in 4th grade should complete the Fourth Grade for New Users package, which can be found at MemoriaPress.com.

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

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

Classical & Christian Studies

3rd

Latin

Supplements:

Greek Myths, Christian Studies I, and the Timeline Set (pp. 23, 24, 27)

5th

First Form Latin (p. 6)

Famous Men of Rome (p. 24) Christian Studies II (p. 23)

6th

4th

Latina Christiana I (p. 5)

Second Form Latin (p. 6)

Famous Men of the Middle Ages (p. 25) Christian Studies III (p. 23)

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Literature Farmer Boy Charlotte's Web A Bear Called Paddington Mr. Popper's Penguins (p. 42)

The Cricket in Times Square Homer Price The Blue Fairy Book Dangerous Journey (p. 42)

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Heidi Lassie Come-Home (p. 42)

Adam of the Road Robin Hood The Door in the Wall King Arthur (p. 42)

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$425

5th Gr ade

6th Gr ade

$400 Complete Set (all books + Curriculum Manual) $130 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $30 Curriculum Manual (only)

$425 Complete Set (all books + Curriculum Manual) $150 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $30 Curriculum Manual (only) • Sixth Grade Curriculum Manual • Second Form Latin complete set • Sixth Grade Literature: Study Guides w/ Novels • Famous Men of the Middle Ages set + Flashcards • Christian Studies III set • Rod & Staff Math 6 set (student, teacher, tests, quizzes) • Spelling Workout G set (student, teacher) • English Grammar Recitation Workbook III set (student, teacher) • Geography II set (student, teacher) + Geography I Review set (student, teacher) • What's That Bird? set, Exploring the History of Medicine set • Classical Composition: The Chreia/Maxim Stage set

• Fifth Grade Curriculum Manual • First Form Latin complete set • Fifth Grade Literature: Study Guides w/ Novels • Famous Men of Rome set + Flashcards • Christian Studies II set • United States Review set • Geography I set • Rod & Staff Math 5 set (student, teacher, tests) • Spelling Workout F set (student, teacher) • English Grammar Recitation Workbook II set (student, teacher) • Book of Insects set • Classical Composition: The Narrative Stage set

Resources Included in Previous Year Packages:

Resources Included in Previous Year Packages:

• Timeline Program $39.95 (included in 3rd grade) • Poetry for the Grammar Stage set $30.00 (included in 3rd grade) • English Grammar Recitation $9.95 (included in 3rd grade)

• Timeline Program $39.95 (included in 3rd grade) • Poetry for the Grammar Stage set $30.00 (included in 3rd grade) • English Grammar Recitation $9.95 (included in 3rd grade) • The Golden Children's Bible $17.99 (included in K-2nd grade)

Supplements: • Read-Aloud Program $50.00 • Story of the World, Vol. 3 $16.95 (summer reading before 7th grade)

Supplements: • Read-Aloud Program $100.00 • Story of the World, Vol. 2 $16.95 (summer reading before 6th grade)

English

Spelling Spelling Workout D

English Grammar Recitation, Workbook I (p. 44) Spelling Workout E

Writing & Penmanship All Things Fun & Fascinating (p. 44) New American Cursive 3 (p. 33)

Modern St.

Math

Science

Rod & Staff Math 3

Mammals (p. 48)

Rod & Staff Math 4

Book of Astronomy (p. 48)

States & Capitals (p. 47)

Classical Composition: Fable Stage (p. 45) Copybook Cursive II (p. 32)

English Grammar, Workbook II (p. 44)

Spelling Workout F

Classical Composition: Narrative Stage (p. 45)

Geography I (p. 47)

Rod & Staff Math 5

Book of Insects (p. 48)

English Grammar, Workbook III (p. 44)

Spelling Workout G

Classical Composition: Chreia/Maxim Stage (p. 45)

Geography II (p. 47)

Rod & Staff Math 6

What's That Bird? and The History of Medicine (p. 49)

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$450

$475

7th Gr ade

8th Gr ade

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

$475 Complete Set (all books + Curriculum Manual) $150 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $30 Curriculum Manual (only)

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

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

• Timeline Program $39.95 (included in 3rd grade) • Poetry for the Grammar Stage set $30.00 (included in 3rd grade)

• Henle Latin I set $28.45

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

English, Spelling, & Writing

Rod & Staff English 8 (used for 7th & 8th grade)

Classical Composition: Common Topic (p. 45)

Latin & Greek Book of Trees; Exploring the World of Biology (p. 49)

Classical Composition: Refutation-Confirmation (p. 45) Spelling Workout H

7th 8th

Science

Exploring Planet Earth (p. 49)

Literature & Poe (pp. 7, 12) Third Form Latin; Greek Alphabet Book

Fourth Form Latin (p. 7)

9th

Logic

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Classical Composition: Encomium, Invective, & Comparison (p. 45)

Classical Core Curriculum

Traditional Logic I & II (p. 50)

Novare Physical Science (p. 49)

Henle Latin II; Latin Grammar for the Grammar Stage (pp. 11, 12)

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Don't need an entire package?

Lesson Plans by Subject $3.00 - $15.00 per subject Memoria Press' lesson plans by subject allow you to tailor the Classical Core Curriculum to your own needs. These plans retain our week-at-a-glance layout, which gives you the standard program for that grade for individual subjects.

OR 9th Gr ade $800 Complete Set (all books + Curriculum Manual) $150 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $30 Curriculum Manual (only) • Ninth Grade Curriculum Manual • Henle II (text, key, lesson plans, & quizzes) • Latin Grammar for the Grammar Stage • Ninth Grade Literature: Study Guides w/ Novels • Book of the Ancient Romans set • The Aeneid set • The Middle Ages • Poetry, Prose, & Drama Book One set • Classical Composition: Encomium, Invective, & Comparison set • Algebra II (text, quizzes, key) • Story of Christianity set • A Concise History of the American Republic, Year 1 set • Novare Physical Science (text & CD) • Traditional Logic I set • Traditional Logic II set

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Grades 1-8

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The Story of the World by Susan Wise Bauer Volume 1: Ancient Times Volume 2: The Middle Ages

Volume 3: Early Modern Times Volume 4: The Modern Age

Susan Wise Bauer's Story of the World fits perfectly as an overview to the time periods students study in our Classical Core packages (pp. 16-18). They make great supplemental summer reading!

Poetry

Classical & Christian Studies (p. 43) The Trojan War; Anne of Green Gables; The Bronze Bow; The Hobbit

(p. 43-44) Treasure Island; The Wind in the Willows; Adventures of Tom Sawyer; As You Like It; Poetry & Short Stories (pp. 25, 43-44) Beowulf, the Warrior; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; The Canterbury Tales; Henry V; Poetry, Prose, & Drama; The Book of the Middle Ages

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Modern Studies

(pp. 24, 26, 23) Famous Men of Greece; Horatius at the Bridge; Christian Studies IV

Math

The Story of the Thirteen Colonies & the Great Republic; 200 Questions About American History (p. 46)

PreAlgebra

(pp. 24, 26) The Book of the Ancient World and Ancient Greeks; The Iliad; The Odyssey

Geography III (p. 47)

Algebra 1

(pp. 25, 26, 23) The Book of the Ancient Romans; The Aeneid; The Story of Christianity

A Concise History of the American Republic, Year 1 (p. 46)

Algebra 2

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What Is Classical Education?

by Martin Cothran

I read a magazine article recently in which the reporter went to two Christian colleges, one a more standard Christian college, and another with an explicitly classical emphasis. When asked what their objectives were, the first college answered, “To save America.” The second answered, “To save Western civilization.”

Why is this significant? It is significant because the second school realized that our problem is not of recent origin and that it isn't unique to this country.

The decline in our country and our culture is much more fundamental than most people think. And this decline has a lot to do with changes in education over the last century.

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Today’s Education Education As It Used to Be If we were to visit a good American or English school about a hundred years ago, we would find it focused exclusively on one thing: reading classic literature in the original languages. This was what we now call the old “classical education.” It taught students how to think and what to do. It was an education in wisdom and virtue. Students learned Latin and Greek— and through this they learned a set of vocabulary that undergirds all academic language, and they learned the inherent structure of the grammar common to all languages, including their own.

They also learned the mental skills required to make the fine grammatical distinctions characteristic of these two inflected languages. Having mastered Greek and Latin, they then read, analyzed, and discussed the actions of great men. As always, the chief questions asked about the actions of every great man or woman—the questions every child asks when first reading about a character—were "Was he good or bad? Why did he act as he did? Who was affected by his actions? What were the circumstances? What should he have done differently? What would you have done differently?" This was an education in wisdom and virtue.

In the book which was the first textbook of education, Homer’s Iliad, Phoenix, the teacher of Achilles (modeled after the legendary Chiron, the wise centaur who, it was said, taught many of the Greek heroes) reminds Achilles, at a moment of crisis in his life, of what the hero’s father had commanded the old teacher to teach him. He was charged, says Phoenix, to teach Achilles “to be a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.”

This ideal—the man who would think truly and act rightly—was the goal of Greek education. This was the education of the Romans and the Greeks (and everyone who lived in the Hellenic world, including the Jews). It was the education of the Christian Middle Ages, of the American Founding Fathers, and of their Puritan predecessors. It was the prevailing education into the early 20th century before it was gradually thrown out over a period of about 40 years.

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Today, a new philosophy controls our schools. Its purpose is much different from the purpose of classical education. Today’s schools are about two things: progressivism and pragmatism. Progressivism is a political program that can be seen in an emphasis on political correctness and multiculturalism. Pragmatism is a vocational program that can be seen in an emphasis on job training and employment skills.

Today’s education is almost a direct inversion of the old classical emphasis on how to think and what to do; the political and vocational emphases of today’s education teach students, not how to think and what to do, but what to think and how to do. Its political goal is to use schools to change culture, and its practical goal is to change students to fit the culture.

The goal of classical education was very different.

It was not interested in changing culture or fitting children to a culture. Its goal was to pass on a culture—and one culture in particular: the culture of the Christian West.

How Classical Education Works In classical education, students read the classics.

They focus their attention on what the Victorian scholar Matt hew Arnold called "the best which has been thought and said." In Western civilization, our focus should be on what I call the “three cultures”: Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem—the Greeks, the Romans, and the Hebrews.

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cases) other than your own, usually Latin and Greek.

But why study these cultures? We should study Logic was the study of the structure and rules of the Greeks because the Greeks were the archetype of rational thought, and this was done by studying the philosophical and literary man. They were the original Aristotelian system of traditional logic. Rhetoric was philosophers and poets. Every great idea—and every the study of the rules of persuasion, and this was done lousy one—came from some Greek somewhere. All by focusing on writers such as Aristotle, the great you’ve got to do is trace it back. theoretician of rhetoric, Quintilian, the great teacher of Why study the Romans? We study the Romans rhetoric, and Cicero, the great practitioner of rhetoric. because the Romans were the archetype of practical, You would also study St. Augustine, political man. They were the road Classical education who used the skills he learned from builders and the republicans of ancient these great thinkers to articulate times. These are the people who ran the teaches students Christian truths. world for a thousand years. They ran the how to think and The Quadrivium (the last four of the most enduring government history has seven liberal arts) consists of arithmetic ever seen. In fact, the Founding Fathers what to do. (the study of discrete number), used the old Roman republic as their geometry (the study of continuous number), music model in constructing the American government. (the application of discrete number), and astronomy Why study the Hebrews? We study the Hebrews (the application of continuous number). because they are the archetype of spiritual man. From The Trivium consisted of the arts of language, and them we learn how God deals with individuals and the Quadrivium, the arts of mathematics. The first with nations. was qualitative, and the second quantitative. Together In studying these three cultures, classical education they were considered to equip a thinker to approach does not ignore American history and culture. In fact, any other subject. in order to fully understand American civilization, The most important employment skills—and the a knowledge of these three cultures is crucial since, skills that many employers say are the hardest to find as political philosopher Russell Kirk has pointed out, today—are basic thinking skills. This was what a liberal all three of them were essential in the forming of arts education taught. The goal of classical education, our thought, our political institutions, and our moral then, is the study of the classics in the original languages principles. We study these three cultures and the great and the liberal arts: the best that has been thought and works they produced because they constitute our said, and the intellectual skills that equip a student heritage as Western people. to think critically. It is the cultivation of wisdom and Lynne Cheney, former head of the National virtue through the study of the great books and the Endowment of the Humanities under Ronald Reagan, development of basic critical thinking skills in order to once said that if you graduate from school not pass on and preserve Western civilization. knowing what Western civilization is, then you are Classical education is making a comeback. More not really educated. She was right. and more parents have realized that their children are Nor does classical education ignore the skills being shortchanged in our schools. And needed to get a job. In addition to studying the more of them are realizing that it was great books and the stories of great men, classical not always this way. education also studies the liberal arts. The liberal arts include grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. These are the The Great Tradition: generalizable intellectual skills that you Classic Readings in What use no matter what subject you are It Means to Be an Educated studying or what you do.

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Christian Studies Grades 3-6 Student $17.95 ea.

Teacher $20.95 ea.

Golden Children's Bible $17.99

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

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

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

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

Grades 6-8

Grades 8+

Grades 9+

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Text $15.00 Student $14.95 Teacher $16.95

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Christian Studies IV:

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

The Story of Christianity:

The Wars of the Jews:

David Bentley Hart gives a scholarly but readable portrait of the Christian Church, from its origins in Judaism to the "house churches" in contemporary China. This overview is perfect for study before delving into the more difficult church historians such as Josephus and Eusebius.

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

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

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

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

The Fall of Jerusalem by Josephus

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Grades 10-12

Grades 8+

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

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History of the Early Church

The City of God

Acts of the Apostles

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

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.

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

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Introduction to Classical Studies Grades 3-8

Grades 3-8

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Text $19.95 Student $17.95 Teacher $17.95 Flashcards $12.95

Introduction to Classical Studies

D'Aulaires' Greek Myths

$79.95 set (student & teacher guides, Famous Men of Rome, D'Aulaires' Greek Myths,

$45.95 set (text, student, teacher)

Golden Children's Bible)

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

Perfect course for older students needing to catch up.

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

Famous Men Series Grades 4-8

Grades 5-8

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Famous Men of Rome

Famous Men of Greece

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

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

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Grades 6+

Grades 6+

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The Book of the Ancient World

The Book of the Ancient Greeks

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$39.95 set (text, student, teacher)

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

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

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If you don’t begin your classical education until middle or high school, we would suggest that you start with Year 5 and move forward from there. Before beginning your study of the classics, it is always helpful if your student has a basic knowledge of Greek mythology (D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths [p. 24]) and has read a retelling of the Trojan War (Olivia Coolidge’s The Trojan War [p. 26]).

Classical Studies Suggested Timeline Year 1

D'Aulaires' Greek Myths

Year 2

Famous Men of Rome

Year 3

Famous Men of the Middle Ages

Year 4

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

Year 5

Iliad, Odyssey, and The Book of the Ancient Greeks

Year 6

The Aeneid and The Book of the Ancient Romans

Year 7

Greek Plays (Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus)

Year 8

The Divine Comedy (Dante)

Grades 5-8

Grades 6-8

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Famous Men of the Middle Ages

Famous Men of Modern Times

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$39.95 set (text, student, teacher)

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

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

Grades 6+

Grades 6+

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The Book of the Ancient Romans

The Book of the Middle Ages

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

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

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Classical Literature Grades 6+

Grades 6-8

Grades 6-8

Book $14.95 Medal $5.00 Lapel Pin $2.00

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The Aeneid for Boys & Girls Horatius at the Bridge

The Trojan War by Olivia Coolidge

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

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

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

$19.95 set (book, medal, pin)

Grades 8+ Text $13.00 Student $16.95 Teacher $16.95 DVDs $45.00

Grades 7+

Samuel Butler translation

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

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

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

The Aeneid

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

Grades 9+

Grades 9+

Grades 9+

Text $13.00 Student $17.95 Teacher $17.95

Text $14.00 Student $17.95 Teacher $17.95

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The Oresteian Trilogy

The Three Theban Plays

Medea & Other Plays

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

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

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

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

Here is the revenge of Medea and Hecabe, and the exciting adventures of Heracles in the Underworld.

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

The Iliad & Odyssey

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

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

by Alfred J. Church

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by Sophocles, Translated by Robert Fagles

by Euripides, Translated by Philip Vellacott

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Grades 10+

Grades 10+

Grades 10+

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The Divine Comedy

On Obligations

The Republic & the Laws

The Divine Comedy is one of the crown jewels of both Western and Christian literature.

This epic, allegorical poem illustrates Dante’s spiritual journey of redemption that takes him through the pit of Hell (the Inferno) to the Beatific Vision of God (the Paradiso). The Student Guide contains helpful study questions, and reading notes for difficult lines.

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

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

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

by Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi translation

by Cicero, Translated by P. G. Walsh

by Cicero, Translated by Niall Rudd

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

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

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

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

To be completed over four years.

Timeline Handbook: Teaching guidelines, charts by grade and time period, and summaries of each event.

Timeline Flashcards: One side has the date and the reverse side has the event. These cards are color-coded to the Timeline Wall Cards.

Timeline Wall Cards shown above. More samples: www.MemoriaPress.com.

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

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Large Wall Maps (22'' x 34'') $35.00 Small Wall Maps (11'' x 17'') $19.95

Ancient Civilization Wall Maps

Christian Studies Wall Maps

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

Since understanding geography is important to Biblical studies, we have developed a set of five Christian Studies wall maps. They include three maps for the Old Testament and two for the New Testament.

These maps are an ideal supplement for Memoria Press' Christian Studies I-IV or for any Bible program.

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Alphabet & Numbers Recommended for Ages 4-5

Recommended for Kindergarten

$30.00 (2-book set)

$30.00 (2-book set)

Alphabet Books (Part I & Part II)

Numbers Books (Part I & Part II)

by Leigh Lowe

by Leigh Lowe

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

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

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

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

$14.95

Recommended for Ages 4-5

$10.00

Numbers $6.00 Alphabet $6.00

Alphabet Wall Charts (11'' x 17'') Manuscript

Visual aids reinforce each letter of the alphabet while young students learn to read and write or practice their penmanship. With beautiful letters, colors, and simple hand-drawn illustrations, they also make great educational posters for your home or classroom!

Alphabet Flashcards (4Ÿ'' x 5½")

Coloring Books

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

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

Also try our Alphabet Wall Poster (page 32).

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Classical Core Curriculum supplement

Classical Core Curriculum supplement

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

Jr. K Book of Crafts $16.95 Kindergarten Book of Crafts $16.95

Scissors Books

The Book of Crafts

Help your child develop hand strength, fine-motor skills, and independence with one or both books in this set. In My Very First Scissors Book, the child learns to open and close his scissors to cut along thick lines which fade, grow wavy, and create shapes as the pages progress. In My Very Own Scissors Book, the activities coordinate with alphabet lessons in Simply Classical Curriculum Level C (p. 39) or may serve as a useful precursor to the Jr. Kindergarten Book of Crafts. Both books feature perforated pages and large "cutting boxes" to promote the child's success.

These crafts have been carefully chosen to promote skill growth and coordination, but the most important component is fun.

Includes a craft project for each read-aloud in our Jr. K and Kindergarten programs, and additional crafts that focus on art concepts.

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Reading & Phonics Grades K-2 $15.95

Classical Phonics First Start Reading

Phonics, Reading, and Printing

by Cheryl Lowe Recommended for Kindergarten

$42.95 set (Books A, B, C, & D + Teacher Guide) Your children can begin reading instantly as they progress through 4 simple student books and 34 phonetic stories. The Teacher Guide includes helpful assessments, tips, and more!

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consonants short & long vowels 57 common words manuscript printing artist-drawn coloring pictures drawing pages for every letter

FSR is a balanced, age-appropriate approach to phonics and reading, with a serious focus on correct pencil grip and letter formation.

Also, while many phonics programs today use the ladder approach (consonant-vowel blending), we prefer the more traditional (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. *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.

A Child's Guide to Word Mastery

by Cheryl Lowe Classical Phonics consists of phoneticallyarranged word lists for students to practice their growing word recognition skills. In a word list there are no context clues, so the learner must rely on his mastery of letter sounds. If your child can pronounce each word in this list correctly, he knows his short vowel sounds, and you can move on to long vowels! Classical Phonics is the most effective tool we know of to address the repetition that young ones need when learning to read. It can be used as a supplement to any phonics program and covers nearly all English phonograms and sounds taught through second grade.

Phonics Flashcards (5.5"x4.25") Grades K-2 $24.95

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.

Perfect for any phonics program!

Phonics from A-Z

$25.99

Phonics from A to Z is a readable and accessible manual for parents and teachers who want to go deeper into the subject of phonics and reading. It begins with a succinct history of the controversies surrounding phonics, followed by a wealth of information on every aspect of how children best learn to read. It provides reliable, accurate, and common-sense advice as well as extensive lists of resources that will ensure that you can teach reading successfully. This is the best resource on teaching phonics and reading we have ever found. Highly recommended, especially for schools that may need multiple strategies to meet the needs of all students.

Classical Core Curriculum supplement Kindergarten $19.95 1st Grade $19.95 2nd Grade $19.95

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 composers, and poetry lessons.

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Copybooks Grades K-2

Grades 1-4

Grades K-6

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$14.95 ea.

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Copybooks I-III

Copybook Cursive I & II

$39.95 set (Copybooks I-III)

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

(New American Cursive font)

by Cheryl & Leigh Lowe

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

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

Ages 4-11, chronological age or skill level

Ages 6-12, chronological age or skill level

$8.95

Beginner Journal $8.50 Intermediate Journal $8.50

My Nature Journal

by Cheryl Swope

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

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

My Thankfulness Journals

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

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

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

Supplements $14.95

(New American Cursive font)

by Cheryl Swope

Alphabet Wall Charts

These journals let students practice their cursive writing while thinking about God's daily blessings in their lives. Each page begins "Dear Heavenly Father," and closes, "Your child," with space for the child's signature.

In between is room for students to list their blessings each day. The Intermediate Journal is a smaller font size and has less tracing as students progress.

These wall charts match our manuscript Alphabet Wall Charts, using the New American Cursive font. With beautiful letters, colors, and hand-drawn illustrations, they also make great educational posters!

(New American Cursive font) (11'' x 17'')

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What does classical education mean today?

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hat does classical education mean today?

We find that, in an uninstructed age, the old regimen needs not only defending but also defining. Once classical education pointed to an elite course of instruction based upon Greek and Latin, the two great languages of the classical world. But it also delved into the history, philosophy, literature, and the art of the Greek and Roman worlds, affording over time to the more perspicacious devotees a remarkably high degree of cultural understanding, an understanding that endured and marked the learner for life.

Classical education was classical immersion.

Students in the great and exclusive Public Schools of England were once made to learn far more about the archons of Greek city-states and emperors of Rome, and commit to memory far more lines of Greek and Roman poetry and drama, than they ever had to learn about Tudors and Stuarts, about Chaucer and Shakespeare. But the languages never took second seat: mastering them came first, and doing so became the crowning achievement of a classical education. Why? Because knowledge and information were not quite enough.

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Classical education did not set itself to instilling knowledge alone; it also sought to polish and refine.

And neither rigor nor beauty in one's use of language were obtained firmly without Greek and Latin.

Together they provided both a mental gymnastic and a training in taste.

Today we use the term licentiously. We apply "classic" or "classical" to anything we believe to be excellent and universal. Once I was asked my field of study. "Classics," I replied. To which my interlocutor responded, "Oh, you mean Dickens, Melville, and all that?"—a response common and understandable now.

Sic semper verbis. Also, the field of classics, while still signifying the old meaning (Greek and Latin) to most of the intellectually inclined, has been extended to embrace a study of the classical world innocent of the languages, a sense we readily recognize in university course catalogues as "Classical Civ." and "Classical Literature," both customarily indicating (often fine) courses of reading in translation.

Thus nowadays may classical education refer to something not linked to the classical world at all and get equated with what might once have been simply called traditional or orthodox education. This is schooling based on "classics," on books of the Great Tradition, an education that serves to inform us of the best works of our civilization and to provide us with models for spotting ethical and aesthetic norms. These two functions the valuable "Great Books" programs try to perform. Used in this way, classical education describes the quest for what has also been called a "liberal education" or, more particularly, an education in the "humanities." And now legions of well-intending homeschoolers rush to put dibs on the term and bask in the light of the glory they believe it to exude. To many homeschoolers, "classical education" simply means the opposite of whatever is going on in those dreaded public schools. We can sympathize with them. I will only say to all these good people that extending "classical" to mark an approach or course of study without reference to Greek and Latin seems an unnecessarily promiscuous usage. But I am afraid we're stuck with it.

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Here I trust the reader will allow me the archaism of reverting to the older definition of classical education as a curriculum grounded upon—if not strictly limited to—Greek, Latin, and the study of the civilization from which they arose. For though my allies have appropriated the term for good purposes, I can find no other that carries the weight of classical study as does "classics," the pursuit of which results, if we're lucky, in a "classical education." To use any other term would also break my rule of respecting the past, not to mention causing a semantic severance with generations of men and women who used the term quite differently and, I think, more accurately. I'll stick to the antique ways.

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ount Parnassus, a limestone mass hovering over the ancient shrine of Delphi, has stood as a prime symbol of poetic inspiration and perfection since the dawn of the West. It fixed anxious eyes on the heavens. The Castalian spring, being a sacred source of life-sustaining water, trickled far below. The hushed tones of ritual echoed from its slopes. But over time it came to embody those things which man, at his best, wishes—and ought to wish— to achieve. It became a sign of his better, divinely inspired self. While representing the unattainable for most pilgrims, Parnassus also pointed to those

The classical course held sway over the Western mind for centuries, right up until three or four generations ago.

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treasures bestowed by the muses upon the faithful and diligent ones who wait and work. "Climbing Parnassus" eventually became a code for the painfully glorious exertions of Greek and Latin.

The hard, precipitous path of classical education ideally led not to knowledge alone, but to the cultivation of mind and spirit. Knowledge did not, in and of itself, justify the sweat. The climb was meant to transform one's intellectual and aesthetic nature as well. The classical course held sway over the Western mind for centuries, right up until three or four generations ago. Much of our intellectual history from the Dark Ages, through the Renaissance, and on to the modern world witnessed the assiduous spadework of clerics and lay scholars alike reaching back to the ancient world to retrieve, preserve, and propagate the wealth of learning and experience it held. And the classical languages enshrining that wealth had to be taught. Thus a classical education was the queen of all scholastic endeavors; it constituted the original humanities curriculum. Whatever hodgepodge of diverse and disconnected topics humanistic studies have become—their emaciated children now simply called "the humanities"—they were once, first and last, a prolonged inquiry into Greek and Roman achievements in literature, history, thought, and art.

That path is still a valid one to tread.

Yet this too we must admit all these centuries later.

Classical claims, while bolstered to tradition and intellectual coherence alike, cannot be advanced with proof. They are not the stuff of Venn diagrams. We cannot cash them at the bank. A classical education is different in kind to the training of a technician, where the trained man demonstrates his training with a testable skill. This, we may say, is training in the narrow sense, not an education—and many people today, without admitting it, prefer training to education, and they must have their heart's desire.

Much of the value of classics we must take on the witness of mellowed experience. Arguing this case now is partly an impressionistic exercise; it always has been. A firm knowledge of the classical languages, history, and culture will not of

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itself create virtue. It cannot shine a light into corners we have elected to keep dark, nor into those that cannot be illumined. But this knowledge can form the mind and light a path to understanding. For it is noble to rediscover and attend to the voices of the past. We ignore them to our peril and to the peril of all those whom we would presume to teach. Without a finely tuned and oft-nourished sense of the past, both near and distant, we have no culture.

air, and that only the seemingly brittle splendor of the spirit can long endure." The classical world is a richly instructive model of civilized life. We are bound as heirs to ask anew what made it great, with all its faults, and why it expired, with all its strengths. Who knows?

We may find ourselves on the decks of our own listing ship someday. 

Classical education again needs defending. We labor, after all, under the modern and, for this reason,  rarely challenged belief that the classical world and its works have limbing Parnassus $15.00 little to teach anyone but specialists, once helped to form the Climbing Parnassus: scholars, and teachers of classics. Let unformed mind. The A New Apologia for there be no mistake. For well over arduous ascent fostered intellectual Greek and Latin a century, classicists themselves and aesthetic culture within those

by Tracy Lee Simmons have helped to create this fix. who had endured the strain. It They have encouraged classical helped to bring mental and even teaching emulating the methods emotional order out of chaos. And of technicians. They have tried to habituate classics to a classical training still provides the surest footing the halls of science and, in doing so, have ignored or for the education of nations. The foundations of the obscured those humanizing balms many of us believe modern world are viewed more competently from this classics to apply. If indeed classical study is to consist height. Poetry, drama, democracy, idealism, scientific merely, and for everyone, in nothing but memorizing curiosity, and so much else furnishing our minds are grammar or toting up the number of slaves lugging better grasped, and better judged. We drift without amphorae in the Athens of Pericles, then truly classics classics, floating on our own deracinated exiguous has become a domain of specialists only, warranting islands. And we become fodder for demagogues. We no more—though no less—reverence and respect than need not a revolution, but a restoration. any other worthwhile scholarly pursuit. This is the way The classical pursuit fosters gratitude for the many professional classicists would have it be, to which fruits of the past and feeds the sense that we stand we can say only that they have their reward. on the shoulders of giants. The student of history gains a means of judging other times seriously and  fairly. He learns to see that a civilized culture is a delicately poised edifice, a fragile creation, erected ulture does not breathe on its own; it is with monumental exertion, yet easily destroyed. preserved by those convinced of its value.

The historian Christopher Dawson once wrote that This is not a new gospel. It is simply true. culture—in the older sense here—is "an artificial The classical vision has been renewed time and product. It is like a city that has been built up again down the long centuries after having been laboriously by the work of successive generations, not a threatened with extinction by prophets touting their jungle which has grown up spontaneously by the blind New Jerusalems. pressure of natural forces. It is the essence of culture For centuries classical education set about the task that it is communicated and acquired, and although it is of teaching the noble arts of the mind and heart, and inherited by one generation from another, it is a social it can do so again. Those arts are not dead. They're not a biological inheritance, a tradition of learning, merely hibernating. A clever and ingenious world an accumulated capital of knowledge." And one, we must find within itself once more the humility to may add, always in danger of perishing. The Greeks learn—and to teach—those noble arts if any semblance dream, in the words of Werner Jaeger, of "building a of civilization, any shard of inner greatness, is to state so skillfully that it might keep strength and spirit survive the havoc wrought by generations of aphasia in perpetual equipoise," while recognizing that "even and well-meaning neglect. We can regain our memory the most solid of earthly powers must vanish into the and tell its tales to those waiting to hear.

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A Case for Silliness Far and few, far and few Are the lands where the Jumblies live. ­— Edward Lear

Amidst all the academic rigor, children need a little nonsense. Not only do we love to hear our children giggle, nonsense stretches a child’s mind. A little silliness can take them to unexpected, liberating places.

We could research scientific strategies for children prone to cognitive rigidity, but we already have one remedy readily available to us: silliness.

Silliness ameliorates the overly literal mind, as absurdity promotes wonder. Consider the ridiculously tall tree grown from a single small seed. G. K. Chesterton writes, “So long as we regard a tree as an obvious thing, naturally and seasonably created for a giraffe to eat, we cannot properly wonder at it. It is when we consider it as a prodigious wave of the living soil sprawling up to the skies for no reason in particular that we take off our hats....”[1] Nonsensical rhymes and silly songs, when crafted in the loveliness of “rich, moral soil,” can suspend a child's over-reliance on the logical, so that he may explore the implausible and unfathomable. Over time, this may assist his apprehension of spiritual truths. Chesterton explains, “Nonsense and faith (strange as the conjunction may seem) are the two supreme symbolic assertions of the truth that to draw out the soul of things with a syllogism is as impossible as to draw out Leviathan with a hook.”[2] We read stories from Holy Scripture so that children may become captivated by One greater than our own understanding.

Wonder welcomes us. We hear the invitation, “Come unto me,” from the very God who became Man. Sharing the ultimate mystery—the incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus Christ for us—allows our children to be eternally embraced by the truly Wonderful (Isaiah 9:6).

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!

If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand.

When I awake, I am still with thee.

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H

erman Melville is often criticized for his long digressions in Moby-Dick.

But Melville does not digress. His thoughts—even six hundred pages of his thoughts—really were worth writing down. My students, holding the inches-thick volume in their hands and perusing the table of contents, have trouble believing this. Nevertheless, when I teach Melville’s great work, I begin with this assertion: He does not digress. Yet, in the eyes of the student, what idea can possibly justify one hundred, thirty-five chapters of text? This is a very honest and fundamental question. The answer lies buried in the text itself, provided one learns how to look.

As a literature teacher, my primary goal is to cultivate in students an appreciation for the human imagination and its unparalleled power to convey truth. This requires looking deeply into a text, past its sheer size and even its most tangible subject matter, to the greater significance beneath the surface. Melville’s novel proves invaluable as a means of training students to read in this way. He addresses his work directly to the reader’s imagination and, in doing so, defends the very practice of telling stories. His novel works as an apology for the human imagination, developing in the student a literary mind able to perceive and appreciate the truths apparent only through fiction. Moby-Dick derives its meaning and its greatness not from its sheer volume, but rather from its robust study of the human imagination and the titanic monster that is its subject.

Of course, I cannot wholly disagree that Melville appears to digress in his novel, but certain massive subjects justify the kind of extended attention Melville gives to his Leviathan. The sheer mass of the novel is commensurate with its high purpose. Often, readers interpret Melville’s great work as a sort of encyclopedic rapture with the whaling industry, but Moby-Dick is not primarily about whaling. Indeed, the true subject of its verbosity appears quite early in the text. In the first chapter, while discoursing on the general significance of the sea, Melville writes, with utmost simplicity: “There is magic in it.”

He goes on to explain: Were Niagara but a cataract of sand, would you travel your thousand miles to see it? Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate whether to buy him a coat, which he sadly needed, or invest his money in a pedestrian trip to Rockaway Beach? Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea?

Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and make him the own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning.

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Melville, as an author, interests himself in the whale’s massive presence in the human imagination because its shape indicates to us our own humanity.

Note Melville's use of the word "promiscuously."

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by Kyle M. Janke and practicality, but only fiction can show us ourselves, and that not what we are naturally, but what we ought to be.

Picture the power of a whale: its ease in the water, its size and strength. Picture also the man who hunts it: his courage, mad will, and wild ambition. The force This last sentence expresses the core motivation of these images tends towards two significant inquiries, behind Moby-Dick and the object that inspires and these two together express humanity: What Melville's excited diversions. Melville witnesses a keeps us from pride, and what keeps us from despair? world remarkably full of meaning. He cannot help Scientific observation—that is, “veritable gospel but remark. It might really be that simple: He sees cetology”—can show us the whale, yet it cannot tell us magic—that is, meaning in the world that is greater how we ought to respond. It cannot answer our deepest than ourselves, our industry, and our science. You questions. Literature, however, considering both of can believe the rumors about his having been paid these questions, attempts to position mankind properly by the page if you want; it does not matter if they are in relation to nature. For this reason, the ambiguous true. The breadth of Melville’s writing reflects the posture of humanity is metaphorically represented profundity of his vision. throughout Moby-Dick, a feature that forms the long and The object of this vision appears even before the arching backbone of the novel. Humanity yearns for opening chapter, in the prologue entitled “Extracts.” the ocean in Chapter One, wavers between shore and In this segment, Melville dedicates his opening lines storm in Twenty-Three, aspires to Heaven, plummets to the entirety of the human imagination pertaining to Earth in Thirty-Five, struggles against dependency to whales. “Extracts” contains a thorough list of in Seventy-Two, finds peace at the frenzy’s heart in references to Leviathan—that great monster of the Eighty-Seven, and is all the while shaped throughout deep—from Scripture, science, song, and literature the book’s entirety between the two opposing figures throughout history. He neither portrays himself of Captain Ahab, named for a king, and Ishmael, the as a whale-man nor as a poet, but rather as a “mere lowest of sailors. What is a human: a regal being or a painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor lowly creature? No, Melville does not digress. devil of a [Sub-Sub-Librarian].” He is not He remains enduringly faithful to one central primarily interested in the physical whale Only fiction inquiry throughout his text. or the technicalities of whaling, but The first mate, Starbuck, says it best: rather in the creature’s monumental can show us “Let faith oust fact. Starbuck looks deep symbolic force and the dramatic ourselves, and that down and does believe.” Through our pageant of its capture. Moby-Dick not what we are imagination of the monsters of the deep, does not describe the whale, but naturally, but what we feel strongly our desire to be what rather the massive presence of the we are not—to be what we ought to be. monster in the human imagination. we ought to be.

Deep beneath the surface of this text, as Melville’s novel is not about whaling: though beneath the raucous waves of the sea, It is about literature itself. Melville, who rests serenely man’s humility and wonder at his own knows whales, still finds greater attributes in the being. The profundity of this perception—often missed human being, and not one of his one hundred thirtybecause it does lie deep—lifts Moby-Dick like a buoy five chapters fails at a symbolic representation of this to the crests of literary achievement. By it, Melville most complex creature. Concerning the object of his conveys feelingly the true merit of imagination and its interest, Melville writes: ability to figure both the destruction of human pride Therefore you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy-piggledy and the restoration of human glory. It takes a literary whale statements, however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable mind to navigate the sink and swell of such a wave. For gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extracts are solely valuable or this reason, Melville compels his readers to look at our entertaining, as affording a glancing bird’s eye view of what has been world with his own vehement fascination: “Surely all promiscuously said, thought, fancied, and sung of Leviathan, by many this is not without meaning!” nations and generations, including our own.

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Student Guides $11.95 ea.

Teacher Key $12.95 Animal Folk Tales of America $12.95 Prairie School $3.99 The Courage of Sarah Noble $4.99 Little House in the Big Woods $6.99 Beatrix Potter novels $6.99 ea.

Animal Folk Tales of America

Prairie School

The Courage Little House in Tales from of Sarah Noble the Big Woods Beatrix Potter

Grammar School Literature

Grade 3 $95 Set (student & teacher guides)

$125 Set + Novels

Student Guides $11.95 ea.

Teacher Guides $12.95 ea.

Farmer Boy $8.99 Charlotte's Web $8.99 A Bear Called Paddington $9.99 Mr. Popper's Penguins $6.99

(guides & novels)

Grade 4 $95 Set (student & teacher guides)

$137 Set + Novels

$69 Set (student & teacher guides)

$94 Set + Novels

$95 Set (student & teacher guides)

$118 Set + Novels (guides & novels)

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Literature

A Bear Called Paddington

Mr. Popper's Penguins

The Cricket in Times Square

Homer Price

The Blue Fairy Book

Dangerous Journey

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Heidi

Lassie Come-Home

Adam of the Road

The Door in the Wall

Robin Hood

Student Guides $11.95 ea.

Teacher Guides $12.95 ea.

Heidi $4.99 Lassie Come-Home $7.99 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe $8.99

(guides & novels)

Grade 6

Charlotte's Web

Student Guides $11.95 ea.

Teacher Guides $12.95 ea.

The Cricket in Times Square $6.99 Homer Price $5.99 The Blue Fairy Book $10.00 Dangerous Journey $25.00

(guides & novels)

Grade 5

Farmer Boy

Student Guides $11.95 ea.

Teacher Guides $12.95 ea.

Adam of the Road $6.99 Robin Hood $4.99 The Door in the Wall $5.99 King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table $4.99

King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table

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developing Superior Readers

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eading requires an active, discriminating mind that is challenged to think, compare, and contrast. Students who have been challenged by good literature will develop into superior readers and will never be satisfied with poor-quality books. Each novel has been carefully selected to nourish your child's soul and improve his reading skills. The study guides focus on vocabulary, spelling, comprehension, and composition—skills that train students to become active readers.

$10 MIX &

MATCH

Mix and match any 10 (or more) Memoria Press literature guides and the price drops to $10 each!

upper School Literature

Grade 7 $95 Set (student & teacher guides)

$129 Set + Novels

Student Guides $11.95 ea.

Teacher Guides $12.95 ea.

Anne of Green Gables $9.95 The Hobbit $10.99 The Trojan War $6.95 The Bronze Bow $6.95

(guides & novels)

Grade 8 $95 Set (student & teacher guides)

$129 Set + Novels (guides & novels)

Grade 9 $95 Set (student & teacher guides)

$140 Set + Novels (guides & novels)

Student Guides $11.95 ea.

Teacher Guides $12.95 ea.

The Wind in the Willows $9.95 Treasure Island $9.95 As You Like It $9.95 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer $9.95

Student Guides $11.95 ea.

Teacher Guides $12.95 ea.

Beowulf, the Warrior $10.95 The Canterbury Tales $14.95 Henry V $5.99 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight $11.00

The Trojan War

Anne of Green Gables

The Bronze Bow

The Hobbit

Treasure Island

The Wind in the Willows

As You Like It

The Adventures of Tom Sawer

Beowulf, the Warrior

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

The Canterbury Tales

Henry V

Alternative Literature Choices

Grades 3-4

Grades 5-7

Grades 8+

Grades 9+

Grades 9+

Grades 9+

Grades 9+

The Moffats

The Twenty-One Balloons

To Kill a Mockingbird

Robinson Crusoe Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $7.95

The Merchant of Venice

The Scarlet Letter

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $14.99

A Midsummer Night's Dream Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $9.95

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $5.95

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $6.95

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Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $6.99

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Novel $7.95

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Composition Grades 1-2

Grades 3-5

Grades 3-5

$29.00

$29.00

$189.00

Bible Heroes: Writing Lessons in Structure and Style

All Things Fun & Fascinating: Writing

Teaching Writing:

Humorous characters and fascinating creatures will help young students enjoy learning to write with structure and style.

This inspiring seminar will transform the way you teach writing! You will learn how to incrementally teach students to write with clear structure and compelling style.

Structure & Style (Teacher Training Course)

Lessons in Structure and Style

Students will get to know the heroes of the Bible while working through six of IEW's nine units in this course.

A variety of games teach vocabulary, reinforce elements of style, and add to the fun!

Includes 9 Seminar DVDs, 3 Student demo DVDS, a 240 page binder, and a one year Premium Content Subscription to exclusive online materials.

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

Grades 3+ Student $10.00 Key $10.00

Introduction to Composition This introductory program focuses on narration, outlining, dictation, and copywork. The goal is to help students become more proficient in listening and writing skills, a great preparation for Classical Composition. This year-long writing course uses focus passages from Charlotte's Web, Farmer Boy, and The Moffats.

English Grammar Grades 3-6 Student $11.95 ea.

Teacher $12.95 ea.

English Grammar Recitation $9.95

English Grammar Recitation Grade 3: Workbook I, Year One Grade 5: Workbook III, Year Three

Grade 4: Workbook II, Year Two Grade 6: Workbook IV, Year Four

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

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

Poetry Grades 3-6

Grades 7+

Grades 8+

Student $14.95 Teacher $16.95

Text $19.95 Student $14.95 Teacher $16.95

Poetry 1 Text $19.95 Poetry 1 Student $14.95 Poetry 1 Teacher $16.95 Poetry 2 Text $19.95 Poetry 3 Text $19.95

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Poetry for the Grammar Stage

Poetry & Short Stories:

$30.00 (student, teacher)

$45.00 (text, student, teacher)

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

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

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

American Literature

Composition, English Grammar, & Poetry

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

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

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Classical Composition

by James A. Selby Student $19.95 ea.

Teacher $29.95 ea.

DVDs $45.00 ea. (available for Fable, Narrative, Chreia/Maxim, Refutation-Confirmation, & Common Topic)

Grades 4+ Grades 5+ Grades 6+ Grades 7+ Grades 8+ Grades 9+ Grades 10+ Grades 11+

Fable Stage Narrative Stage Chreia/Maxim Stage Refutation-Confirmation Stage Common Topic Stage Encomium, Invective, & Comparison Stage Characterization Stage Description Stage

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

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

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

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

Starting Classical Composition Late?

No Problem!

We recommend that students begin Classical Composition in 4th or 5th grade, so students beginning in 6th grade or higher may want to complete two courses a year in order to catch up. Now you can purchase any two sets at a reduced package price. This allows students to complete two stages at an accelerated pace in the course of a year until they are caught up, helping them to develop their writing skills quickly.

$75.00 set (student & teacher guides for any two Stages)

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American/Modern Studies Grades 5-8 Text $16.95 eBook $14.00 Student $17.95 Teacher $17.95

The Story of the Thirteen Colonies & the Great Republic $39.95 set (text, student, teacher) We have combined Guerber's The Story of the Thirteen Colonies and The Story of the Great Republic into one edited volume that makes it a perfect one-year survey of American history for the middle school years. The study guide includes important facts, vocabulary, and comprehension questions for each chapter, as well as enrichment activities such as mapwork, drawings, research, writing assignments, and more!

200 Questions About American History

Grades 5-8 Guide $9.95

These 200 questions everyone should know about American Key $5.00 history are compiled from The Story of the Thirteen Colonies & the Great Republic, Everything You Need to Know About American History Homework, and The Story of the World, Vol. 4.

Everything You Need to Know About American History Homework

Grades 5-8 $9.99

Filled with charts, maps, timelines, and short summaries of important facts about American history, this book is a great companion to The Story of the Thirteen Colonies & the Great Republic.

Artner Reader's Guide to American History

Grades 3-8 $14.95

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

Grades 9+ Text $122.95 (for Year I and Year II) Year I Student $17.95 Year I Teacher $17.95 Year II Student $17.95 Year II Teacher $17.95

(Third Grade Set Pictured)

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

Third Grade $120.00 set (shown above) Leif the Lucky; Meet Christopher Columbus; Pocahontas; The Cabin Faced West; Meet George Washington; Sarah, Plain and Tall; Daniel Boone; Meet Thomas Jefferson; The Bears on Hemlock Mountain; Benjamin Franklin; Meet Abraham Lincoln; Clara Barton; Riding the Pony Express; Helen Keller; Laura Ingalls Wilder; A Penny's Worth of Character

A Concise History of the American Republic This two-year American history course for high school addresses social, economic, and political issues using the excellent Concise History of the American Republic text. Our study guides provide reading notes for each chapter, as well as comprehension questions that help students focus on the most important information from each chapter. The Teacher Guide for each year includes three tests.

Year I: Pre-1615 life in North America through the post-Civil War Reconstruction years, ending in 1877.

Year II: End of Reconstruction (1877) to the Reagan years (1980s).

Grades 10+ Fourth Grade $80.00 set

Text $140.00 ea.

Student $17.95 ea.

Teacher $17.95 ea.

Ben and Me; Mr. Revere and I; Liberty: How the Revolutionary War Began; Louisa May Alcott; Hiawatha; Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin; The Sign of the Beaver; Molly Pitcher; The Wright Brothers; Caddie Woodlawn

Fifth Grade $55.00 set The Landing of the Pilgrims; Madeleine Takes Command; Stowaway; The Witchcraft of Salem Village; Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia; The American Revolution; Guns for General Washington; Calico Bush

Sixth Grade $50.00 set Indian Captive; Poor Richard; Chains; Johnny Tremain; Gettysburg; Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

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American / Modern Studies

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.

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Grades 1-3 $12.95

Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans

by Edward Eggleston

Edward Eggleston wrote this little book in 1895, and our second graders love it, so we thought we would publish it so everyone could enjoy it. We have included Eggleston's original illustrations and added some additional ones as well. 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." Students will be introduced to Washington, Franklin, Audubon, and more.

Geography Grades 3-6

Grades 4+

Text $7.99 Student $12.95 Teacher $12.95

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

States & Capitals

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

$32.00 set (text, student, teacher) In this study guide, each state is given a two-page spread that includes a map with room to write the state capital, nickname, abbreviation, and fun facts about the state. By the end of this year-long course, students will be able to map all 50 states and capitals. We recommend that this guide be used with Don’t Know Much About the 50 States.

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Grades 5+

$48.00 set (text, workbook, teacher + U.S. Review workbook & teacher) A unique geography program designed for students pursuing a classical education, Geography of the Middle East, North Africa, & Europe covers the area that constituted the ancient Roman Empire. Each region is explored in its historical context in “History’s Headlines” as well as in the present in “Tour of Today.”

The United States Review: Help students retain the knowledge they gained in their study of States & Capitals. This review takes very little time and makes a great companion to Geography I.

Geography 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 $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.

Classroom Atlas

$11.25

Detailed political, economic, environmental, and topographical maps of global regions. This is a recommended supplement for Geography III.

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Grades 7+ Text $16.95 Student $17.95 Teacher $17.95

Geography III: Exploring and Mapping the World $48.00 set (text, workbook, teacher) 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.

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Science & nature Grades 3+

Grades 3+

Grades 4+

Student $14.95 Teacher $16.95 The World of Animals $24.99 What Is a Mammal? $7.95 What Is the Animal Kingdom? $7.95

Student $14.95 Teacher $16.95

Text $14.95 Student $14.95 Teacher $16.95 eBook $12.00 Peterson Guide $6.95

The Book of Astronomy

The Book of Insects

Lessons from The World of Animals

$31.90 set (student & teacher)

$48.00 set (text, student, teacher, Peterson Guide)

$65.00 set (student, teacher, The World of Animals,

Do you know the story of the sky?

One of the most important themes of classical education is order.

Using the system of the Greeks and Romans, your student will cover stars, constellations, the motion of the earth, and the zodiac. The perfect way to order the stars! For children of all ages.

With a classic reader that takes a narrative approach to the life of insects and a workbook that takes your student through the different kinds of insects, this course will enthrall your student by taking creatures many of us revile and making out of them a fascinating study!

Mammals:

What Is a Mammal?, What Is the Animal Kingdom?)

Young students love to study animals! Our Mammals Study Guide uses The World of Animals as the primary text, alongside What Is the Animal Kingdom? and What Is a Mammal? The study includes 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.

Art & Music Grade 3

Kindergarten Art Cards (5"x7") $9.95 Kindergarten Art Posters (11"x17") $35.00

$19.95

First Grade Art Cards (5"x7") $9.95 First Grade Art Posters (11"x17") $35.00 Second Grade Art Cards (5"x7") $9.95 Second Grade Art Posters (11"x17") $35.00

Art Cards & Posters

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!

Exploring America’s Musical Heritage:

Discovering Music:

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.

This program features a DVD 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's 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.

300 Years of Interaction in Western Music, Art, History, and Culture with Dr. Carol Reynolds

Through Art, Literature, and Culture with Dr. Carol Reynolds

Grades 5+

Limited Time Memoria Press Offer: $39.95 (2 DVDs totaling more than 4 hours)

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

Grades 8+

Limited Time Memoria Press Offer: $149 (Complete Curriculum + Teacher Manual CD)

Complete Curriculum $179 (8 DVDs, 3 audio CDs, & course book)

Teacher Manual CD $12.95

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Course also available online. See MemoriaPress. com/DiscoveringMusic for details.

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The Book of Trees

Grades 6+

Grades 6+

Grades 6+

Text $14.95 Student $14.95 Teacher $16.95 Peterson Guide $6.95 Tree Book for Kids and Their Grown-ups $15.95

Text $21.95 Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95

Physical Science $75.00 Resource CD $50.00

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

What’s That Bird?

Nature's Beautiful Order

Novare Physical Science

Christopher O. Blum & John A. Cuddeback

(2nd Ed.) John D. Mays

$45.00 set (text, student, teacher)

Novare is committed to a masterylearning paradigm. Accurate explanations, and a thorough treatment of the foundational principles of the physical sciences characterize this course from start to finish. The Resource CD includes quizzes, teacher keys, weekly review guides, experiment manual, suggested answers to verbal questions, an annual schedule, and more!

This introduction to natural history instills in the beginning student of biology a love for the beauty and intelligibility of the animal kingdom through the eyes of classical naturalists like John James Audubon and Jean-Henri Fabre, who were some of the greatest observational biologists of all time.

Grades 5+

Grades 6+

Text $14.95 Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95 Peterson Guide $6.95 Coloring Book $8.95 Flashcards $9.95

General Chemistry $90.00 Resource CD $50.00 Solutions Manual $28.00 Student Lab Report Handbook $22.50

(31 per set)

$55.00 set (text, student, teacher, field guide, coloring book, flashcards) Study the anatomy of birds and how they live. Workbook includes facts to know, comprehension questions, and characteristics of each bird.

Students will learn 31 common birds, as well as several incredible birds!

Add Tiner's Exploring the History of Medicine and make it a full year science course ($72.00 set)!

New Birds Flashcards from Memoria Press â–ş (31 per set)

Novare General Chemistry

by John D. Mays

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

"Mastery, Integration, and Kingdom perspective ..." www.novarescienceandmath.com

Grades 5-9 Text $13.99 ea.

Student Questions $5.00 ea.

Teacher Key & Tests $8.00 ea.

Choose From: Exploring the History of Medicine Exploring Planet Earth Exploring the World of Mathematics Exploring the World of Chemistry Exploring the World of Physics Exploring the World of Biology Exploring the World of Astronomy

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John H. Tiner's Science 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 and medicine for young people. They are excellent introductions to the people and places central to the planet earth, the history of medicine, biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, and most recently, astronomy. These illustrated books have review questions and activities after every chapter, and Memoria Press has added additional supplemental review questions to each chapter, unit reviews, unit tests, and a final exam for each book in the series.

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

- Mary Pride

Traditional Logic I

Traditional Logic II

Introduction to Formal Logic

Advanced Formal Logic

$75.00 complete set (student, key, DVDs, quizzes) $38.00 basic set (student, key, quizzes)

$75.00 complete set (student, key, DVDs, quizzes) $38.00 basic set (student, key, quizzes)

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Student $29.95 Key $6.95 DVDs $45.00 Quizzes $5.00

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

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

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

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

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

A Variety of Learning Strategies • Clear and concise text explanations • Practical application • Creative invention

"I am almost certain that I would never have selected my college or major had I not studied logic or fallacies (my personal favorite) with you. Philosophy was of no interest to me at all before either of those classes. I owe a lot to Memoria Press with all the rhetoric, literature, and Latin I studied." - Holden, Grand Rapids, MI

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

By the end of Traditional Logic II, the student will be able to analyze a variety of argument forms, including enthymemes, sorites, and epicheirema, as well as recognize and respond to dilemmas.

The level of understanding attained in this course would be more than that typically attained in a college course.

Advanced Concepts & Argument Forms • Figure & mood in syllogisms • Syllogism reduction • Hypothetical reasoning • Chain arguments • The dilemma • The oblique syllogism

Logic Supplements Handbook of Christian Apologetics:

Socrates Meets Jesus:

$22.00 (optional supplement)

$16.00

Hundreds of Answers to Crucial Questions

by Peter Kreeft & Ronald Tacelli

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History’s Greatest Questioner Confronts the Claims of Christ by Peter Kreeft (optional supplement)

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"I just wanted to express my satisfaction with your Material Logic online class. The instructor made it enjoyable and I was extremely grateful for all the extra time outside of class he devoted to helping her when she was struggling."

- Ann Gardiner

Material Logic

Classical Rhetoric

A Course in How to Think

Aristotle's Principles of Persuasion

$68.95 complete set (student, key, DVDs) $31.90 basic set (student, key)

$140.00 complete set (basic set + How to Read a Book & Figures of Speech) $94.95 basic set (student, key, DVDs, Aristotle's Rhetoric)

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Classical Rhetoric with Aristotle is a guided tour through the first part of the greatest single book on communication ever written: Aristotle’s Rhetoric. With questions that will help the student unlock every important aspect of the book, along with fill-in-the-blank charts and analyses of great speeches, this companion text to Aristotle’s great work will send the student on a voyage of discovery from which he will return with a competent knowledge of the basic classical principles of speech and writing.

The Ancient Art of Thinking • The ten ways something can exist • Five ways to say something about something else • The four definitional questions • Three questions to ask when analyzing an idea • Definition & classification

This is more than just a course in English or public speaking. It involves a study of the fundamental principles of political philosophy, ethics, and traditional psychology. A student learns not only the elements of a political speech, but also the elements of good character; not only how to give a legal speech, but also the seven reasons people act; not only how to give a ceremonial speech, but what elicits specific emotions under particular circumstances and why.

Case Studies in Logic • "What is a Heresy?" by Hillaire Belloc • "The Nature of Philosophy," by Vincent McNabb • "The Function of the Wise Man," by Thomas Aquinas • "Idols of the Mind," by Sir Francis Bacon

Practical Thinking Skills • How to mark a book or article • "How to Define" worksheet • "How to Classify" worksheet

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by Paul Schaeffer

The oracle at Delphi stated that no man was wiser than Socrates.

Socrates was so shocked by that claim that he went around questioning everyone in Athens, hoping to find someone who was wiser than he. He was such a nuisance, such a “doubter,” that he was put on trial.

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ike the Athenians Socrates questioned, you can feel attacked when friends, family members, and colleagues question your choice to homeschool your children. And the pressure can increase when you choose to use a classical curriculum to do it. Friends can perceive your choices as a condemnation of what they are doing, and family members might be concerned that your children will turn out socially awkward, not be admitted to college, or not be able to find a job.

At the Sodalitas Gathering this past August, where homeschoolers using Memoria Press' curriculum met for several days, the participants even had a name for these people: doubters.

The temptation is to lose your cool when this comes up because it seems like the doubters are oblivious to all the thought you have put into deciding how you will raise your children. It comes across as a harsh critique in a world where everyone’s parenting decisions are under fire. Sometimes this critique is not explicitly voiced, it is implied. But everyone understands the point.

The tables can and should be turned.

Homeschoolers should take the role of Socrates for themselves. Socrates himself gives the example

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of how. If you read any of Plato’s dialogues (in which Socrates is the main protagonist), you will notice how Socrates is always asking questions. He rarely states a fact—and if he does, it is just to synthesize what has been discovered in his questioning. Questions, inquiries, and proddings are his tools of choice. His goal is to get whomever he is talking with to voice the truth that has been discovered.

The tremendous benefit of this tactic, if successful, is that the person being questioned ends up absolutely convinced of the conclusion that they were led to— something that doesn’t always happen in a lecture.

One of the problems with this method is that the person being questioned can get the impression they are on trial. Tread carefully. Another difficulty is not knowing how to steer the conversation well because you get a response you do not expect.

There was once a defense lawyer in the middle of questioning potential jurors for a trial. He asked if anyone had a favorite book. A woman volunteered that she did. He inquired when during her reading she decided it was her favorite—at the beginning, the middle, or the end of the book. “The middle,” she replied. Everyone knew at this point that the lawyer was in trouble. It was his intent to impress upon the

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With that as a warning, take your “doubters” Maybe you will find assumptions that will take hours, through a bit of Socratic questioning the next time weeks, or years to break down. they confront you on the way you are educating and Patience is, without a doubt, essential to the raising your children. Gently ask if they think our Socratic method as it takes a long time when done educational system is successful, and if not, why not, properly. But even when time is lacking, just a couple and what the best way is to fix it. Ask them if truth, questions can help. Your family members might begin goodness, and beauty should be the inspiration for to think about it and come back with deeper questions education. Ask if a child should be formed in the of their own. image and likeness of God Inquire whether Every human is a complex unity of reason, wisdom and virtue should be the goal of emotions, passions, memories, and more. schooling. Ask them if all learning must Giving doubters a logical argument be oriented towards a career or if it is might never win them over. A worth knowing for knowing's sake. shouting match will do even less.

Pat ience is, An exact list of questions cannot Tactful questioning can give w it hout a doubt, be given since the responses will the opportunity to deal with be varied. The key is to get them erroneous assumptions, emotions, essent ia l to t he to say in their own words that and painful memories so the they agree with you. Make no conversation can focus on truth.

Soc rat ic me t hod. assertions—just inquire.

Socrates had an attitude of You may find that from the desiring to know, realizing that his beginning your doubters are blind to questioning was as much for him as it the problems that are rampant in schools. was for the person being questioned.

Or maybe they have just never heard of the liberal The next time you are confronted by a “doubter,” arts. Perhaps they don’t know that Mark Zuckerberg take a deep breath, put on your Socratic hat, smile, translated the Aeneid in high school and now and ask, “What is the best way to educate children?” considers it one of his favorite books, or that Manoj And thus begins a search for the truth.

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