the classical teacher - summer 2012

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Editorby Martin Cothran

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I have never been a fan of so-called “success” books. You know the kind I mean: They have titles like The Road to Riches, The Eleven Laws of Leadership, Seven Secret Strategies for Success. The titles promise to reveal some secret to you, the knowledge of which could change the course of your life.

The titles above are made up, of course, but there is one that is actually called The Leadership Secrets of Ghengis Khan. I have it on my bookshelf.

I couldn’t resist. In 2004, Steven Covey wrote a book called The Seven

Habits of Highly Effective People. It has sold over 15 million copies and has undoubtedly made Covey a rich man. As success books go, it is not too bad. Unlike many such books (Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People comes to mind), Covey’s book is based on moral standards. The skills it teaches are based on the idea that you can only be successful by becoming a better person.

Because of the book’s solid grounding in human nature and in reality, the skills it teaches actually work.

In classical education, there is a set of learning skills called the “liberal arts.” These too are based on reality, and because of this, what they teach actually works. Traditionally, there were reckoned to be seven of them. They are a set of skills a student will use no matter what he or she does in life.

When we think of skills, we normally think of specialized capabilities that apply to one or another profession or avocation. There are carpenters who possess specific skills that only apply to carpentry, and musicians who possess skills that only pertain to music.

The liberal arts, however, are general (and generalizable) skills that apply to the intellectual endeavors of all free men.

Mortimer Adler, the late editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica, once said that though some people are scientists or accountants or truck drivers, everyone is a citizen, and everyone is a philosopher. Although most people are familiar with the idea that they are citizens, most people do not think of themselves as philosophers. But all Adler meant to say is

that we are all thinkers—and that in order to acquit ourselves competently as citizens, we must be able to think well.

C. S. Lewis said something similar about theology—we are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. Adler’s view of citizenry and philosophy was much the same: we can either do them well or badly, but we do not have the option of not doing them at all.

The seven liberal arts, as they were enumerated in the Middle Ages, consisted of two kinds of thinking skills. The first three, known as the “trivium,” were grammar, logic, and rhetoric. They were the qualitative and linguistic arts. They gave the student a facility with language. The last four, known as the “quadrivium,” were arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. These were quantitative and mathematical skills. If a student mastered the three linguistic arts and the four mathematical arts, he was thought to possess the basic mental equipment to be able to think through the problems involved in ruling both his nation and himself.

There is a lot of talk in educational circles today about “critical thinking skills,” partly because we need gimmicks and buzzwords these days to convince people of what they need.

The liberal arts, which trace their origin to ancient times, and which were once highly valued by our schools, were the apparatus through which we taught students how to think. We didn’t need a special course in “thinking skills.” That’s what education was.

But the expression “liberal arts” doesn’t have the same catchy sound as “critical thinking skills” seems to have for many people. So maybe we should come up with something with a little more pizzazz.

Let’s call them "The Seven Habits of Highly Educated People.”

CONTENTS Summer 2012

THE CLASSICAL TEACHER

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ONLINE ACADEMYwww.memoriapress.com/onlineacademy

FEATURED ARTICLES2 Lett er From the Editor by Martin Cothran

13 What Is Liberal Education? by Mortimer Adler

14 The Natural Method Is Not Natural by Cheryl Lowe

22 7 Habits of Highly Educated People by Martin Cothran

28 What Are the Liberal Arts? by Sister Miriam Joseph

34 Logic Is Human: Literature Is Angelic by Martin Cothran

40 Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classicsby Cheryl Lowe

CLASSICAL CORE CURRICULUM4 Curriculum Packages New! Jr. Kindergarten - 6th Grade

Everything you need for one year + daily/weekly lesson plans!

4 Junior Kindergarten Curriculum Package New!

8 Grammar School Curriculum Map (A Yearly Outlook)

24 Memoria Press Curriculum Map42 Classical Core Supplement (Story of the World) New!

PRIMARY YEARS4 Memoria Press Copybooks4 Alphabet Wall Charts (Available in cursive & manuscript)

5 The Alphabet Book & The Numbers Book New!

6 First Start Reading & Classical Phonics7 New American Cursive I, II, & III

LITERATURE & WRITING10 Literature Study Guides Grades 1-7

12 Classical Composition New! Grades 4-12

LATIN, GREEK, & FRENCH16 Prima Latina Grades 1-4

17 Latina Christiana Grades 3-6

18 First Form Latin Series Grades 5-12

20 Henle Latin Series Grades 8-12

21 Latin Supplements: Book of Roots, Latin Copybook Cursive, Latin Grammar for the Grammar Stage, Latina Christiana Review Worksheets (NEW), Latin Grammar Wall Charts, Ludere Latine I & II, Roots of English, Lingua Angelica I-II, Lingua Biblica, and Prima Latina Copybook (NEW)

12 Greek Alphabet Book New! Grades 5+

47 First Start French I & II Grades 5-8

SCIENCE42 Astronomy New! Grades 3+

42 Book of Insects New! Grades 4+

42 What's That Bird? New! Grades 5+

LOGIC & RHETORIC33 Traditional Logic I & II (Grades 7-12)

33 Aristotle's Material Logic (Grades 9-12)

33 Logic Supplements: Handbook of Christian Apologetics, Socrates Meets Jesus

35 Classical Rhetoric (Grades 9-12)

35 Rhetoric Supplements: Aristotle's Rhetoric, Figures of Speech, and How to Read a Book

CLASSICAL STUDIES37 D’Aulaires’ Greek Myths Grades 3-8

37 Famous Men Series Grades 3-8Rome, Greece, the Middle Ages, and Modern Times

38 The Trojan War Grades 6-8

38 The Iliad & the Odyssey Grades 7+

38 Dorothy Mills Histories New! Grades 6+Ancient World, Ancient Greeks, and Ancient Romans Beta!

38 The Aeneid Grades 8+

38 The Divine Comedy Grades 10+

39 Classical Studies Map: A year-by-year outlook

39 Classical Studies Supplements: Ancient Civilization Wall Maps, Horatius at the Bridge, and Introduction to Classical Studies Guide

CHRISTIAN STUDIES36 Christian Studies I-IV Grades 3-8

36 The City of God Beta! Grades 10-12

AMERICAN / MODERN43 The Story of the Thirteen Colonies Grades 5-8

& the Great Republic43 200 Questions About American History Grades 5-8

43 States & Capitals Grades 3-6

43 Artner Reader's Guide (American History) Grades 3-8

43 Geography New! Grades 4+Middle East, North Africa, Europe

43 United States Review New! Grades 4+

OTHER26 Memoria Press Online Academy Enroll Today!

ONLINEACADEMY32 Liberal Arts Supplements

44 National Latin Exam (NLE) Awards46 Classical Latin School Association (CLSA) New!

48 Homeschool Convention Calendar Come See Us!

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What makes our primary curricula "classical"? We have assembled quality prose, poetry, illustrations, classical paintings, and classical music. We have also suggested a quality read-aloud book (sold separately) for you to read to your child each week. Our goal is to expose children to the beautiful and the good at an early age, so they will not be satisfied with less as they grow and mature in their education. In third grade, students actually begin classical history (p. 8), which they will study alongside Latin throughout their school years.

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•Kindergarten Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year•Copybook I and Composition & Sketchbook•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• SRA Phonics 1•Primary Phonics Readers (20 books total)

• Rod&Staff Beginning Arithmetic 1: Student (Part 1), Teacher, & Blacklines•Counting With Numbers• Soft and White, Fun in the Sun, & Scamp and Tramp

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Your children begin reading instantly as they progress through 4 simple student books and 34 phonetic stories. The Teacher Guide includes helpful assessments, tips, and more!

FSR is a balanced, age-appropriate approach to phonics and reading, with a serious focus on correct pencilgripandletterformation.Also,whilemanyphonics 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.

Classical Phonics $14.95 A Child's Guide to Word Mastery (Recommended for Kindergarten - 2nd Grade)

Classical Phonics consists of phonetically arranged word lists for students to practice their growing

word recognition skills. In a word list there are no context clues, so thelearnermustrelyonhismasteryoflettersounds.Forinstance,if your child can pronounce each word in this list correctly – pot, pat, pit, put, pet – he knows his short vowel sounds, and you can move on to long vowels! If not, he needs more practice, and Classical Phonicsisthemosteffectivetoolweknowoftoaddressthe 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. Classical Phonics is your go-to resource for phonics practice and for buildingconfidentreaders.Classical Phonics is a teacher and student guide all in one. It provides thorough, concise phonics explanations at the bottom of most pages, giving you the background you need to teach phonics even if you never learned it yourself.

$39.95Books A, B, C, & D + Teacher Guide

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Sample pages from FSR student workbook

Sample page from Classical Phonics

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New American Cursive byIrisHatfield

Some think computers have made cursive writing skills obsolete, but good handwriting and computers are not mutually exclusive. Should we stop teaching language arts because a child can now text message?

Before the early 1940s, virtually all children were taught cursive in the firstgrade.Researchshowsthatwhenthird graders begin writing cursive, theyreturntoafirstgradespeedlevel.By learning cursive earlier, students can focus more on other subjects once they reach the upper grades.

See p. 4 for New American Cursive Alphabet Wall Charts

New American Cursive 1 $22.95 ea New American Cursive 2 (Scripture Verses) New American Cursive 2 (Quotes from Famous Americans) New American Cursive 3 (Scripture & Lessons on Manners)

NAC Startwrite CD $29.95

Simple, clear, & effective!

✓ 8-page teaching guide✓ 125 Instruction and exercise lessons ✓ Illustrations/Exercises for letter connections✓ Journaling pages✓ Practice includes Bible verses and quotes✓ Simplified classic letter forms✓ Focus on accuracy and legibility✓ Natural right slant (easier for beginners & lefties)

✓ Takes only 15 min./day!

2nd Grade Curriculum $370 2nd Grade Complete Set (all books + Lesson Plans)

$125 2nd Grade Consumable Books Set (for additional students)

$315 2nd Grade Continuing MP Student Set$30 2nd Grade Lesson Plans for One Year

• Second Grade Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year•Prima Latina Set

(student, teacher, workbook, pronunciation CD, instructional DVDs, and flashcards)

•Copybook Cursive, Prima Latina Copybook, Composition & Sketchbook•New American Cursive 2•The Golden Children's Bible• SRA Phonics 3• Rod&Staff Math 2: Student (Units 1-5), Teacher, & Blacklines•Classical Phonics• Second Grade Literature: Study Guides, novels, and Teacher Key: LittleHouseintheBigWoods; Mr. Popper's Penguins; The Courage of Sarah Noble; TalesFromBeatrixPotter

Supplemental Read-Aloud Program$305 Second Grade Read-Aloud Complete Set with Poetry$290 Second Read-Aloud Set (Poetry not included)

1st Grade Curriculum $300 1st Grade Complete Set (all books + Lesson Plans)

$105 1st Grade Consumable Books Set (for additional students)

$200 1st Grade Continuing MP Student Set$30 1st Grade Lesson Plans for One Year

• First Grade Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year•Copybook II and Composition & Sketchbook•New American Cursive 1•The Golden Children's Bible•Classical Phonics• SRA Phonics 2• Rod&Staff Beginning Arithmetic 1: Student (Parts 1-2), Teacher, Blacklines• Storytime/More Storytime Treasures Study Guides & Teacher Key; LittleBear; LittleBear'sVisit; Caps for Sale; Blueberries for Sal; Make Way for Ducklings; Billy and Blaze; Blaze and the Forest Fire; The Story About Ping; Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie; Stone Soup; TheLittleHouse; Miss Rumphius

•ALittleHouseChristmasTreasury;ChristmasintheBigWoods; Winter on the Farm

Supplemental Read-Aloud Program$305 FirstGradeRead-AloudCompleteSetwithPoetry$290 FirstGradeRead-AloudSet(Poetry not included)

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3rd Grade Curriculum $400 3rd Grade Complete Set (all books + Lesson Plans)

$150 3rd Grade Consumable Books Set (for additional students)

$30 3rd Grade Lesson Plans for One Year

•Third Grade Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year• Latina Christiana I Complete Set

(student, teacher, pronunciation CD, instructional DVDs, and flashcards)

•Third Grade Literature: Study Guide Sets w/ Novels (Farmer Boy, Charlotte's Web, The Moffats)

•D'Aulaires' Greek Myths set (student, teacher, text, flashcards)

•Christian Studies I set (student, teacher)

•New American Cursive 3• States & Capitals set (student, teacher, Don't Know Much About the 50 States)

•Astronomy set (student, teacher)

• Rod&StaffMath 3 (student, teacher, blacklines, speed drills)

• Rod&StaffSpelling 4 (student, teacher)

•English Grammar for the Grammar Stage (student, teacher)

•Poetry for the Grammar Stage (student, teacher)

•The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Supplemental Read-Aloud Program$150.00 Third Grade Read-Aloud Novels (11 book set)$300.00 Third Grade Read-Aloud Picture Books (22 book set)

4th Grade Curriculum $400 4th Grade Complete Set (all books + Lesson Plans)

$150 4th Grade Consumable Books Set (for additional students)

$30 4th Grade Lesson Plans for One Year

• Fourth Grade Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year• First Form Latin Complete Set

(student, teacher, workbook, quizzes, pronunciation CD, instructional DVDs, and flashcards)

• Fourth Grade Literature: Study Guide Sets w/ Novels (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Heidi; Lassie Come-Home)

• Famous Men of Rome set (student, teacher, text, flashcards)

•Christian Studies II set (student, teacher)

•Geography of the Middle East, Europe, and North Africa (text, workbook, key)

•United States Review (student, teacher)

•The Book of Insects set (student, teacher, reader, Peterson First Guide: Insects)

• Rod&StaffMath 4 (student, teacher, drills, tests)

• Rod&StaffSpelling 5 & English 4 (student, teacher, worksheets, tests)

•Classical Composition: The Fable Stage (student, teacher)

$19.95 Poetry for the Grammar Stage Beta!

(supplement for 4th grade; included in 3rd grade package)

Lassie Come-HomeHeidiThe Lion, the Witchand the Wardrobe(p. 11)

The HobbitAnne of Green GablesThe Bronze BowTreasure Island(p. 11)

The MoffatsFarmer BoyCharlotte's Web(p. 11)

Adam of the RoadRobin HoodKing Arthur(p. 11)

Christian Studies II(p. 36)

ChristianStudies IV(p. 36)

Christian Studies I(p. 36)

Christian Studies III(p. 36)

Famous Men of Rome(p. 37)

Famous Men of GreeceTrojan WarHoratius at the Bridge(pp. 37-39)

Greek Myths(p. 37)

Famous Men of the Middle Ages(p. 37)

First Form Latin (p. 18)

Third Form Latin (p. 18)

Latina Christiana I(p. 17)

Second Form Latin (p. 18)

Greek Alphabet Book (p. 12)

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$400 $400

English Spelling Writing Modern Math Science


Grade by grade curriculum map below!




• Fifth Grade Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year• First or Second Form Latin Complete Set


• Fifth Grade Literature: Study Guide Sets w/ Novels (King Arthur, Robin Hood, Adam of the Road)

• Famous Men of the Middle Ages set (student, teacher, text, flashcards)

•Christian Studies III set (student, teacher)

•Geography II (student, teacher)

• RodandStaffArithmetic 5 (student, teacher, tests)

• RodandStaffSpelling 6 & English 5 (student, teacher, worksheets, tests)

•What's That Bird? (with Memoria Press Study Guide Set), Peterson Birds Coloring Book, Peterson First Guide: Birds, Exploring the History of Medicine (with Memoria Press Quizzes, Reviews, and Tests Guide)

•Classical Composition: The Narrative Stage (student, teacher)

$17.95 Golden Children's Bible (supplement for 3rd-5th grades; included in K-2nd grade packages; also sold on p. 36)




• Sixth Grade Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year• First, Second, or Third Form Latin Complete Set


• Sixth Grade Literature: Study Guide Sets w/ Novels (Anne of Green Gables, Treasure Island, The Bronze Bow, The Hobbit)

• Famous Men of Greece set (student, teacher, text, flashcards)

• Horatius at the Bridge•The Trojan War set (student, teacher, text)

•Christian Studies IV set (student, teacher)

• RodandStaffArithmetic 6 (student, teacher, tests, quizzes)

• RodandStaffSpelling 7 & English 6 (student, teacher, worksheets, tests)

•American Studies: The Story of the Thirteen Colonies and The Great Republic, 200 Questions About American History, Everything You Need to Know About American History Homework

•Exploring the World of Biology, The Tree Book, Peterson First Guide: Trees•Classical Composition: The Chreia/Maxim Stage (student, teacher)

See p. 42 for our new recommended summer supplemental reading:Story of the World, Volume 1: Summer before 4th gradeStory of the World, Volume 2: Summer before 5th gradeStory of the World, Volume 3: Summer before 6th gradeStory of the World, Volume 4: Summer before 7th grade

Rod & Staff English 4


English Grammar for the Grammar Stage


Rod & Staff Spelling 5




Classical Composition:The Fable Stage(p. 12)Writing, Year 1

Classical Composition:The Chreia/Maxim Stage (p. 12)

Classical Composition:The Narrative Stage(p. 12)Writing, Year 2

Geography:The Middle East, North Africa, & Europe (p. 43)

The Thirteen Colonies and the Great Republic (p. 43)

States & Capitals(p. 43)

Geography

Rod & Staff Math 4

Rod & Staff Math 6

Rod & Staff Math 3

Rod & Staff Math 5

Book of Insects(p. 46)

The Tree BookExploring the World of Biology

Book ofAstronomy(p. 46)

What's That Bird?The History of Medicine(p. 46)

English Grammar for the Grammar Stage

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$99.00 Literature Guide Set w/ Novels Student Guides, Teacher Key, & Novels

First Grade $14.95 StoryTime Treasures Student Guide

$14.95 More StoryTime Treasures Student Guide

$10.00 Teacher Key

2nd Grade Lit. Teacher Key

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Little House in the Big WoodsStudent Gd. $11.95Novel $6.99

More StoryTime Treasures Set $52.00Student Guide $14.95 The Story About Ping $3.99 Miss Rumphius $7.99 Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie $6.95 Billy and Blaze $5.99 Stone Soup $6.99 The Little House $6.95 Blaze and the Forest Fire $5.99

Mr. Popper's PenguinsStudent Gd. $11.95Novel $6.99

The Courage of Sarah NobleStudent Gd. $11.95Novel $4.99

StoryTime Treasures Set $40.00 Student Guide $14.95 Blueberries for Sal $7.99Little Bear $3.95 Make Way For Ducklings $7.99Little Bear's Visit $3.95 Caps for Sale $6.99

Tales from Beatrix PotterStudent Gd. $11.95Stories (ea.) $6.99

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

Each lesson includes a word study to help students build vocabulary. The comprehension questions challenge students to consider what they have read, identify the important content of each story, and compose clear, concise answers (a difficult skill at any age). Writing is thinking, and good questioning stimulates the child to think and write. Each lesson also includes fun enrichment activities such as composition, map work, research, drawing, and much more!

29Lesson 11: Springtime

Quotations

Almanzo was a little soldier in this great battle. From dawn to dark he worked, from dark to dawn he slept, then he was up again and working.

But Almanzo had never planted corn before. He did not handle the hoe so well. He had to trot two steps where Royal or Father took one...But he knew he would plant corn as fast as anybody, when his legs were longer.

Discussion Questions

1. The third paragraph of this chapter describes the work horses. Explain the phrase “wise, sober mares”.

2. The first quote above describes Almanzo as a soldier in a battle. What was the battle, and in what way was he like a soldier in this battle?

3. Describe how the potatoes were planted.

Composition

Reread the last paragraph on page 128 beginning “The seeds were too small ...”. In three to five sentences, retell the story of the lazy boy in your own words. Be sure to include the consequence of his actions.

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Reading Notes

harrow a farm machine with sharp teeth used to break up and level plowed ground; it is also used as a verb to describe the process of preparing the soil for planting

dinner-horn a simple wind instrument used to call field workers home for a meal

seed corn kernels of corn used for planting

Vocabulary

1. ...the sun was rising beyond the dewy meadows... __________________________________________

2. They dribbled the carrot seeds into the furrows... ___________________________________________

3. All the soil must be made mellow and fine and smooth. ______________________________________

4. “Hustle along there, son...” _______________________________________________________________

5. Almanzo...went up and down the long field, straddling the little furrows. _______________________

Comprehension Questions

1. The experienced work horses knew exactly what to do in the fields. Why would Almanzo have

enjoyed driving them more if this weren’t the case? __________________________________________

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2. Why did the farmers have to hurry to plant their good seeds? _________________________________

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3. What were the three fields of grain Father sowed? What were they used for? ___________________

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4. Explain the connection between ash leaves, squirrel ears, and corn planting. ___________________

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Sample pages from Farmer Boy (Grade 3)

Sample pages from StoryTime Treasures

1-877-862-1097 Literature 11

*Included in curriculum packages! (pp. 8-9)

Fifth Grade$69.00 Literature Guide Set Student & Teacher Guides: King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, Robin Hood, Adam of the Road

$85.00 Literature Guide Set w/ Novels Student Guides, Teacher Guides, & Novels

Fourth Grade$69.00 Literature Guide Set Student & Teacher Guides: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Heidi; Lassie Come-Home


Third Grade$69.00 Literature Guide Set Student & Teacher Guides: Farmer Boy, Charlotte's Web, The Moffats


(Third Grade sets above do not include Homer Price)

Seventh Grade Beta!

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1-877-862-1097 13 What is Liberal Education?

The liberal arts are traditionally intended to develop the faculties of the human mind, those

powers of intelligence and imagination without which no intellectual work can be accomplished. Liberal education is not tied to certain academic subjects, such as philosophy, history, literature, music, art, and other so-called "humanities." In the liberal-arts tradition, scientific disciplines, such as mathematics and physics, are considered equally liberal, that is, equally able to develop the powers of the mind.

The liberal-arts tradition goes back to the medieval curriculum. The first part, trivium, comprised grammar, rhetoric, and logic. It taught the arts of reading and writing, of listening and speaking, and of sound thinking. The other part, the quadrivium, consisted of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music (not audible music, but music conceived as a mathematical science). It taught the arts of observation, calculation, and measurement, how to apprehend the quantitative aspect of things. Nowadays, of course, we would add many more sciences, natural and social.

Liberal education, including all the traditional arts as well as the newer sciences, is essential for the development of top-flight scientists. Without it, we can train only technicians, who cannot understand the basic principles behind the motions they perform. We can hardly expect such skilled automatons to make new discoveries of any importance. A crash program of merely technical training would probably end in a crashup for basic science.

It is a matter of historical fact that the great German scientists of the nineteenth century had a solid background in the liberal arts. They all went through a liberal education which embraced Greek, Latin, logic, philosophy, and history, in addition to mathematics, physics, and other sciences. Actually, this has been the educational preparation of European scientists down to the present time. Einstein, Bohr, Fermi, and other great modern scientists were developed not by technical schooling, but by liberal education.

The aim of liberal education, however, is not to produce scientists. It seeks to develop free human beings who know how to use their minds and are able to think for themselves. Its primary aim is not the development of professional competence, although a liberal education is indispensable for any intellectual profession. It produces citizens who can exercise their political liberty responsibly. It develops cultivated persons who can use their leisure fruitfully. It is an education for all free men, whether they intend to be scientists or not.

Our educational problem is how to produce free men, not hordes of uncultivated, trained technicians. Only the best liberal schooling can accomplish this. It must include all the humanities, as well as mathematics and the sciences. It must exclude all merely vocational and technical training.

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Modern languages are taught by the conversational method. If I understand this

method correctly, it involves an emphasis on oral and written conversation in the classroom, supplemented with a secondary focus on grammar.

Ideally this conversational instruction is augmented by travel and an immersion experience with native speakers. It could also be called the natural method, in that students are learning the new language in a natural way rather than the artificial grammar/translation textbook method. The idea is to simulate the way a child naturally learns to speak (or read) his own language, or the way a foreigner learns a new language by immersion. I have used four terms here (modern, natural, immersion, conversational), but I think they all describe approximately the same thing. I will just use the term "natural method" for the rest of this commentary. There are several reasons why Latin should not be taught by the natural method like a modern language.

The first is that Latin is not a modern language. It is an ancient language. It is a classical language. Ancient and classical languages are very different from modern languages. Modern languages like French and English have a similar structure and grammar, making it much easier to transition from one language to another. R. W. Livingstone once compared learning a modern language to getting up and moving from one easy chair to another. In contrast, learning a classical language, he said, is like running a marathon.

A second and even more obvious reason is that the goal of Latin instruction is to be able to read the great classics of antiquity, not to speak Latin with the natives.

But there is another reason that Latin should not be taught like modern languages, and that is that modern languages should not be taught like modern languages. The natural method doesn’t work for modern languages, much less Latin.

There was a tried-and-true method for teaching modern languages before the advent of the natural method, the grammar/translation method. The natural method was introduced in the 1960s, about the same time as all of the other modern educational experiments, like "new math," "discovery learning,"

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etc. None of them worked then, and they don’t work now. I know. I was taught by all of the old methods and began teaching under all of the new methods. And I have survived to tell the story.

Both the goals and methodology of foreign language instruction changed with the natural method. Prior to the 1960s, the goal of modern language instruction was to learn to read a modern language, not to speak a modern language. The educational goal was that all educated people would have a passable reading proficiency in some modern language, primarily French, German, or Spanish, and could, if necessary, communicate in writing with their academic or business peers in other countries.

The goal was never to learn to speak a foreign language, which was considered an unrealistic goal in a one-hour-a-day instructional setting, because the natural experience of the child who learns to speak his own language without instruction cannot be duplicated in that limited time. However, by giving the student reading proficiency and the grammar basics of a foreign language, the school had prepared him to develop speaking proficiency should the opportunity arise. It works beautifully.

So with the natural method, we abandoned the difficult but doable goal of learning to read a modern language for the even more difficult and unrealistic goal of learning to speak a foreign language, with the result that most students today learn neither.

You can learn to read a modern language in one year. Back when I was at university, the college of arts and sciences required two years of foreign language for all majors. My degree was in chemistry, but even after I tested out of French grammar, I still had a year of French literature.

Nothing demonstrates the lowering of academic standards today more than foreign language study. Several years ago, I interviewed a teacher applicant with a degree in French. I asked her exactly what courses were required for her degree, and she said things like French culture, history, literature, conversation and grammar. I asked her if she had actually read any French literature, and she responded that she had one course in French literature! A degree in French used to mean four years of French literature; no credit was even given for French grammar.

My oldest son had two years of German in a very good private high school and learned very little by the natural method. His private liberal arts college required a year of foreign language, and so he was excited about really

learning German finally, but it was more of the same—the only compensation being that his pretty teacher played the guitar to accompany her German drinking songs. Had he learned the grammar basics in school, he would have had the tools he needed to learn to speak German later, when he traveled abroad as a graduate.

The argument for the natural method is built upon two false premises. The first is that you can duplicate the natural way a child learns to speak his own language in

a classroom setting. You can’t. There isn't enough time. The second false premise is that natural is better than artificial. It is better with regard to some things such as food, but is the natural man better than the civilized one?

The natural method is not only contrary to common sense but to the whole premise of formal education, which is to teach by systematic, logical instruction. This is the very opposite of the natural, random, untutored way we learn to speak. The natural method is the same as teaching reading without phonics; it's the same as so-

called "inquiry-based" learning. It is that siren song of progressive education applied to learning languages.

The appropriate way to teach anything is to give systematic, explicit instruction, enabling the student to learn more in less time. Would you take your child to a tennis or golf coach that used the natural method?

The natural method has been a failure with modern languages, so why would we expect it to succeed with Latin? It is, after all, unnatural.

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Basedon20yearsofteachingexperience,thisrevolutionarynewserieswillbe your guide as you and your students successfully climb the mountain of Latingrammarallthewaytothetop!Writtenforparentsandteacherswithor without a Latin background, the goal of the First Form series is to present the grammar so logically and so systematically that anyone can learn it!

Designed for students and teachers with no Latin background, each course in the First Formseriesisformattedwithanattractive,concisestudenttext,systematicpresentationinfiveunits,extensiveworkbookexercises,andateacher manual with everything you need to successfully teach this course.

First Form’sgrammar-firstapproachfocusesongrammarformsandvocabulary because those are the grammar stage skills suitable for the grammar stage student. However, the First Form series is for students of all ages because all beginners, regardless of age, are in the grammar stage of learning. Syntax(howtousethegrammar)andtranslationarelogicandrhetoricstage skills, respectively, and quickly overwhelm the student unless they are introduced at a slow, gentle pace and taught for mastery. First Form is the idealtextforallbeginners,grades5&up,orisagreatfollow-uptoLatina Christiana I. Now every school and homeschool can have a truly successful Latin program that creates Latin scholars rather than Latin drop-outs.

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LATIN Grades 8+

HENLE LATIN: Advanced Christian Latinby Robert Henle

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 the mixture of Christian and classical content is appealing to students. *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.

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Lingua Angelica covers 24 beautiful hymns sung by a six-voice Gregorian chant choir. Because hymns have shorter, simpler sentences and clearer word structure than most Latin literature, the Christian Latin in this course is ideal when beginning Latin translation. In both LA I and II, the student book provides vocabulary work, space for interlinear translation, and grammar word study exercises. The teacher manual has a complete copy of the student book (w/answers) as well as instructions on how to use the course, making the teaching easier.

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There was an old Indian method of torture that consisted of tying someone down in the hot sun next to a pond or lake. The victim would thirst to death only inches away from

the water. Our education system today employs a similar method with students.

Most critics of American education today have a good grasp of one part of the problem: our children don’t have enough knowledge. They cite poor test scores and the general lack of awareness of important events in history as proof of this. And they are right.

But although this analysis is correct, it is not complete. There is, after all, no shortage of information. It is everywhere. In fact, students today, with their access to the internet alone, have greater access to the world of knowledge than ever before.

They are thirsting to death on the shore of a sea of information. Why is this?

I think that at least one of the reasons has to do with the lack of order both in our conception of education and in the actual curricula we use in our schools. There are a lot of things we want our students to know, but our own lack of any understanding of the structure of reality prohibits us from getting this knowledge into the

heads of our students.Many people have heard of the book

Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman. But many people have not heard of a speech Postman gave in 1990 to the German Informatics Society titled “Informing Ourselves to Death.”

In the speech, Postman talks about buying a deck of cards. When

you first open it, he says you find all

the cards in a particular order. First there are, say, the hearts, from Ace to King, and then the spades, and the diamonds and the clubs, each in the same order. What this allows you to do, he points out, is to make sense of the whole deck. As you look at each successive card, you know exactly what you will find. And you can say why the previous card was what it was. All because you know the order.

But when you shuffle the deck, you destroy the order of the cards so that, if you were to go through them again, you would not know which card should come next or why the card before was the one it was. The order would be lost, and you would have no knowledge of the inherent structure of the deck, unless you already knew it before.

Postman points out that there are times in history when we have had an unshuffled cultural deck:

The belief system of the Middle Ages was rather like my

brand-new deck of cards. There existed an ordered,

comprehensible world-view, beginning

with the idea that all knowledge and

goodness come from God. What

the priests had to say about the

world was derived from the

logic of their theology.

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was, to be sure, mysterious

and filled with wonder, but

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order. Ordinary men and women might not clearly grasp how

the harsh realities of their lives fit into the grand and benevolent

design, but they had no doubt that there was such a design,

and their priests were well able, by deduction from a handful of

principles, to make it, if not rational, at least coherent.

But, he points out, our world today is nothing like the world of the medievals:

The situation we are presently in is much different. ... It is

rather like the shuffled deck of cards I referred to. There is no

consistent, integrated conception of the world which serves as

the foundation on which our edifice of belief rests. And therefore,

in a sense, we are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and

more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

The situation in which the modern world finds itself—one in which there is no acknowledged order to reality—is reflected in our institutions of education. They acknowledge no coherent picture of the world, and they admit no inherent order in either the structure of knowledge itself or in the way it should be presented to students.

Our students are faced with wave after wave of random, disconnected information. And because it is presented in no discernible order, and because they are not provided with any kind of mental structure within which it can be made sense of, we frequently do little more than confuse those whom we pretend to teach. “[W]hat started out as a liberating stream,” says Postman, "has turned into a deluge of chaos.”

There are two proposed solutions to this problem: the modern one and the classical one.

The modern solution to the problem of random, disconnected information consists of providing students with more of it. “Education technology”—in other words, more computers—will solve our educational problems. This often takes the form of computers in the classroom.

The computer is presented to us, says Postman, as a “technological messiah.” Apple spends hundreds of millions of dollars providing schools with free "learning technology." This is marketed as an educational elixir that will cure all educational ills.

But the truth is something different:

The computer cannot provide an organizing moral

framework. It cannot tell us what questions are worth asking.

It cannot provide a means of understanding why we are here

or why we fight each other or why decency eludes us so often,

especially when we need it the most. The computer is, in a

sense, a magnificent toy that distracts us from facing what we

most needed to confront—spiritual emptiness, knowledge of

ourselves, usable conceptions of the past and future.

An Apple a day keeps learning away.The answer to the modern educational problem of

too much ill-ordered information is not, itself, modern. It is an ancient answer that has not been lost, but only ignored. The answer to the problem is the sequence of learning known as the “liberal arts.” The liberal arts were an ordered set of seven skills that provided educators with a guide to teaching and students with an order, in light of which they could make sense of what they were taught.

“Wisdom hath builded her a house,” says the writer of Proverbs, “she hath hewn out her seven pillars.”

The trivium skills of grammar, logic, and rhetoric were the first three arts, the most elementary. Grammar was the study of the structure and content of language; dialectic was the practical study of logic; and rhetoric the skills of speaking and writing. These formed the foundation of the last four arts: arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music—the mathematic and quantitative arts of the quadrivium.

Although the liberal arts were taught and practiced since the time of Greece and Rome, it was the Middle

Ages in which they were shaped into the seven discrete arts—the Seven Habits, we might

call them, of Highly Educated People.It was this educational structure

that dominated learning until the turn of the 20th century, when it was largely pushed out of schools in order to accommodate the

progressivist pragmatism that now dominates education. The liberal arts

were abandoned but never replaced.These seven educational habits do not

have the glamour of a new iPad, and there are few new "apps" to accompany them. To many modern educators, they seem a hoary relic from a bygone age. But such a criticism, of course, is irrelevant. “What avails a golden key,” asks St. Augustine, “if it cannot give access to the object which we wish to teach, and why find fault with a wooden key if it serves our purpose?”

That an educational method was old was once a recommendation to educators, who valued the tried and true. This attitude, however, has been replaced by a kind of neophilia which threatens the entire educational enterprise, if not our culture itself.

To fail to pass on these basic intellectual skills, skills without which learning can become a torture, is to consign the modern student to death by intellectual thirst just out of reach of the educational water.

The answer to the modern educational problem

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The LiberaL arTs The LiberaL arTs

The liberal arts denote the seven branches of knowledge that initiate the young into a life of learning. The concept is classical, but the term liberal arts and the division of the arts into the trivium and the quadrivium date from the Middle Ages.

The Trivium and The QuadriviumThe trivium1 includes those aspects of the liberal arts that pertain to mind,

and the quadrivium, those aspects of the liberal arts that pertain to matter. Logic, grammar, and rhetoric constitute the trivium; and arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy constitute the quadrivium. Logic is the art of thinking; grammar, the art of inventing symbols and combining them to express thought; and rhetoric, the art

of communicating thought from one mind to another, the adaptation of language to circumstance. Arithmetic, the theory of number, and music, an application of the theory of number (the measurement of discrete quantities in motion), are the arts of discrete quantity or number. Geometry, the theory of space, and astronomy, an application of the theory of space, are the arts of continuous quantity or extension.

Figure 1: The Seven Liberal Arts

The Trivium: The three arts of language pertaining to the mindLogic .................art of thinking Grammar .........art of inventing and combining symbols Rhetoric ............art of communication

The QuAdrivium: The four arts of quantity pertaining to matterDiscrete quantity or numberArithmetic .......theory of number Music ................application of the theory of numberContinuous quantityGeometry ........theory of space Astronomy .....application of the theory of space

WhaT are The

LiberaL arTs?

Sister Miriam JosephSister Miriam Joseph was

a member of the Sisters of the Holy Cross. She earned

her doctorate at Columbia University and served as

professor of English at St. Mary's College from 1931 to 1960. She learned the

trivium from Mortimer Adler, who instructed her and the teaching staff at St. Mary's

College on how to use it.

This article is an excerpt from The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric, by Sister Joseph. It

is used with the permission of Paul Dry Books, Inc. (www.

pauldrybooks.com), which also publishes Sister Joseph's Shakespeare's Use of the Arts

of Language.

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These arts of reading, writing, and reckoning have formed the traditional basis of liberal education, each constituting both a field of knowledge and the technique to acquire that knowledge. The degree bachelor of arts is awarded to those who demonstrate the requisite proficiency in these arts, and the degree master of arts, to those who have demonstrated a greater proficiency.

Today, as in centuries past, a mastery of the liberal arts is widely recognized as the best preparation for work in professional schools, such as those of medicine, law, engineering, or theology. Those who first perfect their own faculties through liberal education are thereby better prepared to serve others in a professional or other capacity.

The seven liberal arts differ essentially from the many utilitarian arts (such as carpentry, masonry, plumbing, salesmanship, printing, editing, banking, law, medicine, or the care of souls) and from the seven fine arts (architecture, instrumental music, sculpture, painting, literature, the drama, and the dance), for both the utilitarian arts and the fine arts are transitive activities, whereas the essential characteristic of the liberal arts is that they are immanent or intransitive activities.

The utilitarian artist produces utilities that serve the wants of humanity; the fine artist, if he is of the highest order, produces a work that is “a thing of beauty and a joy forever”2 and that has the power to elevate the human spirit. In the exercise of both the utilitarian and the fine arts, although the action begins in the agent, it goes out from the agent and ends in the object produced and usually has a commercial value; and therefore the artist is paid for the work. In the exercise of the liberal arts, however, the action begins in the agent and ends in the agent, who is perfected by the action; consequently, the liberal artist, far from being paid for his hard work, of which he receives the sole and full benefit, usually pays a teacher to give needed instruction and guidance in the practice of the liberal arts.

The intransitive character of the liberal arts may be better understood from the following analogy.

CLasses of GoodsThe three classes of goods—valuable, useful, and

pleasurable—illustrate the same type of distinction that exists among the arts.

Valuable goods are those which are not only desired for their own sake but which increase the intrinsic worth of their possessor. For instance, knowledge, virtue, and health are valuable goods.

Useful goods are those which are desired because they enable one to acquire valuable goods. For instance, food, medicine, money, tools, and books are useful goods.

Pleasurable goods are those which are desired for their own sake because of the satisfaction they give their possessor. For instance, happiness, an honorable reputation, social prestige, flowers, and savory food are pleasurable goods. They do not add to the intrinsic worth of their possessor, nor are they desired as means, yet they may be associated with valuable goods or useful goods. For instance, knowledge, which increases worth, may at the same time be pleasurable; ice cream, which is nourishing food, promotes health, and is, at the same time, enjoyable.

The utilitarian or servile arts enable one to be a servant—of another person, of the state, of a corporation, or of a business—and to earn a living. The liberal arts, in contrast, teach one how to live; they train the faculties and bring them to perfection; they enable a person to rise above his material environment to live an intellectual, a rational, and therefore a free life in gaining truth. Jesus Christ said, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32).3

The new motto of Saint John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland, expresses the purpose of a liberal arts college with an interesting play on the etymology of liberal: “Facio liberos ex liberis libris libraque.” “I make free men of children by means of books and a balance [laboratory experiments].”4

sCienCe and arTEach of the liberal arts is both a science and an

art in the sense that in the province of each there is something to know (science) and something to do (art). An art may be used successfully before one has a formal knowledge of its precepts. For example, a child of three may use correct grammar even though the child knows nothing of formal grammar. Similarly, logic and rhetoric may be effectively used by those who do not know the precepts of these arts. It is, however, desirable and satisfying to acquire a clear knowledge of the precepts and to know why certain forms of expression or thought are right and wrong.

ANALOgY

The intransitive character of the liberal artsThe carpenter planes the wood.The rose blooms. The action of a transitive verb (like planes) begins in the agent but “goes across” and ends in the object (the wood). The action of an intransitive verb (like blooms) begins in the agent and ends in the agent (the rose, which is perfected by blooming).

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The trivium is the organon, or instrument of all education at all levels because the arts of logic, grammar, and rhetoric are the arts of communication itself in that they govern the means of communication–namely, reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Thinking is inherent in these four activities. Reading and listening, for example, although relatively passive, involve active thinking, for we agree or disagree with what we read or hear.

The trivium is used vitally when it is exercised in reading and composition. It was systematically and intensively exercised in the reading of the Latin classics and in the composition of Latin prose and verse by boys in the grammar schools of England and the continent during the sixteenth century. This was the training that formed the intellectual habits of Shakespeare and other Renaissance writers. The result of it appears in their work. (See T. W. Baldwin,

William Shakespeare’s Small Latine and Lesse Greeke. Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 1944.5) The trivium was basic also in the curriculum of classical times, the Middle Ages, and the post-Renaissance.

In the Greek grammar of Dionysius Thrax (ca. 166 B.C.), the oldest extant book on grammar6 and the basis for grammatical texts for at least thirteen centuries, grammar is defined in so comprehensive a manner that it includes versification, rhetoric, and literary criticism.

Grammar is an experimental knowledge of the usages of

languages as generally current among poets and prose writers.

It is divided into six parts: (1) trained reading with due regard to

prosody [versification]; (2) exposition, according to poetic figures

[rhetoric]; (3) ready statement of dialectical peculiarities and

allusion; (4) discovery of etymologies; (5) the accurate account

of analogies; (6) criticism of poetical productions which is the

noblest part of grammatical art.

Because communication involves the simultaneous exercise of logic, grammar, and rhetoric, these three arts are the fundamental arts of education, of teaching, and of being taught. Accordingly, they must be practiced simultaneously by both teacher and pupil. The pupil must cooperate with the teacher; he must be active, not passive. The teacher may be present either directly or indirectly. When one studies a book, the author is a teacher indirectly present through the book. Communication, as the etymology of the word signifies, results in something possessed in common; it

is a oneness shared. Communication takes place only when two minds really meet. If the reader or listener receives the same ideas and emotions that the writer or speaker wished to convey, he understands (although he may disagree); if he receives no ideas, he does not understand; if different ideas, he misunderstands. The same principles of logic, grammar, and rhetoric guide writer, reader, speaker, and listener.

LiberaL arTs eduCaTionEducation is the highest of arts in the sense that

it imposes forms (ideas and ideals) not on matter, as do other arts (for instance carpentry or sculpture), but on mind. These forms are received by the student not passively, but through active cooperation. In true liberal education, as Newman7 explained, the essential activity of the student is to relate the facts learned into a unified, organic whole, to assimilate them as the body assimilates food or as the rose assimilates food from the soil and increases in size, vitality, and beauty. A learner must use mental hooks and eyes to join the facts together to form a significant whole. This makes learning easier, more interesting, and much more valuable. The accumulation of facts is mere information and is not worthy to be called education since it burdens the mind and stultifies it instead of developing, enlightening, and perfecting it. Even if one forgets many of the facts once learned and related, the mind retains the vigor and perfection gained by its exercise upon them. It can do this, however, only by grappling with facts and ideas. Moreover, it is much easier to remember related ideas than unrelated ideas.

Each of the liberal arts has come to be understood not in the narrow sense of a single subject, but rather in the sense of a group of related subjects. The trivium, in itself a tool or a skill, has become associated with its most appropriate subject matter—the languages, oratory, literature, history, philosophy. The quadrivium comprises not only mathematics but many branches of science. The theory of number includes not merely arithmetic but also algebra, calculus, the theory of equations, and other branches of higher mathematics. The applications of the theory of number include not only music (here understood as musical principles, like those of harmony, which constitute the liberal art of music and must be distinguished from applied instrumental music, which is a fine art) but also physics, much of chemistry, and other forms of scientific measurement of discrete quantities. The theory of space includes analytic geometry and trigonometry. Applications of the theory of space include principles of architecture, geography, surveying, and engineering.

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The three R’s—reading, writing, and reckoning—constitute the core not only of elementary education but also of higher education. Competence in the use of language and competence in handling abstractions, particularly mathematical quantities, are regarded as the most reliable indexes to a student’s intellectual caliber. Accordingly, tests have been devised to measure these skills, and guidance programs in colleges and in the armed forces have been based on the results of such tests.

The three arts of language provide discipline of mind inasmuch as mind finds expression in language. The four arts of quantity provide means for the study of matter inasmuch as quantity—more

precisely, extension—is the outstanding characteristic of matter. (Extension is a characteristic of matter only, whereas number is a characteristic of both matter and spirit.) The function of the trivium is the training of the mind for the study of matter and spirit, which together constitute the sum of reality. The fruit of education is culture, which Matthew Arnold8 defined as “the knowledge of ourselves [mind] and the world [matter].” In the “sweetness and light” of Christian culture, which adds to the knowledge of the world and ourselves the knowledge of God and of other spirits, we are enabled truly to “see life steadily and see it whole.”9

The LaNGUaGe arTs The LanGuaGe arTs and reaLiTyThe three language arts can be defined as they relate

to reality and to each other. Metaphysics or ontology,10 the science of being, is concerned with reality, with the thing-as-it-exists. Logic, grammar, and rhetoric have the following relation to reality.

Rhetoric is the master art of the trivium,12 for it presupposes and makes use of grammar and logic; it is the art of communicating through symbols ideas about reality.

Comparison of maTeriaLs, funCTions, and

norms of The LanGuaGe arTsThe language arts guide the speaker, writer,

listener, and reader in the correct and effective use of language. Phonetics and spelling, which are allied to

the art of grammar, are included here to show their relationship to the other language arts in materials, functions, and norms.

Because rhetoric aims for effectiveness rather than correctness, it deals not only with the paragraph and the whole composition but also with the word and the sentence, for it prescribes that diction be clear and appropriate and that sentences be varied in structure and rhythm. It recognizes various levels of discourse, such as the literary (maiden or damsel, steed), the common (girl, horse), the illiterate (gal, hoss), the slang (skirt, plug), the technical (homo sapiens, equus caballus), each with its appropriate use. The adaptation of language to circumstance, which is a function of rhetoric, requires the choice of a certain style and diction in speaking to adults, of a different style in presenting scientific ideas to the general public, and of another in presenting them to a group of scientists.

Figure 3: Language Arts

Their materials and Functions• Phonetics prescribes how to combine sounds so as to form

spoken words correctly.• Spelling prescribes how to combine letters so as to form

written words correctly.• grammar prescribes how to combine words so as to form

sentences correctly.• rhetoric prescribes how to combine sentences into

paragraphs and paragraphs into a whole composition having unity, coherence, and the desired emphasis, as well as clarity, force, and beauty.

• Logic prescribes how to combine concepts into judgments and judgments into syllogisms and chains of reasoning so as to achieve truth.

Figure 2: Language and reality

• Logic is concerned with the thing-as-it-is-known.• grammar is concerned with the thing-as-it-is-symbolized.• rhetoric is concerned with the thing-as-it-is-communicated.

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relationship between metaphysics and language artsThe discovery of the planet Pluto in 1930 illustrates the relationship between metaphysics and the language arts. The planet Pluto had been a real entity, traveling in its orbit about our sun, for centuries; its discovery in 1930 did not create it. By being discovered, however, it became in 1930 for the first time a logical entity. When it was named Pluto, it became a grammatical entity. When by its name knowledge of it was communicated to others through the spoken word and also through the written word, the planet Pluto became a rhetorical entity.11

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Since rhetoric is the master art of the trivium, it may even enjoin the use of bad grammar or bad logic, as in the portrayal of an illiterate or stupid character in a story.

Just as rhetoric is the master art of the trivium, so logic is the art of arts because it directs the very act of reason, which directs all other human acts to their proper end through the means it determines.

In the preface to his Art of Logic, the poet Milton remarks:

The general matter of the general arts is either reason or

speech. They are employed either in perfecting reason for the

sake of proper thinking, as in logic, or in perfecting speech,

and that either for the sake of the correct use of words, as in

grammar, or the effective use of words, as in rhetoric. Of all the

arts the first and most general is logic, then grammar, and last

of all rhetoric, since there can be much use of reason without

speech, but no use of speech without reason. We gave the

second place to grammar because correct speech can be

unadorned; but it can hardly be adorned before it is correct.13

Because the arts of language are normative, they are practical studies as contrasted with speculative. A speculative study is one that merely seeks to know—for example, astronomy. We can merely know about the heavenly bodies. We cannot influence their movements.

A practical, normative study is one that seeks to regulate, to bring into conformity with a norm or standard—for example, ethics. The norm of ethics is the good, and its purpose is to bring human conduct into conformity with goodness.

The intellect itself is perfected in its operations by the five intellectual virtues, three speculative and two practical. Understanding is the intuitive grasp of first principles. (For example, of contradictory statements, one must be true, the other false.) Science is knowledge of proximate causes (physics, mathematics, economics, etc.). Wisdom is knowledge of ultimate causes—metaphysics in the natural order, theology in the supernatural order. Prudence is right reason about something to be done. Art is right reason about something to be made.14

1 All footnotes for this article are listed in the web version, which can be found at www.MemoriaPress.com/articles/LiberalArts.

Figure 4: Language Arts

Their Norms• Correctness is the norm of phonetics, spelling, and grammar.• Effectiveness is the norm of rhetoric.• Truth is the norm of logic. Correctness in thinking is the

normal means to reach truth, which is the conformity of thought with things as they are—with reality.

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Traditional Logic by Martin Cothran Book I: An Introduction to Formal Logic Book II: Advanced Formal Logic Grades 7+

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. Book II completes the study of the simple categorical syllogism, advances to hypothetical syllogisms, and continues the study of logic by covering complex argument forms, great arguments from history, and case studies of great arguments. (Each book can be used as either a one-semester or one-year course.)

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Material Logic: A Course in How to Think by Martin Cothran Grades 9+

The principles of material logic, an important part of trivium language study, are now almost completely forgotten—a casualty of the almost exclusive modern secular emphasis on the quantitative sciences. This has resulted in the rise of systems of modern logic that are more math than logic. Formal logic was once termed minor (or lesser) logic, while material logic usually went by the name of major (or greater) logic—possibly a measure of how important classical thinkers considered it.

There is a huge gap between formal logic courses and so-called “thinking skills” courses. Formal logic focuses exclusively on the systematic study of the structure of reasoning. “Thinking skills” courses, on the other hand, tend to suffer from a highly nonsystematic, topic-hopping approach, where the student is unable to see how one principle connects with another. Whether you want a follow-on course to Memoria Press’ popular Traditional Logic program, or simply an introduction to logic for high school students, this program is a valuable tool in teaching your student how to think.

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Literature isAngelicThere is a sense in which

literature transcends logic. Logic is limited in its access to truth by the Law of Noncontradiction:

Both “A” and “not A” cannot be true at the same time and in the same respect. Napoleon was the emperor of France or he was not; water is made of two hydrogen molecules and an oxygen molecule or it is not—in each case, both things cannot be true at the same time in the same way.

Logic is the tool of understanding, while poetics is the tool of vision. Logic indirectly brings your intellect into conformity with abstract truth. Poetics directly brings your whole soul—the intellect, will, and imagination—into contact with the concrete truth.

You can understand most things—nobility, sincerity, compassion, love—through the intellect, but such an understanding is incomplete. Through a strictly logical approach, you only see things, so to speak, from the outside. It never involves your whole being. But when you see these concepts in the actions of a character in a novel, it grabs all of you. You perceive it with the eye of your mind and the eye of your heart—in three dimensions. You see it from the inside rather than the outside.

But poetry (and by that word I mean what it has always traditionally meant—namely, literature in the broad sense) is not limited in this way. Poetry does not violate but transcends the laws of logic. In a story, something can be something and not be something at the same

time. This is the whole power of symbolism and metaphor: one word, or one idea, or one character can be something that it is not—at the same time and in the same respect.

Logic is human; literature is angelic.Logic is human because it requires us to

go through a complex set of steps in order for us to find truth—a process our human nature requires us to go through. But literature is angelic since, like it was said to be to the angels, it is immediately and directly accessible.

Truth is immediately apprehensible through the literary object which is the thing it symbolizes.

Lewis' Aslan is not Christ, but he is; Tolkien's Galadriel is not Mary (or Eve), but she is; Fitzgerald's Gatsby is not the American dream, yet he is; Melville's Moby Dick is not nature itself (or God), but he is; Steinbeck's Pearl of the World is not mammon, but it is.

Even though it's not.

Suggested Logic Timeline3rd-6th Solid grounding in mathematics & Latin:

Great preparatory skills for logical thought.

7th Traditional Logic I:A study of the basic elements of simple arguments.

8thTraditional Logic II: An advanced course that completes the study of the simple categorical syllogism, covers hypothetical syllogisms, and studies all complex argument forms.

9thMaterial Logic: A study of the 10 ways something can exist, the 5 ways of saying something about something else, definition, and classification.

10th

Informal Fallacies: A study of the ways in which argumentation can go wrong so the student can avoid it himself and point it out in the reasoning of others. *Text not yet published, but online course available.

11th-12th Classical Rhetoric: A study which incorporates logic into the broader context of persuasive communication.

*Students in 9th grade can complete both Traditional Logic books in one year. Material Logic and informal fallacies can be covered in one year in 10th grade.

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Classical Rhetoric by Martin Cothran Grades 9+

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.

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.

Aristotle's Rhetoric edited by Edward Corbett

$3.50This book contains the same Rhys Roberts translation of Aristotle's Rhetoric used in Classical

Rhetoric. Selected because of its clarity and simplicity, its carefully chosen terminology distinguishes this translation from all others currently available. The text is broken down into three sections, each one dealing with the speaker, the audience, and the speech. Memoria's Classical Rhetoric studies the first two books.

How to Read A Book: A Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer Adler & Charles Van Doren

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Figures of Speech: 60 Ways to Turn a Phrase by Arthur Quinn

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Students work through one third of The Golden Children's Bible in each year. The Student Book off ers 30 lessons, each comprised of:•Weekly memory verses•Map and timeline work•Review lessons and tests every 5 lessons•Comprehension, drill, and discussion questions•References TheGoldenChildren'sBiblepage numbers as well as actual

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Christian Studies IV takes students back through the highlights of the Bible, reviewing drill questions, Scripture memory passages, and more! This study guide can serve as a review course for Christian Studies I-III or stand alone as a survey study of the Bible. We give you the Scripture passages where the answers to the drill questions can be found so that you can read through the Bible by touching on the major stories and characters. This course is a great preparation for studying early church history in the upper school years.

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Christian Studies Suggested TimelineGrade Program

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7th + The Ancient World (Dorothy Mills): a study of the ancient religions of the Egyptians, Hittites, Phoenicians, Babylonians, and Assyrians to the revelation of Yahweh to the Hebrew people

8th + Eusebius, Early Christian Writings, and the Book of Acts: a study of early Christian history taught through primary sources written by Luke, Ignatius, Clement, Eusebius, and more

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Each of the 30 lessons in the Student Guide presents important facts to know, vocabulary, comprehension questions, and a picture review and activities section. It also points out the many references to Greek mythology in the modern world.

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Memoria Press’ 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. Balanced and well-written, with many interesting details and beautiful color illustrations, Famous Men of Modern Times is perhaps Haaran and Poland’s best work.

Famous Men Study Guides:The Famous Men study guides include famous quotes, key people and places, vocabulary words, comprehension questions, and activities that include mapwork, discussion questions, and research projects. These programs also come with an appendix of supplements, including ancient maps, timelines, drill questions, and drawing pages.

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The Divine Comedy

Grades 10+

Upon the literary foundation of the West laid by the hands of Homer and Virgil sits a cathedral. That cathedral is Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. One of the crown jewels of both Western and

Christian literature, the Comedy is an epic, allegorical poem accounting 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 Comedy is necessary to any classical curriculum, for it is the union of two traditions, both Christian and classical. Let us be a Virgil (Dante’s guide in the Comedy) as we help guide your older student with helpful study questions, reading notes for difficult lines, and tests and quizzes for mastery. Let us also introduce your student to a great book meant to be read for a lifetime. $16.95 Divine Comedy Student Guide$16.95 Divine Comedy Teacher Guide$20.00 The Divine Comedy (John Ciardi translation)

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Western civilization begins with the Iliad and Odyssey. This study guide includes both of Homer's books within one guide, based on the Samuel Butler translation.

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There are three works that are at the source of Western culture: the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid. After you have completed your study of Homer, the Aeneid is your next logical Great Book to

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City of God

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teaching guidelines, and a test. It takes about 15 minutes for a student to recite this ballad from memory, and this year fourteen 6th graders at Highlands Latin School won the Winston Churchill Award for performing this amazing feat.

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If you don't begin your classical education until middle or high school, it is never too late! We would suggest that you start with Year 5 of our Classical Studies Map 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. 37]) and has read a retelling of the Trojan War (Olivia Coolidge's The Trojan War [p. 38]).

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the power of the word classic cannot be underestimated, communicating as it does the idea of excellence, truth, order, discipline, and beauty.

the word "classic" brings to mind something that has withstood the test of time, and by virtue of

this fact, participates in some way in the timeless and the eternal. And what is the only thing we know of with these att ributes but God and His Eternal Word? When looked at this way, every Christian should want a classical education for their children: It has everything we instinctively want.

but when we examine this word "classic," we fi nd that there is one, and only one, civilization in all of human history that we call classic—the classical civilization of Greece and Rome, the world that Christ was born into, which was not Christian, but pagan. And there are two, and only two, languages that we call classical: Latin and ancient Greek. And furthermore, the original classics, the real classics you might say, were the works writt en in these languages by Homer, Plato, Vergil, and Cicero—non-Christians all; and this is what we mean by pagan literature.

So now we have a conundrum. Why do we have to read these pagan classics? After all, they did not know the true God. Their works are full of references to their own false gods. Hasn’t all of the ancient wisdom been surpassed anyway? Isn’t it all out of date? Why can’t we just read modern classics like The Great Gatsby or Huckleberry Finn? Why not read the Bible and good books writt en by Christians—modern classics?

Looking for justifi cation, then, we have latched onto the Biblical metaphor, “spoiling the Egyptians,” given to us by no less a personage than St. Augustine himself. Like the Israelites who grabbed some Egyptian gold on their fl ight from Egypt, we Christians too can grab some useful tidbits from those pagans. They got some things right, and since all truth is God’s truth, it belongs to us Christians anyway—or so the argument goes.

This version hardly does justice to the riches of classical wisdom and, what is worse, many classical Christian educators use the pagan classics mostly to emphasize their errors, rather than mine them for their gold. All of this leads the thoughtful Christian educator to ask again why we are reading these classics in the fi rst place. We can fi nd plenty of bad examples in the modern world.

Obviously this approach to the pagan classics is weak and wholely inadequate to sustain, much less advance, the classical Christian education movement. We need to give our parents and teachers a robust rationale for why we study the pagan writers, and we need to give them, in addition, the knowledge and tools they need to understand and recognize their signifi cance.

What I hope to show is that the pagan classics provide the foundation for all human knowledge and that, without them, we have no hope of making sense of history or our modern world. The pagan classics are

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the indispensible foundation of a classical education and, what is more, they provide the key to unlocking the errors of modernism. For the Greeks did more than get some things right; they asked all of the important questions and either gave us the right answers or laid the foundation upon which answers could be found. It is not too much to say that the providence of God prepared two sources of light—one human and one divine—and both are needed to defend and preserve our civilization and our faith.

As with my top ten reasons for studying Latin, I have assembled my top ten reasons for reading the pagan classics. For each of these ten points, I will give a reading assignment, usually a Greek or Roman classic (in translation). While I advocate learning the classical languages themselves, I also believe we should take advantage of the good English translations we have today and start these classics early in the education of our children and ourselves.

Of all of the points that I will make, this is the easiest to understand because it is so visible: we see its evidence every day. The power and beauty of classical architecture is everywhere, from grand buildings like our Supreme Court to our humble everyday homes. The Greeks discovered the proportions that are most pleasing to the human eye which, they tell us, are based on nature’s greatest work of art: the human body. Scale, mass, proportion, and symmetry—the principles of classical architecture—were worked out by the Greeks in great detail and built upon in succeeding generations. They still apply today, and regardless of the style of architecture—whether you are building a farmhouse or a church—these ratios will be the most pleasing to the human eye, and observing the principles first laid down by the Greeks will ensure that your building will be most beautiful. The principles of classical architecture can be applied to any style, whether Tudor, Cape Cod, or Asian pagoda.

The principles are true, and they have never been overturned. Today, they are mostly ignored, which is why we have such ugly buildings. Modern architecture, for the most part, is soulless because it has rejected the principles of classical architecture—not because they are untrue, and not because they are outdated, but for no reason other than that they perhaps are inconvenient. This, I submit, is the pattern that applies to all of the errors of modernism—a pattern of a wholesale rejection, not only of divine wisdom (we know that), but also of human wisdom (the wisdom of

the creature made in God's image), and for apparently no reason other than that modernism spurns the restrictions of truth. This pattern, morever, illustrates why a careful reading of the pagan classics is so important for a classical education that aspires to give a firm foundation in wisdom and truth.

De Architectura, written by Vitruvius around 15 B.C. and dedicated to the emperor Caesar Augustus, is the only work on architecture that has survived from the ancient world. Vitruvius was a Roman and, like all of the Romans, his work was not especially original, but rather based on the Greeks. De Architectura was a

compilation of Greek principles and Roman engineering, accompanied by his detailed drawings, which unfortunately have been lost. Vitruvius’ second life began after he was rediscovered in the Renaissance, where he became the authority on all things architectural, rather as Aristotle was considered the authority on everything else. De Architectura became the basis for the second most influential architecture book in history, The Four Books of Architecture by Andrea Palladio, published in 1570. Palladio (as in Palladian windows)

called Vitruvius his master. Palladio went to Rome, studied the remnants of Roman architecture, studied Vitruvius, and thereafter designed churches, villas, palaces, and other public buildings, all in Venice. When he published his great work on architecture, his principles of neoclassical design spread all over Europe and the New World and have had immeasurable impact over the last 500 years. Thomas Jefferson called Palladio’s book his bible. You can see the influence of classical architecture everywhere in this country (the White House, the Capitol, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello and his design for UVA), and indeed throughout the whole world. In fact, one of the world’s most famous drawings, Vitruvian Man (on the facing page), was created by Leonardo da Vinci to replace Vitruvius’ original lost drawing. The drawing illustrates the insight of the Greeks that the proportions that are most pleasing to the human eye are based on nature’s greatest work of art, the human body.

Is there a pattern here? I think so. God is the creative mind; the Greeks studied His book of nature, and we study the Greeks. In the providence of God, that appears to be His plan. Whether we realize it or not, when we study the Greeks, we are, if only indirectly, studying the mind of God.

Reading Assignment:Your first assignment, while not really

a "reading" assignment, is to begin to pay attention to architecture, and if you are doing any remodeling or

building, find an architect with classical training (unfortunately not an easy

task). And if your child is interested in architecture, the only architecture

school I know of that still emphasizes classical principles is Notre Dame.

What's That Bird?

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New supplement to the Memoria Press Classical Core Curriculum! (pp. 8-9) We have always been fans of Susan Wise Bauer's Story of the World series, but we never seemed able to find room for it in our curriculum in the past. We recently came up with the great idea of adding it as a supplement to our Classical Core packages (pp. 8-9) for summer reading! So, we have decided to recommend that our Classical Core students read through Volume 1 in the summer before they begin 4th grade, Volume 2 before 5th grade, Volume 3 before 6th grade, and Volume 4 before 7th grade. Each volume fits perfectly as an overview to the time period students will be studying in the coming year (either in Classical or American/Modern Studies).

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We have looked, and we cannot find an American history study on a grammar school level that we think rivals H. A. Guerber's 2-volume American history set from the turn of the 20th century. So, rather than settle for lesser quality, 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.

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The Artners have read and researched, selected and catalogued, the best of children’s American history books—both in and out of print. There is no chaff to sift through here. When you read their descriptions of some of the great writers of American history for children, you will be as excited as we were.$23.90 Set (Artner Guide + Everything You Need to Know About American History Homework)

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This book is a desk reference guide that provides charts, maps, timelines, and short summaries of important facts about American history. It makes a perfect companion alongside Guerber’s The Story of the Thirteen Colonies and the Great Republic. It is a valuable resource for American history throughout your school years.$9.99 Everything You Need to Know About American History Homework

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This study guide thoroughly teaches the states and capitals of the United States. Each state is given a 2-page spread that includes a map with room to write the

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A unique geography program designed for students pursuing a

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The National Latin Exam, sponsored by the American

Classical League and National Junior Classical League, is an international competition for middle and high school Latin students. Each exam consists of forty multiple choice questions over Latin grammar, vocabulary, translation, English derivatives, and the history, geography, and culture of Greece and Rome.

There is an Intro. Exam for middle school students and Exams I-IV that generally correspond to the four years of high school. Students who score above the national average are given awards; certificates and ribbons for the Intro. level, and certificates and gold and silver medals for levels I-IV. The exam is given the first full week in March. The syllabus for the different level and practice exams can be found on the NLE website: nle.org.

At Highlands Latin, we devote two weeks to test preparation for all students who are in Second Form Latin or higher. Students who earn four gold medals on Levels I-IV Exams are awarded an Oxford Classical Dictionary and are also eligible to apply for a $1000 renewable college scholarship awarded by the American Classical League.

This year, fifty-four HLS students earned gold medals and twenty-one earned silver medals. Three students have now earned four gold medals, two sophomores and a senior.

Congratulations to HLS and HLS affiliate schools whose students participated in the National Latin Exam!

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Highlands Latin School, Indianapolis, INFrom left to right: Luke Haskins (Gold), Sean Tharp (Silver), Aaron Tharp (Silver), Brooke Wydo (Magna Cum Laude), Jake Hibbitt (Silver), Anna Russell (Cum Laude), Gina Solomito (Gold)

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The Classical Latin School Association (CLSA) is an association of elementary and secondary schools working to promote the transmission of the culture of the Christian West to the next generation through the Classical Core CurriculumTM, which focuses on history, literature, and the great ideas, with an emphasis on basic skills and the liberal arts and a special emphasis on the study of Latin.

Through teacher training, online assistance, school accreditation, and help in marketing classical education in their communities, CLSA offers a way for schools to succeed by helping to ensure a well-trained staff, easily accessible curriculum assistance, greater community awarenesss of what they have to offer, and a way to internally document their viability as an academically successful classical Christian school. Through accreditation, schools hold themselves externally accountable and verify to their communities of families that they are offering their students a superior classical Christian education.

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First Start FrenchIntroduction to the French languageby Danielle Schultz

Modeled aft er 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. A pronunciation guide and CD recording are also available.

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