P.L. Travers wrote, “Myths come, it is true, from the ancient past, but it is no less true that they, like the traditions round which they gather, are constantly being rediscovered, renewed and restated.” Enter Mary Poppins, part-Goddess, part-Celtic Warrior Fey, full-time nanny with a parrot umbrella. Like Venus pulling aside the veil to reveal the work of the gods…
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“As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.” This quotation from Proverbs 25:25 follows the title of C. S. Lewis’s The Pilgrim’s Regress, and it evokes the by now very Lewisian idea of sehnsucht, that sweet, painful longing for some unnamable thing just out of reach. Lewis, in his preface to the third…
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Dr. Jason Baxter's book, Why Literature Still Matters hit a nerve, so much so that readers not only agreed with the premise (that we need literature in our technological age) but wanted to know: "Yes, I agree, but now what? Where do we go from here?" In this course, Dr. Baxter will provide a six-week-long addendum to Why Literature Still…
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Within the world of stories, there is one kind of character which seems to cross every boundary- blurring lines of distance and time to greet us from many lands with many different faces, but with the same familiar voice. In Robin Hood, in the 108 outlaws of Liangshan marsh, in the Cowboys of the Wild West, in King David and…
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Students and teachers have been asking Angelina Stanford for years to develop a mentorship program--a way for students to be personally mentored and trained by her, to go deeper into their understanding of literature, literary theory, the imagination, and teaching practices and principles. To that end, we bring you another round of The Fellowship: A Literary Mentorship Program. This intimate Fellowship…
Classical Greek Grammar 2 follows Classical Greek Grammar 1 (offered on a rotating schedule). In this course students complete the grammar cycle and are introduced to longer and more complex readings in the New Testament, and various classical authors such as Sophocles, Xenophon, Plato, and others. Students will also learn the basics of Greek poetics and composition. The course utilizes…
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Note: This "Sibling Seat" Product is used to track sibling registrations for the "Advanced Latin Elective" course. Sibling Seats cannot be purchased on their own. You should only add a Sibling Seat to your cart if you have first filled in sibling information in the main course product, found here.
Advanced Latin Reading Elective is primarily aimed at House of Humane Letters students who have completed Latin 3 (the capstone Latin class for our Latin program) and are proficient in reading Latin but might still like additional help through various important texts in Roman literature. Students from outside of the program who are already fully proficient in reading Latin may…
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This course is the continuation of Latin Grammar 1. In this class, students will complete Wheelock’s Latin and practice reading longer and more complex passages from ancient, medieval, and Renaissance authors. The latter half of the course will orient students towards the foundational genres of Roman literature such as epic, history, lyric poetry, epistles, and satire. The aim of Latin…
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The language of the ancient Roman people is well worth studying for its own sake, but especially for the sheer joy of reading the Romans in their own words. Many important Western texts, such as Virgil’s Aeneid, are best enjoyed in the original language. There are other benefits to studying Latin, of course, but we should always approach another language…
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Note: This "Sibling Seat" Product is used to track sibling registrations for the "Anglo-Saxon: Further Readings" course. Sibling Seats cannot be purchased on their own. You should only add a Sibling Seat to your cart if you have first filled in sibling information in the main course product, found here.
In this year-long class, we will continue to explore the varied corpus of Anglo-Saxon literature. Texts will include Biblical narrative and poetry, history, homily, excerpts from the Exeter Book, and longer narrative poems. The class will also highlight the movement of the language from Old to Middle English and will conclude with some of the early alliterative poems of the…
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This course is a continuation of Latin Gramma 2. In this class, students will take the knowledge of Latin grammar and vocabulary they have acquired in their previous studies and apply it to the reading of original Latin texts from the time of the Roman Republic down to the beginning of the Christian era. Assigned readings will include a considerable…
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In this year-long class, we will learn the foundations of Old English grammar while being introduced to various literary forms in the language. The first term consists of grammar knowledge, poetry reading, and initial translations. The second term includes more advanced grammar and continued poetry and narrative translations. Students will be expected to do in-class readings. Throughout the year, students…
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Language study is the science of relations and patterns. This class teaches the fundamentals of the English language through an overview of the structure of a sentence, including the parts of speech, inflection, and syntax. Students who have been learning grammar informally through reading, copywork, and dictation may use this course as a first formal grammar course. The class is…
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Please Note: This course has rotating content so that students may take the class more than once. Learn History through Biography: The Greek biographer Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is one of the cornerstones of Charlotte Mason’s educational philosophy. Join Classicist Thomas Banks in his online class dedicated to exploring this classic book, with Themistocles (1st Semester)…
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