The Curious Historian Level 2 is the second part in a 3-level series that presents the study of history and culture from the beginnings of civilization (Mesopotamia and Egypt) through the classical world to the Middle Ages. Students will grow excited about history, see how people throughout the ages were both similar to and different from themselves, and learn to be scholars of the past who can make a difference in the future.

Note: This is a one-semester course for grades 4 or 5 and up

The Curious Historian Level 2A: Greece and the Classical World (TCH2A) introduces students to:

• Unit I: The Greek and Classical Period
  • The world of the Greek polis
  • Greek government and colonization
  • The Persian and Peloponnesian Wars
  • Greek culture: the Olympic Games, literature, sculpture, and religion
• Unit II: The Hellenistic World
  • Philip II and Alexander the Great
  • Alexander’s Successors and the Hellenistic kingdoms
  • Gifted Greeks—scientists, historians, philosophers, and more
• Unit III: The Far East
  • India’s first 3 empires
  • China during the Spring and Autumn Period
  • The Eastern religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Confucianism, and Daoism

Plus: A supplemental Go Deeper PDF is available to view for free here! This resource includes additional information to share with your students or explore for your own interest: links to museum collections of artifacts, links to virtual tours of ruins and key sites in Greece, fun tidbits (Did you know the world’s oldest intact shipwreck discovered so far is a Greek trading vessel called the Odysseus? Or would you and your students enjoy learning what ancient Greek music might have sounded like?), and much more. Icons in the teacher’s edition indicate when to reference this optional resource.

Companion Products:

The Curious Historian Level 1A -Student Edition
The Curious Historian Level 1A- Teacher Edition

The Curious Historian Level 1B – Student Edition
The Curious Historian Level 1B – Teacher Edition

The Curious Historian Level 2A – Student Edition
The Curious Historian Level 2A – Teacher Edition

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A one-semester course for grades 4 or 5 and up

The TCH2A student edition includes weekly chapter lessons that present a chronological narrative of history. Accompanying sidebars feature historical and archaeological tidbits, discussion questions, and Greek/Latin root words for key vocabulary. A wealth of exercises, hands-on projects and activities, maps, and appendices help to present the study of history in an engaging, creative manner.

The Curious Historian Level 2A: Greece and the Classical World (TCH2A) introduces students to:

• Unit I: The Greek and Classical Period
  • The world of the Greek polis
  • Greek government and colonization
  • The Persian and Peloponnesian Wars
  • Greek culture: the Olympic Games, literature, sculpture, and religion
• Unit II: The Hellenistic World
  • Philip II and Alexander the Great
  • Alexander’s Successors and the Hellenistic kingdoms
  • Gifted Greeks—scientists, historians, philosophers, and more
• Unit III: The Far East
  • India’s first 3 empires
  • China during the Spring and Autumn Period
  • The Eastern religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Confucianism, and Daoism

Plus: A supplemental Go Deeper PDF is available to view for free here! This resource includes additional information to share with your students or explore for your own interest: links to museum collections of artifacts, links to virtual tours of ruins and key sites in Greece, fun tidbits (Did you know the world’s oldest intact shipwreck discovered so far is a Greek trading vessel called the Odysseus? Or would you and your students enjoy learning what ancient Greek music might have sounded like?), and much more. Icons in the teacher’s edition indicate when to reference this optional resource.

Companion Products:

The Curious Historian Level 1A -Student Edition
The Curious Historian Level 1A- Teacher Edition

The Curious Historian Level 1B – Student Edition
The Curious Historian Level 1B – Teacher Edition

The Curious Historian Level 2A – Student Edition
The Curious Historian Level 2A – Teacher Edition

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Discover Christ through Ancient Myths!

Join renowned author Dr. Louis Markos on an unparalleled adventure for the modern Christian! In the spirit of C. S. Lewis, whose own acceptance of Christ hinged on his understanding that Christ is the myth become fact, The Myth Made Fact: Reading Greek and Roman Mythology through Christian Eyes mines wisdom of eternal value from the great storehouses of Greek and Roman mythology and traces the links that bind those myths to the Bible and the Christian life.

The Myth Made Fact takes its readers on an exploration of Greco-Roman characters, art, and stories—one that spans 50 myths and sheds new light on the legends of Hercules, Orpheus, Jason, Phaedra, Oedipus, and many more! The journey through myth unfolds through six unique parts, each pointing beyond the lustful and wrathful Olympian gods to the One Holy Creator who stands, like Aslan, at the back of all our stories.

Part I: Journeys and Origins
Part II: Platonic Myths
Part III: The Four Great Heroes
Part IV: The Tragic House of Thebes
Part V: The Tragic House of Atreus 
Part VI: Love Lost and Found

The Myth Made Fact offers distinct insight into how the common people of pagan Greece and Rome received their myths and used them as guides to virtuous living. By doing so, Dr. Markos helps his readers receive myth in the right spirit: not as historical tales that contradict the Bible, but as testimonies to the yearnings of people who lacked clear revelation but nevertheless hungered and thirsted for Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.

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The powerful legacy of classical education among Black intellectuals and teachers in America is a national treasure with the capacity to bless teachers and students the world over! In The Black Intellectual Tradition, authors Dr. Anika Prather and Dr. Angel Parham introduce us to readers, writers, teachers, artists, and people of action who loved, taught, and put into practice the wisdom and virtue of the great voices who came before.

These Black educators and intellectuals, while living with the injustices and hardships that gave them unique insights, mined the tradition, weaving it together with their African and African American heritage to create a new narrative that would aid all people in understanding injustice and was thus integral to the fight for liberation and equality. In the process, they brought to light a wealth of truth, goodness, and beauty from within the great tradition.

With this rich heritage increasingly lost from view, this book restores stories and experiences to us that will inform and inspire ideas for action and application within all classical schools and homeschools. Dr. Prather and Dr. Parham bring to the book two different scholarly perspectives and voices as well as their own personal experiences as classical educators, parents, and organizational leaders.

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While we think of poetry as the best words in the best order, we sometimes forget how important its poetic or metaphoric thinking is to various subjects such as writing, speaking, business, and science. The Art of Poetry is an excellent Junior high or high school curriculum that teaches the practice of reading a poem closely and absorbing its beauty.

The Art of Poetry contains 16 chapters and over 100 poems. The first eight chapters cover the elements of poetry (such as images, metaphor, rhythm, and tone); the final chapters cover the forms of poetry (such as ode, villanelle, and open verse). Each chapter includes an extensive explication of one poem, along with exercises and discussion questions on additional poems. Biographies of fifty-one poets are included along with a glossary of terms and an index of all the poems and authors. Also available are several suggested teaching schedule options and an application section with ideas on how to continue a study of poetry.

The Art of Poetry Teacher’s Edition is also available. It features the entire student text, along with answer keys, teaching tips, and detailed explications, and quizzes.

Art of Poetry Audio Files (MP3) These complimentary audio files feature the author, Christine Perrin, and her husband, Dr. Christopher Perrin, reading aloud over 100 poems included in the Art of Poetry course. *Please note, the zipped file is over 200MB and may take a long time to download, depending on your connection speed.

The Art of Poetry Suggested Weekly Schedules (PDF)

Ask the Magister (teacher)

The Art of Poetry author blog

Companion Products:

The Art of Poetry DVD Set

The Art of Poetry (Teacher’s Edition)

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Features:

• 185 Spanish words, each with a matching English translation card
• More than 350 cards total!
• Directions for 3 different games: Memory, Go Fish, and Carrot Top (the Song School Spanish Book 2 version of Old Maid)
• Can be used as flash cards
• Includes 2 “Make Your Own” cards
• English cards feature fun and simple designs
• The deck is divided into 4 categories. Use the decks separately or play them all together!
  • Orange: Correlates to Song School Spanish Book 2 chapters 1–7
  • Green: Correlates to Song School Spanish Book 2 chapters 8–16
  • Red: Correlates to Song School Spanish Book 2 chapters 17–22
  • Purple: Correlates to Song School Spanish Book 2 chapters 23–29

Due to the nature of this product, we cannot accept returns on opened copies.

Song School Spanish Book 2 continues the engaging introduction to Spanish started in Song School Spanish Book 1. Each weekly lesson is peppered with songs, illustrations, handwriting practice, and activities for easy mastery and memorization. These activities include matching, writing, fill-in-the-blank, and drawing. Students will learn 185 everyday Spanish vocabulary words and phrases for people, places, things, actions, feelings, questions, days of the week, months of the year, the weather, and more.

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“ If we lose the ability to imagine how words are like seeds, we risk presuming that language cannot serve any purpose greater than our own. If we cannot imagine how human words can communicate self-giving life, then we lose the ability to imagine how Christian faith is possible.”

The Lost Seeds of Learning invites readers to consider how our understanding of the learners, the teachers, the content, the forms, and the purposes of the verbal arts becomes transformed in light of Christian faith. Recovering the vision of how grammar, logic, and rhetoric can be like seeds and not merely neutral tools helps us remember why these arts are crucial to Christian formation. These arts have an intrinsic purpose not of human choosing and a particular purpose to communicate new life. Such life communicated is a divine gift and the form of such communication can be self-giving. Such verbal giving and receiving is a living knowledge that relies on the testimony of particular persons over time. By imagining words as seeds, Christian educators can cultivate attention, patience, and responsible action rather than distraction, impatience, and paralysis.

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