Features of this third edition include: footnoted definitions of all words occurring 30 times or less; mini-lexicon of all words occurring more than 30 times; Greek text underlying the New International Version; footnotes comparing the Greek text with the critical text of UBS5/NA28; 4 pages of full-color maps; marker ribbon; and easy-to-read Greek fonts.

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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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Memory Work Guide (plus maps packet and audio of core memory work)
Science Guide: Biology
Fine Arts Guide

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Picture Study

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Related Resources

Ancients Memory Work Guide
Ancients Fine Arts Guide
Ancients Science Guide: Biology
Ancients Guide Bundle

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Includes:

6 lessons of Nature Study (the Five Kingdoms of Living Things)
6 lessons of Biology (Plant Systems).

Every lesson includes a picture study and original charts.

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Ancients Memory Work Guide
Ancients Fine Arts Guide
Picture Study
Ancients Guide Bundle

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Includes:

Ancient Art Projects (6 lessons)
Ancient Music Appreciation (6 lessons)
Ancient Art Appreciation (6 lessons)

All fine arts lessons correlate with the ICP Ancients Memory Work Guide.

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Ancients Memory Work Guide
Ancients Science Guide: Biology
Picture Study
Ancients Guide Bundle

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Memory Work Guide includes:

-30 weeks of core memory work (history, geography, math, science, grammar, language, poetry, bible)
-weekly presentation ideas
-read aloud booklist
-picture and music study suggestions
-maps packet (colored/labeled, colored/unlabeled, and B&W/unlabeled)

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Ancients Fine Arts Guide
Ancients Science Guide: Biology
Picture Study
Ancients Guide Bundle

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Examine the tradition of Socratic conversation to preserve its future!

Socratic Conversation reveals the natural connection between great philosophical dialogues and the art of philosophic conversation that is in pursuit of the truth. In distinct yet complementary ways, the three parts of the book build a bridge between the philosophical dialogues of Plato, and others, and the contemporary practice of Socratic conversation as a pedagogical method.

Part 1: To build this bridge, author Jeffrey Lehman examines some of Plato’s best-known and most-loved dialogues. Each chapter in part 1 focuses on those aspects of the dialogues that help one see the connection between the way Plato has crafted his philosophical dialogues and his hope that reading them will engender in his readers a desire to engage in philosophical conversation themselves.

Part 2: Join the author on a journey from Plato’s time to our own. Along the way, the author examines particularly striking examples of philosophical dialogue and shows how they continue the work Plato had started.

Part 3: The focus in the final section turns to Socratic conversation in our own time! Informed by the investigation of the examples of philosophical dialogues in the second section, the reader is in a better position to understand and appreciate the challenges and delights of Socratic conversation as a pedagogical method. Along the way, the author shows how remarkably fitting Socratic conversation is to classical education and considers some of the basic principles of effective Socratic conversation.

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Omnibus II: Student Text and Teacher CD – Fourth Edition 

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Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition takes a look at the most vital ideas that influenced the classical educators and shows how Charlotte Mason’s principles reflect the same ideas and values.  Reading Consider This will make her methods more attractive than ever, not only because they are effective, but because they are exactly the right way to prepare our young learners to engage with the culture they have to live in.  Classical Education is not dusty and old—it is alive and vibrant, and Charlotte Mason’s ideas about how to implement it are like an invitation to join the party.

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Increase your child’s academic success
Restore your child’s love of learning
Regain confidence to teach any child
Renew your vision of hope for your child with special needs
Receive help navigating the daunting process of receiving a diagnosis
Learn how to modify existing resources for your child’s needs
Find simple strategies any parent or teacher can implement immediately
Appreciate a spiritual context for bringing truth, goodness, and beauty to any child

New features in this updated and expanded edition:

•  updated resources
•  more stories of real children
•  specific classroom and school strategies
•  additional words of encouragement
•  expanded references for school and home

Who Will Benefit From This Book?

• Parents of children with special needs. Whether the needs are mild and common, or more severe and complex. Some may not have heard of Classical Education, but they want the best possible education for their children. Others may be well-versed in Classical Education, but wonder whether their children with special needs can benefit from it. This book was written especially for you.
• Anyone interested in a straightforward explanation of Classical Christian Education. Simply Classical: A Beautiful Education for Any Child offers an accessible description of Classical Education and its implementation.
• Teachers of special-needs students. Whether in a tutorial setting, classroom, cottage school setting, or homeschool, teachers of students with special needs will find encouragement, strategies, and resources in this book.
• Families who wish to homeschool their children with special needs. Simply Classical: A Beautiful Education for Any Child offers support and recommendations from toddlerhood through high school.
• Parents who wonder whether a specific child might need further assessment. You will receive suggestions on informal and formal evaluations with screenings, charts, and tips for navigating the diagnostic process.
• Classical school headmasters and teachers who know they are not meeting the educational needs of some struggling students. Find support in these pages for bringing classical education to students with special needs, rather than ask such students not to return. Schools may wish to better integrate these students into classical classrooms or design a “school within a school” in which smaller classrooms (perhaps K-3 and 4-8) provide a much slower pace overall. With improved strategies and methods, struggling students can continue to receive a classical education.
• Anyone already engaged in the excellent pursuit of bringing classical Christian education to any child. This book is intended to encourage, inspire, and assist classroom teachers, homeschoolers, university professors, classical publishers, headmasters, and more.

Related Products:

Simply Classical Curriculum

Words From Readers

“I have met Cheryl’s daughter and indeed she is the recipient of a beautiful education, however unlikely. She surprises and delights with a knowledge and sensitivity one might never expect. Simply Classical gifts the reader with both wisdom and practical application, but perhaps more than anything cultivates a genuine hope for any parent of a special needs child—even those with serious challenges.”
– Andrew Pudewa, Institute for Excellence in Writing, international speaker on the topic of home education and special needs

“Cheryl Swope ostensibly writes about special education, but she also makes one of the clearest and most compelling cases for classical education in print. I commend this book to parents and teachers of special-needs children, but also to anyone who desires a greater understanding of classical Christian education….If a child cannot accommodate the amount or depth of knowledge of most children, it is not less but more important that what he learns to be of the highest quality. She implicitly understands St. Thomas Aquinas’ principle that the slightest knowledge of the greatest things is greater than the greatest knowledge of the slightest things.”
– Martin Cothran

“A classical education is like climbing a mountain, each child benefiting from whatever vistas he or she attains in that upward journey. Cheryl Swope shows us that the special-needs child needs and benefits from the uplifting vision of a classical education as much if not more than those without learning challenges. Simply Classical gives encouragement and real help for all parents who do not want to settle for second best for their special-needs child. In doing so she has advanced the cause of classical Christian education by confounding its critics who claim it is only for the elite.”
– Cheryl Lowe

“The author of this book put heart and soul and real experience into this beautifully written explanation that every child deserves a quality classical education, whether they have learning disabilities or are advanced learners…”
-Kristen

“This is the best book I have ever read on homeschooling a special needs child. I have two such children and the tips and suggestions for curriculum are wonderful. I felt as if a dear friend took me by hand, sat down to tea with me and let me know that yes I can do this. She has given me hope for my children’s education. Thank you thank you!”
-Susan

“I have three mildly to moderately special needs boys ages 5, 12, and 13. This upcoming year with all three of them in school has been looming over my head in an overwhelming manner. This book has helped change my outlook from near despair to hopefulness. There are many ideas for incorporating schooling into all those times when doctor and therapy appointments interrupt the day, which has always been a stumbling point for me. There are also ideas of how to incorporate the therapy homework with schoolwork in such practical and easy ways that make it seem both possible and amazing that I had never thought of them before (the best ideas always seem to be like that). The examples from her children, who face vastly greater challenges than my own, and yet have had access to this great store of classical education are so inspirational. The points that she makes about looking beyond the purely practical nature of a subject that tends toward limiting the education of a special needs student to only things deemed to be life skills toward what will strengthen the mind and expand the horizons of that child are something I have never encountered in any educational literature before–especially in things targeted to special needs students. Yet, it feels so right. This book articulates the things that I have always wanted for my children, and blazes a trail toward those goals.”
-Miah

“Cheryl Swope’s Simply Classical is inspiring, touching, delightful, well-written, useful, and very informative. It is a book you will not only enjoy reading but will want to keep for all the special-needs resources in the back of the book. It will inspire and give hope to parents and teachers of any child.”
-Iris Hatfield, author of New American Cursive

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