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Samples

The pages themselves

These are the pilot materials as families receive them. Look at the spreads here, or download the PDFs and print a week to try at your own table.

Scala Gentium

Reading God's Two Books with the Gospel of Matthew

Unit I, Week 1 · Reader

The Prologue and Chapter I of The Last Age of the Cumaean Song, with the week's Scripture and glossary.

Download PDF 11 pages · 56 KB

Two Reader pages: instructions for marking the book on the left, and the opening of the Prologue on the right with glossary notes in the outer margin.
A Reader spread, with the glossary in the margin where the student's eye already is.
Two Reader pages showing the opening of Chapter I with a drop capital and marginal glosses.
Chapter I opens: “To Console.”

Unit I, Week 1 · Teacher Manual

How to run the week, the Study Day close, the full Socratic script, and every key.

Download PDF 11 pages · 58 KB

Two Teacher Manual pages: an appendix introducing the conversation, and a page titled If Your Student Gives You Three Words, with lines to read aloud printed in red.
A Teacher Manual Socratic script — the questions, the answers to listen for, and what to do when you get three words back.
Two Teacher Manual pages explaining how to use the manual and how to run the Study Day.
Before the week: how to use the manual, and running the Study Day.

Unit I, Week 1 · Workbook

The week at a glance, the Lapide questions, the Study Day, and the Quarry.

Download PDF 11 pages · 53 KB

Two Workbook pages with numbered questions, writing lines, and a two-column comparison box setting the myth beside the Gospel.
A Workbook Study Day: the week's myth set beside the Gospel, in the student's own hand.
Two Workbook pages: a day-by-day table of the week, and the first Scripture questions on Cornelius a Lapide.
The week at a glance, and three questions on Cornelius a Lapide.

Unit I, Week 1 · History Companion

The Sibyl, the Books, and the Poet: four illustrated spreads for Day 2.

Download PDF 10 pages · 5.1 MB

Two History Companion pages: a map of Italy in the year of the Cumaean song, and an essay on Virgil illustrated with a Roman mosaic.
A History Companion page, with its maps and timeline drawn in-house.
Two History Companion pages with Michelangelo's Cumaean Sibyl and a photograph of the long trapezoidal gallery at Cumae.
The Woman in the Jar, with Michelangelo's Cumaean Sibyl and the gallery at Cumae.

Unit I at a Glance

The nine weeks of Unit I on two pages: story, Scripture, commentary, and writing.

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Two pages summarizing Unit I in a nine-week table, with notes on the comparative method.
Unit I at a glance: nine weeks, from the Sibyl to the thesis defense.

Unit I · Shelf Reader (excerpt)

Aeneid VI in Williams's translation, read whole across the unit. Excerpt: the front matter and the first reading.

Download PDF 12 pages · 430 KB

Two Shelf Reader pages: a table of the gods and their Greek and Roman names, and the opening lines of Aeneid Book VI with marginal notes.
The Shelf Reader: the names you need, then Aeneid VI begins.

Gradus ad Montem

The Progymnasmata

Year 1 · Student Workbook (excerpt)

Front matter and the first two weeks of the fable unit.

Download PDF 14 pages · 1.2 MB

Two Student Workbook pages: the fable definitions and memory work, and Week 1, Restating a Fable, with the model text.
Week 1 of the fable unit: the model text, the definitions to memorize, and the first lesson.
Two Student Workbook pages: composition and revision instructions, and the opening of Week 2, Expanding a Fable.
Day 3 composition, then Week 2: expanding a fable.

Year 1 · Teacher Guide (excerpt)

How to use the guide, both teaching branches, and the first two weeks with keys and samples.

Download PDF 15 pages · 1.3 MB

Two Teacher Guide pages: the contents of Year 1, and an introduction with a table comparing the co-op and home branches.
The Teacher Guide opens with the year's contents and the two ways to teach Day 1: co-op or home.

The Craft of Memory

Year 1 · Student Book (excerpt)

Contents and Unit 1, Fable and the Treasury.

Download PDF 13 pages · 731 KB

Two Student Book pages: the opening of Unit 1, Fable and the Treasury, with a reading from Quintilian, and a table for setting up the florilegium.
Unit 1 begins with Quintilian on the treasure-house of memory, then sets up the florilegium.

Year 1 · Drill Cards (excerpt)

Printable card sheets for the fable and Odyssey units.

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Two pages of drill card sheets, each a table of card calls and answers.
Drill card sheets, ready to print on cardstock and cut.

The Two Cities

In development. Pages will go to the interest list first.