Ninth Grade Curriculum - Memoria Press

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Never plan another lesson again, the Ninth Grade Curriculum Manual has every day already planned, just open it up and teach from the correlating books in the plan! Your lessons will revolve around the following areas of study:

• Literature
• Math
• Science
• Classical/Christian Studies
• Latin
• Composition
• Logic
• American History

Beowulf the Warrior  is an accessible version of one of the oldest pieces of English literature that we have. Our Student and Teacher Guides will increase the student's vocabulary and reading comprehension.

Beowulf Student Sample

Beowulf the Warrior  is an accessible version of one of the oldest pieces of English literature that we have. Our Student and Teacher Guides will increase the student's vocabulary and reading comprehension.

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Beowulf the Warrior  is an accessible version of one of the oldest pieces of English literature that we have. Our Student and Teacher Guides will increase the student's vocabulary and reading comprehension.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a great medieval epic and romance. Our Student and Teacher Guides will increase the student's vocabulary and reading comprehension.

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a great medieval epic and romance. Our Student and Teacher Guides will increase the student's vocabulary and reading comprehension.

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a great medieval epic and romance. Our Student and Teacher Guides will increase the student's vocabulary and reading comprehension.

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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a collection of 24 tales framed as a story-telling competition between fellow travelers on their way to visit the grave of Saint Thomas Beckett at Canterbury Cathedral. Chaucer includes a wide array of characters from different classes and professions in The Canterbury Tales which creates a critical, ironic, and often humorous portrait of English society at the time. Additionally, rather than writing in the traditional literary language of Latin, Chaucer helped popularize the use of the English vernacular by composing his tales in the Middle English spoken at the time. Our student and teacher guides will increase the student’s vocabulary and reading comprehension.

Canterbury Tales Student Sample

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a collection of 24 tales framed as a story-telling competition between fellow travelers on their way to visit the grave of Saint Thomas Beckett at Canterbury Cathedral. Chaucer includes a wide array of characters from different classes and professions in The Canterbury Tales which creates a critical, ironic, and often humorous portrait of English society at the time. Additionally, rather than writing in the traditional literary language of Latin, Chaucer helped popularize the use of the English vernacular by composing his tales in the Middle English spoken at the time. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a foundational work in English poetry which every student should read. The Canterbury Tales Student Guide increases the student’s vocabulary and reading comprehension by providing in-depth vocabulary study, reading notes, comprehension questions, and more.

Canterbury Tales Teacher Sample

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a collection of 24 tales framed as a story-telling competition between fellow travelers on their way to visit the grave of Saint Thomas Beckett at Canterbury Cathedral. Chaucer includes a wide array of characters from different classes and professions in The Canterbury Tales which creates a critical, ironic, and often humorous portrait of English society at the time. Additionally, rather than writing in the traditional literary language of Latin, Chaucer helped popularize the use of the English vernacular by composing his tales in the Middle English spoken at the time. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a foundational work in English poetry which every student should read. To better assist students in understanding the text, The Canterbury Tales Teacher Guide provides all answers to questions in The Canterbury Tales Student Guide and all test and quizzes.

Henry V  by William Shakespeare is one of the Bard's most well-known plays, featuring the famous St. Crispin's Day speech. Our Student and Teacher Guides will increase the student's vocabulary and reading comprehension.

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Henry V  by William Shakespeare is one of the Bard's most well-known plays, featuring the famous St. Crispin's Day speech. Our Student and Teacher Guides will increase the student's vocabulary and reading comprehension.

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Henry V  by William Shakespeare is one of the Bard's most well-known plays, featuring the famous St. Crispin's Day speech. Our Student and Teacher Guides will increase the student's vocabulary and reading comprehension.

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’s two works, Virgil's epic story of the founding of Rome, the Aeneid, is your next logical Great Book to study.

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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’s two works, Virgil's epic story of the founding of Rome, the Aeneid, is your next logical Great Book to study. This epic story of the founding of Rome will come alive when read with the help of our study guide as you continue your quest to master the classics.

Teacher Guide Sample

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’s two works, Virgil's epic story of the founding of Rome, the Aeneid, is your next logical Great Book to study.

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’s two works, Virgil's epic story of the founding of Rome, the Aeneid, is your next logical Great Book to study.

The Book of the Ancient Romans Text Sample

Dorothy Mills wrote some wonderful history books in the 1920's for use by middle-school students, and Memoria Press is proud to bring these books back into publication—with added illustrations! Mills' books include quotes from great classical historians such as Herodotus and Cicero, making them a great preparation for reading these authors in high school. We also wrote study guides so that you can have a total classical history curriculum in the middle school years. Our study guides contain reading notes, vocabulary, comprehension questions, enrichment activities, maps, and tests.

You can buy a digital copy of this book here.

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Dorothy Mills wrote some wonderful history books in the 1920s for use by middle-school students, and Memoria Press is proud to bring these books back into publication—with added illustrations! Mills' books include quotes from great classical historians such as Herodotus and Cicero, making them a great preparation for reading these authors in high school. We also wrote study guides so that you can have a total classical history curriculum in the middle school years. Our study guides contain reading notes, vocabulary, comprehension questions, enrichment activities, maps, and tests.

The Book of the Ancient Romans Teacher Sample

Dorothy Mills wrote some wonderful history books in the 1920s for use by middle-school students, and Memoria Press is proud to bring these books back into publication—with added illustrations! Mills' books include quotes from great classical historians such as Herodotus and Cicero, making them a great preparation for reading these authors in high school. We also wrote study guides so that you can have a total classical history curriculum in the middle school years. Our study guides contain reading notes, vocabulary, comprehension questions, enrichment activities, maps, and tests.

A part of the Ninth grade classical core curriculum, the Prentice Hall Algebra II text book provides full coverage of all traditional algebra II concepts and skills. The beginning of the text reviews concepts from algebra I before adding new concepts.

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The Algrebra II Quizzes and Tests provides challenging questions that will help reinforce what the student has been learning from the Prentice Hall Algebra II Textbook.

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The Algebra II Quizzes and Tests Key provides answers to the Algebra II Quizzes and Tests Book.

Novare Science and Math is committed to a mastery-learning paradigm. Aestheticaly mature graphics, accurate explanations, and thorough treatment of the foundational principles of the physical sciences characterize this course from start to finish. The Resource CD includes course overview, quizzes, teacher keys, weekly review guides, experiment manual, suggested answers to verbal questions, annual schedule, and more! Designed for students in grades 8-10.

Novare Science and Math is committed to a mastery-learning paradigm. Aestheticaly mature graphics, accurate explanations, and thorough treatment of the foundational principles of the physical sciences characterize this course from start to finish.

The Resource CD includes course overview, quizzes, teacher keys, weekly review guides, experiment manual, suggested answers to verbal questions, annual schedule, and more! Designed for students in grades 8-10.

Student Book Sample

What if you could teach your child using the same writing program that produced such masters of the language as John Milton, William Shakespeare, and Benjamin Franklin? What if you could have the same composition curriculum used by Quintilian, the greatest teacher of ancient rhetoric, and Cicero, the greatest persuasive speaker of all time?

Jim Selby has blown the dust off the writing curriculum that was used in schools for over 1,500 years and put it in an easy-to-teach format that will revolutionize your home or private school curriculum. Presented clearly and systematically in a structured curriculum, Classical Composition will give you a clear road map to writing excellence.

Ancient writers invented a way of teaching writing known as the progymnasmata, which provided a method of teaching composition that not only taught budding writers a disciplined way to approach communication, but also helped them appeal to the heads of their audience. The progymnasmata gave them the stylistic tools to appeal to their hearts as well.

The greatest communicators of ancient times, Quintilian and Cicero among them, employed the progymnasmata to teach their students the art of communication. The 14 exercises, organized from the simplest and most basic to the most complex and sophisticated, were the core education of a classical speaker, designed to produce what Quintilian once called "the good man, speaking well."

Teacher Guide Sample

What if you could teach your child using the same writing program that produced such masters of the language as John Milton, William Shakespeare, and Benjamin Franklin? What if you could have the same composition curriculum used by Quintilian, the greatest teacher of ancient rhetoric, and Cicero, the greatest persuasive speaker of all time?

Jim Selby has blown the dust off the writing curriculum that was used in schools for over 1,500 years and put it in an easy-to-teach format that will revolutionize your home or private school curriculum. Presented clearly and systematically in a structured curriculum, Classical Composition will give you a clear road map to writing excellence.

Ancient writers invented a way of teaching writing known as the progymnasmata, which provided a method of teaching composition that not only taught budding writers a disciplined way to approach communication, but also helped them appeal to the heads of their audience. The progymnasmata gave them the stylistic tools to appeal to their hearts as well.

The greatest communicators of ancient times, Quintilian and Cicero among them, employed the progymnasmata to teach their students the art of communication. The 14 exercises, organized from the simplest and most basic to the most complex and sophisticated, were the core education of a classical speaker, designed to produce what Quintilian once called "the good man, speaking well."

Classical Composition Sequence

The next stage in the Classical Composition program is Encomium, Invective, and Comparison. These three stages continue to train the students in their ability to utilize and integrate heads of development and examples—that is, the general and the particular in communicating ideas—as well as continuing to train them in the use of heads of purpose (also called modes of argument). Students will learn to write expository essays and a complex introductory paragraph, as well as to cohesively arrange a lengthy essay.

The Classical Composition VI: Encomium, Invective, & Comparison Instructional DVDs feature superb explanation of the material covered in the Encomium, Invective, & Comparison Stage by Abigail Johnson.

Pre-1615 life in North America through the post-Civil War Reconstruction years, ending in 1877

This full-year course is designed to give students a very good understanding of the period of history from pre-1615 life in North America through the post-Civil War Reconstruction years, ending in 1877. This includes early European explorations, the colonial period, the founding of the United States, the Revolutionary War, the development of our government, and the principles upon which it is based, the expansion of our national borders, the War of 1812, the development of political parties, the Mexican War, and the Civil War, along with its causes and results. Social, economic, and political issues are addressed throughout the book.

Our Student Guide provides reading notes for each chapter, as well as comprehension questions that help students focus on the most important information from each chapter. The Teacher Guide includes three tests.

Henle II Text Sample

From the publisher: "The backbone of [Henle Latin II] is intensive language study, including review of the first year plus new materials. Readings from Caesar's Commentaries, extensive exercises, and Latin-English vocabularies fill the volume."

From the publisher: "The backbone of [Henle Latin II] is intensive language study, including review of the first year plus new materials. Readings from Caesar's Commentaries, extensive exercises, and Latin-English vocabularies fill the volume."

Second Year Henle Latin Lesson Plans Sample

The Second Year Henle Latin Lesson Plans contain detailed lesson plans that will guide you through the advanced grammar and syntax lessons in Henle Latin II. We recommend completing this year of translation practice before attempting to read Caesar. For each week, there is a chart provided which schedules the work over four days. The daily work is divided into three different categories: Opening (review, recitations), Lesson, and Closing (specific grammar and vocabulary to be studied in preparation for testing).

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The Second Year Latin Quizzes & Tests are made to be used along with the Second Year Henle Latin Lesson Plans, in which a quiz is scheduled for most weeks.

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A Latin grammar is a compendium of grammar forms and syntax in a systematic, concise, and easily accessible reference book. Designed specifically for students, Latin Grammar for the Grammar Stage (LGGS) includes all conjugations and declensions, plus a very basic introduction to Latin syntax (how to use the grammar). An essential resource for mastery and review, LGGS can be used with all four years of the First Form Series, or with any other Latin program you are using.

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Did you ever wish you didn't have to sort through all the thousands of poems that have been written over the years to find the best of the best? Cheryl Lowe has done the work for you in these new anthologies, including three volumes of British poetry and one volume of American poetry and short stories from the 19th-20th Centuries. These anthologies will be great supplement to your student's literature studies in these time periods.

Poetry, Prose, & Drama Book One: The Old English & Medieval Periods is the first anthology in our British Tradition series. It features poetry from the Anglo-Saxon Invasion to the Tudor Accession (449-1485). The works included in this anthology introduce students to a variety of poetic styles including epic, elegy, riddle, history, lyric, dream, allegory, and ballads. Through the exploration of these poems students will come to a deeper understanding of the literature of the warrior, the priest, the medieval church, and the common people.

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Did you ever wish you didn't have to sort through all the thousands of poems that have been written over the years to find the best of the best? Cheryl Lowe has done the work for you in these new anthologies, including three volumes of British poetry and one volume of American poetry and short stories from the 19th-20th Centuries. These anthologies will be great supplement to your student's literature studies in these time periods.

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Did you ever wish you didn't have to sort through all the thousands of poems that have been written over the years to find the best of the best? Cheryl Lowe has done the work for you in these new anthologies, including three volumes of British poetry and one volume of American poetry and short stories from the 19th-20th Centuries. These anthologies will be great supplement to your student's literature studies in these time periods.

The Poetry, Prose, & Drama Book One: The Old English & Medieval Periods is the first anthology in our British Tradition series. It features poetry from the Anglo-Saxon Invasion to the Tudor Accession (449-1485). The works included in this anthology introduce students to a variety of poetic styles including epic, elegy, riddle, history, lyric, dream, allegory, and ballads. Through the exploration of these poems students will come to a deeper understanding of the literature of the warrior, the priest, the medieval church, and the common people.

The Book of the Middle Ages Text Sample

Dorothy Mills wrote some wonderful history books in the 1920s for use by middle school students, and Memoria Press is proud to bring these books back into publication—with added illustrations!

A digital copy of this product can be bought here.

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Traditional Logic is an in-depth study of the classical syllogism. The Traditional Logic I Text provides students with a basic understanding of the Christian theory of knowledge, the four kinds of logical statements, the four ways propositions can be opposed, the three ways which they can be equivalent, and the seven rules for the validity of syllogisms. Each chapter explains challenging concepts in clear, concise language.

This text is compatible with the second edition of the Traditional Logic I Workbook.

Workbook Sample

The Student Workbook provides daily exercises to practice and master the concepts laid out in the Student Text.

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A logic course for all ages but designed for use as young as 7th grade, Traditional Logic is an in-depth study of the classical syllogism. Along with a basic understanding of the Christian theory of knowledge, the text presents the four kinds of logical statements, the four ways propositions can be opposed, the three ways which they can be equivalent, and the seven rules for the validity of syllogisms. Each chapter explains challenging concepts in clear, concise language. The Teacher Key ensures you have the answers for the workbook, quizzes, and tests.

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This book contains Quizzes and Tests for Traditional Logic I by Martin Cothran. The answers are contained in the Teacher Key

Used along with the Traditional Logic text, your new DVD course will enable you to bring a master logic teacher into your home. With graphic slides illustrating key points in the text, Mr. Cothran covers every important aspect of the book—explaining difficult concepts and illustrating important ideas along the way. Downloadable lecture slides are also included with the DVD set.

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A logic course for all ages but designed for use as young as seventh grade, Traditional Logic is an in-depth study of the classical syllogism. Along with a basic understanding of the Christian theory of knowledge, the text presents the four kinds of logical statements, the four ways propositions can be opposed, the three ways in which they can be equivalent, and the seven rules for the validity of syllogisms. Each chapter, in approximately five pages of text, explains challenging concepts in clear, concise language.

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A logic course for all ages but designed for use as young as seventh grade, Traditional Logic is an in-depth study of the classical syllogism. Along with a basic understanding of the Christian theory of knowledge, the text presents the four kinds of logical statements, the four ways propositions can be opposed, the three ways in which they can be equivalent, and the seven rules for the validity of syllogisms. Each chapter, in approximately five pages of text, explains challenging concepts in clear, concise language. The Traditional Logic II Student Workbook contains all of the exercises for the course with space for students to answer.

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The Traditional Logic II Teacher Key contains the answers to the Traditional Logic II Student Workbook and the Traditional Logic II Quizzes & Final Exam.

In this book, David Bentley Hart, a widely revered Christian scholar, gives a scholarly but readable portrait of the Christian Church from its origins in Judaism to the "house churches" in contemporary China. This is a great overview of the history of the church that is perfect for study before delving into the more difficult church historians such as Josephus and Eusebius.

Student Guide Sample

In this book, David Bentley Hart, a widely revered Christian scholar, gives a scholarly but readable portrait of the Christian Church from its origins in Judaism to the "house churches" in contemporary China. This is a great overview of the history of the church that is perfect for study before delving into the more difficult church historians such as Josephus and Eusebius.

Teacher Guide Sample

In this book, David Bentley Hart, a widely revered Christian scholar, gives a scholarly but readable portrait of the Christian Church from its origins in Judaism to the "house churches" in contemporary China. This is a great overview of the history of the church that is perfect for study before delving into the more difficult church historians such as Josephus and Eusebius.

A Concise History of the American Republic, Year One Student Sample

Pre-1615 life in North America through the post-Civil War Reconstruction years, ending in 1877

This full-year course is designed to give students a very good understanding of the period of history from pre-1615 life in North America through the post-Civil War Reconstruction years, ending in 1877. This includes early European explorations, the colonial period, the founding of the United States, the Revolutionary War, the development of our government, and the principles upon which it is based, the expansion of our national borders, the War of 1812, the development of political parties, the Mexican War, and the Civil War, along with its causes and results. Social, economic, and political issues are addressed throughout the book.

Our Student Guide provides reading notes for each chapter, as well as comprehension questions that help students focus on the most important information from each chapter.

Concise History of the American Republic, Year One Teacher Sample

Pre-1615 life in North America through the post-Civil War Reconstruction years, ending in 1877

This full-year course is designed to give students a very good understanding of the period of history from pre-1615 life in North America through the post-Civil War Reconstruction years, ending in 1877. This includes early European explorations, the colonial period, the founding of the United States, the Revolutionary War, the development of our government, and the principles upon which it is based, the expansion of our national borders, the War of 1812, the development of political parties, the Mexican War, and the Civil War, along with its causes and results. Social, economic, and political issues are addressed throughout the book.

Our Student Guide provides reading notes for each chapter, as well as comprehension questions that help students focus on the most important information from each chapter. The Teacher Guide includes three tests.