Simply Classical Curriculum: Levels 7 & 8 Two-Year Pace

Sample Lessons
Readiness Assessment
Supply List
Skills to Develop

Poetry, Pleiades, & Promises
Ages 11-14 (Chronological Age or Skill Level)

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Simply Classical Latin Games & Puzzles provides a wealth of opportunities to enrich and bolster the vocabulary, grammar, and derivatives learned in Latina Christiana. Lessons contain crossword puzzles, match-up games, and word searches designed to help students with special needs hone and apply their budding Latin knowledge. Students will get the chance to test their basic translation and parsing skills throughout the lessons. Included in Simply Classical Latin Games & Puzzles are instructions for classroom games that will further enhance your students' abilities in Latin.

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Simply Classical Latin Games & Puzzles provides a wealth of opportunities to enrich and bolster the vocabulary, grammar, and derivatives learned in Latina Christiana. Lessons contain crossword puzzles, match-up games, and word searches designed to help students with special needs hone and apply their budding Latin knowledge. Students will get the chance to test their basic translation and parsing skills throughout the lessons. Included in Simply Classical Latin Games & Puzzles are instructions for classroom games that will further enhance your students' abilities in Latin.

Regarding the Rod & Staff Grade 4 Math Student Book, the publisher says: "After reviewing the basic facts and teaching the multiplication and division facts 10s-12s, this book teaches long division, multiplying by 2-digit numbers, and checking in the four processes of computation."

Regarding the Rod & Staff Grade 4 Math Teacher Manual Part 1, the publisher says: "The teacher's manual comes in two volumes. Each lesson shows the pupil's pages full size with answers filled in. Extra pages give detailed guidance for the teacher in lesson presentation."

Regarding the Rod & Staff Grade 4 Math Teacher Manual Part 2, the publisher says: "The teacher's manual comes in two volumes. Each lesson shows the pupil's pages full size with answers filled in. Extra pages give detailed guidance for the teacher in lesson presentation."

Regarding the Rod & Staff Grade 4 Math Tests, the publisher says: "The 17 chapter tests are bound in a separate booklet with tear-out sheets.

Regarding the Rod & Staff Grade 4 Math Speed Drills, the publisher says: "A separate tablet of speed drills provides a timed drill for every second lesson. Speed drills exercise a wide range of skills taught in Grade 4."

The Rod & Staff Math Speed Drill Packet includes 100 math problems per sheet. Other features include random number facts within specific settings, numbered lines for easy checking, 78 randomizations, and an answer key.

Meet the Moffats. There is Sylvie, the oldest, the cleverest, and—most days at least—the responsible one; Joey, though only twelve, is the man of the house ... sometimes; Janey has a terrific upside-down way of looking at the world; and Rufus may be the littlest but always gets in the biggest trouble.

The Moffats Teacher Sample

"Even the most ordinary Moffat day is packed with extraordinary fun. Only a Moffat could get locked in a bread box all afternoon, or dance with a dog in front of the whole town, or hitch a ride on a boxcar during kindergarten recess. And only a Moffat could turn mistakes and mischief into hilarious one-of-a-kind adventure." (from the publisher)

The Teacher Guide contains the answers to the Student Study Guide (sold separately) and the Quizzes and Tests.

A Newberry Medal Honor book, My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George tells the story of 14 year old Sam Gribley who leaves his crowded home in New York City to live on his great-grandfather's abandoned farm. While living in the forest around the ruins of the old farm, Sam learns about survival and independence and makes friends with the wildlife he observes. Sam loves his self-sufficient life in the wilderness, but as he grows and matures he also comes to understand the value of companionship. This coming-of-age tale has delighted readers for generations with its depiction of nature, wildlife, and a young boy's tenacity.

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A Newberry Medal Honor book, My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George tells the story of 14 year old Sam Gribley who leaves his crowded home in New York City to live on his great-grandfather's abandoned farm. While living in the forest around the ruins of the old farm, Sam learns about survival and independence and makes friends with the wildlife he observes. Sam loves his self-sufficient life in the wilderness, but as he grows and matures he also comes to understand the value of companionship. This coming-of-age tale has delighted readers for generations with its depiction of nature, wildlife, and a young boy's tenacity. The My Side of the Mountain Teacher Guide contains all the answers to the My Side of the Mountain Student Study Guide as well as all quizzes and tests.

A Promise Kept: The Story of Christmas contains ten passages from Scripture telling the Christmas story--from the promise of a savior in Isaiah to John's announcement of the "Word made flesh" in his Gospel. Every reading is accompanied by a full page featuring a classic illustration. The illustrations feature art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery, and the Musei di Strada Nuova, in Genoa, Italy. We hope this book will bring the Christmas story alive in a new way for you and your family.

This story, based on actual events that occurred in the tenth century, tells of a kind-hearted king and his page who set out to help a poor man on a cold winter's night and experience a miracle along the way. Tim Ladwig's energetic paintings bring new life to the familiar words and remind readers of all ages that helping others is a blessing.

Papa Panov's Special Christmas is a heart-warming story of lonely shoemaker Papa Panov's generosity reflects the true spirit of Christmas. In this edition, the much loved text is complemented by charming hand-drawn illustrations capturing the changing mood of the story.

Homer Price by Robert McCloskey tells the story of a boy living in Centerburg, Ohio. Along with a cast of unforgettable characters, Homer gets caught in some outrageous situations that include comic books, unstoppable doughnut machines, a better mouse trap, and even robbery! Our Homer Price Student Guide and Homer Price Teacher Guide increase both the understanding of the text and develop reading comprehension skills.

Homer Price Teacher Sample

Homer Price by Robert McCloskey tells the story of a boy living in Centerburg, Ohio. Along with a cast of unforgettable characters, Homer gets caught in some outrageous situations that include comic books, unstoppable doughnut machines, a better mouse trap, and even robbery! Our Homer Price Teacher Guide contains all answers to the Homer Price Student Guide as well as all quizzes and tests. 

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis is a timeless children's classic, filled with adventure, mystery and enchantment. Our Student Study Guide will aid the student in developing their Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension skills.

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe Teacher Sample

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis is a timeless children's classic, filled with adventure, mystery and enchantment. Our Student Study Guide will aid the student in developing their Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension skills.

Anthology Sample

Do 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 our series of carefully curated poetry anthologies. Poetry for the Grammar Stage is intended as a supplemental companion study for our literature, science, and history courses in third through seventh grades, but can also be used as a standalone program. Poems increase in difficulty as students move through the book over a four-year period. This course prepares students for the more difficult poetry work they will be required to do in middle and high school.

From the publisher: "Readers today are still fascinated by “Nat,” an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard. Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor’s world—Salem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded the wharves. But Nat didn’t promise to have the makings of a sailor; he was too physically small. Nat may have been slight of build, but no one guessed that he had the persistence and determination to master sea navigation in the days when men sailed only by “log, lead, and lookout.” Nat’s long hours of study and observation, collected in his famous work, The American Practical Navigator (also known as the “Sailors’ Bible”), stunned the sailing community and made him a New England hero."

In this original and and humorous history-mystery, seven young boys solve strange crimes in Ancient Rome. In Detectives in Togas, Rufus is accused of breaking into the schoolroom, tying up his teacher, and painting a slur on the Temple of Minerva. But he didn't do any of those things! Together with his six classmates, Rufus must find out who is really responsible for this vandalism before it's too late. The boys find clue after clue, which only confuses them more, before they discover that someone is not what he appears to be.

In Mystery of the Roman Ransom it seems the young Roman students can't get anything right. Maybe if they had completed their math homework they would have known their teacher's birthday is long gone. To add to the boys' conundrum, the servant they bought as a present for their teacher's birthday isn't just an ordinary Gallic slave but a courier on the run. To top it all off, the message the Gaul is carrying requests the assassination of a Roman senator—the father of one of the boys! Find out how these seven young detectives save the day in Mystery of the Roman Ransom.

Louis is a trumpeter swan, but sadly he can't trumpet joyfully like his brothers and sisters. In fact, he can't make a sound at all. Because he can't trumpet, the beautiful swan Serena pays absolutely no attention to Louis. Louis tries everything he can think of to win Serena's affection including going to school with his human friend Sam to learn to read and write, but nothing works. Determined to help his son communicate, Louis' father steals him a brass trumpet. Is this instrument the key to Louis' happiness?

This book has 34 lessons divided into units of six lessons each, except for the last unit, which has only four lessons. Each unit (except the last) has five regular lessons followed by a review lesson for that unit. The units are generally self-contained, so that a student can find the spelling rules and helps for each review lesson within the same unit.

Each regular lesson has sixteen NEW WORDS and four REVIEW WORDS. Each lessons is divided into three main parts.

Part A, Sounds and Letters, drills the phonetic composition of the words in the spelling list. Spelling rules for the speech sounds taught in the lesson are given just before the work relating to them. In many of the lessons, students will need to interpret a number of phonetic spellings.

Part B, Using Your Words, emphasizes the vocabulary aspect of the spelling words. In most lessons, students must use spelling words to fill in the blanks in a paragraph and to write two original sentences. These sentences should have substance and show that the student is able to use the words intelligently. Part B also teaches skills such as alphabetical order and word meanings. As with the other lesson parts, the student is expected to use the Speller Dictionary as needed.

Part C, Building Words, emphasizes the use of words or word parts in forming other words. Syllable divisions, plural and compound nouns, verb forms, abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes, and contractions are some of the concepts taught. Some lessons also contain a section entitled Dictionary Practice, which teaches basic dictionary skills.

An additional part at the end of each lessons is entitled Bible Thoughts. This part is designed to link the spelling words to Bible concepts. The student is to use his Bible as needed in completing this part.

This book has 34 lessons divided into units of six lessons each, except for the last unit, which has only four lessons. Each unit (except the last) has five regular lessons followed by a review lesson for that unit. The units are generally self-contained, so that a student can find the spelling rules and helps for each review lesson within the same unit.

Each regular lesson has sixteen NEW WORDS and four REVIEW WORDS. Each lessons is divided into three main parts.

Part A, Sounds and Letters, drills the phonetic composition of the words in the spelling list. Spelling rules for the speech sounds taught in the lesson are given just before the work relating to them. In many of the lessons, students will need to interpret a number of phonetic spellings.

Part B, Using Your Words, emphasizes the vocabulary aspect of the spelling words. In most lessons, students must use spelling words to fill in the blanks in a paragraph and to write two original sentences. These sentences should have substance and show that the student is able to use the words intelligently. Part B also teaches skills such as alphabetical order and word meanings. As with the other lesson parts, the student is expected to use the Speller Dictionary as needed.

Part C, Building Words, emphasizes the use of words or word parts in forming other words. Syllable divisions, plural and compound nouns, verb forms, abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes, and contractions are some of the concepts taught. Some lessons also contain a section entitled Dictionary Practice, which teaches basic dictionary skills.

An additional part at the end of each lessons is entitled Bible Thoughts. This part is designed to link the spelling words to Bible concepts. The student is to use his Bible as needed in completing this part.

Copybook Cursive II, Second Edition Sample

This new second edition of Copybook Cursive II is a perfect supplement to our Third Grade Classical Core Curriculum. It includes the Scripture passages from Christian Studies I, the 15 brightest stars from Astronomy, the major Greek gods from Greek Myths, and more!

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The Rise and Fall of Israel, the Period of the Prophets

Christian Studies II is the second book in a three-year reading course that builds faith by teaching Salvation History as real history. Students work through one-third of The Golden Children’s Bible each year, for three years. Your child will learn the fundamentals of Bible stories, history, and geography, with solid detail at a manageable pace.

Famous Men of Rome Text Sample

Ideal for beginners of all ages who are fascinated by the action and drama of Rome. Inside are 30 stories, covering all of ancient Rome’s history, from its founding to its demise. Your child will witness the rise and fall of a great civilization through the lives of  larger-than-life figures.  In our new edition, we have added maps of Rome, Italy, and the Roman Empire, and a glossary of people and places.

A digital copy of this book can be bought here.

Famous Men of Rome Teacher Sample

This program is ideal for beginners of all ages who are fascinated by the action and drama of Rome. Inside are 30 stories, covering all of ancient Rome’s history, from its founding to its demise. Your child will witness the rise and fall of a great civilization through the lives of larger-than-life figures. In our new edition, we have added maps of Rome, Italy, and the Roman Empire, and a glossary of people and places.

We now offer a year-long workbook course that comprehensively covers Famous Men of Rome. Each of the 30 workbook lessons includes famous quotes, a drill of key people and places, 10 vocabulary words, 5-10 comprehension questions, and an activities section that includes mapwork, discussion questions, and research projects. The program also comes with an appendix of supplements, including maps of ancient Rome and Italy and modern Europe, a “Who Said That?” worksheet, a timeline beginning with the founding of Rome, drill questions, and drawing pages. This Teacher Guide includes quizzes and tests.

Flashcard Sample

In addition to introducing your child to the classical stories and people of Rome, we highly recommend these flashcard supplements to improve your child's recall as he or she explains and remembers the famous events, stories, and people that have shaped history and Western civilization.  When was Rome founded? Who was Pompey? You can be sure your child will know and remember these important facts, and more, with Memoria Press' flashcards. There are sets available for each Famous Men book series, as well as D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths.

Student Sample

The Book of Astronomy program covers constellations, the motion of the earth, and the names of stars, as well as the sky as seen throughout all the seasons, including the "Summer Triangle" and the fall and winter zodiacs. Since the constellations are named after many characters in Greek mythology, D'Aulaires Greek Myths is a great resource to have on hand with this program. The Book of Astronomy was developed with 3rd graders in mind, but it can be used with older students just as well.

Teacher Sample

This astronomy program covers constellations, the motion of the earth, and the names of stars, as well as the sky as seen throughout all the seasons, including the "Summer Triangle" and the fall and winter zodiacs. Since the constellations are named after many characters in Greek mythology, D'Aulaires Greek Myths is a great resource to have on hand with this program. The Book of Astronomy was developed with 3rd graders in mind, but it can be used with older students just as well.

In Draw 50 Animals, students learn how to draw fifty furry, scaly, and feathered friends using a simple step-by-step mimicry process. With this perfect book for beginners, watch your student bring bunnies, lions, kitties, crabs, sharks, and more to life.

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Geography I: Middle East, Europe, and North Africa covers the area that constituted the ancient Roman Empire. Each region is explored in its historical context in “History’s Headlines,” as well as in the present in “Tour of Today.” Your student will learn countries and capitals of today and relate them to the ancient lands of the Greeks and Romans, deepening his understanding of both the past and the present.

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Geography I: The Middle East, North Africa, & Europe Student Workbook covers the area that constituted the ancient Roman Empire. Each region is explored in its historical context in “History’s Headlines,” as well as in the present in “Tour of Today.” Your student will learn countries and capitals of today and relate them to the ancient lands of the Greeks and Romans, deepening his understanding of both the past and the present.

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Geography I: The Middle East, North Africa, & Europe Teacher Guide covers the area that constituted the ancient Roman Empire. Each region is explored in its historical context in “History’s Headlines,” as well as in the present in “Tour of Today.” Your student will learn countries and capitals of today and relate them to the ancient lands of the Greeks and Romans, deepening his understanding of both the past and the present.

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This study guide will help students retain the knowledge they gained in their study of States & Capitals by reviewing each region of the U.S. four times throughout the school year. This review takes very little time and makes a great companion to Geography I: The Middle East, North Africa, and Europe.

US Review Teacher Sample

This study guide will help students retain the knowledge they gained in their study of States & Capitals by reviewing each region of the U.S. four times throughout the school year. This review takes very little time and makes a great companion to Geography I: The Middle East, North Africa, and Europe.

Covering the material from Geography I, II, and III, these flashcards will help your student master the physical and cultural geography of the world. Each card has the national flag, which students can color, with the country name on one side and the map of the country within the context of its continent and its capital on the other.

Book Sample Lesson 1
Water Music, Suite in D Major (HWV 349): 2. Alla Hornpipe
Audio Sample Lesson 1: track 1.5

This Audio Companion CD coordinates with Music Appreciation Book I to demonstrate rhythms, musical forms, techniques, and instruments discussed throughout the course.

You can find links to all the pieces discussed in Music Appreciation Book I here.

Volume 1: Ancient Times
From the Earliest Nomads to the Last Roman Emperor

We have always been fans of Susan Wise Bauer's Story of the World series, but we never seemed able to find room for it in our curriculum in the past. We recently came up with the great idea of adding it as a supplement to our Classical Core packages for summer reading! Read Volume 1 before  5th grade.