For Teaching Parents

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The Teachers’ Room

Everything you need to teach — the shape of each course, week by week, with a guide for running it at home or in a co-op. Read it here, or print it.

The whole program, one page The Rotation — six “Art of” years Grace · Tragedy · Attention · Story · Wit · Integrity

✦High School · Grades 9–12

Foundational Year

The Art of Grace

Where the year begins — guilt and mercy in the fall, wonder and care in the spring.

All Creatures Great & Small

Scope in preparation

Teaching GuideIn preparation Parent SyllabusIn preparation First Day PacketIn preparation

Year One · One Credit

The Art of Tragedy

Tragic heroes and antiheroes — fifteen weeks each term.

Teaching GuideHome & co-op Parent SyllabusIn preparation First Day PacketIn preparation

Year Two · One Credit

The Art of Attention

Reading closely — poems and Hemingway, then Shakespeare.

Fall

Poetry & The Old Man and the Sea

Scope & Sequence

Spring

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Scope & Sequence

Teaching GuideHome & co-op Parent SyllabusAt a glance First Day PacketReady to print

Further in the Rotation

Story, Wit & Integrity

Three more annual cycles ahead — Huckleberry Finn, Lord of the Flies, Fahrenheit 451 & more.

See them in the rotation

✦Middle School · Grades 6–8

Living Literature & Language

Living Stories & Sentences

Copywork, narration, nature study, and the habits of good writing — a gentle year for the middle grades.

Scope & SequenceTwo terms · thirty weeks

✦Summer Foundations · Six Weeks

Steinbeck · Grades 8–11

Of Mice and Men

A short, self-paced six weeks beside one of Steinbeck’s most human novels.

Open the course Scope & sequenceIn preparation

Every course here runs on the same rhythm — read, narrate, and look closely — so once you’ve taught one, you’ve taught them all.