Teaching the Classics is a literature program I just picked up. I had viewed some of the DVD and decided to get the syllabus. I really like it, it lays things out beautifully and has a ton of great information. I don’t think I can even begin to summarize it! đŸ™‚
I like that it’s Socratic method – ask questions and encourage the children to think and make connections. I like that it can be used with really any book, and starts using children’s stories to help lay it out more clearly. It covers the key points of any story and you can make it very simple for little ones or very complex for teens. I like that it has the story chart so you can help the kids lay out visually the plot, theme, characters, etc… And it walks you through some sample ones so you can get the hang of how it works.
It was $25 plus $5 shipping but it was the same shipping for one or two copies so a friend and I ordered together. I think this blends well with A Thomas Jefferson Education and it’s classical approach so it would fit perfectly with Charlotte Mason methods of live books and The Well Trained Mind.
This is a reading program, to supplement our grammar program (First Language Lessons for the Well Trained Mind) and it will involve some narration as well. We’ll also be adding handwriting (Cursive First) and spelling & composition (Spell to Write & Read.) I’m anticipating they will all blend together well with some overlap but this should cover much of our language arts for the next several years at least…
More later to explain that as C is now a very proficient reader, we’re adding much more in depth lessons.