Something Old, Something New

Two of the newest classes on SchoolhouseTeachers.com discuss things that are old. Middle Ages History with Michelle Miller (TruthQuest History) is a 30-week course geared toward students in elementary through high school. This course provides a deep and rich literature-based history study. Students will focus on God’s unchanging existence, power, love, truth, and plan for civilization through lessons on the barbarians, King Arthur, Justinian, Byzantine history, St. Benedict, Irish monks, Augustine, the rise of Islam, Charlemagne, feudalism, knights, Vikings, Macbeth, Leif Ericson, the Norman Conquest, Henry II, Richard the Lionheart, Robin Hood, Notre Dame, medieval towns, Thomas Aquinas, Marco Polo, the Hapsburgs, the Hundred Years’ War, and more.

Great Books, Part One with Steven Hake, the Chair of the Department of Classical Liberal Arts and Director of the Literature major at Patrick Henry College, has brought high school students 18 lessons on ancient and not-so-ancient works. Discussion questions are presented in the form of weekly written assignments, along with one-page journal entries, two short papers, and a longer paper at the end of the course. Access to the first three volumes of the Great Books series is required for the first lessons. Excerpts of the following works will be studied, along with others: Plato-Republic (Books I-II); Aristotle-Ethics; Aristotle-Politics; New Testament: Matthew and Acts; St. Augustine-Confessions; Shakespeare-Hamlet; Gibbon-The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States, The Federalist; Marx—Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party.

Tammie Bairen
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