PERSUASIVE ESSAY WRITING PACKAGE

Can be used to fulfill the Writing III prerequisite, although it does not cover the depth of the full-year course

• Learn to write persuasive essays following the process used in Writing III
• Includes one print copy of applicable Writing III guides per student
• Students must purchase their own books
• $600 for eight, 90-minute lessons for one student; $900 for eight, 90-minute lessons taken by two students
• If meeting off Signal Mountain: $56 additional travel charge total, paid at start of first session
• Choose your own pair of books from the list below: Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Twain’s Huckleberry Finn; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Lewis’ Perelandra; Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Hope’s Prisoner of Zenda; Shakespeare’s As You Like It and Orczy’s Scarlet Pimpernel; Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

ANCIENTS & MEDIEVALS STUDY PACKAGE

Can be used to fulfill the Modern History & Literature prerequisite, though it does not cover the depth of the full-year courses

• Get an overview of Ancient History & Literature and Medieval History & Literature
• Includes one print copy of available guides per student
• $600 for eight, 90-minute lessons for one student; $900 for eight, 90-minute lessons taken by two students
• If meeting off Signal Mountain: $56 additional travel charge total, paid at the start of the first session

HISTORY OR LITERATURE ERA STUDY PACKAGE

• Get an overview of one standard Scriptorium course
• Includes one print copy of available guides per student (note that not all courses have guides)
• $300 for four, 90-minute lessons for one student; $450 for four, 90-minute lessons taken by two students
• If meeting off Signal Mountain: $28 additional travel charge total, paid at the start of the first session
• Choose your own course from the list below: Ancient History; Ancient Literature; Medieval History; Medieval Literature; US History; British and American Literature; Modern History; Modern Literature; Fine Arts; Philosophy, Politics & Economics

CURSIVE PENMANSHIP & CALLIGRAPHY PACKAGE

Optional Illuminated Manuscripts Add-on

• Practice a legible modern cursive alphabet and 2-3 historic calligraphy fonts; learn how to incorporate calligraphy into your schoolwork to improve your memory
• Includes one print copy of guides and activity sheets per student
• Students must purchase their own supplies
• $240 for four, 90-minute lessons for one student; $360 for four, 90-minute lessons taken by two students
• If meeting off Signal Mountain: $28 additional travel charge total, paid at the start of the first session

BOOK STUDY PACKAGE

• Study up to three books typically read for Scriptorium courses
• Includes one print copy of available reading guides per student (note that not all books have guides)
• Students must purchase their own books
• $300 for four, 90-minute lessons for one student; $450 for four, 90-minute lessons taken by two students
• If meeting off Signal Mountain: $28 additional travel charge total, paid at the start of the first session
• Choose your own books from the list below: Homer’s Iliad or Odyssey; Virgil’s Aeneid; Plato’s Republic; Herodotus’ Histories; Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War; Livy’s Early History of Rome; selections from Plutarch’s Lives; Polybius’ History; Beowulf; Song of Roland; Dante’s Divine Comedy; Spenser’s Faerie Queene book 1; Froissart’s Chronicles; Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain; selections from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales; Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Liberated); The Federalist Papers; Melville’s Moby-Dick; Twain’s Huckleberry Finn; Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin; the American Founding documents; documents read for U.S. History [must purchase readers separately, $40 total]; Cervantes’ Don Quixote; Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Northanger Abbey, or Mansfield Park; Shelley’s Frankenstein; Hugo’s Les Miserables; Bastiat’s The Law; Hayek’s Road to Serfdom; Lewis’ Space Trilogy; Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France; Jung Chang’s Mao: The Unknown Story; Lewis’ Abolition of Man; Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment; documents read for Modern History [must purchase readers separately, $40 total]; any of the following Shakespeare plays: Macbeth, Henry IV parts 1 and 2, Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Hamlet, King Lear, Winter’s Tale, Tempest, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar

INDIVIDUAL LESSONS

• Any skills covered in Writing I, Writing II, or Writing III
• $50 for one, 90-minute lesson for one student; $75 for one, 90-minute lesson taken by two students
• If meeting off Signal Mountain: $7 additional travel charge per lesson