OFFERED 2024-2025
- Time & Tuition:
- 2024-2025 Academic Year
- Mondays, 9:00 am – 10:30 am Eastern
- Seminar with writing tutorial: $80 per month (10 months, August through May)
- 2024-2025 Academic Year
- Location: Signal Mountain, Tennessee
- Grades: 5th grade strong readers and up
- Prerequisites: None
- Description: This course provides an introduction to narrative and descriptive writing, with instruction in grammar and vocabulary from Greek and Latin roots. Writing assignments are based on Greek and Roman myths and classic tales. (Why study mythology and fantasy? See these posts from Scriptorium’s blog: Why Read Myths? An Apologia and Mythology and Fantasy Workshop Handout)
- Assessment:
- Students complete readings and daily-work/commonplacing as well as weekly writing assignments which are gradually developed into several substantial papers. In December and May, students present their best papers at Defense Day.
- Books Needed: (Hard copies are required; recommended editions/translations are listed below)
- 2024-2025 Academic Year – Final book list will be posted in mid-summer, but will be similar to the following
- Gwynne’s Grammar – ISBN: 9781984897961 <= Needed for the first week of class
- Hamilton, Mythology – ISBN: 9780446574754 <= Needed for the first week of class
- Green, King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table – Puffin Classics, ISBN: 9780141321011
- “Sir Orfeo” in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by J.R.R. Tolkien – William Morrow, ISBN: 978-0358652977
- Lewis, The Silver Chair – either ISBN: 978-0064471091 or Scholastic edition, ISBN: 0590254804
- Optional but highly recommended: The Top 500 Poems – ASIN: B01FMVSBIE <= Needed for the first week of class
- 2024-2025 Academic Year – Final book list will be posted in mid-summer, but will be similar to the following
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