Directory of Resources
Book Studies and Other Useful Things
The purpose of this post is to help you more easily mine the depths of the resources being made available here. Here at STGB you can learn about history, literature, logic, composition, rhetoric, and more. Below you will find links to study guides for Great Books (and Good Books too) as well as many articles that will encourage and challenge those who want to get or give a classical Christian education.
Soli Deo Gloria,
Jacob Allee, Ph.D.
The Great Books Study Guides
Other Resources for Classical Christian Education
Classical Christian Education: Getting to Know What it’s All About
On the Marking of Books (How to Annotate a Book)
Commonplace Journaling (Collecting Great Quotes for Later Use)
Text Journaling (A Way to Engage any Book You’re Reading)
30 Historical Memory Pegs (Building a Framework for History)
Writing Exercises for Classical Education (Clear Writing Leads to Clear Thinking)
Classical Christian Catechisms (Memorization: A Launching Point for Further Inquiry)
The Gateway to the Great Books
PDF of the 8 Volume Collection (A Free Gift for You!)
Jacob Allee’s Doctoral Dissertation
On the Place of Story in Virtue Education (Paid Subscription Required)
I am a homeschool mum of 4 boys (3 school age). We are currently doing Story of the World from The Well Trained Mind for history. I want to start to supplement this spine with some of the history and literature suggestions you have listed; especially/only for my oldest who is 12 (starting Grade 7 in the new academic year in Feb (we are in Australia)). My boys do History together, and in 2025 we will be studying "Early Modern Times: Elizabeth to the Forty-Niners."
In the spirit of "progress over perfection" may I ask, can I take sections from older grades from your curriculum, to supplement The Story of the World for my seventh grader...or would they be developmentally unsuitable?
(Last bit of explanation: It is hard to get on top of everything when I feel like my own education was so deficient! I don't have a strong enough working knowledge of the texts in your curriculum to make these decisions on my own, and at the same time, I can't just put everything on hold until I get myself up to speed.) I will appreciate any of your thoughts!
I appreciate your recommendations for grades 7-12. I am also enjoying your study guides! I’m a homeschool mom and am trying to offer my children a richer education than what I received. Do you have a post for how to use your study guides? For instance, I just looked through the Genesis 1 study guide and love the depth of the questions and the that point to virtue and the Westminster catechism. But that lesson could be a whole semester of study (or life long!). How do you recommend we parse? How do I help my students walk through these ideas without feeling overwhelmed or that we are leaving out more beautiful ideas? My older two are 13 and 15. I have five more coming up behind.
I am slowly making strides to make our lessons more joyful and to lead my children into deeper study. What I’m fighting against is my own mindset that seems to rush through information to check a box instead of playing with and resting and wrestling with one idea and allowing that to lead us. Again, I’m getting there, but I was public school educated and also have German heritage- so my utilitarian underpinning is strong. 🤦🏻♀️
Any practical help is appreciated. Perhaps you have these with paid subscription- please let me know that as well! Grateful!