100% Just wait until I actually get to the Logic and Comp/Rhetoric Curriculum. I am keeping a database of information while I’m making the study guide to help me integrate those courses of study with the primary sources.
Great article. I love detail; feed me with a hose and let me decide what I can take in. I also love the addition of more than vocabulary. Geography, people etc, so lovely. As a person educating my children and myself through the great books of the Western tradition while not being from another tradition I appreciate intense handholding that doesn't undermine my own thinking and grappling with a text. Thankful that your guides seem to do that. The breakdown of grammar, logic and rhetoric for the comprehension questions is also very helpful for those of us who are amateurs in the classical tradition. I hope we can afford this in a year or so when we enter the 7th grade.
Interesting comparison. We are part of a classical school start-up in Charleston and are using Memoria Press for our K-5 (our entire school at the moment). But I like how you arrange things chronologically. I recently completed a year-long reading project (Plato to David Foster Wallace) and one of the most important ideas I came away with was how jarring the shift from Medieval thought to the Enlightenment was. You feel it in your bones. Interested to learn more!
Good comparison until you stated Memoria Press is Roman Catholic company. It is not. It states it's ecumenical. I have been a Memoria Press user for 6 years and can attest that it definitely is not Roman Catholic. It does a good job of being Christian and allowing us families to add in our own faith traditions. In fact I have seen some customers have issue with that and would prefer specific theological interpretations to be included in MP guides.
Hi Tiffany, if I am wrong on that I appreciate the correction. To my recollection there are a number of texts in the K-6 materials that seemed to be more Roman Catholic in bent. Definitely the Henley Latin is very Roman Catholic with lots of Marian prayers and such. Nevertheless, I’m happy to amend what I’ve said, it was said in good faith and according to my understanding of MP.
Upon further reflection I'd like to add that the multiple authors and stylistically different MP guides are frustrating at times so I do appreciate your commitment to consistency. I am curious about why you did not use MP's guide to Sir Gwain and the Green Knight to compare to yours.
Nicely done! Jacques Barzun would have some things to say about blending subjects :-)
This is actually one of my favorite points of comparison among authors/publishers in the modern recovery of CCE.
In my view, integration is really the backbone of any classical approach.
100% Just wait until I actually get to the Logic and Comp/Rhetoric Curriculum. I am keeping a database of information while I’m making the study guide to help me integrate those courses of study with the primary sources.
Great article. I love detail; feed me with a hose and let me decide what I can take in. I also love the addition of more than vocabulary. Geography, people etc, so lovely. As a person educating my children and myself through the great books of the Western tradition while not being from another tradition I appreciate intense handholding that doesn't undermine my own thinking and grappling with a text. Thankful that your guides seem to do that. The breakdown of grammar, logic and rhetoric for the comprehension questions is also very helpful for those of us who are amateurs in the classical tradition. I hope we can afford this in a year or so when we enter the 7th grade.
If you find yourself unable to afford it, let us know. We will always help.
Thank you so much!
Interesting comparison. We are part of a classical school start-up in Charleston and are using Memoria Press for our K-5 (our entire school at the moment). But I like how you arrange things chronologically. I recently completed a year-long reading project (Plato to David Foster Wallace) and one of the most important ideas I came away with was how jarring the shift from Medieval thought to the Enlightenment was. You feel it in your bones. Interested to learn more!
Yes, the Enlightenment was not just a bend in the road, it was an assault on the road itself.
Good comparison until you stated Memoria Press is Roman Catholic company. It is not. It states it's ecumenical. I have been a Memoria Press user for 6 years and can attest that it definitely is not Roman Catholic. It does a good job of being Christian and allowing us families to add in our own faith traditions. In fact I have seen some customers have issue with that and would prefer specific theological interpretations to be included in MP guides.
Hi Tiffany, if I am wrong on that I appreciate the correction. To my recollection there are a number of texts in the K-6 materials that seemed to be more Roman Catholic in bent. Definitely the Henley Latin is very Roman Catholic with lots of Marian prayers and such. Nevertheless, I’m happy to amend what I’ve said, it was said in good faith and according to my understanding of MP.
Upon further reflection I'd like to add that the multiple authors and stylistically different MP guides are frustrating at times so I do appreciate your commitment to consistency. I am curious about why you did not use MP's guide to Sir Gwain and the Green Knight to compare to yours.
I simply didn’t realize MP had a Sir Gawain guide, that would have served the purpose better.