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The "Pursuing a Classical Liberal Arts Education" social group was a spin-off from the big CiRCE thread last spring. It was supposed to be a quieter place for people to talk about ideas related to the thread. It was busy for a while, but then people wandered off elsewhere.

 

Since the social groups will be deleted soon, I'm taking the time to copy and paste all the links to talks, articles, e-books and other media (and a few miscellaneous bits and pieces) for anyone who's interested.

 

Hey, maybe you can bookmark some of them for reading & listening while the forum is down. ;)

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Recommended WTM Forum Threads

 

3-24-2011, Does Circe have a curriculum? Includes a long post from Andrew Kern.

 

Which 20 Books Help Prepare for Reading the Great Books?

http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/showthread.php?t=93913

 

Anne of Green Gables study guide (8FilltheHeart)

http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/showthread.php?p=3721394

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CiRCE Institute Audio Library (free)

http://circeinstitute.org/free-audio/

 

CiRCE Downloads (most are $3 each)

http://circeinstitute.com/product-cat/downloads/

 

Recommended talks from above pages -- some free, some $

 

* James Taylor -- Good to Great

* Sophrosune: The Practical Virtue by George Sanker

* The Contemplation of Nature Part II by Andrew Kern

* Mentor by Vigen Guroian

http://circeinstitute.com/2011/06/audio-weekly-mentor-by-vigen-guroian/

* Cinderella by Vigen Guroian

* What is Woman? by Angelina Stanford

* What are we doing to our boys? by James Daniels

* Leisure - The Basis of Learning by James Daniels

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Society for Classical Learning: Conference Recordings (free)

http://www.societyforclassicallearning.org/index.php/resources/media

* 2011 -- Christian Kopf on Memorization

 

Society for Classical Learning: Journal

http://www.societyforclassicallearning.org/index.php/resources/the-journal

 

Institute for Excellence in Writing

http://www.excellenceinwriting.com/catalog/downloads

* Andrew Kern -- Cultivating Wisdom through Writing

http://www.excellenceinwriting.com/wes10-writ-e

 

Association of Classical and Christian Schools (many free)

http://www.wordmp3.com/ministry/default.aspx?id=accs

* Math: God's Invention Man's Discovery

 

Christopher Perrin: Inside Classical Education -- blog and free audio downloads

http://insideclassicaled.com/

 

Classical Academic Press -- Audio downloads

http://classicalacademicpress.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=16#audio

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Homeschooling -- Organizational Ideas & Templates

 

Memory work using a white board (Golden Grasses blog)

http://goldengrasses.blogspot.com/2008/11/wr-memory-work.html

 

Mnemosyne memory work binder (Dragons in the Flower Bed blog)

http://flowerbedswithdragons.blogspot.com/2009/09/doing-memory-work.html

 

Scripture Memory System (Simply Charlotte Mason)

http://simplycharlottemason.com/timesavers/memorysys/

 

SCM Memorization Chart

http://www.scribd.com/doc/65117474/SCM-Memorization-Chart

 

Lesson plan template, inspired by Andrew Kern's "A Contemplation of Nature II" talk

http://www.scribd.com/doc/25377723/Lesson-Plans

 

Narration cube

http://www.pennygardner.com/narrationcube.html

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Children's book recommendations for 9 year old boy who likes animals and adventure stories (to be used for reading aloud, copywork, grammar study, etc.):

 

Pinocchio

The Wind in the Willows

The Secret Garden

The Princess and Curdie

The Phantom Tollbooth

James and the Giant Peach

The Search for Delicious

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

The Tale of Despereaux

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Chronicles of Narnia

The Borrowers

Fantastic Mr. Fox

The Saturdays

Half Magic

The Hobbit

Peter Pan

The Book of Three and the other Prydain chronicles

Mr. Popper's Penguins

Dr. Doolittle "(you'll need to edit some racial slurs)"

Trumpet of the Swan

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Suggestions for Science, History of Science, and Nature Study:

 

BFSU

The Private Eye

Sandbox Scientist

Bitesized Science

 

The Nature Connection: An Outdoor Workbook for Kids, Families, and Classrooms by Clare Walker Leslie (Storey Publishing, 2010)

(extra copies of worksheets available for download on the publisher's web site)

 

http://www.joyhakim.com/

 

post from Auntie Leila's blog:

http://ourmothersdaughters.blogspot.com/2011/09/beginning-of-science-is-observation.html

 

"Uncle Paul" (with caveat regarding bad translation and archaic language)

http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89102110533 )

http://www.efabre.net/e-fabre.htm

 

"Living Book" recommendations:

View from the Oak

The Snowflake Man

& younger children's version: Snowflake Bentley

The Invention of Clouds

 

Cartoon about the beauty of nature: http://xkcd.com/877/ ;)

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Math curriculum recommendations:

 

Art of Problem Solving

 

Ray's Arithmetic online (Free)

http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/showthread.php?t=44972

 

Math-related articles & talks:

 

http://www.educationnews.org/education-policy-and-politics/barry-garelick-math-education-being-outwitted-by-stupidity/

 

http://aclassicalblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/simon-weil.html -- some insights from Simone Weil (Or "Simon," if you prefer ;))

 

Andrew Kern, Incarnational Teaching in Kindergarten

http://quidditycirce.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/incarnational-teaching-in-kindergarten/

& On Teaching Math

http://www.circeinstitute.com/2009/12/on-teaching-math/

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Humanities for high school students:

 

http://www.touchstones.org/Articles.asp?ID=166

 

Teaching Company lectures (might contain material that's unsuitable for children below high school level), including:

 

Western Civ taught by Professor Noble of Notre Dame

Classical archeology (professor taught at Vanderbilt?)

St Augustine by Philip Cary

St. Francis of Assisi taught by two professors from SUNY

American Identity by Professor Patrick Allit

BBC program by Simon Schaama called A History of Britain

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Literary Criticism; Cultural, Religious, & Philosophical Writings

 

[many of these had links -- mostly to Amazon -- but somehow they got lost in my cutting and pasting. I'll add them back later if I can find the time.]

 

CS Lewis: On the Fairytale (online document)

CS Lewis: Meditation in a Toolshed (PDF)

The Great Divorce -- CS Lewis - Amazon Link

The Abolition of Man -- CS Lewis-Amazon Link

 

CS Lewis Study Guides (including The Abolition of Man)

Further Up and Further In

The Way Into Narnia: Readers' Guide

 

On Fairy Stories, JRR Tolkien -- free Google book

The Philosophy of Tolkien -- Amazon Link

 

Tolkien: Man and Myth, a Literary Life - Joseph Pearce - Amazon Link

 

G. Ronald Murphy, SJ: The Owl, The Raven, and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of Grimm's Magic Fairy Tales

* A group member asked Fr. Murphy which edition of Grimm's he recommended, and it was this one:

http://www.christianbook.com/the-com...ds&event=ESRCP

 

John Senior -- The Restoration of Christian Culture and The Death of Christian Culture

The Devil Knows Latin by E. Christian Kopff

http://www.amazon.com/The-Devil-Know...3052664&sr=1-1

 

The Grammar of Our Civility by Lee Pearcy

http://www.amazon.com/The-Grammar-Ou...3052702&sr=1-1

 

The Educated Imagination -- Northrop Frye

 

Dr. Vigen Guorian -- Tending the Heart of Virtue

 

Littlejohn & Evans -- Wisdom & Eloquence

 

Josef Pieper -- Leisure, the Basis of Culture

 

Richard M Weaver -- Ideas Have Consequences

 

John Lukacs -- Historical Consciousness

 

James KA Smith -- Desiring the Kingdom - "this is written and directed more at university level education, but I've found a lot that is applicable to me so far"

 

Richard Gamble -- The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What it Means to Be an Educated Human Being

 

Recommended by Christopher Perrin: AG Sertillanges -- The Intellectual Life: Its Spirits, Conditions, Methods

 

James Sire -- Habits of the Mind

 

Reed of God by Caryll Houselander (& also her children's books)

 

Two books by Christian authors about the importance of home life:

Splendor in the Ordinary -- Thomas Howard

The Most Important Place on Earth

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Miscellaneous

 

Journeys Through Bookland (children's anthology) at: www.archive.org and other sites

 

Curriculum of St. Jerome's Classical School (free K-12 curriculum developed by a group of homeschoolers, school teachers, and subject matter experts)

 

Textbooks:

Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student - Corbett

Office Of Assertion: An Art Of Rhetoric For Academic Essay - Scott F Crider

Harvey's Revised English Grammar - Thomas Harvey

 

 

Good Reading and Good Thinking as a Prerequisite to Good Writing

http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2011/05/13/good-reading-and-good-thinking-as-a-prequisite-to-good-writing/

 

 

Christopher Perrin: An Introduction to Classical Education (free pdf download) http://insideclassicaled.com/?page_id=400

 

http://www.peterkreeft.com/audio/13_lost-in-the-cosmos.htm

 

http://www.ordo-amoris.com/2009/09/leisure-basis-of-culture-chapter-1.html -- blog group discussion of Josef Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture

 

http://circeinstitute.com/2011/11/david-hicks-interview-with-leigh-bortins/

 

 

More book recommendations:

 

The Jesuits and Education -- William McGucken

 

Norms & Nobility -- David Hicks

 

Climbing Parnassus by Tracy Lee Simmons

 

Dr. James S. Taylor: Poetic Knowledge

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You're welcome. :) Here are the last bunch, I think.

 

 

Miscellaneous, part 2:

 

More free Peter Kreeft talks (including the Until We Have Faces talk mentioned in the big thread). And some more.

 

Why Beauty Matters -- BBC TV program presented by Roger Scruton (not for children, and perhaps not for very sensitive adults -- many examples of art with obscenity, blasphemy, gory stuff, etc.)

 

Blog posts from Ladydusk (Hi there!), in response to some lectures by Dr. Perrin:

"The Intellectual Virtues;" "How to be a Teacher, How to be a Student; "The Lighter Side of Education"

 

 

Ignatian (Jesuit) education:

 

The Jesuit Model of Education

Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm

Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm: Components (video)

Inner Geography of Prayer (video)

 

 

Vintage books:

 

Seven Laws of Teaching -- John Milton Gregory (19th c. US) -- reissued recently; various summaries available online

 

The Classics: Their History and Present Status in Education, ed. Felix Kirsch, O.F.M. Cap.; introduction by Roy J. Deferrari [both were professors at Catholic University of America], Bruce Publishing Company, Milwaukee, 1928. Doesn't seem to be available online at this point, but there are still a few hard copies around.

 

Latin and Greek in American Education by Francis Willey Kelsey, 1911.

 

 

And as if any of us needed more suggestions, there's also CiRCE's recommended reading list.

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