Fall Term 2006 at Libertas Academy

I was inspired by Cindy at Dominion Family to post our family's plans for this fall. So...here you go...

ARTIST: Pieter Breugel the Elder
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (c.1554-55)
Children's Games (1560) Details and info.
Tower of Babel (1563)
Landscape with the Parable of the Sower (1557) also here.
Hunters in the Snow (1565)
Peasant Wedding (c. 1568)

COMPOSER: Ludwig von Beethoven ~ music files downloaded from eclassical.
Symphony 5 or 6
Piano Sonata 14 (Moonlight, Opus 27) OR 8 (Pathetique, Opus 13)
Razumovsky String Quartets Opus 59, no 1-3 OR Septet in E-flat Opus 20
Piano Concerto 5 (Emperor, Opus 73)
Symphony 7 OR 9 (Opus 125)
Fidelio

BIBLE:
The Book of Life Volume 8 “Paul, Life &Letters”
Psalms & Proverbs

SCRIPTURE MEMORY
Hebrews 11
Nicene Creed

SCRIPTURE REVIEW:
Psalm 91
Books of the Bible
Ten Commandments, The Shema (Deut. 6:4-5),
Jesus’ Summary of the Law (Matthew 22:36-40),
Apostle’s Creed, Gloria Patri, Doxology

HYMNS
Come Thou Fount
Immortal, Invisible
Lift High the Cross

HYMNS REVIEW:
All Glory, Laud & Honor
I Sing the Mighty Power
The King of Love
I Sing a Song of the Saints of God

POETRY READING:
Book of 1000 Poems

POETRY MEMORY:
The Builders by Longfellow
Crossing the Bar by Tennyson

POETRY REVIEW:
I Never Saw a Moor, A Book, Autumn by Dickinson
Pirate Story, The Moon by Robert Louis Stevenson
October’s Party by George Cooper
November by Margaret Rose
First Thanksgiving by Nancy Byrd Turner

READING ALOUD:
The Story of the Middle Ages (H.A. Guerber, edited by Christine Miller)
Famous Men of the Middle Ages (Memoria Press Edition)
Trial and Triumph by Richard Hannula
King Arthur and His Knights by Sir James Knowles
Twelve Bright Trumpets by Margaret Leighten
Burgess Animal Book for Children
Ludwig Beethoven and the Chiming Tower Bells by Opal Wheeler
Fifty Famous Stories by James Baldwin
Beatrix Potter Treasury

Why Latin? Indeed...

Excellent post from Cindy at Dominion Family about the reasons for teaching Latin to our kids.

The Reason for Rote

This is a little scrap of conversation from The Daisy Chain, by Charlotte Yonge, a truly delightful book, full of gems and thoughts on church tradition and classical education.

Shocked and saddened by the “Ladies’ Committee” decision to “leave off reading the Prayer-book prayers morning and evening!” at the neighborhood school, Ethel, the awkward but deep-thinking heroine, laments:

“And it is much to be expected that next they will attack all learning by heart…If they don’t learn them (the Psalms – the Gospels – these ties—these links to the church) by rote when they have strong memories…they will not know them well enough to understand them when they are old enough!…memory and association come before comprehension, so that one ought to know all good things…with familiarity before one can understand, because understanding does not make one love. Oh! One does that before, and when the first little gleam, little bit of a sparklet of the meaning does come, then it is so valuable and so delightful.”

Her wise and theologically astute older brother, Richard, agrees with her,

“…these lessons and holy words were to be impressed on us here from infancy on earth, that we might be always unraveling their meaning, and learn it fully at last…”

I can only say…Amen!