Rhetorical 1 (ages 14+)

About Course

 

  • 32-week program fully laid out with our weekly agenda
  • Live interactive zoom classes 1 day a week for 4 hours 
  • Offline 3 days a week with independent work
  • Students will read, research and practice at home 3 days a week and come to community prepared for public speaking, discussion, debate, and science/experiments   
  • Most students will average 4 hrs. a day doing coursework with our program.
  • Practicing the classical tools of learning provides the fundamentals of critical thinking and problem-solving skills. 
  • An optional but highly recommended resource would be Kreeft’s Socratic Logic (kindle $8.99 hardback $35)  

 

Required Book List 

Debate

Everyday Debate 

https://classicalacademicpress.com/collections/everyday-debate

Science & Research 

Riot and the Dance Biology 

 

Exposition

Lost Tools of Writing – 

1st Semester

Lost Tools of Writing Comparison Essays – 2nd Semester

 

Call of the Wild 

The Witch of Blackbird Pond 

 

The Giver

Born Again 

 

Old Man and the Sea 

Through Gates of Splendor 

 

To Kill A Mockingbird

Starship Troopers 

 

Up From Slavery

Hunger Games 

   

Emerson – Self Reliance and other Essays

   

Edgar Allen Poe – The Gold Bug and Other Tales

Logic 

The Discovery of Deduction 

Suggested for Parents and Mentors: Kreeft, Socratic Logic 

Our yearly calendar for your planning purposes is: 

  •     First Day of School Week of  August 26th 

  •     Thanksgiving Break Week of Nov 25th
  •     End of First Semester Week of  December 16th

  •     Winter Break December 9th – January 3rd 

  •     Beginning of Second Semester January 6th

  •     Second Semester Spring Break March 3rd-7th

  •     Last Day of ‘4 Hours to Freedom’ Classes May 2nd 

 

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What Will You Learn?

  • Research - how to research and properly list your sources
  • How to write great essays
  • How to organize thoughts properly for a research paper or essay
  • How to ask questions that produce great answers
  • Reasoning (logic)- recognizing fallacies and practicing formal logic

Course Content

Semester 2 Week 17
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  • Q&A Session Intelligence Squared Pt.1
    09:11
  • Obama’s Acceptance Speech 2008
    19:07
  • LTW Introduction
    07:24
  • LTW Comparison Essay One: Invention
    06:49
  • How Viruses Work
    02:39
  • Archaea
    02:06
  • Bacteria (updated)
    07:31

Semester 2 Week 18
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Semester 2 Week 19
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Semester 2 Week 20
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Semester 2 Week 21
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Semester 2 Week 22
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