Rhetorical 3 (ages 16+)

About Course

  • 32-week Program Fully laid out with our weekly agenda
  • Live interactive zoom classes 1 day a week for 4 hours
  • Offline 4 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.   

 

Required Book List

Debate

Patriot’s History of the US

Optional 

Rhetoric Alive! Senior Thesis Student Work Book 

Science & Research 

Anatomy and Physiology

 

On- line resource nominal cost per student 

Exposition

The Office of Assertion 

 

Theogony by Hesiod 1st Semester 

 

The Iliad 1st Semester

 

The Odyssey, Fagles Translation 2nd Semester 

 

Eumenides (Greek Drama), Aeschylus 2nd Semester 

 

Heroes of the City of Man companion guide optional 

Logic

“The Discoverers: A History of Man’s Search To know His World And Himself” by Daniel J. Boorstin

 

Our yearly calendar for your planning purposes:

  •     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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  • Endocrine System Pt.1 Glands and Hormones
    10:25
  • The Endocrine System
    00:00
  • Copernicus Mini Bio
    00:00
  • The Scandalous Life of Tycho Brahe
    00:00
  • The Golden Rule of H.J. Heinz Co.
    00:00
  • A History of Campbell’s Soup
    00:00
  • A Brief History of Proctor and Gamble
    00:00
  • 60 Second Presidents: Grover Cleveland
    00:00
  • Audiobook: The Odyssey; Translated by Robert Fagles
    00:00

Semester 2 Week 18
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Semester 2 Week 22
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