For Students

What each work page offers

• Reading guide: things to notice, key names and terms, and where the work sits in the four-year sequence.
• Seminar questions: moving from comprehension to interpretation to the big questions.
• Faith connections: Scripture, the Church Fathers, and links across the Great Conversation.
• Logic and rhetoric: the central argument, a rhetorical device at work, and a debate resolution.
• Memory work: a line or two from the work's verified quotations.
• Writing prompts: an essay prompt and a comparison with another work in the library.

The medical lens and other sections remain on every page alongside the student material.

For the tools behind the logic and rhetoric notes (the syllogism, informal fallacies, the disputatio, the five canons, the progymnasmata) and a guide to Socratic seminar, Lincoln-Douglas, team policy, parliamentary, disputatio, and mock trial formats, see Logic & Debate, which also gathers every work’s debate resolution in one bank.

Social skills for students and families now lives on School Launch: Social Skills on School Launch, nine units on manners, conversation, table manners, names, welcome, empathy, friendship, and listening, with a private self check-in.

Four-year reading listLogic & Debate