Online History Course for Catholic Homeschoolers

Ancient and Classical Times, semester 2

Description: Beginning where semester one left things, this course covers the Hellenistic period in the Mediterranean and the story of Rome up to the Incarnation. The course will include readings, lectures, study questions, essays, field assignments, quizzes, and tests. Readings will be drawn from various sources. Lectures will cover both specific themes and the overarching narrative of history.

(This is a Cultural History and Dialectical Enrichment course.)

Instructor: Kenneth Rolling, M.A.

Age Range: 7th-9th grades

Live Class Time: 12:00 pm ET Wednesdays

Course Information Packet: Ancient and Classical Times, Semester Two

Pre-requisite: None.

The Classical Mind?

Fall 2011 History Course at R.A.S.

(10th-12th grade) September 5-December 23; Live class meets Thursdays at 12:30 pm ET.

Instructor: Kenneth Rolling. In this class we will engage with the great works of literature, history, and philosophy of the Greek and Roman cultures in order to attempt to grasp how they thought about some of the big questions and how their thinking has helped to make us who we are today. Readings will include Homer, Herodotus, the pre-Socratic philosophers, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Virgil, among others. Homework will include weekly readings, study questions, and written reflections. An argumentative paper dealing with a predetermined question will be submitted in two drafts.

Fall 2011 History Course: The Greeks

Grades 7-9. September 5-December 23, 2011. Live class meets Wednesdays at 12:30pm ET. Instructor: Kenneth Rolling The Greeks provide us with many of the known firsts or bests of Western Civilization: mathematicians, astronomers, poets, philosophers, statesmen, and historians. This course provides a combination of a narrative of Greek history from the earliest times up until the rise of Rome with a thematic focus on just such intellectual and artistic achievers. The idea of enquiry will be the backbone concept of the course: the Greeks provide examples about how to begin to ask questions about things we all see and do everyday that lead directly to many modern sciences and arts. A brief introduction to the Greek alphabet and language will also be included! For more information, visit The Rolling Acres School website.

The Language Arts and History at R.A.S.

If you are looking to get your homeschool back to the basics of the language arts, The Rolling Acres School is offering a nice variety of courses in the fall to this end. Kenneth Rolling is teaching two high-school courses, The Trivium and The Classical Mind, and two middle-school courses, Grammar and The Greeks. The Trivium and Grammar courses are part of the core curriculum section which focuses on language arts and philosophy, and The Classical Mind and The Greeks are part of the core curriculum section that focuses on history, but includes written assignments and projects that foster the skills learned in The Trivium and Grammar courses. I encourage you to go to The Rolling Acres School website and to read the course descriptions!