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VILLAGE SCHOOL OFFERINGS

( Please read list carefully and plan to seek other curricula for areas that are required by PA law that do not appear below):

  •  The Tapestry- grammar/parts of speech

  •  The Lost Tools of Writing- Writing/ Thinking course

  • Spell to Write and Read- phonics program

  • Booklist of Great Books- changes yearly ( see VS teachers for this year’s list)

  • History ( as a means to expand upon seven liberal arts)

  • Latin

  • Music- Solfege/ Music Studies and appreciation

  • Math- Arithmetic and Euclidean Geometry  (Math with Confidence)

  • Brush Drawing

  • Hand Knitting

  • Geography/ Cartography- by way of coloring and drawing

  • Poetry Memorization/Dictation/ Copywork/Recitiation

  • Lives of Saints 

  • Scripture

  • Copywork

  • Cursive 

  • Nature based education (Nature Study, Bee-keeping (9-up), Poultry Keeping, Gardening, Plant Identification, Outdoor Skills)

Sample Reading Lists

Elementry

  • Fairy Tales

  • Aseops Fables

  • Billy And Blaze

  • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

  • James Herriot’s Treasury of Animals

  • The Princess and the Goblin

Middle

  • Fairytales

  • Black Ships Before Troy

  • Julius CAESAr

  • The Silver Chair

  • Wind in the Willows

  • Robinhood and his merry men

  • The Hobbit

  • Out of a Silent Planet

Upper School

  • The Illiad

  • The Odyssey

  • Until We Have Faces

  • Hamlet

  • The Republic

  • Fellowship of the Ring

  • Sense and Sensibility

  • Euclid’s Elements