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.

Need a copy of the book? Where to Read Free lists free, legal places to read, listen, and borrow, including how to get a library card.

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 & DebateSpot the deviceVirtue indexPlutarch’s Lives