William C. MichaelWilliam C. Michael

Mr. William C. Michael, O.P., is the founder and headmaster of the Classical Liberal Arts Academy and a Lay Dominican in the Catholic Church. Mr. Michael received an honors degree in Classics and Ancient History from Rutgers University and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He led the CLAA to accreditation with Cognia in 2024. He has been studying and teaching the classical liberal arts for over 30 years.

Intro. to Classical Arithmetic, Lesson 03. Of Comparison

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To complete the objectives of this lesson, complete the following tasks: Study the lesson for mastery. Complete the lesson memory work. Pass the lesson exam. Lesson It is very important that we know how to rightly compare quantities. EQUALITY AND INEQUALITY Let’s begin by clarifying a number of important definitions. When we use the term “Equality”, we mean that two or more things agree in their quantities. If these things did not agree in their quantities, we would call this “Inequality”. If we compare two multitudes, say five apples and seven apples, we will see that the quantities are not … Continue

Reading Vergil’s Aeneid

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In Latin Reading III, students in the Classical Liberal Arts Academy study Latin poetry. In particular, we study Vergil’s Aeneid. This work was written in a meter called dactyllic hexameter, the same meter in which Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey were written in Greek. Reading classical poetry is difficult because we must be careful to read so that the natural accents of the words are maintained, while the length of the syllables that make up the rhythm of the poem are spoken correctly. The best way to do this is to imagine the meter of the poem written in modern musical … Continue

Lesson 09. On the Genders of Nouns

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To complete this lesson, complete the following tasks: Study the lesson for mastery. Complete all assigned memory work. Complete the lesson comprehension questions. Complete the lesson assessment. Lesson In lesson 03, we learned of the genders used in Latin. We learned of the three principal genders (Masculine, Feminine and Neuter) and the other genders drawn from them (Common of two, Common of three, Doubtful, Epicene). In this lesson, we will study how the genders of Latin nouns are to be known. This lesson is taken not from Alvarez’s Latin Grammar (our normal course text), but from William Lily’s Latin Grammar, … Continue

Intro to Classical Arithmetic, Lesson 04. Weight Measure

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You must complete the following assignments for this lesson: Study your Lesson. Complete your Memory Work. Complete the Lesson Exercises. Complete the Lesson Examination. Lesson Study the following lesson carefully, reading it aloud and making any notes that help you. You must know all of the content to pass your lesson examination. We have learned that to measure any quantity, we must begin with some known quantity, which we call Unity. When we measure, we count how many times a unity or unit is contained in the quantity we wish to measure. We discussed how our everyday tasks do not … Continue