Stella by William Cullen Bryant

The following text is studied in the Classical Liberal Arts Academy’s Elementary Literature 7 course. Part IHear now a legend of the days of old-The days when there were goodly marvels yet,When man to man gave willing faith, and lovedA tale the better that ’twas wild and strange.Beside a pleasant dwelling ran a brookScudding along a narrow channel, pavedWith green and yellow pebbles; yet full clearIts waters were, and colorless and cool,As fresh from granite rocks. A maiden oftStood at the open window, leaning out,And listening to the sound the water made,A sweet, eternal murmur, still the same,And not the … Continue

Grade Study Program

In 2024-2025, the Classical Liberal Arts Academy will be offering a very simple and easy-to-use grade level program to serve our goal of making the satisfaction of modern school requirements as convenient as possible. It is not our goal to simply to offer a program that makes grade level studies convenient, but to free students to pursue classical Catholic studies with the time that is made available by such a program. Notes

The Sportsman, by Owen Johnson

The following text is studied in the Classical Liberal Arts Academy’s Elementary Literature 7 course. The house championships had gone on until the Woodhull and the Kennedy emerged for the final conflict. The experience gained in these contests, for on such occasions Stover played with his House team, had sharpened his powers of analysis and given him a needed acquaintance with the sudden, shifting crises of actual play. Now, the one darling desire of Stover, next to winning the fair opinion of his captain, was the rout of the Woodhull, of which Tough McCarty was the captain and his old … Continue

Recommended Study Program for Parents

Dear friends, Finding faithful and rigorous formation as adults is challenging, but I have a program to recommend that Dania and I will be involved in for years to come. Catholic University of America offers a Master’s in Catechesis program that is perfect for Catholic parents. The program is online, so parents can

Defining Terms in Modern Science

concepts: generalizable properties or characteristics associated with objects,events, or people. While objects such as a person, a firm, or a car are not concepts, their specificcharacteristics or behavior such as a person’s attitude toward immigrants, a firm’s capacity forinnovation, and a car’s weight can be viewed as concepts.Knowingly or unknowingly, we use different kinds of concepts in our everydayconversations. Some of these concepts have been developed over time through our sharedlanguage. Sometimes, we borrow concepts from other disciplines or languages to explain aphenomenon of interest. For instance, the idea of gravitation borrowed from physics can beused in business to describe … Continue

How Does Tutoring Help a Student?

If you’re a parent, you may wonder how providing a child with tutoring can help. You should be asking questions like: What benefits does tutoring really offer? How does tutoring improve a child’s life? Is tutoring really necessary? Is tutoring worth the money? These are important questions that parents should be asking. The easy answer is NO, generally speaking, tutoring is not productive or worth the money. There are bad, over-priced tutors that are just looking for money. Most are just modern teachers doing modern things, as if more of a bad thing makes it good. Most modern tutoring is … Continue

Tutoring and College Admission

I once walked with a mother into the high school office and watched her write a check for $37,000 for her daughters’ high school tuition. As she handed the check to the office secretary, she turned and asked me if I would tutor her eldest daughter because she and her husband (a prominent lawyer) wanted to make sure she was prepared for admission to a selective university. Despite all the benefits available–and her daughter was an A student–she knew that prep school tuition wasn’t enough to guarantee admission. The admissions office at Harvard University says: “By taking the most academically … Continue