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Teaching the Classics teaches parents how to guide their children in the ability to understand literature; Teaching the Classics: Worldview Supplement goes further by showing families how to compare that literature to the Christian worldview. Adam Andrews provides the tools for analysis in a DVD seminar along with a teacher syllabus, engaging real audience members in discussions of classic stories to demonstrate his techniques.

Techniques, it may be said, which are quite old. Andrews employs the Socratic method, asking leading questions and providing some commentary to guide students' thinking rather than simply offering facts or pre-packaged ideas for them to memorize and regurgitate. The approach originated with the Greek philosopher Socrates, and forms the basis of true Classical education.

While there are products available to turn Andrews' two main programs into a curriculum of sorts, the benefits of Teaching the Classics: Worldview Supplement extend far beyond those of a mere school subject. Kids are expected to compare everything they read to the Bible and Christian thought, turning reading into much more than a rainy-day activity or source of entertainment.

Because Andrews follows the Classical model, he describes Teaching the Classics: Worldview Supplement as part of the Rhetoric Stage, and therefore oriented for older students. Elementary and middle school kids should learn the principles of finding the meaning in a text, while older kids are more prepared to evaluate it from a particular perspective.

The books listed below are those included at the back of the Teaching the Classics: Worldview Supplement teacher syllabus. All of them are for older and more mature readers, and are arranged by time period (for instance, Ivanhoe is included in the Romantic Literature section). Instead of describing theworks themselves, Andrews provides overviews of five main historical periods, with lists of works by key authors from each era.

Like the booklist in Teaching the Classics, this one isn't intended to be required reading, but a starting place for families wanting to explore the world's great literature. Space is provided to compile your own list of books and authors; because this is a tool rather than a curriculum, users enjoy a high degree of latitude. This is one of our favorite products, and we highly recommend these books and guide.

Review by C. Hollis Crossman
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	As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner from Vintage Classics for 11th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
	Beowulf A Verse Translation by Anonymous (translation by Frederick Rebsamen) from HarperCollins Medieval Poetic Epic for 8th-Adult in Medieval Literature (Location: LIT2-MED) $9.99
	Beowulf (bilingual edition) by Anonymous (translation by Seamus Heaney) from W. W. Norton and Co. Medieval Poetic Epic for 8th-Adult in Medieval Literature (Location: LIT2-MED) $15.95
	Beowulf Illustrated Edition by Anonymous, translated by Seamus Heaney from W. W. Norton and Co. Medieval Poetic Epic for 9th-Adult in Medieval Literature (Location: LIT2-MED) $24.95
	Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories by Herman Melville from Bantam Books Realistic Nautical Fiction for 10th-Adult in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19) $4.95
	Canterbury Tales Penguin Classics by Geoffrey Chaucer (edited by Nevill Coghill) from Penguin Classics Medieval Poetry for 8th-12th grade in Medieval Literature (Location: LIT2-MED) $11.00
	Complete English Poems of John Donne Penguin Classics by John Donne from Penguin Classics Lyrical Poetry for 9th-Adult in Poetry (Location: POET-GEN) $21.00
	Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats by John Keats from Modern Library for 11th-Adult in Poetry (Location: POET-GEN)
	Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge from Penguin Classics for 9th-Adult in Poetry (Location: POET-GEN)
	Complete Poetry of George Herbert Penguin Classics by George Herbert, edited by John Drury & Victoria Moul from Penguin Classics Lyrical Poetry for 11th-Adult in 17th Century Literature (Location: LIT4-17)
	Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Penguin Classics by Mark Twain from Penguin Classics Social Satire/Comedy for 8th-10th grade in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19) $10.00
	Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather from Vintage Classics Realistic Fiction for 9th-12th grade in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $16.00
	Emma by Jane Austen from Oxford University Romantic Realistic Fiction for 9th-12th grade in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19) $7.95
	Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke from Penguin Classics Political Philosophy for 11th-Adult in 17th Century Literature (Location: LIT4-17) $17.00
	Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves Book One of Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene by Roy Maynard & Edmund Spenser from Canon Press Allegory/Epic Poetry for 10th-Adult in Renaissance & Reformation Literature (Location: LIT3-REN) $20.00 $9.00 (5 in stock)
	For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway from Charles Scribner's Sons Realistic Fiction for 10th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $18.99
	Frankenstein by Mary Shelley from Penguin Putnam Horror for 9th-Adult in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19) $10.00
	Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, edited with an introduction and notes by M. K. Joseph from Oxford University Horror for 9th-Adult in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
	Great Expectations by Charles Dickens from Penguin Classics Realistic Fiction for 10th-12th grade in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19) $11.00
	Great Expectations by Charles Dickens from Dover Publications Realistic Fiction for 10th-12th grade in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19) $3.50 (1 in stock)
	Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Reissue from Charles Scribner's Sons Realistic Fiction for 9th-12th grade in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $17.00
	Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift from Oxford University Satire/Social Commentary for 9th-Adult in 18th Century Literature (Location: LIT5-18) $7.95
	Henry V Oxford School Shakespeare by William Shakespeare & Roma Gill, editor from Oxford University Historical Drama for 7th-10th grade in Renaissance & Reformation Literature (Location: LIT3-REN)
	Henry V Folger Shakespeare Library by William Shakespeare from Washington Square Press Historical Drama for 9th-Adult in Renaissance & Reformation Literature (Location: LIT3-REN) $9.99
	Henry VI Part 1 Folger Shakespeare Library by William Shakespeare from Washington Square Press Historical Drama for 9th-Adult in Renaissance & Reformation Literature (Location: LIT3-REN) $9.99
	Henry VI Part 2 Folger Shakespeare Library by William Shakespeare from Washington Square Press Historical Drama for 9th-Adult in Renaissance & Reformation Literature (Location: LIT3-REN) $9.99
	Henry VI Part 3 Folger Shakespeare Library by William Shakespeare from Washington Square Press Historical Drama for 9th-Adult in Renaissance & Reformation Literature (Location: LIT3-REN) $9.99
	Henry VIII Folger Shakespeare Library by William Shakespeare from Washington Square Press Historical Drama for 9th-Adult in Renaissance & Reformation Literature (Location: LIT3-REN) $9.99
	Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, illustrated by Gregory Alexander from Pavilion Books Animal Stories for 4th-8th grade in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
	Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 Leatherstocking Tales #2 by James Fenimore Cooper Reprint from Penguin Classics for 9th-Adult in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19) $13.00
	Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 Leatherstocking Tales #2 by James Fenimore Cooper from Dover Publications for 9th-Adult in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
	Leviathan Penguin Classics by Thomas Hobbes from Penguin Classics Political Philosophy for 11th-Adult in 17th Century Literature (Location: LIT4-17) $13.00
	Major Works of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth from Oxford University for 9th-Adult in Poetry (Location: POET-GEN) $18.95
	Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville from Penguin Putnam Realistic Nautical Fiction for 9th-Adult in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19) $16.00
	Much Ado About Nothing Folger Shakespeare Library by William Shakespeare from Simon and Schuster for 9th-Adult in Renaissance & Reformation Literature (Location: LIT3-REN) $9.99
	Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens from Penguin Classics Realistic Fiction for 10th-12th grade in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19) $10.00
	Nicholas Nickleby Wordsworth Classics by Charles Dickens from Wordsworth Classics Realistic Fiction for 10th-12th grade in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
	Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway from Charles Scribner's Sons Realistic Fiction for 9th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $13.99
	Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Hemingway Library Edition from Charles Scribner's Sons Realistic Fiction for 9th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
	Oliver Twist Penguin Classics by Charles Dickens from Penguin Classics Realistic Fiction for 10th-12th grade in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19) $8.00
	Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens from Oxford University Realistic Fiction for 7th-Adult in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19) $6.95
	Paradise Lost Penguin Classics by John Milton 2003 Revised from Penguin Classics Epic Poetry for 10th-Adult in 17th Century Literature (Location: LIT4-17) $12.00
	Pickwick Papers Penguin Classics by Charles Dickens Reissue from Penguin Classics Realistic Fiction for 10th-Adult in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
	Piers the Ploughman by William Langland from Penguin Putnam for 11th-Adult in Medieval Literature (Location: LIT2-MED) $17.00
	Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan from Oxford University Christian Prose Epic/Allegory for 10th-Adult in 17th Century Literature (Location: LIT4-17) $9.95
	Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan from Penguin Classics Christian Prose Epic/Allegory for 10th-Adult in 17th Century Literature (Location: LIT4-17) $11.00
	Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen from Oxford University Romantic Realistic Fiction for 8th-12th grade in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
	Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne from Vintage Books Realistic Fiction for 9th-Adult in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
	Selected Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Reprint from Penguin Classics for 8th-Adult in Poetry (Location: POET-GEN) $17.00
	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Pearl / Sir Orfeo by Anonymous, J. R. R. Tolkien (Translator) from Mariner Books Medieval Fairy Tale/Poetry for 8th-Adult in Medieval Literature (Location: LIT2-MED) $16.99
	Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway from Charles Scribner's Sons for 10th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $17.00
	Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens from Penguin Classics Victorian Novel for 9th-Adult in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19) $8.00 $5.00 (1 in stock)
	The Pearl by John Steinbeck from Penguin Putnam Realistic Fiction for 9th-12th grade in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $12.00 $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Two Treatises of Government by John Locke from Tuttle Publishing Political Philosophy for 10th-Adult in 17th Century Literature (Location: LIT4-17) $9.95
	Utopia Penguin Classics by Thomas More from Penguin Classics Utopian/Dystopian literature for 10th-Adult in Renaissance & Reformation Literature (Location: LIT3-REN) $12.00
	Walden Or, Life in the Woods The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau 150th Anniversary Edition from Princeton University Press for 10th-Adult in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
	Waste Land & Other Poems by T. S. Eliot from Harcourt for 10th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $9.00

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