By using short stories as models, Adam systematically prepares you to study character, plot, theme and other literary tools used by authors to communicate their message. You can quickly equip your children with literary study tools that can then be used easily on longer works. Skills gained through this program will allow you to study any piece of literature.

Includes a video seminar on 4 DVDs and spiral bound syllabus. Suitable for teaching all levels. Although this is meant to be teacher training, students will enjoy viewing it too.

Teaching the Classics DVDs & Syllabus: $99.00
Teaching the Classics Syllabus Only:      $35.00


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In Teaching the Classics, Adam Andrews does for teaching literature what Andrew Pudewa did for teaching writing. This two-day seminar on DVD will prepare you to explore literature intelligently with your children.

By using short stories as models, Adam systematically prepares you to study character, plot, theme and other literary tools used by authors to communicate their message. No more need for study guides!

Adam Andrews is a dynamic, excited teacher who easily transfers that excitement about literature to you and your students. If you have read DeMille’s A Thomas Jefferson Education but feel ill-equipped to study the classics with your children, then this seminar is your ticket to a leadership style education.
Teaching The Classics
Teaching the Classics
World View Supplement
Teach your students to discern truth in literature with this inspiring new seminar from Adam and Missy Andrews. Featuring live discussions of works by Jack London and Anton Chekhov, the seminar also includes a brand new Socratic List of 113 discussion questions designed to help you analyze any book. Alumni of the original Teaching the Classics program will be pleased to find a familiar method applied to a brand new task: world view analysis.

TC World View Supplement DVDs & Syllabus: $55.00
TC Worldview Supplement Syllabus Only:       $24.00

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Reading Roadmaps

Reading Roadmaps is a comprehensive Scope & Sequence manual containing annotated reading lists for grades K-12.   Designed as a supplement to the Teaching the Classics basic seminar, it brings together more than 200 classic titles specially chosen by Adam and Missy Andrews.  Each entry summarizes the story’s plot, conflicts, themes and literary devices, along with links to teacher resources and suggestions for alternate titles.

With more than 200 pages of resources, Reading Roadmaps offers guidance on every aspect of teaching Lit, including:

  • Lesson planning — step-by-step instructions for conducting an oral discussion using the Teaching the Classics model, with special attention to each grade level from K-12

  • Writing from literature — instructions for assigning and grading literature essays for all ages, including sample essays and our exclusive “Tootsie-Roll” diagram

  • Teaching objectives — a list of goals for each year from K-12 to keep your students on track toward a complete literary education

  • Grading and credits — complete instructions for grading oral discussions and reading/writing assignments, including reproducible grade sheets 
$ 44.00
Ready Readers
Many parents and teachers have asked us for a set of example lessons to help them apply the Teaching the Classics model in their classes.

Ready Readers fills this need with complete discussion notes for 10 classic stories.  Each lesson includes a full set of Socratic discussion questions with comprehensive answers keyed to the text.  Questions cover Conflict, Plot, Setting, Characters, Theme, Literary Devices and Context.  In addition, a completed Story Chart graphically outlines the major structural and thematic elements of each story.

This exciting resource is appropriate for use with students of all ages, depending on their needs:

READING COMPREHENSION

Ready Readers helps develop good reading comprehension in the very youngest students.  It encourages them to ponder well-designed questions about structure, style, context and theme in every story they read.

LITERARY ANALYSIS

Though the books discussed here were written for children, they provide excellent examples of the structural elements common to all stories.  They are therefore useful in discussions with older students who are new to the techniques of literary analysis.
Stories at the
K-3 Reading Level
Use with K-12
Stories at the
3-6 Reading Level
Use with 3-12
Stories at the
6-8 Reading Level
Use with 6-12
Ready Readers provides complete discussion notes for the following classic stories:

Brave Irene by William Steig

Sam, Bangs and Moonshine by Evaline Ness

All the Places to Love by Patricia MacLachlan

Apples to Oregon by Deborah Hopkinson

Fishing in the Air by Sharon Creech

Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild! by Mem Fox

Letting Swift River Go by Jane Yolen

The Clown of God by Tomie DiPaola

The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox

Ready Readers 2 provides complete discussion notes for the following classic stories:

The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White

Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry

Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen

The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

Ready Readers 3 provides complete discussion notes for the following classic stories:

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald

Ready Readers 1 -  $ 35.00

Ready Readers 2 - $ 35.00

Ready Readers 3 - $ 35.00