The Classical Education Passport: Journey and Journal through the Great Books 4000 B.C. - 300 B.C.($7.95Value)

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The Classical Education Passport: Journey and Journal through the Great Books 4000 B.C. - 300 B.C. This journal encourages you to take a journey to many new and exciting destinations (30 Great Books), from which, you will not return as the same person. Embrace the effort it takes to journey and journal through these books. It is a privilege and your responsibility as a citizen. This Classical Education Passport is part of a series of several passports each focusing on thirty books from specific periods of time in western civilization. Reading broadly from these lists and taking time to briefly journal about each book will provide you with a classical liberal arts education from some of the greatest minds and teachers in history. Many of these authors advance ideas in their works that align with objective truth, goodness, and beauty. Thoughtful readers will notice that several authors do not present true, good, or beautiful ideas but have had such a profound impact on western thought and culture that reading their works is important for us to understand and engage with our modern society. The following list of books, authors, and dates written will serve as a map to orient you before your journey. While on your journey through these great books, you will discover other texts and authors from this time period that did not make the list in this passport. You can use the “Add Your Own” pages to record your discoveries. May this passport inspire you to read, bless you as you journal, and guide you in your journey through the great books of western civilization as a lifelong learner and participant in the great conversation. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Introduction Great Books Chart Titles Epic of Gilgamesh Genesis & Exodus Joshua Samuel I & II Psalms Proverbs The Iliad The Odyssey Isaiah Aesop’s Fables Kings I & II Daniel Agamemnon Theseus and the Minotaur Antigone Chronicles I & II Medea Oedipus Rex The Histories of Herodotus The Clouds History of the Peloponnesian War Ezra & Nehemiah Apology Meno The Republic Phaedo Nicomachean Ethics Metaphysics Rhetoric The Elements Add Your Own Add Your Own Add Your Own This journal is 89 pages in length. Each of the thirty books recommended for reading allows for two pages of journaling, answering questions, and rating the book. There is a short paragraph about each book that prepares the reader to journey through the book and journal in the space provided. Adults can use the journal to give themselves a classical education and teachers / homeschoolers can use the journal to guide their curriculum mapping for each period of time. “It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old.” - C.S. Lewis www.TimDernlan.com