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Literature, Rhetoric & the Great Books
Atlanta, Georgia · teaches in Eastern time, shown to you in Eastern
Imani taught ninth-grade English in Atlanta for nine years and has the rare gift of getting a silent room to argue. She built the Lyceum’s Douglass and Lewis seminars and insists her students read aloud, badly at first, then well.
“A book is a person talking to you across time, and the least you can do is listen carefully enough to disagree accurately. My classroom rule is simple: quote the text or change the subject.”
Great Books
A whole-book seminar
Douglass in his own words: the Narrative read whole, plus the Fourth of July speech, with attention to how a man argued his way into freedom.
Ms. Imani BellNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$56 in total
$22.40 for add’l siblings
Character & Virtue
The first stories that teach · Ages 5–7
Two fables a week, read aloud and then talked about. The oldest way of teaching a child what a person ought to do, and still the best.
Ms. Imani BellNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$6/wk
$42 in total
$16.80 for add’l siblings
Character & Virtue
What kind of person are you becoming?
A free five-week conversation about courage, temperance, justice and prudence, with short readings and a genuinely honest room.
Ms. Imani BellNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
Free
Philosophy
Three essays, six weeks
A short, difficult book about objective value, moral education, and what happens to a civilization that stops believing in either.
Ms. Imani BellNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$48 in total
$19.20 for add’l siblings
Literature
Read together, out loud · Ages 7–9
The bridge between being read to and reading alone. Three short novels, a few pages aloud each week, and a teacher who will not let a hard word go by.
Ms. Imani BellNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$7/wk
$49 in total
$19.60 for add’l siblings
Literature
One-on-one, scheduled with the instructor
Fifty minutes on one piece of your student’s actual writing, line by line, with a teacher who will be honest about it.
Ms. Imani BellNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$30/wk
Stop any week
$12 for add’l siblings
Rhetoric & Debate
Speaking to persuade
Classical rhetoric applied: students write, deliver, and revise six speeches, and are required once to persuade the room of something they do not believe.
Ms. Imani BellNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$56 in total
$22.40 for add’l siblings
Rhetoric & Debate
Twice a week · Everyone speaks every meeting
A standing practice room, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Every student speaks at every meeting and is critiqued on the spot. Reps are the whole product.
Ms. Imani BellNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$14/wk
$84 in total
$33.60 for add’l siblings
Questions first
Create a parent account and you can write directly to any instructor about fit, pacing, or reading level. Every reply is on the record.
