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American History & Civics
Boise, Idaho · teaches in Mountain time, shown to you in Eastern
James has taught American history to public-school juniors, homeschool co-ops, and adult evening classes, and says the homeschoolers ask the hardest questions. He runs the Lyceum’s Federalist and Anti-Federalist seminar.
“History is an argument about evidence. I hand students the documents, make them notice what is missing, and let the interpretations fight it out in the open where everyone can see the reasoning.”
Constitution & Founding
The ratification debate, read as a debate
Publius on one side, Brutus and the Federal Farmer on the other, and a class that has to decide for itself who had the better of it.
Mr. James OkadaNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$56 in total
$22.40 for add’l siblings
Great Books
A whole book in six weeks · Three mornings a week
Homer’s Odyssey read whole across one summer, Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the same hour. Meeting three times a week is what makes finishing it possible.
Mr. James OkadaNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$24/wk
$144 in total
$57.60 for add’l siblings
American History
True stories, told simply · Ages 6–9
Eight true stories about Americans who did a hard thing. Washington at Valley Forge, Harriet Tubman on the road at night, the men who would not leave the fire.
Mr. James OkadaNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$6/wk
$42 in total
$16.80 for add’l siblings
Constitution & Founding
How should a constitution be read?
Scalia and Breyer in their own words, two real cases, and students arguing interpretive method rather than outcomes.
Mr. James OkadaNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$32 in total
$12.80 for add’l siblings
American Civics
Five freedoms, one afternoon
Forty-five words that do an enormous amount of work. One session, the text itself, and three cases that show where the line actually is.
Mr. James OkadaNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8
$8 in total
$3.20 for add’l siblings
Western Civilization
Greece, Rome, and the making of the West
From the Iliad to the fall of Rome and the Christian centuries after: a full year of the inheritance, taught from sources.
Mr. James OkadaNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$14.86/wk
$104 in total
$41.60 for add’l siblings
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