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Semester and year-long seminars in which students read a serious work cover to cover and discuss it live, forty pages at a time.
One book. Read whole.
Great Books
The year-long seminar · Ages 15–18
A full year inside Tocqueville: both volumes, forty pages a week, discussed live every Tuesday with twelve other students.
Dr. Alan HaleNew this term
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$8/wk
$56 in total
$22.40 for add’l siblings
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
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$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
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$24/wk
$144 in total
$57.60 for add’l siblings
Great Books
Selections, read closely
A student studying Smith reads Smith. Books I and IV in substantial selection, plus the passages from Moral Sentiments people forget exist.
Mr. Thomas WardNew this term
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$8/wk
$56 in total
$22.40 for add’l siblings
Great Books
Selected chapters · Ages 12–14
The same book, the same instructor, at a pace a twelve-year-old can genuinely sustain, about fifteen pages a week from selected chapters.
Dr. Alan HaleNew this term
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$7/wk
$42 in total
$16.80 for add’l siblings
Vetted on the material itself. An instructor here has to understand the arguments, including the ones they do not find persuasive.
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