Level: Form III (7th–9th grades), Form IV (10th–12th grades)
Subject(s): English, History, Literature, Logic, Philosophy, Theology
Description:
NEW in 2022-2023! In this precursor class to our original upper-level Inkings & Classics Socratic discussion course, students will develop critical thinking, listening, and discussion skills as they grapple with foundational questions of God, humanity, faith, and imagination. Students will read and discuss a variety of classic literature along with selected works of the writers known as the Inklings, especially C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, as well as similar-minded contemporaries such as Dorothy Sayers and G. K. Chesterton. This course is designed to be taken prior to or instead of our upper-level Inklings & Socratic Discussion course, not concurrently.
Students will be expected to complete reading assignments in preparation for class as well as some writing assignments.
Materials:
Families purchase the following required supplies: (Unless otherwise indicated, the listed ISBNs are required, and each sibling needs their own copy. Used books are fine as long as the ISBN matches. Some books will be used again throughout the Intro to Inklings/Inklings & Classics class cycles, and siblings in different classes may share copies.)
- Plato: Five Dialogs ISBN: 0872206335
- The Gospel According to St. Mark NKJV (Note: NKJV is required; we recommend this journal edition of the Gospel of Mark: ISBN: 9780785236092.)
- On the Incarnation ISBN: 9780881414271
- The Blue Fairy Book ISBN: 9780486214375
- The Golden Key ISBN: 9780374425906
- The Tolkien Reader ISBN: 0345345061 (Note: This book is required for both Intro to Inklings as well as Inklings & Classics classes; siblings may share a copy across classes, though it would be best for each sibling in the same class to have their own copy during class discussion.)
- Ourselves ISBN: 0648063399
- Annotated Innocence of Father Brown ISBN: 0486298590
- The Chronicles of Narnia boxed set, Collectors Edition ISBN: 0064409392
- Letters to a Diminished Church ISBN: 0849945267
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass ISBN: 074348777X (Note: This book is required for both Intro to Inklings as well as Inklings & Classics classes; siblings may share a copy across classes, though it would be best for each sibling in the same class to have their own copy during class discussion.)
- Little House on the Prairie ISBN: 0064400026
- The Birchbark House ISBN: 0063064162
- To Kill a Mockingbird ISBN: 0060935464
- Three-ring binder with lined paper, pens, pencils, and erasers in a pencil pouch
- Composition notebook (Linked brand is a suggestion/example.)
