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This course is designed for the upper-school student who seeks a deeper understanding of the great conversation surrounding one of the four cardinal virtues: justice. CAP’s newly released book, The Justice Reader: Essential Texts on Justice from Athens to America, offers an essential and beautiful collection of approximately 50 primary source excerpts taken from the great books of the ancient, medieval, and modern periods. From Plato and Aquinas to Frederick Douglass and G. K. Chesterton, students will be invited to study and trace the great authors in the classical tradition while observing and reflecting on their many connections, similarities, and differences.
How have these carefully vetted works influenced practices and institutions throughout history? Developed in partnership with a Classic Learning Test (CLT) team, The Justice Reader offers discussion and essay prompts that are keyed to the curated author bank of the CLT, along with a comprehensive glossary, that will prepare students for the CLT’s verbal section. The book breaks the great idea of justice up into five key dimensions for study: justice (definitions), righteousness (personal justice), law (civic justice), equity (distributive justice), and recompense (both retributive and restorative justice).
Adding even greater texture to class reflections, students will delve deeper into two of the book's primary sources: Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, along with a source of their choice. These supplemental readings should provide a formative backdrop of reference and knowledge that aligns beautifully with the concepts explored in The Justice Reader. All of these resources will serve as an invaluable guide for students as they wrestle with the universal questions surrounding justice while integrating ideas, applications, and historical connections throughout the book that are rooted in the pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty.
Required Materials: Books and supplies are not included in the purchase of the course. These resources are listed to help inform your decision-making as you make course selections and build your course schedule. Please reach out to the instructor if you have any questions about materials.
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Alison Grace Johansen serves as a Scholé Academy instructor, tutor, and host of the Poetry Club. While tutoring in grammar and writing, she teaches Upper-School American Literature, Art of Poetry, and Introduction to Law & Justice, along with Middle-School Creative Writing and Classic Literature VII. Alison earned her Juris Doctor from the Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, with a minor in French, from the University of Richmond. She worked as a legal journalist in Washington, D.C., for over 13 years, while also freelancing in writing, editing, and marketing for over two decades. She hopes to inspire her students to find joy in discovering the many ways they can use their own words to express themselves with truth, goodness, and beauty. Alison lives in Virginia with her husband and two children. Her faith and family influence every part of her life, from teaching Sunday school and writing a children’s picture book about food allergies to exploring the beauty of God’s world together. If they aren’t walking (or running) with their sweet Goldendoodle, Nugget, you might find them doing art projects, reading together, or delighting in music on the piano, flute, guitar, ukulele, and drums!
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This registration will be finalized when the student’s placement assessment has been returned by the course instructor with placement confirmation.
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