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Classic Children's Literature IV is the first course in the Classic Children's Literature series. It is through stories that children and adults alike enter into another world that is not our own, where we become "a thousand men," as C.S. Lewis said, and so learn to put on the virtues of the heroes and put off the vices of the villains. For, as Lewis also said, "We want to be more than ourselves…We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as with our own."
In this Level IV class, students will, through reading, narration, discussion, and art, learn how we practice virtue towards our families, our neighbors, and God. This will lay the foundation for the study of the classical virtues in Level V and the theological virtues in Level VI.
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.
Sections with Emily Kashin:
Sections with Emily Cook:
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Emily Cook is a lifelong lover of literature, seeking insight into the complex beauty of the world and the One who made it through well-written stories. Emily taught full-time for five years at a classical Christian school in Kailua, Hawaii, developing courses for the growing secondary school. While she primarily taught literature classes, she also taught logic, rhetoric, and drama.
Emily holds a B.A. in English from Trinity University in San Antonio, TX. Trinity University is also where she met her dear husband Joel, who she married in 2009 just after graduating. Emily and Joel live in San Antonio and have four lively, hilarious, and wonderful kids. During her leisure time, you can often find Emily enjoying a meal with friends, spending time outside, or reading aloud to her children the tales she loved as a child (with voices, of course!).
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Emily Kashin holds a BA in Primary Education from the University of North Florida. She was homeschooled K-12 in the classical tradition and previously taught the elementary grades in a Waldorf-inspired public charter school. Her classical upbringing instilled in her what Plato called an “affinity for the good” in academics, art, and virtue, while her Waldorf training inspired an appreciation of the unique nature of the child. Since 2020, she has brought the two together, cultivating those whole-child pedagogical approaches in the classical, liturgical tradition, to awaken in her own students that “affinity for the good” through her Scholé classes.
Emily lives in North Florida with her husband Mikhail and their son Isaac, and their days are filled with Isaac's laughter, Mikhail's lattes, and Emily's crochet and cooking projects. St. Augustine’s saying “Canta et ambula” (sing and soldier on) encourages her daily in the ordinariness of teaching, homemaking, and grading papers.
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