Veritas Press Catalog 2008/2009 - (Page 59) S E V E N T H G R A D E My Favorite Songs: Maria von Trapp’s Childhood Folk Songs Maria von Trapp Maria von Trapp writes: “People often tell me, ‘We used to sing at home.’ Let’s forget about ‘used to’ and sing again. Sing, sing, sing!” We’re thrilled to offer this new collection of old Austrian folk tunes translated into English, original artwork, photographs, and stories from Maria’s childhood, life in the Trapp Family Singers, and missions work. Her great nieces and nephew lead the learning with an accompanying CD. Hard 80p Available July 2008 #000-981 $19.95 budding dialectic mindset. Each chapter creates a brief mystery case with a content-discernable conclusion therein. Students need tools with which to catch the details of what they read—this will do it. Five-Minute Mysteries Soft 198p #497-295 $8.95 More 5 Minute Mysteries Soft 211p #497-562 $8.95 Further Five-Minute Mysteries Soft 181p (shown) #497-298 $8.95 7 | Aesthetics The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Pre-Historic to Post-Modern Carol Strickland Real Life Math Mysteries Marya Washington Tyler Opal Wheeler Biography Series Opal Wheeler and Judy Wilcox While we think this is expensive, it’s too good not to offer. Students will delight in the very practical applications of the math they have learned. It makes math an exciting experience that children realize will last a lifetime. Reproducible. Soft 94p #305-486 Two hundred pages of anything covering thousands of years seems impossible to cover in any discipline, let alone in the varied and changing discipline of art. But Strickland gets the job done. Three hundred pictures. A complete crash course it is. Soft 208p #040-010 $22.95 Drawing For Older Children & Teens Mona Brookes See page 38 for further description. Soft 223p #435-320 $16.95 $17.95 A Short History of Art Incomparable. See description on page 12. #435-846 $105.00 See description on page 49. Franz Schubert and His Merry Friends Soft 159p #631-305 $12.95 Franz Schubert Study Guide #631-306 4.95 Brahms and Schubert Enhanced CD #631-185 7.95 Frederic Chopin: Son of Poland—Early Years Soft 159p #631-295 $12.95 Frederic Chopin: Son of Poland—Later Years Soft 157p #631-296 $12.95 Chopin Study Guide (Early and Later Years) #631-297 $9.95 Chopin (Early and Later Years) Enhanced CD #631-298 $7.95 Robert Schumann and Mascot Ziff Soft 167p #631-605 $12.95 Schumann Study Guide #631-607 $4.95 Handel and Shumann Enhanced CD #631-328 $7.95 The Young Brahms Soft 159p #631-950 $12.95 The Young Brahms Study Guide #631-951 $4.95 Revenge of the Logic Spiders This is one incredible CD-based game—the essence being thinking through ideas and using formal logic. Players are challenged to answer questions that will sharpen comprehension and reasoning. I said players because it is just as likely that a parent or teacher will enjoy this as much as students will. (Win/Mac) #160-700 $19.99 7 | Composition Elements of Style William Strunk and E.B. White ThinkAnalogy Puzzles B1 Software A fun engaging CD-based program that aids developing razorsharp analogy, vocabulary, word analysis and comprehension. Students will refine their thinking as they prepare to study formal and informal logic in coming years. (Win/Mac) #160-805 $19.99 A rich deposit of gold. William Strunk’s parvum opus, his attempt to cut the vast tangle of English rhetoric down to size and write its rules and principles on the head of a pin. It is a summation of the case for cleanliness, accuracy, and brevity in the use of English. For those who desire to become eloquent writers, this is a much-needed tool. Works neatly with the IEW program. Soft 147p #435-358 $15.00 Institute for Excellence in Writing Andrew Pudewa See page 13 for further description. Teaching Writing: Structure & Style Full Program, on DVD #315-185 $169.00 Teaching Writing and Student Writing Intensive Combo Kit, Group C Grades 8-11 #315-041 $239.00 Student Writing Intensive Continuation Course C Continues where the Student Writing Intensive ends, with ten more lessons and a final test. Nine DVDs and a CD-ROM to print the materials. #315-085 $240.00 Word Roots Software Here we have a CD based game to develop vocabulary. While teaching/reviewing Latin prefixes, roots and suffixes students (and, of course, teachers and parents) will add hundreds of words to their vocabulary. Tools of leverage like this will help new and experienced Latin students maximize the benefit of their study. (Win/Mac) Word Roots A1 Software (shown) #160-901 $25.99 Word Roots A2 Software #160-902 $25.99 6 | Transition In classical education we talk of the grammar stage ending sometime around the end of 6th grade and the dialectic or logic stage beginning. The fact is, students don’t turn off their thinking as grammar students one day and turn on thinking as dialectic students the next. A transition occurs. To aid the transition we offer these tools. Five-Minute Mysteries Series Ken Weber Good for kids in transition, great for teachers/parents to do with students. 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