Resource Description
Classical Conversations offers both community classes and curriculum resources for individual use. Foundations is the curriculum guide for K4 to 6th grade, Essentials for 3rd and up, and Challenge for 7th to 12th. The community classes meet throughout the US and Canada. From the website:
"Our three curriculum programs support your home-centered education by providing teaching tools for you, the parent, and quality educational materials for your student. Our guides, books, timeline cards, and multimedia resources have been thoughtfully crafted and selected. The math, science, literature, Latin, history, geography and fine arts studied in our Foundations Program represent a broad and interesting body of information. Our Essentials Program students work toward mastering English language skills and improving their writing technique. As students move into our Challenge Program and work toward becoming independent learners, they read, discuss, debate, analyze and write about award-winning literature—always within the framework of history and a biblical worldview.
"Our Foundations Communities serve children in the early stages, roughly ages 4 to 11. Foundations parents and students meet once a week for 24 weeks during the school year. Once late-elementary students enter the dialectic stage of learning, they join peers in our Essentials Communities, which usually meet in the afternoons after Foundations. In the middle and high school years, students hone their dialectic and rhetoric skills in our Challenge Communities."
Website: Classical Conversations (may contain affiliate links)
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Contributor Reviews
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Cons: Costs
Grades Used: Foundations
Been in it for 3 years. I have only done 1 other traditional co-op and I can say parents are more committed with CC and less likely to flake out last minute. I like that each week is Basically the same which makes it easier to implement at home. Not a fan of some of the science experiments, but love the drawing & art portions. The upfront costs are a lot but tutoring has helped in that area. Our community isn’t perfect but each year things seem a bit more smooth.