Please purchase ONE registration for ALL of the Schola Alta (7th-12th grade) Ancient History students in your family.

Please Note: This NON-REFUNDABLE registration does not guarantee enrollment in a licensed Aquinas Learning Center. Please contact your director to apply and pay center tuition for a seat in her classroom.

This registration provides one family with unlimited access to our Cycle 1 Ancient History Course for one school year, in addition to continuing education for primary educators, a private forum for member families, and exclusive discounts for the purchase of partner materials.

We will undertake to learn and retain the story of ancient civilizations by reading it, annotating it, and retelling it in our own words. To accomplish this, each week students will practice the rhetorical skills of speaking, writing, listening, and thinking by reciting the Course Summa daily; reading and annotating the Assigned Weekly Lesson consisting of Phillip Campbell’s new narrative text on ancient history written for Aquinas Learning with a related primary or secondary source; and reciting Weekly Narrations to retell the action of one historical figure from their reading. This work will help students prepare to discuss the Assigned Weekly Lesson in class and create a Class Timeline and Class Map to identify the thread running through history in place and time and understand how the various events relate to and influence each other.

To aid retention, the mentor will offer periodic quizzes on the Class Timeline and Class Map so students can test their ability to identify key figures and events on a blank timeline and key geographic points on a blank map. The goal is to make connections between the events on the timeline and the places on the map. How did Pompey’s siege of Jerusalem (63 B.C.) affect the birth of Christ? How would Mesopotamian culture have been different if the Nile River were located somewhere else? Similarly, students will have the opportunity to reflect on the story of ancient civilizations by submitting questions at the end of each semester, which will give the mentor and parents insight into the student’s grasp of the material. In addition, each quarter, students will deliver an Oral Presentation on a historical topic of interest (person, event, art/music, invention, etc.). Students will also write one Expository Essay on a figure in ancient history, his actions or choices, and the influence of those actions or choices on history.

Please note: This registration does not include the cost of materials or the cost of tuition paid to an independently owned and operated center using the AL curriculum.

Shortly after completing registration, member families will receive a getting started guide with instructions for ordering materials with members-only discount codes and access to the Ancient History course site. Full course materials will be uploaded and launched a couple of months before the start of the school year.