Maxim and Chreia

[In the Great White North]

I see that there was an online course for doing Diogenes Maxim and Chreia in the same year. We would like to do this at home (not being fond of online courses.) Is there a schedule/plan/Student Guide for this I can buy, similar to Aesop and Home for Older Beginners?

This is for a 15 year old with great writing, spelling and grammar skills (670 on the SAT Writing portion at the end of 8th grade). She is going into 9th grade and I would like to get her into the high school materials as soon as possible. I considered starting with Herodotus and she will view Maxim (and possibly Chreia) as too basic, but I would like to at least hit the highlights as she has been in school til now and I'm quite sure they did not use the same methodology.

[greengables]

There is no schedule currently available, but basically what I do in the class is complete 1 1/2 to 2 weeks of lessons from the Student Guide schedules each week, and only do one writing project. You will probably be able to go through Maxim faster, and then you may slow down some when you get to Chreia. Since she is accomplished in grammar, you may even be able to go faster, skipping the work in Harvey's as long as she is able to apply the grammar concepts in Maxim and Chreia.

I hope this is helpful. Please ask if you need further clarification.

Kathy

[Lene Mahler Jaqua]

Yes, both Diogenes Maxim and Chreia come with student guides. You can get those and plan out a course that could be done in one year, either by running through the summer or trying to cut out repetition.

If your question is whether we have created a joint student guide for the two courses taught in one year (Maxim and Chreia), the answer is no, we have nothing official for sale of that nature.

I will flag Kathy for this question so possibly she can send you an outline of the course as to how it would be done, combining the two in one year for those students who need to move faster in order to cover it all before the end of high school.

Lene