English Studies Books and Materials

Our curriculum for English Studies at Providence Prep is Cottage Press Language Arts for all levels except Pre-Primer and Logic & Rhetoric. Visit the Cottage Press site for complete descriptions and sample lessons.  Visit Our Classes for help in choosing the correct placement for your student. Registered families will have opportunity to purchase Cottage Press materials in late summer with a generous group discount.

Primer One

• Primer One Autumn Student Text
• Primer One Winter Student Text
• Primer One Spring Student Text
• Primer One Teaching Helps 
• The Aesop for Children illustrated by Milo Winter (you may purchase the book, or get the free download here) 
  
  

Primer Two

• Primer Two Autumn Student Text
• Primer Two Winter Student Text
• Primer Two Spring Student Text
• Primer Two Teaching Helps 
• Childhood’s Favorites and Fairy Stories reprinted by Cottage Press (you may purchase the book, or get the free download here)
• Home Geography for Primary Grades by C.C. Long (you may purchase the book, or get the free download here)
  
  

Parable & Poem

• Parable & Poem Student Text
• Parable & Poem Teaching Helps 
• Dictionary 
• Two 100-page wide rule composition books
  
  

Legends & Laureates

• Legends & Laureates Student Text
• Legends & Laureates Teaching Helps 
• Sentence Sense
• Two 100-page wide rule composition books
  
  

Chronicle & Verse

• Chronicle & Verse Student Text
• Chronicle & Verse Teaching Helps 
• Sentence Sense
• Two 100-page college rule composition books
  
  

Poetics & Progym I

• Poetics & Progym I Student Text
• Poetics & Progym I Teaching Helps 
• Sentence Sense
• Three 100-page college rule composition books
• The Odyssey of Homer translated by Richmond Lattimore
• Homers’s The Odyssey (Christian Guides to the Classics) by Leland Ryken [optional]
• Committed to Memory edited by John Hollander (or any other good poetry anthology will do)
         

Poetics & Progym II

• Poetics & Progym II Student Text
• Poetics & Progym II Teaching Helps 
• Sentence Sense
• Three 100-page college rule composition books
• The Aeneid by Virgil, translated by Robert Fitzgerald
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• Parallel Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch. Although students read selections from both Volume I and Volume II, if you wish to purchase only one, we recommend Volume II (free download of both volumes here)
• The Classic Hundred Poems edited by William Harmon (or any other good poetry anthology will do)
• Optional:
  • From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Study the Pagan Classics by Louis Markos (chapters 16-17)
  • Shakespeare's Macbeth (A Christian Guide to the Classics) by Leland Ryken
           

Poetics & Progym III

• Poetics & Progym III Student Text
• Poetics & Progym III Teaching Helps 
• Sentence Sense
• Three 100-page college rule composition books
• Dante’s Divine Comedy, translated by Dorothy Sayers: 
  •  Part I: Hell
  • Part II: Purgatory
  • Part III: Paradise
    
• The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis
• Poetry Anthology (no specific edition; recommendation: Oxford Book of English Verse)