Lantern Light Enrollment Options
2026-2027
A message from Mrs. Lowry:
Thank you for the opportunity to teach your children this past school session. We have had a very good year. My proposal for next school year is that I would teach in person at Thee Assembly on Mondays and Wednesdays. Our monthly schedule will continue the pattern of having one week per month with no Lantern Light Classes to allow for Holiday weeks and flexibility for family priorities, with about 13 weeks in session for each semester. Literature and Writing classes are separated. The book lists I have given here are not definite. I work those out as I read all works over the summer and determine what will be best for the students and our time allotted.
I will ask for a non-refundable deposit of $50 per class, due by June 2 to hold a seat for your student, with enrollment beginning on May 6. One-half of the remaining non-refundable tuition (subtracting the deposit amount) for returning families will be due by August 1. The remaining non-refundable tuition for returning families will be due by November 30. New families entering the school will be asked to pay full tuition by August 1, which is non-refundable if a student leaves the class.
This school is made possible by our joint commitments and I thank you greatly for your support. You, the parents, are the true teachers and I look forward to supporting you in that role with these classes.
Mondays
Writing and Rhetoric Foundations w/ Sophora Welsh 9 AM
Foundations of writing for younger writers will be taught by Sophora Welsh under the supervision of Mrs. Lowry.
Advanced Writing with LTW Level 2 11:00 AM MT $350
This class will go part way through a more difficult level of rhetoric, the judicial address using Circe
Institute’s Lost Tools of Writing, Level II. This is a class for writers ready for putting time and effort into a
challenge. This class is paired with the Advanced Literature with the Ancients class and will focus on ancient
sources.
Writing with LTW Level 1 11:00 MT $350
Class size limited to 10. This class will use Circe Institute’s Lost Tools of Writing Level 1 and other
sources to practice writing a persuasive paper, doing a good summary, and potentially writing a subject paper.
This class is loosely paired with the Ancient Stories Retold class. A student who did not want to take the LTW
Level 2 class could instead take this course.
Advanced Latin with Familia Romana. 12:00 PM MT $300
For those who wish to continue in Latin study in the advanced chapters of Familia Romana.
Wednesdays
Ancient Literature of Wisdom and Wonder 9:00 AM MT $350
This class will read and discuss ancient literature selected from the following options: The Epic of
Gilgamesh, Plato’s Republic, selections from Plutarch’s Lives, selections from the sermons and letters of John
Chrysostom, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, The Aeneid, St. Augustine’s Confessions, The Wonder Book by Nathaniel
Hawthorne, and Till We Have Faces, A Myth Retold by C.S. Lewis, possibly also The Odyssey and The Iliad. This
course can be taken as a stand-alone, without writing.
Ancient Stories Retold 10:00 AM MT $350
Class size limited to 12. This class will read and discuss selections of historical fiction and retellings of
myths from the following options: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth Speare, The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary
Sutclif, A Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Cat of Bubastes by G.A. Henty, Black Ships Before Troy by
Rosemary Sutclif, The Odyssey by Geraldine Macaughrean, City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction
by David Macaulay, Tales of Ancient Egypt by Roger Lancelyn Green, and the Bible. This course can be taken as
a stand-alone, without writing.
Beginners Latin 11:00 AM MT $125
Latin for ages 5 and up. This 45 minute course is geared for the youngest learners. Older students can
take this class if they are interested in happily singing many songs and reading picture books. This class
requires a teacher for two additional 45 minute sessions per week. Parents or a knowledgeable older sibling
agree to teach the other two sessions from the scripted curriculum or hire Zuri Spresser as teacher for those
additional sessions. Parents purchase all components of the Latin for Stories Level 1, Bestiae Ubique, from the
University of Dallas.
Science 12:15 PM MT $400
Class size limited to 16. Science for first through eighth grade. This year we will study the hands-on
physics of bridge building and also learn astronomy. Students will be asked to complete an observation
notebook; older students (5th grade and up) will occasionally have homework.
