Lantern Light
Meet our Instructor:
Lantern Light School is a homeschool tutoring service offering classical Christian education in
literature, rhetoric, Latin, and science. The aim of Lantern Light School is to encourage
students to know and appreciate what is good, beautiful, and true.
We are proud to bring exceptional in-person classical education to rural Kansas previously only
available by remote online connection. Our multi-age classes give students the benefit of the
one-room-schoolhouse experience. Students have the opportunity to have a subject-matter
teacher and the encouragement of group learning while families retain their primacy as leaders
of their children’s overall education.
Instructor Andrea Lowry received her education degree from Sterling College and is also a
recent graduate of Circe Institute’s Latin Tirocinium, a three-year Latin apprenticeship. Recent
teaching experiences include running a hybrid micro-school for students aged nine to fifteen in
Little Rock, Arkansas, and teaching junior high science in Hoxie Community Schools. She
counts her primary and most important teaching formation as those many years she
homeschooled her own six children.
Andrea lives near Hoxie, Kansas, with her husband, Ed, a small herd of goats, a growing flock
of chickens, and a cowdog who has no cows.
Writing & Rhetoric
Levels: Beginners, Level I, Level II
This is a writing and literature class
designed for students who have completed all eight essays in the Lost Tools of Writing. In addition to the literature I will choose later this spring and summer, we will also memorize poetry. Our general theme will be courage. This year we will extend the basic persuasive essay, learn to write comparison and definition essays, and in the spring bravely write a term paper on a subject of the student’s choosing.
Latin
This is a conversational Latin language and Roman history and culture class. Songs will be sung, skits performed, models built, pronunciation practiced, short stories read. We will learn fables, myths, and the true stories of heroism and treachery that made the Roman Empire what it was.
Science
This will be a whole year of science. In the
fall, we will study the particular grasses that grow in our part of Kansas to help us better
appreciate and understand our own place. As the weather cools down, we will do a study of
beginning chemistry, and when the weather warms back up in the spring, we will return once more to a study of birds that we see right here in western Kansas. Students will be asked to keep a nature observation notebook, making three one- or two sentence observations per week.