Principle Approach® Resources and Noah Plan® Product Guide
The Three Greatest Strengths of the Principle Approach in
Forming Christian Character in Children
Liberal Arts Builds the Individual
The Classical Literature Program
Ignites the Love of Learning
The role of literature in learning is too often underrated. Rosalie Slater, FACE founder and author of The Noah Plan Literature Curriculum Guide, said that the purpose of studying literature is “to reach the heart.” In Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language, “learning” is the first definition of literature. The study of literature provides a learning experience that satisfies the need to participate in the subject, to investigate diverse interests, and to set what is learned into a framework of truth.
This is the Biblical Principle Approach in the study of literature. It encompasses much more than the literary analysis of the typical anthology. It includes geography, history, science, English or other languages, composition, even math—because literature is a reflection of life itself.
The study of a classic is a complete learning experience as a group of children or a family circle inhabit a new land, meet new characters, and discover a new culture—all bound together in the experience of the unfolding of a story.
Each literature course includes reading the whole book and studying the author and historical background on the Chain of Christianity®. The Foundation publishes teacher guides that contain curriculum charts, model lesson plans, teacher testimonies, and sample student notebook pages.
It is no accident that Jesus spoke in stories. The story is a direct avenue to the heart, illumining reason by igniting the soul. The great stories of our literature program are powerful, built on Christian principles and ideals.
Basic Materials:
& The Noah Plan Literature Curriculum Guide
Based upon Rosalie June Slater’s Christian history literature program, it includes detailed curriculum charts and methods, learning the literature of the Bible, the elementary literature program beginning with young children, teaching Shakespeare, the junior high program, the English literature courses for ninth and tenth grades, and the American literature courses for eleventh and twelfth grades.
& The individual classics at each grade level
& The teacher guides to the individual classics at each grade level
Other Classics:
& (Primary levels) A Child’s
& (Elementary levels ) The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis; The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett; Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
& (Seventh grade) David Copperfield, Charles Dickens