Recorded HS

A Contrast of Kings: Macbeth and Julius Caesar (Catholic Shakespeare Series)

Our course will very briefly review that evidence and then place its focus on examining the two plays most widely read by high school students. Although set in Scotland of the 11th century and Rome of the 1st century BC, both plays comment clearly and powerfully on the sad situation of the Catholic Church, outlawed and persecuted in Shakespeare’s England. Both dramas end with victory for Christ’s Holy Bride that cannot, for long, be suppressed.

Recorded MS

Acting Monologues

In this course, Kevin O’Brien, a professional actor of stage and screen, audiobooks and television, will coach Middle School students in brief dramatic and comedic monologues. Each student will get a chance to memorize and perform in class three monologues of no more than three minutes each: from a comedy, a tragedy or a play of the student’s choosing. Mr. O’Brien will coach each student in acting technique, giving notes and instructions.

Live HS

C.S. Lewis and The Screwtape Letters

Register for this course early as we expect it to fill and close! Lewis’ imaginative explications of the conditions of Hell and our sinful “thoughts” are the best of their kind in the last 700 years!

Recorded HS

Death Comes for the Archbishop (American Classics Series)

Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop is one of the few American novels radically to appreciate and celebrate the Catholic culture of the American Southwest that long pre-dated the settling of Plymouth Massachusetts.

Recorded HS

Dante’s Paradiso (Heaven) by Dante (Divine Comedy Series)

Dante teaches us what it means to be a Catholic in every element of our thought and culture. His work is not only sublimely beautiful but filled with the most important truths. The Comedy provides a vision of eternity in order to teach man how to live in time, in his brief excursus before forever.

Recorded HS

Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

Often vacillating wildly between the terrible and the comic, Bram Stoker's 1897 novel of blood and passion stands as one of the greatest and most baffling masterpieces of Gothic fiction. The work brings together a host of disparate but compelling themes: tensions between antiquity and modernity, the powers and limitations of technology, the critical importance of feminine virtue, the difference between superstition and religion, the nature of evil, and the complex relationship between ancient faith and scientific enlightenment.

Recorded HS

Drama and the Human Spirit for High School with Kevin O’Brien

Drama is exciting and learning about Drama is even more exciting! Join professional actor and playwright Kevin O’Brien as he leads us through a brief survey of the History of Drama, showing how Drama expresses and enlightens the Human Spirit!

Live HS

From Boys to Men: Discovering Life Lessons and Virtues from the Lord of the Rings (High School)

Where can I look for answers to the riddle and mystery of my masculinity, my life, and the deepest questions of my identity and vocation as a man? The Lord of the Rings! Come join the Fellowship and embark on the quest. Become who you were born to be!

Live HS

G.K. Chesterton and The Man Who Was Thursday

In this startlingly original book, even as Chesterton defends the need for a conservative and humane order, he is the poet of a God wildly beyond our most soaring imaginations. Sign up today and learn why Chesterton is considered one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

Live HS

G.K. Chesterton: The Complete Thinker

G. K. Chesterton himself will be on hand to take students through a book written about him. Yes, the class will be conducted by Mr. Chesterton. The author of the book, The Complete Thinker, is Dale Ahlquist, who is the country’s leading authority on Chesterton. The individual behind Mr. Chesterton is John “Chuck” Chalberg, who has performed as Chesterton around the country and abroad for many years.

Live HS

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Sign up today and learn why Hamlet is one of Shakespeare's finest plays. "To be or not to be" is the question, but the answer to this most complex of plays is beguilingly elusive. Join Professor Pearce and fellow students to go deep into Hamlet and find all of the answers.

Live HS

How to Read Great Literature

Register for the course and Professor Pearce will outline & explain the basic rules for reading. He will also bring understanding of the deepest level of meaning in the great works of civilization, including Homer, Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Hopkins, Eliot, Lewis, and Tolkien.

Live HS

How to Research on the Internet

Now more than ever students need to learn not only how to prepare themselves for college level research but also how to sift truth from falsehood / fake news from real news in their daily lives. Using a fun graphic novel / comic book style textbook, we will learn the benefits and the pitfalls of the information age - and how to navigate our way through it.