Methodology

The methodology for teaching any elective is going to depend on the elective.

A home economics class might include cooking meals for the family and repairing holes in clothing. Some other ideas might be computer science, creative writing, dance, debate, drama, filmmaking, horticulture, photography, psychology, and so on!

Suggested Resources

• Check out some of the free options listed above as a starting point for additional elective subjects. 
• Word Study: Vocabulary from Classical Roots series, from Memoria Press
• Informal Logic: Kris Langman’s Adventures in Reason Series and Ray Givler’s Don’t Get Fooled: How to Analyze Claims for Fallacies, Biases, and Other Deceptions
• Formal Logic: Martin Cathran’s Traditional Logic Series, from Memoria Press; Logic I (Logic II is not as good/helpful/worthwhile as I)
• Rhetoric (also counts as English an elective for High School):
  • Anthony Weston ad David R. Morrow’s A Workbook for Arguments: A Complete Course in Critical Thinking
  • Edward P. J. Corbert and Robert J. Connors’ Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student (any edition)
  • Rhetoric Alive – Classical Academic Press
• Martin Cothran’s Classical Rhetoric with Aristotle: Traditional Principle of Speaking and Writing