The FolkSchool Network: Foundation Curriculum Outline

The Fitness Syllabus
A healthy mind in a healthy body
The foundation for

The Trivium Syllabus
- I GRAMMAR: Primary and, possibly secondary language(s), phonics, spelling, reading, writing, & language arts. The study of the set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in a natural language. This field includes phonology, morphology, and syntax, complemented by phonetics, semantics, and pragmatics.
- II LOGIC: The study of correct reasoning
- III RHETORIC: The art of persuasion.
The foundation for

The Quadrivium Syllabus:
I ARITHMETIC: Number
II GEOMETRY: Number in space
III MUSIC: Number in time
IV PHYSICAL SCIENCE: Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, & Earth Science - Number in space & time
The foundation for

Philosophy: The study of wisdom

The Integer Syllabus:
I HISTORY
II LITERATURE
III RELIGION
IV POLITICS
V ART
VI GEOGRAPHY
VII ANCESTRY

The Biological Sciences &
The Practical Arts

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Did you know:

The number of families choosing to homeschool grows at an estimated annual rate of 7–15 percent.

— Brian Ray, p. 8.


By grade 8, the average homeschool student performs four grade levels above the national average.

- Rudner, Figure 3.


Am estimated 1.6–2.0 million children are being taught at home by their parents.

- Brian Ray, The Worldwide Guide to Homeschooling,
Broadman & Holman, 2002, p.7.


On average, homeschool students in grades 1–4 perform one grade level higher than their public and private school counterparts.

— Lawrence Rudner,
Scholastic Achievement and Demographic Characteristics of Home School Students in 1998,
Education Policy Analysis Archives.

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“Finish each day before you begin the next, & interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Most of us undervalue the benefits of sleep, but it’s one of the few assets in our lives that’s totally free & absolutely essential to wellbeing. It’s also... a fundamental tool in preventing brain decay.

...Both laboratory & clinical studies have shown that virtually every system in the body is effected by the quality & amount of sleep we get, especially the brain. Among the proven benefits, sleep can dictate how much we eat, how fast our metabolism runs, how fat or thin we get, whether we can fight off infections, how creative & insightful we can be, how well we can cope with stress, how quickly we can process information & learn new things, & how well we can organize & store memories.”
- Dr. David Perlmutter, M.D.

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Myth:
Children benefit from a low-fat diet.

Truth:
Children on low-fat diets suffer from growth problems, failure to thrive and learning disabilities.

~ Food Chem News 10/03/1994

We want our children to be as healthy as possible. This is foundational to every other part of life and begins be returning to a traditional, nutrient dense diet.

https://youtu.be/DQiF_9txzSM

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“To me, true health... is achieved by following the laws of nature; when you break them, illness results. Health is not something bestowed on you by beneficent nature at birth; it is achieved and maintained only by active participation in well-defined rules of healthy living - rules which you may be disregarding every day.”

~ Henry Bieler, MD Food Is Your Best Medicine

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‘...Eating carrots, an excellent source of betacarotene, is probably superior to taking betacarotene alone; eating collard greens - which contain lots of vitamin C - is probably better than taking vitamin C alone - and eating endive, a good source of vitamin E, is probably better than taking vitamin E in capsules. I mean that eating a carrot that contains a fixed amount of the nutrient betacarotene will probably provide more - betacarotene nutritional benefit than taking the same fixed amount of - betacarotene in the purest, most concentrated, most natural betacarotene supplement you can find. Why? Synergy.’

- Doctor Jim Duke
Organic Gardening, July/August 1995.

Growing tips:
Carrots: https://youtu.be/2D7eezL_Sas
Endive: https://youtu.be/umfC58tibBU
Collard: https://youtu.be/WyZ6JszkgRU

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Wishing you a Joyful and Heroic New Year!!

Blessings,
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“A return to traditional foods is a way of taking power away from the multinationals and giving it back to the artisans. The kind of food processing that makes food more nutritious is the same kind of food processing that the farmer or the farming community can do: sour milk (yogurt, kefir...), aged cheeses, pickles, sausages, broth, and beverages. All the boxed, bottled and frozen products in modern supermarkets - the cheerios, crackers, cookies, egg-beaters, margarines, diet sodas and TV dinners - have made fortunes for a few and impoverished the rest of us. The way we eat determines not only how healthy we will be, but what kind of economy we have - the kind where a few people make millions and millions of dollars or the kind where millions of people make a decent living... there will be no future unless that technology is tamed to the service of wise ancestral foodways.”

~ Nasty, Brutish, and Short?

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“The War On Masculine And Feminine”
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By Asha Logos

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The Complete Book Of Self Sufficiency by John Seymour


“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” 
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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⚫️@TheFolkSchoolNetwrok⚫️ Categorization System is based on nature and the classical progression method. Our ancestors understood that having a healthy mind in a healthy body was foundational to every other part of life, and that the progression of learning proceeded from there, recognizing the interconnectedness of each area of mastery.

Foundation I: Fitness ⚫️@FolkSchoolFitness⚫️

Foundation II: Trivium ⚫️@FolkSchoolTrivium⚫️
I GRAMMAR
II LOGIC
III RHETORIC

Foundation III: Quadrivium ⚫️@FolkSchoolQuadrivium⚫️
I ARITHMETIC
II GEOMETRY
III MUSIC
IV PHYSICAL SCIENCE

Foundation IV: Philosophy, Integer, & Biology
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THE STUDY OF WISDOM
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I HISTORY
II LITERATURE
III RELIGION
IV POLITICS
V ART
VI GEOGRAPHY
VII ANCESTRY
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THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Foundation V: The Practical Arts
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I GENERAL SKILLS
II SPECIALTY SKILLS