Use Teddy Rook Book on your own site

Embeds: one line of HTML

Each embed is a small page on teddyrookbook.com made to sit in a frame on another site. It has no menus or ads, it works from 280 to 900 pixels wide, and it always shows a small “From Teddy Rook Book” link. Because it runs on this site, it gets every fix and new lesson on its own. Paste the code where you want it to appear.

Progress in a practice embed is kept in the visitor’s browser, inside the frame. Browsers keep a framed page’s storage apart from the same site opened in its own tab, so a learner’s embed progress and their progress on teddyrookbook.com don’t mix. Each embed says so in small print, with a link to open the same thing on the full site. If a browser blocks storage in frames, practice still works; it just isn’t saved.

Build your snippet

Pick a ladder, a course and a topic (or the whole course), then a theme and a height. Copy the code, or preview it first.

The toolkit: run it yourself

For developers who want the practice on their own server or in their own app, with no connection to this site. One zip file holds:

• The engine: the answer checker, the math typesetter, the answer box, the mastery and review engine and the problem card (plain JavaScript and CSS, no outside libraries).
• Twelve ladders: Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Earth & Space, Writing & Grammar, Vocabulary, Logic, Geography, American History & Civics, Economics and Etiquette, each with its topic maps, lessons, problem generators and visuals.
• Vocabulary: the 1,000-word list with meanings, memory hooks and the drawings for each word.
• The Family Study units (one theme for the whole family, each child at their level).
• An example page that runs practice for any topic, with no internet connection, and a second one (language.html) that reads a Gospel passage in Greek with the King James Version, a word at a time.
• Language packs: the Greek and Latin Gospels word by word, the classical sentences, the King James Version for the verses used, the Greek alphabet lessons and the cartouche maker. Each pack has its own LICENSE and CREDITS file; see the table below.
• The licenses, a list of the outside pieces and their licenses, and a short README.

Download teddy-rook-toolkit.zip The release page About 15 MB

If the download says “Not Found”, the first release hasn’t been published yet. Please check back later. Developers can also build the zip from the site’s source: run hugo, then node scripts/toolkit/build-toolkit.js public.

The terms, in plain words

It’s free.

No fee, no sign-up and no key. Embeds and the toolkit carry no ads and no tracking.

The code is MIT.

The engine’s code (the JavaScript and CSS) is under the MIT License, copyright Teddy Rook. Use it, change it and share it, even in paid products, as long as the copyright and license notice stay with it.

The content is CC BY-NC 4.0.

The lessons, the problem generators’ question text, the topic maps, the word lists and the readings’ guides are under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0. Use and adapt them for teaching that isn’t sold, and give credit with a link back, like this: From Teddy Rook Book (teddyrookbook.com), CC BY-NC 4.0. Say if you changed anything. Public-domain texts, like the Harvard Classics readings themselves, stay public domain. The Greek and Latin material comes from other projects under their own licenses; see Licenses & credits.

Embeds just work.

You’re welcome to frame an embed on your site, co-op page or class page. Please keep the “From Teddy Rook Book” link visible.

The addresses stay put.

The embed addresses above (/embed/practice/, /embed/word/, /embed/reading/, /embed/lang-word/, /embed/lang-drill/, /embed/alphabet/ and /embed/hieroglyphs/, with the parameters shown) will keep working for as long as the site is up. What’s inside them will change as lessons improve.

As-is, with no support.

This is a one-person project. Everything here comes as-is, with no guarantees and no promise of help, fixes or notice of changes. There are no versions to track and no support line. Test it on your site, and keep a copy of the toolkit you rely on.

To share a note or a broken link, Teddy Rook is on X as @teddyrookbook. Replies aren’t promised.

Licenses & credits for the language material

The language embeds and packs are built on the work of other scholars and projects. We name every one of them, even where the license doesn’t ask us to. The site’s own lessons and tools stay under CC BY-NC 4.0 (content) and MIT (code); the packs below keep the license of what they’re made from.

CC BY-NC-SA material (the Latin Gospels and the PROIEL sentences) may not be used commercially, and anything you make from it must be shared under the same license. CC BY-SA material may be used commercially, but must be shared alike. Every embed shows its own sources in a small “Sources and credits” note.

Credits

• Dodson Greek Lexicon, John Jeffrey Dodson. Greek dictionary. Public domain.
• FreeSerif, a subset, GNU FreeFont contributors. Transliteration letters. GPL 3 or later, with the font exception.
• Egyptian Grammar, Sir Alan Gardiner (Oxford, 1927; 3rd edition 1957), and its Sign List. Signs, sound values and Gardiner codes. Facts and readings, cited.
• King James Version, 1611; the standard 1769 Oxford text, from the kjv package (npm), checked word by word against Wikisource’s transcription of the 1772 Oxford edition. English for the Gospel verses. Public domain.
• Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek–English Lexicon, the Perseus Digital Library, with thanks to Tufts University. Greek dictionary for the classical sentences. CC BY-SA 4.0.
• MACULA Greek, Clear Bible and Biblica. Greek grammar (lemmas and morphology) and word-by-word glosses. CC BY 4.0.
• Nestle 1904 Greek New Testament, Eberhard Nestle, editor (British and Foreign Bible Society, 1904). Greek text. Public domain.
• Ancient Greek and Latin Dependency Treebank 2.1, the Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University. Texts and grammar for Cicero’s Against Catiline, Virgil, Ovid, Homer and Plutarch. CC BY-SA 3.0.
• English translations, from the Perseus Digital Library, W. A. McDevitte & W. S. Bohn, E. S. Shuckburgh, C. D. Yonge, T. C. Williams, Brookes More, A. D. Godley, A. T. Murray and Bernadotte Perrin. English for the classical sentences. Public-domain translations; Perseus’s digital editions are CC BY-SA 4.0.
• Audio Greek New Testament, read by Marilyn Phemister (Westcott–Hort text), © 2001. Greek audio, streamed from the Internet Archive. Free for non-commercial use with credit.
• PROIEL Treebank, the PROIEL project, University of Oslo. Latin and Greek grammar (lemmas, morphology, syntax), with the texts of the Vulgate, Caesar, Cicero’s Letters to Atticus and Herodotus. CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.
• Greek Alphabet lessons, Teddy Rook Book. Lessons and quizzes. CC BY-NC 4.0.
• Cartouche maker, Teddy Rook Book. The spelling rules, sign choices and drawing. CC BY-NC 4.0.
• TRB Hieroglyphs font, Teddy Rook Book (original drawings). The hieroglyphs. SIL Open Font License 1.1.
• Your device’s own voices, the text-to-speech built into the browser. Audio (Latin with an Italian voice, Greek with a modern Greek voice). Nothing is recorded or sent.
• The Latin Vulgate Gospels, Jerome (about AD 383), as edited in the PROIEL Treebank. Latin text. Public-domain text; the PROIEL edition is CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.
• William Whitaker’s Words, William Whitaker. Latin dictionary. Free to copy, by the author’s terms.

The site itself quotes 499 verses of the ESV® Bible (© 2001 by Crossway) under Crossway’s quotation allowance. That allowance doesn’t cover embeds or downloads, so the embeds and the toolkit use the King James Version instead, for the same verses.

What’s not included, and why

• Hannah Ward’s Actual Reading lessons: shared on the site with her permission, which doesn’t yet cover embeds or downloads. They stay on the site only.
• Markets data: FRED and other data providers set their own terms.
• The ESV English: the site quotes 499 verses of the ESV under Crossway’s quotation allowance, which doesn’t cover embeds or downloads, so the embeds and the toolkit use the King James Version instead.
• The Greek audio recording: Marilyn Phemister’s reading is free for non-commercial use with credit; the Greek drill embed streams it from the Internet Archive with that credit, but it isn’t ours to bundle in a download.
• Art, Egyptology and Ancient Scripts ladders: they use artwork, fonts and images with their own licenses.

The embeds show only what’s on this site. The toolkit leaves out anything whose license doesn’t let us pass it on.