Great Books Ladder · Middle school · Grade 3–12

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Three opening rungs for the whole family: how to read a great book, what the Great Conversation is and where the idea came from, and Mortimer Adler's Syntopicon, with our own index of great ideas.

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Unit 1 Opening Rungs

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How to read a great book, what the Great Books idea is, and Mortimer Adler's Syntopicon, with our own index of ideas.

  1. How to Read a Great Book
  2. The Great Conversation
  3. The Syntopicon and Mortimer Adler
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