THIS IS AN AUDIT-ONLY COURSE!

This version of the MCT Level 3 course is appropriate for those students who cannot attend the live class meetings or who do not wish to turn on their cameras during the live class meetings.

Students who take this course will not join the weekly class meetings. Instead, each week there will be a video recording posted on the course website for the students to watch of that week’s live class meeting with Michael. Students who do the homework can submit the grammar assignments to Michael to be graded.

THIS IS A TWO-SEMESTER COURSE.

In MCT3, the third level of the MCT language arts curriculum, students will embark on a voyage around the world in Essay Voyage. It is at once a strong and creative introduction to how to write an essay and also an exploration of the geography of the world. That theme is enriched and expanded in A World of Poetry. Grammar Voyage keeps the students aboard ship as the grammar gets ever more sophisticated and challenging. The vocabulary text is Caesar’s English II, which offers fifty Latin stems that students will learn are the foundation of thousands of words in the English language, providing a base that extends far beyond the lessons themselves. During the second semester, students will read the Search Trilogy of literary novels.

Dates: The week of August 18th to the week of December 15th, 2025, and the week of January 12th to the week of May 11th, 2026
* Note that there will not be a class meeting—and therefore a recording of it—every week. Michael gives a small number of breaks during the semester to allow students to immerse themselves fully in the work.

Student Expectations: Students who do the assignments must use a keyboard (no handwritten assignments), but the assignments are not required.

Assessment: If they wish, students can submit the grammar assignments to Michael to be graded and returned to them by him.

Materials: Students will need the Level 3 texts: Grammar Voyage, Practice Voyage, Caesar’s English II CEE, Essay Voyage, and A World of Poetry, as well as the Search Trilogy novels: Treasure Island, The Call of the Wild, and The Invisible Man.

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