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The
American Leadership School
Today's world needs men and women of high
moral character, sound intellectual understanding, and principled
action to lead us into an uncertain future. But where will these
leaders be found?
At The American Leadership School, we believe
leaders are the product of a particular educational method -- one known
to the great leaders of the past, but lost to modern academia. The
American Leadership School at Eagle's Aerie is unlike anything you've
ever seen in modern education. Here, 6/7th through 12th grade
"Pre-Scholars" learn to understand classic literature, history,
politics, the law, science and philosophy under the guidance of
committed and caring adult "Mentors."
In the grand tradition of Thomas Jefferson and
George Wythe, the teacher/mentors at The American Leadership School
believe students should be taught "how to think" - not just "what to
think."
Now, students can again undertake this
privilege and challenge, if they have the desire, determination, and
character to pursue this most intense and exciting educational endeavor.
Off-Campus Field Trips
The American Leadership School provides
many opportunities for educational off-campus field trips. ALS sponsors
an Annual American History Excursion each year, with the opportunity to
travel to either the Washington D.C./Philadelphia or the Boston/New
York area. These unique opportunities are open to all students who
qualify to participate.
Aristotle's Arts of Liberty:
- Math
- Science
- History
- Literature
- Philosophy
- Theology
- Jurisprudence
- Politics
- The Arts
- Ethics
- Economics
- Health
Mortimer Adler's Skills of Freedom:
- Reading
- Writing
- Speaking
- Listening
- Observing
- Calculation
- Measuring
- Thinking
Required Classics reading for The
American Leadership School:
Documents: Magna Charta, Declaration
of Independence,
and The Constitution of the United States,
Northwest Ordinance, Monroe
Doctrine, and The Gettysburg
Address
Abbott
Flatland
Adler
How to Read A Book
Alcott
Little Women
Allison
“The Real” Series
Aristotle
Nichomachen Ethics
Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Asimov
Understanding Physics
Bacon
Novum Organum
Bastiat
Essays on Political Economy, The Law
Bennet
Book of Virtues
Benson
The Proper Role of Government
Blanchard
The One Minute Manager
Bronte
Jane Eyre
Cicero
The Laws
Covey
Seven Habits for Highly Effective Teens
Darwin
Origin of Species
DeMille
A Thomas Jefferson Education:
Dickens
Great Expectations, Tale of Two Cities, Christmas Carol
Emerson
Essays
Gatto
Dumbing Us Down
Hamilton
Mythology
Henry
The Gift of the Magi
Hinckley
Standing for Something
Homer
Iliad, Odyssey
Hugo
Les Miserables
Latham
Carry On Mr. Bowditch
Lewis
Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Weight of Glory
Locke
The Second Treatise of Government
L’Amour
The Lonesome Gods
Madison, et
al. The
Federalist Papers
Marx
Communist Manifesto
Moody
Little Britches
Nichomachus
Introduction to Arithmetic
Paine
Common Sense
Post
Etiquette
Roberts, et
al. Roberts
Rules of Order (Newly Revised, 10th edition)
Skousen
Making of America,
Five Thousand Year Leap
Shakespeare
A Merchant of Venice,
Henry V, The Tempest
Stratton-Porter
Laddie
Thoreau
Walden
Tocqueville
Democracy In America
(Volume II)
Tolstoy
War and Peace
Wister
The Virginian
Suggested Classics reading for The
American Leadership School:
John Adams, “Thoughts on Government”
Card, “Enders Game”
Defoe, “Robinson Crusoe”
Euclid, “Elements”
James Herriot series
Jiang, “Red Scarf Girl”
McCullough, “John Adams”
McCullough, “1776”
Newton, “Mathematical
Principles”
Orwell, “1984”
Plato, “The Republic”
Potok, “The Chosen”
Shakespeare, “The Collected Works”
Smith, “The Wealth of Nations”
Stowe, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
Aesop’s Fables
Alice in Wonderland
Animal Farm
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
The Anne of Green Gable Series
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Because of Winn Dixie
Brighty of the Grand Canyon
Black Beauty
Caddie Woodlawn
Charlotte’s Web
Chronicles of Narnia series
A Connecticut
Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Deerslayer
Don Quixote
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide
The Education of Henry Adams
The Emperor’s New Clothes
The Five Little Peppers
The Fourth Wise Man
Frankenstein
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
“Give Me Liberty
or Give Me Death”
The Greatest Generation
Gulliver’s Travels
Hatchet
The Hiding Place
Holes
Huckleberry Finn
Ivanhoe
The Hobbit
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Jacob, Have I Loved
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Johnny Tremain
The Jungle Book
King Arthur and the Round Table
The Last of the Mohicans
Little Men
Little Women
The Lord of the Ring Series
Miracle at Philadelphia
McGuffey’s Readers
Moby Dick
My Antonia
My Side of the Mountain series
“O Captain, My Captain”
O Pioneers
Old Yeller
Oliver Twist
Out of the Dust
The Red Badge of Courage
“Paul Revere's Ride”
Pigman
“The Road Not Taken”
Robin Hood
“Romeo and Juliet:
The SecretGarden
Shipwrecked
Soldiers, Statesmen, and Heroes
Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers
Stargirl
The Summer of the Monkeys
The Swiss Family Robinson
Tales of Arabian Nights
Tom Sawyer
Treasure Island
The Walking Drum
Undaunted Courage
Walk Two Moons
The Westing Game
White Fang
Where the Red Fern Grows
Who Moved My Cheese (for Teens)
The Yearling
"If a nation expects to be
ignorant and free,
it expects what never was and never will be."
-Thomas
Jefferson
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