Six Books, Six Meals. Build the Recipe Yourself.
Authors describe food. They almost never give you a recipe.
Dickens spends a paragraph on the Cratchit pudding and not one measurement. Building a workable recipe from a literary description means separating what the text actually says from what your mind supplied. That is the foundational skill of close reading, with a result you can taste.
Six classic books, all out of copyright and free to read. The same six appear in every volume with harder questions each time, because returning to a book you love with better tools is what literary study is.
The recipe is no longer given. Your student decides what goes in it, cooks it, and defends every choice, then sorts each decision by where it came from: the text, a source, or their own head. The third column is allowed. It just has to be labelled.
Inside:
- Six units on the same six classic texts
- Gather pages for exact transcription
- Build the Recipe pages, with the questions the text does not answer for you
- Measure pages sorting every decision by its source
- Fold In research pages
- Serve pages, including where your reconstruction and the text disagree
- A literary argument in every unit, with evidence
- Reading History pages
- Vocabulary pages
- A comparison capstone using all six texts
- A page for you in every unit
What you receive
- A printable PDF, 88 pages including the cover, 8.5 × 11 inches, designed to print clearly in black and white on a home printer.
- A family license: print as many copies as your household needs, for every child, every year.
- Your file is available only from the download page. It is not sent through a link in your order confirmation email, so please download it from the download page.
A first edition, shaped by the families who use it
Written by Gina Steffy. This is a first edition, and we would love your help making the next one better. If a page is unclear, something is missing, or an idea would work better at your table, please tell us. We welcome every suggestion and will build the best of them into future editions.
Every purchase includes free updates. When a new edition is released, you will receive it at no additional cost.
Lisa Nehring and her husband, Dr. David Nehring, a Clinical Psychologist, and Biblical Scholar speak together on a wide variety of topics, including education, classical education, vision, mission, parenting, marriage, and more.
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