Part I. Beginning: preparing for classical education
1. Training your own mind: the classical education you never had
2. Wrestling with books: the act of reading
3. Keeping the journal: a written record of new ideas
4. Starting to read: final preparations
Part II. Reading: jumping into the great conversation
5. The story of people: reading through history with the novel
6. The story of me: autobiography and memoir
7. The story of the past: the tales of historians (and politicians)
8. The world stage: reading through history with drama
9. History refracted: the poets and their poems
10. The cosmic story: understanding the Earth, the skies, and ourselves.
