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Instructor ♦ Classics Sequence Miss Rachel Ahern was homeschooled her whole life prior to college; her homeschool education included taking numerous online classes from Drs. Bruce and Christe McMenomy in high school. She received an A.B. in Classics from Harvard University in 2002 and an M.St. in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature from Oxford University in 2003, and is currently a third-year Ph.D. candidate in Classics at Stanford University. Her primary research interests are centered on Greek epic, rhetoric, and the representation of speech in poetry. She has taught a range of Greek and Latin literature courses (on Plato, Lysias, Horace, Petronius, and Lucan) to Stanford undergraduates.
Instructor ♦ Writing Sequence Mrs. Byington has a B.A. in technical writing from the University of Washington, and now works as a technical writer in the aerospace industry. She also keeps active as a freelance writer and has several magazine articles and a full-length musical to her credit. She taught writing, grammar, and classical guitar at her local school district's program for homeschoolers; business writing at a technical college; and every subject imaginable when she homeschooled her son.
Instructor ♦ History Sequence Mr. Christiansen began studying history at a very early age, received his BA in History from Earlham College in 2006, and is currently enrolled in Earlham's MAT graduate program. He has taught US History and World History in Indiana, and is currently working in an after-school tutoring program with students aged 8 to 18. While at Earlham he dabbled in the classics, and ventured as far as Greece for a month. His focus in History was divided between European and American history, with additional courses of study in the history of the Mediterranean region, Russia, and Japan.
Instructor ♦ Classics Sequence
Miss Sasha Decker was homeschooled through high school, during which time she discovered her love of classical languages and literature under the tutelage of Scholars Online instructor Dr. Bruce McMenomy. She pursued further studies in Latin and Greek at the University of Dallas, as well as studying for a semester in Rome. A member of Phi Beta Kappa and Eta Sigma Phi (the national classics honors society), she graduated summa cum laude in May 2006 with a B.A. in Classical Philology, concentrating in Latin literature. She also received the Father Placid award in Classics from the University of Dallas Classics department.
Special areas of study have included Horace's Satires and the poetry of Catullus. Her undergraduate thesis was on a poem she has loved ever since she first encountered it in Scholars Online's Western Literature to Dante class in 1998 -- Catullus' Carmen 64. Miss Decker tutored Latin and Greek for the University of Dallas, and she has also tutored both languages privately for several years. She is a co-owner of Refracted Light, a website devoted to reviewing fantasy literature from a Christian perspective. Besides classical languages and literature, her other loves include opera and English literature.
Instructor ♦ Latin Sequence Mrs. Susan Dennis has taught Latin classes online and in Southern California for the past four years. She holds a B.A. degree in English (with a minor in French) and a M.M. degree in Piano Performance from Texas Tech University. Besides homeschooling her four children, she has taught piano for over twenty-five years. Mrs. Dennis lives in Orange County, California with her husband and their two youngest children.
Instructor ♦ Classics Sequence
Mrs. Sarah Esposito has been involved in online education since 1997,
when she first began taking courses from Scholars' Online Academy. As
a graduate of the Latin and English sequences and a long time student
of Dr. Bruce and Dr. Christe McMenomy, she will be a second-generation
teacher at Scholars Online.
Sarah received her BA in Classics from Middlebury College in March,
2006. While in college, she studied Greek and Roman history and
archeology in Sicily, Naples, and Rome on the Intercollegiate Center
for Classical Studies' Semester in Rome Program. She also had the
opportunity to work as a research assistant to Prof. Randall Ganiban
on the Focus Press Aeneid Commentary Project over the summer of 2005.
Her undergraduate work was on Vergil's Georgics and its Greek literary
models, and she is currently in her second year of studying Greek and
Latin literature in the Classics graduate program at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Instructor ♦ Math Sequence Mrs. Christy Frary has a Masters in Teaching from Willamette University.
She taught mathematics both in public schools (seventh and eighth grade
mathematics) and privately (Pre-algebra through pre-calculus) for over fifteen
years. She has spent the last eight years running a private tutoring business
and consulting with families on graduation and college requirements.
Christy remains active in the mathematics community through various
professional organizations, such as Puget Sound Council of Teachers of
Mathematics and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Instructor ♦ Modern Language Sequence Miss Rosamund Hodge was homeschooled all the way through high school and took her first SOLA/RCA classes when she was thirteen. She went on to earn her B.A. in English at the University of Dallas, where she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. In 2007 she received an M.St. from Oxford University after completing a dissertation about Old Icelandic literature and Middle English romance.
Instructor ♦ History Sequence Mrs. Howard received her Bachelor of Arts in History from Pitzer College. She taught World History, Grammar, and Dialectic Writing for SOLA/RCA (ISLAS) between 1998 and 2002, and, with her husband Andrew, also homeschooled their younger daughter during this period.
Instructor ♦ History Sequence Mr. Johnson received his B.A. in Political Science with a minor in Mathematics from the University of North Dakota, and then earned an M.A., also in Political Science, with an emphasis in Political Philosophy, while completing all of the non-dissertation requirements for a Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. He served on the original Board of Directors for ISLAS, and taught courses for SOLA/RCA in Government, History, Philosophy, and Mathematics from 1995-1999. Mr. Johnson was elected Chief Clerk of the North Dakota House of Representatives for the 2001 legislative session, and also has almost ten years of experience in political campaign management and state policy research. Since 2003, he has taught Political Science and Philosophy courses in the Minnesota Community College system, and is currently pursuing additional graduate studies in History at North Dakota State University. He lives in Fargo with his wife, Loriann, and their four children.
Instructor ♦ Mathematics Sequence Mr. Mabbott, M.S., is a mathematics teacher with more than 30 years experience. He has taught in grades 4-12 in both public and private schools around the Pacific Northwest as well as at the university level. Currently he is a mathematics specialist for secondary schools with Seattle Schools and an Adjunct Professor at Seattle University, College of Education. He earned a Master Degree in Mathematics and continues to deliver and engage in professional development and advanced training thru the Northwest Mathematics Interactions, the University of Washington and the Institute for Advanced Study/Park City Mathematics Institute. Mr. Mabbott is a perennial presenter at Northwest, Regional, and National Mathematics Conferences, offering back to his professional peers his years of experience. In addition to being a member of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, he is the most recent past president of the Puget Sound Council.
Instructor ♦ Classics Sequence — Literature Sequence Dr. Bruce McMenomy received his B.A. from Pomona College, an M. A. in History and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics from UCLA. His field of specialization is Mediaeval Latin, and his dissertation an editio princeps of the first part of Claudius of Turin's (ca. 815) commentary on the Gospel of Matthew -- the completion of which was somewhat delayed while he was homeschooling his own three children. Dr. McMenomy has taught online courses in history, literature, Greek, Latin, and Old English through the Scholars' Online Academy since 1995. His literary thought has largely been molded by C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, and he enjoys literature ranging from the ancient to the modern, but he has yet to discover a subject that is not somehow interesting. His chief joy in teaching is in exploring the various ways of understanding with his students, and he admits that in the process he has probably learned at least as much from his students as he has taught.
Dr. McMenomy was awarded an SDB Fellowship through the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth in 2005. The essay submitted for that occasion is linked here.
Instructor — Science Sequence Dr. Christe McMenomy received her B.A. from Scripps College, studying Physics as a Joint Science student at Harvey Mudd, Scripps, and Pomona, and pursued a masters in astronomy for a year before changing majors and schools to complete a Ph.D. in the history of science at UCLA, concentrating on the organization and transmission of scientific knowledge in the Middle Ages. She has practiced science actively at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (where she was using MILNET to post to online bulletin boards in 1973), developing image processing and cataloguing techniques for the Landsat, Viking, and Voyager missions, and at the Rand Corporation applying computer simulation technologies to policy analysis. She currently supports software development at Boeing, and presents papers on software configuration management at national professional conventions. Over the years Dr. Christe has taught or assisted teaching courses at the college level in Western Civilization, history of technology, history of science, physics, and astronomy, as well as professional training courses in database design and programming for Boeing. Together with her husband, she homeschooled their three children through high school. Through Scholars Online Academy (ISLAS) and now Scholars Online, Dr. Christe has taught science courses over the Internet since 1996.
Instructor — Latin Sequence Dr. Mary McMenomy was herself homeschooled throughout high school. She received her BA in Greek and Physics from Swarthmore College in 1998; attended the regular program of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens in 1998-99; and completed her work for a Ph.D. in Classical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in April, 2006. Her dissertation is on the roles of Hermes in Athenian drama, drawing on her interests in classical mythology, art, religion, and literature. Dr. Mary has taught online courses in elementary and intermediate Latin, elementary Greek, writing, and ancient literature in translation; she has also taught Latin and classical mythology at the college level.
Instructor — Literature Sequence For fourteen years, Dr. Seeley has been a tutor at Thomas Aquinas College in California, leading discussion courses in a wide variety of subjects ranging from Biblical Studies to Aristotelian Psychology, Modern Philosophy, Newtonian Physics, and Music Theory. He is the Director of the Institute for Catholic Liberal Education, and the co- author of Declaration Statesmanship: A Course in American Government. Dr. Seeley received his Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto.
Instructor — Mathematics Sequence
Mr. Fred Williams received his bachelor of arts in physics from Pomona College, and, after working full time for several years, completed his MSEE (Master of Science in Electrical Engineering) from the University of Southern California. He's moved back and forth between teaching and engineering ever since. He's taught microprocessors and digital circuit design at West Los Angeles College, analog techniques at USCD, engineering at Cogswell College North, and most recently, mathematics and electronics at DeVry University. In between teaching stints, he's also designed circuits and provided customer support for both large corporations and small startups, including Hughes Aircraft, TRW, Virtual Vision, Siemans, and Zetron. He is presently combining both loves by working for Digital Control, Inc while teaching for Scholars Online.
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