This text, designed for the 6th-7th grade student, contains lessons for 34 weeks, including 4 quarterly review weeks, an answer key, and teaching instructions. The list words for the first 6 weeks review the various vowel and vowel phonogram sounds in new word lists, and the next 16 weeks focus on prefixes, suffixes, and some spelling trouble spots. The final word lists are devoted to derivatives of Latin and Greek roots, and one lesson on foreign words used in English. The word list for Week 1 is as follows: scrap, scrape, inflate, Africa, betray, clasp, agony, stable, traitor, blaze migrate, obtain, habitat, dedicate, restrain, manna, avid, vast, elevate, and disdain. The word list for Week 34 (the final review) is: mortal, petite, sympathetic, mosquito, vacant, volcano, infinity, suspect, apathy, graduate, dictator, mortify, insect, genetics, provision, invalid, congratulate, valor, multiple, and assist.

The winning apologetics feature of this series is continued in this level. The focus of the quotations from the Early Church Fathers is on Mary and her role in salvation history. Each week the quotation is used for copywork or memory work, or both, and usually contains at least one of the list words. The text includes teaching notes and explanations for each quotation in the back of the book. If you have done as the author suggests and kept an index card file labeled with a topic and the quotation, you will a wonderful apologetics library by the time that you complete the spelling series! Apologetics lessons are a feature of levels B-F.

I was introduced to the series as a high school freshman. I enjoyed the text very much at that time (even though I was working with a photocopy). I was equally impressed with the Sophomore text when I taught with it nearly ten years later.

The first book, Our Goal and Our Guides, focuses on understanding our goal in life – attaining Heaven – and spiritual and doctrinal issues that are related to that goal (such as the roles of faith and reason, the liturgical year, the Blessed Trinity, the Fall, and Salvation through Christ).

The second book, Through Christ Our Lord, studies the life of Our Lord in great detail - covering the Old Testament time of waiting for Christ, the basic events of Christ's life, a detailed study of Christ's Death and Resurrection, the Eucharist and the Mass, the Sacraments and following Christ today.

The Ark and the Dove (Book Three) covers the Catholic Church and the Holy Spirit. 

Towards the Eternal Commencement is designed especially to prepare graduating seniors as they go out into the world. It covers Our Lady; considerations about death and the afterlife (best reflected upon earlier in life!); vocations; those commandments, virtues and teachings important for "building a better world" and a segment on Apologetics.

Unit one has twenty five lessons. The first eleven are Listening skills (stories and poems), Visual Discrimination (broad similarities, detailed similarities and detailed differences), and Motor Skills (straight and curved lines, detailed dashed, detailed straight, and slanted lines and geometric shapes).

The next nine lessons are on auditory/visual discrimination. There are then three lessons on visual discrimination involving capital and lower case letters, letter identification and tracing. Then there is a another motor skills lesson and one on nursery Rhymes.

Unit Two is the beginning of learning phonics. The first few lessons are on the alphabet. Then on to letter recognition and identifying partner letters (capital and lower case). There are five lessons on motor and visuals skills.

After this the letter lessons begin. Each lesson begins with an intro to the letter. For example, the first letter taught is "S". So for "S" there are five lessons. The first is printing. The next: initial sound and printing. The third is letter discrimination. The fourth is initial sound and printing. The fifth and final lesson is final sound and printing.

Ther next letter taught is "T". After this there is a review of "S" and "T". After every two letters, there is a review of those two letters. After every four letters , there is a review of the four letters.

Unit Two covers the following letters: S,T,B,H,M,K,J,F,G,L, and D.