Mrs. Karen Perez To All Instructors

ANCIENT HISTORY INTEGRATED WITH LITERATURE & COMPOSITION

Once upon a time, Mrs. Karen Perez discovered an American Girl book in her grade school library. From then on, when she wasn't playing basketball, Mrs. Perez always had her nose in a book. Then, in college, she got to study abroad in Toulouse, the medieval city where the Dominican order was founded and Saint Thomas Aquinas is buried, opening her eyes to the beauty of medieval Christendom. So, she dove into the 13th century and earned a liberal arts degree with a certificate in medieval studies from Dartmouth and hoped to begin a career in book publishing. 

Instead, the Lord sent Mrs. Perez to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she worked in digital marketing at Google for ten years before happily quitting the corporate world to begin homeschooling with Aquinas Learning in Minnesota. She has delighted in teaching IEW's history-based writing classes at Aquinas Twin Cities since 2017, Schola Alta I Lit/Comp since 2021, and Schola Alta I History since 2022. Mrs. Perez's goal is to motivate her students to know the story of history; to behold truth, goodness, and beauty in literature; and to practice the skills of thinking, speaking, writing, attentiveness, and virtue.

The Perez family worships at the Saint Augustine Oratory in South St. Paul.  

Current Classes
Ancient History with Literature & Composition – Mentor (closed)
Yearbook Club – Coordinator (open)