Direction, the first step in student motivation When my oldest homeschooled child was in 3rd grade, I started him in a simple Latin curriculum, one of the few elementary grade Latin curricula available at the time. At the end of … Continue reading
Category Archives: Classical Education
Motivating Students to Write
One of the questions I often get is “How do I motivate my students to write?”This post will simply deal with the skeleton of motivation, and then in future blogs we can examine each component separately. According to Natalie Ekberg … Continue reading
Early Writing skills – Copywork and Dictation
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Beginning writers write by doing copywork. My students enjoyed copywork in the early elementary years. Each got to pick a lined composition bound notebook from the office supply store. Each got to choose a piece of fabric to cover the … Continue reading
New School Year – Priorities
The new school year is upon us. I start tomorrow at my university. Believe me, while I love my job, I miss those days when my 4 were at home, we would get up, pray together, read the Bible, then … Continue reading
Truth, Goodness, and Beauty: Part, the Last, BEAUTY
“Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed and never can be fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.” ― … Continue reading
Essay Writing Part I
I want to spend a couple of blogs on essay writing, to just lay a foundation for how we get our students to become good writers. (I still owe the final blog on the True, the Good, and the Beautiful, … Continue reading
Classical Writing … this summer :) ADVANCED POETRY
So what are we up to this summer at Classical Writing? Advanced Poetry is on the front burner here. This book is already written, and currently in its last stages of editing. It is a one semester high school level … Continue reading
The True, the Good, and the Beautiful
“And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.” Mark 10:18 The Good Now we get to ‘the good’. Like the True, we tend to ‘know it when we see … Continue reading
The True, the Good, the Beautiful Part III
In this blog, I want to finish out the comments wanted to make about ‘the true’. This article from Forbes is entitled ”It is all based on trust”. It is about the stock market and investors’ trust in where they … Continue reading
The True, the Good, the Beautiful, part II
TRUTH Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness … Continue reading