Articles by author: Marc Hays
Painting the Apple on the Table
by Marc
Friday, 15 March, 2019
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
Friday, 15 March, 2019
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
I am the son of an artist. As is the case for many artists, creating artifacts rarely pays the bills, but teaching art does, hence, I am the son of an art teacher: an artist who taught his skills instead of plying his wares.
Being the art teacher at our local public...
The Shape of a Sonnet
by Marc
Wednesday, 23 January, 2019
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Wednesday, 23 January, 2019
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Before reading the following article, please read this sonnet out loud:
Sonnet 18
By William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And...
Harmony
How like a chord community can be,
A fellowship of voices as a whole,
Resounding in incarnate harmony
Made lovely when the voices share one goal.
Oh, friends and countrymen, lend me your ears;
No reader of this rhyme needs stand...
The Penelope
by Marc
Monday, 27 November, 2017
categories: Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Monday, 27 November, 2017
categories: Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Characters:
Socrates, a famous philosopher
Penelope, a home school mom
Penelope: Socrates, I am pleased to meet you. I hear you know stuff. Can you tell me how someone becomes a Lead Learner?
Socrates: Nice to meet you, Penelope. I don’t know much at all, so I am...
Thales Casts a Long Shadow: How a Solar Eclipse Heralded Classical Education
by Marc
Friday, 18 August, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
Friday, 18 August, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
On May 28, 585 BC, the shadow of the moon fell upon Greece and Asia Minor, the sky went dark in the middle of the day, and a new era dawned upon Western civilization. Although total solar eclipses are not uncommon on the earth, the unique thing about this one, and the...