Articles dated June 2017

Me? A Director?
by Morgan
Wednesday, 07 June, 2017
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Wednesday, 07 June, 2017
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
We had been an official part of a Classical Conversations community for less than a year. My children were thriving, and I was realizing that a classical education meant more than memorization, pounding Latin, and reading boring books.
My oldest was ready to move to a...

The Stories We Didn’t Tell
by Admin
Friday, 02 June, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
Friday, 02 June, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
There’s so much. Beginning to write this article reminds me of how I first felt when contemplating the task in front of me six months ago: find the stories of how geography impacted the histories and cultures of Asia and tell them to our readers in a new Classical...

Basketball, Spaghetti Sauce, and Latin
by Marc
Thursday, 01 June, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Homeschooling Life
Thursday, 01 June, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Homeschooling Life
Do you know what basketball, spaghetti, and Mt. Everest have in common? Will you believe they are all related to a Latin lesson I had with my son?
Last year, I was blessed with being my son’s Latin teacher. My son Calvin is thirteen years old and a Challenge A student...

CC student spells successfully, yet falls short of 4th Round in National Spelling Bee
Lydia Bitterman, #140 in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, successfully spelled her words for the judges in Rounds 2 and 3 on Wednesday, but she and most her fellow spellers failed to advance to the 4th Round due their scores on the preliminary written test that...