Articles tagged Novel
Book Review: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
by Jennifer
Thursday, 11 June, 2015
categories: Articles, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11)
Thursday, 11 June, 2015
categories: Articles, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11)
Revisiting Some Archived Articles that Have Not Been Lost, but May Have Been Forgotten and Are Worth a Fresh Read
Original Post Date: February 28, 2011
Do you want to be inspired to learn Latin and science with your children? Do you want to train your children to be...
Can Books Really Teach Us Anything? (Part One)
by Jennifer
Tuesday, 09 July, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
Tuesday, 09 July, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
There has been a healthy argument in the news lately about whether or not students should read the classics. National Public Radio (NPR) recently aired a piece lamenting the fact that students no longer graduate to serious, adult fiction because they are reading too...
Becoming an Authority on Poetry
Over at the LTW Mentor—the Yahoo! group for The Lost Tools of Writing—we have been discussing what book of poetry folks recommend to a mother who wants to give her daughter a gift book. As you might expect, I wandered from the point when somebody asked what to choose...
The Novel Every Christian Should Read
by Jennifer
Friday, 01 March, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Friday, 01 March, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
“We think it our duty to notice that, outside of and, so to say, beyond his faith, the bishop had an excess of love.”1 This is Victor Hugo’s description, in his novel Les Misérables, of the Bishop of Digne, a man who gave away his bishop’s palace to the local...