Articles tagged Persuasive Essay
Why Study Latin?
Why Study Latin—The Tutor’s View
by Matt Bianco
In the summer of 2012, I had a conversation with one of my rising Challenge IV students and her family. She wanted to quit the study of Latin in her final year of homeschooling with Classical Conversations. We met and I...
Words, Words, Words – And the Trouble with Them
by Matt
Wednesday, 04 September, 2013
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Wednesday, 04 September, 2013
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Words are hard to use, right? I mean, I think it's hard to write stuff and say stuff because you never know how people are going to, like, take it. There's this one essayist, I like him, named Wendell Berry. He wrote this essay called "Standing by Words," which sounds...
I Survived Mock Trial
by Jennifer
Tuesday, 07 May, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14)
Tuesday, 07 May, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14)
For the past eight years, I have regarded the coming of Challenge B with fear and trembling because of one thing—Mock Trial. I had never participated in this project or any form of debate during my school years, so it was a vast unknown well, not entirely...