Articles tagged Shakespeare
The Many Lessons of Chemistry in Classical Education
Revisiting Some Archived Articles that Have Not Been Lost, but May Have Been Forgotten and Are Worth a Fresh Read
Original Post Date: July 8, 2013
I find that I am better able to learn topics when I can connect them to something I already love or already understand....
Easter and the Garden
by Jennifer
Thursday, 02 April, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
Thursday, 02 April, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
Revisiting Some Archived Articles that Have Not Been Lost, but May Have Been Forgotten and Are Worth a Fresh Read
Original Post Date: April 3, 2012
Signs of Easter are everywhere. Yellow daffodils have sprung to life in our backyard. A riot of multicolored tulips lines...
Catechesis! “Caesar and Cicero” and “Language and Literature” in the Challenges
by Linda
Monday, 24 March, 2014
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Monday, 24 March, 2014
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Who does not love the wheel of catechesis first simply signified by Leigh Bortins in her diagrams fringed by circling arrows? The diagram, celebrating knowledge, understanding, and wisdom for the goal to know God and to make Him known, may morph to a more sophisticated...
Finding the Right Words for Christmas
It has been a cold December day and I am sitting inside wishing for a fire to warm my hands. A pot of chicken broth is bubbling on the stove. Tonight, as I chopped vegetables and threw handfuls of herbs into the pot, I thought about the flavorful liquid that comes from...
Shakespeare’s Language and the Evolution of Human Intelligence
I was watching a bit of Brannagh’s Hamlet tonight and luxuriating in the language (some of which I understood) when my dear wife asked for my opinion: “Do you think the groundlings actually understood what was going on in those plays?”
I said I thought they did (that...