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Aug 09, 2011

Why I Love Classical Conversations’ Latin

I hope that everyone is getting excited to start Classical Conversations this month! I myself am getting excited. I love Cycle 3 (especially because I live in Virginia—field trips!) and I am tutoring Challenge III this year (American History–field trips!). After looking at the entire Latin program of Classical...

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Aug 04, 2011

Ecclesiastes: An Apology for the Classics

To some, the phrase, “classical Christian education” seems like a misnomer, paradoxical even. The idea that we could educate and raise up Christian children by teaching them the ideas of pagans seems impossible. Yet, hundreds of classical Christian schools and thousands of homeschooling families use classical curriculum in their...

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Jul 29, 2011

Beefing Up Sixth Grade

In more and more Classical Conversations communities, sixth graders start their final year in Foundations already knowing a lot of the memory work. Many of these students began Foundations sitting on mom’s lap and soaking up the timeline cards as early as age three. How do we keep them...

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Jul 26, 2011

Back to School

As you may know, Classical Conversations began when I was in high school. I was a student in the original Challenge I, II, and III programs with about eleven other students. It was just shortly before that time when my mom heard about classical education, so I missed the...

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Jul 18, 2011

Summer Reading

Every summer I read Dorothy Sayers’ mystery Gaudy Night. I look forward to it as I looked forward to swimming, lightning bugs, thunderstorms, and watermelon as a young girl growing up in central Ohio. The book is filled with complex characters and intricate plots, literary quotes and allusions, and foreign...

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Jul 17, 2011

How to Read a Great Book

Before plays had acts and novels had chapters, people still had to figure out the form of the things they read. In the ancient world, writers seem to have treated the structure of their writing as a game. They used it to hide meanings and to give the reader...

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Jul 13, 2011

Oklahoma CC’ers Bring Hope to Haiti

As the sun scorched our arms another day, we bounced over dusty, rut-filled roads that brought to mind the terms “outback” and “off road” in a whole new bone jarring reality. This is Haiti. What would you think about Classical Conversations putting together a national mission trip? Let us...

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Jul 12, 2011

Word Travel

The written word can be a magic carpet that takes us to another world, another time. The landscape is often strange and unfamiliar, and may be fictional or allegorical. When we read the best writers, the journey gives us a glimpse into the minds of the world’s greatest thinkers...

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Jul 06, 2011

What happened to the Latin language?

Last week, I had the pleasure of doing a conversational Latin camp online. While studying for the camp, I found out so much that I had forgotten or did not know about conversational Latin. Conversational Latin is different from the Latin we study in academic situations: it is the...

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Jul 05, 2011

Get on the Latin Bandwagon

Sona Si Latine Loqueris! We are living in the midst of a modern day renaissance of the Latin language. There is a Latin-learning bandwagon, and if it wasn’t started by classical education, it was certainly popularized by it. Yet, there are holdouts to learning Latin even from within the...

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Jun 30, 2011

The Core for Teachers

Great book for all teachers and principals, new and experienced! The Core by Leigh Bortins will help you reach the educational goals for your students that we all desire. This easy-to-understand guide breaks down the time-tested methods of a quality education into clear goals and lessons that are easy to implement....

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