Apr 03, 2014
Divided Responsibility
To me, a professor asking a question is a professor expecting a...
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Apr 02, 2014
Latin from High School to College: How Challenge Prepares Students for the Next Level
Latin is alive and well at the college level, and Challenge III...
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Mar 31, 2014
What’s Your Big Hairy Monster?
Chapters Six through Eight – Math, Geography, and Logic What’s Your Big...
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Mar 28, 2014
What I Love Most about Checklists
What I love most about checklists is the moment when I mark...
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Mar 26, 2014
All Out for Pleasure
The Little Red Hen understood the real world. She asked for help...
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The Blessings of Essentials
Think about the word “essence.” What does it evoke? To me, it...
Read More“The Wood where Things have no Names”: A Story of Latin and the Essentials Program, with Apologies to Dorothy Sayers
“. . . if I were asked what, of all the things...
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Essentials isn’t just for writing!
“Men’s natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them far...
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Mar 25, 2014
Reading Phillip Johnson
One of the ideas behind Challenge B is introducing students to the...
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Mar 24, 2014
Why Latin for Multiple Years? From Caesar to Cicero, Here’s Why!
Why take Latin for multiple years of Challenge? The answer is not...
Read MoreCatechesis! “Caesar and Cicero” and “Language and Literature” in the Challenges
Who does not love the wheel of catechesis first simply signified by...
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