Classical School Blog

Our son had a great time in the Molding Your Pose course from ScholarsOnline.org . The assignments: 1. Retell a myth or folktale in 150 words or less 2. Retell the same story in 50 words or...

http://classicalschool.blogspot.com/2008/08/classical-composition-rewriting-myths.html

From our son's latest assignments from "Molding Your Argument" - We've posted his submissions pro and con for movie censorship. The assignment is to write like St. Thomas Aquinas. In Summa The...

http://classicalschool.blogspot.com/2009/07/progymnasmata-logic-rhetoric-writing.html

Archeologists believe they really may have found King Arthur's Round table in Chester. It's a 1000 seat amphitheatre and a wooden memorial to Christian martyrs. The monk Gildas wrote of Arthur, ...

http://classicalschool.blogspot.com/2010/07/archeologists-discovery-may-be-king.html

On Christmases past, we've read A Christmas Carol together as a family, but this year we settled for watching the old classic Alastair Sim movie as we have to finish Pickwick papers read-togethe...

http://classicalschool.blogspot.com/2009/12/dickens-at-christmas.html

We're getting ready for Christmas, and we had been talking with our teen son about taking on a volunteer experience to 'give back' some of his blessings that have come his way. We also had talk...

http://classicalschool.blogspot.com/2009/12/getting-ready-for-christmas-virtual.html

Our son had fun writing his Patriot position for the upcoming class debate in his Omnibus course. He is supposed to counter the argument that the colonialists should be grateful to England for ...

http://classicalschool.blogspot.com/2009/11/loyalist-vs-patriot-debate-in-american.html

You'd think classical educators (parents and formal teachers) would be among the last to commit this mistake, but perhaps this yet another mistake. Because classical texts are so difficult to d...

http://classicalschool.blogspot.com/2009/10/classical-education-dont-let-this.html

An amateur treasure hunter with a metal detector found the largest Anglo-Saxon treasure ever discovered. It was found on a friend's farm. The inscription above is from the Bible. Anglo Saxon Tr...

http://classicalschool.blogspot.com/2009/09/largest-anglo-saxon-treasure-found-in.html

This summer our son is taking a course "Molding Your Argument" from ScholarsOnline.org It's already turning out to be a great course. The assignments were first to write brief paragraphs argue ...

http://classicalschool.blogspot.com/2009/07/classical-argumentation-like-ancients.html

Using a very sensitive technique, archeologists have been able to find traces of residual paint on figures within the Parthenon, like Egyptian Blue on the belt of Poseidon. Parthenon's hidden...

http://classicalschool.blogspot.com/2009/06/revealing-parthenons-true-colors.html

Our son recently chose to write a Dante's inferno-like satire for his Omnibus class through Veritas Academy. Here it is: THE HEAVEN OF THE PHILOSOPHERS by Krister Eide At the midpoint of my...

http://classicalschool.blogspot.com/2009/05/writing-dantes-inferno-like-satire.html

A pysanka (Ukrainian: писанка, plural: pysanky) is a Ukrainian Easter egg, decorated using beeswax in a sort of crayon-resist approach using dyes. This is our first year trying Pysanky an...

http://classicalschool.blogspot.com/2009/04/pysanky-decorating-ukranian-easter-eggs.html

William Byrd was a celebrated English composer of the Renaissance. Haec Dies is a motet from Missale Romanum. Byrd studied music under Thomas Tallis, composed Catholic masses and Anglican church...

http://classicalschool.blogspot.com/2009/03/william-byrd-versatile-composer-of.html

In the continuing gloom of an economic recession, it is possible to continue getting a first-rate classical education on a shoestring. Before redoubling your efforts, it might be a good idea to...

http://classicalschool.blogspot.com/2009/01/classical-education-in-economic.html

"Let no man, therefore, look down on the elements of grammar as small matters; not because it requires great labor to distinguish consonants from vowels, and to divide them into the proper number...

http://classicalschool.blogspot.com/2009/01/classical-visual-and-rhetorical-grammar.html

If you enjoy illuminated manuscripts, check out Christmas: Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts . At the Getty Museum site, there's Making of a Medieval Book . From a bishop's note to monk copyi...

http://classicalschool.blogspot.com/2008/12/christmas-through-illuminated.html

Have a blessed Thanksgiving! At right the Thanksgiving scroll of the Dead Sea scrolls, written on leather and 10 feet long, dating from about 200 B.C. It's very similar to the Psalms. Below,...

http://classicalschool.blogspot.com/2008/11/thanksgiving-scroll-and-puritan-prayers.html

" I have always best enjoyed things in a foreign language, or one so remote as to feel like it (such as Anglo-Saxon)." - J.R.R. Tolkien As our son's Omnibus course wends its way through early...

http://classicalschool.blogspot.com/2008/11/old-english-verse.html

Now shall my inward joy arise, And burst into a song; Almighty Love inspires my heart; and Pleasure tunes my tongue. (Africa - William Billings) I'm enjoying a wonderful collection of hymns...

http://classicalschool.blogspot.com/2008/10/william-billings-early-colonial.html

"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul." - St. Augustine Our son is taking his first class with Veritas Press Academy (Omnibus II), and in order to k...

http://classicalschool.blogspot.com/2008/09/wisdom-of-st-augustine.html

Lab notebooks are essential, but more important than neatness is a careful documentation of observations whether the experiment works or not. Da Vinci's notebook (see yellowed page at right, his ...

http://classicalschool.blogspot.com/2008/09/lab-notebooks-through-history.html

We're doing some home chemistry this summer because both our kids like doing experiments on school break. There are many chemistry resources on the web. Our son's in middle school and daughter's ...

http://classicalschool.blogspot.com/2008/07/home-chemistry.html

The Washington Times reports Gregorian chants by the Cistercian monks of the Stift Heiligenkreuz monastery have shot to the top of the classical music charts, perhaps because players of the vi...

http://classicalschool.blogspot.com/2008/06/rediscovering-ancient-church-music.html

Summer around our house is pretty eclectic, and we will be away from the blog too as we still have some traveling planned for our daughter. We will be outdoors more, swimming, and reading lots of...

http://classicalschool.blogspot.com/2008/06/summer.html

In Arthur Conan Doyle's The Musgrave Ritual, Sherlock Holmes uses geometry to solve a 250 year mystery: "Well, at least I knew that if Brunton could do it, I could also. Besides, there was no ...

http://classicalschool.blogspot.com/2008/05/math-in-books-and-film.html