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Progymnasmata

Home Education
How to Help Long-Winded Narrators Be Concise

Raise your hand if you have a child (or two or five) who is verbose? Whose narrations seem to take longer than the initial reading? This is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, we’re so relieved after working with the child whose narrations consist of “that king didn’t like that other king and so they went to war and the king won the end.” The long-winded narrator is noticing all the details and recalling them. It’s rather amazing! Alas, it’s Continue Reading…
February 17, 2016
Home Education
An Example of Written Narration

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s been a while since I’ve shared any written narration samples, and I thought perhaps I ought to before we get really far into Lost Tools of Writing and adjustments in style and composition are made again. The example I’m sharing today is one of my favorites, from earlier this year, and it is definitely the fruit, not of Lost Tools, but of doing many, many progym variations over years. I really liked it, but of course I’m biased. This Continue Reading…
October 19, 2015
Educational Philosophy, Home Education
What Didn’t Work This Year: Classical Composition III {A Curriculum Review}

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]f on Monday I shared something that worked really well for us, I suppose it is only fair to spend Wednesday sharing something that totally didn’t work for us. Now, as a disclaimer, it is only fair to say that the problem with this curriculum was likely me. I think this curriculum can do exactly what it’s intended to do. It’s just that ultimately I was trying to bend it to fit my philosophy, and I failed. Most of you know that I Continue Reading…
June 10, 2015
Home Education
School Prep 2014: Year Seven Planning Notes

This is what I’ve been putting off. I did Year Four, and also Year Two (which I didn’t have any real thoughts on other than that I used a template for her spreadsheets, which I already explained in my post on Year Four), and then I thought about Kindergarten a bit. I did a couple of my Course of Study forms for our state paperwork. And then I decided that I couldn’t avoid Year Seven any longer. Planning for my Continue Reading…
August 6, 2014