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Greetings from Leigh Bortins, Founder of Classical Conversations |
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Greetings!
Blessings to you this Holy Week! I pray that you and your family will experience the joys of the Resurrection in a fresh way. This is a great week for telling your children stories about the last week of Christ's ministry on Earth. Your children can re-enact entry into Jerusalem or the Last Supper. Examining His parables works well at home with children of mixed ages. Younger children can narrate the events of the story back to you (grammar) while older children can discuss the deeper meaning of the parables with you (dialectic). The oldest children can discuss the use of parable as a device for teaching an audience (rhetoric).
As our programs draw to a close this year, we turn our attention to our opportunities for summer training and fellowship. At our 3-Day Parent Practicums this summer, we will focus on Meeting the Challenge. In the morning sessions, we will explore Latin with opportunities for parents to complete translations in small groups. Most of our afternoon sessions will focus on how to homeschool through high school. Click here to watch the 2012 practicum video or forward it to a friend. Then, visit our Event Calendar to search for a Parent Practicum in your area. As a thank you to our families, we have a special offer for those who participate in the student camps. If you register children in the student camps at a 3-Day Parent Practicum, you will receive a FREE special edition of this year's practicum resource Climbing Parnassus. Families who qualify may pick up their copy onsite at the event.
I continue to be excited about this very productive spring at Classical Conversations. Hopefully, you have seen samples of the new Classical Acts & Facts History Cards which will be available for purchase April 16. The Cycle 1 Audio CD and Geography Trivium Tables have just been released. The Latin Trivium Tables are in the final stages of production. Along with the training sessions at the Parent Practicums, these new tools should make it easier than ever before for parents to pursue classical, Christian education at home.
During this beautiful season, spend some time outdoors with your family. Discover the order and beauty of God's creation and teach someone else how to see it, too.
Love,
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Everyday Classical,
Christian Education
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Easter and the Garden
by Jennifer Courtney
Signs of Easter are everywhere. Yellow daffodils have sprung to life in our backyard. A riot of multicolored tulips lines the trail at the park. Redbuds and pear trees have dressed in purple and white for the occasion.
Snatches of a popular Christian song from my teen years resound in my mind: "Did the grass sing? Did the Earth rejoice to feel you again? Over and over like a trumpet underground, did the Earth seem to pound, 'He is risen'? Over and over in a never ending round, 'He is risen. Alleluia.'"[1] And so it is; the Earth rejoices in celebration of the Resurrection.
[1] Lyrics from the song "Was it a Morning Like this." from the 1986 album "Morning Like This." Performed by Sandi Patti. Released by Sony record label.
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The Core of Classical, Christian Education
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The Conversation in Classical Conversations
by Courtney Sanford
It is planning time for Classical Conversations three-day Parent Practicums. I look forward to learning something new and getting inspired for the next school year, but most of all, I look forward to three days of adult conversation.
The word "conversation" can be overlooked during Practicums because we work so hard to understand the "classical" model and how it is the backbone of our teaching philosophy, but "conversation" is at the heart.
I attended my first Classical Conversations Parent Practicum as a skeptic. My children were enrolled in a private Christian school and I had made my nonrefundable deposit. I went to a Practicum because a friend recommended that I go and my husband, ever the do-it-yourselfer, had always wanted to homeschool.
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Book Review
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Educating Men with Chests: Climbing Parnassus by Kate Deddens
Mount Parnassus...hovering over the ancient shrine of Delphi, has stood as a...symbol of poetic inspiration and perfection since the dawn of the West...over time it came to embody those things which man, at his best, wishes-and ought to wish-to achieve. It became a sign of his better, divinely inspired self...the civilizing, cultivating boon of excellence, of right and beautiful expression...Throughout the centuries to come, this forbidding image got lifted from its geographical and mythological settings to be transposed...as an emblem of linguistic flair. "Climbing Parnassus" eventually became a code for the painfully glorious exertions of Greek and Latin (Simmons, Tracy Lee. Climbing Mount Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2007. pp. 15-16). Education today focuses on vocational training to prepare citizens for jobs-work that is productive with respect to community, personally beneficial, and financially rewarding. We live, however, in a time in which these expectations are being bitterly disappointed: There are so many people today who are trained and for whom there are fewer jobs to be had. Education is so expensive, while returning to its recipients less gain. Our society appears so heatedly contentious, though sometimes apathetic, in seeking solutions to the problems we face. Read More
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Have you had an exciting year in your community? We would love to see and hear all about it. Please send us pictures and stories of your successes this year.
We would love to hear about science fair, Mock Trial, Face in History, service projects, etc...
Please submit your stories and pictures to the Classical Conversations Facebook page or Email us. Be sure to include your community name and location, the name of the event, and a brief description. Pictures and stories may be used in upcoming issues of Postcards or in next year's catalog.
We can't wait to hear from you!
*Price Change!
Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student has been issued a price change. This new edition brings classical rhetoric to life and demonstrates the effective application of argument, arrangement, and style in yesterday's and today's writing. 4th Edition.
New Price: $65.00 List Price: $79.95 |
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Leigh!@Lunch will resume next September
We are sorry to announce that the April 4th show with Dr. Brian Ray has been canceled.
*Dr. Brian Ray will be a guest on the next season of Leigh!@Lunch
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from The Temple (1633), by George Herbert:
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Click on image above to learn more about George Herbert's poem
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¶ Easter wings.
Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store,
Though foolishly he lost the same,
Decaying more and more,
Till he became
Most poore:
With thee
Oh let me rise
And sing this day thy victories:
Then shall the fall further the flight in me.
My tender age in sorrow did beginne:
Thou didst so punish sinne,
That I became
Most thinne.
With thee
Let me combine
And feel this day thy victorie:
For, if I imp my wing on thine
Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture references in this [book] are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION® (NIV). Copyright © 1984 Biblica. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved. |
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