for your educational & reading pleasure
for your educational & reading pleasure
The Summer Reading Program theme this year is “Oceans of Possibilities.” There is so much to incorporate with this theme that the possibilities are endless. You could read: swash-buckling adventures of infamous pirates or privateers, science fiction tales of sailing…
George MacDonald’s The Wise Woman, also known as, A Double Story is a timeless, moral fairy tale rich in virtue. How can arrogant and entitled parents raise a child to be selfless, patient, caring, and kind? As she grew up,…
I thought I would share a few resources for classic children stories. By classic: I mean Aesop fables, tales of the Greeks and Romans, and fairy tales. Web The German Project: Well-known children’s stories translated into German and spoken by…
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington, © 1901 Reading Level: 1320 Lexile I recently completed Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington, which has been on my to-read list for quite awhile now. Earlier this year I read Narrative…
The American Heritage Dictionary defines spoonerism as: “a transposition of sounds of two or more words, especially a ludicrous one.” While on an outing with my family, I recalled a time when my uncle recited a famous story from the…
From Memoria Press | The Classical Teacher Archives, POSTED ON JULY 29, 2021 BY WILLIAM KIRK KILPATRICK The new approach is one from which the concepts of character and virtue are entirely missing. From its point of view, the life of a man…
The Lamplighter by Maria S. Cummins, © 1854 Reading Level: 9th Grade Because I lately reviewed, King Solomon’s Mines which is a very masculine book, I decided that I should review a feminine one. I typically focus on books that cultivate…
I read an article by the Federalist 1 about how the transgender industry is negatively impacting the existence of tomboys. When I think of tomboys, a few famous characters stand out such as: Joe March, Laura Ingalls, Éowyn, and Nancy…
King Solomon’s Mines by Henry Rider Haggard, © 1885 Reading Level: 10th Grade This book is difficult to define but my gut desires to call this book the “most masculine” book I have ever read. In my opinion, that is a…