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The PGMAPT Paradigm for Classical Education
Jessica Winder replied to Chris Perrin's topic in The Liberal Arts Tradition
I am curious to know more about how they have been able to facilitate this design into the school that they teach at. Are they still modifying scope and sequences? What does it look like on a weekly or even daily basis? How can we best facilitate this in our homeschool? We do not live near a classical academy, but I want to allow my children to have access to as much of this as possible. -
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Check out our newest Scholé Blog post by Kimberlynn Curles about pursuing scholé in the midst of personal suffering. Such encouragement! Come back here and discuss it after you read.
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Short but ultimate classical book list
Cheryl Floyd replied to Cheryl Floyd's topic in 7-9 Dialectic Forum
In addition we are slowly reviewing Tolkien’s essay, “On Fairy-Stories,” and I am reading Tending the Heart of Virtue by Vigen Guroian. -
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I've really only interacted with the Esolen version. But I am using a kindle version, "Cary's translation" to read out loud to my children, and a large "Chartwell Books, Inc." edition with beautiful art for looking at as I read to them. I can't find my Esolen! However, I highly recommend the Great Courses series on The Divine Comedy. The two professors obviously love their work and give amazing insights into Dante's ideas, form, and structure. I used my Audible credit to listen to it rather than purchased it through Great Courses. I have a video set of Esolen also explaining it, but I haven't sat down to go through it yet. Maybe I'll do that a little at a time with the kids too.
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I have read the translation of Inferno by Dorothy Sayers. The notes are wonderful, but for me it introduced me to numerous vocabulary words I'd never heard of before (which made for some difficulty in the flow of reading).
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A friend of mine recommends the Anthony Esolen translations. The Everyman's Library all-in-one version by Mandelbaum is supposed to be good as well, but I've not read either of them myself.
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I'm considering reading Dante's Divine Comedy for the first time. My library has several translations, including an older one by Longfellow and a recent paraphrase by Clive James. Does anyone have a recommendation on a translation that I should consider?
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Wouldn't it be awesome if a movement toward read-aloud book clubs started?
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You know you're a classical educator when...
KarenG replied to KarenG's topic in Homeschooling Education in General
Dante's seven circles---hahaha I saw the Alexandria picture, too. My daughter and I have been reading Plutarch's life of Julius Caesar this term, and it mentions this fire, so I had to discuss it with her. It's hard for kids today, with everything all digital and ubiquitous, to imagine one fire destroying a manuscript forever. Of course it makes you want to burst into tears! -
That's a good point--reading aloud. Many works of literature were intended to be shared orally anyway, and speaking the words adds another dimension to the way we experience them. Rhyme and rhythm, and thinks like assonance or sibilance (why does my software say that is misspelled???) can only be appreciated that way.
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How young do you think you can start to introduce classic literature? How do you introduce it? Do you use an abridged version with lots of art first? Do you then have middle schoolers read a more wordy, but still abridged version? And then finally do you tackle the full text in high school? At what age do you think you could read a few lines, explaining as you go to say, 6-8 year-olds? I am reading Les Mis for myself, but I think my kids could listen to the audio and follow along. I am reading out loud to them, Dante' Inferno, I think it's going ok. We are going really slow and reviewing before and after each read. The language is so beautiful. Any thoughts?
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You know you're a classical educator when...
Cheryl Floyd replied to KarenG's topic in Homeschooling Education in General
you know you are a classical educator when... Every answer to a child's question is question, every story references Homer, and every threat of discipline references Dante's seven circles. -
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Patrick Halbrook replied to KarenG's topic in Homeschooling Education in General
Well then... I guess it's just twice as upsetting 🔥📚😯 -
Oh, I agree with this. Even for myself, lately, as I am trying to get through difficult reads, I plug my ears and sort of read out loud under my breath. It really helps me concentrate, though I'm sure I look crazy, but I need to hear nothing else but the words on the page in my head - plugging my ears has that effect.
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You know you're a classical educator when...
JTB_5 replied to KarenG's topic in Homeschooling Education in General
I saw the picture in both posts, Patrick.
