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  14. englishcollege
    Family reading is an amazing thing to do but it requires good discipline and regularity. Thanks all for sharing your opinions. Regards, Mark Ford The English College Dubai
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  16. Caroline Cappuccio
    Professor Kern's stated convictions brought to mind Deuteronomy 8:3 and Matthew 4:4, "Man does not live by bread alone, but by the Word of God." It is by the Word, through, the Word, and in the Word that we live, and move, and have our being (Acts 17:28). These statements also bring to mind Aristotle's statement about humans being distinct because we are speaking beings. Jesus is the Living Word. His Word is living and active in our lives, nourishing, transforming, and renewing our heart, soul, mind, and strength to love Him first and foremost and to rightly love our neighbors and all creation. We hide His Word in our heart so that we might not sin against Him (Psalm 119:11). His Word is a lamp to our feet, a light for our path, a sword for our defense against the Devil. His word and His Holy Spirit in us are the God-inspired, God-given means to know Him and make Him known, to receive salvation in Christ alone, to know how we should live as Christ in and for the world, and an incomparable comfort and peace for our souls.
  17. englishcollege
    The English College among fs1 schools in dubai is a long-standing, all-through British curriculum school from Early Years to A Levels focusing on outstanding pastoral care, personal and social development. We have highly experienced teachers and small class sizes to ensure personalized learning for every student. English College also offers rich and diverse extra-curricular programme, which is part of our creative and successful curriculum.
  18. Dianne Williams
    I am challenging the answer that Edward Thorndike created the first mental testing regimes after the Great War. Firstly, the concept of 'mental testing' is vague and can mean more than one thing and secondly Piaget pre-figured Thorndike, as did a number of others immediately post-war.
  19. Dianne Williams
    I agree Joy. This looks to me like a 'gotcha' question and it is not the first time there's been such a question. There really is no 'unpredictability' in the spelling because of the 'fer'. Of course, if the question is referring to the unpredictability of 'tuli' and 'latum', then it should say so as a condition of the question. I look forward to a defence of 'a' as a better answer, too...
  20. Shiloh Upson
    I have not lost my students, but I think this is a beautiful perspective and models Biblical mentorship. I can think of nothing more classical than finding new purpose as a "retired" homeschool teacher.
  21. Kateadjoa
    I see Lesson 9 of the course is absent though Christine made reference to it. How can I get access to it? Thanks.
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    Who around here does Declamations in their Rhetoric classes? What do they look like? I just finished using a hypothetical Conjecture case with my 11th graders using Hermogenes's On Issues. The students wrote their own issue briefs (in essay form) on each side of the case, and then I broke them into teams for a modified cross-examination debate. They did a pretty good job of following the structures and finding basic claims for each issue, and they did surprisingly well on cross-examination (usually the skill I find students struggling with the most), but they did not do as well in keeping track of opposing claims to address them, and they showed relatively limited imagination in thinking through the possibilities afforded to them by the relatively open-ended fact sheet.
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  26. MTorchia
    Hello friends! Wondering if there are any classical educators out there who are native speakers of Arabic and know of any classical curricula in Arabic already in existence or being developed currently?
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  29. Valerie Bishop
    HI Olsenhs, did you get any leads on or create your own catechism for the ancient history class? I'm doing the same and would love to see some ideas.
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  33. themeg35
    A couple of times the question was posed about the significance of a people group being disconnected from their history. It seems there are a great number of people disconnected from their history because of Western European colonization of the world. If knowing our history is similar to knowing where we are in the world, like the outer parts of a tree, then for some it exposes the reason they are at the bottom is because their people have barely survived the abuse by European people groups. Also there are many people cannot know their history because it’s no longer available. Any thoughts on how to approach this with children? We’ve been working through Bauer’s Story of the World so far.
  34. Amanda Erdman
    Fairy tales being adapted. Old tales or fables are adapted so that the heroes may not be heroic at all and villains may actually be the heroes or are rehabilitated. Less time in actual, real nature. For example, many children know more facts about the Amazon rainforest than they know their backyard. They may be able to identify a rare tree frog from South America but they have no idea what the trees are in their yard. Everything is “me” centered. When we’re asked to consider classes, a major or a future career our mentors often ask us what we want to do, what we like to do, and are less interested in what would make a difference in the world. These are just a few things that came to mind as I read chapter one and listed to Dr Turley’s first lesson.
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  36. Jennifer Dow
    We wrote about the Three Kinds of Homeschooling Communities on the Scholé Group blog. What kind of group are you most interested in joining? What are your questions about the different kind of groups? Read the article and join the conversation! https://scholegroups.com/the-three-kinds-of-homeschooling-communities/
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  38. angelique
    Also, why is "began to" used in some of the translations on page 19 in the Teacher's Edition of Latin Alive! book 1 for the imperfect tense of some verbs (ie: habitabamus, vocabant)? On page 17 it gives the options for past progressive, but is that list incomplete (ie: for the verb to love - I was loving, I used to love, I kept on loving)? Should "I began to love" be a translation for the imperfect/past progressive translation of the verb "to love"?
  39. angelique
    When translating the imperfect, first person, singular verb "to love (amabam)" into English, can you say "I kept loving" or "I did love" instead of "I kept on loving"? Is "on" necessary?
  40. JTB_5
    Just for reference, a couple of answers to this question have surfaced at the MRC. Aesthetics in the Classroom
  41. JTB_5
    I've posted a thread at the ACCS's Member Resource Center forum seeking a video that was shown at the ACCS Conference last year. In it the headmaster at Ambrose (I think) is interviewed by Christopher Perrin or David Goodwin and they show the aesthetic that the school has built into its Building and Grounds and classrooms. Hopefully they can find it and let me share it. Do you have access to the Member Resource Center?
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  43. jennycspears
    I am struggling with the aesthetics in our school. Our grammar classrooms look like the public school down the street and our Upper School classrooms are in the church's rooms and we are not allowed any "school" things in those rooms. We can work on the former and deal with the latter. My big concern, aesthetically, right now is the small classroom that we use for science. It is a mess. We don't have room for permanent lab tables. Our school is growing (praise God), so we barely have room for the students. We have glaring florescent lighting. Last year we hired a veteran science teacher from the public school world. We love her and she is really improving our program, but she brought a ton of resources with her. Any ideas or photos of other schools with aesthetically pleasing science rooms would be greatly appreciated.
  44. JTB_5
    I understand that completely! I will say that one of the thing that you can do as a faculty is to read one of the Socratic dialogues together and get a discussion going on what Socrates does to move through a discussion. I don't know if it is still available anywhere, but Jenny Rallens did a presentation on virtue formation in the classroom that involved her preparing a class of 5th graders for a discussion on The Lord of the Rings. You might try searching for that, or contacting Rallens to see if she has some resources to share.
  45. JTB_5
    You're welcome. Also, my name is Joshua. I didn't think ahead very well when considering a username.
  46. jennycspears
    Thank you for those tips. We are on a limited budget right now. We will just keep on working at it.
  47. jennycspears
    Thank you, JTB! The video said it would be available to download. I can view the Ambrose one, but since I haven't purchased the curriculum I can't download a copy.
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