I recently finished reading Andrew Klaven’s The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives and Works of England’s Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus. While I wasn’t convinced that he’d proved his premise, some of his points were thought-provoking and the book made me want to read more… Continue Reading
Four weeks into the school year, and that stack of prereading for school has lost some of it’s freshness. 😉 I seem to want to read anything but what I’m “supposed” to read! But the effort of will it took to get myself caught up in How to Read Slowly was rewarded today, when I was… Continue Reading
Our poet for this term is Robert Frost. AmblesideOnline schedules him in Year 6, which Mr. D is doing, but I decided to read his poetry during Morning Time and memorize another of his poems together (we memorized “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” several years ago). I will probably just read from the… Continue Reading