{Classical Conversations} Cycle 3 | Week 14

We’re really simplifying this year. You can see our Game Plan here. Here are activities I found when we did Cycle 3 last time. The book list has been updated. ___________________________ History: Industrial Revolution Intro: You have your pick–trusty YouTube or any of the 70+ videos found here. I loosely picked activities around this lesson plan. […]

{Classical Conversations} Cycle 3 | Week 13

We’re really simplifying this year. You can see our Game Plan here. Here are activities I found when we did Cycle 3 last time. The book list has been updated. ___________________________ History: 14th Amendment and Civil Rights We’re going to take a similar approach to Civil Rights that we took with the second week of our […]

Thinking Out Loud on Church | Part 7

This is seventh post in a series. To read the entire series, click here. A book was recommended to me a couple months back, that I just got to reading… well… listening to. The book is Predictably Irrational. In this book, which I am barely into at this point, the author talks about the idea of anchoring. […]

{Classical Conversations} Cycle 3 | Week 10

We’re really simplifying this year. You can see our Game Plan here. Also check out our U.S. Capitals State Tour. Here are activities I found when we did Cycle 3 last time. In additional to the books listed, I also suggest checking out the books associated with this week’s Geography here. ___________________________ Sorry for the delay.  It seems […]

Thinking Out Loud on Church | Part 6

This is sixth post in a series. To read the entire series, click here. So, Patrick has been relatively vague in my blog posts until now (so says Melissa), but we wish to be a bit more straightforward here. So, there are many things that we wish to question regarding the way we do Christianity, in particular, […]

Thinking Out Loud on Church | Part 5

This is fifth post in a series. To read the entire series, click here. One of my kids asked me a question the other day where I had to explain ethics. This was quite the arduous task, especially given the language barrier. Regardless, I chose my favorite ethics paradigm, virtue ethics, and attempted to explain the 7 virtues: […]

Thinking Out Loud on “Church” | Part 4

This is the fourth is a series. Click here to see the complete series. Melissa:  Disclaimer: This one’s corny and rambling 😉 Patrick:  So, as I was driving home today, I kept having the thought of Christ and the Church running through my head. I was listening to my David Crowder station on Pandora, realizing […]

{Classical Conversations} Cycle 3 | Week 9

We’re really simplifying this year. You can see our Game Plan here. Also check out our U.S. Capitals State Tour. Here are activities I found when we did Cycle 3 last time. In additional to the books listed, I also suggest checking out the books associated with this week’s Geography here. ___________________________ History: Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave […]