Labor Omnia Vicit: Cultivating Vines and Minds In An Online Great Conversation Course
Reading Time: < 1 minute Joanna Hensley discusses teaching literature through an online course.
Literature
Heroes and Villains: Civic Virtue Through Inquiry and Primary Sources
Reading Time: < 1 minute Rachel Davison Humphries discusses ways to develop research skills in students that combine with learning civic virtue.
More Than Just Facts: Liturgy, Logic and Literature in Middle School Science Curriculum
Reading Time: 2 minutes James Dolas leads a conversation on interdisciplinary integration in
the middle school science curriculum.
Loving God With Our Minds in Milton’s Paradise Lost
Reading Time: 2 minutes Jeremiah Forshey focuses on how to bring the famously difficult poem, Paradise Lost, to life for our students so that it can become relevant to their spiritual and mental lives.
Everyday Themes in Literature: Using Narrative to Develop the Whole Person
Reading Time: < 1 minute Alicia Brummeier discusses practical tools and teaching strategies for your own novel studies.
Sex Education in Literature Class
Reading Time: < 1 minute Dallas Shipp shows how literature can be used in a compelling combination to give students clear and reasonable grounds to believe in sexual norms, resist the destructive pressures of the age, and go on to form Christian families of their own. Never before has a creative defense of this normative vision been more urgently needed.
How to Read a Book: Teaching Reading Comprehension in the Grammar School Years
Reading Time: 2 minutes Alisha Barker and Allison Buras share a cohesive approach to helping children learn to drink deeply from
the well of the literary arts.
Falling in Love with Words: Or, How to Read a Poem
Reading Time: < 1 minute Christopher Benson leads a slow reading of Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”
Reclaiming Adler’s Three Pillars for Engaging the Great Books and Students
Reading Time: < 1 minute Robert Woods discusses Adler’s Three Pillars as a pedagogical tool.
The Clean Sea Breeze of the Centuries: Literary Experience as Perspective on Culture
Reading Time: 2 minutes Jeremiah Forshey models and discuss the benefits of opening the first day of a humanities class with an excerpt of Lewis’s essay, “On the Reading of Old Books.”