Monday Morning
Getting back into the swing of things. This morning we tackled Lectio Nova from Latin by the Natural Method Here’s an activity based on the Tapescript.
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Lately our family has been going through Fr William Most’s textbook, Latin by the Natural Method. It’s great fun, but presented in a compact, black and white text, which could be greatly elaborated. The work has begun : Latin by … Continue reading →
Australian States and Territories
Copied over from oraprono.biz – attempting to let go of some old domain names. This shouldn’t come up in amongst the regular posts – it should be there with the Courses. I’ll change the date to hide it. Work in … Continue reading →
More ideas – and a new quiz
I came across LifterLMS and it look much slicker than Namaste! though it doesn’t really do as much. It looks like the more WatuPro quizzes I add here, the slower the website will work. I’m wondering if H5P would be … Continue reading →
Term 2 2016 – The Reformation
It’s a funny thing to study – so much misinformation! We have Karl Adam’s Roots of the Reformation plus Cobbet’s book and R H Benson’s historical novels. Also a short life of St Thomas More. The Librivox recordings of Come … Continue reading →
Term 1 2016 – Middle Ages (mainly Europe)
Following Charlotte Yonge’s book on Roman History has been great this term. She strikes a good balance between brevity and interesting detail with a Christian perspective. It is easy enough to cross reference with other websites plus our Historical Atlas. … Continue reading →
More wars: Samnites and Pyrrhus
All the short histories of Rome skip to the Punic Wars, so I wanted to read about Pyrrhus by the end of the week. In Charlotte Yonge’s Book we read through chapters 13-16 today. There were lots of incidents to … Continue reading →
Rome – Coriolanus, Cincinnatus and the Decemvirs
Continuing with Charlotte Yonge’s book, chapters 9 and 10 describe Coriolanus, Cincinnatus and the Decemvirs. This continues under the Early Republic The conflict between patricians and plebians reminded me of the parable about a kingdom divided. kingdomdivided Coriolanus – doesn’t … Continue reading →
Ancient Rome – government
We read chapters 7 and 8 of Charlotte Yonge’s book Young Folk’s History of Rome. This described the developing political structure of the Roman Republic. There are many, many diagrams to try explain the structure, but as the structure changed … Continue reading →
Ancient Rome
Continuing from Greece, now we’re moving along to looking at Ancient Rome. So far we’ve read a few chapters from Young Folks’ History of Rome by Charlotte Yonge. Yesterday we had a brief overview of the Kings of Rome: The … Continue reading →