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Archive: October 2016

Hamilton: An American Tragedy

In which I sketch out a few thoughts on Hamilton: An American Musical, the Broadway hit that reinvents the American revolution as a musical tragedy that some have said is Shakespearian in its vision and scope. The play is radically innovative...

I’d Like an Illuminated Missal, Please

On Sunday as I sat in Mass and my mind wandered (not during the homily, which was excellent) I had Saturday’s dazzling feast of illuminated manuscripts fresh in my memory when my eyes fell on the missalette: dull newsprint pages with boring type, no...

Learning Notes Columbus Day Week, October 10

Monday October 10 No school. Holiday. Plus I was feeling sick. Tuesday October 11 Slow getting back after a long weekend. And I had to do the grocery shopping I didn’t do on Friday because of Anthony’s knee. But everyone managed to do math and the...

Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts at Boston College

Boston College, Harvard, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum have a fantastic three venue cooperative show of an amazing collection of illuminated manuscripts. Everyone in the Boston area should check them out. On Saturday the McMullen Museum at...

Archaeology Day at the Museum of Science

On Friday we went to the Museum of Science for the 10th annual Archaeology Fair. (We went previously in 2013 and had an amazing time.) It was a very full day. We saw some homeschooling friends, we explored parts of the museum, we saw an omni theater...

Childe Hassam and the Yin Yu Tang House at the Peabody Essex

Last Thursday we drove to Salem to visit the Peabody Essex Museum because Bella really wanted to see the Childe Hassam exhibit. Childe Hassam is a lesser-known American impressionist, though during his day he might have been the most important...

Learning Notes Week of October 3

Monday October 3 Bella worked on factors, boring, but she stuck to it. Anthony did some addition and subtraction. Ben is starting to work on multiplication. Sophie is doing metric measures and volumes. Sophie and Bella both did copywork. Sophie is...

Immediate Book Meme: flashback

I found this draft for a previous iteration of the immediate book meme in the archive of unpublished blog posts. I guess I forgot to publish it back in May. Interesting to see where the overlap of books is between this and the one I just did. Mrs...

Learning Notes Week of September 26

Monday September 26 Sophie had an early dentist appointment. Ben and Anthony and Bella did math with Dom to check their work. Ben did copywork. Anthony waited until I came home to read to me and copy a sentence. Sophie then did her math, copywork...

Notes on Parallelism in the Psalms

Notes from “The Psalms: Spacious Places for Wrestling with God” by Daniel Russ in The Prospect of Lyric edited by Bainard Cowan. This essay is from a gorgeous volume of essays about lyric poetry (part of a series about the four (Aristotelian) genres...

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