Someone recently asked about when to start diagramming sentences and doing formal grammar. The easiest way to teach grammar is to just spe...

(Burger?) King Agamemnon The Emperor and I have been reading through the Oresteia with Leena, Choclo and Oob.  If you're wondering i...

The Wicked Fairy at the Manger My gift for the child: No wife, kids, home; No money sense. Unemployable. Friends, yes. But the wrong ...

We've been playing around with a lot of different poems lately, and it occurred to me that we hadn't done any limericks in ages.  ...

Do you differentiate between movies and films?  To me, it's the difference between novels and literature.  Some novels are literature,...

We've been living in Spelling City for a while now, but I haven't thought to blog about it. Spelling City is an actual program, a...

 I'm not getting paid for any of this, but you can repay me by telling me your favorite educational apps in the comments!  1.  Dra...

We finally made it back to the library, paid an embarrassingly large fine, and promptly took out 48 more books.  It really had been a whil...

The Box that Brought the Past I opened up the wooden Box Shaped like a treasure chest today. I don't know what made me think of it;...

 So, with all the Halloween stuff, actual educational stuff was also happening. For one thing, Klenda made her English teacher Dad's...

September Midnight Sara Teasdale (1914) Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shado...

Napoleon at the Great Sphinx 1798 Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: `Two vast and ...

Barter By Sara Teasdale Life has loveliness to sell,       All beautiful and splendid ...

Guest blog by the Emperor We recently completed a huge study of Macbeth !  The Scottish Play is a particular favorite of mine, and I...

Annunciation ‘Hail, space for the uncontained God’ From the Agathistos Hymn, Greece, VIc We know the ...

Christ Has No Body  Christ has no body but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes with which he looks...

And I do plan to return to actual posting this week! It's just been crazy busy! Kubla Khan By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...

JABBERWOCKY Lewis Carroll (from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There , 1872) `Twas brillig, and the slithy toves   ...

SONNET 29 When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my boot...

I'm thinking of New Years resolutions. We Are Many Of the many men whom I am, whom we are, I cannot settle on a single one. They are ...