Hi! If you are new to my newsletter, once a week or so I send out some general resources that I’m using with my 11th-grade high school class at Classical Conversations. You might find them helpful in educating your student too! I’m a little bit behind on my postings so I will be catching those up rather quickly over the next two weeks. Here are some resources for Fall Week 13. (I don’t post something for every one of my 6 subjects each week.)
Philosophy:
We worked on defining “hell”. We watched Tiltawhirl Ch 12 about hell. The purpose was to get us to see hell from a variety of perspectives and angles.
Hell is:
1) is a real place of darkness and despair
2) place we both choose and are sent to by a holy God
3) it is giving us what we want (our natural state hates God/goodness/truth)
4) it will be wherever He is not
Verses you can look up on hell: Mk 9:43-48, Mt 10:28, 7:22-23, 8:11-12, Luke 16:19-31, and 2 Thess. 1:9-10
Will you bend and bow the knee to God, or will you choose to go your own way and be cast out into the darkness?
Then we discussed Sartre and we compared his views to some earlier philosophers we have studied. We discussed the inauthentic man vs. the authentic man.
We watched a parody on “millenials” that is similar to the inauthentic man who thinks he is a victim of his circumstances and isn’t self-motivated to face adversity.
Here is a link to a video on existentialism.
Here’s the link to the audio of Sproul’s lesson from the video series.
Here’s the link to the video series on Right Now Media, if you have access to that.
Our final chapter is due next week on Darwin/ Freud.
Shakespeare/Poetry:
I shared an excerpt from The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe p. 88 in Prescripts. We learned about epistrophe. Ask your student what it is. Ask them how Poe sort of used it, but didn’t in his poem. (He started it, but then used an interruption and didn’t repeat the phrase “above my chamber door” a third time.)
We started Macbeth.
Here’s a great place to watch some overview videos on Macbeth.
History:
Here’s a documentary on Lincoln and his friend, Lamon.
Chemistry:
Ask your student how did you determine the width of a molecule? Get them to show you the math! It is a lot!
Michelle