Blog Title: Logos School Classical Education

Putting Feet on the Trivium Chapter One: Part 3, Some High Priority Standard Operating Procedures

Some High Priority Standard Operating Procedures. This refers to the very basic, foundational, day-to-day hallmarks of your administrative style. We’ll go into more specifics later. There is always room for personal style, and that will quickly become apparent to your parents and staff, especially if you are taking the helm from a previous administrator.

Putting Feet on the Trivium Chapter One: Your Qualifications [Part 2]

- Tom Garfield   So, what’s your story? What qualifications do you bring to the job? Some sobering thoughts: The administrator is virtually the embodiment of being “all things to all people,” or at least that often seems to be the expectation by those who employ you and the parents you will serve. Why do I say read more..

Jim Nance on Christ as the Lord of Logic

Jim Nance has posted a series of entries on our Logic Blog which discuss the role of Christ as lawgiver and Lord of logic. Be sure to stop buy and read these great posts. When we are teaching students how to know the truth of statements, we are helping them to know more of who Christ read more..

Putting Feet on the Trivium Chapter One: Your Qualifications [Part 1]

- Tom Garfield Putting Feet on the Trivium Chapter One: Your Qualifications Pt 1 It wasn’t the first time Doug Wilson had thrown me a curve ball. This time, unbeknownst to me, it was a radical, life-altering idea… “I’d like you to consider heading up the Christian school we’re starting next fall. You know, be its administrator read more..

Logos School Logic DVDs Sample 02 - Establishing Positive Conclusions

YouTube Direktvideo link For more information on Logos School’s Logic Curriculum visit logosschoollogiccurriculum.com or the logic curriculum section at our website. Look into our online logic tutorials starting next fall.

Prince Caspian Vocabulary List

The following list of vocabulary words comes from A Reading Comprehension Guide for Prince Caspian, and is a great example of the vocab lists found in our reading comprehension guides. Our guides cover over 100 titles and can be purchased through our Logos School Materials shopping cart. Chapter 1 wardrobe reign nettles anemones promontory knights-errant blundered inhabited laden Chapter 2 queer dais jiggered fauns tapestries ambassadors peninsula electric torch carbuncles coronation Chapter 3 chain-mail floundered inconveneint hilt immense obliged dolefully reassured ravenously gist Chapter 4 tiresome babbled faltered tutor spectacles astronomy conjunction turret kindred remnants Chapter 5 victuals antechamber satchel usurper quavering fervent torrents tempest feeble upshot Chapter 6 wolds smithy subterranean bellows ravine contemptuously barbarians rapier Chapter 7 Contingent entrenchments renegade ancestry valiant famine lair sorties bivouac conceit Chapter read more..

Prince Caspian Reading Comprehension Guides

In 10 days the next installment of the Chronicles of Narnia movies, Prince Caspian, will be showing in theaters. Surely millions of young people who have not read the books will be introduced to C.S. Lewis’ classic tale through film. We certainly hope that this popularization generates more interest in Lewis’ books. At Logos School read more..

Logos School Logic Curriculum DVD Sample

Here is sample from Logos School’s Introductory Logic Curriculum DVD. In this video sample Jim Nance is providing examples of enthymemes. YouTube Direktvideo link Visit our logic blog for more discussion about teaching logic, and to interact with teacher and author, James Nance. Also consider Mr. Nance’s new online logic tutorial. In the fall read more..

The place of the Arts In Classical Education

By Gregory D. Wilbur Originally published in Classis by the Association of Classical and Christian Schools. Secular educators approach the study of the Arts with the desire of developing a wellrounded student. The study of the Arts does much more than to provide “enrichment” in education, and its relevance is not as simple to relate as recent read more..

Sample of Introductory Logic Student Text Book

Check out oura 50 page sample of the brand new edition of Introductory Logic by Jim Nance and Douglas Wilson. Designed for 8th-grade and up, the lessons in this text cover definitions, logical statements, fallacies, syllogisms, and many other elements. This course is a thorough introduction and serves as both a self-contained course and a preparatory read more..