Classical Conversations
of Hermitage, TN
Action Items
- NEXT WEEK (9/30): Mis-match/Tacky Dress-up Day!!
- NEXT WEEK (10/1): Mom's Night Out!!
- Pumpkin Patch field trip to Bottomview Farm in Portland, TN on Thursday, October 15th at 10:00. Teachers with ID get in free. Kids 3 and over $7/each.
Weekly Connections
Presentations: As your students deliver presentations, they will practice basic rhetoric by thinking about eye contact, voice volume, gestures, and memory. In Challenge I–IV, students advance in rhetoric through Team Policy Debate, Lincoln-Douglas Debate, impromptu speeches, memorized speeches, and poetry readings. In Challenge III–IV, students lead most of the seminars, demonstrating math problems on the board, leading their team through a lab, and guiding their peers through discussions of literature, philosophy, and history.
Latin: It's normal to start wondering why we're learning all these Latin noun endings (and in Cycle 2, Latin Verb endings)! Here's some advice from an experienced CC mom (and member of CC's Academic Advisor team . . . these are the guys that monitor and respond to questions on all the CC Forums).
"Memorize every piece of the Foundations Memory Work for Latin. The noun declensions and the verb conjugations are beyond valuable! I hear my Challenge A student humming away noun declensions during Latin exercises! Again, they are more valuable than most moms think! Encourage your student to master these endings so that if you ask for Second Declension, Plural, Genitive they can spell that ending! Singing the chant is great, but mastery of each ending to the correct case and number will provide confidence going in to Challenge A, and will make homework so much easier! Knowing the Latin noun and verb endings for Latin could be compared to knowing your multiplication tables for Math. The better you know them the faster your Latin work goes, the better you understand what you are doing , the more successful you are!"
Here are a couple of great articles on Latin to encourage you in your Classical journey:
- Top Five Reasons to Study Latin
- Latin as a Conversation (encouragement for Essentials parents!)
Draw Africa
Cycle 1 Documents from CC
Young Ladies Sewing Club
- October 3: 4pm-7pm
- November 7: 1pm-4pm
You are not required to stay with your child.
If you're interested in being included on Tracey's email list for information about upcoming meetings, send her an email at tjoriginals@juno.com with the subject line "Young Ladies Club."
Weekly Encouragement
Scripture
“But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.”
I Pet. 3:15 (KJV)
Info about our CC Community
Email: hermitagetncc@gmail.com
Website: https://rallyhood.com/rallies/18291
Location: 4004 Lebanon Pike, Hermitage, TN, United States
Phone: (615) 491-3293