LTW-ANI charts

Howdy folks! This post is about ANI charts. ANI charts are the first step in LTW to creating a persuasive essay. In Challenge, at the beginning of the year you do not need to have many points on the chart, but later you will need to have more and more and more...

LTW stands for Lost Tools of Writing. It looks like this:

Cool isn't it? There is a student version and a Tutor version. Choose accordingly.

This is an ANI chart. ANI stands for Affirmative, Negative, and Interesting. To use the ANI chart, you first must create an ISSUE from the book that you had to read for school. There is a different book every 3 weeks. For Example: You have read the book Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone. An issue from that could be: Whether Harry should have accepted the wizard duel challenge from Malfoy. On the ANI chart you would put under A: Reasons he should have, N: Reasons he shouldn't have, and I: Any random things from the book that might help you write the paper later.

I hope this post was helpful in creating your ANI chart. Leave any questions in the comments and I will answer them best I can! Until next post!

Rhetoric-Fallacy Detective

Hola, and welcome to the next Rhetoric book. Wait, what? There's another rhetoric book I have to groan through? Yes, but it is not that bad! "It Couldn't Just Happen" wasn't terrible either was it? This book is really interesting. It's called "The Fallacy Detective" by Nathaniel and Hans Bluedorn. 

Awesome book. I love it! This book (as it says on the cover) has 38 lessons on how to recognize bad reasoning. Don't you love it already? It's also really really really easy to understand. The setup of the book is this: It has you read about the fallacy, and then you do exercises on it. 

Tadaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa simple! It's really easy. Also, there is an answer key in the back of the book, but DO NOT LOOK AT THE ANSWERS UNTIL YOU HAVE DONE THE EXCERSISES. Please, for my sake. 

I hope this explains "The Fallacy Detective" to you, even if the book itself is rather straightforward. If you have questions, leave them in the comments and I will try to answer them to the best of my ability. Until next post!

Rhetoric-It Couldn't Just Happen

Hello! Me again. The easiest subject (for me anyway) in Challenge A has been Rhetoric. For the first semester and part of the second semester, we went through a book called "It Couldn't Just Happen" by Lawrence O Richards.

Each chapter of the book is divided up into small sections.

The students are given a worksheet to fill out. The worksheet is also divided into sections.

For each section in the book, you first read the section. Then you write it's title on the line next to the text: Section 1, Section 2, etc according to whichever it is. Under summary you summarize the section. You then move on to the next section until you are done with the chapter.

I hope this helped you understand a bit more about the rhetoric strand in Challenge A. If you have any questions, leave them in the comments and I will try to explain in further detail. Thanks for reading this!

Challenge CC

Hi everybody! As this is my first blog, I apologize if it is not that great. In this post, I am going to explain some things about Classical Conversations (CC) and the Middle school/High school version of it: Challenge. If you already know what it is, then great! Skip this post! Go on to other posts (when they are created...) I am currently in the first level of Challenge. When I started it, I was a little bit confused and had a lot of trouble with my work. I was struggling to understand, and was often behind. My Lead Learner and some other moms were able to help me thankfully. I decided to create this blog in order to help other people in Challenge who need help as well.

                          What is Classical Conversations?

Classical Conversations is a christian home-schooling program with the mission "To know God and to make him known" We teach parents and students classical tools of learning to help them discover God's creation, and to enable them to do the same. For ages 4-11, there is a program called foundations, where the kids learn basic History sentences, Science facts, Skip Counting, Geography, Basic Grammar and Latin endings. The rest of their education is done at home by the parents, usually with different, more complicated things to learn chosen by the parents from any curriculum they choose. From ages 9-11, in addition to Foundations, there is a class called Essentials in which they learn grammar and writing. Finally, from ages 12-18, there is Challenge. 

                   

                                           What is Challenge?

Challenge is the aptly named Middle School/High School program for CC. There are five levels in Challenge: Challenge A, B, C for Middle School, and Challenge 1, 2, 3, and 4 for High School. 


I hope this post was helpful as an intro to CC/Challenge. In other posts, I will be explaining Challenge A work, and in later years, Challenge B-4.