SS #124 – Redeeming the 5-Paragraph Essay with Renee Shepard

SS #124 – Redeeming the 5-Paragraph Essay with Renee Shepard

Should we be teaching our kids how to write a 5-paragraph essay? Brandy loves to slam the 5-paragraph essay while Mystie assigns it regularly – so they brought on Renee to mediate and give them the low-down on how classical educators should be teaching writing. Teaching writing is right up there with math in causing…

SS #89: Dorothy Sayers’ Latin Lament

SS #89: Dorothy Sayers’ Latin Lament

Dorothy Sayers is author of the essay that brought back classical education as a major school movement: “The Lost Tools of Learning.” However, that was not the only essay on education she composed. Today, Mystie Winckler, Brandy Vencel, and special guest Renee Shepard discuss Sayers’ other essay, “Ignorance and Dissatisfaction,” to better understand Sayers’ thoughts…

SS #60: History as a Center Cannot Hold (with Angelina Stanford!)

SS #60: History as a Center Cannot Hold (with Angelina Stanford!)

Our guest today is the lovely and delightfully controversial Angelina Stanford. Angelina has an Honors Baccalaureate Degree and a Master’s Degree in English Literature from the University of Louisiana. For over twenty-five years, she has shared her passion and enthusiasm for literature with students in a variety of settings — everywhere from university classrooms to…