Author Archives: Janice
Font’s Role in Visual Rhetoric
In rhetoric class, near the end of the year we discuss visual rhetoric. Students have spent most of the year studying ancient rhetoric, refining writing and speaking skills, and debating using a Lincoln-Douglas (values) style debate. They learned and practiced … Continue reading
The Sabbath
We best oppose error by promoting a solid knowledge of the word of truth; and the greatest kindness we can do to children, is to make them early to know the Bible. Matthew Henry 9 How can a young man … Continue reading
The Cello Song
While teaching in Columbia, South Carolina our school was involved with The University of South Carolina String Project. It is a wonderful program where string music undergraduates provide string instrument instruction to children. This unique program helps the college students … Continue reading
Teenage Books – Too Dark?
Recently in The Wall Street Journal, Meghan Cox Gurdon who writes regularly about books for them had an article entitled Darkness Too Visible about the current state of books for young adults. The tag line was Contemporary fiction for teens … Continue reading
War News: Blue & Gray in Black & White
I have been interested in the Civil War since elementary school when I read a book about two brothers on different sides of the conflict. I grew up in Maryland, a border state, and had a relative who served in … Continue reading
Horton: The Christian Faith – Introduction B. Doctrine
In The Christian Faith, Michael Horton continues his Introduction: The Dogma is the Drama: A Theology for Pilgrims with Doctrine, the Grammar of Faith. “The great doctrines of the Christian faith arise out of this dramatic plot” (p. 20) that he addressed … Continue reading
Storytelling and Remembering
Front Porch Republic had a short article this week about Community, Storytelling and Remembering by Doug Sangster. It made me remember the stories I was told as a child. The funny ones like the time my mother’s father, who was … Continue reading
Front Porches
Richard H. Thomas write an article, From Porch to Patio. (Published in The Palimpsest, journal of the Iowa State Historical Society, in 1975), in which he explains how our American culture has changed since the 19th century from front porches … Continue reading
The Sabbath
When at any time we are in trouble we should be more concerned about our sins, to get them pardoned, than about our afflictions, to get them removed. Matthew Henry Psalm 51 For the director of music. A psalm of … Continue reading
E. B. White, Farmer and Writer
I never read Charlotte’s Web as a kid. Mrs. Parrish, the librarian at Featherbed Lane Elementary School did present the book to us. It had just been published and was getting all kinds of recognition. That was partly due to … Continue reading
