Join Amanda weekly starting January 15th at 4:30 pm EST as she helps us understand Shakespeare’s play, ‘King Lear’. Do you remember reading your first book? I mean really reading. Not deciphering. You sat down, and for the first time in your life the difficulty of the task fell away as you lost yourself […]
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At any moment in the United States you can find a Shakespeare play being performed, especially in the summer and fall. We have Shakespeare in the park, and summer play houses that focus on the Bard himself. While ten out of every twelve theaters have performed ‘Twelfth Night’ or ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in the
If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time. In our post on creating a roadmap for your student, we said to start with the end in mind. But how do you choose a destination? Ken Coleman says that we should operate in what he calls our “sweet spot”, that is the intersection
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When we think of the word comedy we equate it with humor and laughter. We pop in a comedic film and anticipate the chuckling to follow. Shakespeare propelled the romantic comedy, which models we still use today in our films. Falling into scrape after scrape, miscommunication and confusion that cause us to chortle, the gent
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We are excited to announce the development of our Editing Workshop course! The editing workshop consists of ten short recorded lessons designed to walk your children through learning how to self edit some key components of their essays. This short course contains 4 lessons on the mechanics of a paper and 6 lessons focused on
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