Sep. 24, 2008

TOG Year 3, Week 3: Early Industrial Revolution

Lower Grammar Here's another good rhyme from Mother Owl's Rhymes (Kate Perkinson Howard ©1911) Robert Fulton Way back in eighteen seven, Robert Fulton, known to fame, Built the first steamboat, And called it by his name. Other men had tried in vain, By steam to make things go, But Robert made it practical, The others were too slow. Upon the grand old Hudson, He made his trial trip, The people cheered him loudly When they saw his little ship. Steam gaily up the river From the city of New York And skim along the water As lightly as a cork. You can download this rhyme here. Grammar and Dialectic The first antique school book I ever purchased was Building the Nation by Charles C. Coffin. It is a bit of a narrative history book that I think is excellent for grammar stage and a nice read for dialectic. The vocabulary is rich and some terms are outdated and might need explanation (e.g., go to meeting instead of church.) Mr. Coffin incorporates his Christian worldview into the text. I think I will be posting a lot from this book, at least through unit 3. This week's excerpt is on the Industrial Revolution,  download here. Dialectic and Rhetoric Ben and Zach are working on the Invention project scheduled for dialectic students for the next seven weeks. Both are required to write a biographical report and create a display board, for extra credit they make make a small scale version of a invention produced by their inventor. Philosophy ~ This week covered the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. We enhanced our studies with online resources (Scott Somerville suggested this site) and Peter Kreeft, who has a wonderful CD available called What Would Socrates Do? The CD includes various philosophers through the ages and deals with ethics; the lecture on Kant is called Being Good and Being Fair: The Ethics of Kant.  Also, available for free is an article written for The National Catholic Register called The Pillars of Unbelief, which includes a piece on Kant.

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