5/04/2011
Carolina's last day
Carolina, we will miss you! Thank you for coming to us this year! We all wish you the best in Brazil! Many blessings to you and we will pray for you!
8/23/2010
8/02/2010
Ali Ann Marrs, MTS completed her Masters degree in May 2004 at the John Paul II Institute at Catholic University in Washington, DC. Her previous studies led her to a Bachelors of Philosophy in 2002 from The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in Merrimack, NH. Her focus of studies was on Duns Scotus and medieval philosophy, along with freedom, which she wrote a comprehensive thesis on. Her other areas of study include political science and literature. Her passion for the classics, mainly Homer, Virgil, and Dante, has blossomed in the traditional classroom and in a workshop setting. After five years of teaching experience in kindergarten, junior high and high school levels, Ms. Marrs took the leap to be an independent education by beginning DIDASKALOS, an educational services business that focuses on individual tutoring and various workshops.
She currently runs educational workshops, meets individual students one on one and is a writing tutor at UAA. Ms Marrs is an educational consultant who specializes in language arts, writing, culinary arts and Spanish. After spending multiple summers in Spain, she brings her acquired knowledge of Spanish to the elementary classroom. She continues to pursue innovative ways to bring the basics of grammar, rhetoric and logic back.
She currently runs educational workshops, meets individual students one on one and is a writing tutor at UAA. Ms Marrs is an educational consultant who specializes in language arts, writing, culinary arts and Spanish. After spending multiple summers in Spain, she brings her acquired knowledge of Spanish to the elementary classroom. She continues to pursue innovative ways to bring the basics of grammar, rhetoric and logic back.
6/16/2010
On the Preposition Tree
Don't you wish you could have the leaves of a million prepositions falling on your head?!
Look at the fun aid that students use to learn and memorize prepositions.
6/09/2010
School House Rock ROCKS!!
This gets two thumbs up for the week!
Click on the links below for amazing tools to remember grammar basics:
Interjections
Adverbs
Adjectives
Pronouns
Click on the links below for amazing tools to remember grammar basics:
Interjections
Adverbs
Adjectives
Pronouns
Grammar Institute 2010 Takes Off
After the first day of classes, one student remarked, "If it is going to be this fun, I won't mind coming every day!"
Imagine your mother telling you that you will take a grammar class for three weeks during your summer - that is not exactly peachy considering that you would rather be playing outside in the sun, now that the snow has finally melted.
It is a pleasure to announce that all the students are joyfully taking up the task of learning the eight parts of speech:
noun, pronoun, article, adjective, interjection, conjunction, verb, adverb.
The students are also parsing and writing. "What is parsing?" Ask that guy. He knows the answer. "It means to label a word according to what part of speech it is." Correct answer!
It is truly amazing the things students can do when they are asked to!
One last thing - School House Rocks is the favorite of the week!
Imagine your mother telling you that you will take a grammar class for three weeks during your summer - that is not exactly peachy considering that you would rather be playing outside in the sun, now that the snow has finally melted.
It is a pleasure to announce that all the students are joyfully taking up the task of learning the eight parts of speech:
noun, pronoun, article, adjective, interjection, conjunction, verb, adverb.
The students are also parsing and writing. "What is parsing?" Ask that guy. He knows the answer. "It means to label a word according to what part of speech it is." Correct answer!
It is truly amazing the things students can do when they are asked to!
One last thing - School House Rocks is the favorite of the week!
4/26/2010
Dante at Sugarspoon
Dante is the epic poet and pilgrim. He transforms epic poetry and shows what the feminine fulfills in all epic poetry, in the words of Larry Allums:
"...the summons to the MASCULINE to obey the DIVINE imperative somehow imparted through the WOMAN to EMBRACE the QUEST."
DIDASKALOS hosts the last of a four-part workshop series that has investigated the nature of epic Poetry at Sugarspoon this Friday.
"...the summons to the MASCULINE to obey the DIVINE imperative somehow imparted through the WOMAN to EMBRACE the QUEST."
DIDASKALOS hosts the last of a four-part workshop series that has investigated the nature of epic Poetry at Sugarspoon this Friday.
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