Mar 5, 2024 | Dawn Burnette, Online Homeschool
What Is Literature? No student should leave high school without practicing some type of literary analysis, but what “counts” as literature? When we think about literature, we obviously think of written texts—novels, short stories, poems, etc.—but are all written texts...
Jul 26, 2023 | Dawn Burnette, Online Homeschool
What are Fine Arts and why do I need them? The fine arts in high school are typically referred to as visual and performing arts. The National Art Educators Association defines them as visual arts, dance, music, and theater. These are classes that you would imagine,...
Jun 15, 2023 | Dawn Burnette, Online Homeschool
Why do we suffer through hours of grammar exercises? Is it so we can check a box and say, “Yep! We did grammar—glad that’s over!” Do we really need to know what a predicate nominative is? Can’t we write well without knowing all those grammar terms? And does knowing...
Mar 17, 2021 | Dawn Burnette, Rigorous Courses
Which is better: Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam on the Sistine Chapel ceiling or Haydn’s oratorio The Creation? While you might prefer one over the other, it’s unfair to declare one as “better” because they are completely different art forms. How many times have...
Jan 20, 2021 | Dawn Burnette, Engaging Education
The Significance of Grammar Mastery Grammar? Do we really need to learn that? Indubitably! When people dismiss grammar as being unimportant, it’s usually because they don’t understand the purpose of grammar. Grammar involves more than just memorizing the definition of...
