September 17, 2009

In my post on 9/17/09 I suggested that you need not fall into the pit of anxiety when seeking out a suitable question to set your students for their essay. Let me illustrate that with an example from American history. When our great and devout ancestors the Puritans were settling the Massachusetts Bay colony, their […]

The Lost Tools of Writing teaches the Deep Logic of every subject. You can see this if you watch how it teaches students to reason through an essay. I have always tried to emphasize how the essay question should come from the student and that it doesn’t really have to be all that brilliant a

On September 17, 1787 the United States approved our constitution. Do you know the Preamble? If not, please memorize it TODAY and hold yourself and your government to it for the rest of your days: We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union establish justice insure domestic tranquility