It’s election day in these United States of America. After much speech-making and hand-wringing and soul-searching the day has come. We’ll take to the polls and cast our respective votes for the next leader of the so-called Free World. This is a momentous occasion and a great responsibility. Years from now, centuries even, people will […]
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Join Leah Lutz, Head Mentor of our West Coast Apprenticeship and LTW Director, for a week-long online study of Much Ado About Nothing, one of Shakespeare’s greatest comedies. Open to students, parents, and teachers | 4:00 – 5:30 pm (EST) each day As a participant, you will contemplate questions like . . . Should Don
Join Andrew Kern, President and Head Mentor of The CiRCE Institute, for a week-long online study of Hamlet – perhaps William Shakespeare’s greatest masterpiece! Open to students, parents, and teachers | 4:00 – 5:30 pm (EST) each day As a participant, you will contemplate questions like . . . Should Hamlet have sought revenge? Should
Congratulations to each of the winners of our 2015 Lost Tools of Writing Essay Contest! Thanks to Classical Conversations for helping sponsor this competition.
The CiRCE Institute cordially invites you to a 4th of July Extravaganza Old-time Family Picnic! Join us for music, good food, old-timey kids games, kid-friendly fireworks, an old time softball game, a bonfire, and much more. When: July 4th, 2015 @ 3:30 pm Where: Hardin Farm, 4501 Gold Hill Road, Concord NC, 28025 To RSVP
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And then there were two. After four rounds of voting you have eliminated 30 of Shakespeare’s plays leading to our final matchup: Hamlet vs Much Ado About Nothing. Make your pick. Vote in the final round now. Final Four results: Hamlet defeated King Lear with 74% of the vote. Much Ado About Nothing defeated Macbeth
Hercules. Theseus. Jason. Odysseus. Zeus. Aeneas. Athena. These were some of the names mentioned here in CiRCE HQ. What about you? Who are your favorite mythological characters?
And then there were four. After three rounds of voting, together we have have eliminated 28 of Shakespeare’s plays and we’re down to only Hamlet, King Lear (which won by only one vote over Henry V), Much Ado About Nothing, and Macbeth. Vote now in the round 4 as we eliminate two more plays. Round
Congratulations to our winners of the Lost Tools of Writing photo contest! Check out their creativity below.
And then there were eight. After two rounds of voting, together we have have eliminated twenty-four of Shakespeare’s plays and we’re down to only Hamlet, Twelfth Night, King Lear, Henry V, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Vote now in the round 3 as we eliminate four more plays.
While round one of our Bard Madness literature bracket didn’t provide a lot of suspense, round two promises to be a doozy. The first sixteen matchups went mostly chalk (that is, the higher seeds won) in dominant fashion, but in round 2 we have matchups like these to vote on: Julius Caesar vs Twelfth Night
