This Week on the CiRCE Podcast Network
This week, CiRCE podcasts contemplated Marilynne Robinson's novel, Home, a proverb from Dante, Act I of The Merchant of Venice, the active life and the contemplative life, and more!
This week, CiRCE podcasts contemplated Marilynne Robinson’s novel, Home, a proverb from Dante, Act I of The Merchant of Venice, the active life and the contemplative life, ways of adapting to the various needs of individual students, and a new CiRCE publication. Be sure to subscribe, rate, and review, wherever you like to listen to podcasts!
Close Reads
Home: Pages 1-50 – And suddenly your friendly neighborhood podcasters were on to a new adventure! In this episode, David and Heidi dive into Marilynne Robinson’s novel, Home. They discuss the serious nature of her work, the complicated strcutures of the book, and the pathos at the core of the story.
Proverbial
Episode 37: The Best Part of the Trip – This week’s proverb comes from Dante, that great Italian writer, who wrote, “if the will won’t will, nothing can force it.”
Episode 34: Economies of Happiness
Episode 30: Stuck in the Middle
The Play’s the Thing
The Merchant of Venice: Act I – Join Tim, Heidi, and Sarah-Jane as they dive into Shakespeare’s great play, The Merchant of Venice. In this episode, they discuss the character of Portia, Shylock’s unnerving nature, a little of bit of context, and much more.
The Daily Poem
Friday, September 11: Billy Collins’ “The Names”
Thursday, September 10: Mary Oliver’s “Every Morning”
Wednesday, September 9: Elinor Wylie’s “Wild Peaches”
Café Scholé
Episode 11: Happiness and Contemplation – In this episode, Dr. Christopher Perrin contemplates the distinction between the active life and the contemplative life, and the necessary harmony between the two.
Ask Andrew
Ep. 62: How should I structure the day when students have multiple needs? – In this week’s episode, Andrew Kern contemplates ways of adapting to the various needs of individual students, while also avoiding decision fatigue.
Ep. 61: How do I adapt classical education to the modern system?
Ep. 60: How do I teach history classically?
FORMA
Talking the new “30 Poems to Memorize” Book – In this episode David Kern joins Heidi White to discuss a new CiRCE publication, 30 Poems to Memorize (Before Its Too Late), which David edited.
Dale Grote + Wes Callihan on Latin and the book of Acts
The Commons
Season 4, Ep. 6: The Problem of Quiet Classrooms: Technology & Isolation
Season 4, Ep. 5: Understanding Hollywood’s “War” on Family
Season 4, Ep. 4: Loving the Natural Sciences: An Interview with Gordon Wilson
Season 4, Ep. 3: Dealing with Difficult People
Season 4, Ep. 1: Classical Educators & the Church: An Interview with Dana Gage
Victoria’s World
A History of the Royal Navy (Part 2)
A History of the Royal Navy (Part 1)
Inventors & Inventions of Victorian England
The Weapons that Forged an Empire
The Greedy Queen: Eating with Queen Victoria
The Charge of the Light Brigade
British Raids in East Africa: The Story of Wituland
The Boer War: Costly Lessons for the British Empire
The Siege of Khartoum – Radical Islam Encounters the British Empire
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – A Victorian Sensation
The Battle of Rorke’s Drift – A Last Stand Against the Zulus
The Victorian Poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson
A Tour of Victorian London Through the Eyes of Charles Dickens
CiRCE Staff
