where to begin
Aug. 9th, 2020 10:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
temporaryreality The grammar stage of a classical education is covered in TWTM, in Part I that focuses on kindergarten through fourth grade. If you're educating young people between the ages of four and nine, this is the section that'll start it off.
Obviously, for an adult with an adequate level of literacy, this section is mostly not relevant to the endeavor of rounding out a basic, late-twentieth-century education; yet I read it with a slightly different focus and from it I gleaned a few things relative to what I want to do (as with everything, loosely conceived until I actually get to it):
I want to read (certain, defined/chosen writings; about certain defined/chosen things).
I want to learn (vocabulary, information, etc.).
I want to write (about what I'm learning; things that incorporate aspects of what I learn; in forms related to what's being studied).
I want to memorize (selections from what I read; distillations of what I learn)
The process outlined in TWTM includes coming up with a reading list in accordance with the historical "scaffolding" being followed, reading original and secondary sources, writing (here I add - this could include using original sources as thematic inspiration, or as "stylistic" or form guides to emulate, or writing my own secondary, "about ___" pieces), recording what's been read/learned/memorized.
To that end, I think I'm going to create a project binder. This blog will be a complement to that.
Obviously, for an adult with an adequate level of literacy, this section is mostly not relevant to the endeavor of rounding out a basic, late-twentieth-century education; yet I read it with a slightly different focus and from it I gleaned a few things relative to what I want to do (as with everything, loosely conceived until I actually get to it):
I want to read (certain, defined/chosen writings; about certain defined/chosen things).
I want to learn (vocabulary, information, etc.).
I want to write (about what I'm learning; things that incorporate aspects of what I learn; in forms related to what's being studied).
I want to memorize (selections from what I read; distillations of what I learn)
The process outlined in TWTM includes coming up with a reading list in accordance with the historical "scaffolding" being followed, reading original and secondary sources, writing (here I add - this could include using original sources as thematic inspiration, or as "stylistic" or form guides to emulate, or writing my own secondary, "about ___" pieces), recording what's been read/learned/memorized.
To that end, I think I'm going to create a project binder. This blog will be a complement to that.
