What does the word “rhetoric” mean to you? Most people associate “rhetoric” with words that are big, showy, or empty, fake, and manipulative. Why would we want to teach our children how to use words to manipulate people? As an online teacher at Kepler Education who teaches Rhetoric, I’d like to submit that rhetoric is inescapable. We are surrounded by rhetoric. It’s not a question of whether our students are going to learn rhetoric–it’s a …
Category: Language
Studying Latin is important for several reasons. First of all, it is important because some 60% of English words are derived from Latin. So, knowing Latin will help you have a better knowledge and understanding of English. From a practical point of view, it will help you raise your SAT or ACT scores. If we take for example the Latin noun mors, mortis, which means “death”, here are some of the English words derived from it: mortal, …
Note: Andy Newman will be teaching The Theo-epic of Salvation: An Introduction to the Holy Scriptures this fall online for Kepler. Class begins Sept. 8. Early registration ends July 15. The class works well for home-schooled students, as well as those attending private or public schools, since the class meets online weekly from 7-8:15 a.m. MT, Saturday. This essay originally in the Scottsbluff (Neb.) Star-Herald on Oct. 13, 2017. Words, the novelist Walker Percy maintained, have …
The study of adjectives and adverbs, commas and clauses, prepositions and participles, is a channel through which God pours spiritual growth, Christlikeness, and joy to the Christian. …