Thursday, May 23, 2013

Classical Book Club




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Our homeschool group, PEACH, hosts a Classical Book Club for 6th through12th graders, meeting every other month to discuss books of excellence while learning Biblical discernment in reading literature. 

This school year they voted on the book selections and read:
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
Black Ships before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff
Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan
Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
Ben Hur by Lew Wallace

Today they met to discuss The Taming of the Shrew followed by dinner and end of the year pool party.  Later in the evening they watched a theater production of the Taming of the Shrew with Marc Singer as Petruchio.  My favorite is the Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton movie, but not as well suited for the younger audience.

A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls
together and burned them publicly. When they calculated
the value of the scrolls, the total came
to fifty thousand drachmas. 
Acts 19:19

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