Penmanship Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/penmanship/ Cultivating creativity, wisdom, and virtue in education, entrepreneurship, and soul care. Mon, 07 Oct 2024 16:52:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/doingwhatmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/house-tree-512od.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Penmanship Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/penmanship/ 32 32 89931359 Learn Like Leonardo da Vinci with Study Notes and Learning Journals https://doingwhatmatters.com/study-notes-learning-journals/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/study-notes-learning-journals/#comments Fri, 30 Aug 2019 22:51:44 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=3750 How do you learn? If you wanted to learn about architecture, invention, drawing, painting, sculpture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, paleontology, or cartography, how would you begin? Long before textbooks and workbooks were invented, people of...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/study-notes-learning-journals/feed/ 1 3750 Handwriting and Reading: Ideas Worth Sharing — IWS #4 https://doingwhatmatters.com/stuff-and-stuff-ideas-worth-sharing-iws-4/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/stuff-and-stuff-ideas-worth-sharing-iws-4/#respond Tue, 12 Jul 2016 23:11:53 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=2570 It’s time for another Ideas Worth Sharing post, so even thought my internet connection is barely working, I’m going to attempt it. You’ll notice that almost all my links this time have to do with handwriting and reading. That’s because it’s...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/stuff-and-stuff-ideas-worth-sharing-iws-4/feed/ 0 2570 Penmanship Matters: Here’s Why You Need to Teach It https://doingwhatmatters.com/penmanship-matters/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/penmanship-matters/#comments Tue, 29 Mar 2016 21:41:44 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=2448 Is there any reason for an ordinary person to learn decent penmanship? I believe there is, even if handwriting seems difficult or unnecessary. Clear italic or cursive penmanship is an art form that virtually anyone can master. Because handwriting is...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/penmanship-matters/feed/ 6 2448 How to Hold a Pen or Pencil https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-to-hold-a-pen-or-pencil/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-to-hold-a-pen-or-pencil/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:03:00 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=650 Writing fatigue and writers cramp are the inevitable result of holding the pen too tightly or in an awkward grip, and often students don't even realize why writing is so hard. The physical act of penmanship is such a necessary part of school, it just seems wise to make it as painless as possible. Here's help.

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-to-hold-a-pen-or-pencil/feed/ 8 1854 Charlotte Mason on Copywork https://doingwhatmatters.com/charlotte-mason-on-copywork/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/charlotte-mason-on-copywork/#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:08:38 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=640 Charlotte Mason recommended copywork, which she called "transcription," as an early step in teaching language arts. In Home Education, she wrote about the value of copywork, as well as what and how to copy. I have provided her instructions and added a few notes of my own.

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/charlotte-mason-on-copywork/feed/ 6 1853 The Power of Copying a Text https://doingwhatmatters.com/the-power-of-copying-a-text/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/the-power-of-copying-a-text/#comments Tue, 18 May 2010 10:20:32 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=368 The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/the-power-of-copying-a-text/feed/ 6 1828 An Autumn Poem for Copywork https://doingwhatmatters.com/an-autumn-poem-for-copywork/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/an-autumn-poem-for-copywork/#respond Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:43:23 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=100 I believe that Charlotte Mason‘s method for teaching language arts provides an excellent foundation for future language arts learning. Copywork is the step that begins the process of learning to write. First, read the entire poem aloud, using appropriate inflection....

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/an-autumn-poem-for-copywork/feed/ 0 1771 The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy (and SAT Essay Prep) https://doingwhatmatters.com/the-darkling-thrush-by-thomas-hardy-and-sat-essay-prep/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/the-darkling-thrush-by-thomas-hardy-and-sat-essay-prep/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:09:30 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/2008/02/19/the-darkling-thrush-by-thomas-hardy-and-sat-essay-prep/ I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter’s dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/the-darkling-thrush-by-thomas-hardy-and-sat-essay-prep/feed/ 1 1743 Copywork for Teens https://doingwhatmatters.com/copywork-for-teens/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/copywork-for-teens/#comments Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:18:42 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=4 “Mom, I need some copywork!” I thought my son was kidding when he approached me this morning. After all, he is taking college classes, and doing quite a lot of writing. I thought he’d finished with copywork years ago! As...

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