context Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/context/ Cultivating creativity, wisdom, and virtue in education, entrepreneurship, and soul care. Thu, 15 Jun 2023 20:15:21 +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 context Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/context/ 32 32 89931359 Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Art of Historical Fiction https://doingwhatmatters.com/laura-ingalls-wilder-and-the-art-of-historical-fiction/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/laura-ingalls-wilder-and-the-art-of-historical-fiction/#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2018 01:24:52 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=3627 The Laura Ingalls Wilder Award was recently renamed the Children’s Literature Legacy Award, a remarkably generic name for such a prestigious award. A lot has been said about the change, and most that I have seen has been negative, with reactions...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/when-is-reading-hard/feed/ 0 3570 Westward ho! Adding Context to Travel https://doingwhatmatters.com/westward-ho/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/westward-ho/#respond Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:16:34 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=1968 We are preparing for the WHO conference in Washington state and GHC in Ontario, California and as I always do when going westward, I start thinking of classic poetry, western songs, and big beautiful western sky. For me, it is...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/westward-ho/feed/ 0 1968 Teaching Grammar: To Diagram or Not to Diagram? https://doingwhatmatters.com/teaching-grammar-to-diagram-or-not-to-diagram/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/teaching-grammar-to-diagram-or-not-to-diagram/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2014 19:08:13 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=1583   When I teach essay writing for high school or college exams, I encourage students to beware of using absolutes such as “always” or “never,” because these are rarely true — there are exceptions to almost everything, and those absolutes...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/teaching-grammar-to-diagram-or-not-to-diagram/feed/ 2 1583 Why Study Literature in Context? https://doingwhatmatters.com/literature-connects-disciplines/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/literature-connects-disciplines/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:16:02 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=711 Why study literature in the context of art, music, history, and worldview? Context — the history, art, and music related to a particular piece of literature — helps to bring a book to life and make it more understandable, especially...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/literature-connects-disciplines/feed/ 2 1862 Questions about using Excellence In Literature in a co-op https://doingwhatmatters.com/questions-about-using-excellence-in-literature-in-a-co-op/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/questions-about-using-excellence-in-literature-in-a-co-op/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:32:55 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=106 I received an e-mail this morning from a co-op leader, inquiring about the Excellence in Literature (EIL) curriculum. When I receive detailed questions like these, I know that others are probably wondering some of the same of the same things,...

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