great books Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/great-books/ Cultivating creativity, wisdom, and virtue in education, entrepreneurship, and soul care. Tue, 29 Aug 2023 17:57:09 +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 great books Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/great-books/ 32 32 89931359 Middle School Reading Lists: What a difference 100 years makes! https://doingwhatmatters.com/middle-school-reading-lists/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/middle-school-reading-lists/#comments Tue, 05 Jun 2018 21:20:03 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=3614 I recently came across an interesting comparison of two middle school reading lists. The author, Annie Holmquist, compared a list from 1908 with a current list from the same state on the basis of time period, thematic elements, and reading...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/middle-school-reading-lists/feed/ 2 3614 Choosing Books for Boys https://doingwhatmatters.com/choosing-books-for-boys/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/choosing-books-for-boys/#comments Tue, 13 Jun 2017 16:17:10 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=3407 Choosing books for boys isn’t all that hard. Give them adventure — the kind with blood and courage, dirt and ingenuity — and watch their imaginations soar, assuming they haven’t been “Eustaced”* by the sort of twaddle mentioned in Martin...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/choosing-books-for-boys/feed/ 1 3407 A poem, truth, and the month of May https://doingwhatmatters.com/a-poem-truth-and-the-month-of-may/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/a-poem-truth-and-the-month-of-may/#respond Thu, 05 May 2016 20:14:27 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=2476 Under the Willows by James Russell Lowell, 1819 – 1891 May is a pious fraud of the almanac, A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind; Or if, o’er-confident, she trust the date, And, with her...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/a-poem-truth-and-the-month-of-may/feed/ 0 2476 Imaginative Authors Foresee the Future https://doingwhatmatters.com/imaginative-authors-foresee-the-future/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/imaginative-authors-foresee-the-future/#comments Tue, 13 May 2014 23:17:50 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=1415 In Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift wrote of the two moons of Mars. Of course, it was 1735, and the two moons weren’t discovered until 1877.  In 1870, in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne described an electric submarine,...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/why-context-what-you-know-changes-how-you-read/feed/ 0 1044 Summer Reading: It’s Time to Break Out the Good Books! https://doingwhatmatters.com/summer-reading-its-time-to-break-out-the-good-books/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/summer-reading-its-time-to-break-out-the-good-books/#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:16:43 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=835 Summer reading is essential. Here's why, and a partial list of what I'm reading.

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/homeschool-conventions-made-easy/feed/ 1 1870 What is Cultural Literacy? https://doingwhatmatters.com/what-is-cultural-literacy/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/what-is-cultural-literacy/#comments Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:24:21 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=541 Cultural literacy can help you decide what to teach and how to teach it. Here's what cultural literacy is, and how it can help you focus.

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/what-is-cultural-literacy/feed/ 7 541 How I Chose Great Books for Excellence in Literature https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-i-chose-great-books-for-excellence-in-literature/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-i-chose-great-books-for-excellence-in-literature/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:39:00 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=317 My goal in writing Excellence in Literature is to pass along my love for some of the most beautiful, thought-provoking literature in the world, and to help students learn to think critically and analytically while growing mentally and spiritually. Here's how I chose which books to include.

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