mechanics Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/mechanics/ Cultivating creativity, wisdom, and virtue in education, entrepreneurship, and soul care. Mon, 02 May 2022 14:56:23 +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 mechanics Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/mechanics/ 32 32 89931359 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 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 Perfectly Parsed Piffle- The Writing Evaluator’s Dilemma https://doingwhatmatters.com/perfectly-parsed-piffle-the-writing-evaluators-dilemma/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/perfectly-parsed-piffle-the-writing-evaluators-dilemma/#respond Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:07:39 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=49 As parent-teachers, we’ve all seen boring writing assignments — a grammatically-correct report that simply paraphrases an encyclopedia entry or a five-paragraph essay that piles one trite cliche on another, and concludes without a glimmer of an original thought. If you’re anything like...

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