story Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/story/ Cultivating creativity, wisdom, and virtue in education, entrepreneurship, and soul care. Wed, 05 Feb 2020 22:21:36 +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 story Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/story/ 32 32 89931359 Telling the Truth in Fiction https://doingwhatmatters.com/telling-the-truth-in-fiction/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/telling-the-truth-in-fiction/#comments Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:27:49 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=1262 Fairy tales, parables, and other true stories I have been thinking about fairy tales this week after coming across a bowdlerized (to modify by abridging, simplifying, or distorting in style or content) version that appears on a third grade Common Core...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/telling-the-truth-in-fiction/feed/ 2 1262 Why Christians Should Read Fiction https://doingwhatmatters.com/why-christians-should-read-fiction/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/why-christians-should-read-fiction/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:21:14 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=251 I recently met someone who had been raised without fiction. No Little Golden Books, no Dr. Seuss, no Little House on the Prairie, no Chronicles of Narnia…nothing. I can’t begin to imagine, but the thought makes me feel a bit...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/why-christians-should-read-fiction/feed/ 4 1809 Charlotte Mason on Teaching With Literature https://doingwhatmatters.com/charlotte-mason-on-teaching-with-literature/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/charlotte-mason-on-teaching-with-literature/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 14:40:01 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=185 Stories bring knowledge alive and engage emotional memory in a way that makes abstract principles and arcane facts easy to understand and remember. When learning can be joyous and simple, why make it boring and difficult (and pointless because they are unlikely to remember anything) by using tedious worksheets and canned curriculum? It's never too late to start teaching well. Resolve now to make literature and stories a major part of your educational adventure!

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