Smart Guys

"I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught."
-Winston Churchill

"Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the mind of noble and learned men, not a conducted tour through a jail."
-Taylor Caldwell


"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
-Albert Einstein


Saturday, December 31, 2011

Totally Out There Post for New Year's Eve

I was looking at some other homeschooling blogs, and it suddenly dawned on me that I never blogged about the boys' theatre class.  At least I don't think I did. . .  I'm getting old, so my memory ain't what it used to be.

This fall, the boys took their third theatre class with Mr. Dustin at the Solon Center for the Arts.  Instead of putting on a regular play at the end of the session like they've done in the past, the kids wrote their own radio play and performed it before an audience.  It was recorded for posterity, too.  They had sound effects and everything.  I loved how they threw the script pages to the floor when they were finished reading them.  Mr. Dustin had told them all about Orson Welles' War of the Worlds radio show and how radio used to be a popular form of entertainment before TV.



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