Narrative – Parables Day 1 – The Lake Parables of Jesus Read Matthew 13.1-13. Make a list of all the parables that Jesus tells in this chapter, giving to each a title. Summarize each parable, and compose one sentence to express the lesson of each parable. Day 2 – Parables of Divine Mercy Read LukeContinue reading “Progymnasmata for the High School Student – Year One, Week Ten”
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Progymnasmata for the High School Student – Year One, Week Nine
Write Your Own Fable Day 1 – First Draft You have done some preliminary work on your fable. You have thought about the animals and their characteristics and about a situation in which to embed the fable. Do you have a moral in mind? Or a fable that you would like to retell in yourContinue reading “Progymnasmata for the High School Student – Year One, Week Nine”
Progymnasmata for the High School Student – Year One, Week Eight
More 19th Century Fables & Beyond We now turn to the English-speaking world. Day 1 – Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson (d. 1882) was an American thinker and writer. Retell this story in prose from the perspective of the mountain. Emerson’s The Mountain and the Squirrel (1846) Day 2 – Christina Rossetti Rossetti (d. 1894) wasContinue reading “Progymnasmata for the High School Student – Year One, Week Eight”
Nihil sub sole novum 