Invention/Discovery

akern · akern

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Kendall · Kendall

One son chose the issue ‘whether 12-year-olds should be allowed to drive.’ I'm not seeing the benefit we will get from a definition such as ‘children who are older than 11 and younger than 13’ I think he should change the whether question to something more gen...

Chris in NM · Chris in NM

Hi! I am teaching a class of home-schooled high school students in their second year of composition with me. The first year, first semester, we did a good deal of imitation, and analyzing sentences and paragraphs ( ala Francis Donnely). The second semester, we began working our way through the p...

Jennifer F · Jennifer F

I hope this is the right forum in which to post this question. I would so appreciate an example or two of the kind of definition we should be able to come up with by the end of invention module 4! Do we add the parts to the genus & difference somehow, or is this a different kind of definition altogether? T...

Bonita · Bonita

Our 16yos is working on an exploratory essay about cell phones. For the last portion of this essay, I wanted him to address the ways cell phones have impacted communication in our culture, but he wasn't going anywhere with the concept even though he had some good writing prompts....

Leah · Leah

This is how creative some of my students are in gathering information- Once we reached invention module 2-Using Questions, I assigned 30 items for the Affirmative and Negative sides on the ANI chart. So I just found out that two high school girls decided to post a request for ideas on their is...

Leah · Leah

Just wanted to post a quick note on the enjoyment that all of my classes have had with the process of creating the Affirmative/Negative/Interesting chart. The students from 4th up through 12th have understood it very quickly and I have received several, "I can't wait to do this for homework!"...

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	each of these posts has been moved to the new forum (Preview) Please follow them through the web site at www.circeinstitute.org	akern	0	1066	Nov 18, 2006 by akern
	Definition Module 3 (Preview) One son chose the issue ‘whether 12-year-olds should be allowed to drive.’ I'm not seeing the benefit we will get from a definition such as ‘children who are older than 11 and younger than 13’ I think he should change the whether question to something more gen...	Kendall	2	855	Nov 8, 2006 by akern
	Circumstance and following topics (Preview) Hi! I am teaching a class of home-schooled high school students in their second year of composition with me. The first year, first semester, we did a good deal of imitation, and analyzing sentences and paragraphs ( ala Francis Donnely). The second semester, we began working our way through the p...	Chris in NM	0	745	Nov 1, 2006 by Chris in NM
	Definition question (Preview) I hope this is the right forum in which to post this question. I would so appreciate an example or two of the kind of definition we should be able to come up with by the end of invention module 4! Do we add the parts to the genus & difference somehow, or is this a different kind of definition altogether? T...	Jennifer F	5	1011	Oct 25, 2006 by akern
	ANI w/Exploratory Essay and Questions (Preview) Our 16yos is working on an exploratory essay about cell phones. For the last portion of this essay, I wanted him to address the ways cell phones have impacted communication in our culture, but he wasn't going anywhere with the concept even though he had some good writing prompts....	Bonita	3	3682	Oct 13, 2006 by akern
	ANI and MySpace (Preview) This is how creative some of my students are in gathering information- Once we reached invention module 2-Using Questions, I assigned 30 items for the Affirmative and Negative sides on the ANI chart. So I just found out that two high school girls decided to post a request for ideas on their is...	Leah	5	1130	Oct 9, 2006 by Camille
	The ANI Process (Preview) Just wanted to post a quick note on the enjoyment that all of my classes have had with the process of creating the Affirmative/Negative/Interesting chart. The students from 4th up through 12th have understood it very quickly and I have received several, "I can't wait to do this for homework!"...	Leah	1	1100	Oct 2, 2006 by akern
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