Ryan's CC Challenge Class

Well, he did it! Ryan completed Challenge A with Classical Conversations. Here he is with his tutor, Mrs Quek and classmates, Will and Claire.
He loved being with this group....he even missed them over Christmas break, wanting to get back with them. He learned to get out and enjoy time with others, playing football during lunch breaks and after classes in the afternoon.
He struggled with the writing....every week they wrote two papers, one for science and one for IEW, writing class (the first semester was Bible story based, 2nd semester was literature based)
He didn't enjoy geography but look what he could do.....

Every week they practiced drawing--copy, trace and free hand draw the different continents with all the countries therein, by hand. By the end of the year he could draw, from memory, the entire world. He had also memorized each country and capital. Yeah, this most definitely was a challenge, but he did it, and did it well!

And, that wasn't the end of the drawing lessons either. For science during the 2nd semester, they learned about the different systems of the body--drew each one by memory, named each part and could tell how it all worked. (Respiratory system, circulatory system etc.)

He took his first year of Latin and loved it. For math he moved to another group for Algebra 2.

In the end he was greatly challenged and grew in many ways-- socially and academically. It was a tough year, but a fun one....especially when he could finally beat Claire in the memory games of Rhetoric!!