by Dwane | Jan 19, 2015 | Education, English, Greek, Vocabulary
abyss: a bottomless pit; an unfathomable depth; or even, a hopeless situation. From Greek ἄβυσσος (bottomless). This word breaks down into ἀ (not) and βυθός (deep place). I’ve never seen this abyss, though I hope to while traveling “out West” this...
by Dwane | Jan 19, 2015 | Education, English, Latin, Vocabulary
Expert: a person with a particular skill, special knowledge, or a person who knows a lot about a particular subject. Expert derives from the Latin expertus (tried, tested, proven by experience). Expertus is the past participle of the verb experior (to test, to put to...
by Dwane | Jan 17, 2015 | Education, English, Latin, ScreenCasts
Ever wonder how to diagram a prepositional phrase? There really isn’t much to it. Find out how to do it in this...
by Dwane | Jan 16, 2015 | Education, Motivation
I named my site “Think Outside the Border” for many reasons. I grew up overseas. When you grow up outside, you see America from the outside. It just happens that way. More and more people are “thinking outside borders” when it comes to...
by Dwane | Jan 15, 2015 | Education, English, Latin, ScreenCasts
The next video in the English diagramming series is here! I am slowly working my way through the famous First Year Latin text by Robert Henle. This is not my favorite Latin book (Lingua Latina, by Hans Orberg is.), but, I have quite a few students working their way...
by Dwane | Jan 12, 2015 | Education, Latin, Motivation
This year, I am taking a team of students through First Year Latin, by Robert Henle. We set out to read the book in two years. As we read, however, I am realizing it would be better to speed up. We need to read the book in one year. Better to rip a band-aid off in...
