Mr. Burton GildersleeveApr 262 minThe Logic Behind Logic ClassWhen you first learned that we have a logic class at the Academy, if your response was like most of any of ours you likely nodded your...
Mr. Burton GildersleeveApr 262 minA Day In The Life of Pre-KAdmittedly our title is already misleading: There are no typical days in Pre-K. There are some constants, though. Or as Mrs. Morrison...
Mr. Burton GildersleeveApr 263 minAlways Looking DownIn 5th grade students recently wrote their own myths. In conversation with Mr. Chertudi, I (Mr. Gildersleeve) asked a few questions about...
Mr. Burton GildersleeveFeb 83 minMrs. Eisenbarth Joins WCA Music DepartmentAt the start of the new year the Academy welcomed Mrs. Maggie Eisenbarth as its new upper school music teacher. Mrs. Eisenbarth joins...
Mr. Burton GildersleeveFeb 82 minThemes In Literature and LifeIn 5th Grade Mr. Chertudi and his class are currently reading Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. In their study of that classic...
Mason LoefflerNov 12, 20212 minThe Proud & The Humble in King ArthurIn King Arthur and His Knights of The Round Table by Roger Lanclyn Green, pride is a great sin. Pride, in Biblical terms, is elevated and...
Mr. Burton GildersleeveNov 12, 20212 minGood Art Takes TimeArt awakens us to the world as it truly is – complex and mysterious yet knowable, in shades, all at once. The best artists, if you think...
Mr. Burton GildersleeveNov 12, 20212 minNature Studies at WCAJonathan Edwards, who by many is considered one of America’s foremost theologians, and who wrote great works such as The Religious...
Mr. Burton GildersleeveApr 16, 20213 minWhy study Latin?It’s a question as likely as April rain. Many Academy students ponder it, though only before they’ve taken the class, and rarely...
Haidyn HudsonApr 16, 20213 minThoughts of a New Academy StudentThe following is the transcript of a speech given by Haidyn Hudson at Friday Chapel in February, 2021: I was asked to give a short...
Mr. James ChertudiJan 28, 20212 minImproving Student Rhetoric Through ImmersionA critical role of the classical educator is to guide students to the rhetoric stage, the summit of a classical education. Young...
Mr. Holden SielerJan 28, 20212 minThe Rhetoric of VirtueRhetoric, according to Aristotle, is the art of persuasion. Mobilizing the weapons of word, emotion, and credibility—what the philosopher...
Valentina BoyleJan 28, 20213 minDoomed to LiveIrony is a literary device by which language or expectation is undermined in a narrative. There is a significant use of irony in the...
Mr. Burton GildersleeveNov 3, 20202 minLittle Things Make Big Things Happen“It’s the little things that are vital,” John Wooden once stated; “Little things make big things happen.” Anderson, a 7th grader at the...
Mr. Burton GildersleeveNov 3, 20202 minThe Heart of ScienceYou’ve likely felt it, that inimical sensation that comes when you close the pages of a great book. The written words transport you to...