The student showcases at Well-Trained Mind Academy demonstrate the power of classical education in action. Our students’ work illustrates how they move from mastering basics to expressing their own ideas, gaining both knowledge and confidence along the way.
Science Fair 2024
Students in Dr. Amanda Furtado’s 2023-2024 Chemistry for the Logic Stage class put together abstracts summarizing their science fair projects, which Dr. Furtado then pulled into this newsletter. The students
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Science
Poetry Collage – Poetry in Reading for the Logic Stage III
Students in Reading for the Logic Stage III completed “Poetry Collages” where they used lines from works in Poetry 180 to create their own poems. Students were to consider the
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Writing & Grammar
Way to go WTMA Math Club!
Congratulations to the Math Club for the Rhetoric Stage for their outstanding performance in all 6 Math League competitions. Well-Trained Mind Academy placed on the list of high scoring schools
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Math
Clubs
Driving Home in the Rain – A Poem by Sophia Hoff
Sophia Hoff’s poem, “Driving Home in the Rain,” was written for Creative Writing for the Logic Stage. Teacher Lori Huth says of her writing, “There are many wonderful things about
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Writing & Grammar
Literary Secret Santa: Showering Lawrence Selden
This year in Scholars’ Seminar, one unit’s culminating project assignment asked students to create a customized holiday gift and design thematically appropriate wrapping paper for a character selected from one
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Literature
Literary Secret Santa: A Present for Pip
This year in Scholars’ Seminar, one unit’s culminating project assignment asked students to create a customized holiday gift and to design thematically appropriate wrapping paper for a character selected from
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Literature
Reading for the Logic Stage Body Biography
Students in Dr. Roudabush’s Reading for the Logic Stage III class completed a “Body Biography” this Spring for the character “Sade” in Bevery Naidoo’s The Other Side of Truth. A
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Literature
French Cinema à la WTMA
After spending an entire unit learning the vocabulary around cinema and film-making, our French III level students had fun with a unit project that consisted of making their own short
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World Language
Well-Trained Mind Academy 2023 Nature Sketchbook Club Badges
The Nature Sketchbook Club was busy this year sketching plants, birds, and the sky! Badges were awarded in the fall for students who completed each set of requirements. Students who
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Clubs
High School Astronomy Movie: Life Cycle of Stars
Here’s a delightful student video to start the year. Enjoy watching Misha Sharpe’s stop-motion movie about the life cycle of stars, which was created for his high school Astronomy class
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Science