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.
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
Associated Subject:
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
Associated Subject:
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
Telescopes & Owl Eyes in High School Astronomy
Check out how Abigail G. answered one of the weekly discussion questions – Why do nocturnal animals usually have large pupils in their eyes? How is that related to the way
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Science
2023 Summer Club T-Shirt Design Contest Winner
Congratulations to Ellie J., winner of our Summer Club T-Shirt Design Contest! When asked what inspired her design, Ellie said, “I thought of the design by imagining how learning is
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Clubs
Original Graphic Short Story: Dragon School
Kaitlyn Daniels went above and beyond with her final project in Creative Writing for the Logic Stage. Students were tasked with writing a short story in one of the genres
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Art Brings History to Life
Madeline Perry made a collage about Eva Perón for her Story of the Modern World end-of-the-year history project. She then created a video to introduce her work. Her teacher, Mr.
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History