Alissa- Classical Conversations Challenge A

Alissa did Classical Conversations, Challenge A this year.  And a challenge it was!  She did 30 weeks of intense school work with lots of memorization, writing, drawing, learning, and reading.  

Geography was a huge part of her year.  She learned how to draw the entire world from memory, label every country, and know each country's capital.  She also learned 154 geography terms and memorized their definitions.  Her final geo test was to take a blank piece of paper, fold it to make accurate lines of latitude and longitude (equator, prime meridian etc), draw the world, and label the countries.  She took a test on the capitals so her map wouldn't be so crowded.  

She also did a final project.  Her first one didn't turn out like she wanted it to (the one below).

 So, she decided to do one on canvas using watercolors.  Both were done from memory :)

Another thing she did was learn to draw from memory 10 different body systems.  She had to label each part of the system and do her own research to define the terms.
Every week for 10 weeks her quiz was to draw and label the system on a blank piece of paper.

 She wrote one paper each week for the first semester and during the second semester she wrote one every other week.  It was a lot of writing for someone who had never written before!

This is just a sample of some of the work she did.  She also did math, Latin, rhetoric, and natural science.

Alissa worked so diligently this year.  She put more time into her schoolwork than she ever has before and was totally self motivated.  I am so proud of her!  Now on to Challenge B! :)

HERE is Alissa's practice map and how she learned to fold her paper to make a fairly proportional world map.