<![CDATA[ST JOHN CHOIR SCHOLA - Historia]]>Tue, 05 May 2026 18:12:19 -0600Weebly<![CDATA[Medieval Fair]]>Thu, 30 May 2024 22:58:48 GMThttps://www.sjcschola.ca/historia/medieval-fair​The grades 7 & 8 were busy at work as the school year came to a close planning a Medieval Fair. The event included three live performances by the students, recounting different events in King Arthur’s life.
​Additionally, there were activites such as jousting, axe throwing, potato sack racing and tapestry making in which all participated. Later, even the servants (grade 9 and 10 volunteers) joined in a concluding banquet feast. 
]]><![CDATA[The Ides of March!]]>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:44:36 GMThttps://www.sjcschola.ca/historia/the-ides-of-marchThe love for literature has been rapidly expanding at SJCS! Mrs. Rochford’s passion for teaching this subject can truly be seen at work through her students’ initiative to surprise her on March 15th.

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​Also known as the “Ides of March”, this day marks the anniversary of the murder of Julius Ceasar in 44 BC. In honour of this date, the students prepared an excerpt from Shakespeare’s Julius Ceasar to mark the momentous occasion. 
]]><![CDATA[Shakespeare is in season at SJCS!]]>Fri, 09 Feb 2024 16:54:43 GMThttps://www.sjcschola.ca/historia/february-09th-2024The grades 7 /8 and 9/10 literature classes have started their study of Shakespeare’s work. Focusing primarily on Julius Ceasar and The Merchant of Venice respectively, this week they had the joy of re-enacting these materpieces in class.
]]><![CDATA[Pursuing Truth, Goodness & Beauty]]>Wed, 18 Oct 2023 21:19:38 GMThttps://www.sjcschola.ca/historia/pursuing-truth-goodness-beautyConnie and I, united in a scholarly pursuit, made our way to Newman Theological College this past June to “seek the things that are above.” Its annual Fides et Ratio seminar is just the forum for such goals and for the people who hold them. As expected, we enjoyed a week of mass, Great Books, and discussion in the presence of company that humbles me, in a place of prayerful repose and beauty.

The fulfillment of my expectations is, I hope, embodied in my classes this year.

At the Schola, we purport to embody the transcendentals – truth, goodness, beauty – as things that intrinsically help us to know our Creator. And yet we live in a world that treats beauty like a luxury. If you should happen by Room 2, you’ll witness my retort to that post-modern presumption.

Chief among the lessons I hope to convey is a posture of intellectual humility. I stand in receipt of the academics who discussed books with me this summer. It’s my goal to convey a sense of indebtedness to the minds who crafted the works we read and discuss in class. Curiosity and gratitude should be our initial stance towards them.

TS Eliot once happened upon a young man who claimed that “the dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.” The poet stopped, then retorted, “Precisely, and they are that which we know.”

-Ms. Giesbrecht
]]><![CDATA[Making History Come Alive...]]>Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:56:56 GMThttps://www.sjcschola.ca/historia/making-history-come-alive
Our grade 7/8 Greek History class covers a plethora of subjects all rolled into one; Literature and Archeology, Art and Architecture, and Theater and Philosophy.  The beginning of our Greek year focuses on some of the founding myths of Western Civilization, with the Iliad and the Odyssey at the center. We were blessed to have the grade 8s come in to watch our readers theater (with some costumes!) of the Trojan war and its aftermath. 
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We were blessed to have the grade 8s come in to watch our Readers' Theater (with
some costumes!) of the Trojan war and
​its aftermath. ​
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