After a couple of months of studying, it was finally time to board the cruise where the National Memory Master Competition would take place! I was very excited and nervous to finally compete. The night before the cruise, we stayed…
National Memory Master Competition Part 4: Cruise
National Memory Master Competition, Part 3: Studying
Becoming a National Memory Master finalist (read my post about becoming a finalist here) was super exciting, but it also meant I had a lot more work in store. I was already in the process of mastering most of the…
National Memory Master Competition Part 2: Becoming a Finalist
Last time I wrote about the first semester of my sixth-grade year and how I began to prepare for the National Memory Master Competition (see the first post here). In this post, I want to write about the time following…
National Memory Master Competition, Part 1: Summer-January
In sixth grade, I decided to participate in Classical Conversations’ National Memory Master competition (NMM). NMM is the culmination of CC’s Memory Master program. It is a national competition for sixth graders in the Classical Conversations Foundations Program. Normally, to…
The Great Conversation
Among Wilson Hill students, one consistently favorite class is The Great Conversation or TGC. The Great Conversation, which is similar to Veritas Press’ Omnibus, is an integrated study of history, literature, and theology. Each class is worth two and a…