August 28, 2010
My good friend Kerry Beck is offering 2 weeks of homeschool interviews to get your homeschool year off to the right start!
I’m honored to be one of the guests who was interviewed. I’ll be sharing my tips for staying organized and setting goals. My interview will air on Monday, Aug. 30, between 2:00 [...]
August 27, 2010
Today is the first class day for my high school literature class for our homeschool co-op.
When I taught my first group class 4 years ago, I mostly lectured, anxious to cram the information into my students. My teaching style has evolved so that now I teach almost entirely by leading class discussion. I’ve found [...]
August 25, 2010
My high school literature class for our weekly homeschool co-op follows the time period we are studying in George Grant’s Gileskirk Humanities curriculum. Here’s our reading list for this year’s Modernity class:
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
The Antiquary by Sir Walter Scott (1816)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1860-61 serial, [...]
August 20, 2010
THOMAS – 4TH GRADE:
Latin:
Latina Christiana II
Composition & Grammar:
First Language Lessons
Complete Writer, Writing With Ease
Bible:
Child’s Story Bible
Science:
Exploring Creation w/ Human Anatomy & Physiology (Apologia)
Literature:
Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O’Dell
Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
Bound for Oregon, Leeuwen
Around the World in 80 Days, Verne
Little Women, Alcott
Twenty-one Balloons, Du Bois
Heidi, Spyri
Call of the Wild, London
Where the [...]
