If you’ve ever heard of John Buchan, it’s probably because of Alfred Hitchcock’s movie adaptation of his novel The Thirty-Nine Steps. Buchan was an amazingly productive author of over 100 works of fiction and nonfiction, averaging five books a year from 1922 to 1936. He wrote a 24-volume history of World War I during the … Read more
Jane Eyre provoked quite a heated discussion in my literature class for 9th-12th-grade homeschoolers. Some loved the book; some despised it; and others liked only parts of it. St. John Rivers was universally despised. To bring out the students’ creativity, I asked them to write an alternate ending to the novel. My only requirement was … Read more
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 … Read more