My first exposure to homeschoolers was as a 3rd grade student. My mom would travel to a local private school and purchase some textbooks and each week we would go meet with other homeschoolers at a church. I took a US history course taught by my friend’s father and my mom would teach the younger […]
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We are excited to announce the completion of our Editing Workshop course! We started our editing workshop in December and posted a new lesson each week for ten weeks. Now you’ve seen the posts, you’ve experienced our excitement as we walk you through each of these great skills. Now the entire course is available for
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Join Amanda weekly starting January 15th at 4:30 pm EST as she helps us understand Shakespeare’s play, ‘King Lear’. Do you remember reading your first book? I mean really reading. Not deciphering. You sat down, and for the first time in your life the difficulty of the task fell away as you lost yourself
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At any moment in the United States you can find a Shakespeare play being performed, especially in the summer and fall. We have Shakespeare in the park, and summer play houses that focus on the Bard himself. While ten out of every twelve theaters have performed ‘Twelfth Night’ or ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in the
When my son was five, I did the typical first time homeschooler thing: We read the “Tale of Despereaux” together and watched the new movie with the goal of comparing the two. Of course, he was five. What I expected from my five year old, I have no idea. Over the years my methods may
