As my kids get older I'm realizing homeschool plans that work for younger kids, do not work as well for older kids. Also, my kids have OPINIONS. Very loud opinions on what they want in a curriculum. Let's take a high school English curriculum. We've worked on writing, but I … [Read more...]
Write your plague journal
I give this a silly name, but we're studying the Netherlands right now, and Anne Frank is from there. I've been reading all about how she heard of how she was living in times that would be studied in history books, and she went through and revised the start of her diary, and … [Read more...]
Death on the Nile book club
Superman loves mysteries. The first book series he fell in love with was the A to Z mysteries. He obsessively collected all of them. Now, he's a bit old for those books, but he still loves mysteries (though he's added military sci-fi into his books he loves), so when he was … [Read more...]
Vocabulary Game for SAT scores
Back when I started homeschooling I read a book talking about the vocabulary gap. It had a sample paragraph from a classic novel and then said if you needed to reread the paragraph to understand it, then you had a vocabulary gap. I remember going back and rereading the paragraph … [Read more...]
Huckleberry Finn book club
I cam into our Huckleberry Finn book club with baggage. I read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a junior in high school as part of our American literature class. I hated that year of English Lit. Most of the books I might like now, but reading them as a junior in high … [Read more...]
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