Final Curriculum Tweak!

OK, I think I've finally gotten it right!
 

One of the reasons we start homeschooling in August is so that by September 1, we have made all of our adjustments and are on track to complete our curriculum by late spring.

So far, I have adjusted the kids literature courses, Adjusted my son's Spanish, and this morning, I adjusted the Biology.

The literature courses (Skills or Literary Analysis and American Literature: Encouraging Thoughtful...

It's about following direction people (book giveaway winner)

Stat's tell me that dozens of people read my blog about the book giveaway.  Investigation told me that several people entered. But one... only one person followed instructions of the giveaway, and so the book goes to Mrs. C.

Mrs. C, please email me your information at ahermitt (at) gmail (dot) com.

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Homeschooling and Black History

 The other day, I wrote about my anxiety about teaching the hard parts of American History, most specifically black history.  The good news, is that once I write these things down and get them out of my heart, I am pretty much over it.

Now I get to enjoy the good parts about it.  Yesterday we spent an hour discussing westward expansion and

Tying it all together

I love the fact that we can make the students curriculum cohesive by making sure that different subjects follow the same time line.  For example, Right we are studying US History 2, so I was able to assign a book for literature that is from the same time period.  It was really cool today to be discussing westward migration and find Mark Twain's name listed as a reason people moved west as he'd romanticized the west. It only makes sense to be reading Huckleberry Finn right now.

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