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Ancient and Biblical History Companion
The Holy Bible
The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt
Plutarch’s Lives
Quo Vadis
Readings in Ancient History: Thought and […]

This week, the only writing assignment my son had to do was a simple description of a favorite place.  He knew it was due today, but put it off until just before dinner.  Anyway, living up to his wise guy reputation, he produced this interesting piece of work (the place about which he’s writing, no one [...]

Deadly Happenings It was a dark time in Rome. Ashes and fiery balls of debris filled the midnight sky. Slaves rushed throughout the streets throwing tubs of water on the nearest flames, while guards and fire squads tore down house after house, hoping the fire would not spread. As for my family and me, we [...]

A Small Presence By Elizabeth Fitz   Rochester watched Jane as she strolled through the yard with Adele. He had only just met Jane a week ago, but already her trifling presence and vivid mind had captured him. Adele’s outgoing personality and cute demeanor outshone the plain, quiet Jane. Rochester chuckled at the minute height [...]

I’m happy to report that we’ve survived the first day of school!  Our day was a litte shorter than I believe it will be for the long haul (Bran worked for four hours and Liz spent about five), but it was nice to be able to just ease into the work. One day down, one hundred seventy-nine [...]

Elizabeth, Grade 8 “The notebook is impressive with great examples of rigorous and relevant work!  Your achievement test results are also worthy of recognition.  Your work in Algebra I is solid.  You are doing great work!   Nice writing and use of technology to exchange comments. Impressive again!!” Brandon, Grade 7 “Your portfolio speaks…[Read more]

Liz, 9th Grade: History, Bible, Lit, Vocab  - Sonlight Core 200 (Instructor’s Guide Sample, in case you’re interested) Composition- Student Writing Intensive C, Excellence in Writing Fix It! Grammar and Editing Made Easy with the Classics Math-U-See Geometry Abeka Biology with lab Rosetta Stone Japanese Piano, Soccer, etc. Brandon, 8th…[Read more]

Now that we’re heading into the last trimester of school, I thought I’d calculate the kids’ test/quiz averages  for the year, thus far (not including daily work): Liz, 8th Grade : Algebra I 94.4%, Science 97.5%, L/A 98.5%, History 98% (Japanese and Bible are not tested, but if I were to assign a grade for those, they would be [...]

Semester Grade Report Student: Elizabeth Fitz Points Earned : 591/610 Letter Grade : A+ Comments: I’ve enjoyed having Liz in class—her chat contributions are always appreciated, and she does great work on her written assignments. She definitely pays close attention to instructions, and she’s able to apply lots of creativity to her homework.…[Read more]

here is a rough draft of the imitative writing assignment Liz had for her literature class this week (she decided to continue the story).  I really think she captured the essence of Catherine and was able to imitate Blos’s style quite well (even without knowing much of the vernacular of the early-mid 19th century).  Oh, and [...]

My free copy of History Channel’s Story of  US arrived today! Woo hoo!!

I was way too excited when my Hammond’s Historical Atlas arrived in today’s mail (with a nice little surprise tucked inside……a wall map of the US showing all the Presidents’ places of birth)! I showed my daughter, my son, my husband, my dog, and even my two bunnies; not a bit of excitement was displayed by [...]

Today was the day…(insert scary music here, perhaps the Halloween theme song)….to pick up the kids’ portfolios from the school district.  As this was our first homeschooling year, I wasn’t sure what kind of comments the Superintendent might make about the kids’ work. Much to my relief, there was a small paper with brief comments [...]

Everything is bought and on the school shelves (and schedules are written for the first six weeks). Here is what we’re in for this year: Liz, 8th grade: -A History of US (all 11 volumes) with tests from Hewitt, the Sonlight IG and notes, and US History Map Activities -Intro to Literature Class through Laurel [...]