Did you see him in Moulin Rouge? It was a hilarious part. My kids saw Van Helsing, and said he played a monk or friar or something in that movie. It's coming up on Netflix, so I'll see it in a few weeks.
Do look into "The Well Trained Mind". Though we didn't follow it all that closely, I love their use of real books and reference materials as opposed to textbooks for history, geography, art history, music history, literature, etc. Check out TRISMS, too. It is a curriculum already set up, but follows the time frame of TWTM. What grade is your daughter in? TRISMS is designed to start at the middle school level, with History Makers being the curriculum for grades 7 & 8. They have a four year curriculum for high school that builds on the research and writing skills learned in the middle school program. They are both secular programs, but I like that as opposed to a more limited view. We added the religious instruction with books from Ignatius Press and service in the Parish.
The few Aussies I have met I have REALLY liked. If things ever get so bad here in the US that I cannot live here, I will move to Australia.
TRISMS sounds good! I have the site bookmarked. Erin is in fifth grade now, so if I am going to the WTM thing, now would be the time to pick it up. I have been worried that I waited too long to do this. Hubby has finally been talking to people. A friend of his who HS their four kids uses the Seton Catholic cclm, which I don't have any objections to so far, but I would like to supplement it with the WTM. I can't remember if someone here recommended the Seton cclm...is it fairly decent inasfar as solid academics? I have a local friend who used to hs using Seton, and then put her children in the private school where Erin attends. She had to be downgraded from fourth to third, and I don't want to be rude in finding out why. I just wondered if it had to do something with the level of education she had recieved through Seton.
I figure Erin will recieve the religious instruction through our going to church and the wonderful people we have in our tiny little parish. I dont see it a necessity to wrap every academic subject in the cloak of Christianity.
I missed this comment earlier. Who was David Wenham in Moulin Rouge?