To: neverdem
2 posted on
03/28/2004 1:43:07 AM PST by
WhiteyAppleseed
(2 million defensive gun uses a year. Tell that to the Gun Fairy who'd rather leave you toothless.)
To: WhiteyAppleseed
My cousin is mentioned in that book - she gave me it for Christmas!
By the way, the concept of doing away with texts, among homeschoolers it is a Charlotte Mason concept called using Living Books.
Instead of reading a text about the Civil War, for example, they will read Grant's Memoirs. To keep it mentally in order they plot on a timeline every book they read. I have a friend that uses it exclusively, her son is way ahead in history.
To: WhiteyAppleseed
One of the most memorable readings from graduate school was an essay by Gatto called " A Confederacy of Dunces".
23 posted on
03/28/2004 5:53:33 AM PST by
BoozeHag
To: WhiteyAppleseed
One of the most memorable readings from graduate school was an essay by Gatto called " A Confederacy of Dunces".
24 posted on
03/28/2004 5:53:36 AM PST by
BoozeHag
To: WhiteyAppleseed
I made a search for a decent history text for my kids. It doesn't exist. I had to pull from the classics and they had to grow up to read them. They read the Iliad and Odessey (in poetry) and then Herodotus at the age of eight. They loved those books. Not only are they engaging and full of imagery, but they gain an appreciation for what they have.
This year, it will be Plutarch.
26 posted on
03/28/2004 6:10:19 AM PST by
Carry_Okie
(Environmental deregulation is critical national defense.)
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