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Archive for August, 2006

Homeschool Greek Volume Two

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

Harvey,
When I saw that you were actively engaged in publication of the 2nd part of Homeschool Greek, I stopped everything and dropped to my knees before the Throne and asked our Father to give you a generous measure of knowledge and understanding and wisdom to produce a work that would enable a new generation to [...]

Similarities and Differences

Friday, August 18th, 2006

Your methods differ from that of the other classical educators. They believe that the time is ripe during the grammar stage for the “filling of facts” and encourage the memorization of many things. They begin Latin in the third grade and start with Saxon 1 in Kindergarten. This is very different from what you suggest [...]

A Fresh Look at an Ordinary Subject

Friday, August 18th, 2006

Pete and Maribel Hernandez can always take the ordinary trivium and give it a fresh perspective.

Plagiarism

Friday, August 18th, 2006

The Wall Street Journal
August 15, 2006
Student Plagiarism Stirs Controversy at Ohio University
by Robert Tomsho
“To earn his master’s degree in mechanical engineering at Ohio University, Vipul Ranatunga aimed to make improvements to a computer-aided design system developed by other researchers…..”
The article goes on to say that Mr. Ranatunga described this other system in detail, identifying by [...]

College

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

I am happily homeschooling 3 children, ages 16 1/2 and 15 (both girls), and an 8 1/2 yr old boy. The children love homeschooling. However, I am suddenly feeling more alone than ever in what I do. I am in a large support group in my town, but more and more homeschool mothers “drop out” [...]

Ears From Harvested Sheaves

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

By J.C. Philpot
August 15
O that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his dwelling! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. Job 23:3, 4
Was not Job in the same spot where we often are? If this aged patriarch had not known what it [...]

Rescued Baby Bird

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

Is it a quail or a Bobwhite?

Spelling and Phonics

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

Rachel Thomson has posted a review of our Handy English Encoder Decoder.

Where is Mr. Pippin Today?

Monday, August 14th, 2006

With Woolworth the sheep in the Cumbrian Mountains of England

Photo of the Day — Thursday

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

My mom and niece Arianna

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