November 28, 2016history, junior 7-9, senior 10-12 SECONDARY HISTORY WITH THE STORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD I recommend the Guerber history series (edited and expanded by Christine Miller) to be a child’s first introduction to history in the […]
September 2, 2016June 29, 2022educational philosophy, elementary 4-6, history, junior 7-9, primary 1-3, senior 10-12, teaching tools TEACHING HISTORY WITH LIVING BOOKS History of Western Civilization A biblical study of history begins with the history of Western Civilization. (Why?) Other civilizations and cultures may […]
March 15, 2016September 21, 2016elementary 4-6, junior 7-9, literature, primary 1-3, reading, senior 10-12 1000 GOOD BOOKS The Thousand Good Books or, what everyone should have read “Taking all that was best of the Greco- Roman world into itself, […]
April 24, 2014September 8, 2016educational philosophy, junior 7-9, senior 10-12 ON THE USE OF REAL BOOKS IN THE SECONDARY CURRICULUM Real Books or Text Books? Most of the books recommended by CCH for use in the dialectic and rhetoric stages (the secondary […]
April 10, 2013September 21, 2016literature, reading, senior 10-12 10-12 SENIOR READING LEVEL Anthologies & Poetry Literature 1000 GOOD BOOKS | USING THE LIST 1-3 PRIMARY | 4-6 ELEMENTARY | 7-9 JUNIOR | 10-12 SENIOR […]
June 22, 2005government, senior 10-12 economics for the citizen “Last fall semester, I didn’t teach for the first time in 37 years. No, I haven’t retired. It was my semester-off reward for two […]