Posted by Katie in Book ReviewsJul 8th, 2009 | No Comments
My oldest and I are slowly reading through Mortimer Adler’s classic, How to Read a Book. By slowly, I mean we have been reading the book for two years and are on schedule to finish it in two more. It is a book about, you guessed it, learning to read books.
The term ‘read’ in this context means something more significant than decoding phonics and basic comprehension, which Mr. Adler considers the first type of reading. The other types are inspectional reading, analytical reading, and the ultimate process, syntopical reading.
Inspectional reading includes reading the back, the...
Posted by Katie in Book ReviewsApr 9th, 2009 | No Comments
Paper is the bane of my existence.
But it does exist, and it exists in this house. I have worked hard the last several years to eliminate the need for paper where possible, and to streamline our paper usage (with bound notebooks, etc.) when we have to use it. This has kept the kids from losing many important assignments (although we have lost entire *notebooks* at times, which is a little more traumatic than losing one assignment).
However, we still have lose papers floating around the house, as well as lost pencils and scissors, pencil sharpeners that mysteriously vanish, and disappearing...
Posted by Katie in Book ReviewsMar 23rd, 2009 | No Comments
Written by a homeschooling husband and wife team, College Prep Homeschooling is a handbook meant to prepare parents to teach through the high school years. Byers is a college professor, and homeschooling was the topic of his doctoral dissertation. This book is the result of his research and experience, as well as his wife’s day-to-day experience and wisdom.
They state in the first chapter that their purpose was to report the facts of homeschooling objectively in order to help others come to their own conclusions on the matter, although they make no bones of the fact that they wish...
