Living Outside the Lines
At Living Outside the Lines reading classical literature is fun. We make it fun in a number of ways: themed meals, interesting and engaging projects and lots of social time. Some of the homeschooling families use Living Outside the Lines as their high school English curriculum. In light of that need, I set up the club like a smorgasbord [...]
Hello Friends, Some of you asked if the literature kids could be given a writing assignment for each of the classic books we read this year. I’m writing the curriculum now and it occurred to me that I am often asked, “How do I grade my child’s writing?” On the writing assignment page that you [...]
What is the most difficult book you read and enjoyed when you were 12? Conversations in Literature is a book club for all ages. In our club parents share books with their children and the children experience books. They don’t just read them. For every book there is a short literary lesson either on an [...]
Did you know a mother hen is willing to die for her chicks? If there’s a fire, she will cover her chicks with her wings and sacrifice herself in an effort to save them. My youngest son is going to his first camp away from home this weekend. It’s a great camp and he’s going with [...]
We moved into our new home a few weeks ago. My children were helping me put things away. Matti, my married daughter was helping in the kitchen. The home I left had more kitchen storage space so we had to be clever in order to make things fit in this kitchen. Matti asked a question [...]
A year ago, I began writing a book about a literature club I facilitate for home schoolers. That is when I first heard about blogging and realized I needed to learn what it meant and how to do it but I couldn’t wrap my little mind around the book I was writing, the club I [...]
