Saturday, February 20, 2010

Dear All,

I am out of town visiting family and will post again on 2/28.

Last weekend, the New York Times Magazine carried an article that might interest you all: "How Christian Were the Founders? History Wars: Inside America's Textbook Battles" by Russell Shorto. Many of the players in these textbook wars are homeschooling evangelicals.

If after you've read that article, you want more information on providential history and its symbiotic relationship with the (Christian) homeschooling movement, you might want to also read an article that appeared in Harper's in 2006: "Through the Glass Darkly--How the Christian Right is Re-Imagening U.S. History" by Jeff Sharlet .

As ever,
Claudia
Posted by Literacy Is Not Enough at 1:38 PM

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Reading List

100 True Tales From American History by Jennifer Armstrong.

Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents by Mike Venezia. This is a series. Also check out all of Mike Venezia's other incredible books at his web-site.

Simon loves The Story of the World, Vol. I- IV, by Susan Wise Bauer. He listens to the audiobooks for many hours every day. They play in the background while he fiddles with Legos or does math.


www.theexaminedlife.org

Together with Toni Deveson, Claudia was one of the founding members of www.theexaminedlife.org , a net-based home-education support group for families teaching a secular curriculum in the Miami area. Claudia remains a very active participant. The group is inclusive, welcoming families of all faiths—or lack thereof, and all life-styles. The Examined Life runs a small enrichment co-op for children in grades 4-6. This year, the co-op is covering biology, art appreciation (nine painters), music appreciation (seven composers), history—the Renaissance and beyond, and Latin. All the portfolio-ready materials that Claudia and Toni have developed themselves are available for free at www.theexaminedlife.org , including a comprehensive 36-week enrichment curriculum for the above named topics, as well as the American history project covered in this blog. The website also has a bookstore that carries all the books necessary to teach the curriculum.