Enjoying the Chaos

If you haven't tried any of the curriculum from Writing with Sharon Watson you are missing out! We have used Illuminating Literature - When Worlds Collide , and  The Power In Your Hands previously so Boo was super excited to receive  Illuminating Literature ~ Characters In Crisis to review. She is super impressed and will work on it for the rest of the school year! We received: Illuminating Literature : Characters in Crisis - Teacher's Guide Illuminating Literature : Quiz and Answer Manual Illuminating Literature: Text Book You can also download a Novel Notebook here. Boo loves this program. The first book covered is actually found in the text book and so it's really easy to get started with this program. We printed The Novel Notebook as it contains extra questions and ways to get the students involved in the book. Since we have used some of Sharon Watson's programs before I knew to do this straight away. The added questions in this notebook reall...

High School writing  can be overwhelming! As we come up into the end of the high school years with Jam it can be intimidating as we prepare for the ACT and College applications over the next couple of years. We have been enjoying making it a little less scary High School Essay Intensive from  Institute For Excellence in Writing . We have used a lot of their courses before and have never been disappointed. If you ever have the chance to watch a presentation by Andrew Pudewa you really must. I have used the teacher training DVDs for writing and my kids have used the  Student Writing Intensive Level B  in the past and loved it. Both of my older kids were excited to use this program. Let me tell you, if you want your children to have dry, mundane writing instruction this is not for you. However, if you like to hear sounds of laughter etc coming from the room where your kids are watching this and you're jealous because you have to fold laundry or cook dinner the...

Jam has added a new  High School Writing Program  to our summer schedule from  Writing with Sharon Watson . Jam has been working through The Power in Your Hands:Writing Nonfiction in High School, 2nd Edition. Summer has been a great time to focus on some of the subjects that are sometimes neglected during the regular busy school year. Jam has worked through a literature course (another Sharon Watson one) during our last school year and so we decided this review was the perfect time to focus a little on non-fiction writing. The curriculum is designed for grades 9-12 and since Jam has just finished 9th grade we decided to get a head start on his 10th grade English. Jam is very self motivated and I give him his schedules in weekly blocks. This way he can plan his time and work more or less on certain days depending on his schedule. This program has been perfect for this schedule. Jam has been able to work completely at his own pace each week and is doing great at work...