Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

Mark wrote an assignment today for his online writing class.  I want to share it with you, his dark humor.  The assignment was to write on the funniest thing he had ever seen. One of the funniest things I have ever seen was a skier’s wipe out.  I was in Bear Mountain Ski Resort on [...]

This past fall I decided that writing  is a subject that I just cannot teach at the higher levels.   I was able to teach my kids writing skills through the Grammar years–copywork, dictation, narration— and the early Logic years—outlining, and writing from the outline but high school writing, forget it.   Math and Science [...]

This information was forwarded to me by a PS friend-HS’ing Dad. I’ve spent only a little time exploring Google’s new Literacy Project site but so far the book search feature looks really promising, there’s lots of information in the Scholar or rather links to articles regarding literacy (teaching reading, phonemic awareness,….) definitely a site I [...]

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