What’s Your Secret?
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS Some people believe they're boring. They have no story to tell. They've done nothing interesting. But a wise man named Ryter thinks they're wrong. In Rodman Philbrick’s The Last Book in the Universe, old man Ryter is talking to the young teen...
Didn’t They Ever Watch Jurassic Park?
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Japanese scientists are hot on the trail of the extinct wooly mammoth's DNA, which is available from tissue preserved in Russia. What do they want to do with the DNA? They want to clone it and, in about five years, make a modern mammoth. Ryan...
National Reading Month: 10 Must-Read Classics for High School
SHARON'S BLOG I've had a long and strange relationship with the classics. In 8th grade, our English class read Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, but I could never figure out what the red "A" stood for. As an Christian adult, I developed the inexplicable idea...
National Reading Month: 5 Ways to Make Reading More Accessible in Your Home
SHARON'S BLOG Do you have children or students who like to read but don't have time? How can you engender a love of reading in your home, even with reluctant readers? Let's create an atmosphere in our homes in which reading is not only possible but also enjoyable. 1....
Shock Your Children with These Three Writing Tips
Are your homeschool students completely and utterly bored with their writing lessons? Is it a struggle to get them to write again?
When it comes to writing essays, it’s easy for students to stall out. They need motivation. They need a change. They need some fun—and so do we!
Here are three shocking writing tips you can use in your homeschool—shocking because they are fun and because, to your children, they are totally unexpected.
Would You Like to Be a Cryonaut?
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS In "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, four old friends who have wasted their lives are given water from the supposed Fountain of Youth. After they drink the water, the three men begin to fight over the woman, whom they all had...
Your New Dr. Seuss Book
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS Dr. Seuss’s real name is Theodor Seuss Geisel, and he’s the author of The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, Horton Hears a Who, and many other books. A commemorative postage stamp, which you see here, was issued by the United States in 2004 on...
Write about the Impossible in a Sci-Fi Story
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Jules Verne, considered one of the fathers of science-fiction (sci-fi), liked to write about going places people couldn't actually go to or had not been before. He wrote about exploring the core of the earth in Journey to the Center of the Earth....
What Is Freedom?
Melba was fifteen years old when she was chased by men who wanted to hang her. It was the first day of racial integration in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957, and being chased was just the first of her year of torture at the hands of students, parents, teachers, and members of the community.
‘Twas Brillig: Create a New Word
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS `Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borogoves,And the mome raths outgrabe. What?! That’s the first verse of the poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll. You can read the whole crazy poem by...
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