What’s Your Story?
Have you lived through an illness? Been in an accident? Are you stuck in the middle in your family? Do you have a tendency to lie? Are you afraid of what others think about you?
On one side of a piece of paper, write down something troubling about yourself. It can be something difficult you lived through (like an illness, accident, hurricane, or divorce), a character weakness, or a sin.
Then on the other side of the paper, write one sentence showing how God got you through the difficulty, how you have overcome your weakness or sin, or what truth God showed you that helps you deal with these issues.
What Treasure Do You Want to Find?
So you’re out walking your dog one day, and you look down and see a rusty can partially buried under an old tree you’ve walked by hundreds of times. “Hmmm,” you say. “What’s up with that?”
Advertise Your Product
AdvertiseA garbage bag that deters rats? A taco with the spices on the outside? Luggage you can ride on?
It seems we humans have a great amount of imagination when it comes to cooking up new products. But are those real or just someone’s dream?
3 Myths about Literature That Will Ruin Your Class
Choosing a literature program for your teens isn’t the easiest thing in the world, and neither are actually having the class and getting them to read the books. Making these tasks even harder, I’ve found, is that homeschool moms and co-op teachers often have some ideas about literature that sabotage all their good efforts.
Read the rest of this article to see if you have avoided believing these three myths about homeschool literature.
How Do You Make Friends?
Have to write a how-to essay? Choose a fun topic like how to make a friend!
Change Nouns to Verbs for Clear Writing
Ever wonder why some writing is so confusing? Most likely they’ve choked their verbs and turned them into nouns. Make your writing clear with vivid verbs.
How to Motivate Your Homeschool Student
SHARON'S BLOG One of your students has submitted a stellar report on a country, including a baked and painted salt-flour-water topography of a particular geographic feature. Another drags his feet and submits a writing assignment late. You want to reward the one and...
How a Tiny Tick Almost Stopped Her
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Angeli Vanlaanen has had it rough. When she was ten years old, she fell ill and continued to experience symptoms until she was twenty-four: headaches, sore muscles and joints, fatigue, fainting, blurry vision, and so forth. The diagnosis Still, she...
The Enumerative Essay: Parking Spaces and Baseball
Enumerative essays, or partitive essays, begin with the number of parts (“There are nine ways to get to first safely”), and then each part becomes a paragraph in the body. The first paragraph in the body can explain how a hitter can whack the ball and get to first before anyone on the opposing team can catch the ball and throw it to first. The next paragraph can be about getting the hitter to first on a walk, and so forth.
A Moving Description?
Aren’t descriptions those boring parts you always skip reading? Learn how to use movement in your descriptions to engage your readers and make it interesting.
Writing tools for all ages!
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