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The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home (Third Edition)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 848

The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home (Third Edition)

"If you're a parent who has decided to educate your children yourself, this book is the first you should buy."—?Washington Times The Well-Trained Mind will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school—one that will train him or her to read, to think, to ?understand?, to be well-rounded and curious about learning. Veteran home educators Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer outline the classical pattern of education called the trivium, which organizes learning around the maturing capacity of the child's mind and comprises three stages: the elementary school "grammar stage," the middle school "logic st...

First Language Lessons for the Well-trained Mind
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 188

First Language Lessons for the Well-trained Mind

This simple-to-use scripted guide to grammar and composition makes successful teaching easy for both parents and teachers. It uses the classical techniques of memorization, copywork, dictation, and narration to develop a childs language ability in the first years of study.

The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had (Updated and Expanded)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 500

The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had (Updated and Expanded)

The enduring and engaging guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition. Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? Are there books you know you should read but haven’t because they seem too daunting? In The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age, electronic and otherwise. Newly expanded and updated to include standout works from the twenty-first century as well as essential readings in science (from the earliest works of Hippocrates to the discovery of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs), The Well-Educated Mind offers brief, entertaining histories of six literary genres—fiction, autobiography, hist...

The Story of the World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 408

The Story of the World

Presents a history of the ancient world, from 6000 B.C. to 400 A.D.

The Well-trained Mind
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 852

The Well-trained Mind

This book will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school. Two veteran home educators outline the classical pattern of education'he trivium'hich organizes learning around the maturing capacity of the child's mind: the elementary school "grammar stage," the middle school "logic stage," and the high school "rhetoric stage." Using the trivium as your model, you'll be able to instruct your child in all levels of reading, writing, history, geography, mathematics, science, foreign languages, rhetoric, logic, art, and music, regardless of your own aptitude in those subjects. Newly revised and updated, The Well-Trained Mind includes detailed book lists with complete ordering information; up-to-date listings of resources, publications, and Internet links; and useful contacts.

Story of the World Activity Book 4 Modern Age
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 429

Story of the World Activity Book 4 Modern Age

Presents a history of the ancient world, from 6000 B.C. to 400 A.D.

Early Modern Times
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 432

Early Modern Times

Presents a history of the ancient world, from 6000 B.C. to 400 A.D.

You'll Find Me
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 18

You'll Find Me

Loss becomes remembrance in this book that offers tender ways to pay tribute to, and meaningfully incorporate, a loved one’s lost presence into present and future life experiences. Be it departed friends, family, pets, and more, memories can carry us beyond the precious moments we have together to keep the ones we loved before in mind forever. Throughout the book the omnipresent narrator encourages thoughtful reflection on the empty spaces left by the loss. The gentle scenes portrayed inspire recovery from sadness and honor those who are absent. This lyrical heartful story provides consent and gently encourage readers to move to a place of peace and acceptance despite the absence.

Ancient Times
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

Ancient Times

This four-volume narrative history series for elementary students will transform your study of history-one chapter per week, one book per year. An accompanying Activity Book (see page 8) gives you exercises, maps, review questions, reading lists, and more, so you have an entire history curriculum at your fingertips! The Story of the World has won awards from numerous homeschooling magazines and readers' polls, and is included in several reviews of "Best Homeschooling Materials." From the Earliest Nomads to the Last Roman Emperor.

Liberal Terror
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 219

Liberal Terror

Security is meant to make the world safer. Yet despite living in the most secure of times, we see endangerment everywhere. Whether it is the threat of another devastating terrorist attacks, a natural disaster or unexpected catastrophe, anxieties and fears define the global political age. While liberal governments and security agencies have responded by advocating a new catastrophic topography of interconnected planetary endangerment, our desire to securitize everything has rendered all things potentially terrifying. This is the fateful paradox of contemporary liberal rule. The more we seek to secure, the more our imaginaries of threat proliferate. Nothing can therefore be left to chance. For...