Homeschooling for Excellence
10 best books like Homeschooling for Excellence (David Colfax): What Katy Did, The Tailor of Gloucester, What Katy Did at School, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace, The Moorland Cottage, The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, or The Roly-Poly Pudding, A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain, The Weir
| Author | Susan Coolidge |
| ISBN | 0543904709 |
Twelve-year-old Katy is constantly making and quickly breaking resolutions about how she will change her ways and treat others, especially her five younger brothers and sisters, with more respect and compassion. When Katy meets her Cousin Helen, an invalid, Katy is awed by her kindness, prettiness,...
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0723247722 |
The Tailor of Gloucester was first published in 1903 and tells the story of a poor tailor trying to survive in his freezing workshop over a hard winter. He has a terribly important commission to complete for the Mayor of Gloucester's wedding on Christmas Day but is ill and tired, and before long is running...
| Author | Susan Coolidge |
| ISBN | 1406515280 |
What Katy Did at School is a sequel to “What Katy Did”, and written a year later, in 1873. Like many girls, I read and enjoyed these novels about the Carr family, written by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, using the pen name Susan Coolidge. The style and concerns are rather like those of “Little Women”,...
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
Before reading this book I really thought I was 100% sure about my reasons to homeschool. Boy, was I wrong. I guess I was only half way there because now that I have finished this book, I realize that I never really saw the harms of the public school system 100%.
Our children are being limited every...
| Author | Susan Wise Bauer |
| ISBN | 0393059278 |
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—the trivium—which organizes learning around the maturing capacity...
In the book of Philippians we are told to be anxious over nothing, and yet we are anxious over everything. We worry that our students will be "behind," that they won't score well on the SAT, get into a good college, or read enough of the Great Books. Our souls are restless, anxiously wondering if something...
| Author | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| ISBN | 1843912023 |
Maggie Browne, the daughter of a deceased clergyman, is encouraged to give up her own life and passions and devote herself to her brother Edward. Through the example and guidance of her mother—who dotes on Edward constantly—and her mentor, Mrs. Buxton, Maggie learns that self-sacrifice is the...
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0723247854 |
The first farm that Beatrix Potter owned, Hill Top, was an old house with thick walls and many hiding places for rats and mice. In The Tale of Samuel Whiskers this farmhouse is Tom Kitten's home and the story tells what happens when Tom accidently comes upon the rat Samuel Whiskers living in a secret hideout...
| Author | Daniel Defoe |
| ISBN | 0140430660 |
Let's pause for a second and consider the concept of the gap year. That glorious 12 month sojourn away from home before you return to the damp British shoreline to commence a university education (one senses that in the light of tuition fee hikes and fuel price rises that gap years and university educations...
| Author | Conor McPherson |
| ISBN | 1854596438 |
Theater magic! I wanted to see the much praised recent New York production but couldn't make it. Though reading a play is a shadow of a live performance, the power of fine plays comes through nonetheless. This is certainly the case with The Weir. Five people in a remote Irish pub, each with his or her longings,...
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0723258058 |
This lavish, illustrated journal describes Beatrix Potter’s life as a young woman in Victorian England as she struggles to achieve independence and to find artistic success and romantic love.
Using witty, observant commentary taken from Beatrix’s own diaries, the journal features...
