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Month: May 2019

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Fun Friday with Teens: SAT Vocabulary Scrabble

May 18, 2019
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Pull out your Scrabble before the teens rolls out of bed, throw out the rule book, and set …

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Educator Resources Literature

Tips for Digging Deeper into Theme

May 13, 2019
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Hello fellow homeschool moms who did NOT major in English. Did you get specialized college training in literature? …

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Fun Friday: How Terrible Mothers Explore Art with Their Teens

May 10, 2019
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When I take my teenagers to see famous works of art, we play a terrible game. Because I’m …

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Revising Your Teen’s Essays, Brave Writer Style

May 8, 2019
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Essay revision is a significant stage in the writing process. Don’t be surprised if more time is spent …

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Carving Out Homeschool Togetherness with Teens

May 7, 2019
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Getting teens together at the same time is hard. Different subjects studied, work schedules, social life, sleep schedules. …

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My Best Purchases for Homeschooling High School: Annotating Literary Elements

May 4, 2019
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Even though I talk a lot about homeschooling language arts, particularly how it applies with boys, when it …

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  • Phase 2 for miniature gnome garden. Retaining wall up, tiny plants purchased. Gnomes in a bag, waiting for Parker to build a house.
  • Saturdaying with street art #atlanta #bigcitylife
  • Cleaned out and hacked back the abandoned fairy garden that came with our house. Now time to plan. Do we do a fairy garden? A troll garden? Star Wars garden? My 16 year old says a gnome garden. Hmmm. I may go with gnome simply because I’m thrilled my 16 year old son wants to do it too. A mom & me project! At sixteen, I’ll take it where I can get it. Now to research some of the lore around gnomes.
  • I honestly don’t know if I can read & study this book again with my high schooler. I did it four years ago with my oldest, but reading it again now? I really don’t know if we should continue holding up its position in the canon. • The watered-down explanations of who uses “N-word lover” and why. Ignorant, trashy people? You mean racists. They think someone’s favoring blacks *over* whites? You mean they don’t want blacks to be equal in our society. EQUAL. According to Atticus, we should respect people’s racist opinions. Not run-of-the-mill opinions, but racist ones. That blacks don’t deserve equal justice before the law. That’s the context of that scene with Atticus and Scout. 🙄 • I understand the historical era of the story and when Lee wrote it. But I feel reinforcing these white-favored justifications and skirting the real issue (racism) is part of the problem we still face in our country. Maybe it’s time the book falls down the list of must-reads in high school.
  • Bloom where you’re planted. We all know that one, right? And there’s truth in it. But then, there’s not. There are conditions that, for you, make blooming near impossible. 🌸 It would take superhuman strength of character and willingness to turn a blind eye to incident after incident of harshness, criticism, cruelty and abuse. Again and again. Look away, look away, nothing to see here. Don’t object, don’t question, don’t resist. Die a slow death on the inside. 🌸 So bloom where you’re planted if that works for you, if the conditions are good for you. But if it’s not, you’re allowed to yank up your roots and march your ass to a kinder environment, if that’s what you need to thrive. A new city, a new circle, a new family. You can do that for yourself. And for your kids. 🌸 We’ve got one life. Just one. It’s too short to spend it with cruel and unloving people who mistreat or neglect one another more than they love one another. 🌸 If Mother’s Day is hard for you, I get it. What does it mean to reclaim this day for myself? I don’t know yet. I think I’ll focus on just loving my kids today, snuggling with my sweetheart. Grateful that I’m managing to break the cycle of abuse. For myself and for my kids.
  • Happy Teacher Appreciation to me! Times nine years. I figured it was finally time. #treatyoself #homeschoolmom
  • We counted it up and he’s been gone on business three out of the past four weeks. Between the kids and life, we think we’ve had 8 hours together in 14 days. No wonder I feel out of sorts. He flew in late last night, then I wandered downstairs to find out where he was, and he was on an 11pm call to India. ❤️ It feels like my right arm has been missing, which is both figurative and literal because I hurt my right arm while he’s been gone and I’ve been only half functional. His absence makes it feel way more than half. We missed our 26th date anniversary this week. 26 years! More than half my life with him by my side. ❤️ He mixed me a TGIF cocktail this afternoon, which knocked me on my butt, but hey, my arm isn’t hurting right now! ❤️ I plan to weekend SO HARD with him. And by that I mean rainy weekend sleep-ins and a lazy Sunday on the couch. What, middle-age weekend means something else?
  • I’ve reached the part in this book where it explains why contemporary lit is inferior. Um, there’s a very heated argument of one going on in the margins.

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