SCHOLA: Books I'd Like to Read

Friday, April 23, 2004

Books I'd Like to Read

Waiting for the Barbarians
Left Back: A Century of Battles Over School Reform
Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence (Pop psychology, especially the self-help genre, is, in my opinion, to generally be avoided, but this title has piqued my interest. Not that I think it applies so much in our present situation, but it may smooth some of the inevitable bumps further down the road.

Books I've Started and Would Like to Finish

Asimov's Chronology of the World
Utopia

Books I Have Sitting on My Shelf That I Should be Reading

Undaunted Courage
Gods and Generals
The Killer Angels

That's just off the top of my head. There are so many more.

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And maybe I'm being a tad optimistic, but I'm already planning Lewis and Clark, and Civil War field trips for the fall and next spring, respectively.

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Thinking I had my plans set for next year's history rotation using A History of US as our spine, the girls have indicated they prefer a more global approach to history, so we may swing back to Genevieve Foster's George Washinton's World and Abraham Lincoln's World.

Back to the drawing board.

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SCHOLA 101

schol' a: 1) An intermission of work, leisure for learning, learned conversation, debate, disputation, lecture, dissertation. 2) A meeting place for teachers and pupils, place for instruction, place of learning, school. 3) The disciples of a teacher, body of followers, school, sect. 4) An acronym for my tortuous blog title "Secular Classical Homeschoolers' Odyssean Learning Adventure." 5) How my Boston cousins pronounce "scholar." 6) Someone who studies at 10 o'clock for a dilla or a dolla.

These are the blatherings of an introverted, autodidactic, champion of The Enlightenment raising three daughters. At one time or another we have homeschooled, public-schooled, Catholic-schooled, cyber-schooled, unschooled, and even threatened boarding school. We have been inspired variously by The Well-Trained Mind, A Thomas Jefferson Education, and Climbing Parnassus, tempered by the writings and wisdom of Charlotte Mason, John Holt, Benjamin Franklin and Michel de Montaigne.

I try not to get wrapped up in labels, but we are secular and we are classical-ish.

We travel. A lot. Sometimes to the other side of the state and sometimes to the other side of the planet. Join us on our journey as we search for our home, navigate the waters of self-education, lounge with the lotus-eaters, and bash a Cyclops or two.