SCHOLA: Quick!

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Quick!

It's still not too late to give it a try...

From the Stacks Reading Challenge

Here's my list from the stacks:

Middlemarch (Eliot)
The Subtle Knife (Pullman)

I'm counting these first two as one book since I've already begun them and adding the following four:

The Amber Spyglass (Pullman)
A Child's History of the World (Hillyer)
Utopia (More)
God's War: A New History of the Crusades (Tyerman)

1 comment:

Staci Eastin said...: Middlemarch is such a wonderful book! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.; November 12, 2007 at 11:55 PM

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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.