It's an Early Spring
My teens turned in their thesis paragraphs for their "History of Anything" essays. They both write so well. I helped with an edit or two for each of them, and then I began pondering how on earth my kids write as well as they do. Several of them need help with spelling, grammar, and punctuation, but their ideas and their expression are so good. Then I remembered that we're a reading family. Even the ones that refuse to read much on their own are read to every day. They're exposed to the best written language possible, and it has influenced how their minds have developed. I love it. Anyway, Nature Angel and Little Princess both have solid thesis paragraphs to work with, and this week they are developing their outlines. We have fewer than 2 dozen lessons in this volume of The Mystery of History, and I am looking around for what we will work on next. Perhaps some more Shakespeare. Little Princess is over halfway through Algebra I, and s...