| | | The Everyday Educator
9 October 2012
In this issue:- Letter from Janice; new video workhsop posted online
- Great Books Week 2012 Celebrates Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
- Education Tip: Three Books for the Homeschool Journey
- Microbusiness Tip: Step One: Decide What Matters
- Classics-Based Writing at SchoolhouseTeachers.com
- Remembering Lesha Myers, Author of The Elegant Essay
- Resource Focus: Timeframe Timeline now an eBook
- Plan a BTC Essay Workshop with Janice
- Subscription Management (Need to change your e-mail? Here's where!)
| | Dear Friend,
Now that cooler weather has arrived, I have to keep myself out of the kitchen. Our family just loves cool weather food like pot roasts, pinto beans, and all manner of other goodies. I hope you're enjoying autumn too!
Has school been going well for you? It's been busy here, as we've been working on adding resources to the new Excellence in Literature site and updating a few of the books. I'm hoping to have several things updated and a couple new books completed in time for the next conference season, but I won't tell you what they are just yet, as I'm not quite sure which projects will make it to the finish line.
In case you didn't make it to a conference this past summer, I posted a workshop video called Teaching Language Arts the Easy, Natural Way from one the spring conferences. I'll admit I haven't watched it all the way through (there's a limit to how long I can watch myself talk;-)), but I hope you'll find it helpful.
Blessings,
Janice Campbell
P.S. The cherubic individual pictured at the beginning of this note is my soon-to-be two-year-old granddaughter, Miss Imogen Violet. I just can't resist sharing her once in awhile! We're just so thankful for her (and all the rest of our family, of course). |
| Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. Victor Hugo |
| It's Great Books Week 2012 this week, and this year we are honoring Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. Les Mis is one of my top ten favorite books, so if you've never read it, I encourage to take this opportunity to start it.
You can read more about the week at GreatBooksWeek.com. You'll find ideas for ways to participate and a nice selection of quotes about great books.
Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job. Victor Hugo |
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Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. Mark Twain
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| Microbusiness Tip
Step 1: Decide What Matters
If you want to do what matters and make it pay, you must first decide what matters. Although most “find your passion” books begin with a straight line premise that your “thing that matters” will directly be the thing that pays, it’s not always so. I think for many micro-business entrepreneurs, the “what matters and what makes it pay” diagram would be a polygon of some sort.
For example, I have many things that matter and most or all of them could be made to pay in some way. However, certain things work better than others. Read more at the Do What Matters, Make it Pay blog . . . |
| He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign." |
| Remember you can join the Classics-Based Writing Course on SchoolhouseTeachers.com at any time. In the Classics-Based Writing course, you’ll learn timeless writing techniques, many with a brand-new twist. Most assignments will be easily completed in one week, as we will usually work with short pieces, rather than full-length novels. These lessons are suitable for students in middle and high school. Assignments can be done individually or in a co-op or classroom.
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| | | | | | Remembering Lesha MyersOn June 29, 2012, Lesha Myers passed from this life after a long battle with cancer. The beloved author of three of IEW's books (The Elegant Essay, Windows to the World, and Writing Research Papers), Lesha had spent many years teaching students to write, most recently serving as the English department chair of Chinese Christian Schools. Her skills as a writing teacher and author have been and will continue to be a blessing to many for years to come.
Most inspiring, however, were her courage, cheerfulness, and trust in God throughout her years of illness, right up until the end. We share here her reflections, written in 2009, on the blessings she found through her experience of suffering with cancer . . . Read more at the IEW website . . .
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| | Woe to the intellectual who lets himself fall completely from thought into reverie! He thinks he will rise again easily, and he says that, after all, it is the same thing. An error! Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie its pleasure. To replace thought with reverie is to confound poison with nourishment. (p. 861) From Les Misérables by Victor Hugo |
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Is your student intimidated by the SAT* essay? Unnerved at the thought of essay questions on college exams?
Don't be scared!
Plan an event for your group. Here you'll find information on hosting a workshop. We will be glad to help you plan the event and we even offer an online registration system.
- Wondering when your student should take the SAT, find out here
Janice is also available to speak to your group on a wide range of topics. Visit her blog for a list of available topics. Email her assistant Ann at cornerdeskva@gmail.com get started planning your event.
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| | Resource Focus for the month of October
TimeFrame Timeline
Is now available as an eBook!
TimeFrame is not a "done-for-you" timeline. Instead, it's designed to be your personal record of what and whom you've studied. For example, if you're studying a period of history, record the lifelines of all the people who interest you.
Read more and see a sample page.... | |
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