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The Everyday Educator
March 2015
In This Issue
- Letter from Janice
- How to Memorize
- Model-Based Writing now has a title!
- New resources at Excellence-in-Literature.com
- From the Archives: Poems for Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins and Amy Lowell
- Resource Focus: Spelling Made Easy
- Contests and awards for students
- Subscription information
| | Dear Friend,
Are you seeing the first signs of spring? We just had a couple of pretty days, and suddenly, I'm seeing fat robins everywhere. The daffodil foliage is about 3" high, and the forsythia buds are beginning to show. Spring really is coming!
My internet has been super-slow all day and the connection keeps dropping, so this will be a very quick newsletter. I just wanted to share my latest blog post on How to Memorize, and to remind you that I'd love see you in Greenville, SC, this weekend, or at the Virginia Homeschoolers conference in Richmond next weekend (details on my speaker page). Time is flying!
I hope you have a wonderful spring.
Blessings,
Janice Campbell
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| Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
~Leonardo da Vinci
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| How to MemorizeOne of the aggravating things about memory is that it is indiscriminate about what it gathers. Annoying advertising jingles ( You’ll wonder where the yellow went — you brushed your teeth with Pepsodent!), strange lines from old pop songs ( Someone left the cake out in the rain . . .), and random bits from first grade folk songs ( Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree . . .), all stick. You may not have racket blasting in your home, but the minute you step out out into a public space, it’s waiting for you. Go grocery shopping, and you could come home humming a catchy but horrid line from the latest top 50. In an effort to combat the general racket, I am focusing this year on memorizing good things. Since I’ve passed the half-century mark, it’s not as easy as it used to be, but with a couple of good methods, I’m making progress. In case you’d like to create your own Memory Project, I’ll share my favorite memorization methods and resources here. READ MORE . . . |
| In anticipation of spring I'm sharing an article from the archives which features two of my favorite poets and their poems about spring.
The first poem is Spring by Gerard Manley
Hopkins, a poet with a unique, rhythmic style. His poetry is packed with
metaphor and meaning, and springs beautifully when read aloud. I’ve included only a bit of the second poem, Amy Lowell’s Lilacs
as it’s quite long. It beautifully personifies the lilac, leaving the
reader with a vivid understanding of the evocative power of a lowly
flower. Continue Reading
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| New resources at Excellence-in-Literature.com
Find a complete list of new resources on the
bottom, right side of the page.
- George Herbert Biography
- The Ruins of Rome in the Fifteenth Century by Edward Gibbon
- Pride and Prejudice: A Play by Pamela Whalan
- Social Background of Pride and Prejudice by Pamela Whalan
- A Leak in the Dike by Phoebe Cary
- Of Education by John Milton
- Creating Outlines by Kathleen Lietzau
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| | Model-Based Writing
I recently posted a survey to help me choose a title for my newest book. I'd been using a working title of "teach yourself (and your students) to write like Charlotte and Ben: how to create and use model-based writing lessons from great literature." That's a fairly decent description of what is in the book, but way too long for a title!
Thanks to everyone who took the survey and shared feedback, we now have a shorter title:
Model Based Writing: How to Use Books You Own to Create Writing Lessons that Work
Thanks to each of you for your help! I'm putting the last touches on it, and should have the order page up by the end of the month if all goes as planned. |
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Resource Focus for the
month of March
Spelling
Made
Easy
by Connie Schenkelberg
Spelling can be
fun!
• Do you have a student
who struggles with
spelling?
• Have you wondered how
to teach your student
the difference
between
similar words?
• Would you like a
spelling program students
enjoy using?
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| “The mediocre teacher tells.The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates.The great teacher inspires.” ~William Arthur Ward |
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Stop by the Everyday Education booth at a conference this year!
- Great Homeschool Conventions, Greenville, SC, March 12-14
- VA Homeschoolers Conference, Richmond, VA, March 20-21
- Great Homeschool Conventions, Cincinnati, OH, April 9-11
- MÂCHÉ 2015 Maryland State Home School Curriculum Fair,
Frederick, MD April 24-25 - NCHE Homeschool Conference, Winston-Salem, NC, May 21-23
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| | Although
we aren't able to screen all the contests that come across our desks, we are
sharing them here so you'll be able to check them out yourself. Contests can be
a useful motivational tool, so be sure to check them out! |
| Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers identifies teenagers with exceptional artistic and literary talent and brings their remarkable work to a national audience through The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Submissions for the 2016 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards will begin in the fall of 2015. |
| This is the FREE national, monthly writing contest hosted by StageofLife.com. Each month you will find a different writing prompt. |
| SchoolSoup’s research team has identified Writing Competition
Scholarships. SchoolSoup.com is considered the authority on college/university scholarships and we have listed over $40 Billion in available scholarships. |
| Although the application process is closed for this year please keep this in your bookmarks for next year. Students in the central Virginia area may apply for these scholarships.
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If you haven't yet seen the Excellence in Literature resource website, I think you'll enjoy it. If you're using the curriculum, you'll find that we've hosted many of the context resources on the site, organized by level so you can easily find them. Even if you're not using EIL, you'll find good resources for literature and history study, including source documents, poetry, and more. I hope the new site makes using EIL even simpler!
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