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A compilation of homeschool articles and stories
Who am I?
Just your average LDS Homeschool mom completely enthusiastic about teaching her children from the best books, resources, and inspiration out there!
Homeschooling Articles
- Take Time for Self-Renewal
- The Baby IS the Lesson
- To my Grown-up Son
- Getting Kid's to do their School Work
- Don't Serve From an Empty Platter
- Are we having fun yet?
- Advice to the homeschool mom
- Fortify Your Homes
- They don't have to go
- The education of Thomas Edison
- Mothers, catch the vision of your call
- Parents in Zion
- 4 Advantages to homeschooling
- Mom-at home
- 20 homeschool questions
- Should I send my child to preschool?
- Benefits of Homeschooling
- How to start a support group
- Do I need a homeschool support group?
- Teaching the Gospel
- They don't call it school for nothing
- Why Homeschool?
- The Trouble with Homeschool
- Keeping Children Close to the Church, Ensign 1999
- Quotes on Education by Prophets
Homeschool Sites I Love
Blog Archive
Classic Books List- Adult
1. Acton, The History of Freedom
2. John Adams, Thoughts on Government
3. Aquinas, On Kingship
4. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
5. Aristotle, Politics
6. Aristotle, Rhetoric
7. Augustine, The City of God
8. Aurelius, Meditations
9. Austen, Pride and Prejudice
10. Austen Sense and Sensibility
11. Bacon, Novum Organum
12. Bastiat, The Law
13. Bastiat, What is Seen and Not Seen
14. Benson, The Proper Role of Government
15. The Bible
16. Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
17. Bronte, Wuthering Heights
18. Bronte, Jane Eyre
19. Carson, The American Tradition
20. Capra, The Tao of Physics
21. Chesterton, Othodoxy
22. Churchill, Collected Speeches
23. Cicero, The Republic
24. Cicero, The Laws
25. Clausewitz, On War
26. Confucius, Analects
27. The Constitution of the United States
28. Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
29. Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
30. Dante, The Divine Comedy
31. The Declaration of Independence
32. DeFoe, Robinson Crusoe
33. Descartes, A Discourse on Method
34. Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
35. Dickens, Great Expectations
36. Douglas, Magnificent Obsession
37. Durant, a History of Civilization
38. Einstein, Relativity
39. Emerson, Collected Essays
40. Euclid, Elements
41. Frank, Alas, Babylon
42. Franklin, Letters and Writings
43. Freud, Civilization and It's Discontents
44. Galileo, Two New Sciences
45. Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
46. Goethe, Faust
47. Hobbes, Leviathan
48. Homer, The Iliad
49. Homer, The Odyssey
50. Hugo, Les Miserables
51. Hume, Essays Moral, Political and Literary
52. Jefferson, Letters, Speeches and Writings
53. Keegan, History of Warfare
54. Kepler, Epitome
55. Martin Luther King, Jr., Collected Speechess
56. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
57. Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry
58. Lewis, Mere Christianity
59. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
60. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
61. Lincoln, Collected Speeches
62. Locke, Second Treatise of Government
63. Machiavelli, The Prince
64. Madison, Hamilton and Jay, The Federalist Papers
65. Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto
66. More, Utopia
67. The Magna Charta
68. Mill, On Liberty
69. Milton, Paradise Regained
70. Mises, Human Action
71. The Monroe Doctrine
72. Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
73. Newton, Mathematical Principles
74. Nicomachus, Introduction to Arithmetic
75. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
76. The Northwest Ordinance, 1787
77. Orwell, 1984
78. Plato, Collected Works
79. Polybius, Histories
80. Potok, The Chosen
81. Plutarch, Lives
82. Ptolemy, Algamest
83. Shakespeare, Collected Works
84. Skousen, The Five Thousand Year Leap
85. Skousen, The Majesty of God's Law
86. Skousen, The Making of America
87. Smith, The Wealth of Nations
88. Solzhenitsyn, A World Split Apart
89. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
90. Sophocles, Oedipus Trilogy
91. Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
92. Sun Tzu, The Art of War
93. Thackeray, Vanity Fair
94. Thoreau, Walden
95. Tolstoy, War and Peace
96. The History of the Peloponnesian War
97. Tocqueville, Democracy in America
98. Washington, Letters, Speeches and Writings
99. Weaver, Mainspring of Human Progress
100. Wister, The Virginian
By Dr. Oliver DeMille, President
George Wythe College
2. John Adams, Thoughts on Government
3. Aquinas, On Kingship
4. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
5. Aristotle, Politics
6. Aristotle, Rhetoric
7. Augustine, The City of God
8. Aurelius, Meditations
9. Austen, Pride and Prejudice
10. Austen Sense and Sensibility
11. Bacon, Novum Organum
12. Bastiat, The Law
13. Bastiat, What is Seen and Not Seen
14. Benson, The Proper Role of Government
15. The Bible
16. Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
17. Bronte, Wuthering Heights
18. Bronte, Jane Eyre
19. Carson, The American Tradition
20. Capra, The Tao of Physics
21. Chesterton, Othodoxy
22. Churchill, Collected Speeches
23. Cicero, The Republic
24. Cicero, The Laws
25. Clausewitz, On War
26. Confucius, Analects
27. The Constitution of the United States
28. Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
29. Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
30. Dante, The Divine Comedy
31. The Declaration of Independence
32. DeFoe, Robinson Crusoe
33. Descartes, A Discourse on Method
34. Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
35. Dickens, Great Expectations
36. Douglas, Magnificent Obsession
37. Durant, a History of Civilization
38. Einstein, Relativity
39. Emerson, Collected Essays
40. Euclid, Elements
41. Frank, Alas, Babylon
42. Franklin, Letters and Writings
43. Freud, Civilization and It's Discontents
44. Galileo, Two New Sciences
45. Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
46. Goethe, Faust
47. Hobbes, Leviathan
48. Homer, The Iliad
49. Homer, The Odyssey
50. Hugo, Les Miserables
51. Hume, Essays Moral, Political and Literary
52. Jefferson, Letters, Speeches and Writings
53. Keegan, History of Warfare
54. Kepler, Epitome
55. Martin Luther King, Jr., Collected Speechess
56. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
57. Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry
58. Lewis, Mere Christianity
59. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
60. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
61. Lincoln, Collected Speeches
62. Locke, Second Treatise of Government
63. Machiavelli, The Prince
64. Madison, Hamilton and Jay, The Federalist Papers
65. Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto
66. More, Utopia
67. The Magna Charta
68. Mill, On Liberty
69. Milton, Paradise Regained
70. Mises, Human Action
71. The Monroe Doctrine
72. Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
73. Newton, Mathematical Principles
74. Nicomachus, Introduction to Arithmetic
75. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
76. The Northwest Ordinance, 1787
77. Orwell, 1984
78. Plato, Collected Works
79. Polybius, Histories
80. Potok, The Chosen
81. Plutarch, Lives
82. Ptolemy, Algamest
83. Shakespeare, Collected Works
84. Skousen, The Five Thousand Year Leap
85. Skousen, The Majesty of God's Law
86. Skousen, The Making of America
87. Smith, The Wealth of Nations
88. Solzhenitsyn, A World Split Apart
89. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
90. Sophocles, Oedipus Trilogy
91. Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
92. Sun Tzu, The Art of War
93. Thackeray, Vanity Fair
94. Thoreau, Walden
95. Tolstoy, War and Peace
96. The History of the Peloponnesian War
97. Tocqueville, Democracy in America
98. Washington, Letters, Speeches and Writings
99. Weaver, Mainspring of Human Progress
100. Wister, The Virginian
By Dr. Oliver DeMille, President
George Wythe College
Classic Books List-Youth
1. Alice in Wonderland
2. Animal Farm
3. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
4. The Anne of Green Gables series
5. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
6. "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
7. Ben Hur
8. The Bible
9. Brighty of the Grand Canyon
10. Black Beauty
11. The Black Stallion series
12. The Chronicles of Narnia series
13. The Collected Verse of Edgar A. Guest
14. "Concord Hymn"
15. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
16. The Constitution of the United States
17. David Copperfield
18. Davy Crockett Legends
19. The Declaration of Independence
20. The Deerslayer
21. Don Quixote
22. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
23. The Dred Scott Decision
24. The Education of Henry Adams
25. Eight Cousins
26. Emily Post's Etiquette
27. Ender's Game
28. "In Flanders Fields"
29. Flatland
30. The Foundation series
31. Frankenstein
32. "The Gettysburg Address"
33. "Give Me Liberty of Give Me Death"
34. The Great Brain series
35. Gulliver's Travels
36. Hamilton's Mythology
37. Hamlet
38. Heidi
39. The Hiding Place
40. History Reborn
41. Huckleberry Finn
42. I Have a Dream
43. Ivanhoe
44. The Hobbit
45. Island of the Blue Dolphins
46. Joan of Arc (Twain)
47. Jo's Boys
48. Journey to the Center of the Earth
49. Julius Caesar
50. The Jungle Book
51. King Arthur and the Round Table
52. Laddie
53. The Last of the Mohicans
54. "Let America Be America Again"
55. Lincoln-Douglas Debates
56. The Little Britches series
57. Little Lord Fauntleroy
58. Little Men
59. Little Women
60. The Lonesome Gods
61. Lord of the Rings series
62. "The Man with the Hoe"
63. Mathematicians are People, Too (2 volumes)
64. Moby Dick
65. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
66. National Velvet
67. Noah Webster's Original 1828 Dictionary
68. North to Freedom
69. "O Captain! My Captain!"
70. "Old Ironsides"
71. Old Yeller
72. Oliver Twist
73. On Numbers
74. Paul Bunyan
75. The Phantom Tollbooth
76. "The Present Crisis"
77. "The Road Not Taken"
78. The Real Benjamin Franklin
79. The Real George Washington
80. The Real Thomas Jefferson
81. The Robe
82. Robinson Crusoe
83. Romeo and Juliet
84. The Sackett Series
85. The Saxon Math series
86. The Secret Garden
87. Shipwrecked (should be Kidnapped)
88. Soldiers, Statesmen and Heroes
89. Sonnets of Shakespeare
90. Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers
91. Stuart Little
92. Summer of the Monkeys
93. The Swiss Family Robinson
94. Tom Sawyer
95. Treasure Island
96. The Trumpet of the Swans
97. "Ulysses"
98. The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
99. The Walking Drum
100. White Fang
101. William Tell
102. Where the Red Fern Grows
103. The Yearling
By Dr. Oliver DeMille, President
George Wythe College
2. Animal Farm
3. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
4. The Anne of Green Gables series
5. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
6. "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
7. Ben Hur
8. The Bible
9. Brighty of the Grand Canyon
10. Black Beauty
11. The Black Stallion series
12. The Chronicles of Narnia series
13. The Collected Verse of Edgar A. Guest
14. "Concord Hymn"
15. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
16. The Constitution of the United States
17. David Copperfield
18. Davy Crockett Legends
19. The Declaration of Independence
20. The Deerslayer
21. Don Quixote
22. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
23. The Dred Scott Decision
24. The Education of Henry Adams
25. Eight Cousins
26. Emily Post's Etiquette
27. Ender's Game
28. "In Flanders Fields"
29. Flatland
30. The Foundation series
31. Frankenstein
32. "The Gettysburg Address"
33. "Give Me Liberty of Give Me Death"
34. The Great Brain series
35. Gulliver's Travels
36. Hamilton's Mythology
37. Hamlet
38. Heidi
39. The Hiding Place
40. History Reborn
41. Huckleberry Finn
42. I Have a Dream
43. Ivanhoe
44. The Hobbit
45. Island of the Blue Dolphins
46. Joan of Arc (Twain)
47. Jo's Boys
48. Journey to the Center of the Earth
49. Julius Caesar
50. The Jungle Book
51. King Arthur and the Round Table
52. Laddie
53. The Last of the Mohicans
54. "Let America Be America Again"
55. Lincoln-Douglas Debates
56. The Little Britches series
57. Little Lord Fauntleroy
58. Little Men
59. Little Women
60. The Lonesome Gods
61. Lord of the Rings series
62. "The Man with the Hoe"
63. Mathematicians are People, Too (2 volumes)
64. Moby Dick
65. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
66. National Velvet
67. Noah Webster's Original 1828 Dictionary
68. North to Freedom
69. "O Captain! My Captain!"
70. "Old Ironsides"
71. Old Yeller
72. Oliver Twist
73. On Numbers
74. Paul Bunyan
75. The Phantom Tollbooth
76. "The Present Crisis"
77. "The Road Not Taken"
78. The Real Benjamin Franklin
79. The Real George Washington
80. The Real Thomas Jefferson
81. The Robe
82. Robinson Crusoe
83. Romeo and Juliet
84. The Sackett Series
85. The Saxon Math series
86. The Secret Garden
87. Shipwrecked (should be Kidnapped)
88. Soldiers, Statesmen and Heroes
89. Sonnets of Shakespeare
90. Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers
91. Stuart Little
92. Summer of the Monkeys
93. The Swiss Family Robinson
94. Tom Sawyer
95. Treasure Island
96. The Trumpet of the Swans
97. "Ulysses"
98. The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
99. The Walking Drum
100. White Fang
101. William Tell
102. Where the Red Fern Grows
103. The Yearling
By Dr. Oliver DeMille, President
George Wythe College
Classic Books List-Liberal Arts
1. Old Testament
2. New Testament
3. Central Classic of your religion
4. U.S. Constitution
5. The Federalist Papers
6. Tocqueville, Democracy in America
7. Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
8. Tolstoy, War and Peace
9. Plato, The Republic
10. Aristotle, Politics
11. Wister, The Virginian
12. Frank, Alas, Babylon
13. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
14. GWC Documents Packet
15. Skousen, The 5,000 Year Leap
16. Noebel, Understanding the Times
17. Dickens, Great Expectations
18. Austen, Pride and Prejudice
19. L'Amour, The Lonesome Gods
20. Orwell, 1984
21. Thoreau, Walden
22. Emerson, Essays
23. Bastiat, Selected Essays on Political Economy
24. Weaver, The Mainspring of Human Progress
25. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
26. Smith, The Wealth of Nations
27. Marx & Engels, The Communist Manifesto
28. Marx, Capital
29. Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson
30. Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
31. Potok, The Chosen
32. Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
33. Shakespeare, The Tempest
34. Shakespeare, King Lear
35. Bronte, Wuthering Heights
36. Hugo, Les Miserables
37. Moody, Little Britches
38. Stratton-Porter, Laddie
39. Machiavelli, The Prince
40. Locke, Second Treatise of Government
41. Benson, The Proper Role of Government
42. Bronte, Jane Eyre
43. Austen, Sense and Sensibility
44. Goulding, The Lord of the Flies
45. Shakespeare, Pericles
46. Shakespeare, Macbeth
47. DeFoe, Robinson Crusoe
48. More, Utopia
49. Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
50. Plato, Euthyphro, Apology & Crito
51. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
52. Bacon, Novum Organum
53. Euclid, Elements
54. Newton, Principia Mathematica
55. Einstein, Relativity
56. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
57. Homer, Iliad
58. Homer, Odyssey
59. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
60. Sophocles, Antigone
61. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
62. Lewis, Mere Christianity
63. Plutarch, Lives
64. Aurelius, Meditations
65. Milton, Paradise Lost
66. Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I
67. Shakespeare, Henry VIII
68. Goethe, Faust I & II
69. Sun Tzu, Art of War
70. Clausewitz, On War
71. Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago
72. Aristotle, Rhetoric
73. Hawking, A Brief History of Time
74. Capra, The Tao of Physics
75. Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
76. Skousen, The Making of America
77. DeMille, A Thomas Jefferson Education
78. Douglas, Magnificent Obsession
79. Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
80. Blanchard, The One Minute Manager
81. Gerber, The E-Myth
82. Skousen, The Majesty of God's Law
83. Kiyosaki, The Cashflow Quadrant
84. Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind
85. Solzhenitsyn, A World Split Apart
86. Thornton, The Founders as Farmers
87. Cervantes, Don Quixote
88. Descartes, Discourse on Method
89. Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
90. Darwin, Origin of the Species
91. Kirk, The Roots of American Order
92. Wilber, A Theory of Everything
93. Card, Ender's Game
94. Asimov, Foundation
95. Bennis, Organizing Genius
96. Churchill, Collected Speeches
97. Lincoln, Collected Speeches
98. Confucius, The Analects
99. Huntington, The Clash of Civilization
By Dr. Oliver DeMille
2. New Testament
3. Central Classic of your religion
4. U.S. Constitution
5. The Federalist Papers
6. Tocqueville, Democracy in America
7. Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
8. Tolstoy, War and Peace
9. Plato, The Republic
10. Aristotle, Politics
11. Wister, The Virginian
12. Frank, Alas, Babylon
13. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
14. GWC Documents Packet
15. Skousen, The 5,000 Year Leap
16. Noebel, Understanding the Times
17. Dickens, Great Expectations
18. Austen, Pride and Prejudice
19. L'Amour, The Lonesome Gods
20. Orwell, 1984
21. Thoreau, Walden
22. Emerson, Essays
23. Bastiat, Selected Essays on Political Economy
24. Weaver, The Mainspring of Human Progress
25. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
26. Smith, The Wealth of Nations
27. Marx & Engels, The Communist Manifesto
28. Marx, Capital
29. Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson
30. Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
31. Potok, The Chosen
32. Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
33. Shakespeare, The Tempest
34. Shakespeare, King Lear
35. Bronte, Wuthering Heights
36. Hugo, Les Miserables
37. Moody, Little Britches
38. Stratton-Porter, Laddie
39. Machiavelli, The Prince
40. Locke, Second Treatise of Government
41. Benson, The Proper Role of Government
42. Bronte, Jane Eyre
43. Austen, Sense and Sensibility
44. Goulding, The Lord of the Flies
45. Shakespeare, Pericles
46. Shakespeare, Macbeth
47. DeFoe, Robinson Crusoe
48. More, Utopia
49. Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
50. Plato, Euthyphro, Apology & Crito
51. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
52. Bacon, Novum Organum
53. Euclid, Elements
54. Newton, Principia Mathematica
55. Einstein, Relativity
56. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
57. Homer, Iliad
58. Homer, Odyssey
59. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
60. Sophocles, Antigone
61. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
62. Lewis, Mere Christianity
63. Plutarch, Lives
64. Aurelius, Meditations
65. Milton, Paradise Lost
66. Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I
67. Shakespeare, Henry VIII
68. Goethe, Faust I & II
69. Sun Tzu, Art of War
70. Clausewitz, On War
71. Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago
72. Aristotle, Rhetoric
73. Hawking, A Brief History of Time
74. Capra, The Tao of Physics
75. Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
76. Skousen, The Making of America
77. DeMille, A Thomas Jefferson Education
78. Douglas, Magnificent Obsession
79. Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
80. Blanchard, The One Minute Manager
81. Gerber, The E-Myth
82. Skousen, The Majesty of God's Law
83. Kiyosaki, The Cashflow Quadrant
84. Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind
85. Solzhenitsyn, A World Split Apart
86. Thornton, The Founders as Farmers
87. Cervantes, Don Quixote
88. Descartes, Discourse on Method
89. Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
90. Darwin, Origin of the Species
91. Kirk, The Roots of American Order
92. Wilber, A Theory of Everything
93. Card, Ender's Game
94. Asimov, Foundation
95. Bennis, Organizing Genius
96. Churchill, Collected Speeches
97. Lincoln, Collected Speeches
98. Confucius, The Analects
99. Huntington, The Clash of Civilization
By Dr. Oliver DeMille