Into the GAPS

06/26/2024

A very large percentage of books for kids are published as a series.
The books I read as a kid were almost all stand-alone books.

I wonder if things changed because publishers and authors realized that we all produced a series in our heads, anyway--in our imaginations, in what we played--whether or not the stories were written down.

How many volumes of Tom Sawyer adventures could be written just based on what me and my brothers did in and around Bear Creek.

Anyone else?

06/12/2024

The summer that started when I was 11, I read "Tom Sawyer" for the first time. And I read a pirate adventure called "The Ghost in the Noonday Sun" and Edwin Corebtt's book on paleontology, "One Million Years Ago." And I read, most surprisingly, "The Hobbit" for the first of many times

I read other books that summer, but those stick out. I suppose there are some pretty specific reasons they do.

I wonder what everyone else read--the summer you were 11?
And why you remember it.

02/24/2024

The Book is Finished

01/25/2022

08/29/2020

Learning by DOING, not just by hearing.

***High School Literature Credit***

Guided discussion group on J.R.R. TOLKIEN’s The Lord of the Rings. An experience transferable to college and career.

Meets 2x a week for 16 weeks. Ages 12+. $286
Skills gained:
⛰Collaborative project creation & management
⛰Individual entrepreneurial exploration
⛰Textual analysis
⛰Engaging presentation delivery
⛰Setting goals and meeting deadlines

Guided by Daved Driscoll, 35 year teacher of college, high school and elementary students, and homeschool father of 7.

Message us for more details.
***We don’t grant credits, per se, but people often use these classes for a H.S. Literature credit.

08/26/2020

Interactive Virtual Discussion on Tolkien for ages 12+
We’ll look at The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings together to develop these skills:
Textual Analysis
Leadership
Collaborative Project Development
Critical Thinking
Presentations
Goal Setting
Meeting Deadlines

Meeting twice a week. Message us for more information.

08/25/2020

The best colleges and businesses clamor for people who are continuously learning how to learn.

Every four-year-old does this. The best education for your child, then, will be oriented toward freeing them to do so again.

~ Daved Driscoll, 35 years teaching college, high school and elementary students — and also homeschool father of 7.