Thank you! I have to say, the colours make me happy. I struggled with thumbnails last year. Little by little I'm trying to be better and show better, also I'm more inclined to really show the process of things I do as opposed to flip-through discussions since I find I am generating more of my own curricula.
A book I read recently that was very encouraging and convicting for me that could be for women at any point in their faith journey is The Well-Watered Woman by Gretchen Saffles. Thanks for your recommendations!
Thank you so much for this! I love how thorough you went through your thought process with us. I am amazed on how much and deep research you have done for each subject!
Another amazing and thoughtful video. Super inspiring. Thank you!! I initially asked a question about banned books, and I should have waited til the end of your video to ask it (you literally talked about it 30 seconds after i commented)…but I am curious if you are doing anything to prepare for the potential of increased book bans/bans on a larger scale in the future? Book banning has been happening for so long, I think it seems a bit dramatic of me to start collecting books I know I want my kids to read way down the road (I have 7 year old twins), but this also feels different to me and I do worry it could be much worse than we’ve seen. I’d love to hear your thoughts!
Hi there! I think you mean in reference to current American politics. Well, publishers are a powerhouse, and while already-published books have been challenged or were challenged in our still-near past, it may be helpful to consider a few things. Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' is a great example. Already published some decades earlier in France in the 1930's (go figure, if you wanted to publish sex scenes, the French would oblige!), an American publisher distributed the book in 1960-61 and this ended in the Grover Press v. Gerstein Supreme Court ruling in favour of 'Tropic of Cancer' -- because it had "social value". Ironically, Gerstein was the States Attorney in Dade County, Florida. This is a state notorious for challenging books. But even if the case had gone in favour of Florida, the book was still in distribution in other countries. Keep in mind that these days, books that have been banned from public locations such as school and town libraries, are most certainly still for sale on the shelves of books stores. In fact, book banning in a way is quite good for the book itself. As soon as a book is banned, it gets a bump in sales! But you certainly would pay a bit more for it under a fancy new book cover brandishing some kind of blurb proudly advertising the fact it's a banned book -- and, oh, BTW, coming soon to Netflix or Hulu will be the adapted-for-television version! I don't mean to make light of book banning. It will always be here, sometimes more sometimes less depending on the temperament of Americans. But take heart, you can always get a copy from France through the mail! In all seriousness, I think it is worth mentioning WHY groups ban books and not movies or TV stations. It's easier because the challenge is just in one library or one district. They are literally "onesies and twosies", speaking for their area and affecting their area. This is what law is for. A book is challenged and someone challenges back. And while they seem to add up over time (remember the books are still available in bookstores), note that the power and wealth of Hollywood and the lightning speed with which TV stations can report to everyone that their free speech is threatened, no one bothers what they distribute. Sometimes I confess it would be nice if they were reigned in a bit! Awful to say, but it's sort of tongue in cheek because I have the option to turn off the TV. And in many cases, courts say the same thing. "Don't like the book? Then don't check it out of the library." But we don't really hear about repealed cases and we certainly never hear when the books are put back onto a library shelf. Challenging free speech is as important as free speech itself. It keeps us thinking about it and caring for it. It's the water that keeps the plant growing. I am collecting books now -- not just banned books -- so I can screen them and mark them up. I doubt I will regret telling you not to worry too much. If anything, buying them now means you get a nice, older copy from back in the days when the book was originally challenged. That is exciting to me. I like to buy originals if I can. But I, myself, don't worry about actually not being able to acquire a banned book. I know Margaret Atwood scares the heck out of us all with her words, but we are not there yet. And we will not get there if we teach banned books.
@@ThePattersonHomeschoolAcademy wow! thank you for taking the time to give me this history and perspective!! I really appreciate you...and I'm glad I could be walked back from the Margaret Atwood cliff! Also I just read a piece published in The Atlantic yesterday (titled: How the Ivy League Broke America), and I thought you would really like it. It was a fascinating article about the history of our meritocracy, how it isn't working, and changes that should be made (it even talked about high schools that are completely PBL based...which made me think of you). I attached the article in a comment last night but TH-cam took it down, so I thought I'd just mention it here without the link. Thanks again!!
@ I will look for it and read it. So weird that right now I am reading John Keats’ ‘The Sheepskin Psychosis’ that touches on this very subject. The book was printed in 1963. I’ll likely bring it up in my monthly update. And thanks again for the article suggestion
You bet. Wow, I’ll check out that book. Crazy timing and the fact that similar thoughts were being written over 50 years ago! Also just realized my response/last comment was on my wife’s laptop (under her YT account), so it looked like it came from a completely different person. 🤦🏼♀️
Thank you so much! Oh gosh, I just saw your books for your 8th grader. We just read that -- please don't roll your eyes if you watch my last video where I reference S.E. Hinton as a man! My who life I never knew Hinton was a woman... Boy don't we make mistakes! I love your own line-up for curricula!
Do you have any “rules” regarding audiobooks? Do you have a preference for Morgan reading these books on her own or reading them together vs. listening? I have a lot of memoirs on our TBR list and love finding the audio books read by the author.
What a great question. No matter what, Morgan reads 30-ish pages of actual book pages visually a day. These books are at or slightly above her reading level. Our read-alouds are several grades above her reading level but are at or slightly above her comprehension and vocab level. Morgan's comprehension and vocab are several grades higher than her reading level right now. I bridge this gap with tougher classics we listen to together. They don't count as the 'reading' but they do count towards her literature. In her own time, she listens to far more audiobooks I dont tend to mention on TH-cam since I don't count them as school -- all the fun junky stuff that kids want to read. So, essentially, she can listen to however much she wants but the reading still involves her sitting down with an actual book each day.
As a person who is legally blind, I wish you had read your list of books quickly without comment A book I recommend for later in high school is "The Radium Girls"
Thanks so much for the book suggestion -- I will look it up. I hadn't thought to read the list but I certainly can. I added the PDF of my current list in the video description. Can you enlarge that doc on your screen to make it of use to you? If not, and you want to hear the list, I will read it in an upcoming video. Here is the link to the PDF in case that helps: drive.google.com/file/d/1Qat-N6-YRrMhN57kdzSJZc9ZlwFN5nn2/view?usp=sharing
Come plan my homeschool! So much great info!
oh gosh, thank you 😊
I really like that your approach is so well-rounded. Great ideas! I also appreciate all the beautiful colors that you use.
Thank you! I have to say, the colours make me happy. I struggled with thumbnails last year. Little by little I'm trying to be better and show better, also I'm more inclined to really show the process of things I do as opposed to flip-through discussions since I find I am generating more of my own curricula.
A book I read recently that was very encouraging and convicting for me that could be for women at any point in their faith journey is The Well-Watered Woman by Gretchen Saffles. Thanks for your recommendations!
That looks like a good pairing for religious studies and faith. Thank you for commenting with it!
Thank you so much for this! I love how thorough you went through your thought process with us. I am amazed on how much and deep research you have done for each subject!
Thank you so much! It's a fun process. I love pulling resources and then going to the library to look at the books before I buy them.
Love this!
Thank you!!!
Another amazing and thoughtful video. Super inspiring. Thank you!! I initially asked a question about banned books, and I should have waited til the end of your video to ask it (you literally talked about it 30 seconds after i commented)…but I am curious if you are doing anything to prepare for the potential of increased book bans/bans on a larger scale in the future? Book banning has been happening for so long, I think it seems a bit dramatic of me to start collecting books I know I want my kids to read way down the road (I have 7 year old twins), but this also feels different to me and I do worry it could be much worse than we’ve seen. I’d love to hear your thoughts!
Hi there! I think you mean in reference to current American politics. Well, publishers are a powerhouse, and while already-published books have been challenged or were challenged in our still-near past, it may be helpful to consider a few things. Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' is a great example. Already published some decades earlier in France in the 1930's (go figure, if you wanted to publish sex scenes, the French would oblige!), an American publisher distributed the book in 1960-61 and this ended in the Grover Press v. Gerstein Supreme Court ruling in favour of 'Tropic of Cancer' -- because it had "social value". Ironically, Gerstein was the States Attorney in Dade County, Florida. This is a state notorious for challenging books. But even if the case had gone in favour of Florida, the book was still in distribution in other countries. Keep in mind that these days, books that have been banned from public locations such as school and town libraries, are most certainly still for sale on the shelves of books stores. In fact, book banning in a way is quite good for the book itself. As soon as a book is banned, it gets a bump in sales! But you certainly would pay a bit more for it under a fancy new book cover brandishing some kind of blurb proudly advertising the fact it's a banned book -- and, oh, BTW, coming soon to Netflix or Hulu will be the adapted-for-television version! I don't mean to make light of book banning. It will always be here, sometimes more sometimes less depending on the temperament of Americans. But take heart, you can always get a copy from France through the mail!
In all seriousness, I think it is worth mentioning WHY groups ban books and not movies or TV stations. It's easier because the challenge is just in one library or one district. They are literally "onesies and twosies", speaking for their area and affecting their area. This is what law is for. A book is challenged and someone challenges back. And while they seem to add up over time (remember the books are still available in bookstores), note that the power and wealth of Hollywood and the lightning speed with which TV stations can report to everyone that their free speech is threatened, no one bothers what they distribute. Sometimes I confess it would be nice if they were reigned in a bit! Awful to say, but it's sort of tongue in cheek because I have the option to turn off the TV. And in many cases, courts say the same thing. "Don't like the book? Then don't check it out of the library." But we don't really hear about repealed cases and we certainly never hear when the books are put back onto a library shelf.
Challenging free speech is as important as free speech itself. It keeps us thinking about it and caring for it. It's the water that keeps the plant growing.
I am collecting books now -- not just banned books -- so I can screen them and mark them up. I doubt I will regret telling you not to worry too much. If anything, buying them now means you get a nice, older copy from back in the days when the book was originally challenged. That is exciting to me. I like to buy originals if I can. But I, myself, don't worry about actually not being able to acquire a banned book. I know Margaret Atwood scares the heck out of us all with her words, but we are not there yet. And we will not get there if we teach banned books.
@@ThePattersonHomeschoolAcademy wow! thank you for taking the time to give me this history and perspective!! I really appreciate you...and I'm glad I could be walked back from the Margaret Atwood cliff! Also I just read a piece published in The Atlantic yesterday (titled: How the Ivy League Broke America), and I thought you would really like it. It was a fascinating article about the history of our meritocracy, how it isn't working, and changes that should be made (it even talked about high schools that are completely PBL based...which made me think of you). I attached the article in a comment last night but TH-cam took it down, so I thought I'd just mention it here without the link. Thanks again!!
@ I will look for it and read it. So weird that right now I am reading John Keats’ ‘The Sheepskin Psychosis’ that touches on this very subject. The book was printed in 1963. I’ll likely bring it up in my monthly update. And thanks again for the article suggestion
You bet. Wow, I’ll check out that book. Crazy timing and the fact that similar thoughts were being written over 50 years ago! Also just realized my response/last comment was on my wife’s laptop (under her YT account), so it looked like it came from a completely different person. 🤦🏼♀️
This was awesome!
Thank you so much! Oh gosh, I just saw your books for your 8th grader. We just read that -- please don't roll your eyes if you watch my last video where I reference S.E. Hinton as a man! My who life I never knew Hinton was a woman... Boy don't we make mistakes! I love your own line-up for curricula!
Do you have any “rules” regarding audiobooks? Do you have a preference for Morgan reading these books on her own or reading them together vs. listening? I have a lot of memoirs on our TBR list and love finding the audio books read by the author.
What a great question. No matter what, Morgan reads 30-ish pages of actual book pages visually a day. These books are at or slightly above her reading level. Our read-alouds are several grades above her reading level but are at or slightly above her comprehension and vocab level. Morgan's comprehension and vocab are several grades higher than her reading level right now. I bridge this gap with tougher classics we listen to together. They don't count as the 'reading' but they do count towards her literature. In her own time, she listens to far more audiobooks I dont tend to mention on TH-cam since I don't count them as school -- all the fun junky stuff that kids want to read. So, essentially, she can listen to however much she wants but the reading still involves her sitting down with an actual book each day.
As a person who is legally blind, I wish you had read your list of books quickly without comment
A book I recommend for later in high school is "The Radium Girls"
Thanks so much for the book suggestion -- I will look it up.
I hadn't thought to read the list but I certainly can. I added the PDF of my current list in the video description. Can you enlarge that doc on your screen to make it of use to you? If not, and you want to hear the list, I will read it in an upcoming video. Here is the link to the PDF in case that helps:
drive.google.com/file/d/1Qat-N6-YRrMhN57kdzSJZc9ZlwFN5nn2/view?usp=sharing