Introduction Last year, my older kids did The Screwtape Letters in their Bible study group. They used a guide that contained some good discussion questions, but did not provide much of an explanation of each letter. Each chapter had only a very short summary of what Lewis was saying. However, they found Lewis’ literary and […]
We recently added another literature guide to the collection. Our Poetry Unit 1 provides detailed introductions to 10 famous poems from the Middle Ages to today. So, I thought it might be nice to reflect on what goes into creating our guides. Of course, we’re somewhat biased, but we have put a lot of thought […]
Thanks to Cathy Duffy, for featuring us on her extensive home-school review site. Cathy really took the time to understand our goals and sample our first courses. Cathy nicely captured our varied approach to engaging students. She summed up our educational methods as follows: “traditional activity pages or exercises, real books, multisensory, lots of variety, […]
The following is a lesson from our course on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which will be available soon. C. S. Lewis dedicated The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to his goddaughter Lucy Barfield. In writing to Lucy, Lewis refers to the story as a “fairy tale.” But what is a fairy […]
We’re thrilled to publish our first course, Poetry in the Bible. While we’ve tried to cover all the basics of biblical poetry, there is of course much we couldn’t include. There are many beautiful passages that would have been great to talk about. One example is the ending of Ecclesiastes, a haunting meditation on the […]
