Lacie was ill and missed Chemistry classes and the extra day of work. I sent her a week’s worth of Theology and History to do before Tuesday. If she works through the material well, I won’t be so anxious.
On a positive note, the British Literature (Stobaugh) is going pretty well. Anna and Angel are in the midst of Chaucer. The girls are working on Character maps. Cliff notes has loads of useful material such as this hierarchy of social classes and degree of morality. Here are character map hand-outs.
I got the idea for character maps here and am using their suggestions for traits to examine, such as personality.
Here’s how we are doing Literature. The girls each chose three characters. They must use The Prologue and translation first to locate quotes and details. Then, they may use he internet (I.e. Cliff Notes or Spark Notes) to flesh out details. Struggle with the text first, use outside information second.
Our family is split. My husband, Rob, had his older brother’s complete Cliff Note collection in high school. He only read a few books. I read every book and assignment, except The Great Gatsby—just hated it. All of our literature teachers forbade Cliff Notes. I happened to love Literature; Rob happened to loathe it.
As I work through the literature with the girls, I tend to use Oxford web sites—not Wikipedia or Spark Notes. But, the Cliff Notes material is excellent, organized, and available. We’ll start with the Brit Lit textbook, read a good translation, and then Scout for notes on the internet.
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