An email from Civitas:
Dear James Bartholomew We saw a couple of your recent pieces on your blog and the Mail on Sunday about home schools. I thought you might be interested to know about our special offer to home schools on one of our education titles, Our Island Story. Home schoolers can get copies at postage and packaging cost only (£5). You might want to pass this on to other home schoolers. We have also tried to be at the forefront of the current debate on synthetic phonics by publishing for the first time this year an established reading course, The Butterfly Book. Best wishes Nick Cowen -------------------------------------------------------- Nick Cowen Research and administrative assistant nick.cowen@civitas.org.uk www.civitas.org.uk Office: 020 77996677 Civitas: Institute for the Study of Civil Society 77 Great Peter Street London SW1P 2EZ
I am using
Our Island Storyfor teaching my daughter an overview of the course of British history. The history is probably no longer regarded as being wholly right but the author tells stories and children love stories. I did not know the one about the siege of Calais and it is very dramatic. This book has recently been supplemented by watching the video of The Six Wives of Henry the Eighth, which is excellent once it gets going, and also the video of the series in which Glenda Jackson starred as Elizabeth I. This is less compelling but has certainly also held my daughter's attention. The episode on the plot to kill her is particularly good. These TV series bring the Tudors vividly to life and they are, I believe, much more accurate than the recent film on Elizabeth.
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"Our Island Story" is sometimes more story than history, but as Lady Antonia Fraser wrote on the occasion of the reprinting (I think this is the link:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/06/23/do2301.xml
there is nothing like a well-told story, a ripping yarn if you will, to draw a child in and hold his or her attention.
We home school as well and my 10-year-old daughter has quite enjoyed some of "Six Wives", which is probably not just more accurate, and with more detail, but more suitable for children as well.
Posted by: Becky at November 20, 2007 04:50 PM
I enjoyed your piece in the Times on home schooling. You might be interested in the account of our (very positive) experiences with home schooling--more precisely home unschooling--on my blog:
http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/search?q=unschooling
Posted by: David Friedman at September 5, 2008 08:24 AM
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Hello,
Our eldest daughter is due to start school next year, by which time she will be five. Do you have any books that you would recommend for that age group? Alternatively, do you have any links to sites that you have found useful during your own search?
Regards
Alastair
Posted by: Alastair at November 19, 2007 09:57 PM