King Cotton & The Abolitionist Movement
This week we return to the difficult and shameful topic of plantation slavery, but now the focus begins to shift to the Abolitionist movement, and the efforts of the heroic
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Together We Read – Favorites
“What’s your favorite book?” can sometimes sound like a bland and uncreative get-to-know-you question, but often it serves as a rather enlightening inquiry through which you can learn quite a
The Character Issue: Courage
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear. ― Franklin D. Roosevelt Last March when we introduced our character
The Industrial Revolution, Andrew Jackson & the Trail of Tears
It is another full week and we have mix-ins galore for you as our Primary and Intermediate students focus on The Industrial Revolution and our LMS and UMS discuss our
Together We Chalk
Happy Friday! Today our Development Assistant, Shannon DalPorto, is here to get us excited about our upcoming school fundraiser. Let’s talk chalk! It’s hard to believe that it’s time for
The Humility of Socratic Discussion (Reprise)
If we have had the practice to ask again and again what the author meant, and the discipline and training to return to the text and say, “How do you
The Transportation Revolution
As our country grew during the 1800s so did our need for more efficient means of travel. Enter canals, steamboats, and railroads. Today you’ll find a “boatload” of enrichment resources
Together We Read – Recent Reads
Happy Friday and welcome to our new series Together We Read. Would you consider yourself a bibliophile and/or perhaps a librocubicularist? (A bibliophile is a person who collects or has
Anne With an E
“There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you’re beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what
James Monroe & John Quincy Adams
Hello and Happy Valentine’s Day! We hope you are enjoying a lovely long weekend. We have a short school week ahead of us but still loads of learning to be
