If one wishes to listen to sermons or talks, including those on Southern history and culture, SermonAudio is an excellent resource. The always interesting John Weaver’s sermons can be heard/downloaded there, and I’ve listened to a number of interesting speakers whose talks have been posted online.
Search terms you might consider are “southern” “confederate” “southron” “confederacy”, all lower case to force the search engine to look for the listing in all lower case, all upper case, and the standard mix of upper and lower case.
I have been considering a way to create reviews for different books for children, as well as for curriculum. The following points have come to mind as possibilities on, say, a 1-5 scale, with 1 being the lowest rating (which can be good in some cases) and 5 the highest. Anyway, the categories I thought we might want to consider in a review could be the following. If you have any other categories, please reply and let me know what you think.
1. Age-appropriateness/reading level
2. Positive portrayal of European-Americans
3. Conservative Christian content
4. Quality of illustrations, if relevant
5. Positive presentation and encouragement of family
6. Beauty of language
7. Appreciation of traditon
8. Licensed characters (such as Disney, etc.)
9. Historical accuracy
Let me know what else might end up being a criterion. I propose posting the book reviews in the Knowledge Base section of the main web page for use of the members of the site. What do y’all think about that idea?
An important thing to remember is how pervasive Cultural Marxism and the idea of Liberalism and the Frankfurt School are in everyday life. Sadly they are even pervasive in books for children, so one should de-construct works of children’s literature with this in mind. Many of these children’s book authors have very undesirable agendas. Also the life and politics of the authors might also be examined for clues to their agenda.
Here are some more resources for those practicing Charlotte Mason style homeschooling.
Notebooking pages incorporates the current craze for scrapbooking with teaching homeschool subjects, and offers a variety of “free and affordable notebooking pages--and more!”
http://www.notebookingpages.com
They also have an email newsletter with interesting information. This month’s newsletter has two good references on Narration and Copywork, including some free pages.
This page incorporates information about how they have integrated Narration with their own homeschooling, and how they use their notebooking pages while doing this.
Copywork is copying a piece of well-written work, from any variety of sources, onto paper or into a notebook. The student copies from a written selection using his best penmanship to create a “perfect copy” that is properly spaced and includes all proper capitalization and punctuation marks. It is a method, that when used consistently in your homeschooling studies, will improve your child’s penmanship, grammar, and punctuation skills as well as expose him to a variety of writing styles, structures, and techniques.
Do not mistake copywork for mindless handwriting practice. There are a variety of ideas of what exactly copywork is depending on what source you are reading. I am referring to copywork that is based on copying great sources of literature. Copywork is giving your child time with great writers by copying their finest works. It’s a bit of a mentoring session as the child sits down to focus on the flow of words and mechanics of the piece he is copying. Yes, it seems a very simple skill, but use it consistently and you’ll be impressed with its subtle effect on your child.
I wonder if there are any homeschool families using White race and culture-positive quotes for copywork? If there are any out there, could you post the quotes in this topic? Also, if others who read this topic have suggestions, please post them here.
The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use.
THE INTERNET HISTORY SOURCEBOOKS
* Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
A “classroom usable” sourcebook of copy-permitted material for Ancient history and civilization courses.
* Internet Medieval Sourcebook
This is an online source book of copy-permitted, although not necessarily copyright-free, source material for Medieval Studies. It is the largest online resource of medieval and Byzantine textual sources.
* Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Now with almost as many online texts as the Medieval Sourcebook, this also constitutes a “classroom usable” sourcebook of copy-permitted material for Modern European history and Modern Civilization courses. North American and Latin American documents are located within its structure.
SUBSIDIARY SOURCEBOOKS
The following consist of thematically based subsets of texts, with some additional documents and links, of the three main Sourcebooks listed above.
* Internet African History Sourcebook
* Internet East Asian History Sourcebook
* Internet Global History Sourcebook
* Internet Indian History Sourcebook
* Internet Islamic History Sourcebook
* Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
* Internet History of Science Sourcebook
* Internet Women’s History Sourcebook
Some of the topics may not be of interest to Kinists, i.e., the “People With a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* History” etc., but there are other topics that seem to have good coverage not available in other source compilations. The immigration page within the Modern History Sourcebook is quite interesting.
Welcome to the “Homeschool Freebie of the Day” site! We’re glad you found us… you’re gonna LOVE what we’ve got here for you!
Here’s the deal:
Every weekday, Monday through Friday, we’ll post a new homeschooling “freebie” to this site. What kind of “freebies”? Stuff like: Unit Studies… Ebooks… Audio Programs… Games… Samples… Lesson Plans… classic books… and other quality resources! This is the REAL THING.
Many of these will be products that you would normally pay for on their regular websites… but here on the Homeschool Freebie of the Day site, they’re 100% free… at least for that one day! Just download your copy and enjoy! It’s as simple as that!
FAQ:
How often do you put up new freebies? We post a new freebie each weekday, Monday through Friday. Our Friday freebie will be available all weekend long. So there will be five new freebies each and every week.
Is this legal? Absolutely. We only post freebies with the cooperation and approval of the original publisher.
Any “strings” attached? All the freebies we bring you here are downloadable, and 100% free. There is no service charge or any other cost involved. Most of the freebies will have links to the direct download page, so you don’t even have to give your name or email address at all. However, some of the resources that come from other publishers may occasionally require you to sign up for their mailing list. If that doesn’t suit you, just skip that day’s freebie, or consider signing up and then later unsubscribe yourself if you don’t like that publisher’s list.Can I pass along your freebies to my friends? No. Sorry, but the freebies you receive from our site are meant for your personal use only. You do not have any rights or license to re-distribute them in any manner. If you want to share freebies with a friend, just tell them to visit our website and grab a copy for themselves.
How long will each freebie be available? Each freebie is available only for ONE DAY. If you miss it, we’re sorry, but that’s the way it goes.
Podiobooks are free audiobooks offered in downloaded installments. How often one downloads may be adjusted according to preference. They have a reasonable amount of fantasy books, some history (including the one I list here). I will let y’all know if the quality is OK.
Hi Laurel,
There are so many ‘free’ books on the Web in the public domain published before 1926 which can be used as sources for ‘copy work’. Project Gutenberg is one such source as is Google Books. Here are a few suggestions of authors and their works we’ve used, which take Christianity as a given:
Kenneth Grahame (Wind in the Willows, Dream Days, The Golden Age)
John Ruskin (The King of the Golden River)
Robert Louis Stevenson (Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Children’s Garden of Verses, The Wrong Box, The Wrecker, etc)
Howard Pyle (Pepper and Salt, Otto of the Silver Hand, The Adventures of Robin Hood)
Jules Verne (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Michel Strogoff)
Herman Melville (Moby ####)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (Tanglewood Tales)
Charles Dickens (Hard Times, Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations)
George MacDonald (The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind)
Of course, once you find a work you like, you may want to purchase a copy. If you’re trying to economize, you might try looking for used books on http://used.addall.com, an engine which searches across Amazon, ABE Books, Biblio, etc.
While they are not free, we’ve used the G.A. Henty historical novels with great success over the years in our homeschooling program, which is essentially a “great books” program. As for free resources, Kinism.net is collecting many of them and will be presenting an online library of recommended free books. Most of what’s worth reading is no longer copyrighted anyway. But there are some exceptions: Chesterton, Belloc, Dawson, Weaver, Rushdoony, Nisbet, Hoppe, et al.
Now Dickens, from the above list, is a great writer, of course, but had progressive and malthusian views which this site would not endorse.
Now Dickens, from the above list, is a great writer, of course, but had progressive and malthusian views which this site would not endorse.
John, this is the kind of feedback that would be of benefit regarding all of the great books; which is why I hope to encourage more “book reviews”, whether the book is new or an old classic. Worldview is something I would like to see referenced more often.
CWNY’s wife: What you are providing is so much of what I want to see, experienced homeschoolers providing their personal recommendations of what has worked for their families. What quotes can you recommend from these books for Copywork? For what age and reading level?
Overall I think the more specific we can be, the better off the children of newer Kinists will be. I research and provide tons of resources, but the very volume of it can be overwhelming and confusing to new homeschool parents.
Please, experienced homeschool parents, share your wealth of knowledge with the new homeschoolers.
I would hate to see Dickens taken off the reading list. I do see Marshall’s point, but we would not have much of a reading list if we only included works in which we agreed with everything in them. I think parents need to talk with their children about what they are reading and point out these problems to them. Of course the standard of for what one would recommend for a ten year old to read is not the same as what one recommend for a sixteen year old to read.
I am a personal fan of A Tale of Two Cities (OK, all of you who were forced to read this in high school and hated it, hear me out).
I have found no other book which addresses Biblical themes as well as A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens’ words give flesh and feeling to the Biblical concepts, and that gives the novel power.
A young Christian person’s blog, which I am unfamiliar with otherwise and cannot endorse overall until I am more familiar with it, has a very insightful literary analysis of the book in terms of its biblical themes. Probably it was assigned reading in his high school; at least he got something of value out of it. The review is worth reading.
The Biblical themes such as revenge, forgiveness, self-sacrifice, and friendship ring especially poignant throughout the text, and give us valuable lessons in life application today.
Self-Sacrifice (Matt. 16:24, John 15:13)
Perhaps the most prominent theme and perhaps main premise of the novel is self-sacrifice. From the Darnays’ marriage relationship to their friends’ selfless devotion to their cause, self-sacrifice is vibrantly displayed. Amazingly, this central theme is something A Tale of Two Cities has in common with the Bible. Jesus’ command to those who wish to follow him is to deny themselves (Matt. 16:24), leaving all personal wishes and desires behind for the sake of the cross. Sydney Carton, Charles Darnay’s rescuer and substitute on the gallows, certainly understands and demonstrates this mandate in his action. Similarly, Mr. Lorry, the Darnays’ longtime friend, and Dr. Manette show their apathy for self in their tireless efforts to free Darnay from his imprisonment.
After examining Sydney Carton’s action further, it is apparent that it has striking similarities with Christ’s death on the cross. It is done in total anonymity, without request of expectation of recognition, and just as Christ urges his disciple to care for His mother, on the march to the guillotine Sydney Carton comforts a girl also condemned to die, holding her hand to the end. The Biblical parallels and principles displayed in the book do not end here, however.
