Real confession: I actually admire people that do literary analysis in their home school. I just had not been capable. It seems weird that a person that is such a follower of literature-based educational program would certainly claim that. I primarily made use of Sonlight Curriculum, and also later on The Well Educated Mind. Sonlight was the simplest to utilize, however eventually we had reviewed the majority of the books, so I changed to The Well Trained Thought transference checklists and also other "analysis lists for the college bound." I constantly tried to tie in the analysis with the history. We didn't do any type of "literary analysis" - we simply enjoyed the books. My children enjoyed it a lot they both signed up for the wonderful books honors program in college - as well as did effectively.

However when I was homeschooling, the reality is I felt guilty about not dealing with literary analysis. I determined beforehand that my objective in educating the Bible was for my kids to LIKE their Bible. So I ultimately determined that my goal for literature would certainly coincide - instructing them to ENJOY literary works. I didn't want to "beat the love of publications out of them" by analyzing every little thing they check out.

In retrospect, all of it ended up terrific. They are able to do college literary analysis in their honors "excellent books" course without a trouble. Fantastic 20/20 hindsight, but at the time I actually emphasized over "checking out understanding" more than nearly anything else.

Keeping the concentrate on the "love of finding out" is so hard, though, when you are confronted with a youngster that might just respond to "fine" when you inquire just how they liked their analysis.

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