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Nashville Symphony May 15

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Concert info:  https://www.nashvillesymphony.org/tickets/concert/2025-2026-season/beethoven-s-eroica-symphony/ Heroism, Vengeance, and Innovation: Exploring Beethoven, Barber, and Meyer Greek myths are the theme of this concert! Beethoven wrote a set of variations called “The Creatures of Prometheus” and used the main theme as the melody of his final movement of the Eroica symphony. Brush up on your knowledge of Prometheus with these videos: https://youtu.be/duzoedPyySk? si=LNU0NLKhZpql0V39 https://youtu.be/nOewVh0umdM? si=VIidIRu70Ui1mu4E https://youtu.be/U_u91SjrEOE? si=aZiqDXdRHE0LOUN- Greek myths continue to inspire with Barber’s Madea. Although this video is long, it is so good! Have your teenagers brush up on their knowledge by watching this: https://youtu.be/b7WH30_8vos? si=d-sx0iXrgzMq1TnM If you have younger students, Greek tales that were some of our favorites come from D’Aulaire’s book and Nathanial Hawthorne. I did find this anthology that has D’Aulaire’s account of Jas...
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Government and Civics Class

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The 2025-2026 school year has been the perfect setting for a high school course of study in government and civics. In the beginning of my planning I used the helpful resource from our own state's civics department at  https://sos.tn.gov/civics/lesson-plans and planned our schedule to meet the criteria of lessons taught throughout the year to match the Governor's Civics Seal ( https://www.tn.gov/education/districts/governor-s-civics-seal.html ) Unfortunately, I found out that as a homeschool group we were not eligible, but I still wanted our students to meet the criterion. What we learned and experienced along the way was so rich and rewarding! I am writing this blog to document the visits and highlights of our lessons to hopefully encourage you to plan out a study for your high school student! Course of Study This is the framework of our in person meetings. Throughout each month students had assignments to write essays, watch podcasts, and read the Tennessee Blue Book along wi...
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Multicultural Thanksgiving

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A new Thanksgiving guide is here! I wanted to create a blog post to share with you some screenshots of the guide and tell you a little more about what you can expect inside the PDF document. I love multicultural learning in our homeschool. Christmas has always been the perfect canvas for focusing on cultures around the world as we study how different countries celebrate. Check out my free Christmas Around the World book study after checking out the new Thanksgiving guide! The Multicultural Thanksgiving guide is geared toward K-5 students through the picture books  Molly’s Pilgrim ,  Duck for Turkey Day , and  Mary’s First Thanksgiving . These 3 picture books are beautiful representations of Americans of different cultures, all learning about the gift and blessing of freedom, family, and friends. In addition to reading the picture books, students have additional learning resources of poetry, copywork, music, and video links.     My prayer for you is that you wil...
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2025-2026 Planning Post

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Every year I enjoy blogging what our plans will be for the upcoming school year. Our umbrella school requires me to turn in plans before August and I love sharing what we do - it comes naturally to blog about it each year! I also love encouraging other homeschool families to find delight in a Charlotte Mason homeschool. If you're curious about our plans from past years, here is a collection of our curriculum! 2024-2025 ,  2023-2024 ,  2022-2023 ,  2021-2022 ,  2020-2021 ,  2019-2020 ,  2018-2019 ,  2017-2018 ,  2016-2017 This year we will have 8th grade and 10th grade! We survived our first year of high school! Woo hoo! I found that a practical tip that helped me a lot was to designate a folder to be the "high school folder" for paperwork that I want to keep in one place. That includes his 9th grade transcript/report card, his college credits in American History ( see this post to see how we CLEP'd out of history ), his BETA club certificate and p...
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