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<\/figure>The Little Turtle<\/em><\/strong> by Vachel Lindsay (Ruben memorized this in less than an hour… gotta get something harder for him!)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Ellie is working on the second stanza after only two days on The Owl and the Pussycat.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n From The Angel’s Alphabet by Hilda van Stockum, B is for Balaam’s Ass<\/strong><\/em> has challenged Alyssa’s sense of propriety and involved a lot of giggling…<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n J is for Jacob’s Ladder<\/em><\/strong> is Efrain’s section – and since they’re working together on their memorization, when they’re done, he and Alyssa will switch.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n The Height of the Ridiculous<\/em><\/strong>, by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Jordan and this poem – I don’t know why – just seem made for one another.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n The Wild Honeysuckle <\/em><\/strong>by Philip Freneau is Xavier’s challenge for the week.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n For Natalie I figured she might as well take on something huge, so I gave her Lepanto<\/em><\/strong>, by G.K. Chesterton. She’s very much rising to the the occasion!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Reading for the summer looks like this: Ruben is listening to Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Elyany is reading: The Wizard of Oz<\/em><\/strong> by Frank L. Baum<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alyssa is reading: The Black Stallion<\/em><\/strong>, by Walter Farley<\/p>\n\n\n\n Efrain is reading: Farmer Giles of Ham<\/em><\/strong>, by J.R.R. Tolkien (and at night, for fun, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. He waited – purposely – to start until he turned 11!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jordan is reading: Dreams and Dragons<\/em><\/strong>, by Linda Burklin<\/p>\n\n\n\n Xavier is reading: The Hiding Place<\/em><\/strong>, by Corrie Ten Boom<\/p>\n\n\n\n Natalie is reading: The Hound of the Baskervilles<\/em><\/strong>, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/p>\n\n\n\n With this wide variety of fare you can imagine the conversations go in many directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And speaking of conversations going in many directions, our after dinner discussions are increasingly interesting as well. We’ve been working our way through a deck of cards that defines all kinds of logical fallacies, and that was interesting enough; but tonight Paul decided that our kids, who absolutely LOVE to argue (what kids don’t, I ask?), need to learn how to argue properly. So tonight we started with the Ad Hominem<\/em> fallacy and the Straw Man<\/em> fallacy, using the questions “Do Aliens Exist?” and “Should drivers licenses be granted at age 16, or 21?” My, this got lively in an instant! There were ad hominems<\/em> flying in every direction! It was an enormously useful time of teaching, and lots of fun too. Family dinners, man. They’re the best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Summer school this year is heavily reading-centric. Reading is so important! I try to walk the fine line between challenging classic literature and stories that are fun enough to keep them interested, which can be tricky. 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