If you had to choose between living in a world where it’s always a freezing winter or always a steaming summer, which would you choose and what might be the pros and cons of your choice?
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Archive for September, 2017
YouTube Recap August 2017
Did you miss any videos from the Brave Writer YouTube channel last month? We’ve got you covered. Check out these great videos about the benefits of online classes for your homeschool and how to put the “home” back in homeschool.
How Online Classes Can Benefit Your Homeschool
- Why Brave Writer programs are unique
- Why our classes are so “short”
- How to use classes to bolster writing at home
- How to support children with learning disabilities in a Brave Writer class
- The advantages of text based classes
- How remote communication prepares your child for college
- Why shared learning dynamics and collective feedback are so important
- How to encourage growth instead of “just correcting”
- The Arrow and Bommerang Book Clubs
- Why you should take the Writer’s Jungle Online as a class
- Information about Fall registration.
Haven’t registered for Fall classes with Brave Writer yet? REGISTER HERE.
Back to Homeschool: Maximizing the Perks of Home!
- How to find and implement the advantages of home into your “school” work
- Not-Back-to-School Parties!
- How to accommodate differences and needs without fear
- “There’s no such thing as independence under supervision.”
- How to partner with your children and why it matters
- How to manage different age groups within your homeschool
- Triangling in help
- How to meet goals while still honoring the spirit of home
- Getting good at the process
- Where to start with Brave Writer
- Finding practical ways to bring the thinking part of learning into your family life
Catching up with Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow is one of our favorite people here at Brave Writer! His ideas and published works about writing have greatly influenced our philosophy and practices.
Although he does not take credit for creating the idea of freewriting, Dr. Elbow has helped to popularize the practice and bring it further into the public consciousness, for which we are very grateful. Freewriting is an essential component of the Brave Writer Lifestyle (check out our writing prompts every Friday!).
Dr. Elbow has a helpful website, which hosts a vast amount of information and resources including:
- PDF of the first four pages of his book Writing Without Teachers
- tables of contents from his books
- reviews of his most recent book
- scholarly articles
Take a look around the site and hopefully you’ll end up as big a fan of Dr. Elbow as we are. And while you’re at it, watch our interview with Dr. Elbow from 2016!
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Friday Freewrite: You’re a Dragon
You wake up one morning and realize that you’ve become a dragon! How do you react? What happens next?
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