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Thoughts from my home to yours

Back home!

Hi everyone.

We had a wonderful vacation in northern Michigan and are home exhausted. Returned to see the garage door left open! Jon’s golf clubs happily sitting in the middle of the garage, propped up for the taking… were still there. Nothing missing from the house either. Talk about a moment of horror! All I could think was: “I’m so glad we took our computers with us.”

Anyway, despite having taken our computers with us, I’m behind on email. If you’ve written me in the last few days, know that I will catch up and respond to your email today. If you have any questions about the fall schedule or our products, please ask here (in the comments) or feel free to email me.

It’s back to book writing and fall planning for me. I also fully intend to write real blog entries again starting tomorrow.

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On vacation

Hi everyone.

We’re on vacation this week so my blogging time will be less. Just wanted to let you all know in case I don’t get much written. It may be until next Tuesday before I get time again.

Enjoy your July!

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Fall Class Schedule, Book Lists, One Thing Workshops

Finally what you’ve been waiting for: the Fall Schedule for Brave Writer classes and materials. We have an exciting program designed for your families. Check out the links below to read the details.

We’ll also roll out some high school book discussions in the coming weeks so stay tuned for those.

The Fall Schedule for:

Fall Online Writing Classes

The Language Arts Programs: The Arrow (3rd-6th) and The Boomerang (7th-9th) Book Lists now posted.

The One Thing Workshops: (Copywork and Dictation, Nature Journaling and Poetry)

Registration for the Online Classes and One Thing Workshops opens at 12:00 p.m. eastern on Monday, August 1, 2008.

Automatic Monthly Subscription Payments for the Arrow and the Boomerang open on July 27, 2008.

If you want to order The Writer’s Jungle Platinum Package (which includes a full year’s subscription to The Arrow or The Boomerang at a substantial discount), you may do that now and we’ll automatically start your subscription August 1st, but send you The Writer’s Jungle now.

If you have any questions or want to find out how Brave Writer can best meet your family’s needs this fall, I’m available through the Brave Writer public discussion forum called The Scratch Pad every day. I check the forum to read the questions posed by parents who are interested in the Brave Writer program. I’ll be happy to give you guidance to help you purchase the right materials and to sign up for the right classes.

You may also email me with your questions, if they are of a more private nature.

Thanks for all the input this year! Here’s to an awesome fall!

Julie

P.S. Remember: Brave Writer classes fill quickly. To ensure a space, you will want to sign up when registration opens on August 1, 2008 (Friday). Have a friend register you if you are out of town.

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Friday Freewrite: July 4th special edition

Write about fireworks. Describe them in vivid color and sound words. Make me see and hear them. Help me taste the air they explode in. Remember to describe the setting around them (do they reflect over water? are they on your front drive? are these the big kind over an amusement park?).

Post your writing in the comments below.

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Boomerang Book List 2008-09

At last! We have all the books picked out. I’ll update the website for both the Arrow and the Boomerang today. For now, here’s the book list for those who have kids 7th-9th grade. We’ll also feature both subscription styles: issues only and issues with discussion.

For those unfamiliar with the Arrow and Boomerang, here’s a brief summary of what they are. These are our language arts subscription programs. Each month we post an issue that features four dictation/copywork passages from a novel. I give you talking points for why I chose the passage, how to teach it and what to note in it (grammatically, literarily, in terms of spelling, and so on).

The Arrow then also includes a literary element that is taught and demonstrated through literature and includes a writing exercise designed to help your kids put the element into practice.

The Boomerang features 7-10 “think piece” questions related to the novel that enable kids to respond to the literature in writing.

Without further ado, here is the book list!

The Cay (an adventure story of a young, newly blinded man learning to survive on an uninhabited island) Theodore Taylor

The Chosen (story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures of growing up Jewish) Chaim Potok

Jane Eyre (classic tale of a poor, orphaned girl who falls in love with a rich man who hides a secret) Charlotte Bronte

The Eagle of the Ninth (classic historical fiction by renowned author) Rosemary Sutcliff

The View from Saturday (tells the story of four sixth grade quiz bowl champs and their paraplegic coach/teacher) E. L. Konisburg

A Tale of Two Cities (classic Dickens) Charles Dickens

Christy (Christy Huddleston leaves a life of privilege and ease to teach in the impoverished Smokey Mountains) Catherine Marshall

The Westing Game (a delightfully complex puzzle in the form of a “who-dunit”) Ellen Raskin

Treasure Island (classic pirate’s tale) Robert Louis Stevenson

The Hero and the Crown (captivating fantasy novel about a princess who determines her own destiny) Robin McKinley

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