Christian Worldview workshops and Homeschool College

Biblical Concourse, http://www.biblicalconcourse.com/, offers free scopes and sequences to help families develop their own college level curriculum in many areas, including medical humanities and practical medicine. There is also a brief description of the Concourse for those home school moms who keep asking the good practical questions at: http://www.biblicalconcourse.com/brief.pdf

The North Dakota Home School Convention will have a workshop titled, "Practical Ideas on Developing Your Own College Curriculum," on March 2, 2007 in Fargo, ND, http://NDHSA.org. Participants include Dan Smithwick of http://nehemiahinstitute.com/, John Mesko of http://lighthousefarm.com/, Zach and Heidi Englehart from South Dakota. Workshops offer practical curriculum ideas for constitutional law, agriculture, engineering and other areas of study.

Check out Dr. Payne’s new website, which contains a wealth of Biblical worldview articles in many disciplines: http://www.biblicalworldview21.org .

An Eagle's Nest Homeschool and Travel Resources

The annual Youth Rally for Life will take place in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday, January 22 from noon-1 p.m. at the Ohio Statehouse on the west lawn. All are welcome - the young and the young at heart - for this peaceful, prayerful celebration of life. The keynote speaker will be the photographer Michael Clancy, who captured an image of the hands of a 21 week-old prenatal baby holding a surgeon's finger (see www.MichaelClancy.com).

An Eagle's Nest Homeschool and Travel Resources

Ready to meet the Deadliest Monster? As we start a new semester in our literature class, we will compare and contrast Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde with Frankenstein. If possible, get your own copy of The Deadliest Monster by Jeff Baldwin in time for the first class, so that you can read ahead. You can buy an inexpensive copy of * Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, or click on the links to read the free electronic versions. Check out http://www.amblesideonline.org/10bks.shtml for a good example of a high school level scope and sequence, with suggestions on how and what to teach, from a Christian worldview.

Regarding Frankenstein, Ambleside says, "Please do not shy away from this book based on the way popular horror movies have grossly revised it. Do please give this book a try. If what you know about Frankenstein is based on a movie, you will be very pleasantly surprised."

Which leads me to a problem--trying to find a movie to watch for Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll. Any suggestions? Unless we can find movies that are true to the books, there is no point in watching them. Also, we will need to change the Lit. class night from Monday to another night, or else have the class at my house on Monday (which is fine for me, but will mean more driving for everybody else). Any suggestions or comments?