Thank you for all your helpful comments and suggestions. I will make up some helps before we read the book and recommend the movie after we read and discuss. Linda

I am teaching a discussion only literature class made up of fifteen junior high and senior high students, and we will be studying Tale of Two Cities in a couple of months. Many of them are not accustomed to reading classic literature, but they have enjoyed reading and discussing Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and "She Stoops to Conquer" so far. I have been really surprised at how the discussion format has really motivated students to tackle challenging literature! Tale of Two Cities is difficult, so I thought about having the students watch the 1935 movie or 1989 BBC miniseries before reading the book (like I would do for a Shakespeare play). I don't normally do this, but I am afraid some of them are really going to be lost. Do any of you have any thoughts on this? Thanks! Linda

Thanks for responding to my posts--I think I figured out the printings and the copyrights. I decided to go ahead and buy the 1992 paperback used. Linda

Thanks--that helps, even though it is confusing. I'm wondering if the 1992 is a paperback copyright, since the book that I'm thinking of buying is a paperback. Thanks for looking it up for me! Linda

Hello, I'm wanting to buy this used, and I would like the latest edition. From what I can tell from internet searching, the year 2000 seems to be the latest printing or copyright. I see some people say that it is a 2000 copyright, and some say it is a 2000 printing. If it is just a 2000 printing, then I could just get the earlier 1992 edition, but if it is a 2000 copyright, I will look for that. Could someone look and tell me what is on the copyright page? Thanks so much, Linda

I taught myself with a manual typewriter and an old typing textbook that my parents had. I then took an official typing class in high school which had an electric typewriter. I used my graduation money to buy an electric typewriter to take to college--that was a big deal back then and expensive.

My husband has built bookshelves into the wall--we have them all throughout the house. We also have 4 stand alone bookcases. That would probably equal about 12 bookshelves? We used to have more space devoted to bookshelves at our other house, but we downsized a little. Linda

Hello, I have a decent piano background (took about 8 years) but have no degree in music and very little teaching in theory. I have taught all our children (five of them) using Faber Piano Adventures. I like it because it tells me exactly what to do and it coordinates all the books together. There are even more helps now, because Faber has a teacher book that goes with the primer level and maybe level one? I have not used the First Piano Adventures book. My 18 year old daughter progressed to a different piano teacher about 3 years ago. This same daughter taught herself violin through the Violin Book starting when she was about 14. It has been very thorough--there are checklists to complete to make sure that she is doing the right technique and so forth. She never really did squeak! Linda

My husband is related to Herbert Hoover both maternally and paternally. His father is also related to him both maternally and paternally. Linda

The Bible The Hiding Place Ralph Moody books Charlotte's Web, Trumpet of the Swan God's Smuggler (Brother Andrew) The Heavenly Man Many more. . . Linda

We have graduated two from homeschooling and have 3 more still to go (ages 15, 12, and 9) We are committed to finishing it out. Linda

Don't eat them now because of health problems, but I always liked the regular. Double stuff is good too, though. Linda

Two, because that is what I learned in typing before we were using computers. Linda

I use RS writing lessons that I like and then use other writing programs such as WriteSource and Format Writing. This year for my 7th grader and 4th grader I am taking some ideas from TOG (we used it several years ago in our family) and am doing a Civil War newspaper and a state notebook. I am adding in some RS writing and WriteSource. I'm still working on what to do with my 11th grader. Linda

Thanks for posting this. We have used TT for a while, and it has worked well for several of our kids, although we have not tested them.

11th grade: Teaching Textbooks 7th grade: Saxon and then moving into Teaching Textbooks 4th grade: BJU

I would start now with what you have, so you can have more breaks throughout the year. That's what I am doing. The last couple of years I have started after Labor Day, and we have had so few breaks, that it has been stressful for me. And I don't want to go until the end of June, personally. Linda

Here's some more that we use: We Were There series (We Were There at various historical events) Landmark history series Signature biographies (series) Opal Wheeler music biographies

Here's some that I have used: A Child's Geography of the World Halliburton's Complete Book of Marvels (geography--wonderful) Your Rugged Constitution by Bruce Allyn Findlay 1952 (we read this every time we go through the history cycle) Linda

The Treasure Seekers.

I bought this as a stand alone program for my oldest son who was not succeeding in any math program--he was ten at the time. Now I realize he was one of those Bluedorn type children who don't catch unto math until age ten and then do fine after that. Trying program after program was not the answer. Mastery Mathematics was good, but I did not like having time and measurement in the teacher manual--I do better with a lesson by lesson curriculum. However, Mastery Mathematics has been great for a supplement program for all our kids (five of them--two are graduated now). I use it when a concept needs more work, and the games have been great too. Linda

Still trying to decide on English for my son and then need to order it and then plan it and then would like to start school by August 22nd. Linda

I would finish the chapter since you will not be getting to it this year. If you were going to complete the 4th grade this year, I would not bother with finishing the 3rd grade book. Linda

We do follow a chronological plan for history, and this year my 11th grade son is doing Civil War to modern times. However, we are also including world history in that. We are using BJU U.S. History for a spine for the U.S. History and Diana Waring's 3rd world history book (World Empires, World Missions, etc. can't remember the excact title--using 1st edition) as a guide for the world history. I just divided the page numbers by the number of school weeks for the BJU U.S. History. Linda

Well, we use Rod and Staff, and the 6th grade has report writing instruction in it. Can't remember about the 5th grade. Also, Writesource books (the ones that have a book per grade) have report writing instruction in them too. I'm sure others could pipe in here. I found that my 10 year old daughter was not ready for the report writing for the horse guide, but she was able to other assignments. Linda