Hunter Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 I've decided to un-name this. I'm just going to refer to this as the Public Domain Curriculum. It's FREE FREE FREE to do ANYTHING you want with it, other than to copyright it in such a way as to remove it from Public Domain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted October 7, 2014 Author Share Posted October 7, 2014 Public Domain English Curriculum **** Year 1 ****************** Phonics/Reading Hoenshel’s Language Lessons and Elementary Grammar 1899: pg. 11-20 https://archive.org/details/hoenshelslangua00hoengoog McGuffey’s Eclectic Primer 1909 https://archive.org/details/mcguffeyseclecti00mcgu Handwriting Don Potter’s Direct Path to Cursive or Shortcut to Manuscript http://donpotter.net/pdf/direct_path_to_cursive.pdf http://donpotter.net/pdf/shortcut-to-manuscript.pdf Composition and Grammar Hoenshel’s Progressive Course in English Teacher’s Manual 1912: pg. 11-14 http://books.google.com/books?id=Zn8SAAAAIAAJ&dq=Progressive+Course+in+English+Teacher’s+Manual&source=gbs_navlinks_s Spelling Essentials of Spelling Lower by Henry Carr Peason 1919: pg. 1 https://archive.org/details/essentialsspell00suzzgoog McGuffey’s Eclectic Speller 1879: lesson 1 pg. 13 syllabary charts http://books.google.com/books?id=yEdOAAAAMAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s **** Year 2 ****************** McGuffey’s First Reader http://books.google.com/books?id=yE4LAQAAIAAJ&dq=McGuffey Don Potter’s Direct Path to Cursive or Shortcut to Manuscript http://donpotter.net/pdf/direct_path_to_cursive.pdf http://donpotter.net/pdf/shortcut-to-manuscript.pdf Two-Book Course in English Book 1 by Mark Hyde 1904: Pages 1-70 http://books.google.com/books?id=TpcAAAAAYAAJ&dq=Two-Book+Course+in+English&source=gbs_navlinks_s Essentials of Spelling Lower Grades by Henry Carr Peason 1919: pg. 2-20 https://archive.org/details/essentialsspell00suzzgoog **** Year 3 ********************* McGuffey’s Second Reader http://books.google.com/books?id=804LAQAAIAAJ&dq=McGuffey Don Potter’s Direct Path to Cursive or Shortcut to Manuscript http://donpotter.net/pdf/direct_path_to_cursive.pdf http://donpotter.net/pdf/shortcut-to-manuscript.pdf Essentials of English: Lower Grades by Henry Carr Pearson https://archive.org/details/essentialsengli05kircgoog Essentials of Spelling Lower Grades by Henry Carr Peason 1919: pg. 21-45 https://archive.org/details/essentialsspell00suzzgoog **** Year 4 **************************** McGuffey’s Third Reader pg. 13-103 http://books.google.com/books?id=ESzQAAAAMAAJ&dq=McGuffey Don Potter’s Direct Path to Cursive or Shortcut to Manuscript http://donpotter.net/pdf/direct_path_to_cursive.pdf http://donpotter.net/pdf/shortcut-to-manuscript.pdf Good English Oral and Written Book 1 by William Harris Elson 1920 pg. 1-130 http://books.google.com/books?id=FVYXAAAAIAAJ&dq=editions:3qsVUn_nAV8C&source=gbs_navlinks_s Essentials of Spelling Lower Grades by Henry Carr Peason 1919: pg. 46-76 https://archive.org/details/essentialsspell00suzzgoog **** Year 5 *************************** McGuffey’s Third Reader pg. 104-208 http://books.google.com/books?id=ESzQAAAAMAAJ&dq=McGuffey Don Potter’s Direct Path to Cursive or Shortcut to Manuscript http://donpotter.net/pdf/direct_path_to_cursive.pdf http://donpotter.net/pdf/shortcut-to-manuscript.pdf Good English Oral and Written Book 1 by William Harris Elson 1920 pg. 131-272 http://books.google.com/books?id=FVYXAAAAIAAJ&dq=editions:3qsVUn_nAV8C&source=gbs_navlinks_s Essentials of Spelling Middle Grades pg. 1-32, 72, 76-79, 84 https://archive.org/details/essentialsspell02suzzgoog **** Year 6 ************************* McGuffey’s Fourth Reader pg. 25-139 http://books.google.com/books?id=ESzQAAAAMAAJ&dq=McGuffey Don Potter’s Direct Path to Cursive or Shortcut to Manuscript http://donpotter.net/pdf/direct_path_to_cursive.pdf http://donpotter.net/pdf/shortcut-to-manuscript.pdf Good English Oral and Written Book 2 1921 pg. 1-153 http://books.google.com/books?id=bFYXAAAAIAAJ&dq=editions:3qsVUn_nAV8C&source=gbs_navlinks_s Essentials of Spelling Middle Grades pg. 33-60, 72, 80-84 https://archive.org/details/essentialsspell02suzzgoog **** Year 7 **************** McGuffey’s Fourth Reader pg. 139-256 http://books.google.com/books?id=ESzQAAAAMAAJ&dq=McGuffey Don Potter’s Direct Path to Cursive or Shortcut to Manuscript http://donpotter.net/pdf/direct_path_to_cursive.pdf http://donpotter.net/pdf/shortcut-to-manuscript.pdf Good English Oral and Written Book 2 1921 pg. 156-310 http://books.google.com/books?id=bFYXAAAAIAAJ&dq=editions:3qsVUn_nAV8C&source=gbs_navlinks_s Essentials of Spelling Higher Grades 1921 pg. 1-15, 55, 66-67,72-75 https://archive.org/details/essentialsspell01suzzgoog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted October 7, 2014 Author Share Posted October 7, 2014 **** Year 8 ****************** McGuffey’s Fifth Reader pg. 39-143 http://books.google.com/books?id=_E8LAQAAIAAJ&dq=McGuffey Don Potter’s Direct Path to Cursive or Shortcut to Manuscript http://donpotter.net/pdf/direct_path_to_cursive.pdf http://donpotter.net/pdf/shortcut-to-manuscript.pdf Good English Oral and Written Book 3 1918 pg. 1-178 http://books.google.com/books?id=2lYXAAAAIAAJ&dq=editions:3qsVUn_nAV8C&source=gbs_navlinks_s Daily Grammar http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.html Essentials of Spelling Higher Grades 1921 pg. 16-30,55,66-67,76-79 https://archive.org/details/essentialsspell01suzzgoog **** Year 9 ***************************** McGuffey’s Fifth Reader pg. 143-246 http://books.google.com/books?id=_E8LAQAAIAAJ&dq=McGuffey Don Potter’s Direct Path to Cursive or Shortcut to Manuscript http://donpotter.net/pdf/direct_path_to_cursive.pdf http://donpotter.net/pdf/shortcut-to-manuscript.pdf Good English Oral and Written Book 3 1918 pg. 180-372 http://books.google.com/books?id=2lYXAAAAIAAJ&dq=editions:3qsVUn_nAV8C&source=gbs_navlinks_s Daily Grammar http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.html Essentials of Spelling Higher Grades 1921 pg. 31-48,55,66-67,80-84 https://archive.org/details/essentialsspell01suzzgoog **** Year 10 ******************** McGuffey’s Fifth Reader pg. 247-352 http://books.google.com/books?id=_E8LAQAAIAAJ&dq=McGuffey Don Potter’s Direct Path to Cursive or Shortcut to Manuscript http://donpotter.net/pdf/direct_path_to_cursive.pdf http://donpotter.net/pdf/shortcut-to-manuscript.pdf SAT Vocabulary lessons 1-15 https://www.nms.org/Resources/SATVocabularyLessons.aspx Daily Grammar http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.html Thesis Statement & 5 Paragraph Research Essay http://www.sjnrcs.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=NKRraeaA1M0%3D&tabid=554 How to Write a Thesis Statement in 3 Easy Steps! http://pace.edu/sites/pace.edu.dyson/files/media/files/pdf/writing-center/student-resources/guides/howtowritethesisthreesteps080508.pdf Writing an Effective Title http://writing.umn.edu/sws/assets/pdf/quicktips/titles.pdf How to Capitalize Titles http://www.santarosa.edu/~kthornle/30/CapitalizationMLAStyle.pdf Introduction Worksheet http://jimmiescollage.com/downloads/writing/introduction-paragraph-graphic-organizer.pdf Conclusion Worksheet http://jimmiescollage.com/downloads/writing/conclusion-paragraph-graphic-organizer.pdf Outline http://lablog101.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/5-paragraph-essay-outline-for-research-paper1.pdf Research Gathering Grid. Fold up a large piece of art paper, or tape together several pieces of paper, to create a larger grid with more room to write. http://questgarden.com/139/61/3/120608222628/files/gathering%20grid.pdf MLA Bibliography Guide http://www.edu.pe.ca/gulfshore/PDFs/bibform.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted October 7, 2014 Author Share Posted October 7, 2014 **** Teacher Training and Optional Extras ************************ Eclectic Manual of Methods 1885 includes teacher’s manuals for each of the McGuffey’s Readers https://archive.org/details/eclecticmanualof00stew Elson’s Good English Oral and Written contain teacher’s manuals at the end of each student book. Morrison McCall Spelling Scale can be used to place students in Essentials of Spelling https://misdelar.wikispaces.com/file/view/spelling+assessment.pdf Exercises on Descriptions of Pictures Powell’s How to Teach Reading 1899: pg. 31-36 http://books.google.com/books?id=8x8BAAAAYAAJ&dq=powell's+how+to+teach+reading&source=gbs_navlinks_s Powell’s How to Talk or Primary Lessons in the English Language 1882 : pg. 13-15, 51-56 http://books.google.com/books?id=jIcAAAAAYAAJ&dq=inauthor:%22William+Bramwell+Powell%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s A Child’s Composition Book by James Fleming Hosic 1916 pg. 6-9 http://books.google.com/books?id=AbovAQAAMAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s Modern Instructions for a Handwritten Friendly Letterhttp://www.nhcs.net/parsley/curriculum/postal/FriendlyLetter.html Address envelopes in all caps and no punctuation. Double spaces replace punctuation. Very Important new changes!http://data.grammarbook.com/blog/numbers/how-do-i-write-addresses/ Remedial Fast Track Plan for 5 Paragraph Essays Write On! by Karen Newell: Three Sentence/Paragraph Report pg. 12-13 http://www.learn4yourlife.com/support-files/writeoninstructorsguide.pdf Write On! by Karen Newell: Introduce and Conclude http://web.archive.org/web/20100209045138/http://www.kid-friendly-homeschool-curriculum.com/Homeschool-writing-contest.html Composition lessons from Harvey's Grammar. Animals: 40, 59. Plants and products: 82, 99, 105. Metals and elements: 112, 116. Disasters and phenomena of nature: 120. http://books.google.com/books?id=hB8BAAAAYAAJ&dq=harvey Don Potter’s Natural Phonics looks to be the best free Dyslexia curriculum to use alongside this Public Domain curriculum, if you want to explicitly teach phonograms. http://www.donpotter.net/education_pages/flesch_audio.html Phonograms http://www.donpotter.net/pdf/flesch_phonograms.pdf Exercises http://www.donpotter.net/pdf/fleschphonicsexercises.pdf 25 Types of Poetry http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/25-Types-of-Poetry-123703 or http://myteacherpages.com/webpages/jgriffin/files/25%20Types%20of%20Poetry.pdf **** Notes ********************* This English curriculum is a 10 year curriculum that will adequately and systematically prepare a student for non-remedial community college freshman English. This curriculum was purposely designed to only include 10 levels to ensure that users had the option of taking advantage of the efficiency of a “late†start and/or early entrance into a community college. The dictionary re-spellings in McGuffey’s are also used in Essentials of Spelling. It is recommended that students learn the system even though the modern Merriam-Webster uses a simplified system. The older style of Webster respellings are widely used in public domain books and they also help the student to learn phonics. Any student that learns the older system will make an easy transition to modern respellings. Essentials of Spelling is an extended Ayres list. The Morrison McCall Spelling Scales can be used with ES for placement in the curriculum. All of the first grade review words in ES are included in McGuffey’s Primer, except for “amâ€, and will not need to be taught in isolation, before starting ES. Elson’s Good English series includes teacher’s manuals at the end of each student book. Unfortunately the manuals do not include keys for the exercises. Most of the exercises are sentences compositions, of which a key would be useless, but by book 3 some instructors may begin to struggle without a key. In most cases exercises from Daily Grammar can be substituted. An early start in Daily Grammar will increase the likelihood that Daily Grammar is finished by the end of year 10 and is recommended. Both Hyde’s and Elson’s English texts include summaries at the end of each year’s lessons. Make sure to print out the yearly summaries to use as a handy reference. Year 10 English is devoted to learning to write a research essay. A remedial fast track plan for writing a 5 paragraph essay is included, for those older students new to the curriculum. Use the fast track plan before starting the 10th grade curriculum, if needed. Don Potter has written excellent manuscript and cursive curricula. This English curriculum is designed to accommodate the cursive-first approach, but will also work with the manuscript-first approach. Don Potter also has published numerous free explicit phonics curricula. I do not believe that the average student will require or benefit from more phonics than is included in the core curriculum. If a student appears to have dyslexia and an instructor wants to supplement this curriculum with phonograms drill, I recommend the Natural Phonics curriculum as the most compatible supplement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quietchapel Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 This is awesome!! Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeritasMama Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Wow Hunter, very impressive. I can't wait to "unwrap" this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted October 7, 2014 Author Share Posted October 7, 2014 I'm sorry I can't post the chart. It really helps to see a summary all on one page. The whole thing as a list is so overwhelming it's impossible to see the big plan. I'm trying to figure out how I can post something more chart like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeritasMama Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Could you upload it to scribd and then post a link? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 You can share pdf files using Google Drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted October 7, 2014 Author Share Posted October 7, 2014 Hoenshel’s Language Lessons and Elementary Grammar 1899 pg. 11-20 Hoenshel’s Progressive Course in English Teacher’s Manual 1912 pg. 11-14 Two-Book Course in English Book 1 by Mark Hyde 1904 pg. 1-70. Essentials of English: Lower Grades by Henry Carr Pearson 1921 McGuffey’s Revised Primer, First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, 1879 Speller pg. 13, Eclectic Manual of Methods Essentials of Spelling Lower by Henry Carr Peason 1919, Middle 1921, Higher 1921 Elson’s Good English Oral and Written Book 1 1920, Book 2 1921, Book 3 1918. Use editions with TM’s at the end of each book. Daily Grammar http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.html, SAT https://www.nms.org/Resources/SATVocabularyLessons.aspx Don Potter’s Direct Path to Cursive or Shortcut to Manuscript http://donpotter.net/pdf/direct_path_to_cursive.pdf or http://donpotter.net/pdf/shortcut-to-manuscript.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted October 7, 2014 Author Share Posted October 7, 2014 I don't know how to share documents, but I figured out how to crop a pdf and convert it to a jpg and post it at photobucket and display it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deee Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Brilliant job, Hunter! Thanks for doing all this for anybody and everybody. D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted October 8, 2014 Author Share Posted October 8, 2014 Can anyone download a pdf of the curriculum using this link? https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9Fvf4FXKZtoZmJra2dHT3R4MVE/view?usp=sharing EDIT: updated alpha version. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9Fvf4FXKZtoRjVhdHdGZ2w5aGM/view?usp=sharing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplemom Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Hunter, is your year 1 intended for a Kindergarten or 1st grader as a baseline? I am aware that some children will be ready for year 1 closer to age 5, and some not until 7, but just curious what is more so the average age for starting the plan. The only reason I ask is because my 6yo "1st grader" is doing something similiar to your year 1 LA. Except handwriting, we are doing print copy work. Now that my ds is comfortable with print copywork, he has recently started cursive. I am considering switching her to the Don Potter recommendation of cursive 1st before we get too much further into print. Ds is really struggling with the cursive slant even though he is using Simply Charlotte Mason's print-to-cursive book that eases into the transition. Makes me wonder if the Don Potter handwriting plan you mentioned is less stressful. Thanks for posting this.........off to rewatch the Don Potter videos now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted October 8, 2014 Author Share Posted October 8, 2014 I'd say that average students won't be able to finish year 1 in one year, if they start at age 5 or 6. We try so hard to start children in formal academics before age 7, but so many of them just are NOT ready. Most families are going to start year 1 at 5 or 6 years old, but I think many will fail at FINISHING it in a year. Knowing that so many families are going to take 2 or even 3 years to finish year 1, I'm going to add a lot of optional resources in every subject, to accommodate those parents. PERSONALLY, if I only had a child or two, I'd probably start year 1 at 5 or 6 and see how it went. The pressure is SO strong to start as early as possible. If I had many children and needed to be efficient, I just wouldn't start formal academics before 7, especially for boys. It's not efficient. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted October 8, 2014 Author Share Posted October 8, 2014 There are so many pros and cons to manuscript-first vs cursive-first. And pros and cons to different cursive styles. There is no one-sized-fits-all solution. Of free resources that don't require a lot of printing, there is nothing that I know of that is as likely to be successful as Don Potter's curricula. I tried really hard to plan the curriculum to accommodate cursive-first. Vintage resources were written to be used with cursive-first, so it was pretty easy. Modern O-G curricula do NOT work by pasting cursive-first onto a method that was written for manuscript-first. Yes, some gifted children can adapt, but it's not a good default plan. But, there are real cons to cursive-first even with a curriculum that accommodates the method. So I'm so happy that Don Potter also has a nice manuscript curriculum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoo Keeper Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Can anyone download a pdf of the curriculum using this link? https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9Fvf4FXKZtoZmJra2dHT3R4MVE/view?usp=sharing I just downloaded it--worked very well. It looks just plain wonderful, Hunter. I appreciate all the amazing hard work you have done to help others. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeritasMama Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Can anyone download a pdf of the curriculum using this link? https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9Fvf4FXKZtoZmJra2dHT3R4MVE/view?usp=sharing It worked for me as well, thank you for sharing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 What are the primary goals of The Public Domain Curriculum? 1. Mental, physical, and spiritual health 2. Lots of good books 3. The skills necessary to understand those books 4. Communication skills of writing and drawing 5. Just enough math to facilitate the above goals Will this curriculum prepare a student for college? This 10 year curriculum is designed to prepare a student to enter a C.C without needing to enroll in remedial classes. It is not designed to prepare a student for direct entry into a selective 4 year college. Why are there only 10 Years? This curriculum is designed to accommodate the realities that many families face. Many families will choose not to start formal academics until age 7, and will also want to send a student to the C.C. at age 17. This common scenario only allows for a 10 year curriculum. What if I’m following AO’s recommendations not to start grammar before year 4? The Elson’s Good English series starts in year 4, and Book 1 can be used as the first English book. You can skip the year 2 and year 3 grammar books, and wait to start formal grammar lessons in year 4. Part 1 of the Hyde book was chosen for year 2 because it was used for grades 1 and 2 in the first edition of TWTM and page 70 contains a handy summary of the lessons in part 1. The Essentials of English book was chosen for year 3 because it includes seasonal and holiday suggestions like those found in the series used for years 4-9. These 2 books can be skipped, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 Ladies, thank you so much for letting me know the download works! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mombygrace Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Thank you so much for putting this together Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 There will be a year 1.5. I will be writing year 1.5 as I write the other years, as I see that it will be needed maybe more than 50% of the time. So, no one needs to fear starting year 1 too early. The English and maths for year 1 will just get stretched out, and the content and arts and whatever will all have a special year 1.5 schedule to use after you finish year 1. I was going to do the content family style, but I think I'm going to make the content graded and do 4 year TWTM rotation for 3-6, and another for 7-10. I think I'm going to model years 7-10 after American School, Far Above Rubies, and Blessed is the Man, and provide a GENERAL high school diploma checklist with credits. Obviously this will not stand up in a state that requires diplomas that model a prep school curriculum. But there are many states that allow students to still pursue a GENERAL diploma. I had one son that successfully completed a GENERAL diploma and then started at the C.C two years early as a freshman. It is important that low-income students qualify as freshmen to be able to access certain grants and scholarships that they are not entitled to as duel enrolled high school students. I am also going to try to make completion of year 6 feel like some sort of accomplishment for learning disabled students that never complete more than that. And as I have time I will prepare .5 schedules for students that just are not developmentally prepared to move up a level of rigor, but have finished last year's books. These .5 schedules can also double as additional books for fast readers who are staying on track. I may even try to assign "credits" to years 3-6, that won't officially count as high school anywhere, but will allow a LD student to be allowed the social benefits of earning credits just like his peers. And some middle schoolers who fight with mom nonstop, might like them. Grades 1 and 2 will not be chronologically based. And as they do not have seasonal and holiday activities scheduled in the English books, that will need to be included in the content. Years 1, 1.5, and 2 will be Waldorfy. As I constantly try to make this curriculum as compatible as possible with others already on the market, I'll try to make years 1-2 compatible with some sort of already available Waldorf resources. I've got some ideas. I'm really glad I unnamed this curriculum. I really like that it is just so totally free. Even free of a name. Without even a name, people can just feel even more free to copy and paste to their heart's content. There is nothing to credit. :lol: I'm really having fun with this! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeaCookiesBears Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Thank you Hunter for your hard work. This looks great!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted October 10, 2014 Author Share Posted October 10, 2014 Updated Alpha version https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9Fvf4FXKZtoRjVhdHdGZ2w5aGM/view?usp=sharing I added a year 0, streamlined it a bit by removing some of the supplements, and rewrote some of the notes. The core of years 1-10 has not changed at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 THANK YOU!!!!!! Oh, Hunter, this is such a treasure! Thank you for the .pdf, since the forum software cut off some of the links and I needed to save it for my six year old to grow into. We have shelves and shelves of my twentysomethings' outgrown curricula, and excellent library for such a small town, and money for this month's rent, but the peace of mind you just gave us is PRICELESS. Education is not something that can or should be bought and sold or auctioned off to the highest bidder. It is not advantageous to humanity as a whole to deliberately create an ignorant underclass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MommytoFour Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Thank you very much for this, Hunter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted October 11, 2014 Author Share Posted October 11, 2014 THANK YOU!!!!!! Oh, Hunter, this is such a treasure! Thank you for the .pdf, since the forum software cut off some of the links and I needed to save it for my six year old to grow into. We have shelves and shelves of my twentysomethings' outgrown curricula, and excellent library for such a small town, and money for this month's rent, but the peace of mind you just gave us is PRICELESS. Education is not something that can or should be bought and sold or auctioned off to the highest bidder. It is not advantageous to humanity as a whole to deliberately create an ignorant underclass. I know exactly what you mean about peace of mind. As I'm putting this together, it's making me feel more peaceful, too. I've lost my hoarded books too many times in my life, to feel comforted by my current stash. I know I could lose it in minutes and then find out that the OOP ones are no longer available, never mind affordable. I've had thumbdrives corrupt and I've lost everything on them, but I've also had thumbdrives that have made it through homelessness and moves from one city to another. Full thumbdrives make me happy. And they just keep getting smaller in size, but larger in storage space, and cheaper to buy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted October 11, 2014 Author Share Posted October 11, 2014 Investigate the Landscape is going to host the curriculum. So, the downloads should be easy to download, when I get them written. http://investigatingthelandscape.blogspot.com.au Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 I've had thumbdrives corrupt and I've lost everything on them, but I've also had thumbdrives that have made it through homelessness and moves from one city to another. Full thumbdrives make me happy. And they just keep getting smaller in size, but larger in storage space, and cheaper to buy. I am putting these up on my Kindle cloud, which I am way to skeered to do with my (legal) scans of tattered books or some of the .pdfs of uncertain origins that friends have given me. Hopefully I will never need to retrieve them from a homeless shelter or a tent, but just knowing that I can is soothing my PTSD and allowing me to focus on my very pleasant present instead of worrying about an uncertain future. OTOH, ds is kind of oppositional about HWT lately and I am not happy with the changes in the business practices of the company and afraid it might have become a victim of it's own success so maybe I'll take a peek at Don Potter since I don't even have to skip lunch or research away ds's read aloud time to do so. ;) #irrepressible curriculum junkie ETA: some of the .pdfs were too big to email but no worries and maybe a Windows/Mac user has time to weigh in on these. I'm also going to upload the curriculum list and see if I can download directly to the kindle from the links, which would be much simpler for those who don't stress too much over the long term survival of the sites where the books are hosted and even more obvious for smartphone users than kindle users. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rose Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 This looks great! Here's another thank you for your effort. By the way, I really like the choice to leave the curriculum unnamed. It really does make it feel more open and alterable, maybe also a little less pretentious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arliemaria Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 I just printed both materials for Year 0. Thank you! I was wondering if you knew of a handwriting chart or diagram for the entire alphabet. Perhaps only capital letters since I saw your recommendation, Hunter, for teaching uppercase manuscript first followed by lowercase cursive. I would like to have one to post near his writing table. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiku Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Is there a schedule for this material? Ps. The year 10 Thesis Statement and 5 Paragraph Research Essay link is redirecting and doesn't go to that material. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted October 29, 2014 Author Share Posted October 29, 2014 I'm so sorry. I don't know how that incorrect link got past me. Here it is. http://www.sjnrcs.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Microsoft-PowerPoint-Thesis-Statement-and-Research-Paper.pdf All future pdfs will be going up at Investigate the Landscape Blog. http://investigatingthelandscape.blogspot.com.au Arliemarie, do you need something different than page 13 of Don Potter's manuscript? http://www.donpotter.net/pdf/shortcut-to-manuscript.pdf Or do you want slanted manuscript like D'nealian? http://glugem.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/dnealian-cursive-practice-worksheets-1.jpg Or Handwrting Without Tears style? http://mrssashataylor.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/uppercase-pic1.png If I go to google and type in "spalding handwriting" "Handwriting Without Tears" or d'nealian" and then click on "images" I get a lot of choices of charts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted October 29, 2014 Author Share Posted October 29, 2014 Is there a schedule for this material? Ps. The year 10 Thesis Statement and 5 Paragraph Research Essay link is redirecting and doesn't go to that material. Tara than you so much for noticing that link. I thought I triple checked everything, but I guess not. There will be a complete alpha edition of all grades and all subjects, before there are weekly schedules. I'm not sure if there will be alpha edition weekly schedules or if I'll wait for the beta version to do that. The Elson series of grammar is divided into months and the Essential Spelling series is divided into daily lessons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiku Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwik Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Funny the cursive is almost the same as I was taught in NZThe in the 70's. The only difference is our small ps had open bases like an h with a tail. Ok that wasn't important but I always wondered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted October 30, 2014 Author Share Posted October 30, 2014 Funny the cursive is almost the same as I was taught in NZThe in the 70's. The only difference is our small ps had open bases like an h with a tail. Ok that wasn't important but I always wondered. Like this? https://practicalpages.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/cursive-chart-lowercase-letters.jpg and this? http://site.shopwritersbloc.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/seyes_writing_sample.jpg Open p's were more common than closed ones at one time. They are still common in France. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwik Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Like the first one. I always wondered because 4 years later when my brother did cursive he was taught an italic style and he can't read some of my letters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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