TheCanterbury Tales Student Guide, Second Edition increases the student’s vocabulary and reading comprehension by providing in-depth vocabulary study, reading notes, comprehension questions, and more.
The Canterbury Tales Teacher Guide, Second Edition contains the answers to the The Canterbury Tales Student Guide, Second Edition and the Quizzes and Tests.
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a collection of 24 tales framed as a story-telling competition between fellow travelers on their way to visit the grave of Saint Thomas Beckett at Canterbury Cathedral.
TheCanterbury Tales Student Guide, Second Edition increases the student’s vocabulary and reading comprehension by providing in-depth vocabulary study, reading notes, comprehension questions, and more.
Canterbury Text SampleCanterbury Tales Student SampleCanterbury Teacher SampleThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a foundational work in English poetry which every student should read. The Student and Teacher Guides will increase the student’s vocabulary and reading comprehension.
About the text:
“Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales—witty, bawdy, zany, satirical, and literary. From the late medieval period on, Chaucer has been considered the “father or English poetry.” Indeed, his Middle English verse electrified the day with its satire of English society. Writing in the later 14th century, he caused ripples with his bold move to write in the vernacular English instead of the expected literary Latin. With prophetic wisdom, he sensed the potential of English to absorb elements from many languages, making it the literary language of the future—opening the way for Shakespeare.
Michael Murphy’s deft Reader-Friendly Edition presents Chaucer’s original words put into modern spelling, thereby preserving the literal Chaucerian Middle English without the unnecessary obstacle of fourteenth century spelling. Enjoy these surprising tales told by a group of quirky medieval English pilgrims in a storytelling contest on their journey to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. This volume includes Chaucer’s General Prologue, The Pardoner’s Tale, The Nun’s Priest’s Tale, and the Franklin’s Tale.”
The Categorical Imperative guidebook, for both instructors and the students themselves, explores the philosophical bases behind the concepts introduced in the novel. These include the beliefs and ideas of Socrates, Mill, Kant, Rousseau, Hume, John Milton, Shakespeare, Newton, Einstein, Alan Turing, and others. It also provides a summary of the plot developments, a philosophical basis for the key concepts of each chapter, discussion questions, and more.
In this novel, three middle schoolers enter virtual reality to track down Rousseau, Hume, and Kant in order to battle skepticism. Rousseau’s concept of autonomy shows that humans should obey only their own laws. But can autonomy provide a new foundation for both science and morality, as Kant insists? The youngsters discover what it means to obey your own laws and discover that reality is more amazing than they ever dreamed.
This manual offers a thorough introduction to cells. Students will learn about the cell membrane, diffusion, osmosis, cell organelles, the genetic code, and viruses. They will spend several days conducting various experiments, and they will use a microscope to view different cells. The book is filled with helpful tips for teaching this complex topic successfully.
Charlotte Mason’s beginning math lessons seem to be tailor-made for an early elementary child.
Lessons are mainly oral and are carefully graduated, with your child answering small word problems within their understanding (no reading required). They work out the problems in a hands-on way using a variety of common, everyday objects. This straightforward but interesting teaching guides your children to make discoveries on their own.
From the Publisher:
In Book 2, your student will solidify and learn the addition tables up to 10 + 10 and the multiplication tables up to 6 x 10. Addition and subtraction with three-digit numbers, including carrying and borrowing, will also be introduced with step-by-step, interactive lessons that encourage your child to work confidently with larger numbers, as well as with money.
For grade 2 you will need The Charlotte Mason Elementary Arithmetic Series, Book 2, and a Math Notebook for your child (3/4″ or 1/2″ grid recommended).
You and your child are sure to enjoy these simple, lively lessons that will provide further practice in the processes of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Your student will master multiplication tables for the numbers 7 through 10; delve further into division with long division and an introduction to fractions; and read, write, and work with numbers up to 10,000. She will also have an introduction to weights and measures with an active hands-on approach— including measures of volume, weight, distance, and time.
Engaging lessons that nurture mathematical thinking and help your student advance in addition and subtraction up to 1,000,000, as well as multiplication and division with larger numbers; continue work in fractions; introduce decimals; and provide a hands-on investigation of both metric and US standard measures, including measures of area, cubic measure, and volume.
Engaging lessons that nurture mathematical thinking and help your student advance in understanding decimals and fractions, working with factors and both greatest and least common measures.
Your student will also continue work with drawing to scale along with measures in decimals and fractions, using both the US standard and metric systems.
Young students who learn to write well need one-on-one instruction—something which your child’s classroom may not offer.
In The Complete Writer series, Susan Wise Bauer turns every parent into a writing teacher. No experience is needed.
Drawing on her fifteen years of experience in teaching writing, Susan lays out a carefully-designed sequence of steps that will teach every student to put words on paper with ease and grace. This alternative plan for teaching writing combines the best elements of old-fashioned writing instruction with innovative new educational methods—and explains why so many writing programs fail.
Designed for elementary-aged writers and for older students who still struggle, Writing With Ease builds a sturdy foundation of basic skills for grades 1–4 (or levels 1–4 for the older student who needs more work) all in the same book. Diagnostic tests within the book will help the parent to determine where the child needs to start and which workbook the child will need.
You can use the text by itself as a guide, then choose your own copywork and dictation; or you can buy the workbooks, which do all the work for you. Each workbook covers one grade.
See Susan’s updated grade recommendations here.Writing With Ease Diagnostic Evaluations