Kindergarten Complete

Hewitt’s Lightning Lit guides use full-length novels, autobiographies, plays, essays, short stories, and poems to teach deep reading and composition skills. Unlike some literature programs that take a scatter-shot approach (where none of the literature seems connected) or that try to include too much into one book, Lightning Literature guides focus on a few classics in depth, in a systematic manner.

TruthQuest History puts God back at the center of the past.
Centered on “living books,” this creative approach to history integrates elements of both Charlotte Mason and Classical methods.
Short, very informal introductions are written directly to the student and open up each topic with a distinctly Christian perspective. Suggestions for activities or writing exercises are often included as well. The booklists follow, with selected annotations on what pages or sections to read and appropriate grade levels for each entry. Incredibly flexible in nature, families can proceed at the pace that’s best for their students as they select “spines,” biographies, in-print books, and out-of-print classics from the extensive lists.

Proceeding chronologically, entries include lists for the Fall of Constantinople, War of the Roses, Christopher Columbus, Queen Elizabeth, El Greco, Johannes Kepler, Roanoke Colony, and other relevant unit-study topics.

Grades 5-12; may be adapted for younger siblings. 115 pages, softcover, spiral-bound.

Full resource list is included at the back of the book.

We use living literature to teach the mechanics of writing!

Copywork, dictation, and a few other strategies thrown in for good measure—we teach the mechanics of writing through living literature. Brave Writer adds an element to the teaching of mechanics: appreciating an author’s craft in writing (literary elements).

These open-and-go programs are digital downloads, featuring one novel (not included) per month, with weekly passages for copywork and dictation.

Programs are based around grade levels

• The Wand (Grades K-1)
• A Quiver of Arrows (grades 1-2)
• The Arrow (grades 3-6)
• A Pouch of Boomerangs (grades 7-8)
• The Boomerang (grades 9-12)

Introduce your young naturalists to plants—their structure, propagation, classification, and more—with this engaging yearlong classical science curriculum. Influenced by Charlotte Mason and the living books philosophy, homeschooling mother Jeannie Fulbright writes as if she were chatting with her own children, defining and explaining at their comprehension level. Designed to be used with both readers and non-readers, each clearly organized lesson features content-rich narration; notebooking; and hands-on activities and projects using easy-to-find household items. Dissect seeds, force bulbs, make leaf skeletons—and take a close-up look at God’s flora kingdom. Grades K to 6. 176 pages, hardcover.

Robin Finley has lectured on this subject for more than three decades. Her belief is that Western literature is really one long argument, the Eternal Argument. This book, available in either paperback or audiobook, is a supplement or enhancement to your regular language arts curriculum. It takes about a month to simply read or listen to each chapter and talk through the discussion questions included. There is no outside reading or assignments. With great humor and many excellent examples from literature and history, this book explains this framework which will make reading and teaching literature a more meaningful endeavor. For parents and grades 8+.

History’s Masterminds is a blueprint and overview from 3500 BC to AD 2010 for the middle school student. A unit style study with flexible lesson plans that lets you explore the unfolding of our world through the eyes of historical personalities as you research the people who made history. Map the world with the explorers, visit the seen and unseen with the scientists and inventors. Woven throughout are the Language art assignments and references for IEW writing structure and styles. Your scholar will create their own textbooks, timeline and see how transportation and communications has linked us into one. Set includes the Student Assignment Book & Student Pack, Teacher’s Keys and Map Keys download.