Literature Club

A few weeks ago, I started doing a Literature Discussion Club. It is hosted by a home school mom in our area, who is also a writer. The class is suppose to go on till sometime in Dec. Before the class started, she sent out a list of books students will need to read for high school and also read for her class. The first two weeks, we read “The Hobbit” by J. R. R. Tolkien and “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorn. Both books were very different from each other in their style of writing, but were very good. The Scarlet Letter was a harder read and some parts were harder to understand. It was interesting to see more of the 1800’s style of writing than the normal style I mostly read. The Hobbit was more of a fantasy story; I do not normally read fantasy because it normally does not interest me. But this book happened to be very good. It was a fairly easy read and not to long of a book. I was told by several people in the club that the book had also been turned into a movie, but that the book was a lot better than the movie. For the Literature Club, we read one book a week and the class is on every Thursday. It is very challenging; but so far, I am having a lot of fun with it.



The object of the club is to discuss the meanings of the books, the differences in writers and certain points in the book. It has helped me see many things that I missed when I was reading by myself and opened my eyes to some of the deeper meanings of each book. It has been interesting to see everyone’s different options on certain topics in the books and the genre of books that appeal to each of them. I will hopefully get some Book Reviews up soon to let you know what I think of some the ones I’m reading. Well, keep you posted.

Curriculum for 10th Grade!!

I thought I would post some of the curriculum I am doing this year. When we add more I will post it in a future post. So here is what I am doing right now.
English 1,
World Literature
Composition
World history,
Mystery of History vol 1 and 2,
Streams of Civilizations
Biology 2,
With Labs
Saxon Math,
Algebra 2
Spanish 1,
PE,
Health,

Also for extra actives I’m doing
Literature Club,
Cooking Class,
Art.
　

First Post!!

I’m just your anything but typical, totally insane, high school girl. I’m in 10Th grade and am home school. I have some really big dreams for a small town girl, but with trying my best, amazing family and friends, lots of prayer and God‘s help I know I can do anything. I am wanting to go to an university, I’m not sure which one at the moment. I am really interested in working with special needs kids, and wanting to go into college for that. Currently I’m in the process of finding out what I need to do now to help me get ready for college. I’m also looking into all the different jobs that deal with special needs children and trying to find the one that I enjoy the best!!! But I still have 3 more years ahead of me to figure out all the little things.

I will be using this blog to write down some of the amazing things, my thoughts, tid-bits and struggles that happen in High School. I’m apologizing in advance for any miss-spellings, or grammar errors. Writing is not my strong point. But I will do my best. So come along with me as I go through the many ups and downs of the Life and Adventures of a High Schooler!!!