Pamela’s Note: Natalie and I are so lucky to have a delightful student this year, who we tutor in math (Natalie) and humanities (Pamela). Malena is being home schooled during eighth grade, so that she can delve into the pleasure of learning this year (without the stress of peer pressure). We eagerly look forward to our time with Malena each week. Last Friday, Natalie, Malena and I sat around the kitchen table and took turns reading aloud from Joy Hakim’s marvelous history book series: A History of US: From Colonies to Country, 1735-1791 Natalie read the last chapter and we all applauded after she reached the end. I said, “Let’s figure out…
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Atlas: Our Virtual World Cruise
This post is for Zora, who is on her own home-school adventure during middle school. She learned about our website and wrote to me to tell me that she loved the idea of going on a virtual world cruise and was going to do the same thing. Tonight I received an email from her with more detailed questions about our cruise. Thus, this post includes pages from the Two in the Middle manuscript so that Zora can add fun “excursions” to her cruise. I’m crossing my fingers that Two in the Middle finds a publishing home soon so that our story can help inspire others to rediscover their own love of…
