Trivium Pursuit Blog
Best of Homeschooling with the Trivium Newsletter Year 2003-Part 1
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 From: Pilgrim South Subject: Re: history curriculums Dear Bluedorns, Thanks for all the info on the history curriculums that will work with your upcoming book! If you had to choose one, which would it be for an older child (14)? Thanks so much...
Best of Homeschooling with the Trivium Newsletter Year 2002-Part 3
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 Subject: children bonding with others From: adorehymn >> she would realize that children with this particular sort of disability have a TERRIBLE time bonding with anyone but immediate family. I agree that one of the difficulties with these...
Best of Homeschooling with the Trivium Newsletter Year 2002-Part 2
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 From:(amy meyer) city: Royersford state: Pa message: Laurie, Once again, thank you for being so gracious in allowing me to ask you so many questions this past weekend in Indiana. Now that I have been home, I have contacted HSLDA and several...
Best of Homeschooling with the Trivium Newsletter Year 2002-Part 1
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 Harry Potter I have been reading with curiosity all the post on Harry Potter. Christian telling mature adult parents (other Christians) what is right and wrong! What foolishness we enter into. Ground that is not ours to interpret. What is liberty...
Best of Homeschooling with the Trivium Newsletter Year 2001-Part 3
From: "momof5" Subject: Music and art appreciation? Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 Question #1: Is it not necessary to teach art and music appreciation on the early grammar stage? If not, why not and if so, how? We love and listen to much classical music and love to look at...
Best of Homeschooling with the Trivium Newsletter Year 2001-Part 2
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 From: (gisela dunn) Dear Mr. and Mrs. Bluedorn: If you can answer this question I would be so thankful. If it is answered in your new book, don't bother, because I am planning to buy it. Here is my questions: I would like to teach a classical...
Best of Homeschooling with the Trivium Newsletter Year 2001-Part 1
From: "Heather & Rusty" Subject: delaying the instruction of mathematics Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 Dear Bluedorns, I am writing to get some thoughts from you on the delaying of math instruction. I have your set of 8 pamphlets on the Trivium so you may even be able to...
Best of Homeschooling with the Trivium Newsletter Year 2000-Part 2
Here is our response to a letter from a subscriber asking about the amount of contact homeschooling families have with grandparents and other close relatives: Wouldn't it be wonderful if we were surrounded by our own aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters, parents,...
Best of Homeschooling with the Trivium Newsletter Year 2000-Part 1
Date: Sun, 26 Dec From: Katherine Craig I have been thinking about this (following your recommendations more closely) and asked my children today (dd's ages 7 and 8) what they would think if we set aside math and spelling instruction for the month of January and I...
Best of Homeschooling with the Trivium Newsletter Year 1999
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 From: Wayne S Walker Dear friends, Last month we began a discussion of the pros and cons of a "classical education." That discussion will continue this month. To make sure that we understand what we are talking about, let us first define a...
Best of Homeschooling with the Trivium Newsletter Year 1998
From: Damian Arthur Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 Dear Mr. and Mrs. Bluedorn, Greetings from Australia! Have been doing some "research" online and have come across some very interesting information from yours and similar sites. We are parents who intend to home-school our...
Classical Q & A — Part Three
Our relatives are not supportive of our homeschooling and are always criticizing us. How much contact should we have with them? Mary Wouldn't it be wonderful if we were surrounded by our own parents, and grandparents, aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters? And what...
Classical Q & A — Part Two
Question: What is the goal of the Trivium? Answer: The goal of the Trivium is to give the student the necessary tools or skills which make him free from his teacher so that he can learn by himself. Thats why the Trivium tools are called the Liberal or liberating Arts....
Classical Q & A
Question: Our oldest son (in fifth grade) has been anxious about public school from the time he started kindergarten, so now we are thinking about homeschooling him. Our youngest son (in third grade) loves school and is at the top of his class, so we're leaving him...
Suggested Course of Study
This is only a brief overview of our Suggested Course of Study. A more thorough discussion can be found in our Teaching the Trivium book, in our seminar tapes, and on our Homeschooling with the Trivium Email List. Early Knowledge Level Before age ten, the child is...
Seven Undeniable Truths of Homeschooling
We taught our oldest son to read 20 years ago, and since that time we have been doing all the schooling of our children at home. At that time, there were only a few thousand children being homeschooled in the United States. But today that number has swelled to perhaps...
The Transformation of Classical Education
And be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. (Romans 122) What is Classical Education? Is Classical Education reading Homer and Plato, or Caesar...
The Rhetoric Level
The trivium model for child development may be explained in computer terms. Children are: • “Booting up” at the Pre-Grammar level (birth through ~9). • “Keying in” the information at the Grammar level (~10 through 12). • “Processing” at the Logic level (~13 through...
The Logic Level: Ten Things to Do From Ages 13-15
When children reach the logic stage, homeschooling becomes interesting! Early teens are developing into thinking, questioning, reasoning creatures. They are no longer content to know what happened; they want to know why. To put this all in computer terms: children...
The Grammar Level: Ten Things to Do From Ages 10-12
Consider this basic maxim of homeschooling: "There is only so much time in the day." Keep this idea in mind as you decide which of the many subjects your child will study throughout his school-age years. What's the best use of each day's time? In our last article we...
Building a Firm Foundation for Classical Education: The Things to Do Before Age Ten
Some classical educators focus on the classical method and others focus on the classical subjects. Those who focus on the subjects (Latin, logic, etc.) tend to want to get to the academics as early as possible. Those who focus on the method (the trivium) tend to slow...
The Trivium In A Capsule
The Trivium consists of the first three formal subjects of the seven liberal arts: Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric. This is the formal Trivium in the classical sense. This formal Trivium is an academic reflection of the more basic Biblical Trivium, the mental capacities...
The Hidden Costs of Doing Business Outside of Your Philosophical Neighborhood
In Favor of Religious Discrimination As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. — Galatians 6:10 We are commanded, whenever we have an appropriate occasion, to work what is good toward all...
How to Use the Internet to do Research
Homeschooling families use the library often. We go to the library whenever we want to look something up or we want to find a book to read. But did you know that the Internet can be just as useful (or even more useful) in doing research? We will discuss two parts of...
Homeschool Speech and Debate
Most homeschoolers have not been introduced to speech and debate. We wish to communicate to others what we are learning about these subjects. Start here -- The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Eight Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning Speech A short introduction....
Good Books to Read
Eh, Lassie, are ye leukin fer a gude beuk to read aloud to yer wee bairns? These are a few books we have especially enjoyed reading to our children: Bob, Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant Books by John Buchan Rose of Paradise, and others by Howard Pyle John Holdsworth:...
The Story of Laurie, Chapter Two
Dear Readers, Here is the second chapter of brief sketches remembering my wife. Harvey Chapter Two: The Beginning Early Data Laurie was born in Des Moines, Iowa. Her parents were Earl and Tamzon Melos. Her younger siblings were Ronna, David, and Ann. She grew up in...
The Story of Laurie, Chapter One
Dear Readers, Six months ago my wife Laurie passed from this life into glory, is now made perfect, and is ranked higher than an angel. Good for her. Not so easy for me. Laurie had handled all of the internet stuff -- blogs, emails, etc. Now it's my job. I’m slowly...
A Student Blog Site by Ron Paul
Do your children post their essays on their own blog sites? If not, why not? My curriculum emphasizes writing. From the fourth grade through the 12th grade, every student writes a weekly essay for the social science and humanities courses. Over the full period, this...
Wanted: Course Creators for the Ron Paul Homeschool Curriculum
by Ron Paul I am looking for course creators for grades 1-3. The RPC will pay $5,000 up-front per course: an advance on royalties. Then, after 200 sales of the course, the creator will get $25 per sale indefinitely. I want any of three subjects for three years: social...