Brave Writer supports and nurtures the homeschooling family in the areas of language arts and writing from grammar school until college with online classes, home study courses and language arts programs.

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Summer Class Registration is now open!

Finally! We’ve got it. The Summer Class Registration is now open and you can see it for yourself right here: Summer Class Schedule

Copywork

One of the best ways to encourage your kids to save meaningful passages from the books they read is to do copywork together at the kitchen table. Bring your copybook to the table and ask them to bring theirs. E. M. Forster (author of A Room with a View and A Passage to India) kept what he called a commonplace book which was published as a record of his reading and thoughts after he died. Copying passages is an old practice and a wonderful habit to cultivate in children.

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At the beach!

I keep hoping to write a blog entry, but my nieces and nephew keep climbing on me, wanting to do Photo Booth on my Mac. Have to play in the sun, swim in the Pacific ocean off of Catalina’s coast and eat steak off the BBQ. Sorry! It’s a hard life. See you as soon [...]

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