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"Life Prep for Homeschooled Teenagers" is a parent-friendly curriculum for teaching your teens how to live as morally and financially responsible adults. The book includes instructions for customizing the curriculum for all teens, whether they're work-bound or college-bound. Step-by-step projects (requiring minimal preparation by parents) teach your teens about credit cards, auto and health insurance, taxes, and many other subjects they'll face once they're on their own, and will get them ready for a life of managing their money with a goal of financial freedom. Reading and writing assignments review the principles your teens need to get along with family, friends and coworkers, and to live their values in their personal and work lives. This book is a compilation of all the practical things you wish you'd been taught in high school. Now you can make sure your teens are ready for life "out of the nest.".
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As parents who homeschooled and, more importantly, unschooled their children since birth, McKee had often pondered how she would go about writing a college portfolio if her children chose to attend college. This book outlines, by using a question and answer format, the procedures her family devised to write two successful college portfolios. Topics she covers are (1) how to get started (2) documenting the learning process (3) compiling data for a portfolio (4) putting a final document together to create a college admissions portfolio or job resume..
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Recent research has shown that many adolescent girls come to distrust their own perceptions This book shows that homeschooled adolescent girls have a much stronger sense of self..
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Today more than a million students are being educated at home; and that figure increases at a rate of 7-14% annually Homeschooling is a growing trend in our society, and public librarians are being called upon with increasing frequency to serve the needs of homeschooled students. So, just what are the needs of the homeschooled teen, and how can you and your library meet those needs? A former young adult librarian and a homeschool parent have joined forces to create this insightful guide and answer that question. After reviewing the developmental and social needs of teens, the authors demonstrate how those needs may be met in the public library setting. You'll find a wealth of ideas for adapting every facet of your library service for this growing population--from developing a homeschool collection to expanding services and creating special programs. You'll also find suggestions on how to market what your library has to offer to homeschoolers. You may even discover some new ways to employ the talents and time of these students and their families. Extensive resource lists conclude the volume, they will help you better serve home-educated teens and their parents..
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"Tell us, Goddess, daughter of Zeus, start in your own place:

when all the rest at Troy had fled from that steep doom

and gone back home, away from war and the salt sea,

only this man longed for his wife and a way home."

Homer's Odyssey, at once an exciting epic of strife and subterfuge and a deeply felt tale of love and devotion, stands at the very beginning of the Western literary tradition From ancient Greece to the present day its influence on later literature has been unsurpassed, and for centuries translators have approached the meter, tone, and pace of Homer's poetry with a variety of strategies. Chapman and Pope paid keen attention to color, drama, and vivacity of style, rendering the Greek verse loosely and inventively. In the twentieth century, translators such as Lattimore kept rigorously close to the sense of each word in the original; others, including Fitzgerald and Fagles, have departed further from the language of the original, employing their own inventive modern style.

Poet and translator Edward McCrorie now opens new territory in this striking rendition, which captures the spare, powerful tone of Homer's epic while engaging contemporary readers with its brisk pace, idiomatic language, and lively characterization. McCrorie closely reproduces the Greek metrical patterns and employs a diction and syntax that reflects the plain, at times stark, quality of Homer's lines, rather than later English poetic styles. Avoiding both the stiffness of word-for-word literalism and the exaggeration and distortion of free adaptation, this translation dramatically evokes the ancient sound and sense of the poem. McCrorie's is truly an Odyssey for the twenty-first century.

To accompany this innovative translation, noted classical scholar Richard Martin has written an accessible and wide-ranging introduction explaining the historical and literary context of the Odyssey, its theological and cultural underpinnings, Homer's poetic strategies and narrative techniques, and his cast of characters. In addition, Martin provides detailed notes -- far more extensive than those in other editions -- addressing key themes and concepts; the histories of persons, gods, events, and myths; literary motifs and devices; and plot development. Also included is a pronunciation glossary and character index.

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What do you get when you throw 20 children, four parents, several cross-country trips, and a sense of humour between the covers of one book? Lots and lots of big family fun that will tickle the funny bones and warm the hearts of your entire clan. Rachel Starr Thomson is the oldest of twelve children Carolyn Currey, her second cousin, is the oldest of eight. Not only are their families huge, they also homeschool! Drawing on some of their favourite memories, Rachel and Carolyn have written a book of essays that will make you laugh, think, and thank God for family..
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This digital document is an article from JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, published by American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) on May 1, 1997. The length of the article is 3041 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Universities and colleges give Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) programs to preservice teachers to enable them to adjust appropriately to realistic settings. This setup ensures a preservice teacher's smooth transition from a clinical teaching experience to the workplace. Normally, the program uses peers acting as students or students from the public and private sectors. But, Asbury College and Appalachian State University assigned preservice teachers to home schooled students and results show that the PETE program was beneficial to both the universities and the students.

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Title: Teaching physical education to homeschooled students: opportunities for student teaching. (Physical Education Teacher Education program)
Author: Brett Everhart
Publication:JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 1997
Publisher: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD)
Volume: v68 Issue: n5 Page: p51(5)

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on December 17, 2001. The length of the article is 1131 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Home-school center grows.(Schools)(HomeSource: The technology and resource center offers alternatives for home-schooled youngsters.)
Publication:The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: December 17, 2001
Publisher: The Register Guard
Page: B1

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This digital document is an article from Winnipeg Free Press, published by Thomson Gale on October 17, 2007. The length of the article is 847 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Anti-meat talk bites student; Vegetarian being home-schooled after run-ins with students, staff.(City)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication:Winnipeg Free Press (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 17, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Page: b1

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