| True confession: I really admire people who do | | | | decided early on that my goal in teaching the Bible |
| literary analysis in their home school. I simply | | | | was for my kids to LOVE their Bible. So I finally |
| wasn't capable. It seems odd that someone who | | | | decided that my goal for literature would be the |
| is such a fan of literature-based curriculum would | | | | same - teaching them to LOVE literature. I didn't |
| say that. I primarily used Sonlight Curriculum, and | | | | want to "beat the love of books out of them" by |
| later The Well Trained Mind. Sonlight was the | | | | analyzing everything they read. |
| easiest to use, but after a while we had read | | | | In retrospect, it all ended up great. They are able |
| most of the books, so I switched to The Well | | | | to do college literary analysis in their honors "great |
| Trained Mind reading lists and other "reading lists | | | | books" class without a problem. Great 20/20 |
| for the college bound." I always tried to tie in the | | | | hindsight, but at the time I really stressed over |
| reading with the history. We didn't do any "literary | | | | "reading comprehension" more than just about |
| analysis" - we just enjoyed the books. My kids | | | | anything else. |
| loved it so much they both signed up for the | | | | Keeping the focus on the "love of learning" is so |
| great books honors course in college - and did | | | | hard, though, when you are faced with a kid who |
| very well. | | | | may only answer "fine" when you ask them how |
| But when I was homeschooling, the truth is I felt | | | | they liked their reading. |
| guilty about not working on literary analysis. I | | | | |