kayb85

Is anyone familiar with this book?
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?
userid=2T9Y74L8KU&isbn=0375826688&itm=1

Dh heard something on the radio about the author. They said the
author is a homeschooled boy. Looks interesting! I wonder if
he's "homeschooled" or "unschooled"?

Sheila

Jon and Rue Kream

Hi Sheila - I read it, and enjoyed it. Here's an article about it:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0807/p20s01-bogn.html . I have the impression
he was homeschooled, but I don't know for sure. ~Rue


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sonyacurti

--- In [email protected], "kayb85" <sheran@p...>
wrote:
> Is anyone familiar with this book?
> http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?
> userid=2T9Y74L8KU&isbn=0375826688&itm=1
>
> Dh heard something on the radio about the author. They said the
> author is a homeschooled boy. Looks interesting! I wonder if
> he's "homeschooled" or "unschooled"?
>
> Sheila

Yeah I read about him and they said they exspect his books to be
more popular than the "Harry Potter".
I was wondering the same thing myself home schooled or unschooled.

Sonya in MASS.

foxymophandlemama32

--- In [email protected], "Jon and Rue Kream"
<skreams@c...> wrote:
Hi Sheila - I read it, and enjoyed it. Here's an article about it:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0807/p20s01-bogn.html . I have the
impression
he was homeschooled, but I don't know for sure. ~Rue

I read an article in the paper a couple of weeks ago. He's
definitely homeschooled. Had read 3000 books by the age of 15, into
mythology, makes his own armor, speaks Norse......

Julie

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In a message dated 11/16/2003 9:15:56 PM Eastern Standard Time,
mjsolich@... writes:
>>Had read 3000 books by the age of 15, into
mythology, makes his own armor, speaks Norse......<<
*****************************************
Sounds like he was unschooled to me! ;o)
Nancy B. in WV


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CelticFrau@... writes:


> >>Had read 3000 books by the age of 15


Just wondering how (why) would anyone determine this? I have no idea
how many books anyone in my family has read in our lives, including myself!


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Tia Leschke

>
> > >>Had read 3000 books by the age of 15
>
>
> Just wondering how (why) would anyone determine this? I have no idea
>how many books anyone in my family has read in our lives, including myself!

I don't either, but I think some people keep track of what their kids read,
maybe for portfolios or whatever.
Tia

Julie Solich

Had read 3000 books by the age of 15

Just wondering how (why) would anyone determine this? I have no idea
how many books anyone in my family has read in our lives, including myself!

I don't either, but I think some people keep track of what their kids read,
maybe for portfolios or whatever.
Tia

I keep a list of the books we read together to give with my program to the
education department each year. I couldn't make a complete list of all the
books my kids looked at though.

The article about Christopher Paolini says he has never been to school, has
read 3000 books, watched 4000 videos and claims to be unbeatable at video
games. His parents, fugitives from a doomsday survivalist cult, taught him
all he knows in their little wood-and-shingle home in a remote Montana
valley. By the age of fifteen, their precocious son had learnt a passable
version of Old Norse and picked up enough about iron-forging tomake his own
armor and sword. He had also written the first draft of an epic novel,
Eragon.

Julie
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mjsolich@... writes:


> The article about Christopher Paolini says he has never been to school, has
> read 3000 books, watched 4000 videos and claims to be unbeatable at video
> games.



Hey, there's a response to those who think TV and video kills reading!
<eg> JJ


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crystal.pina

>>>Hey, there's a response to those who think TV and video kills reading!
<eg> JJ
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
***In fact, all the Paolinis are working on books. "We all have computers
and sit in our rooms typing all day," says Paolini, who, while he doesn't
see college in his immediate future, listens to university lectures from The
Teaching Co. "We come down to dinner, watch a movie or something, and then
go back up."***

I liked this quote from the article. My husband was all for unschooling in
the beginning when he thought we were going to do school-at-home. Once he
saw what unschooling was he's had nothing but complaints like "we don't take
homeschooling seriously like other people do" and stuff like that.

One of his complaints has been that Erica spends all her time online talking
to her friends and writing stories. Last night he floored me when he said
that it is good that Erica stays home all day typing because she was going
to be a better writer than anyone! Of course he had to add that since
she's home typing, she's not out where we don't know where she is (he'd
prefer she and I both be in the house every day where women belong--lol),
but I'm happy that he's noticed one small glimps of something good in
unschooling. That's a big step for him.

I'm going to translate the Eragon article into Portuguese and print it out
for him to read.

Crystal

Deborah Lewis

*** I think some people keep track of what their kids read,
maybe for portfolios or whatever.***

Maybe some other reason, because Montana doesn't require portfolios. I
guess they could have been using a correspondence school or something
that might have required it.

Can we count little kid books because I bet we read those Thomas the Tank
Engine books to Dylan at least three thousand times.<g> I used to dream
about Sir Topham Hat. (Not THAT kind of dream!!) He read a couple
hundred Goosebumps books which are now in boxes in the eves.

We have that book, Eragon but haven't read it yet. It's in the "read
next" pile, which is now up to eighteen books. ( I did just count those)
But two of those are bird books and I'm probably the only one interested
in those.

Switching here to movies, I just found "The Manster" and "Metropolis"
(the old silent film) and ordered them for Christmas. If you've never
seen "The Manster", really, rush right out and get it! <g> It's so bad
it's good.

Deb L

J. Stauffer

<<maybe some other reason>>

Perhaps if they were living way out in the boonies, the books the kid read
were ones that were brought in specifically for him.....not just running
down to the library and back, but actually ordering them and waiting for
them to come.

Julie S.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Deborah Lewis" <ddzimlew@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: [UnschoolingDiscussion] Re: Eragon


>
> *** I think some people keep track of what their kids read,
> maybe for portfolios or whatever.***
>
> Maybe some other reason, because Montana doesn't require portfolios. I
> guess they could have been using a correspondence school or something
> that might have required it.
>
> Can we count little kid books because I bet we read those Thomas the Tank
> Engine books to Dylan at least three thousand times.<g> I used to dream
> about Sir Topham Hat. (Not THAT kind of dream!!) He read a couple
> hundred Goosebumps books which are now in boxes in the eves.
>
> We have that book, Eragon but haven't read it yet. It's in the "read
> next" pile, which is now up to eighteen books. ( I did just count those)
> But two of those are bird books and I'm probably the only one interested
> in those.
>
> Switching here to movies, I just found "The Manster" and "Metropolis"
> (the old silent film) and ordered them for Christmas. If you've never
> seen "The Manster", really, rush right out and get it! <g> It's so bad
> it's good.
>
> Deb L
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Lori

I think if any of us who are big readers, or video watchers could say
similar things about our kids and ourselves if we sat down and made
some lists. I bet they are counting books that this kid read from day
one, meaning from _Goodnight Moon_ all the way up to _Snow Crash_ or
whatever.

Lori, from Chicago, and new to the list....


> Perhaps if they were living way out in the boonies, the books the kid
> read
> were ones that were brought in specifically for him.....not just
> running
> down to the library and back, but actually ordering them and waiting
> for
> them to come.
>
> Julie S.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Deborah Lewis" <ddzimlew@...>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 10:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [UnschoolingDiscussion] Re: Eragon
>
>
>>
>> *** I think some people keep track of what their kids read,
>> maybe for portfolios or whatever.***
>>
>> Maybe some other reason, because Montana doesn't require portfolios.
>> I
>> guess they could have been using a correspondence school or something
>> that might have required it.
>>
>> Can we count little kid books because I bet we read those Thomas the
>> Tank
>> Engine books to Dylan at least three thousand times.<g> I used to
>> dream
>> about Sir Topham Hat. (Not THAT kind of dream!!) He read a couple
>> hundred Goosebumps books which are now in boxes in the eves.
>>
>> We have that book, Eragon but haven't read it yet. It's in the "read
>> next" pile, which is now up to eighteen books. ( I did just count
>> those)
>> But two of those are bird books and I'm probably the only one
>> interested
>> in those.
>>
>> Switching here to movies, I just found "The Manster" and "Metropolis"
>> (the old silent film) and ordered them for Christmas. If you've
>> never
>> seen "The Manster", really, rush right out and get it! <g> It's so
>> bad
>> it's good.
>>
>> Deb L
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