BLUE CHIP LEMONADE An overview of the Finance-Economics program from Class 1 to 12 Occasionally as I lie awake in the wee small hours, my mind fixates on some minor cash-flow problem. Soon the black dog of depression enters my gloom-induced fantasy and chases me through the thickets of illusion. Here I imagine that the […]
AGE: 8th Grade
What is X? Why is Y? Introduction to 7th & 8th Grade Math
THE 100,000 CRANES What is X? Why is Y? is a transition book, straddling Class 7 primary and Class 8 high school. As such, it seems reasonable to review the number path traveled by children to this point. The following is a brief exposition on Geometry – “Earth Measure”. A 7-year-old girl in Hiroshima was […]
Word Circus: The Book Review
New Directions A salutary exercise for Class 7 students enjoying their The Book main lesson is for them to select a book, either fiction or non-fiction, to read and then write a review. The following is one of my own – albeit tongue-in-cheek – efforts; a street directory being an unlikely subject for review (but […]
Word Circus: Story Writing
Australian Story Writing 3-Week Main Lesson, Class 8 Lorien Novalis School, 1981 Susan Whitehead – Teacher Note: This can be adapted to any country you live in. 17 X 2 hrs. Creative Writing By Stephen Whitehead The Creative Word A Gift to Man. Through the ages here on Earth The Written word has had its […]
Word Circus: Myth and Legend
SPIRIT OF THE HORSE Myth and Legend – Class 8 – Middle Lesson As a guardian of Class 8 (1981), I commissioned Susan Whitehead, she of the poetic eyes, to take this Literary Arts middle lesson, and as it turned out, all five units right up to Class 12. How my class benefited by this […]
Word Circus: Medieval Literature
TWO RAINBOW TEMPLES Medieval Literature – Class 8 – Main Lesson Note that in Earthschooling we do this block in high school so I have also filed it in the high school section. We do the Middle Ages block itself in 7th grade. The most noble subject in the whole of the 12-fold Subject Zodiac we […]
Word Circus: Grammar’s Great
GRAMMAR’S GREAT Language Structure – Class 8 – Main Lesson The Class 8 students had settled down at last in this, the first day of their new Language main lesson. There was a mood of ennui as the teacher toyed with a piece of chalk before announcing the subject. “Grammar!” she said; 25 faces pales […]
Word Circus: Story Writing
THE WHITE WARATAH Australian Story Writing – Class 8 – Main Lesson Note that the concepts in this lesson can be applied to any country you live in. The small audience of high school teachers were settling in nicely in the comfortable – smoke-free! – lounge-staffroom as the visiting speaker, after the usual formalities, began […]
Word Circus: Steiner High School
“…to their full potential” Matriculation in a Steiner High School Disclaimer: Opinions in this article on the state of Australian high schooling should be viewed in light of my own 1950s NSW secondary ‘education’; one in which I was singularly undistinguished, and from which, at a tender 16 years, I departed in disgrace. All high […]
A Steiner Homeschool: 2: History of Steiner Homeschooling
Return to the Main Page of the Golden Beetle Books: Book Club Here A Steiner Homeschool: 2: A Creative Approach to the Rudolf Steiner Impulse: History of Steiner Homeschooling By Alan Whitehead Copyright Alan Whitehead & Earthschooling: No Part of this book, post, URL, or book excerpt may be shared with anyone who has not […]
Earthschooling – an Award Winning Curriculum
