Welcome to this issue of The Way Home
IN THIS ISSUE:
Learning Through Play By Molly Mantree
Chronicle Books
Photography Education for Grades K-12 By Chuck DeLaney
PUNDITS AND PURISTS - Why Translate Shakespeare?
Dear Reader:
Finding your way home during these very tough economic times might not be so hard. Naturally as Homeschoolers we almost all cook homecooked meals, read together as a family, have gardens, work from home, walk places, make our own cloths, etc. We already by the nature of being "Homeschoolers" do things that focus around the home. It is more economical and also more real to live the way most of us do. Maybe we should be the ones telling others how to save money during these tough times. Why not show a neighbor how to make soup from scratch or how to make pancakes from scratch. Why not have a family game night and invite all the neighbors over. We can share with others how fun it is and rewarding to be together and do things that don't cost a lot and drain us! Thank you for Reading The Way Home.
Mary Leppert.
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By Molly Mantree
An anthropologist friend of mine told me, years ago, that most indigenous cultures do not have a word for "work" or "play" in their language. He surmised that this was because they lived and enjoyed their lives without dividing it into categories of what they want to do (play) and what they have to do (work). I find this pre-colonized, pre-civilization view of life as applicable to my family's homeschooling philosophy.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal's Little Books
Cute & Imaginative Story Twists for Your Little Ones!
www.chroniclebooks.com/littlebooks
Three Beautiful Little Books:
Little Pea, 2005; Little Hoot, 2008 and Little Oink, 2009
All written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and illustrated by Jen Corace.
These three titles, published by Chronicle Books, will make a welcome addition to your little person's library. Each one puts a fresh and humorous twist on age-old dilemmas parents encounter while raising children - getting them to eat healthful foods, getting them to bed, and encouraging them to pick up after themselves.
By Chuck DeLaney
www.nyip.com
People recall the 1970s as a decade distinguished by curious trends, styles, haircuts and ideas. One idea from that era was put forth by Eastman Kodak, then a much bigger company than today, and still a proud member of the Dow Jones Industrials. It was a great idea then, but never gained traction. It's still a great idea.
They called it "Photography: The Fourth R." Doubtless, most of today's hard-working parents remember the "3Rs" of the old song "School Days" written way back in halcyon days of 1907 by Will Cobb and Gus Edwards: "School days, school days; Dear old Golden Rule days 'Reading and 'riting and 'rithmetic, taught to the tune of the hick'ry stick"
PUNDITS AND PURISTS - Why Translate Shakespeare?
In a previous issue of The Link we had described the Access to Shakespeare series of plays, featuring the original Elizabethan text alongside a translation into contemporary English.
You might ask, why translate Shakespeare's plays into contemporary English? Isn't it almost a sacrilege to tinker with The Bard's canon? And when you had to study Shakespeare during your high school years, nobody handed you an easy-to-read version on a silver platter.
For some probing questions into the rationale of these translations, we feature a discussion between Dr. Jonnie Patricia Mobley, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, editor and translator of the Access to Shakespeare series of plays, and Raymond Walters, publisher, Lorenz Educational Publishers, Chicago.
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