Teaching the Trivium by Harvey and Laurie Bluedorn - 2001, 637 pages
Christian Homeschooling in a Classical Style

What did you learn in school? Were you taught what would be on your tests? Millions of children were taught this way, including me. How can we, as home educators, give our children a better future?
We will not be able to teach our children everything we would like them to know, or everything that we need them to know. How, then, are we going to equip them for life?
We must teach our children how to learn for themselves, we must give them the basic tools they will need to learn all they need and want to know throughout their entire lives. We must show them how to discover, to reason and then to put to use what they have concluded.

Teaching the Trivium will show you how to give your children such tools by using the classical method of the Trivium.
Harvey and Laurie Bluedorn will teach you the history of the Classical Trivium and its stages: Grammar, Logic and Rhetoric, with God at the center of everything. Part one of this book focuses on the how, what and why of Classical Education, while part two focuses on how to apply the methods.

While other books on Classical Education bring about stress and feelings of being overwhelmed, TTT puts our minds and hearts at peace. The Bluedorns promote a gentle approach to learning for ages 10 and under, telling us that "before age ten, our focus should be on building a good foundation for later academics." This is the Early Knowledge Level, which is followed by the Understanding Level, the Wisdom Level and the Finishing Level.

At the end of the book there are many resources listed to help you on your journey.

If you're considering the Classical method or are already using it, this book will bring much into your homeschool.

~Becky LaMere
June 4, 2006

*may not be reproduced without

author's permission