Learning Opportunities for Families...
Dig Deeper with Your Students Using FREE Resources!
1. Teach your students the value of true freedom using the FREE HOME resources below!
* Start with HOME's new, interactive Family and Freedom unit study. Click on the link, create an account and get started today, or download the .pdf version below.
In this study, your students will begin to explore the foundations of freedom, what it means to be truly free, and what they can do to ensure freedom for future generations.
2. Follow up with HOME's in-depth literature study: Dangers of Totalitarianism.
* Follow the animals of George Orwell's Animal Farm and experience the dangers of communism as "absolute power corrupts absolutely," mirroring the atrocities of the Russian Revolution.
* Join twelve-year-old Ji-Li Jiang in Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution, a true story of what it was like to grow up in China under Chairman Mao during this terrifying time in history.
* Wrestle with Winston as he struggles to hold on to the truth, the past, and his soul in a frightening, dystopian future with uncanny parallels to our own present in George Orwell's most powerful and prophetic novel 1984.
* Make connections with The Truman Show, "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, "The Hollow Men" by T.S. Elliot, and more.
Discussion questions, activities, historical background, and more will help you and your students to navigate your thinking about the dangers of authoritarianism and the importance of maintaining individual freedoms!
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Preparing for Challenging Times
Incorporate homesteading and preparedness into your homeschool curriculum!
READ MORE about this important topic. Find out how you can become self-sufficient and prepare your family for difficult times.
Use HOME unit studies to teach important self-sufficiency skills. The Wilderness Adventure, Maine Agriculture and Natural History Collections are three HOME unit study bundles that will provide endless opportunities to teach self-sufficiency!
Teach your students to value civic duty and public service with HOME's Government and Public Service Collection!
Freedom Watch News
NEWS AND CURRENT EVENTS SOURCES for the whole family!
NEWS HIGHLIGHT
Is the right to choose homeschooling for your child secure?
Some child's rights advocates, like Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Bartholet, believe that homeschoolers are a threat to the rights that state governments (not parents) have in order to ensure a child's right to an education and to personal well-being.
Participants at the 2021 Harvard Homeschool Conference in June debated the need for further regulation of homeschooling, and whether or not parents are fit to teach their own. Watch the sessions.
Homeschool leaders presented clear facts during the debate that support the role of parents in the education and upbringing of children. Read HSLDA's detailed report on the event.