My Scholar Phase

I have been inspired by my friend Jess to post my updates on my own Scholar Phase in my efforts to become a truly educated person. She is an inspiration to me in how she keeps up with her efforts and shares them with everyone.

Like Jess, I have been working on the 5 Pillar Certification (go here for a free checksheet I created) from George Wythe University. I could not afford to pay for the true certification, but I am successfully completing the requirements on my own.

I am on Level 2 and need to choose 12 of the listed readings in order to finish this level. Here is the list of completed readings in which I have also written papers on:

1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2. The One Minute Teacher by Johnson & Johnson
3. Leadership Education by Oliver DeMille
4. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
5. Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
6. The Seven Lesson School Teacher by John Taylor Gatto (I actually read this as part of Dumbing Us Down)
7. How Children Learn by John Holt
8. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
9. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
10. The Virginian by Owen Wister

Only two more to go! I have The Fourth Turning on hold at the library. On my books shelves I have Multiple Intelligences and Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers (which I have started both). I keep getting sidetracked into other equally good books! (Right now I am reading The Promise, which is sequel to The Chosen from the Level 1 readings.)