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Anyone use this book by Mortimer Adler? I do not own it yet, but am wanting to include it in my son’s senior English class (unless someone talks me out of it
). Wondering if anyone has thoughts on the best way to utilize it. If I don’t specify what to do with it…well, let’s just say I’ll need to have specific requirements and a plan for following up on things, or we won’t get the most out of it…i.e. the application of the material won’t happen. So, I guess it’s probably obvious from that statement that I haven’t succeeded in getting this child into using CM methods yet! I’m thinking now as I write…maybe just have him narrate by asking him to “do/practice it and teach someone else to do it” at the end of each section??This will be no help except to maybe give you a preview of how your son will feel about this book… I remember that book with horror from my sophomore English honors class. Oh the jokes we witty sophomores made… So, I read it, but I don’t remember anything from it – now that doesn’t mean I didn’t learn anything from it – I went on to graduate both college and high school at the top of my class so maybe it helped. 😉 But I’ll have to grab it from the library and review it to determine if I’m going to use it for my girls someday.
Now, the book that I FOR SURE will use because I think it is an invaluable resource for learning how to study ANY book is Kay Arthur’s How to Study your Bible. There are LOTS of great tools and tips in there that apply to ALL reading and books and while I’ve always been good at studying for tests, I have to say I’ve never been great at studying the Bible – reading it fine, but not truely studying it – oh sure, I cheated and use Jay Vernon McGee for explanation of tough passages, but after Kay Arthur’s book the Bible has come alive and I’m so excited to be using the inductive Bible study method to teach my 6 and 8 year olds to study their Bible. (We’re using the Bible study from the Bible Bee – we ordered it to do this summer, but didn’t use it, so we’re using it to study the Bible for our school lessons. – The Sword Study – takes kids step by step through the inductive process for II Timothy. I’m hoping that the methods used in inductive Bible Study will carry over into all their future studies.
Blessings,
Rebekah
My daughters read it, and though it was not a book we read for any kind of pleasure, they told me they did learn an awful lot from it and that it helped them with their other readings….when I went through my books to sell, they told me to keep it….so I see they really did get something from it. it is however exceedingly dry….and is a bit of a chore.
I read it, and I decided not to use it with my sons. We used How To Read Slowly by James Sire instead. It had a lot of the same information, and was from a Christian viewpoint, and was SOO much more accessible for my kids. Let’s just say they didn’t hate me after they read it. 🙂 There IS a lot in HWRAB, but it is soo tedious. What you dig out is really buried. It’s harder to read than original Charlotte, IMO. A lot harder.
). Wondering if anyone has thoughts on the best way to utilize it. If I don’t specify what to do with it…well, let’s just say I’ll need to have specific requirements and a plan for following up on things, or we won’t get the most out of it…i.e. the application of the material won’t happen. So, I guess it’s probably obvious from that statement that I haven’t succeeded in getting this child into using CM methods yet! I’m thinking now as I write…maybe just have him narrate by asking him to “do/practice it and teach someone else to do it” at the end of each section??
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