Janice Thompson“Thanks, but no thanks…..”This morning I received an email from one of the fifty or more agents to whom I have written over the past six months: “I’m going to pass…Dec 11, 2018Dec 11, 2018
Janice ThompsonThe birth of a writer?This weekend I am attending Grub Street’s “Muse & the Marketplace” at the Park Plaza hotel in Boston. I have probably gone to at least…Apr 7, 2018Apr 7, 2018
Janice ThompsonHomeschooling Bee: BeeLet me tell you a little about Bee. She’s an incredible young woman. I named her “Isolde” when she was born, after the Arthurian legendary…Jan 23, 2017Jan 23, 2017
Janice ThompsonHomeschooling Bee: Veering Off the PathBee and I have gone through our first full week of homeschooling, and have fallen into a nice daily routine — two hour blocks in the…Jan 12, 2017Jan 12, 2017
Janice ThompsonHomeschooling Bee: What’s in a Name?To start our language arts block, I decided to use The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, just because I knew that was the book that…Jan 10, 2017Jan 10, 2017
Janice ThompsonHomeschooling Bee: the “Tangents” of InquiryAs I mentioned in my last entry, the way I started homeschooling Bee was to create a lesson plan for Day 1 for both language arts and…Jan 7, 2017Jan 7, 2017
Janice ThompsonHomeschooling Bee: What I Have Learned So Far Part IISo one of the other things I had to struggle with as I was preparing to homeschool Bee was uncertainty about my own educational philosophy.Jan 6, 2017Jan 6, 2017
Janice ThompsonHomeschooling Bee: What I’ve Learned So FarI took Bee out of school on Wednesday, December 14th. I started homeschooling her yesterday. That gave me three weeks to prepare — while…Jan 5, 2017Jan 5, 2017
Janice ThompsonHomeschooling Bee: Day 1If you had asked me four months ago if I could imagine sitting here at our dining room table with my 14 year old high school freshman…Jan 4, 20173Jan 4, 20173