Real history! The stories of real people for students in the elementary grades.
Just as the Bible uses the stories of the Patriarchs, Judges, Prophets, and Kings to teach us, so we hope that our history units on Israel, Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Reformation will be useful in teaching your children about the traits God desires. The Greenleaf Guides and the companion titles in the Famous Men series emphasize biography, so that you can focus on issues of character and the consequences, both temporal and eternal, of the choices which historical figures made so that we - and our children - can learn to make wise choices in our lives.
The stories can be read aloud to younger students, or read independently by older students, either as the focus of their study or as a supplement. Instructors will find them useful with students from second grade though junior high.
Cyndy Shearer has a BA degree in English (summa cum laude) from Queens College (Charlotte, NC) and an MA in English from the University of Virginia. She has taught elementary, high school, and college students and has been a homeschooling mom since 1985.
Rob Shearer has an BA in History (cum laude) from Davidson College and an MA in History and Humanities from Stanford University. He taught Humanities and History courses while working on his doctorate at Stanford and History and Philosophy at Virginia Wesleyan College from 1981-1984. In 1979-80 he was a Fulbright Research Fellow in Marburg, Germany.
Rob and Cyndy live near the town of Lebanon in middle Tennessee along with their eleven children. The Shearer home school and petting zoo currently boasts five dogs, four cats, four horses, a pony, and whatever else the children may have dragged home this month.
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