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A weekly newsletter for homeschool moms who want to guide their children in reading the great works.

Every Tuesday, Reading Rooms features one significant work and gives you clear, practical guidance to help your child read deeply, think clearly, and discuss it well.

Visit readingrooms.org to learn how our system helps students build high-level literacy in high school.

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Standards Before Stakes

Standards Before Stakes

Plato's Crito teaches students how to hold to sound reasoning when the consequences become personal.

Test Before Trust

Test Before Trust

The Apology teaches students how to examine an argument before deciding whether it deserves their trust.

Why Most People Argue Incorrectly

Why Most People Argue Incorrectly

Martin Luther King Jr. teaches the overlooked skill behind every great disagreement.

Why Most Students Read Poetry Incorrectly

Why Most Students Read Poetry Incorrectly

Robert Frost teaches students to focus less on what a poem says and more on how it creates meaning.

How Language Can Manipulate and How to Keep Your Child Safe

How Language Can Manipulate and How to Keep Your Child Safe

George Orwell's most important idea may have nothing to do with politics.

Why Do People Believe Things They Know Aren't True?

Why Do People Believe Things They Know Aren't True?

Animal Farm teaches students how language, slogans, and small compromises reshape reality.

The Ancient Play Every Future Debater Should Read

The Ancient Play Every Future Debater Should Read

Sophocles' Antigone shows students how thoughtful people can disagree without either side being entirely wrong.

The First Book Every Honors Reader Needs

The First Book Every Honors Reader Needs

Edith Hamilton’s Mythology gives your child the stories, names, and patterns that later books and artworks expect them to know.

The Power of Plain Speech

The Power of Plain Speech

Help your child see how Sojourner Truth used plain speech, lived experience, and direct questions to challenge what her audience already believed.

Reading Rooms: A Work A Week

Reading Rooms: A Work A Week

A weekly newsletter for homeschool moms who want to guide their children in reading the great works. Every Tuesday, Reading Rooms features one significant work and gives you clear, practical guidance to help your child read deeply, think clearly, and discuss it well. Visit readingrooms.org to learn how our system helps students build high-level literacy in high school.


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