This is a language arts program designed to last a year, and produce a novel along the way. It's a self-teaching course written to the student, and so there is no need for a teacher's manual, or for it to be taught by an intermediary, like a teacher or homeschool parent, although consulting your "coach" is sometimes referred to.
I think having a novel being written along the way sugars the pill of the language arts information a lot, and also offers an immediate way to apply it, and in your own novel, which increases the motivation all round.
Although I think the concept is brilliant, I am rating this book four out of five because of the very high price, especially as… Read more
It took me a while to adjust to the storytelling, which is very gentle. (Perhaps I wasn't in a frame of mind to slow down and really listen when I first tried this.) But now I love it. My family went on a long car journey and all of us were enthralled. I'm sorry it took me so long to realise what a treasure it is.
I sent this back. It was uninspiring and very detailed in naming and asking the reader to learn some complicated names for different advertising tricks that I think can easily be sidestepped by rigorously following the practice of asking oneself the simple and powerful question, "Is it true?" I'd rather spend my time learning proper logic.
