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Issue 8: Beware the Ides of March, but why? Plus more Shakespeare goodies

1 inspiring quote + 2 pro-homeschooler tips + 3 can’t-miss resources =
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One Inspiring Quote

"To teach is to learn twice." - Joseph Joubert
“To teach is to learn twice.” – Joseph Joubert

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Two Tried & True Homeschool Tips

1. Want to save time and homeschool more effectively? In this podcast, Charlotte Jones of My Little Homeschool and I explain how using ChatGPT.

How to Use ChatGPT to Homeschool Episode

2. The older my kids get the more I see how critical critical thinking skills are to understanding more advanced content. Check out this podcast where one of my personally favorite people, Julie Bogart, explains how to teach it.

Julie Bogart talks critical thinking

Three Can’t-Miss Educational Resources

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  1. Beware the Ides of March . . . but why? Learn about what this phrase meant to the ancient Romans and how it came into our popular culture.
Bust of Shakespeare

2. We get this famous phrase from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, which includes other gems like “Et tu, Brute?” and, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.” It makes a great unit study for the month of March!

Columns in ancient Rome against the sky

3. And after reading the play, learn about the real-life death of Julius Caesar and separate the fact from the fiction.


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