I thought teaching math wouldn’t be mine, but you know what? I found a math curriculum that “held my hand” through the process, and now I don’t dread teaching math (we’ll talk when I hit the Algebra years!). (Julie Bogart, The Writer’s Jungle, xliii) The Writer’s Jungle is a homeschool writing coach for parents Our job is to stop and notice the sights along the way to uncover the tiny iris lost under the pile of bad punctuation. It’s the landscape of your child’s mind and heart. But I promise you: it’s alive and beautiful, too. Your writer’s jungle is also a wild place. Guides know how to get along in the jungle not just how to get through it. But they’re also beautiful, and wild, and exhilarating… Visitors need guides, not maps. Writing though? That’s a messy process, wild as a jungle.
Because the novel is finished: polished and complete, easy to enjoy and if you get lost, there’s an “map” out via the plotline. Why they prefer to teach a novel rather than writing.
There’s a reason teaching writing isn’t many teachers’ favorite.
That’s why I’m sharing Brave Writer’s The Writer’s Jungle with you – a homeschool writing coach for parents! For my part, I love teaching writing, but it can be a challenge without the right philosophy. I’m going to let you in on a secret: as a former Language Arts teacher, many a fellow English teacher confessed teaching writing was not their favorite (they preferred teaching reading). Hate teaching writing? Scared of it, in fact? Don’t feel bad.
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