Mar 5, 2024 | Dawn Burnette, Online Homeschool
What Is Literature? No student should leave high school without practicing some type of literary analysis, but what “counts” as literature? When we think about literature, we obviously think of written texts—novels, short stories, poems, etc.—but are all written texts...
Aug 2, 2023 | Online Homeschool
We wanted you to be among the first to know that Excelsior Classes has won 1st place in the 2023 Practical Homeschooling® i-Learn Awards™! We won in the following categories: 1st Place – Middle School Complete Curriculum1st Place – High School Complete...
Aug 2, 2023 | Ansley Burnette, Online Homeschool
“Can you tell us about some of your leadership experience?” For some homeschoolers, this is a daunting question to be asked during a college interview. Yet college applications and interviewers frequently ask questions regarding leadership. Having leadership...
Jul 26, 2023 | Dawn Burnette, Online Homeschool
What are Fine Arts and why do I need them? The fine arts in high school are typically referred to as visual and performing arts. The National Art Educators Association defines them as visual arts, dance, music, and theater. These are classes that you would imagine,...
Jun 15, 2023 | Dawn Burnette, Online Homeschool
Why do we suffer through hours of grammar exercises? Is it so we can check a box and say, “Yep! We did grammar—glad that’s over!” Do we really need to know what a predicate nominative is? Can’t we write well without knowing all those grammar terms? And does knowing...
