What's New at Epi Kardia?

Would you like your own website without buying (and learning) an expensive, intricate software program?

Now you can with X-Site Pro2!

Thanks to the help of our dear friend, Norm, and the FANTASTIC software he recommended, X-Site Pro, we have recreated our website and are able to update it ourselves, saving time and money! Even if you are not a techno wiz, you can create your own web site in no time (and update it in minutes) with this $197 software. We highly recommend it! If you would like to read more about X-Site Pro, please take a look at this!

If you have any questions about our experience with this program, please e-mail dana@epikardia.com and we would be glad to answer them! 

New E-book and High School Courses Available!!

Ready to Move Beyond the Textbook?

Now you can! With our new e-book, Designing a High School Course Using Real Books , all of the direction you need to start creating your own courses is at your fingertips. Organized in easy to understand steps, this guide opens up a multitude of literature-based history, English, and elective courses for you and your high school student to develop. Just decide which course you want to cover, grab your books and watch your high school student excel!

$14.95

  NEW!

Epi Kardia Has Recently Published Three New High School Courses!

Essay Styles for High School 

With our new high school curriculum, Essay Styles for High School , your student will learn to write the five most common types of essays: narrative, descriptive, expository, persuasive and comparison/contrast. This course is designed with step by step detailed instructions for both the student and the teacher, providing a clear picture of each essay style along with solid goals and objectives. Even parents who do not view themselves as strong writers can teach this course because the evaluation section describes exactly what you need to look for in your student’s writing and explains how to determine a fair grade, as well.

$39.95

 American Literature: a Study in American Writers 

Tragedy and drama, heroic adventures, sacrifices of love, overcoming tremendous obstacles, endurance, faith, and quiet bravery join together in our high school course, A Study in American Writers . Valued authors and poets including James Fenimore Cooper, Ernest Hemingway, Anne Bradstreet and O. Henry treat you and your student to some of the finest writing to originate in America. Combining poetry, a play, short stories and novels, this course will provide your student with a wide variety of reading and writing experiences including literary components, vocabulary, essay writing and creative projects. This curriculum also includes options for an honors credit and, as with all Epi Kardia high school courses, offers the invaluable notations for evaluating your student’s work including grading rubrics and specific editing directions. Note: we recommend Essay Styles for High School  as a pre-requisite for this course, although it may also be taught concurrently.   (Order the books used in the curriculum here!)

$39.95

The Steps to Writing a Research Paper

This course doesn’t just offer directions for the steps of writing a research paper; it also offers assignments and lessons to assist your student in tackling the challenging feat of completing each of the steps well. From choosing an appropriate topic to note taking and research to understanding MLA and APA formatting, The Steps to Writing a Research Paper provides meaningful training that will benefit your student not only in high school, but throughout college. Examples and non-examples of how to create an excellent research paper allow students to avoid common pitfalls. The evaluation section gives parents and teachers the tools and information necessary for accurately grading each of the steps and the final paper.

$39.95

 Local Epi Kardia Classes Offered!

Elizabeth is teaching classes in the greater Charleston, SC, area using Epi Kardia curriculum for the 2008-2009 school year! For more information and a list of classes offered, please check here.  Fall's classes are well underway but there are a few openings in the The Art of Public Speaking class beginning second semester! Please e-mail Elizabeth at epikardia@bellsouth.net if you are interested in having your high school student participate.

Buy Books through Epi Kardia!

Would you like to buy your books at the same time you buy your curriculum? We have linked with Amazon in order to give you that opportunity. Using our links benefits us as well (a few cents per book, anyway!) Currently we have added the books for our World History-World Literature Course for High School , American Literature: A Study in American Writers course AND the books for Set I of our Third Grade Lesson Plans and Set I of our Fourth Grade Lesson Plans. Additionally, we have added a section of our favorite books called Recommended High School and Adult Reading. We will also be adding the rest of the books for our Daily Lesson Plans soon--check back often!

Epi Kardia Has a Blog!

Whether you are a new or experienced homeschooler, this forum exists to encourage and offer you support as you home school. We are "in the trenches" with you, but as we are experienced homeschoolers and both have graduated children who are successfully attending college, we may be further down the path than many of you. We hope to be an encouragement to you as well as offer practical help to aid you in educating your children, spiritually as well as academically.

We hope to offer you encouragement, general teaching tips, historical and other book reviews, as well as free lessons and forms on a regular basis. Please check it out at www.epikardia.com/blog  and let us know what you think!

If you would like to subscribe to our blog and be added to our general mailing list, you can have new posts sent right to your door --to your e-mail inbox, anyway--- :-) as soon as they are published! Please add your e-mail address and first name below. (As a thank you gift, we will send you a link to our two free e-books described on our Free Downloads page!  

Check back soon!