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.
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!
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