A Banner Handbook for Homeschoolers

Elinor's most recent book, A Banner Handbook for Homeschoolers, is 238 pages of an original, entertaining, and enriching book for parents and children.

As for ordering info for the Homeschoolers book, I have copies on hand that I will mail, the total charge being $12 for the book, plus $3 shipping and handling, which will be good until the end of the year. Price will go up to $20 after the first of 2010.

If you would like a book at this special price, click here to email Elinor

Elinor's book will inspire all parents, whether homeschooling or not, for her intuitiveness and constructive ideas for educating children. I was particularly impressed by her insistence that students learn to use their "awakened eyes" to observe features of their natural and built world. Her unique approach to children's understanding Joyce Kilmer's poem Trees, "The Big Sit," the most unusual field trip and research project I have ever encountered, the detailed instructions and supporting vocabulary for dozens of interdisciplinary science and social studies topics, along with her lessons on correct grammar, "101 Ways to Prepare For a Writing Assignment," and original math projects will be useful for years of instruction.

Mark Draper, Ph.D
Maryland State Director
National Right to Read Foundation

A Banner Experience

The arrival of Banner's 25th anniversary in 2007 spurred me to write my memoirs (12-chapters,175-page) starting with the how and the why I founded the school. I explain how I discovered the building where the school started on S. Jefferson Street, oversaw its remodeling, dealt with a broad array of bureaucrats, hire teachers, enrolled students and furnished the classrooms. I track the school's growth over the next ten years, describing our many interesting activities and unusual curriculum.

I recount Banner's remarkable spread throughout the Frederick community before finally getting grades k-8 together at the Odd Fellows' site in 1992. The appendix contains the songs we sang in assemblies, the challenges for which students earned badges and the vocabulary we used for science and social studies classes.

I enjoyed pulling all this together and hope that you will appreciate my tale and the many teachers and parents who made The Banner School the reality it is today. Elinor (elinormiller@seepub.com).