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Brave Writer is a writing curriculum that focuses on the writer instead of the writing. Teaching from a writer’s viewpoint, students are given the opportunity to understand how to play with words and establish a sense of pride in their own work. Instead of learning a form or rubric for writing, students are encouraged to find their voice first and then fit that writing to whatever form best suits it.
Brave Writer can be used entirely as a homeschool curriculum but also offers online classes so your students can learn from the creator of the program. Designed for Grades 1-12, Brave Writer not only offers writing curriculum, but also offers instruction in mechanics and literature.
Options are available to work as independent students or to combine your kids to do it together as a family.
- Digital or Online Class Format
- Focuses on the Writer in a Lifestyle of Language Learning
- Can Be Individual Learning or MultiLevel Family Learning
- Grades K - 12
- Charlotte Mason Inspired
- Secular
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I was so excited for this curriculum. It could have been my misunderstanding of how to implement it properly but my daughter and I would just get frustrated. My daughter is very structured in her learning. I find Brave Writer is for a creative learner. We still used the recommended books but purchased novel studies elsewhere. The curriculum just didn’t mesh with our teaching and my daughter’s learning style. It was a very costly learning curve. It’s a very expensive curriculum. We were in our first full year and were still learning the best way in which our daughter learns. I would recommend for an experienced homeschooler who already knows their child’s learning style.
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Creative curriculum that fits with unschooling and unit studies.
We’ve used Jot it Down, Partnership Writing, Dart, and Arrow in our homeschool. I LOVE the Brave Writer philosophy and the unpressured, exploratory nature of the curriculum. The general writing curricula- Jot it Down and Partnership writing- are real-life, project-based learning at its best. For example, little ones can plan a party and implement all the writing skills involved- writing invitations, creating descriptive signs for party foods, and write thank you cards afterwards. It doesn’t feel like work, and kids explore a lot of writing skills and ideas without feeling pressure. The language-arts focused book guides (Dart, Arrow, Boomarang) are nicely done and easy to implement. You read so many chapters of a book each week, then go over discussion questions, grammar concepts, and “assignments,” all in a fun, light-hearted, exploratory way. The two major cons to this curriculum are that 1) it’s pricey compared to many other curricula out there, and 2) there’s almost too much in the curriculum to reasonably implement. If you’re a “check off all the boxes” type of homeschooler, this may be a challenging curriculum for you to use. But if you like exploring and you’re okay with not doing EVERYTHING that’s written in the curriculum, then you may want to check it out. It’s high quality and well-done.
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We purchased the Arrow curriculum a few years ago in order to participate in a homeschool book club. It was great fun for my daughter to meet up with her friends to discuss, play, & learn about books. For this purpose, the curriculum was fun and worthwhile. When Covid shut everything down, I decided not to purchase the next year’s curriculum. While she had enjoyed the social aspect of the book group, I did not find the curriculum offered enough for her to make it worth the high price. Since each book determines the curriculum for about a month, we ended up not using parts of the curriculum when books were either not interesting or not available at the library. I probably will not buy this again, either, due to the constant inundation of sales emails that flood my account.