39. (S3E10) 21 Years of Home Education Wisdom: Poetry, Fanfiction, & Chronic Illness - with Susanne Barrett
Brave Writer
Julie Bogart and Melissa Wiley
4.8 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2017
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Susanne Barrett is a beloved teacher, staff writer, and friend who has been with Brave Writer since the very beginning, when our classes were taught via prehistoric Yahoo Groups! She is currently in her 21st – and final – year of homeschooling, and she joins us on the show to share the lessons she’s learned along the way.
You can download show notes for the podcast here: http://blog.bravewriter.com/category/podcasts/
Resources:
- You can download Free Writing Lessons here: go.bravewriter.com/free-writing-lessons
- Connect with Susanne at susannebarrett.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to season three of the podcast A Brave Writers Life in Brief. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm Julie Bogart, your host. |
| 0:10.6 | The first day I did school I had our hundred easy lessons book out. I was all excited and I could not get poor Elizabeth age five to realize that the letter A makes the A sound. |
| 0:26.0 | Learning to just do read aloud with my kids, just sit on the sofa and read together |
| 0:28.0 | was the biggest change that I made from |
| 0:31.0 | doing lectures to home educating our kids and making it a home education, not just an education at home. |
| 0:40.0 | Today on the podcast I have the pleasure of introducing to you someone I consider |
| 0:48.8 | not only a colleague but a dear friend. Suzanne Barrett is a beloved staff teacher for Brave Rider. |
| 0:57.0 | She is also someone that has been on our staff from the beginning. |
| 1:02.0 | She was a part of our prehistory. our |
| 1:04.0 | pre-historic yahoo groups where we used to teach classes which was like doing it all by |
| 1:10.6 | by email, no sorting, no clarity about who was participating or how they were participating. |
| 1:16.0 | When Suzanne isn't coaxing creativity out of her students, |
| 1:20.0 | she also imbibes all things British. She loves tea, biscuits, |
| 1:25.6 | lush country gardens, and of course stacks of delicious British literature. |
| 1:31.2 | Suzanne is an avid fan of all Jane Austin fan fiction and fuels her |
| 1:37.0 | passion for writing with her own variations on cherished Jane Austin |
| 1:42.3 | characters. |
| 1:43.8 | Without further ado, I would like to introduce you to my friend, my colleague, mother |
| 1:48.6 | of four children, University Professor Suzanne Barrett. |
| 1:53.2 | Hey Suzanne, welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:56.0 | Hi Julie, it's wonderful to be here. |
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