Recipe to Write: Grades 7–9

Cook It, Research It, Then Write It Properly

This looks like a cookbook. It is a writing curriculum.

Six recipes, six units, and in every one your child cooks something and then writes it down so another person could make it without asking a single question. A recipe is the most testable writing there is. An essay can be vague and still pass. A recipe cannot. Hand it to someone, watch them stop and ask what you meant, and you have found the exact sentence that failed.

The same six recipes run through all five volumes, so children at different ages can cook together and write at their own level.

The writing ladder: the food memory, formal test reports, researched argument with citations, primary source adaptation, long-form process narrative, and interviewing someone fairly.

Inside:

• Six units with science, history, reading, and primary source work
• Vocabulary pages
• Controlled experiments with stated hypotheses and honest reporting of failures
• Research with real citations: author, title, publisher, year
• Adapting a pre-1900 recipe from the original text with a documented change log
• An interview unit, including what you owe the person you write about
• A Test It On Someone page in every unit
• A page for you in every unit, about handing the kitchen over
• Recipe section and variants

What you receive

• A printable PDF, 104 pages including the cover, 8.5 × 11 inches, designed to print clearly in black and white on a home printer.
• A family license: print as many copies as your household needs, for every child, every year.
• Your file is available only from the download page. It is not sent through a link in your order confirmation email, so please download it from the download page.

A first edition, shaped by the families who use it

This is a first edition, and we would love your help making the next one better. If a page is unclear, something is missing, or an idea would work better at your table, please tell us. We welcome every suggestion and will build the best of them into future editions.

Every purchase includes free updates. When a new edition is released, you will receive it at no additional cost.

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Lisa Nehring

Author, Publisher, Curriculum Developer at True North Homeschool Academy

Lisa Nehring has been married for over 30 years, has five children, 2 graduate degrees and a black belt in homeschooling. She has homeschooled since 1991 and wrote a Master’s Thesis on Why Parent’s Homeschool, the Literature Review being,A History of Education in America.

Lisa Nehring and her husband, Dr. David Nehring, a Clinical Psychologist, and Biblical Scholar speak together on a wide variety of topics, including education, classical education, vision, mission, parenting, marriage, and more.

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