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Where thoughtful students become confident scholars.

Live online English & humanities classes — rooted in a Christian worldview and the classical tradition — plus private tutoring and college-planning guidance for homeschool families.

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  • Live, discussion-based literature & writing courses
  • One-on-one tutoring for any student, any subject need
  • College planning & NCAA academic-eligibility consultations
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20+ yrsTeaching homeschool students
Texas A&MB.A. English • M.Ed. & M.A. in progress
NCAA D1Academic eligibility guidance
8–12Small classes for real discussion
Kim Hunt
Meet Your Instructor

Hi, I'm Kim Hunt.

For more than two decades I've taught homeschooled students — including over a decade of high school literature and composition — and I've guided my own children through high school, Division I athletic recruiting, and admission to highly academic universities.

I believe the goal of education isn't simply college admission, but the development of clear thinking, careful reading, and strong communication that lasts a lifetime.

B.A. English — Texas A&MM.Ed. (in progress)M.A. English (in progress)Homeschool academy co-founderNCAA academic eligibility
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What families say

“I truly cannot put into words how much Mrs. Hunt’s classes have meant to me. From our discussions to the patient way she teaches, I don’t think I would love reading and thinking the way I do if she hadn’t been my teacher. She helped me grow so much — I’ve never had a better English teacher, and I’m so grateful for the impact she’s had on my life.”

— Former student

“Kim taught all three of my children throughout high school, and every one of them loved her classes. She has a gift for making literature interesting and engaging while teaching students to think deeply and write exceptionally well. Each of my children became a confident, capable writer because of her.”

— Homeschool parent of three

“Kim has guided our family through every stage of homeschooling — from planning middle and high school courses to preparing for college. She even helped us navigate transcripts, NCAA requirements, and athletic recruiting. Her knowledge and guidance gave us confidence that we were preparing our children well for what came next.”

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Live Online Classes

Honors literature & composition, taught Socratically

Once-weekly live classes on Zoom, 30 weeks a year, in small groups of 8–12. Every course is honors-level and discussion-driven, with real writing feedback delivered through our Skipper learning platform.

2026–27 Calendar

When classes meet

Live on Zoom, once weekly — 30 sessions across two semesters, with holiday breaks.

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Fall Semester

Aug 24 – Dec 14, 2026 · 15 weeks
No class the weeks of Oct 12 & Nov 23

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Spring Semester

Jan 11 – May 3, 2027 · 15 weeks
No class the weeks of Feb 8 & Mar 15

English IMondays11:15 am – 12:30 pm CTEnrolling
English IIMondays12:45 – 2:00 pm CTWaitlist
English IIITuesdays11:15 am – 12:30 pm CTEnrolling
English IVTuesdays12:45 – 2:00 pm CTWaitlist
Common Questions

How the classes work

Are classes live or self-paced?

Classes meet live once a week on Zoom for discussion and instruction. Sessions are recorded, but live attendance is strongly encouraged — the Socratic discussion is the heart of the course.

How long is the year?

Each course runs 30 weeks, following a typical homeschool academic year.

What is Skipper?

Skipper is our learning platform (similar to Canvas). It's where students find assignments, submit their work, and receive grades and written feedback — so both students and parents can track progress anytime.

How much outside work is there?

Plan for roughly 4–5 hours per week of reading and writing. Assignments are intentionally meaningful rather than busywork.

How big are the classes?

Typically 8–12 students, small enough for genuine discussion and personalized writing feedback.

What does tuition include?

Tuition covers the live weekly class, all assignment feedback and grading, and full access to Skipper. Books and supplies are purchased separately and typically run under $100 for the year (many titles are free or available through your library).

Home / Classes / English I
English I • Grades 8–9

Foundations of Literature & Composition

Structured instruction in persuasive and comparison essay writing, anchored to great short stories and poems. The foundation of the sequence — taught Socratically, from a Christian worldview.

Course overview

English I is where strong writing begins. Students learn to build real arguments — inventing, outlining, drafting, and revising five persuasive essays and three comparison essays across the year using the TRIAC proof model. Each essay is anchored to a significant short story or poem, so students always have something worth arguing about.

Along the way they master sentence craft, parallel form, and correct MLA citation — and they learn, through Socratic discussion and the lens of Scripture, to discern what is true and communicate it clearly and persuasively.

The Central Question

How do we learn to argue truly, clearly, and persuasively?

Every warm-up, reading, outline, and draft returns to three questions: What is true? How do I know? And how do I communicate it so others can see it too?

The literature we write about

Every essay is anchored to a story or poem worth arguing over:

Short stories

  • “The Most Dangerous Game” — Connell
  • “The Celebrated Jumping Frog…” — Twain
  • “All Summer in a Day” — Bradbury
  • “The Monkey’s Paw” — Jacobs
  • “The Necklace” — de Maupassant
  • “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” — Bierce
  • “After Twenty Years” — O. Henry

Also studied

  • Selected poems (rhyme, stanza, meaning)
  • Vocabulary in context
  • Weekly discussion questions
  • Literary elements: conflict, irony, theme, point of view

The writing program

✍️ Eight essays a year

Five persuasive and three comparison essays, built step by step with the TRIAC proof model — invention, outline, draft, revision, and peer review.

✒️ Grammar through writing

Sentence craft taught in the writing itself — varied openers, sentence types (simple, compound, complex, compound-complex), and parallel form.

📎 MLA from the start

Students write and punctuate correct MLA in-text citations and a Works Cited page from their very first essay.

✝️ Christian worldview

Students weigh ideas through the lens of Scripture and learn to argue clearly, honestly, and persuasively.

Skills students build

Persuasive argumentEssay structure (TRIAC)Sentence craftMLA citationClose readingRevision & peer review

📹 Live on Zoom

One live seminar each week for discussion and instruction. Sessions are recorded for review.

🗂️ Skipper platform

Assignments, grades, feedback, and submissions all in one place (similar to Canvas) — visible to students and parents.

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English II • Grades 9–10 • Waitlisted

American Literature & Composition

A chronological journey through American literature — the Puritans to the moderns — read through a Christian lens and paired with essay composition. Taught Socratically.

Course overview

English II surveys the American literary tradition from the Puritans to the modern age — moving chronologically through the major novels, essays, poems, and speeches that shaped the nation. Students read closely, trace how competing worldviews moved through American culture, and ask the hard questions each work raises.

Woven through is a full composition strand — six formal essays a year, built with the TRIAC model — plus Socratic seminars where students learn to weigh subjective against absolute truth and argue it clearly, both on the page and aloud.

The Guiding Idea

In the world, but not of it.

Students study American culture through a Christian lens — asking where we've been, where we are, and where we're going; discerning subjective truth from absolute truth; and learning to communicate that truth clearly and persuasively.

A full year of American voices

Major works alongside the short stories, poems, and speeches that defined each era:

Major works

  • Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
  • Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life
  • Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
  • Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
  • Additional novels each semester

Stories, poems & more

  • Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher”
  • Irving, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
  • Chopin, “The Story of an Hour”
  • Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”
  • Poems & speeches: Whitman, Dickinson, the Gettysburg Address
  • A chronological survey text

More than reading

✍️ Six formal essays

Three essays each semester — persuasive and expository — built with the TRIAC model, from outline to polished draft.

🗣️ Socratic seminars

Regular seminars on the major works, wrestling with worldview, culture, and the hard questions each text raises.

✒️ Grammar through writing

Sentence craft taught in the writing itself — sentence types, parallelism, and amplification.

✝️ Christian worldview

Students study every era through the lens of Scripture, discerning truth from the ideas that shaped a nation.

Skills students build

Close readingAmerican literary historyPeriods & movementsSocratic discussionPersuasive essays (TRIAC)Worldview in writing

📹 Live on Zoom

One live seminar each week for discussion and instruction. Sessions are recorded for review.

🗂️ Skipper platform

Assignments, grades, feedback, and submissions in one place (similar to Canvas).

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English III • Grades 10–11

British Literature & Composition

A chronological journey through British literature — from Beowulf to the moderns — paired with college-level essay composition. Taught Socratically, from a Christian worldview.

Course overview

English III is a chronological exploration of British literature from the Anglo-Saxon era through the Modern period. Students read major works of fiction, poetry, and drama while wrestling — Socratically — with worldview, truth, and the ideas that shaped each age. It's a discussion-heavy course where thinking deeply matters far more than quick answers.

Woven through the literature is a full composition strand: students write formal literary-analysis essays and timed, AP-style writing checkpoints, building toward writing that would hold up in a first-year college course.

The Central Question

What does it mean to live rightly in a broken world?

Every text, discussion, and essay returns to four enduring questions: What is human nature? What is virtue? How should society be ordered? How should we live?

A full year of reading

Across every era of British letters — poetry, drama, and the novel:

Fall · Semester I

  • “The Seafarer” & Anglo-Saxon verse
  • Beowulf
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (Knight’s Tale)
  • Shakespeare’s Sonnets & Macbeth
  • Donne, Holy Sonnet 10
  • Pope, The Rape of the Lock
  • Swift, A Modest Proposal & Gulliver’s Travels (Part I)
  • Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Spring · Semester II

  • Austen, Pride and Prejudice
  • Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
  • Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
  • Orwell, Animal Farm
  • Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
  • Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral
  • Detective fiction: Chesterton & Christie

More than reading

✍️ Essay composition

Formal literary-analysis essays and timed, AP-style writing checkpoints across the year.

✒️ Grammar through writing

Grammar and style are taught in the writing itself — parallelism, sentence variety (simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex), and clarity.

🎤 Author study

Each student researches an assigned British author and presents to the class in the spring.

✝️ Christian worldview

Students evaluate each work’s vision of virtue, truth, and redemption through the lens of Scripture.

Skills students build

Close readingLiterary analysisTimed AP-style essaysSocratic discussionLiterary historyAuthor research

📹 Live on Zoom

One live seminar each week. Sessions are recorded for review.

🗂️ Skipper platform

Assignments, grades, feedback, and submissions in one place (similar to Canvas).

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English IV • Grades 11–12 • Waitlisted

World Literature & Composition

Some of the greatest literature the world has produced — from Gilgamesh to the modern age — paired with college-level essay composition. Taught Socratically, from a Christian worldview.

Course overview

English IV immerses students in some of the greatest literature the world has produced — complete works and selected excerpts of classic prose, poetry, and drama, from the ancient world to the modern age. It's the capstone of the sequence: demanding reading, Socratic discussion, and college-level essay composition.

Students learn to read complex texts closely and accurately, trace literary history across periods, think critically about philosophy and the trends of culture — and, above all, articulate their own worldview clearly in writing.

A year of world literature

Complete works and selected excerpts, spanning the ancient world to the modern age:

Major works

  • The Epic of Gilgamesh
  • Homer, The Odyssey
  • Shakespeare, Hamlet
  • Goethe, Faust
  • Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon
  • Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

Also studied

  • Ancient philosophers & the early church
  • Realism: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Ibsen
  • Selected prose, poetry & drama excerpts
  • Scripture (including Job) as an interpretive lens
  • Research assignments & informal essays

More than reading

✍️ Six formal essays

Three formal essays each semester, each a response to a major work — plus research and short informal essays.

✒️ Grammar through writing

Grammar and style are taught in the writing itself — sentence variety, clarity, and precision.

✝️ Christian worldview

Students weigh each work's ideas through the lens of Scripture and learn to articulate their own worldview in writing.

🎤 Author presentations

Twice a year, each student researches a major world author and presents to the class.

Skills students build

Close readingLiterary historyComparative analysisSocratic discussionCollege-level essaysWorldview in writing

📹 Live on Zoom

One live seminar each week. Sessions are recorded for review.

🗂️ Skipper platform

Assignments, grades, feedback, and submissions in one place (similar to Canvas).

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Homeschool & College Planning

Guidance from someone who has done it

Personalized consultations for homeschool families planning high school and college — including the NCAA Division I academic-eligibility path most advisors don't understand.

Consultation Options

Choose the right level of support

Every family is different. Start with a single session or plan the whole journey together.

Single Session

$150 / 60 min
  • One-on-one video call
  • Any topic: planning, courses, admissions, or NCAA academic eligibility
  • Written follow-up notes & next steps
  • Perfect for a specific question
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College Planning Package

$595 / 4 sessions
  • Four 60-min sessions across the year
  • Transcript & course-sequence planning
  • Admissions roadmap & timeline
  • Email support between sessions
  • Best value for juniors & seniors
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NCAA Academic Eligibility

$175 / 60 min
  • Division I academic eligibility & core-course approval
  • Homeschool documentation done right
  • Transcripts & the Eligibility Center process
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Areas of expertise

High school academic planningCourse sequencingTranscript developmentCollege admissions documentationNCAA D1 academic eligibilityCore-course approvalDual-credit strategyHomeschool-to-university transition
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Private Online Tutoring

One-on-one help, tailored to your student

Focused, individual online tutoring for any student — whether they need to strengthen writing, work through a tough reading, or build study and organization skills.

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Writing Support

Essays, structure, grammar, revision — from reluctant writers to students polishing college application essays.

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Reading & Literature

Help understanding and analyzing difficult texts, building comprehension and confidence.

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Study & Skills

Organization, time management, and academic habits that carry students through high school and beyond.

Single Session

$70 / 60 min
  • One-on-one online session
  • Any subject need above
  • Flexible scheduling
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$325 / 5 sessions
  • Save vs. single sessions
  • Consistent weekly support
  • Progress tracked over time
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$600 / 10 sessions
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  • Semester-long partnership
  • Deep, sustained progress
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Guides that turn experience into a plan

Practical, downloadable resources drawn from decades in the homeschool community — starting with the NCAA academic-eligibility guide families keep asking me for.

College & Athletics

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The Homeschool Athlete's NCAA Eligibility Guide

A step-by-step walkthrough of Division I academic eligibility — approved core courses, homeschool documentation, transcripts, and the Eligibility Center — so your athlete qualifies. From a parent who's done it.

Homeschool
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Transcript Kit
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High School Transcript Kit

Templates and guidance to build a college-ready homeschool transcript — course titles, credits, and GPA, done right.

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College Planning
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4-Year College Planning Roadmap

A year-by-year checklist for homeschool families, from 9th grade coursework to application season.

Writing & English

MLA
Survival
Guide
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MLA Survival Guide

A student's step-by-step guide to MLA 9 — page setup, in-text citations, ready-to-copy Works Cited templates, practice activities with an answer key, and a printable checklist. 20 pages.

The Analytical
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Blueprint
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The Analytical Essay Blueprint

Thesis to final draft — the exact process I teach for building a clear, well-supported literary analysis essay.

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Meet Your Instructor

Kim Hunt

Educator, longtime homeschooling mother, and guide for families navigating high school, college, and everything in between.

Kim Hunt

I've spent more than two decades teaching homeschooled students, including over a decade teaching high school literature and composition. Along the way I co-founded a homeschool academy and served on its board, helping shape a curriculum built around deep reading and analytical writing.

I'm also a homeschooling mother who has guided my own children through high school and college admissions — an experience that spans Division I athletic recruiting, college audition processes, and admission to highly academic universities.

My academic background is in English (B.A., Texas A&M University), and I'm currently completing both an M.Ed. and an M.A. in English — deepening the craft I bring to every class and consultation.

I believe the ultimate goal of education isn't simply college admission, but the development of clear thinking, careful reading, and strong communication. That's what "confident scholar" means to me.

B.A. English — Texas A&MM.Ed. (in progress)M.A. English (in progress)20+ years teachingAcademy co-founder & boardNCAA academic eligibility
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