If you spend more than a moment with Julia Nalle, you will find that she’s passionate about Christ, her family, adoption, and classical home education. Julia and her husband, Rob, live in a book-filled little house in the woods of central Virginia with their children. You can follow Julia’s blog about international special needs adoption at www.covenantbuilders.blogspot.com. Julia has a Bachelor of Science in early childhood education and a Master of Arts in religion with emphasis in Old Testament studies, counseling, and pastoral ministries. Julia also has years of teaching experience. Along with teaching several different writing classes, she has personally field-tested all of BiblioPlan’s materials at a local Christian school and in one of Virginia’s largest homeschool cooperatives.
Despite being an avid reader as a child and devouring hundreds of history-related books, Julia Nalle dreaded history class. To her, history classes were a barrage of boring lectures and endless dates. But through the influence of some very special teachers and homeschooling her own children, Julia came to realize that history was not just a bunch of boring facts, but real-life stories with the ability to teach and draw students towards a Christian worldview. Those changes have influenced her to rethink the importance of how we teach history. Why is it so important to have children merging history with their literature in the Classical and Charlotte Mason style? What is the value of teaching children history in order? Why do we integrate the biblical and Church story with the rest of history? Should we teach children about world religions? Should we expose our children to the violence in history? Julia will answer these questions and more as she offers 10 reasons why she believes merging history and literature together—and with purpose—is vital to our children’s education.
