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Chapter House

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Chapter House

@ChHouseBooks

Publishers of the finest literature for homeschooling families. Virtus et Miraculum

Joined March 2025

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Chapter House
@ChHouseBooks
May 5
We made books built to outlast us. Cloth bound with smyth-sewn bindings, printed in the United States. Twelve children's classics across four box sets, Æsop to Shakespeare. Chapter House is open for pre-order. Our first limited print run will ship in June.
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Chapter House
@ChHouseBooks
Apr 25, 2025
Replying to @reddit_lies
The system does what it was designed to do. Homeschool your children and demand excellence.
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Chapter House
@ChHouseBooks
May 29, 2025
Greetings, new followers! We are busy assembling manuscripts while great artists like @tstartworks are hard at work creating original art for these classics. While you patiently wait, here is a teaser from H.E. Marshall’s rendition of Beowulf: And now all slept save Beowulf
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Chapter House
@ChHouseBooks
Apr 3, 2025
The Wolf and the Lamb: An Aesop Fable ONE day a Wolf and a Lamb happened to come at the same time to drink from a brook that ran down the side of the mountain. The Wolf wished very much to eat the Lamb, but meeting her as he did, face to face, he thought he must find some
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Chapter House
@ChHouseBooks
Apr 23, 2025
Replying to @LauraPowellEsq
Homeschool your children!
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Chapter House
@ChHouseBooks
Jun 4, 2025
Replying to @conan_esq
The universities should be reimbursing people like this, because they clearly failed to teach math.
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Chapter House
@ChHouseBooks
Apr 25, 2025
If you need some weekend listening, the @costofglory episode on Julius Caesar is excellent. Excited for the rest of the series!
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Chapter House
@ChHouseBooks
Apr 13, 2025
Replying to @ineedanothernap
Copywork is an excellent tool to improve handwriting and grammar skills. I like to choose a passage from something we are reading and then either dictate it to him or use a worksheet generator to create copywork pages. We also use Charlotte Mason’s grammar book, which I was able
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Chapter House
@ChHouseBooks
Apr 15, 2025
Replying to @HippyMomPhD
Silent reading was unheard of in the ancient world. St. Augustine found St. Ambrose’s silent reading bizarre: "When Ambrose read, his eyes ran over the columns of writing and his heart searched out the meaning, but his voice and his tongue were at rest. Often when I was
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Chapter House
@ChHouseBooks
Jun 7, 2025
Your children are more than cogs in a machine or lines in a spreadsheet. They are born persons, made in the image of God, imbued with their own unique traits and personalities. They were not meant to spend all day taking endless tests on a screen under fluorescent lights.
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Chapter House
@ChHouseBooks
Apr 15, 2025
Everyone who desires to be literate should read the King James Bible, regardless of religious belief. It's a cornerstone of the English canon, as even an anti-theist like @RichardDawkins can attest. "The whole King James Bible is littered with literary allusions, almost as many
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Chapter House
@ChHouseBooks
Jun 17, 2025
The Bible, specifically the King James, is a cornerstone of cultural literacy.
Keturah Abigail
@KeturahAbigail
Jun 17, 2025
it's pointless to read a majority of classical literature if you haven't first read the entire Bible through. I realized this after reading Steinbeck. The richness of his work is otherwise lost. Public education doesn't seem to get this though
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Chapter House
@ChHouseBooks
Jun 5, 2025
Julius Cæsar's moment of truth, from On the Shores of the Great Sea by M.B. Synge: Cæsar now assembled his soldiers on the banks of the river Rubicon, which divided Italy from Gaul. The Romans still thought his heart might fail or his troops desert him. But neither of these
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Chapter House
@ChHouseBooks
Jun 7, 2025
Replying to @kazilesnik and @Jbn3ex
We can prevent this.
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