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• Sales
  • Last Season for Products Scheduled to Retire in 2024
  • Spring Supplements Deal
  • 30% Off Primer Print Packages
• Corrections Season: Corrections Being Made to Curriculum and Supplements
• All the Writing Things
  • Career Development Classes for Writing Teachers at Lucerna in 2023-2024
  • New Writing Subscriptions by Level and Genre
  • Deadline Approaching for the Before and After Writing Contest!
• Warp Subscription Samples and News
• Release of Alternate Booklists is Complete!  
• Save the Dates: FREE Summer Seminars hosted by Lucerna Academy
  • Tuesday, June 20th, 7-9 PM ET: “Q&A” with Christina Somerville
  • Monday, July 17th, 2-3 PM ET: “Simple Start Guide” for Tapestry of Grace with Presentation Specialist Sarah White
  • Thursday, July 20th, 2-4 PM ET: “NCAA Application for ​Tapestry of Grace Families” with veteran Tapestry homeschool teacher Diane Tompkins.

Last Season for These Products

As a reminder, we have a short list of products that we prayerfully expect to be phasing out in 2023.  These will be retired our store in the spring of 2024.  Therefore, if you want to own the version that accompanies your current edition of Tapestry of Grace Integrated or Spools, we recommend you purchase this year to avoid delays or fees associated with products no longer on public offer next year!  They are:

• Planning Aids
• Tapestry Primer
• Poetics
• Literature Studies for Young Adults
• Map Aids
• Big Story Game

Spring Supplements Deal

The following products will not be retired, but they will be receiving a significant upgrade and/or new product names next year.  Therefore, as with our products that are scheduled for retirement, we recommend you purchase this year to avoid delays or fees associated with products no longer on public offer next year!  We also want to make a special offer: if you purchase any of these products between May 17th and June 15th of 2023, you may choose to exchange them for the next edition of the same products for free!*

• Years 2-3 Shorter Works Anthology
• Years 1-4 Key Documents in Government Studies
• Years 1-4 Evaluations
• Writing Aids
• The Literary Toolbox*

IMPORTANT: This deal will be most valuable to those who missed our Winter Deal.  If you took advantage of the Winter Deal for these products, you already have the privilege of free upgrades under the terms of that offer. 🙂

30% Off Print Primer Package

Many have asked, “Does it make any sense to buy Primer this year if I plan to buy the new edition of Tapestry of Grace for my Lower Grammar students next year?”  Our best answer so far is “Yes, we think so.”  The next edition will offer products that cover many different aspects of the existing Primer (parent-level overview of history for each week, student-level activities for each week, reading lists, topical threads, etc.), but it will also quadruple the amount of material found in Primer from 36 weeks to 144 weeks.  Therefore, if you choose to try Primer this year, you will still receive a good sampler of Tapestry of Grace topics at Lower Grammar levels, plus an introduction to Tapestry learning rhythms.  Because Primer overlaps so much with Year 1, we might recommend you dive in to the next edition at Year 2 after completing Primer this year, but we do think it is still a good choice for this school year if you really want to get started with Tapestry now instead of waiting an extra year!  To make this easier on your budget, we are doing a big sale on our remaining Print Primer packages.  We have about 100 copies left, and when the printed books are gone, this sale is over!  (NOTE: You will still be able to purchase Digital Primer packages right up to June of 2024.)

Corrections Season

In the Spring Supplements Deal section above, you saw the list of products scheduled for a new edition in 2024.  While we are preparing the next edition, we will also make corrections as needed to the current editions of the curriculum (both Integrated and Spools) and supplements.  Most of the corrections needed are small and on a weekly level (e.g. adding missing labels to Teacher Maps, making sure Student and Teacher versions of Evaluations match across all weeks, or removing erroneous references to old books from Dialectic and Rhetoric History materials).  Therefore, we do not expect our corrections to affect your planning season!  However, we will include lists of updated products in our June, July, and August newsletters, and we hope you will download the latest version of your product unit(s) at that time to use during the school year. 🙂 

All the Writing Things

Career Development Classes for Writing Teachers at Lucerna

During the summer of 2023 and the school year to come in 2023-204, Lucerna teachers will offer new career development courses for writing teachers!  Using Writing Aids, they will work to equip writing teachers through three separate options:

• Preparation Courses: Six-week summer preparation courses give you a good framework for planning, teaching, editing, and grading Writing and English Grammar.  Through three courses (which you can take separately or concurrently), Lucerna’s Teri Skidmore and Lampstand Press’s Christina Somerville will help you find your way around the Writing Aids and Tapestry of Grace curriculum, plan a unit of writing instruction, consider what to teach both younger and older students, learn how to give good feedback, and develop a grading strategy.  Check out Lucerna’s Summer Courses and Seminars pagefor more information!   
• Mentoring Workshops: Throughout the school year, Lucerna teachers will mentor you in teaching genres such as writing strong paragraphs, reports, essays, literary analysis papers, short stories, and research papers. You’ll be able to choose among several short (3-6 week) mentoring courses, and Lucerna’s writing teachers will mentor you as you take your student through these paper projects. Enrollment will open in August.
• Help Editing Papers. When your student hands you their paper, are you unsure about how to help them improve their writing? Lucerna will pair you with one of their experienced writing teachers to develop a strategy for helping your student with that paper. Enrollment will open in August.

New Writing Products by Level and by Genre

Next month, we will begin to release new Writing products that allow you to purchase digital access to Writing Aids by learning level and by genre.  Stay tuned—these products will enter the store in June!

The “Before and After” Student Writing Contest Continues

The Contest begins as of the April newsletter publication and will last until June 15th of 2023, when we will stop collecting submissions.  We will announce student winners by August 1 of 2023, but all teachers can claim their free curriculum as soon the eligibility of their submissions has been confirmed and their waivers have been submitted.

Coming Soon to a Website Near You: Online Warp Subscriptions!

Over the last two years, your responses to the Warp and Weft Project concept have been enthusiastic!  Although we do not plan to make the Warp and Weft History Readers our recommended spine texts until the next edition comes out in June of 2024, we realized that there are good reasons to release the web-based Warp subscription version a year early!  Therefore, we plan to release Warp subscriptions in June of 2023, and we expect to charge about $25 for a subscription that lasts from June of 2023 until July 4th of 2024. 

The teachers at Lucerna Academy, together with sixty of their current Dialectic and Rhetoric History students across all four years, have agreed to partner with us in determining exactly which books can be replaced by the Warp, and thus how much we think you can save on your booklist with a Warp subscription.  When we release the Warp for purchase in June, we will include the list of replaceable books that they are compiling as you read this! 

Meanwhile, we welcome you to go to this sample Year 1, Unit 1 Warp page and poke around Week 1: Egypt: Gift of the Nile.  We are still adding to this sample week, but you can watch the video on the page and see what we have posted so far!  We prayerfully expect to have rough content loaded for all weeks of History in the Online Warp by the time we release these products in June (for all those who need to start planning).  From there, we will continue to refine and expand the Online Warp as the summer unfolds.

If you want to get back to the Year 1, Unit 1 Warp page later, go to the Year 1, Unit 1 page and look at the bottom of the sidebar on the right for a link that says “Unit 1 Warp & Weft”!

Website and Production Updates

• Sidebar Changes: We will be adding new Warp page links to the sidebars as we complete units of the new Warp and Weft pages.  For now, those that are not completed will redirect to the product explanation page. 
   
• Alternate Booklists: The Alternate Booklists are now finished and posted on each of the Loom pages.
   
• New Product Videos, Store Videos, and Simple Start Guide: We are adding new videos to our website that we hope will help orient newcomers to our products and to the store.  We will also be adding an updated version of the Simple Start Guide to the website!   
   
• Next-Version English Grammar Program: If you own a year of English Grammar, you will receive the updated version for free because you bought a beta product.  We have already made all the corrections and alterations needed based on the feedback we received this year, but consider this a “last call” for more before we release the updated version this summer!

Spring Supplements Deal

The following products will not be retired, but they will be receiving a significant upgrade and/or new product names next year.  Therefore, as with our products that are scheduled for retirement, we recommend you purchase this year to avoid delays or fees associated with products no longer on public offer next year!  We also want to make a special offer: if you purchase any of these products between May 17th and June 15th of 2023, you may choose to exchange them for the next edition of the same products for free!*

• Years 2-3 Shorter Works Anthology
• Years 1-4 Key Documents in Government Studies
• Years 1-4 Evaluations
• Writing Aids
• The Literary Toolbox*

IMPORTANT: This deal will be most valuable to those who missed our Winter Deal.  If you took advantage of the Winter Deal for these products, you already have the privilege of free upgrades under the terms of that offer. 🙂

30% Off Print Primer Package

Many have asked, “Does it make any sense to buy Primer this year if I plan to buy the new edition of Tapestry of Grace for my Lower Grammar students next year?”  Our best answer so far is “Yes, we think so.”  The next edition will offer products that cover many different aspects of the existing Primer (parent-level overview of history for each week, student-level activities for each week, reading lists, topical threads, etc.), but it will also quadruple the amount of material found in Primer from 36 weeks to 144 weeks.  Therefore, if you choose to try Primer this year, you will still receive a good sampler of Tapestry of Grace topics at Lower Grammar levels, plus an introduction to Tapestry learning rhythms.  Because Primer overlaps so much with Year 1, we might recommend you dive in to the next edition at Year 2 after completing Primer this year, but we do think it is still a good choice for this school year if you really want to get started with Tapestry now instead of waiting an extra year!  To make this easier on your budget, we are doing a big sale on our remaining Print Primer packages.  We have about 100 copies left, and when the printed books are gone, this sale is over!  (NOTE: You will still be able to purchase Digital Primer packages right up to June of 2024.)

• The Static Booklists: We have begun by posting Static Primary Booklists (for each Year, Level, and Subject) in the Loom sections of your Year pages.  Both Integrated and Spools owners will automatically be granted access to these lists: just sign into your account, select your year page, and scroll down to the Loom documents!  You can copy and paste from these PDF Booklists, and they include an ISBN number, Amazon link, and WorldCat Library link for each book!  On the Loom page for your Year, you can also find Static Alternate Booklists for all four years in each Level and Subject to supplement your Static Primary Booklists. (These Static Alternate Booklists should also be especially useful for owners of older editions!)
  
  
• The Dynamic Booklist: Our team is simultaneously working on 3,000+ book listings for the Shop, complete with the same ISBN numbers and links you will see on the Static Loom Booklists, so that you will have a Dynamic version of the Booklist to filter and browse according to year, unit, week, learning level, subject, TOG edition, and any other filter we can dream up! We will keep you posted on the progress of the Dynamic Booklist, but we didn’t want you to be surprised to see books appearing in the Shop over the next few months! Warning: Until the Dynamic Booklist is complete, we recommend using the Static Booklists on the Loom as your authoritative reference to all books used in your 2020-2021 Integrated or Spools editions, but feel free to browse the Dynamic Booklist and watch it grow!)
  
  
• The Amazon Store: If you prefer not to use the booklists, you can find all the books available on Amazon grouped by Year, Level, and Subject at our Amazon Store.
  
  
• Paying with a Credit Card: We have added an article to our Knowledge Base to help guide you through the process of paying for Tapestry products with a credit card or debit card! 
  

• Phone Options: Please contact us using the small yellow “Help” button in the bottom right corner of any page on our website.  There, you can now open a ticket to schedule a phone call or even an online meeting!  
  

• Work/Study Program: If you have skills that we can use, and are able to offer sufficient time to offset the investment of training, we would be delighted to consider an exchange of brand-new curriculum for labor.  (For any in need who cannot offer labor, please know that we continue to offer our Scholarship Program just as before!)  You can use this program to earn any product we sell, including upgrades to the next edition.  At present, we are actively seeking book reviews.  Here are a few examples that we received recently from members of our TOG community:
  • God King by Joanne Williamson:Daughter’s reason: “The book taught about friendship no matter how different the people were; it was suspenseful; and Taharka set aside his godly position and rescued the man from the crocodile and then that man ended up saving Taharka in the end by acknowledging that he was the real god king.”Mom’s reason: I thoroughly enjoy the fictional approach to teaching history for this age. It was very easy to engage her attention (and keep it!) and we actually finished the book before scheduled because neither of us could wait to know what happened next! I also really value Williamson’s level of detail and care to historical facts and features of the time. The story helps us truly imagine what life may have been like for the different characters and their class status. Very well written!
  • Twice Freed by Patricia St John: We just finished reading this book in our Upper Grammar Literature class. Such a great book to discuss with upper grammar students. Not only does the book help connect the book of Acts to life under Roman rule, but it also has so much you can discuss about the characters’ thoughts and actions. The book highlights themes of freedom and forgiveness and helped our students think about the changing work on the gospel. Looking forward to reading this again when my younger kids are in Upper Grammar. 

• School Choice: Did you catch the news about school choice?  We are now approved on ClassWallet for both New Hampshire and Arizona, and we are working towards more states.  To become an approved vendor in any state, we need our customers in that states to send a request to ClassWallet so that we will be added as a vendor.  If that happens, you should be able to use tax dollars to purchase TOG products!  School choice is only becoming more of a thing in 2022, so even if your state does not offer school choice options now, it may do so soon!  This independent website, EdChoice, can tell you about the options in your state.   
  

• Teacher Training Resources: If you look on the Tapestry University page (just scroll to the bottom of the homepage and look on the right), you will see all our teacher training resources neatly lined up and free to all comers.  Some of them will also be added to the Planning page.  A few need revisions to reflect the new interface, so we will gradually be working on those as well.  Thank you to those on Facebook who brought up this suggestion!  We can’t afford to make a habit of permanently free products, of course, but in this case I think it is the right answer!  
  

• Fee for Late Upgrade from Locklizard: Over the last two years, we have been glad to bear the costs of free upgrades from Locklizard for all comers!  However, now that we have lost access to our Locklizard licenses and records, it is more difficult and time consuming for our staff to look up latecomers’ records and help them make the transition.  The good news is that it can still be done!  The bad news is that we will now charge a $15 “Lookup Fee” for an upgrade from Locklizard to our new watermarking system.  If you have not yet transitioned, click here to learn more about this process, or simply use keyword “great transition” or “account” to search for articles in our Help button knowledge base!
  

• Retiring Products: I have a short list of products that we prayerfully expect to be phasing out in 2023, and retiring completely in the spring of 2024.  They are:
  1. Planning Aids
  2. Tapestry Primer
  3. Poetics
  4. Literature Studies for Young Adults
  5. Map Aids
  6. Big Story Game   
     
     If you own digital versions of any of these products, don’t worry!  They will always be available to you as downloads via your account (at bare minimum), and most (if not all) will be available via sections of TOGO that will only be visible to owners of these products.  Also, be assured that we are not retiring these products because we don’t love them as much as you do!  Rather, we love them so much that we are integrating them into the 2024 editions of our main curricula.  That’s right: starting in 2024, you’ll have all the useful content we can find from these seven products incorporated into our core products and supplements! 
     
     You will hear more details about the future of each product and the transition of content to new places in the 2024 editions in future newsletters, so keep an eye out! 
     
     Finally, one important note: we have a few copies of the print version of Primer left, and after that we will only be selling digital versions until June of 2024.  Therefore, if you (or a friend) really, really wants a print package copy of Primer, grab it soon!  The same applies to printed copies of Poetics (digital versions will continue to be available up to June of 2024 at least). 

Dialectic Literature Studies  

Below is the complete list of Dialectic Literature Stitches book studies that are already available in the store. Please note that the content of these Stitches is different from the content of Dialectic Literature in 2020 Edition Integrated and Spools.

Many (but not all) of these Stitches studies will eventually be incorporated into the 2024 editions of Integrated and Spools, but we will also continue to make them available separately as Stitches even after the release of that 2024 edition because we think there is value in allowing people to mix/match/switch/design/customize their Literature studies if they wish.  Also, there are simply too many good books available to fit everything into the Integrated and Spools year-plans, so making individual book studies available for summer study or substitution even after the 2024 edition is released seems like a good idea!

Our goal for this year, while the 2024 edition is in development, is that a full year of these Stitches Dialectic LIterature studies will cost about the same amount as the Year 1 Literature Studies for Young Adults product. To that end, we have a 60% off coupon available to help ensure that the total costs of a full year’s Dialectic Literature Stitches do not exceed the cost of Year 1 Literature Studies for Young Adults during this 2022-2023 school year. Please note, however, that purchasing even a full year’s collection of Dialectic Literature Stitches will not entitle the purchaser to copies of 2024 Spools or Integrated products containing the equivalent content. Those must be purchased separately as they become available, or received as part of a 2024 Edition upgrade.

Finally, please note that our standard copyright rules for group use do apply to this product: if you are using one of the Dialectic Literature Stitches studies to teach a class, then the family of each student in your class must own a copy of at least the student materials. You may not purchase one student copy plus one teacher copy and distribute copies of the student materials to your entire class; you may only distribute student copies to your own children in your home. Thank you for your faithful adherence to copyright law, which helps to keep us in business.

• Year 2 | The Sword and the Circle | 2 week study | $0 (free sample)
• Year 2 | Arabian Nights (full Text of the stories included) | 1 week study | $3.50 – $8.00
• Year 2 | Legends of Charlemagne (full Text of the stories included) | 1 week study | $3.50-$8.00
• Year 2 | Northland Heroes (full Text of the stories included) | 1 week study | $3.50-$8.00
• Year 2 | Canterbury Tales | 1 week study | $2.50-$5.00
• Year 2 | Good Masters, Sweet Ladies! | 1 week study | $2.50-$5.00
• Year 2 | Dante’s Divine Comedy | 3 week study | $5.00-$10.00
• Year 2 | The Second Mrs. Gioconda | 2 week study | $4.75-$8.50
• Year 2 | The Witch of Blackbird Pond | 3 week study | $5.00-$10.00
• Year 2 | Olney Hymns (full Text of three hymns included) | 1 week study | $3.50-$8.00
• Year 3 | Frankenstein (full Text included) | 3 week study | $6.00-$11.00
• Year 4 | Call of the Wild (full Text included) | 2 week study | $4.75-$8.50

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UPCOMING: 2024 Edition release dates and upgrade costs

Our adventures with the rolling release of Spools Teacher have made us doubly cautious about setting release dates, but, if the Lord wills, we prayerfully hope to release 2023 Tapestry of Grace Integrated and Spools samples in December of 2023, and we hope to release the edition itself on June 1, 2024.

Final new prices for 2024 edition products have not been set across the board, but we are fixing the 2024 upgrade cost at $50 per year plan for Tapestry of Grace Integrated, and we expect to make a (proportionately smaller) upgrade fee option available for Tapestry of Grace Spools. 

If you purchased Tapestry materials after December 30th, 2020, or plan to purchase between March 1 of 2023 and June 1 of 2024, you may be wishing you had some way to get an upgrade to the 2024 Integrated or Spools (or both) without having to pay money for it.  Well, wonder no further!  If you would prefer to exchange materials or labor (figured at $15/hr), rather than cash, you can explore any of the following options:

• Student Writing Samples for our Writing Page: We are working to build our library of Writing Samples (samples of student papers completed according to the Writing Aids genres and TOG  writing assignments).
  
• Book Descriptions and Reviews for our Booklist: We need thousands (literally) of book descriptions and reviews for the new Booklist Tool.  These reviews will also help us to select the very best books for the 2024 Booklist. 
  
• Product Developers in These Areas of Interest:
  • Greek and Latin vocabulary root lessons 
  • Art appreciation lessons
    
• Other: Any idea you’ve had that you would love to contribute… just open a ticket and we’ll have a conversation about it!  We can’t guarantee that we will say “yes,” but we’ll be eager to explore the possibility. 🙂

Please note that this production calendar is an approximation only and subject to continuous change. The planned products and elements of new editions listed below are subject to change throughout the design process. Also, product development routinely runs two to six months late in “real time” due to a variety of factors, including unforeseeable circumstances. We urge you not to plan your school year around the expectation of having certain products available within the exact time frame described on this calendar.