Hello, I'm proposing to homeschool Ally McBeal — fourteen, precociously bibliographic, aspiring legal librarian — with a program that sings like a brief and speaks like a sonnet. Aligned to ACARA v9 Year 9 outcomes in English, History, Science, HASS and Languages (French), this plan tilts between medieval courts and modern ecology, asking the student to read romances, chronicles and devotional lyric in translation, to interrogate authorship, authority and myth after the Conquest, and to trace the ripple from post‑Schism Europe through tournaments, guilds and the shaping of chivalric identity. Lessons combine close literary analysis of narrative voice and interiority with historiographical inquiry — how history is written, translated and repurposed — while French immersion strengthens linguistic dexterity through parallel texts, songs and contemporary media. Philosophical reflection and environmental ethics pair with field ecology: mapping landscapes, studying human impact, and writing sustained argumentative essays.
Method: weekly seminars, archival-style source study, guided translation work and lab days. Each year includes three or four original science works studied as living documents, replacing principle modules while read; practice in citation, annotation and legal-style briefs develops the librarian instincts. Creative projects — reenacting tournaments, building model guild charters, producing bilingual multimedia dossiers — buttress formal assessment: analytical essays, source critiques and a final research essay negotiated with the student. My tone: curious, slightly theatrical, insistently precise — like a lawyer who hums during cross‑examination. The aim: a scholar who reads across languages and centuries, thinks like a historian, reasons like a scientist, advocates like a lawyer, and catalogs it all like a librarian.
Reporting will map to ACARA v9 descriptors with portfolio evidence: annotated translations, lab notebooks, timed analyses and a negotiated capstone essay. Excursions to archives, cathedrals and ecology sites, plus French‑language media and digital cataloguing projects, cultivate wonder and the meticulous attention a future legal librarian will need.