Dominica Unit

When I started this Dominica Unit, I didn’t know there was a difference between Dominica and Dominican Republic. This is one of the things I love about our geography lessons in our homeschooling I get to learn new things all the time.

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Dominica Resources

Most of the countries in North America do not have lots of resources, side effect of so many little island nations, like say…. Dominica.

• 7 interesting facts about Dominica
• 11 Surprising Dominica facts– you get to be surprised
• 25 Surprising Dominica facts– you’ll be even more surprised

So, here is the Geography Now video:

And then the Dominica Flag Friday.

Just a quick side note, I realized I’ve been mentally pronouncing the country wrong. Even with having studied it several months ago, I forgot we had done that.

Dominca recipe: Calypso Chicken

I thought I’d try a recipe a few of my family wouldn’t particularly like, so I picked Calypso Chicken. I lied, they were mostly vaguely indifferent, but I really liked the cashew nuts.

Ingredients

• 3 pounds chicken cut into bite-size pieces (I picked 5 chicken breasts)
• 1/4 pound cashew nuts
• 6 slices ginger
• 3 green onions
• 4 ounces mushrooms
• 2 garlic cloves
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 2 tablespoon sugar
• 3 tablespoons red wine
• 2 tablespoons butter

Let’s make that chicken!

1. Season chicken with salt, pepper, one clove of garlic, vinegar, and thyme, and marinate for 3 hours
2. In a skillet melt butter and add sugar, when very hot brown the chicken
3. In another fry pan heat some oil, fry cashews, and set aside
4. In the same pan, you fried the cashews, and cook the garlic, mushrooms, onions, and ginger.
5. Add wine and 1/4 cup water to the cooking skillet
6. Add chicken and cook for 25 minutes until tender.

I served this with mashed potatoes.

Calypso Chicken

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Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Additional Time 3 hours

Total Time 3 hours 35 minutes

Ingredients

• 3 pounds chicken cut into bite-size pieces (I picked 5 chicken breasts)
• 1/4 pound cashew nuts
• 6 slices ginger
• 3 green onions
• 4 ounces mushrooms
• 2 garlic cloves
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 2 tablespoon sugar
• 3 tablespoons red wine
• 2 tablespoons butter

Instructions

1. Season chicken with salt, pepper, one clove of garlic, vinegar, and thyme, and marinate for 3 hours
2. In a skillet melt butter and add sugar, when very hot brown the chicken
3. In another fry pan heat some oil, fry cashews, and set aside
4. In the same pan, you fried the cashews, and cook the garlic, mushrooms, onions, and ginger.
5. Add wine and 1/4 cup water to the cooking skillet
6. Add chicken and cook for 25 minutes until tender.

Dominica Unit notebooking pages

Go pick up the North America notebooking pages so you’re all ready to fill it out.

Dominica is an interesting country, and there were some fun facts to do with it.

• With so many volcanoes one of their primary exports is pumice and volcanic ash
• They have a town called Massacre
• It was a pirate haven (and one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies was filmed there)
• highest concentration of active volcanoes
• They have a whole bunch of centarians

The big problem with learning about all of these countries, it leaves me wanting to travel to ALL OF THEM. I don’t have that travel budget.

Oh well, a girl can dream.

More learning fun for you to enjoy

I think I’ll take one from each age range I’ve got posts for. Preschool to high school, and a random extra high school since we did this in high school.

• Itsy Bitsy Spider lesson and craft
• Graphing Green Eggs and Ham
• Battle of Hastings lesson
• Life Skills Reimagined review
• Burkina Faso Unit

“Portsmouth (Dominica)” by mripp is licensed under CC BY 2.0.