I choose the books I assign for a variety of reasons. Sometimes I choose the book because it matches the time period we're studying. Other times. I choose the book because it has some great ideas to discuss. A few books I choose are because the book has literary significance. I'm … [Read more...]
Bahrain Unit
I'm always glad when a video tells you how to pronounce a country, I learned how to pronounce Bah-rain correctly. It's one of those cool countries in the middle east that is doing all sorts of really interesting stuff (I'll get to that in my notebooking pages section). Either … [Read more...]
1984 book club
If you want to depress your kids, assign 1984. I chose to assign 1984 because there are so many things you can see in the modern news paralleling the book, and the terms George Orwell created so many terms we use today. The phrases and words stir up ideas that we all understand. … [Read more...]
Austria unit
Do you know what, according to 12-year-old me, is important about Austria? The Lipizzaner Stallions and the Spanish Riding Academy. I know there is so much history there, and so many amazing things that happened, but 12-year-old me was horse crazy. This of course meant when we … [Read more...]
Japan Unit
Japan is one of those countries I know a lot about because of how it's portrayed in movies and media, but then I was just talking with my sister-in-law, and she mentioned talking to someone from Japan being frustrated how narrow their definition is of what being Japanese is. I … [Read more...]
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