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Tag: 10th grade
Oliver Twist book and a movie
I don’t like Charles Dickens. My kids know this, but I also recognize his books are formative to much of modern culture, we reference ideas and images in it in our conversation. So, I decided to grit my teeth and assign an Oliver Twist book club to my kids for our book and a movie…
Gambia Unit
When I studied the various countries I really should have written a date on the country so I would know what grade to put them in. That is completely unrelated to our Gambia Unit, but I’m staring at my notes and what we did on Gambia and the big thing I’m getting from my notes…
Gabon Unit
Our Gabon unit wasn’t super long, and I’m sure there is a lot we could have done, but it was an interesting geography lesson. Sorry, this is a super short introduction to the latest addition to our Africa Unit, but after 100 or so country units it becomes hard to create super interesting introductions. (there…
Moldova Unit
I have to admit I somewhat get Moldova confused with a couple of fictional countries from books and comic books I’ve read. It does not help that it is similar to a couple of the countries in those books, and I think the books were modeled after Moldova, so that’s not helping. Either way our…
Frankenstein book club
Freshman year I chose to have my kids read Frankenstein. I did this knowing full well I don’t like the book, and the style of gothic literature, but it’s also worth reading because of all the precedents it sets and because there are worthwhile ideas in the book. I enlisted help for our Frankenstein book…