Tag: 12th grade

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin book club

    Uncle Tom’s Cabin book club

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    Supposedly, shortly after the Civil War starte,d President Lincoln met with Harriet Beecher Stowe and joked, “So, you’re the little lady who started this war.” Now, historians say that probably didn’t happen, but that book did inspire large portions of the abolitionist movement and sold like crazy during the mid-nineteenth century. This was an interesting…

  • 50 State Study: New York

    50 State Study: New York

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    I was going to write about when we studied New York in high school where we did our quick blitz of a geography lesson as we ran through United States Geography, and I realized I had written about this way back when the kids were tiny all the way back in 2011, so as I…

  • Ethiopia Unit

    Ethiopia Unit

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    I have no clue what to write for an introduction here. So imagine I wrote something super original, about this Ethiopia Unit, and you were super entertained and I got your attention. Sorry, my brain is fried right now so I’m sure I’ll be revising this geography lesson later as I’m adding it into my…

  • West Virginia Unit

    West Virginia Unit

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    As I write these posts I try to find pictures that capture the idea of the state. There is no specific “this location says West Virginia,” instead I think of rolling mountains covered in trees, and I start hearing a sort of vague blue grass song in my head that I don’t even really know…

  • Oliver Twist book and a movie

    Oliver Twist book and a movie

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    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…