I knew I wanted my kids to read Huckleberry Finn in 8th grade, and to prepare for that I wanted them to first read Tom Sawyer so they had familiarity with the character. You could totally read one without the other, but I wanted them to read the fun adventure story of Tom Sawyer … [Read more...]
Try your hand at leatherworking!
If you were to sit down and start listing historical trades, you'd probably say farmer, blacksmith, and then sit for a few minutes, and come up with a tailor or maybe butcher. It fascinates me the number of trades that were common in "ye olde times" and were absolutely necessary … [Read more...]
Princess Diaries book club
Way back when I was recently graduated from college and was still in that magical time of life when you have all the free time in the world, the Princess Diaries movie came out. I went and saw it because that's what you do when you have endless free time. Then I found out there … [Read more...]
Hunger Games book club
Last year I decided to focus on speculative fiction for our assigned reading. One of the final books we read was Hunger Games. I planned out our books for the year over a year earlier, and as we read Hunger Games when the Quarantine was just starting and the kids were finding a … [Read more...]
Napoleonic wars history lesson
As we started our Napoleonic wars history lesson, I jokingly said, "It's all his fault we got World War 2." Then the kids looked at me like I was slightly crazy, and I thought, "Challenge accepted!" Then proceeded to gather up some legos, a map, and some vis-a-vis for our history … [Read more...]
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