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Tag: 9th grade
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…
Iceland Unit
As I was researching Iceland I learned a few things, primarily they eat a lot of fish, and there is not much info out there on Iceland for kids. Practically none. Which made creating this geography lesson a little tricky, but I kept going and created a decent Iceland Unit. I did eventually find an…
Michelangelo art history lesson
Michelangelo is famous for many things. He was a brilliant artist, and I deliberately use artist because he was great at painting AND sculpture. His David is one of the most famous sculptures ever, there are hundreds of postcards for it, many in questionable taste. Then there is his famous Sistine Chapel painting, there are…
Good Omens book club
We broke our rule with Good Omens. It came out when we were up in Iowa visiting Tara and she LOVES Terry Pratchett, grew up reading them with her Mom, and so of course we watched it with her. Then we returned home and during our speculative fiction year of reading we had our Good…
Bolivia Unit
This Bolivia Unit made a great geography lesson for us. (there are affiliate links in here) Bolivia Unit resources Here you go. Not so many resources but I did find some fun Bolivia fact sites. Seriously, the titles people come up with for country facts are amusing. These facts are mind-blowing, these are interesting, these…