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Tag: 9th grade
Animal Farm book club
As a Freshman in high school I read Animal Farm. I remember being something of a history buff and reading the chapter where the animals went through the farmer’s house and thinking, “Wow, I bet this is what the peasants felt like going through the Romanov palace after the Russian Revolution.” I felt so smart…
Zookeeper’s Wife book club
A few years ago Jeff was looking for a movie we could watch for Mother’s Day. He picked Zookeeper’s Wife, and we got about halfway through it before The Artist got overwhelmed with the darkness of the story and wasn’t emotionally ready to see the light and hope buried under all that darkness. I don’t…
Turkey Geography Unit
Turkey is a crossover country. There are elements of its culture that are very Asian/Middle-Eastern and there are elements of very European culture. We studied Turkey as part of our crazy push to complete all of Europe and be done with a continent. I regret that decision because it caused many Europeans countries to blur…
Mortal Engines book club
This all started when I was looking for a book to give Superman for his birthday. Then I remembered Mortal Engines came out in the theaters and he wanted to see the movie, so inspiration hit. I gave him the first book in the Mortal Engines series, and a few other dystopians. This did mean…
Netherlands Unit Study
For reasons related to my Dad having a friend from Holland, I somehow didn’t realize Holland was a part of the Netherlands until I was definitely an adult. He would talk about his friend from Holland, and how such and such thing happened in Holland. Of course, there’s also the fact that another region of…