Tag: 9th grade
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Princess Bride book club
Inconceivable! Princess Bride is one of the most quoted movies in my house, and a great many other houses. It’s also one of the rare movies, people don’t know for sure if the book or the movie was created first because the movie is so incredibly perfect, that and it was the same author for…
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Hungary Unit
I have a theory, when they made the Captain America: Civil War movie, they went we need a recipe from an Eastern European country, and they looked and around and said, “Paprikash” that sounds just exotic enough, but also like something that would be comfort food. And after our Hungary Unit, I can totally see…
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Poland Unit
You know what the most common thing to find when researching Poland for your Poland Unit? Poland’s resistance during World War 2. You know what my kids mention when you ask them about Poland? The partition of Poland. I may have given my kids a weird sense of humor. Oh well, our Poland unit was…
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War of the Worlds book club
There’s a blog I follow talking about Media Myths, and how they keep popping up. A frequent one this time of year is the myth when Orsen Wells War of the Worlds was a radio drama it caused a panic as people truly believed the world was being invaded. Only, that didn’t happen. I have…
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Vatican City unit
Sometimes there are some weird facts you learn about. As we studied history for the last couple of years, the kids have been wildly amused as the Papal States have been a minor player off and on for much of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, so I knew they would be wildly amused by the…