All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.
We’re trying to integrate my sister’s studies as much as possible, and the main way we do that is through selecting literature that corresponds with what she is studying in history. This quarter it’s WWI, so I went searching for a good novel. I checked a [...]
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We’ve been doing history with my sister, and we’ve just reached the point where there are recordings of people talking about their memories. With our study of World War I, we are leaning heavily on documentary films, so that she can see and hear what it was like.
Here are the films I’ve found that I [...]
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Last quarter, I assigned my sister a lapbook about the Industrial Revolution. I hesitated at first, thinking this was a bit too “elementary school” for a high schooler, but she loved doing history that way, and did a great job of finding illustrations and scrapbooking it all. So, she’s doing it again for World War [...]
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I was looking for a literature tie-in to my sister’s study of World War One, and I stumbled across Anne Perry. She has several novels that have “a novel of WWI” as their subtitle. I checked No Graves As Yet out from the library, but it wasn’t actually what I was looking for.
It is a [...]
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If you are going to homeschool, and you are not some kind of superhero, you will come up against teaching a subject you are uncomfortable with. For some, this subject is math, or science, or grammar, and many of us deal with the discomfort by paying for a tutor or a class in that one [...]
Read the rest of a note slipped under the door
I couldn’t find a textbook/reference book that I really liked for J. to study The Industrial Revolution, but I did use one library book to create an outline of questions for her. All of these have wikipedia artices associated with them, and I’ve told her to use that and at least one other online source [...]
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My sister is a 9th grader this year, and we are still doing our co-teaching homeschool arrangement. It works pretty well, although there were some hiccups this quarter when their internet connection and computer went down. I got a huge packet by snail mail, to grade everything at once! And then I had to call [...]
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My “Weekly Book Posts” are a thing of the past for the moment. Sadly, I am not finding consistent time to read very many picture books to Hypatia at the moment. Her dad is reading her bedtime story, so I don’t know what has been good or not recently. I hope to have more picture [...]
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We may be all over the place with my sister’s education – with a quarter of middle school work still undone, and her first college class this summer – but we still started high school this week as she entered 9th grade. Mom was out of town, so J. was unsupervised, but she still started [...]
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Rifles for Watie, by Harold Keith
My sister is going to be studying the civil war this Fall, so I read this book to see if it would be good for her unit study. The book is very good, and seems to be historically accurate. It is a very nice balance for younger readers, with bits [...]
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