My older three have been deep in study learning about slavery and its abolition. I thought it might be quite nice to teach one topic all together so chose a couple of the Five in a Row picture books which have the theme of slavery running through them: Follow the Drinking Gourd and Who Owns the…
Category: History – Nineteenth Century
Who Owns the Sun {FIAR}
As part of our slavery mini unit, I thought I would take the little ones through two Five in a Row selections: Follow the Drinking Gourd and Who Owns the Sun? For both we will be following the FIAR suggestions for study, but in addition to those I will be focusing our studies on one…
Just For My Little Girl
About 9 months ago C13 began Victor Hugo's mammoth french historical novel 'Les Miserables'. First published in 1862, it is generally considered to be one of the finest novels of the 19th Century. It is a book which contains around 1500 pages, and as such is one of the longest novels ever written. It is…