Over dinner this week, Adam and I were talking about the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, may her memory be for a blessing, and the vacancy on the Supreme Court. Elizabeth asked, “Was Ruth on the School Committee?” (There was a vacancy on our local School Committee recently.) Thereupon began […]
This week in History and Literature, we’re studying Megalithic Europe (4500-1200 BCE). Among the questions we’re asking: Who built Stonehenge? How? Why? I thought it would be fun to take a field trip to “America’s Stonehenge,” a site in Salem, NH claiming to be “the oldest man-made construction in the […]
This week in History and Literature, we studied the first civilizations: Sumer and Akkad (5000-1600 BCE). After reading the appropriate page in our Kingfisher History Encyclopedia, David and Elizabeth created the timeline that they will fill in with important people, events, and civilizations over the course of the year. It’s […]
For David (6th grade) and Elizabeth (4th grade), our History and Literature homeschool curriculum is focused on the Ancients (5000 BCE-400 CE). Why the Ancients? 3 reasons: History is a story, and a story should begin at the beginning. The selection of literature from and about ancient civilizations is less […]