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This is our second day back to our regular homeschool schedule, and already we have our challenges: Microsoft Word keeps freezing up on us, so we can't edit or print any work from our pc; dd is up late trying to complete work for the day, due to our having to run last minute errands for school supplies, and a few other little hiccups, however we are excited about everything we'll be learning this year. I say "we" because I love re-learning everything right along with dd. Geography, World and American Civilization studies has already been mapped out and we are ready to start.  Here is what it will look like for this year (completed items crossed out):

GEOGRAPHY, WORLD CIVILIZATION, AND AMERICAN CIVILIZATION

I. Round Earth, Flat Map
 a) Cartographers and Projections
  1. The Mercator Projection
  2. Conic and Plane Projections
 b) Deserts Of The World
  1. What Is A Desert?
  2. Where Are The Deserts?
  3. Weather Patterns and The Formation of Deserts
  4. More Reasons Deserts Are So Dry.
  5. People Can Make Deserts

II. Introduction To World Civilization
 a) South & Central America 
  1. The Struggle For Independence In The Americas
  2. Colonial Mexico
  3. Miguel Hidalgo
  4. Mexico Achieves Independence
  5. Santa Anna
  6. War With The united States
  7. Benito Juarez
  8. Dictatorship and Revolution
  9. The Revoltion In South and Central America
  10.The Prince Brings Independence To Brazil
  11.Latin America and The United States
 b) Europe
  1. Europe After Napolean
  2. The Industrial Revolution
  3. The English Textile Industry
  4. The Steam Engine
  5. The Railroad
  6. The Plight of The Factory Workers
  7. Child Labor
  8. The Idea Of Laissez-Faire
  9. Capitalism and Socialism
 c) The Bristish Empire
  1. Queen Victoria
  2. Bristish Imperialism
  3. British Rule In India
  4. Ghandi
  5. The British in Australia
  6. Britain and China: The Opium Wars
  7. The Boxer Rebellion
 d) Africa
  1. The Slave Trade Ends But Europeans Remain
  2. Missionaries and Explorers
  3. Dr. Livingston
  4. Europeans In N. Africa
  5. Industrialism and Nationalism
  6. The Scramble For Africa
  7. The Belgians In The Congo
  8. African Resistance To European Rule
  9. Europeans In South Africa
  10.The Boers and The Zulu
  11.Cecil Rhodes
  12.The Boer War
  13.Aparteid in S. Africa
 e) Japan
  1. The OPening of Japan
  2. The Meiji Restoration & The Modernizing Of Japan
  3. Japan Becomes a World Power
 f) Europe, Nationhood and War
  1. Nationalism and the Unification of Italy
  2. Bismark and The Unification of Germany
  3. Europe Moves Toward War
  4. World War I Begins  

III. American Civilization
 a) World War I
  1. The Deadliest War Ever
  2. American Neutrality
  3. The Sinking of The Lusitania
  4. America Enters The War
  5. Revolution Comes To Russia
  6. The End Of The War
 b) America After World War I
  1. America Turns Inward
  2. Prosperity and Progress
  3. New Forms Of Entertainment
  4. The Roaring Twenties
  5. African Americans Move North
  6. Marcus Garvey
  7. The Harlem Renaissance
  8. The Great Depression
  9. Herbert Hoover
  10.The New Deal
  11.Social Security
  12.The "Indian New Deal"
  13.The Dust Bowl and the Okies
  14. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
 c) The Road To Another War
  1. Hitler's Rise To Power In Germany
  2. World War II Begins
  3. Should America Fight?
  4. Pearl Harbor Pushes America To War
  5. The Axes Versus The Allies
  6. The Division Of Poland
  7. The Axis At high Tide
  8. The Holocaust
  9. The War In Europe and Africa
  10. The War In The Pacific
  11. The Home Front
  12. The Internment of Japanese-Americans
  13. D-Day
  14. Meeting At Yalta
  15. FDR Dies; Truman Becomes President
  16. Victory In Europe
  17. The Atomic Bomb
  18. Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Surrender of Japan
 d) Allies Become Enemies
  1. The "Superpowers" Square Off
  2. The Truman Doctrine and The Marshall Plan
  3. The United Nations
  4. The Cold War
  5. The "Military-Industrial Complex" and The Nuclear Arms Race
  6. McCarthyism
  7. The Korean War Begins
  8. Korea: Heroism and Frustration
 e) American Life In The 1950's
  1. A Decade of Prosperity
  2. In The Suburbs and On The Road
  3. The TV Age Begins
 f) Segregation And Civil Rights
  1. The "jim Crow" Laws
  2. Philip Randolph: Pioneer For Civil Rights
  3. African Americans In The Armed Forces
  4. Brown vs. Board Of Education
  5. Rosa Parks and The Montgomery Bus Boycott
  6. Martin Luther King Jr.
  7. King in Birmingham
  8. The March On Washington
 g) The Turbulent Sixties And After
  1. John F. Kennedy
  2. The Berlin Wall
  3. The Cuban Missile Crisis
  4. The Space Race Begins
  5. The Assasination of Kennedy
  6. Lyndon Johnson and The Great Society
  7. Johnson and Civil Rights
  8. Malcolm X
  9. The Civil Rights Leader Loses A Leader
  10. Cesar Chavez Organizes Migrant Workers
  11. Native Americans: From Termination To Self-Determination
  12. The War In Vietnam
  13. The War At Home: Hawks and Doves
  14. The youth Rebellion
  15. The Moon Landing
  16. The Vietnam War Ends
  17. Watergate and the Fall of Richard Nixon
  18. The Women's Liberation Movement
  19. The Fight of The ERA
  20. A Birthday Party for The USA

I'll add our other subjects another time so I don't take up the whole blog in one post (LOL).  We decided to go with the Core Knowledge Series This year, based upon E.D. Hirsh's books.  They have all the worksheets, calendars and lesson plans set for you to print or download when ready.  The Day By Day Planner is extra cost, but highly valuable.  This is a big step away from our regular way of doing homeschool, but we'll see how well she does this year with it.  I usually have all of my curriculum bought and ready to go before summer begins, but this year I felt a real need to wait.  Now I think I know why, because we were supposed to use this approach instead.  I am still going to incorporate notebooking and hands on activities, but we'll keep to this core  plan for the main subjects. I am also using an incredible character curriculum for dd called The Narrow Way, by Pearbles. Talk about DEEP calling unto DEEP.  We are on our fourth day of this Bible study and let me tell you . . .  it is so refreshing to see dd hungry for more. In Math we are sticking with RightStart, and continuing to work our way through the levels, with the abacus. For Science we are sticking with Alpha Omega LifePac.  I know there are far better Science programs out there, but this is working for us right now.  My hope is to eventually bring in Apologia for Science.

All in all we are well set for this year.  I thought I would share what we are doing in a nutshell, for family and friends that are inquisitive.  Isn't it nice to know we don't sit in our jammies all day long and watch TV.  Hah, you just thought homeschoolers did that didn't ya???  Come on you know you were thinkin that!  ROFL.

Have a great week Everyone :-)