Thursday, August 6, 2009 - Middle Ages Book List
We school year round, and DD11/12 finished her study of the Middle Ages over the summer. She lap-n-noted through the study, but I slacked off in posting all her pages. However, here is a list of the books she read:
General Middle Ages Books -
Story of the Middle Ages by Michael McHugh
Famous Men of the Middle Ages by John Haaren
The Usborne Book of Living Long Ago
History of Everyday Things, The Middle Ages by Giovanni Caselli
See Through History - The Middle Ages by Sarah Howarth
Craft Topics - Castles by Rachel Wright
A Medieval Feast by Aliki
Other Books in Chronological Order (mostly historical fiction) -
Note: linked books have units and/or lapbooks
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Title
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Author |
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610 |
Pretzels by the Dozen |
Angela Elwell Hunt
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Margaret Hodges |
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750 |
The Adventures of Wishbone – Be A Wolf |
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781-800 |
Son of Charlemagne |
Barbara Willard |
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1010 |
The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow |
Allen French |
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1014 |
Brian Boru, Emperor of the Irish |
Moran Llywelyn |
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The Moon Singer |
Clyde Robert Bulla |
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Clyde Robert Bulla |
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The Sword in the Tree |
Clyde Robert Bulla |
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1189-1199 |
Margaret Early |
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1200 |
The Lost Baron |
Allen French |
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1255 |
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! |
Laura Amy Schlitz |
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1277-1305 |
Castle |
David Macaulay |
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The Forbidden Castle |
Edward Packard |
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Duchess Bakes a Cake (and other Kahl books) |
Virginia Kahl |
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1285 |
Richard Platt |
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1291 |
Apple and the Arrow |
Mary and Conrad Buff |
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Emily Arnold McCulley |
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1294 |
Adam of the Road |
Elizabeth Janet Gray |
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Fleischman, Sid |
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1348-1352 |
Marguerite de Angeli |
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Plague |
The Iron Lily |
Barbara Willard |
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1400’s |
Bruce Robertson |
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1450 |
Ink on His Fingers |
Vernon |
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The Cookie Tree |
Jay Williams |
Now she will be moving on to the Renaissance and Reformation.
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Sunday, June 21, 2009 - The Plague
DD11 continues on with her study of the Middle Ages, studying The Plague.
For her historical fiction selections she read:
A Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli about a young boy learning the ways of knighthood during the times of the Plague. She completed comprehension, vocabulary, and enrichment activities from this Free Study Guide.
The Iron Lily by Barbara Willard about a 15-year-old girl who loses her parents to the plague.
She also read about the Plague in two nonfiction titles:
To review what she learned, she completed a Free Plague Lapbook from Homeschool Share.
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Saturday, April 4, 2009 - Apple and the Arrow
DD11 continued adding to her Middle Ages Notebook, reading Apple and the Arrow by Mary and Conrad Buff. 
She completed a lap-n-note from Homeschool Share (don't go looking for it yet, it will be posted during the BLAST! Details are forthcoming! ;-))
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009 - Middle Ages Journal - King Arthur
We continue on with our Middle Ages study, now focusing on King Arthur, and a bit on medieval mythology as well. The original King Arthur stories are a bit too much, so we read some books taking place during the times of King Arthur.
We read aloud and did HSS units on two of the Sir Cumference Math Adventure books. We also read some twaddle just because dd11 remembered King Arthur was mentioned. The girls had a lot of geometry fun, drawing shapes, making 3 dimensional shapes, and playing a shape game.
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DD9 went on a jester rabbit trail, locating the jester in all the Sir Cumference pictures and also reading Hester the Jester by Ben Shecter. She also dug around in the fabric bin and made herself a cute jester hat complete with bells. All week she read The Sword in the Tree by Clyde Robert Bulla. We pulled spelling and dictation out of the chapters.
DD11 also read The Sword in the Tree, but it was a quick read for her so she finished out the week reading The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald and completed a Story Study for that.
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009 - It's Been a While... December 2008
It feels like forever since I've posted on this blog. Actually, it has been almost a year! Yikes! Anyhoo, I'm going to try to keep up with posting, at least until planting season! 
December has been a crazy month, between birthdays, out of town guests, and a severe overhaul of our pantry and diets.
First for the birthdays… my baby, my beautiful, sweet, talented, intelligent baby, turned 9 years old. She had a nice little birthday party with Grandma and Poppop, and Mimi and Grandpa. And I turned 40 this month, but we won’t go there…
We had guests come in from out of town for three days, and it was a joy for the girls. The gal was 95 years old, and the girls just learned so much from her. They got into all kinds of discussions, like what life was like in early 1900’s, what the depression was like, etc. The girls were thrilled with the fact that Mrs. O did much of the same things as the girls do as children. Playing with paper dolls, crafting, reading, etc. were on the list.
And for the pantry revamp…We’ve cut out corn and soy products from our diets, as it is just too hard to find out which companies use gmo products and which ones don’t. I never realized how many products have corn and/or soy in them till you start looking for them. Oh…my…word…So we’ve been baking all our own bread, grinding our own wheat, making our own yogurts, and sprouting seeds. It is getting easier and easier to do, as I get a system down and remember to prepare ahead a bit.
As for school, we are continuing on with our Middle Ages study, covering the Vikings.
9yo read:
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And did lapbook components from Free Homeschool Share’s Viking Unit that we put on cardstock for Middle Ages notebook. We ran out of printer ink about halfway through the lapbook, but I think dd still got a good grasp of these people and their times.
11yo had already studied Vikings, including the above books, so she opted to read and complete book reports on these:
Next we are on to King Arthur!
