Acknowledging Him
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So Cal Kelly had some questions about my last post, and since I always strive to oblige my readers, and since I STILL do not have my Germany pictures ready for blogging yet, I will try to answer her. Kelly asked: Would you please post a run-down of how many your library really had, how many you borrowed from friends and how many you bought. That's a TREMENDOUS list! Also did you put the list together from Ambleside Online? I'm just so impressed; and I want to know more. First of all, this IS a tremendous list, even for me. There are 45 books on it, more than twice what we used when studying the Middle Ages and the Age of Exploration. I was surprised to find that I actually own 15 of these books. And though I don't normally purchase new books for every unit, the planning for this particular one happen to fall shortly after tax return time, so DH let me indulge a little. Thanks, honey! If you're dying to know which books I felt were worth my money, they are: The Matchlock Gun; Aaron and the Green Mountain Boys; Liberty! How the Revolutionary War Began; The New Americans, and Hasty Pudding, Johnny Cakes. Which means I had 10 other books sitting on my shelf just waiting for such a time as this. If you want to know which ones those are, you must really be a bibliophile, and we should get together  Which also means that the other 30 books came from the public library. We have been blessed to fall into this wonderful library system, in which not only are all the county libraries connected, but I can also browse for books online, and request that they be sent to my branch with a simple click of the mouse. I click frequently, as you may imagine, and I feel for those of you whose libraries are poorly supplied, I really do. As for the second part of Kelly's question, No I did not put this list together from Ambleside Online. While we do use AO for Literature (scroll down a bit), Read-Alouds (there are some from Sonlight there too), and Art and Music study, I am not following their history curriculum. Instead, I compiled this list mostly from Tapestry of Grace's early elementary (lower grammar) suggestions for this time period. You can see them HERE and HERE; from my own books, and from books I saw or had seen at the library and wanted to use. We use Story of the World as a 'spine' to help keep us in a somewhat chronological order. Yes, it's sometimes a lot of work, but I enjoy it  HTH! |
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