Widows mob Senate to claim rights: Becoming Ancient Romans
Playing out manifestations of power, boldness, drama, and intrigue, I created the script, below, based on historical accounts we studied in our homeschool.
18th Century Virginia Musings
Category: Our Homeschool at Bluebonnet Ridge
Tragic theater, fall of democracy, Alexander the Great: Becoming Ancient Greeks
Picking up the broken pottery, he tried to decipher the word. While in character as Ancient Greeks, we said it wasn’t important and moved him on.
Presenting The Odyssey Recitations, Journey, and Feast
Presenting Andromache from The Iliad, and Odysseus and Penelope from The Odyssey. Our costumes are based on research on the Ancient Greek Mycenaean culture.
Shipwrecked with Odysseus: IEW Rescues the Arguable Thesis
Although most writing curriculum say to write astrong arguable thesis, I’ve only found IEW to define and clearly explain how to do it.
Alleluia Adonai, Hebrew Feasts, and God-fearing Egyptians
Moses recorded in Exodus 12:38 “Many other people went up with them…” which inspired the story of God-fearing Egyptians.
Discoveries in lenses, remodels, and sewing threads
For the objective to make a slide with threads, he chose two spools from my sewing kit, red and purple.
Wow! So that’s what they look like up close!
The Elegant Essay: Building Blocks for Analytical Writing
With charts to help my kids categorize what they knew with new information, they learned several ways to powerfully develop their paragraphs.
Celebrating dialectic classical history studies completion
After changing from our costumes, we gathered for an interview of the impact four years of dialectic classical history study had brought to us.
1950s Quiz Show Becoming History Presentation
I told the story of the need to restore and redecorate the White House in a historical manner, and rescue nearby Lafayette Square from destruction.
USO Radio Show for the Troops Becoming History Presentation
Rosie the Riveter with her children, dressed for a school presentation later that evening, a USO radio show with Glenn Miller and other personas.
