Article on History Books

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As always, I reiterate how honored I am to work with them in this project.

The Gettysburg Address

We are reviewing History this week in the class I teach at our Tutoring Center. We have left the Civil War behind us, and I am so pleased the way our textbook took the students through it. The nobility, and humanity, of the people behind the sad period of our History, are so beautifully stressed in the book. I showed them also this Youtube of the Gettysburg Address. I have mentioned before how my dad loved this speech and had it framed in his office. Mother also would often tell us of her streaming tears as she first visited the Lincoln Memorial in DC. So, even before I was an American citizen, because of my parents, I grew to know and love Lincoln's heart.

The San Patricios

We studied them this past week in History. I found two You Tube videos that were helpful, one here and one here. This is a little known-chapter of our American History, but it should touch the chords of any Catholic American heart. Our History book, I think, does an excellent job bringing the story to the students!

Using my Sea to Shining Sea Workbook, II

Like I promised, here is a second post on using my workbook with a group of students. Chapter Three took us through the story of Juan Diego and the California missions. I sent them the CHC link for a Guadalupe How-to-Draw and also found this simple California Mission how-to-draw. (I have wonderful artists in the class).

I also requested via ILL a book that looks beautiful: Romance of the Bells by Jean Stern. My library unfortunately has little or nothing for kids about the CA missions. I sent them links for Dover and Bellerophon titles, and of course I sent them to the post of our own visit to a CA Mission!

Using my Sea to Shining Sea Workbook

I have a group of students working through Sea to Shining Sea and using my workbook. I will try to post here any resource materials I use at home with my girls along with the book. Keep in mind that I peruse the library shelves to see what they have, and you will be served well doing the same instead of trying to find a specific author/title at times.

We are reading aloud the delightful Brendan the Navigator by Jean Fritz.