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Books About Teddy

Posted by Sherry on 7/24/2010 in 20th Century History Project, General, Nonfiction, U.S. Presidents Reading Project, US History Project

Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough. River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Candice Millard. Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris. Theodore Roosevelt is one of my fascinations. I read McCullough’s Mornings on Horseback back in March, but I never got around to reviewing it. It was a lovely narrative biography of the young Teddy [...]

 
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Semicolon Book Club for March

Posted by Sherry on 3/1/2010 in 2010 Projects, History, Nonfiction, Semicolon Book Club, U.S. Presidents Reading Project, US History Project

The theme for the Semicolon Book Club for March is biography/autobiography, and the particular selelction for this month is David McCullough’s Mornings on Horseback, a biography of Teddy Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States. The subtitle is “the story of an extraordinary family, a vanished way of life, and the unique child who [...]

 
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President’s Day for Kids

Posted by Sherry on 2/12/2010 in --February, 2010 Projects, Birthdays, Booklists, Education and Homeschool, General, Nonfiction, U.S. Presidents Reading Project, US History Project

Monday, February 15th is Presidents’ Day, so I thought I’d re-run this list with a few additions. Have a happy holiday! Leetla Giorgio Washeenton by Thomas Augustine Daly. More Washington Poetry. O Captain My Captain by Walt Whitman. White House site with mini-biographies of all 44 U.S. Presidents. More information on the Presidents for President’s [...]

 
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Biographies of the U.S. Presidents

Posted by Sherry on 2/16/2009 in 2010 Projects, U.S. Presidents Reading Project, US History Project

I’m participating in only a couple of reading challenges this year, and the one I’m most enjoying so far is the U.S. Presidents Reading Project. I have a goal of reading one biography of a president per month, and I’m on target, having finished a biography of Washington and having read about halfway through John [...]

 
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Reading Through Texas

Posted by Sherry on 2/1/2009 in Booklists, Texas, US History Project

I’m working on an assigned booklist, readers if you will, for a class that will be taught to sixth graders next year in our homeschool co-op. The class is supposed to incorporate literature and Texas history. So, I’ve been reading books about Texas: historical fiction, biographies, memoirs, short stories, nonfiction, poetry if I can find [...]

 
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Washington: The Indispensable Man by James Thomas Flexner

Posted by Sherry on 1/17/2009 in 2010 Projects, General, Nonfiction, U.S. Presidents Reading Project, US History Project

This book is a condensation and rewrite of Flexner’s four volume biographical study of the life of Washington. As he says in the preface, Flexner at first wanted to write a one volume biography, then felt he could not do justice to the man and his indispensable role in the founding of the country in [...]

 
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The Whiskey Rebels by David Liss

Posted by Sherry on 12/29/2008 in Adult Fiction, General, US History Project

Financiers and businessmen blackmail the U.S. government into covering their poor business decisions and bad debts as government officials, especially the Secretary of the Treasury, fear the collapse of the entire U.S. economy if banks and financial speculators are allowed to reap the consequences of their bad gambles. The government spends money that it doesn’t [...]

 
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Twelve Projects for 2009

Posted by Sherry on 12/27/2008 in -100 Movies 2010, 2010 Projects, BIble Reading Project, General, LOST Project, Madeleine L'Engle Project, Newbery Project, Operation Clean House, Poetry Project, Prayer Project, Projects, Pulitzer Project, Semicolon Book Club, U.S. Presidents Reading Project, US History Project

Last year instead of resolutions, I thought in terms of projects, lots of projects that I wanted to complete in 2008. I wouldn’t say I was any more or less successful with my projects than most people are with resolutions, but I like the tradition anyway and plan to to continue it this year. So [...]

 
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Christmas in South Dakota, 1910

Posted by Sherry on 12/17/2008 in Celebrations, Children's Fiction, General, Newbery Project, US History Project, Young Adult Fiction

She unwrapped an unwieldy bundle, covered with newspapers. Out of it fell a giant tumble weed, its spiny leaves dried on its skeleton stalk; its bushy top mounted on a trunk made of a broomstick. “Do you think that would do fer a Christmas tree?” she asked. Becky looked at the dry bush with softened [...]

 
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The American Patriot’s Almanac by William Bennett and John Cribb

Posted by Sherry on 12/16/2008 in General, Nonfiction, US History Project

I just got this book in the mail from Thomas Nelson publishers, and I wanted to get a review posted before it’s too late because I think it would make a wonderful Christmas or New Year’s present for anyone interested in American history or any homeschooler or teacher of American history. As soon as the [...]

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