skool update
We're still learning about the Revolutionary War. The kids love it. I thought we'd be at WWI, or possibly sidetracked by Mexican, Texan, and Tejano history, by this time. Nope. We're reading a novel about Molly Pitcher and listening to radio programs about Paul Revere and reading a fictionalized journal of a girl who lived in Philadelphia in 1776. (We still prefer Sybil Ludington's midnight ride over Paul Revere's.)
It makes sense, I guess. The stories are all about people, not troops or battles or armies. The things we read about the Age of Exploration were cool but not personal. I didn't find many early-European-colonial-period stories about one specific person, either, at least that weren't also blatantly racist. (There was a good one about "Squanto" and exactly how he came to be called Squanto, learn English, and be perfectly willing to move in with a bunch of strangers.)
It makes sense, I guess. The stories are all about people, not troops or battles or armies. The things we read about the Age of Exploration were cool but not personal. I didn't find many early-European-colonial-period stories about one specific person, either, at least that weren't also blatantly racist. (There was a good one about "Squanto" and exactly how he came to be called Squanto, learn English, and be perfectly willing to move in with a bunch of strangers.)