Well, we ended up going with another poet after all. I found this cute book in the Goodwill, by T.S. Eliot, on which the musical, Cats, is based. We will be reading through it, and some of his other poems, before we get back to our anthology. We won't be watching the musical, however, as I hear it has inappropriate content. What a shame.
We started with Aaron Copland this week, and will be continuing for another week, before doing a couple more modern composers I decided to go ahead and cover while we are "here."
We will be starting on Ireland for geography this coming week. Also, we will be going back to the beginning and world artists now, after spending a year or more on American artists. We will start with Giotto. I don't care for a lot of his paintings, or many of the others from this time period, due to their portrayals of Christ. But we cover them because of their significance in history, though I will be very picky about which paintings we focus on.
Big Girl finished up her Easy Grammar Plus last week, and will be taking a break from grammar for a while to work on her writing, which she loves.
For history, we finished up our book and a video on Alexander Graham Bell. For world history, we read some about France and Germany during the Middle Ages, and Frederick Barbarossa. Big Girl is reading The Red Keep, by Allen French.
In Bible, we finished Acts, and have started the book of James. Also, for memory work, since we aren't doing a poem right now, we are going to memorize the books of the Bible in order again. Big Girl still remembers most of them, but Little Girl doesn't even remember ever doing it the first time.
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