An Activity from our US Constitution Block As part of our US history this year, we did a short block on the US Constitution. Listening to the book that I had chosen for the spine of the Block, Fault Lines in the Constitution, they had a chapter that talked about drawing district lines and gerrymandering….
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Making Hominy
Making a Common Food for our Native American Studies Corn. It’s the center of the indigenous world in north America. As I researched various nations of native peoples across the United States for the beginning of our native American block, several consistent, unifying concepts kept coming into place. Impressions like reciprocity, the moon, and its…
An Introduction to History Analysis and Essay Form
Using Comparison and Continuity and Change over Time for Homeschool Writing This is the second year of US History. If you don’t know, we start with world history with the Ancients and move chronologically through elementary school. In middle school we start with US History. Last year, we spent the year on the Indigenous peoples…
Spinning with a Drop Spindle
Early Colonial Crafts for our Homeschool Handcrafts for our US History We’ve just started our first history block of the year for US History. The block will cover early colonialization. To go along with this block, I’ve chosen a few early colonial skills needed to serve as our handcrafts. The first one is spinning fiber….