I'm so sorry!

Here are a few ideas, although not all of them exactly meet your list...:) The Renaissance: The Invention of Perspective by Lillo Canto Gargoyles, Girders and Glass Houses by Bo Zaunders Michelangelo by Diane Stanley The Roman Colosseum by Elizabeth Mann Leonardo da Vinci by Emily Hahn Stone Giant by Jane Sutcliffe

I have a Reading Around the World Book List at my website for the Preparatory Level. It's designed for only Terms 2 and 3 (so only 24 weeks) but you could certainly add to as you wish. It's not fully developed yet, but it's free. ? Preparatory Level

It's only copyrighted for the work I did to retype them. It takes me about a full day to do just one, since I'm literally retyping it. I'm also just trying to be sure that it's clear that I did not take AO's work and copy and paste it for myself. In fact, only the most recent article is one that they've actually already completed at their site. They are free to print and distribute, so it's not like I'm making a profit from this work. I'm only hoping that others won't claim my retyped versions as their own. I could readjust the wording on the copyright, but I honestly just didn't think of it.

I wrote a guide for A Child's History of the World, complete with narration prompts for every chapter. ? Here is the link: A Child's History of the World: A Guided Study

For anyone who enjoys learning more about Charlotte Mason and the PNEU, I've been slowly retyping articles for the Parents' Review and adding a blog article with some thoughts about them. I have a few posted and offer the articles as a free PDF file. I also share files of artist images and I've just added Giotto to the collection. The Parents' Review Articles The Arts

I've just published another guide for my curriculum and thought I'd share it here. This guide covers 16th-18th Century History using the following books: Exploration and Conquest by B and G Maestro The New Americans by B and G Maestro The World of William Penn by G. Foster Struggle for a Continent by B and G Maestro George Washington's World by G. Foster Here is a link to Lulu for the guide: 16th-18th Century History The guide follows the ideas of Charlotte Mason. I've sensed that there are not as many CM followers here anymore, but I thought I'd share this anyway. ? It is designed for Year Four, but is thorough enough that older students can use it with extensions added. The guide includes a free PDF file of Art Images which is coordinated with it. You can download it at my website, along with a sample of it here: A Mind in the Light

You might get some ideas from this book by James Baldwin: Fifty Famous People Or this one by Hamilton Wright Mabie: Heroes Every Child Should Know Even if you don't care for these books, the people suggested might help you create a list for finding newer books about them. ?

Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff- because this prepares for The Iliad and I think the Iliad itself offers so much for young people to ponder Poetry-whatever poetry your young people can enjoy-narrative poetry such as those by Longfellow Mythology-whichever book versions that your young people enjoy Classic literature can be difficult to suggest, because only those which your children, in particular, are inspired by will prove to offer the most to grapple with...I can share the books that my girls really liked to discuss.... Heidi, The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, Understood Betsy, Anne of Green Gables-because the stories involve characters who, when exposed to unconditional good and love, become healed or "better" themselves Children of the New Forest, The Little White Horse, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Swallows and Amazons-because children who become more independent and self-sufficient can find themselves and their own strengths (Understood Betsy and Anne of Green Gables would fit here too) There are many more modern books that offer big ideas-The Giver, Harry Potter*, The Little Prince, Watership Down*, The Ordinary Princess, Emily of New Moon*, The Last Unicorn*, The Good Master, The Door in the Wall, The Faerie Door, Wrinkle in Time, The Hobbit, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, The String in the Harp*, The Wizard of Earthsea...I'll put stars by some big favorites. Of course, many of these include a writing style that is very poetic-beautifully constructed sentences that create images in the mind.

We use and love The Book of the Middle Ages by Dorothy Mills. Her books are detailed but interesting and since they draw from primary sources it's easy for me to add more. Sometimes I just include a fuller version of the primary source referenced in the book. I actually created guides that coordinate with all of her main books-we liked them that much! ?

I have a blog on my website. I post about education, primarily about my curriculum and about Charlotte Mason. :) https://www.amindinthelight.com/blog

I feel as if I'm still waiting...and hoping...for my life to be less busy. Moving is so stressful. We've done so much of it that we decided to stay where we are just to keep life stable for both girls during these teen/young adult years.

I think it's a great concept! And you, in particular, are just the person to do this. :)

I was a huge fan of the Black Stallion books while growing up. :) My younger daughter read several too. Loved the movies too.

Maybe the Marguerite Henry books...:)

Not sure if these will work, but I'll share them just in case a few might work: Lon Po Po -by Ed Young Storm in the Night -by Mary Stolz Bashi, Elephant Baby -by Theresa Radcliffe Orani, My Father's Village -by Claire A. Nivola Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt -by Deborah Hopkinson Wild Horse Winter -by Tetsuya Honda The Day of Ahmed's Secret -by Heide and Gilliand Adelita -by Tomie dePaola Annie and the Old One -by Mishka Miles One Green Apple by -by Eve Bunting Some Nonfiction: Russell Freedman's Buffalo Hunt Books by the Maestros such as The Story of Clocks and Calendars Diane Stanley's Shaka

I'm so sorry. :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:

Here are the selections for Year Seven. Many of these do revolve around the Medieval history theme, but you might find some that you like. :) Beowulf translated by Burton Raffel or Seamus Heany, if you prefer Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo translated by J. R. R. Tolkien Narrative Poetry by Longfellow - Evangeline, “The Saga of King Olaf†and “The Discoverer of the North Cape†Canterbury Tales Retold by Geraldine McCaughrean Age of Fable (aka Stories of Gods and Heroes)from Bulfinch’s Mythology (Years 6-7) Stories from Dante by Susan Cunnington Myths of the World by Padraic Colum (Selections) A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare Henry V by William Shakespeare English Literature for Young People by H. E Marshall (Chapters 1-31) The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle or Robert Green ​Year Six revolves more around the modern time period, so I'm sharing that list too. :) Poetry For Young People: Robert Frost edited by Gary D. Schmidt Poetry For Young People: Carl Sandburg edited by Bolin Poetry For Young People: Langston Hughes edited by Roessel and Rampersand Longfellow’s “The Courtship of Miles Standish†and “The Skeleton in Armor†The Story of Siegfried by James Baldwin Age of Fable (aka Stories of Gods and Heroes) from Bulfinch’s Mythology (Years 6-7) The Aeneid for Boys and Girls by Alfred Church Tales from Shakespeare by C. & M Lamb The Wanderings of Odysseus by Rosemary Sutcliff Treasure Island by Robert L. Stevenson The Chestry Oak by Kate Seredy Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’ Engle The Neverending Story by Michael Ende The Trojan War by Olivia Coolidge

You could consider: Beowulf by Burton Raffel OR Heany Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo by J. R. R. Tolkien A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond Henry V by Shakespeare Also, I like to add this book: The Arabs in the Golden Age by Mokhtar Moktefi At this age I add in more depth through primary sources. We use this book: The Portable Medieval Reader edited by Ross and McLaughlin

Thank you!!! This was so helpful!! :)

I'm worried that I explained this poorly...Does my question make sense? :)

Sorry in advance if this is hard to read...I'm not sure how to convert the signs needed into this format. :) My younger daughter is currently working through Jacob's Algebra I and is doing very well with this text. C8 covers exponents and we are fine except for one part of it. This text has her converting something like 81 x 10 (- 20) (the part in parentheses is meant to show that the 10 is to the power of negative 20) into scientific notation. She understands that she needs for the whole number in scientific notation to be between 1-9 and can convert this to 8. 1 x 10 (-19). It is this last part that has her confused. She knows that she just moved the decimal point one place to the left to go from 81 to 8. 1, but feels that the answer should be (-21) and not (-19) since she moved to the left. She wants to add the exponents (-20 and -1). I have several other texts around the house and have looked through them, including an Algebra II book, but none of these seem to cover this. The conventional turn this number into scientific notation, both positive and negative, is covered along with the reversal (turn this scientific notation into the number it represents) but nothing on how to take something already set up to a power of 10 but that is not in scientific notation and put it into scientific notation. Here is another one: Set 2: 7d Find each of the following powers. Express each answer in scientific notation. d) (5 x 10 raised to 3) raised to negative 1 Her work is solid until the end. She raised 5 to the negative 1 and got 1/5. She raised 10 to the 3 to the negative 1 and got 10 to the negative 3. She turned 1/5 into a decimal of 0.2 and set this as x 10 to the negative 3. She knows now to move it into scientific notation, so she moved the 0.2 to 2 by moving the decimal point to the right one place, but this is where it falls apart for her. She thinks of this move to the right as a positive 1 so when adding exponents wants to add 1 + the -3 and getting an answer of 2 x 10 to the power of negative 2 and she should get negative 4. Answer 2 x 10 (-4) How can I help her with this? I've tried showing her that if she converted 0.2 x 10 (-3) into a number that she would need for it to be written as 2 x 10 (-4) in order for those two numbers to be the same. 2 x 10 (-2) won't match this. She sees this, but she's frustrated with why moving to the left doesn't give her a negative and to the right doesn't give a positive in these problems. I'm wondering if there is another way to look at this that I'm unaware of...something to help it make sense to her.

I've tried searching but was unable to find any reviews about this history book series. They seem to be plentiful as used books at most major book seller sites. It seems this series is easily confused with another American Heritage book series. The series I was looking into is different in that they were all written by one author-Robert G. Athearn. This is the full title for the one I have: The American Heritage: New Illustrated History of the United States: Colonial America (vol. 2). There are 16 books published in 1963 ish... What do you think of this series? I'm looking to see if they have bias, poor writing style, etc. -just curious and wondering what I might not yet know about them.

:grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: I'm so sorry.

You could look at either of these programs: Lost Classics Books If you are not opposed to Catholic sources: Hillside Education created Lingua Mater: Language Lessons from Literature as their own version of a follow-up to the Serl books. This book is the fourth book down on the list. PS I'm not affiliated with this book in any way. It just happens to have as its cover the same painting as I have with my name here.