Hunter Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 If you were going to do a year long unit study on politics and economics with a high schooler, what books would be must reads? I'm looking to use public domain classic titles as much as possible. I was thinking about doing things like progoganda and national anthems for the arts and am open to any suggestions at all. For maths I want to finish up all the consumer and business maths in the vintage math books. Which Shakespeare play is the most political? I'm sick to death of Plutarch. After 10 years of Parables of Nature and Plutarch what would be a good capstone for citizenship? Politics for church history? Something that wouldn't offend non Christians but continues covering the HISTORY of the church. So I guess church politics? I've finished up 10 years of Handbook of Nature Study. What would be different and a capstone? And political? Political geography? Political History and Traditional literature? I need 6 public domain titles. I haven't covered the Declaration of Independance or Communist Manufesto or anything like that yet, and I want to hit that hard. Political cooking and cleaning? I have ideas for health, but too many. I need help narrowing that down, or maybe I can move them over to science. But I'd like to use Science Matters which focuses on scientific literacy for reading the newspaper and being prepare to vote. 6 public domain novels and 6 popular and cheap 20th century classics. Physical fitness? I already used the Olympics in year 5 for Greece, but maybe I can move that up, if I have to. Political writing? Journalism, speech writing, persuasive writing. I'm not sure how to focus, choose, and narrow. I need a goal more than a year on politics, and I don't have one yet. Be ready to vote and be a wise consumer is as far as I have gotten with that. So I guess I can cross speech off that list. There is part of me that says just hit the research paper hard and do nothing else, but...the newspaper focus seems better for students not headed to college. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 A book that immediately came to mind: Animal Farm. For Shakespeare, my first thought was Julius Caesar. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 2, 2016 Author Share Posted January 2, 2016 A book that immediately came to mind: Animal Farm. For Shakespeare, my first thought was Julius Caesar. I've used both of those earlier, but I figure I will need to move some stuff up, and find alternatives for the earlier levels. I wish I had kept a list of things I didn't have room for. Julius Caesar is in year 9, ancient and medieval history. I also have used Midsummer Nights dream, The Tempest, Hamlet, MacBeth, and Romeo and Juliet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 2, 2016 Author Share Posted January 2, 2016 (edited) What subject should I call the Art of War? CM would freak if I called that citizenship right? :lol: Edited January 2, 2016 by Hunter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 I'm thinking I want to wrestle this idea into a year Platinum for the Rainbow curriculum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 I don't want to yank too much up from the lower levels, because I expect some people not to get this far, and only finish level Gold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluegoat Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 I would consider : The Communist Manifesto The Prince Brave New World Utopia Maybe some excerpts from Democracy in America On Liberty and or Utilitarianism Excerpts from Aristotle's Politics All the King's Men Gulliver's Travels The Dispossessed Walden I think I would probably also look at a few specific political artists or poets. I tend to prefer that to thematic overviews of many. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 In my head, I am imagining an 11th grader that is very well read and has rock solid 8th grade level 3R skills. Things haven't gone to plan mainstream wise. The student is "behind", money is tight tight tight and Mom is pregnant AGAIN. S/he can't go to community college this year, and s/he is just an explosion of hormones, fear, disappointment and who knows what else. I want books and a year that will fire this kid up. I want this kid to explode outside the other side of this year with so much energy that the world HAS to make a place for this kid. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 I would consider : The Communist Manifesto The Prince Brave New World Utopia Maybe some excerpts from Democracy in America On Liberty and or Utilitarianism Excerpts from Aristotle's Politics All the King's Men Gulliver's Travels The Dispossessed Walden I think I would probably also look at a few specific political artists or poets. I tend to prefer that to thematic overviews of many. Can anyone suggest specific artists and poets? No I don't want overviews, I want biographies and things where the individual is on fire. Maybe angry. Thank you for the book list! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 Oh! "What is to be done?" by Chernychevsky is a good one. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, which is a novel, myself, and it influenced later socialists including Lenin and Luxemburg a great deal. Lenin even went on to write a book by the same title, in honor of the author. I never heard of this. I will check it out. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluegoat Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 (edited) Also - maybe consider skipping Shakespeare for the year - though he has some plays with significant political themes - and look at some Greek plays? Probably some of the Theban plays, you might be able to manage all of them, and then, say, some Aristophanes? Edited January 3, 2016 by Bluegoat 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Political cooking and cleaning? The domestic revolution. Of course that depends whether your students would benefit from more science in their homes or would be better off chucking it and fermenting the wild greens they have filched from public parks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xahm Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 I don't have resource ideas, but for political cooking maybe look at what different governments/programs want you to eat and why. The effect of the farm bill. What would be different about our diet if the government changed which crops it subsidizes? A lot has been written, but I don't know what would be public domain. All government publications are, I think 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 Ahhh...I like that idea of doing something else for drama. I already have the headings up from the previous grades and they are good place to start, but sometimes I need to do something a bit different and maybe sometimes not do them at all. I think trying to do something similar but political is going to sometimes produce a great idea. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 Nutrition and food can be very political. There has got to be some great stuff for that. Every other year has a cleaning skill and a handcraft. :lol: I'm thinking before I just skip that or do more of the political nutrition, I just want to see if something crazy good gets thought of. I want to go a little crazy with this. I think it could be fun...and satisfying, and...I'm not sure what else, yet. There are craft unions or something that bring crafts from around the world into the cities to be sold? I saw something at Christmas. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 People in jail who wrote stuff. Corrie Ten Boom Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress Nelson Mandela I don't need a new thread for this question, do I? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 Oh! "What is to be done?" by Chernychevsky is a good one. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, which is a novel, myself, and it influenced later socialists including Lenin and Luxemburg a great deal. Lenin even went on to write a book by the same title, in honor of the author. This guy wrote this in jail? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faithr Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Some interesting books: Small is Beautiful and Small is Still Beautiful Radical Homemakers - a look at what our 'extractive' economy is doing to the family. It is feminism but one that rejects materialism. My dh studied Econ and one of his favorite books is The Worldly Philosophers For lit, The Grapes of Wrath is good. Back when I studied Russian lit, we read a hilarious novel (or maybe it was a memoir) about a guy trying to get a larger apartment in Moscow and how absurd the whole process was. Wish I could remember the name. . . . 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 What subject should I call the Art of War? CM would freak if I called that citizenship right? :lol: Logic :lol: It is poetry too in the original form in chinese. I was thinking for books A tale of two cities Things fall apart Oliver Twist Les Misérable 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 The titles in the Word Cloud History set are what actually started me thinking about this. http://juniperbooks.com/store/word-cloud-history-set-5/ The first seven books in the Word Cloud History series are tasteful editions of important works with attractive “word cloud†style covers. These books are great for any age and should have a place in every library. Includes: Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau The Art of War by Sun Tzu The Prince by Machiavelli Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass Common Sense by Thomas Paine Twelve Years A Slave by Solomon Northup U.S Constitution and Other Key American Writings 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 Thank you for these links and lists. This all looks very good. This is a fun topic! What teen wouldn't want to spend a year on rebellion? A full rebellion so complete that it is taught in every school subject including art, music, PE, and Home Ec :lol: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deee Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Caveat: I am a raving leftie. A paid-up member of the Australian Greens who teaches permaculture for a living. I am also an old-style atheist married to a Hitchens-esque new atheist. All my suggestions should be taken with these facts in mind.... If she's done Animal Farm, don't do it again - its one of those"lesson learned" books. I loathed Braved New World at that age - so gimmicky, but probably still worth reading. Could be a nice comparison with a few other "brave new worlds" like setting for The Tempest (my least favourite Shakespeare - more on him later), or Lord of the Flies, or you could use Ben Elton's Blind Faith, but you'll need to pre-read it because its both weird and graphic (my 15yo isn't mature enough yet). Its good - basically when facebook and over-sharing take over the world. Now for Shakespeare - if you want to pursue a slightly feminist bent, Taming of the Shrew might be good as an insight into the treatment of women. My pick, though, would be The Merchant of Venice. Its got feminism, bigotry, vengeance, mercy, money-lending, trading and the law, the blokes all come off looking a little bit daft, and the women carry the day very nicely. and its got a cracking speech to memorise! For Church history you could go completely modern: pick a couple of international challenges she is interested in like climate change or the refugee crisis, and look at current church leaders' public commentary eg the Papal Encyclical on Climate Change (surely there is an Anglican equivalent?). Could test out her compare and contrast skills. You could look at Peter Singer for food - namely The Ethics of What We Eat. It is confronting, though, and her home circumstances may not allow her the luxury of food choices. Michael Pollan is gentler.... One of his docos is free on PBS in January. Hungry Planet, What the World Eats and Material World are all good talking points and have really useful discussions in them. Good for comparing distribution across countries (highly political!). Another author pushing an anti-materialist lifestyle is Mark Boyle, the UK's "moneyless man". His book, Moneyless Manifesto is available for free online, chapter by chapter. Jared Diamond is another author worth reading or watching. DS really enjoyed watching Guns, Germs and Steal and took away lots of info. Small is beautiful is also an excellent recommendation. For the politics of science, I don't think you can go past Darwin. In fact, I would love to design a study looking at the treatment of Socrates, Darwin and modern climate scientists because I think there are lots of parallels! There was a great doco about Darwin, the Church's reception of The origin of the species (uneventful in the UK - the fracas kicked off in the US), his inner turmoil and that of his wife. I think it was a BBC production - I wish I had the name of it. I think Science Matters is a fabulous choice for a science text. Don't forget the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and International Human Rights, as well as a bit about how the UN started and operates. Some other random thoughts: "The Falcon and the Snowman" I found absolutely chilling, Banksy might be a nice study for modern art, and song lyrics at 20th-21st Century turning points would be a good poetry study. And for angry poetry, you can't beat the epic self-loathing of Robert Lowell, product of the upper-class he both clings to and despises. Also worth looking at Alain de Button for commentaries on all sorts of things like architecture, happiness and philosophy. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deee Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Forgot PE - what about mindfulness meditation? If you are going to launch her into the world with a fire in her belly, self-care is vital, and a quiet mind can be very powerful. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 Dee thank you! Very helpful. Meditation as one of the PE topics--yes, yes, yes! As a contrast to the rest of the Zombie apocalypse and boot camp type stuff I'm planning. I want radical in every direction. All forms of radical are welcome. I don't have a political agenda for the student, I just want them to come out the other side of the year on fire. And I want it to be a controlled burn. Yes, to the meditation! Maybe some anger management. I need biographies of angry people who kept it together. For Nature study, I want to tweak things toward getting moving: homesteading and survival and camping. In previous years I did one art form and two artists. At first I had no ideas for art forms, but now I feel buried in them. Not as the best choice for a political year, but as a capstone to the other years, I think I'm going to do film-making for one of the arts topics and showtoons for one of the music topics. And I think I really want to do cartooning, even though that is another topic and not an artist. I want to try and be responsible here. Yes, I need food books to be doable for very-low income families. I'm sure that is doable. It has got to be. I'm feeling really excited about this. I think it is going to be really good. And because there is so much stuff, that is BOTH modern and free, it is a great capstone to a curriculum that used so many older public domain books. I really do want to make sure I cover radical ultra-conservative too. I know some about that myself, but more the Amish type pacifist type stuff. I need something...I don't know, but something not pacifist but still ultra-conservative. I don't want to have a political agenda. If I notice one popping up in me, I want to squash it fast. I want the kid on fire and in control of her/his fire. And I want the kid healthy. Food, exercise, mental health. Church history--Maybe Foxe's Book of Martyrs? It has been so long since I read it, and I was such a different person, then. I know I'm nuts trying to cover church history for both Christians and athiests, but...that is my background of both Christians and athiests reading about church history for different reasons but often the same books, and both groups often looking to me for suggestions. I need more about Islam. I can schedule some Koran. The entire Bible was read in the lower levels. I'm thinking of just scheduling the Koran in that column under the Bible selections, but...am afraid of totally freaking out some people. Maybe if I include a guide that takes Christians through the Koran, Christians could do that, and the others could just read the Koran like they did the Bible. Or read the Christian book to see what Christians think about Islam? That sounds right to me. That would also create some of that nonliberal balance I'm seeking. I adore the write to learn process. I really do figure things out while writing!!! :D Thank yu everyone for putting up with letting me vomit ideas in my writing as well as for all your advice! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerald Stoker Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Music: Ani Di Franco? Joan Baez? Woody Guthrie? Pete Seeger? Joe Hill? Poetry/politics/general all around greatness: Vaclav Havel 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 I don't know much at all about poetry slams. That would maybe be good for this year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faithr Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 I was just laughing to myself. If I planned a year of rebellion for my kids, they'd rebel by rejecting it! LOL. Cuz I can't win for losing when it comes to that type of thing! They will be what they are and there isn't a thing I can do about it!!!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 Music: Ani Di Franco? Joan Baez? Woody Guthrie? Pete Seeger? Joe Hill? Poetry/politics/general all around greatness: Vaclav Havel I did classical music for the middle grades and did popular American music for the first three higher grades. I know very little about popular American music having spent so much time outside the USA and in cults and very conservative Christianity and sometimes just so isolated by DV that...well I don't know much about music. I did some research and drew on my paltry experiences and so far scheduled: American Folk Country Blues Jazz Rock Pop Hip Hop Broadway Rogers and Hammerstein And the harmonica was the scheduled instrument. Poetry slam isn't music, but I think it could fit here? Are there 3 genres of popular music that I could list? Or 2 if I did Poetry Slam? Actually maybe 1. I think I want to do showtoons to accompany filmmaking for art. What instrument if any would accompany these genres. Ugh! National anthems. I want to cover that. Maybe I have no room left. How does poetry slams, national anthems, and showtoons sound? Or maybe commercial jingles? What is that movie--Judge Jedd maybe--where commercial jingles are popular music? I could combine showtoons and commercial jingles maybe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 Am I using the wrong word for music from movies? Googling showtunes brings up a wikipage for kids underwear? I feel like it might be the wrong genre description, but cannot for the life of me remember another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 I was just laughing to myself. If I planned a year of rebellion for my kids, they'd rebel by rejecting it! LOL. Cuz I can't win for losing when it comes to that type of thing! They will be what they are and there isn't a thing I can do about it!!!! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 (edited) Soundtracks? is that the genre name? Edited January 3, 2016 by Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 (edited) Okay, after discussing something on a subforum, I need to add leadership to the year's focus. so Political classics Survival Economics Leadership The idea that an 12th grade age low-income working class kid with just what we think of here as 8th grade basic skills, can't be thrust into a leadership role has not been my experience. My 18 year old was made assitant manager over some men in their 20's who were pretty pissed about that. In the last few months before he left for Las Vegas he was sucker punched by them 3 times. He was bigger and stronger than them and his older cousin was on duty as security guard, so he was easily able to restrain them and call for help to deal with the paperwork, not to get help being safe. It took till the 3rd incident before he listend to his cousin and I that he had a DUTY to his employees to HELP them not want to punch him, for THEIR sakes. What are your favorite books that teach leadership? Obviously public domain titles are super welcome. Edited January 3, 2016 by Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 (edited) What genre is Utopia? Is it a novel? Edited January 3, 2016 by Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(book) Thank you! A frame story (also known as a frame tale or frame narrative) is a literary technique that sometimes serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, whereby an introductory or main narrative is presented, at least in part, for the purpose of setting the stage either for a more emphasized second narrative or for a set of shorter stories. The frame story leads readers from a first story into another, smaller one (or several ones) within it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 I need something for Islam that speaks for itself. I have let the Bible and the Westminster Catechism speak for itself. I want to do the same for the Koran. It is up to the mom to supplement that if she wants to. It is not up to ME to declare Islam more dangerous than Christianity. That is not something *I* am comfortable doing just becaus that is a commonly held belief in my country and what is expected of me. I cannot believe how fast my chart has filled up before I did anything unique or special. I'm almost done with my notes for the first draft. I'll have to remove well known common titles for rare ones to include them. I've done very little plundering of the lower levels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 Stuff on equality that isn't free. I'm trying to wrap my head around that. Maybe I'm going to skip Martin Luther King's stuff. I can't seem to wrap my head around doing that either. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deee Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 How about a unit looking at those who fought for freedom in the last 50-60 years? Martin Luther King is a must, even outside the US, add Mandela and perhaps Malala Yousafzai - her inclusion covers both women and Islam and is highly topical (she's on my reading list for DS15 this year, as are MLK and Mandela). Her book should be in your library. There are strong leadership discussions to be had about all of them, too. As for Islam, perhaps you could approach your local Mosque and ask for their advice. Ours is very welcoming, with tours, open days, lectures and food - oh the food!!!!! If you want survival stuff, have a look at some of the permaculture sites. I like Peter Bane, Brad Lancaster and Toby Hemenway in the US, but there are loads of others. Very practical stuff around food, growing and making do. Or join a community garden. Not sure if you have history listed, but I am super impressed by the Big History Project atm. All free if you have an internet connection (so doable in the library). Great final big sweep of history, with some science and geography thrown in. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 I like Herland to go along with Utopia. I'm really struggling right now with some of these tightly copyrighted guys who are claiming to fight for equality. Gandhi worked hard to try and keep his stuff copyright free. I am agonizing over these choices. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deee Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 I'm not sure I understand the copyright issue. King's speech is readily available on the internet and must be in most libraries. Can't you just refer to it and instruct the student to procure it (eg copy it at the library or borrow a book)? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausmumof3 Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 (edited) If you were going to do a year long unit study on politics and economics with a high schooler, what books would be must reads? I'm looking to use public domain classic titles as much as possible. I was thinking about doing things like progoganda and national anthems for the arts and am open to any suggestions at all. For maths I want to finish up all the consumer and business maths in the vintage math books. Which Shakespeare play is the most political? I'm sick to death of Plutarch. After 10 years of Parables of Nature and Plutarch what would be a good capstone for citizenship? Politics for church history? Something that wouldn't offend non Christians but continues covering the HISTORY of the church. So I guess church politics? I've finished up 10 years of Handbook of Nature Study. What would be different and a capstone? And political? Political geography? Political History and Traditional literature? I need 6 public domain titles. I haven't covered the Declaration of Independance or Communist Manufesto or anything like that yet, and I want to hit that hard. Political cooking and cleaning? I have ideas for health, but too many. I need help narrowing that down, or maybe I can move them over to science. But I'd like to use Science Matters which focuses on scientific literacy for reading the newspaper and being prepare to vote. 6 public domain novels and 6 popular and cheap 20th century classics. Physical fitness? I already used the Olympics in year 5 for Greece, but maybe I can move that up, if I have to. Political writing? Journalism, speech writing, persuasive writing. I'm not sure how to focus, choose, and narrow. I need a goal more than a year on politics, and I don't have one yet. Be ready to vote and be a wise consumer is as far as I have gotten with that. So I guess I can cross speech off that list. There is part of me that says just hit the research paper hard and do nothing else, but...the newspaper focus seems better for students not headed to college. Would any of the later Alexander Dumas books be useful for literature with church politics history? I'm not sure about slant etc but it gives you a feel for how conflict between church politics and state politics directed events. As far as factual stuff about politics I'm woefully under read. I'll be watching this thread with interest. A lot of Shakespeare would be useful for politics - how about Julius Caesar? Edited January 4, 2016 by Ausmumof3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 I have been told that the King children work really hard to have all free copies of the I have a Dream speech removed from the internet. They are not able to keep up with their goals of only people who can pay being able to hear, but their intent is deeply affecting my choices right now. As I dig further and further into scheduling this stuff, I am feeling defeated and confused. People who are trying to make a profit off of pretending to have a message for the poor. I need to back up here. What is my goal? My goal is kids being launched in a controlled burn. As for worldview agendas, that isn't my place. Except one. I refuse to encourage anti-muslim thinking. I personally cannot be a part of that. For year Platinum I'm certainly not going to pay a rich publisher for the priviledge of reading about a little girl being hurt by Muslims. Did it happen? Yes. Is SHE brave? Yes! But if I'm going to schedule sexism, it is going to be by the white man. And if I schedule Islam it's going to be the Koran itself. I am thinking stuff today that I think is offensive to people reading this thread. I don't want to offend. "First do no harm," is a motto I live by. This isn't turning out how I expected. I'm not going to drop year Platinum, but it isn't going to turn out like any of us expected, not even me. It will be released with disappointment, even by me. I'm going to do my best with what I have to work with. Today, I am mostly going to grieve, though. Unless I have been lied to, Martin isn't making the cut. I have put him and Nelson on and off so many times. I guess the people in control of their estates don't want kids like mine hearing their message. Or want some of the very little money they have? Today is for grieving, not releasing something I am disappointed in. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 (edited) Okay, I am releasing what I have. It is in my signature and also here is a link for anybody in mobile view. EDIT. 16.1 with Gandhi added back in. Oops! https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9Fvf4FXKZtoNTNoaGhTQ0d0UVE/view?usp=docslist_api It is what I will be using at this level for now. If a student gets too fired up, there are things like anger management, meditation, the Artist's way, Robert's Rules of Order, Poetry slam's, etc. to give them an outlet. I think it is a responsible and well rounded reading list. I have to be really careful about stuff like this with my bipolar students. But, I feel so disappointed. In myself. The world. I don't even know what else. But what I do, what I always do, is hunker down with what is readily available, sift through it, prioritize and schedule, and do my best. This is the best *I* know how to do. It feels like so little. so very very very little. I wanted to include the Chernychevsky novel, but a paperback is $20.00 and the only formatted ebook is $10.00. All the ebooks I found froze and and were blurry and won't work on a student's phone, if that is all they have. I'm kinda shocked this book isn't more readily available. I'd really like to add that book to the core novel list, but...I had to even drop that, because my poor students couldn't afford it. Sigh! Edited January 4, 2016 by Hunter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms.Ivy Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 Don't know if anyone already mentioned it, but I would probably include Swift... A Modest Proposal. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 The core reading list nature study, geography, and science are mostly free and in paperback from Hesperian http://hesperian.org/books-and-resources/ Dover http://m.doverpublications.com/by-subject-nature.html It is manadatory to me that most books come in as many formats as possible. I do have Strayer-Upton, Blumenfeld, and Spalding listed in the 3R's, but they can be skipped, and just Ray's and McGuffey used if need be. All the reading books are in most formats, as far as I know. I listed more public domain science titles that usual for any family that cannot use anything from the option library/modern lists. Because...a LOT is expected for science at that age, and at least there is volume if it ALL must be absolutely free. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 Don't know if anyone already mentioned it, but I would probably include Swift... A Modest Proposal. This is readily available in free and cheap paperback. I'm going to try and skim it tonight. http://search.doverpublications.com/mdetail?auth_id=&d=0486287599 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 I just took a quick look and it seems like all these things are worth reading. Thank you for sharing this! I'm sorry it isn't better. Yes, that is what I aimned for at the end, that what is on there is worth reading. Instead of focusing on what I couldn't do, I tried to focus on what I could easily do. I can probably do better with the 20th century novel list, but I have never worried much about that list. I figure when moms are making the effort to get to the library or purchase books, they have their own ideas. I just make that list work for me here. And try to narrow down the books listed again and again and again on the shortest lists. Just. Sigh! I'm going to take a shower. It is already almost 11:30 here and I am still in my pajamas. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 Somehow I accidentally had removed all Gandhi. He does have some free stuff. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9Fvf4FXKZtoNTNoaGhTQ0d0UVE/view?usp=docslist_api I added back in Indian Home Rule. And while I was at it, I squeezed in Frederick Douglass(misspelled I think) and Phillis Wheatley the colonial female black poet. Not having proper spell checks and no home WiFi makes all this more difficult. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 I really like how organized this all looks and I am going to adapt it for my own purposes. Thanks! We definitely have access to different resources sometimes! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 I do my best planning, when I set up grids and vomit into them. I see what needs to be done to prepare for something else. I see what is unbalanced. I see when I have too much or too little. Then I get up and walk away. And come back at stare and stare at the grids again with fresh eyes. And for the lower levels, they have gotten some serious field testing. For example I wanted to use Rays, because it was topical(rather than spiral) and public domain, but it wasn't as backpack friendly as S-U. It looked great on the grid but flunked badly in real life. I haven't read Handmaid's Tale in a long time. But it was on lots of short lists of political novels. And so many other novels directed at shining light on female rights are...I don't know, are about upperclass women having the right to fool around. I've got so many more questions than I did two days ago. When I vomit into grids, this happens. I suddenly have a bunch of new questions and things to be sad about. This just isn't what I expected. Bits of it, I'm really happy with, though. After coming back to it after my shower helped. And eating a sandwich helped even more. :D 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 (edited) As I'm staring at the history grid, I really think a female biography is needed there. I'm skimming a bit of "Harriet, Moses of her People." It starts off with some politically incorrect language, but I'm not sure this book is so bad. Looking at the grid, it looks silly to me that there are 2 males and no females in the history grid, even though I almost always did that in the earlier years. I am also thinking maybe Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale, and Marie Curie. I think I couldn't find anything for Marie Curie in PD last time I looked. I feel like Shakespeare's Cleopatra covers female ruler. Edited January 4, 2016 by Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.