tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27192226286950086382024-02-06T19:08:43.384-08:00Morning Time MomsIt's a Liturgy
Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240353902995298142noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719222628695008638.post-25303039064094524622015-06-29T09:30:00.001-07:002019-12-27T11:40:52.452-08:00The Literature of Honor for Boys<b>Instilling Honor in Boys Through Literature</b><br />
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Last month we learned that we are failing to give our boys a reason to learn. We learned that boys are motivated by honor and that our society has left them without hope. We also learned that one antidote to the problem may be using great literature to motivate our sons to pursue honor. But what books should they read? I recently asked a group of longtime homeschooling mothers, women I highly respect, what books they recommended. The following is what I gleaned from raising my own sons and also the suggestions of these moms. I have broken the list down into 3 parts: fiction, poetry, and biographies. With a few added additions this is a fine list for girls also but as we have seen our girls are still motivated, more motivated than ever before, it is our boys who are struggling.<br />
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Noticeably missing from the list are books I would classify as Victorian moralism. The group of women I surveyed almost unanimously agreed that moralism is antithetical to real heart change. My friend, Chris, put it this way, “Moralism looks good on the outside, which makes mothers feel more comfortable with their children: if they look good on the outside, I must be doing things right. It is just another kind of legalism. But in a world out of control and chaotic, one is always willing to sell their liberty for tyranny that will bring order. It's an old, old story.” Our goal is not to produce self-righteous prigs like our old friend Eustace Scrubbs before he met the dragon (See: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Voyage-Dawn-Treader-Chronicles-Narnia/dp/B001M2A3IE?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Voyage of Dawn Treader</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B001M2A3IE" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />) but rather to motivate our sons by the examples of true heart change whether that heart change is in the real man Stonewall Jackson or the fictional mouse Reepicheep. When we read of these sorts of characters we don’t feel smug and good we feel challenged and even ashamed. We question our own motives and behaviors. In the best cases, we repent.<br />
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<b>1. </b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Iron-Dodo-Press-Howard-Pyle/dp/1406564516?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Men of Iron</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1406564516" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i><span style="font-size: small;">, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Otto-Silver-Hand-Howard-Pyle/dp/1153675633?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Otto of the Silver Hand</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1153675633" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i> others by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&search-alias=aps&field-keywords=Howard%20Pyle" target="_blank">Howard Pyle</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></span></div>
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<b>2. </b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-White-Company/dp/B000FC26KK?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The White Company</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B000FC26KK" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i><span style="font-size: small;"> Arthur Conan Doyle (<i>Sir Gerhard</i> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nigel-Conan-Doyle-illustrated-Kinneys/dp/B000H3VH20?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Sir Nigel</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B000H3VH20" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />. Not as well-known as his Sherlock Holmes books, but for illustrating honor they cannot be beat.Check the public domain for these other Doyle books)</span></div>
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<b>3. </b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/39-Steps-John-Buchan/dp/B000NSKE14?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The 39 Steps</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B000NSKE14" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i><span style="font-size: small;"> etc by John Buchan (all <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Four-Adventures-Richard-Hannay-Thirty-Nine/dp/0879238712?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Richard Hannay</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0879238712" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> books. People often love <i>39 Steps</i> but don’t realize there are at least 3 sequels. <i>Greenmantle</i> is next followed by our family favorite <i>Mr Standfast</i>.)</span></div>
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<b>4. </b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Scottish-chiefs-Porter-Douglas-Illustrated/dp/B001NBP92E?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Scottish Chiefs</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B001NBP92E" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i><span style="font-size: small;"> by Jane Porter, <i>In Freedom’s Cause</i> by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&search-alias=aps&field-keywords=g%20a%20henty" target="_blank">GA Henty</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> and others dealing with Scottish liberty.</span></div>
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<b>5. </b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Black-Fox-Lorne-Marguerite-Angeli/dp/B000NREQM8?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Black Fox of Lorne</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B000NREQM8" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i><span style="font-size: small;"> by Marguerite de Angeli</span></div>
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<b>6. </b><i>Sugar Creek Gang</i><span style="font-size: small;"> by Paul Hutchens (I highly recommend seeking out the originals rather than the updates.)</span></div>
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<b>7. </b><span style="font-size: small;">CS Lewis <i>The Chronicles of Narnia</i>, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Space-Trilogy-C-S-Lewis/dp/068483118X?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Space Trilogy</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=068483118X" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />,</i> <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Screwtape-Letters-C-S-Lewis/dp/1557481423?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Screwtape Letters</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1557481423" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />. (</i>Don't forget <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Abolition-Man-C-S-Lewis/dp/0060652942?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Abolition of Man </a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0060652942" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />by Lewis </i>describes in depth our dilemma<i>.)</i></span></div>
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<b>8. </b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&search-alias=aps&field-keywords=Little%20Britches" target="_blank">Little Britches</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i><span style="font-size: small;"> series by Ralph Moody </span><br />
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"Son, there is no question but what the thing you have done today deserves severe punishment. You might have killed yourself or the horse, but much worse than that, you have injured your own character. A man's character is like his house. If he tears boards off his house and burns them to keep himself warm and comfortable, his house soon becomes a ruin. If he tells lies to be able to do the things he shouldn't do but wants to, his character will soon become a ruin. A man with a ruined character is a shame on the face of the earth." </blockquote>
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That is just a small taste of the riches available to your sons in Ralph Moody’s books. </blockquote>
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<b>9. </b><i>Captains Courageous</i><span style="font-size: small;"> by Rudyard Kipling (Kipling is a among the best authors for boys. Try <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jungle-Book-Unabridged-Classics/dp/1402743408?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Jungle Book</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1402743408" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i>, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Just-So-Stories-Rudyard-Kipling/dp/0785825711?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Just so Stories</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0785825711" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i> and <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Stalky-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0199555036?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Stalky and CO</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0199555036" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i>.)</span></div>
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<b>10.</b><span style="font-size: small;"> <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Gawain-Green-Knight-Pearl-Orfeo/dp/0345277600?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0345277600" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i>, <i>The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings</i> and others by JRR Tolkien (Don’t miss Tolkien’s <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Farmer-Giles-Ham-Adventures-Worminghall/dp/0618009361?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Farmer Giles of Ham</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0618009361" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i>.)</span></div>
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<b>11.</b><span style="font-size: small;"> <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ivanhoe-Penguin-Classics-Walter-Scott/dp/0140436588?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Ivanhoe</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0140436588" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i> and others by Walter Scott</span></div>
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<b>12.</b><i> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&search-alias=aps&field-keywords=%20%20Redwall" target="_blank">Redwall</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> </i><span style="font-size: small;">series by Brian Jacques</span></div>
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<b>13.</b><i> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Princess-Curdie-George-MacDonald/dp/1604594551?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Princess & Curdie</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1604594551" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i><span style="font-size: small;"> and others by George MacDonald</span></div>
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<b>14.</b><span style="font-size: small;"> <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wind-Willows-Signet-Classics/dp/0451530144?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Wind in the Willows</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0451530144" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i> by Kenneth Grahame</span></div>
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<b>15. </b><i>Pride and Prejudice</i><span style="font-size: small;"> by Jane Austen (Don’t underestimate the power of this book for boys. They naturally like Mr Darcy.)</span></div>
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<b>16.</b><i> </i><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Story-Viking-Living-History-Library/dp/1883937019?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Rolf and the Viking Bow </a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1883937019" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_French">Allen French</a> (French is an author worth searching out.)</span></div>
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<b>17.</b><i> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Marsh-King-C-Walter-Hodges/dp/B002W8NPUU?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Marsh King</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B002W8NPUU" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i><span style="font-size: small;"> by Walter Hodges</span></div>
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<b>18.</b><span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&search-alias=aps&field-keywords=GA%20Henty" target="_blank">GA Henty</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> (In spite of the fact that Henty is formulaic fiction; he does manage to tell the kind of stories boys love. Some of his books are even good literature. At least read a few Henty’s: <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Knight-Tale-Crusades/dp/1440436185?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Boy Knight</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1440436185" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />,</i> <i>In Freedom’s Cause</i>, etc.)</span></div>
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<b>19.</b><i> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Little-House-Prairie-Boxed-Set/dp/059020632X?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Little House on the Prairie</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=059020632X" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i><span style="font-size: small;"> series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. (This is NOT a feminine series. The hero is Pa. Is there a better book for boys than <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Farmer-Little-House-Ingalls-Wilder/dp/0060581824?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Farmer Boy</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0060581824" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i>?)</span></div>
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<b>20.</b><span style="font-size: small;"> <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Robinson-Crusoe-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0199553971?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Robinson Crusoe</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0199553971" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i> by Daniel Defoe</span></div>
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<b>1. </b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Man-Called-Peter-Story-Marshall/dp/0800793110?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Man Called Peter</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0800793110" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i><span style="font-size: small;"> by Catherine Marshall</span></div>
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<b>2. </b><i><span style="font-size: small;"></span></i><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Strength/dp/B000TA1JDI?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B000TA1JDI" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> ( Great book for the athletes in the house.)</span></div>
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<b>3. </b><span style="font-size: small;"> <i></i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/ENDURANCE-SHACKLETONS-INCREDIBLE-VOYAGE-Lansing/dp/B0000CKD24?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Endurance Alfred Lansing</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B0000CKD24" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></span></div>
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<b>4. </b><i>Childhood of Famous American</i><span style="font-size: small;"> (COFA) books for younger boys (Our favorites are William Penn, Francis Marion, Stonewall Jackson, Lou Gehrig)</span></div>
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<b>5. </b><i><span style="font-size: small;"></span></i><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&search-alias=aps&field-keywords=Leaders%20in%20Action" target="_blank">Leaders in Action </a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />series edited by George Grant (Our favorites are <i>Carry a Big Stick</i> (Teddy Roosevelt) and <i>Never Give In</i> (Winston Churchill))</span></div>
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<b>6. </b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Courage-Undaunted-James-Daugherty/dp/1893103021?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Of Courage Undaunted</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1893103021" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i><span style="font-size: small;"> by James Daughtery</span></div>
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<b>7. </b><span style="font-size: small;">Christian biographies such as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Borden-Yale-Faith-Howard-Taylor/dp/1556610149?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Borden of Yale</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1556610149" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />, Jim Elliot, Eric Liddell, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&search-alias=aps&field-keywords=Hudson%20Taylor" target="_blank">Hudson Taylor </a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />etc.</span></div>
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<b>8. </b><i><span style="font-size: small;"></span></i><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mornings-Horseback-Extraordinary-Vanished-Roosevelt/dp/0671447548?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Mornings on Horseback </a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0671447548" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />and other books by David McCullough</span><br />
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<b>Poetry:</b><br />
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<b>1. </b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Idylls-Selection-Poems-Signet-Classics/dp/0451528751?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Idylls of the King</a><img alt="" border="0" class=" hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv hgfpvqdrorvylhmsqikv" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0451528751" height="1" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i><span style="font-size: small;"> by Tennyson</span></div>
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<b>2. </b><i>If</i><span style="font-size: small;"> by Rudyard Kipling</span></div>
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<b>3. </b><i>Opportunity </i><span style="font-size: small;">by Edward Sill</span></div>
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<b>4. </b><i>The Charge of the Light Brigade</i><span style="font-size: small;"> by Tennyson</span></div>
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<b>5. </b><i>The Leak in the Dike</i><span style="font-size: small;"> by Cary</span></div>
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<b>6. </b><i>Casabianca</i><span style="font-size: small;"> by Hemans</span></div>
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<b>7. </b><i>The Village Blacksmith</i><span style="font-size: small;"> by Tennyson</span></div>
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<b>8. </b><i><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_horatiuspoem.htm">Horatius at the Bridge</a></span></i><span style="font-size: small;"> by MacCaulay</span><br />
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Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240353902995298142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719222628695008638.post-56078670126167959242015-06-29T09:27:00.001-07:002015-06-29T09:27:36.093-07:00The Literature of Honor for Little BoysI often get questions about good picture books for younger children
and I notice that my choices are usually archaic in the sense that new
authors and new stories have flooded the market. This list will reflect
the books that my boys loved when they were little about last Friday. I
will try and stick to books that meet our theme of illustrating honor
and not just books that we loved. <br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316367958/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0316367958">Saint George and the Dragon</a><img a="" alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0316367958" height="1" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0823410633/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0823410633" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> by Margaret Hodges and Trina Schart Hyman <br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316367958/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0316367958"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0316367958&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=dominionfamil-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0316367958" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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This
is the Quintessential book of honor for little boys! If you like this,
and you will, then you will also want to look for others by this duo
such as:<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0823410633/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0823410633">The Kitchen Knight: A Tale of King Arthur</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0823410633" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0823410633/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0823410633"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0823410633&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=dominionfamil-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0823410633" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140503935/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0140503935">Thy Friend, Obadiah by Brinton Turkle</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0140503935" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140503935/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0140503935"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0140503935&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=dominionfamil-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0140503935" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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There
are 3 Obadiah books by Brinton Turkle and they are superb. Timothy used
to ask me to read these over and over again and the pictures illustrate
all the joys of adventuring AND coming home.<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1893103196/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1893103196">Obadiah the Bold</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1893103196" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> <br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1893103188/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1893103188">Rachel and Obadiah</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1893103188" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> <br />
<a href="http://thoughtsaftergod.blogspot.com/2012/06/brinton-turkle-and-masterly-inactivity.html" target="_blank">Brandy just blogged about these last week</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0395150248/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0395150248"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0395150248&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=dominionfamil-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0395150248" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0395150248/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0395150248">The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0395150248" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140502777/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0140502777"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0140502777&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=dominionfamil-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0140502777" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140502777/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0140502777">Andy and the Lion By James Daugherty</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0140502777" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1930900481/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1930900481"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1930900481&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=dominionfamil-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1930900481" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1930900481/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1930900481">Henry the Explorer by Mark Taylor</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1930900481" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
and<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1930900473/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1930900473">Henry the Castaway</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1930900473" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1845074564/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1845074564"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1845074564&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=dominionfamil-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1845074564" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1845074564/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1845074564">Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain by Edward Ardizzone</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1845074564" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
This
is a not-to-be-missed series by Edward Ardizzone. Tim will warm your
heart and enliven the imaginations of your little boys. There are 8 Tim
books. You will want to read them all.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0689716087/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0689716087"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0689716087&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=dominionfamil-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0689716087" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0689716087/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0689716087">Billy And Blaze: A Boy And His Horse by C.W. Anderson</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0689716087" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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My
older guys are already collecting these for their little boys and last
Thanksgiving there was quite a stir when one of them came home from
McKay's with a few of these. There are 9 Billy and Blaze books.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140502874/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0140502874"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0140502874&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=dominionfamil-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0140502874" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140502874/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0140502874">Lentil by Robert McCloskey</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0140502874" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
My boys love this book!! I am not even sure why but it is a huge favorite around here.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0899195245/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0899195245"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0899195245&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=dominionfamil-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0899195245" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0899195245/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0899195245">The Monkey and the Crocodile: A Jataka Tale from India</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0899195245" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
This is a book by one of our favorite authors. Galdone has many books retelling fairy stories and they are all quite good.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0064440419/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0064440419"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0064440419&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=dominionfamil-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0064440419" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0064440419/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0064440419">Mouse Soup by Arnold Lobel</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0064440419" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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Anything by Lobel is excellent!! What could be more honorable than the friendship between Frog and Toad? <br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0547133510/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0547133510"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0547133510&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=dominionfamil-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0547133510" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0547133510/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0547133510">A Bear Called Paddington</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0547133510" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> and others by Michael Bond<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670013110/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0670013110"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0670013110&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=dominionfamil-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0670013110" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670013110/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0670013110">Corduroy by Don Freeman</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0670013110" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
Mr. Freeman's books have a particular pathos that I find compelling and sweet.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935279696/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1935279696"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1935279696&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=dominionfamil-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1935279696" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935279696/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1935279696">The Church Mouse by Graham Oakley</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1935279696" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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The Church Mouse series is excellent in every way. As to honor, the mice are known to give Churchillian speeches! <br />
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This list could go on forever and I tried to avoid the obvious choices like the wonderful <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0064441970/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0064441970">Little Bear</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0064441970" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
books by Elsa Holmelund Minarik, Winnie-the-Pooh who is a bear with
much honor, the Beatrix Potter stories which I trust you not to miss, or
the lovely and honorable <a href="http://www.amazon.com/mn/landing/B000AP8OD0/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957" target="_blank">Virginia Lee Burton</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=ur2&o=1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> books. I would suggest that you eschew more modern choices until you have read through some of these oldies! <br />
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Feel free to comment on other choices which I have missed.Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240353902995298142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719222628695008638.post-49936647051964943732014-08-21T09:50:00.003-07:002014-08-21T09:50:37.877-07:00Morning Time Reorganization Sheet<br />
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<br />Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240353902995298142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719222628695008638.post-66975730978553985712014-08-16T08:21:00.001-07:002014-08-16T08:21:01.271-07:00Using MT to Promote DiscussionOne of my key sayings is that I don't just want to have books, I want
to read books. It doesn't make me happy to think of having a houseful
of books if no one is reading them. Therefore, I am happy to report that
since we went to the book sale on Tuesday, several of the books have
already been read and several more are in the process of being read.
Alex is working on his 2nd William O Steele book and he is pretty
satisfied with his choice.<br />
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I am finding that both, Alex
and Andrew, are willing readers but it doesn't always do to point to
the shelves of books we already have. They still love to go to the
library and book sales and their reading is rejuvenated by those trips.<br />
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But
that is not what I want to talk about today. I felt like it would be
profitable to go through one of our MT sequences pointing out the places
where we stopped for discussion. I will repost the bulk of this post
on the MT Moms site.<br />
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Yesterday, very late, 10:45, I
finally called everyone together for MT. We began with prayer
concentrating on Nathaniel who is apprenticing in an nuclear plant this
month.<br />
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Because Christopher, my senior, needs to get the
show on the road, I decided to go straight to grammar after prayer. I
pulled out my vintage <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Elementary-English-Grammar-Lessons-Composition/dp/B000H45SHO?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Mother Tongue II </a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B000H45SHO" height="1" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />and
we discussed transitive and intransitive verbs. We orally analyzed
several sentences together and then individually. Then I let
Christopher leave to finish up <a href="http://www.amazon.com/That-Hideous-Strength-Space-Trilogy/dp/0743234928?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">That Hideous Strength</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0743234928" height="1" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> by CS Lewis. <br />
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One
of the reasons I skipped several items during the morning is that I had
been away last week, and I just wanted to reassert things slowly.
Therefore, we did not sing. We sound terrible, so it is always a
temptation not to sing but I am determined that we WILL sing on most
days. Today we will sing 2 songs. Yesterday's <i>Coram Deo</i> by Judy Rogers and today's <i>Crown Him with Many Crowns.</i><br />
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Then
I read EX 20:1-17 as our review passage. Plenty of fodder for the mill
in that. We first discussed the idea of taking God's name in vain and
how God will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. We also
discussed covetousness.<br />
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Then we headed over to review and relearn Gen 1:1-5.<br />
Which reminded me of my <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Morning-Evening-C-H-Spurgeon/dp/1845504062?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Morning and Evening</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1845504062" height="1" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> devotional so I pulled that out and read it. It was based on the verse Ezekial 34:26 <i>"I will cause the shower to come down in his season: there shall be showers of blessing."</i>
I used this as a socratic jumping off spot and we defined the terms in
the verse. Everyone participating. We defined Cause, Season, Showers and
Blessings. In the end we concluded that since we are not God and
cannot control the weather, it was a sin to complain about the weather
but maybe not a sin to be disappointed in the weather. My real goal was
to stop the baseball players in the family from being dramatic weather
watchers for the next few months. Weather can wreck havoc on a baseball
season and I just wanted to establish where it came from. By the way,
Christopher was not far off reading and he participated in this
discussion.<br />
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We then went on to read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Worldliness-Resisting-Seduction-Fallen-World/dp/1433502801?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Worldliness </a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1433502801" height="1" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />edited
by CJ Mahaney. We are on the end chapters on modesty so it is more
pointed at Emily. Not too fun for her, so I make sure that I make
connections to masculine modesty also. <br />
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I am continuing to read through <a href="http://www.amazon.com/101-Famous-Poems-Roy-Cook/dp/0071419306?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">101 Famous Poems</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0071419306" height="1" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> with the children. We discuss one poem a day and the poem we discussed yesterday was:<br />
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<i>Abraham Lincoln Walks at Night (</i><i>In Springfield, Illinois) </i> by Vachel Lindsay<br />
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We
are not huge Lincoln fans here so I wasn't sure how the poem would go
over but it turned out to be an excellent poem in which to discuss
modernity which is the time period my high school students are
studying. <br />
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We concentrated on these three verses from
the perspective of the time period the poem was written in which was
1914. Significant. We discussed Lincoln, the Civil War, the beginnings
of WWI, The League of Nations and mostly all that was meant by :<i>The Workers' Earth</i>.
We discussed 'The little man" the "working man" etc. We discussed
socialism at great length noting that we know more about it now than
they did in 1914. We were able to bring most of this discussion down to a
simple concept that Alex could understand. We ended our discussion on
the topic of self-government. <br />
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<dt style="text-align: center;"><i>The sins of all the war-lords burn his heart. </i></dt>
<dd style="text-align: center;"><i>He sees the dreadnaughts scouring every main. </i></dd>
<dt style="text-align: center;"><i>He carries on his shawl-wrapped shoulders now </i></dt>
<dd style="text-align: center;"><i>The bitterness, the folly and the pain. </i></dd><dd style="text-align: center;"><br /></dd><dd style="text-align: center;"><br /></dd>
<dt style="text-align: center;"><i>He cannot rest until a spirit-dawn </i></dt>
<dd style="text-align: center;"><i>Shall come:--the shining hope of Europe free: </i></dd>
<dt style="text-align: center;"><i><b>The league of sober folk, the Workers' Earth</b>, </i></dt>
<dd style="text-align: center;"><i>Bringing long peace to Cornland, Alp and Sea. </i></dd><dd style="text-align: center;"><br /></dd>
<dt style="text-align: center;"><i>It breaks his heart that kings must murder still, </i></dt>
<dd style="text-align: center;"><i>That all his hours of travail here for men </i></dd>
<dt style="text-align: center;"><i>Seem yet in vain. And who will bring white peace </i></dt>
<dd style="text-align: center;"><i>That he may sleep upon his hill again?</i> <i> </i> <i> </i></dd><dd style="text-align: center;"><br /></dd><dd style="text-align: center;"><br /></dd><dd style="text-align: center;"><br /></dd> At this point the remaining High-schoolers were dismissed, after I decided that we would not read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Coriolanus-Folger-Shakespeare-Library-William/dp/0671722581?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Coriolanus</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0671722581" height="1" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> in either Shakespeare or Plutarch during the morning. <br />Alex and Andrew and I continued reviewing <i>All the World's a Stage</i> and I had Alex act out the 7 seasons as we read. He balked at sighing like a lover.<br />We also reviewed <i>Breathes</i> by Walter Scott which we are relearning.<br />I reviewed the <i>US Oath of Citizenship</i>
which they mostly know and told them to write it out for their
narration for 2 days and then Friday I would test them on it by having
them write it from memory.<br />We reviewed the 1st Amendment and
discussed the 5 rights guaranteed by it. We also discussed the
Constitution and what the Bill of Rights actually were. This came in
handy as while we were reading aloud <a href="http://www.amazon.com/America-Grows-Up-History-Peter/dp/0688210155?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">America Grows Up</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0688210155" height="1" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />
we learned about the 1st Continental Congress. We decided that it would
be fun to visit Mount Vernon on our trip to Washington this summer.<br />We then went on to read aloud <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Light-beyond-Forest-Arthurian-Trilogy/dp/0140371508?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Light Beyond the Forest</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0140371508" height="1" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> which details the search for the Holy Grail. </dl>
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<dd style="text-align: left;"><br /></dd>America Grows Up which I already mentioned and: <br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Chair-Narnia-C-Lewis/dp/B001G8WFUS?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Silver Chair (Narnia)</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B001G8WFUS" height="1" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> by CS Lewis <img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B001G8WFUS" height="1" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> <br />
I
hope you can see the richness of having these sorts of discussions
every single day. The thing I absolutely love about it is that the
younger students are being stretched while the older students are
learning. I let all participate equally and of course, I draw out those
who are quiet. We do laugh a lot and our family can be a bit brutal
sometimes. We all love to hear what Alex, the youngest, has to say
before any concept is defined. Andrew seems to have a better grasp of
grammar than my high school students but then again he has had 3 years
of Latin at a younger age. I say 3 years of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Latin-Children-Primer-Aaron-Larsen/dp/1600510000?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Latin for Children </a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1600510000" height="1" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />but we only get through 2/3 of a book a year.<br />
The one other beauty of this method is that it helps children learn how to make connections which is the heart of intuition. <br />
As
you can see, I did not let the schedule dictate the time. I dropped
things off in order to fully grasp the moments that arose naturally.
Finding this balance is often difficult. If you are the type that must
get through the LIST then teach yourself to embrace the moments of
discussion that arise. Don't ever rush those until they deteriorate into
frivolity which they inevitably do. That is some part of the art of
teaching, I think.<br />
<dd style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Light-beyond-Forest-Arthurian-Trilogy/dp/0140371508?ie=UTF8&tag=dominionfamil-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank"><img alt="The Light beyond the Forest: The Quest for the Holy Grail (Arthurian Trilogy, Vol 2)" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0140371508&tag=dominionfamil-20" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0140371508" height="1" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></dd>Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240353902995298142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719222628695008638.post-80635378754134499532014-08-11T10:53:00.000-07:002014-08-11T10:53:20.383-07:0025 Days to Handel's Messiah: An Advent Devotional Guide<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]-->Over the years many people have asked me for a Messiah schedule. Here it is. I like to keep it less than 10 minutes a day overall because as you know I am all about the little moments and I also firmly believe that what you do is better than what you plan.<br />
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I used the 1743 libretto for this set which is a bit unusual. It is the Neville Marriner with St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chorus recording. You can easily substitute any recording based on the opening lines of each selection. Some of the recordings will have different voice ranges on the solos. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can even get on Spotify or another app and compare different recordings each day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the times are approximate.<br />
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Use the comments to share your favorite recording of Messiah.</div>
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25 Days of Christmas with Handel’s Messiah</h2>
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<strong>Day 1</strong> (11 minutes):<br />
Scripture Reading: Isaiah 40:1-5<br />
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1. Symphony<br />
2. Recitative (Tenor) “Comfort Ye…”<br />
3. Air (Tenor) “Every Valley…”<br />
4. Chorus “And the Glory …”<br />
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<strong>Day 2</strong> (6 ½ minutes)<br />
Scripture Reading: Haggai 2:6, 7, Malachi 3:1-3<br />
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1. Recitative (Bass) “Thus saith the Lord...”<br />
2. Air (Bass) “But who may abide…”<br />
3. Chorus “And he shall purify…”<br />
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<strong>Day 3</strong> (6 minutes)<br />
Scripture Reading: Isaiah 7:14, 40:9, 60:1<br />
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1. Recitative (Alto) “Behold, a Virgin…”<br />
2. Air (Alto) “O, thou that tellest…”<br />
3. Chorus “Arise, Shine…”<br />
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<strong>Day 4</strong> (10 minutes)<br />
Scripture Reading: Isaiah 60:2-3, 9:2, 9:6<br />
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1. Recitative (Bass) “For behold, darkness…”<br />
2. Air (Bass) “The people who walked in darkness…”<br />
3. Chorus: “For unto us…”<br />
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<strong>Day 5</strong> (8 Minutes)<br />
Scripture Reading: Luke 2:8-14<br />
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1. Pifa<br />
2. Recitative (Soprano) “There were shepherds…”<br />
3. Recitative (Soprano) “And, Lo, the angel…”<br />
4. Recitative (Soprano)” Ad the angel said…”<br />
5. Recitative (Soprano) “And suddenly…”<br />
6. Chorus “Glory to God in the highest…”<br />
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<strong>Day 6</strong> (4 minutes)<br />
Scripture Reading: Zechariah 9:9-10<br />
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1. Air (Soprano) “Rejoice greatly…”<br />
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<strong>Day 7</strong> (7 minutes)<br />
Scripture Reading: Isaiah 35:5-6; 40:11, Matthew 11:28-30<br />
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1. Recitative (Alto) “Then shall the eyes of the blind…”<br />
2. Aria (Alto) “He shall feed…” and “Come unto me…”<br />
3. Chorus “His yoke is easy…”<br />
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<strong>Day 8</strong> (3 minutes)<br />
Scripture Reading: John 1:29<br />
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1. Chorus “Behold the Lamb…”<br />
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<strong>Day 9</strong> (11 minutes)<br />
Scripture Reading: Isaiah 53:3, 50:6<br />
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1. Air (Alto) “He was despised…”<br />
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<strong>Day 10</strong> (7 minutes)<br />
Scripture Reading: Isaiah 53:4-6<br />
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1. Chorus “Surely he hath borne…”<br />
2. Chorus “And with his stripes…”<br />
3. Chorus “All we like sheep…”<br />
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<strong>Day 11</strong> (3 minutes)<br />
Scripture Reading: Psalm 22:7-8<br />
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1. Recitative (Tenor) “All they that see him laugh…”<br />
2. Chorus “He trusted in God…”<br />
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<strong>Day 12</strong> (4 minutes)<br />
Scripture Reading: Psalm 69:20, Lamentations 1:12<br />
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1. Recitative (Soprano) “Thy rebuke has broken…”<br />
2. Arioso (Soprano) “Behold and see if…”<br />
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<strong>Day 13</strong> (5 ½ minutes)<br />
Scripture Reading: Isaiah 53:8, Psalm 16:10, Psalm 24:7-10<br />
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1. Recitative (Tenor) “He was cut off…”<br />
2. Air (Tenor) “But thou didst not leave…”<br />
3. Chorus “Lift up your heads…”<br />
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<strong>Day 14</strong> (2 minutes)<br />
Scripture Reading: Hebrews 1:5, 6<br />
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1. Recitative (Tenor) “Unto which of the …”<br />
2. Chorus “Let all the angels…”<br />
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<strong>Day 15</strong> (4 minutes)<br />
Scripture Reading: Psalm 68:11, 18<br />
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1. Air (Bass) “Thou art gone up…”<br />
2. Chorus “The Lord gave the word…”<br />
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<strong>Day 16</strong> (3 minutes)<br />
Scripture Reading: Romans 10:15<br />
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1. Duet (Soprano, Alto, Chorus) “How beautiful…”<br />
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<strong>Day 17</strong> (1 minute)<br />
Scripture Reading: Romans 10: 18<br />
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1. Arioso (Tenor) “Their sound…”<br />
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<strong>Day 18</strong> (3 minutes)<br />
Scripture Reading: Psalm 2:1-3<br />
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1. Air (Bass) “Why do the nations…”<br />
2. Chorus “Let us break…”<br />
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<strong>Day 19</strong> (6 minutes)<br />
Scripture Reading: Psalm 2:4, 9; Revelation 19:6, 11:15, 19:16<br />
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1. Recitative (Tenor) “He that dwelleth in heaven…”<br />
2. Air (Tenor) “Thou shalt break….”<br />
3. Chorus “Hallelujah!!”<br />
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<strong>Day 20</strong> (5 ½ minutes)<br />
Scripture Reading: Job 19:25-26, I Corinthians 15:20<br />
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1. Air (Soprano) “I know that my Redeemer…”<br />
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<strong>Day 21</strong> (2 minutes)<br />
Scripture Reading: I Corinthians 15:21-22<br />
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1. Chorus “Since by man…’<br />
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<strong>Day 22</strong> (10 minutes)<br />
Scripture Reading: I Corinthians 15:51-53<br />
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1. Recitative (Bass) “Behold, I tell you a mystery…”<br />
2. Air (Bass) “The trumpet shall sound…”<br />
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<strong>Day 23</strong> (5 minutes)<br />
Scripture Reading: I Corinthians 15: 54-56<br />
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1. Recitative (Alto) “Then shall be brought…”<br />
2. Duet (Alto, Tenor) “O Death, where…”<br />
3. Chorus “But thanks be to God…”<br />
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<strong>Day 24</strong> (5 minutes)<br />
Scripture Reading: Romans 8:31-34<br />
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1. Air (Alto) “If God be for us…”<br />
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<strong>Day 25</strong> (6 minutes)<br />
Scripture Reading: Revelation 5:12-13<br />
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1. Chorus “Worthy is the Lamb…”<br />
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AMEN</div>
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I borrowed a book for Kindle called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HGKNBDK/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00HGKNBDK&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20&linkId=RX72N7AE5QJBHFOK">Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00HGKNBDK" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
. I liked the title because it rang true for me. My own journey to fitness, a journey I have not completed, began very much like the author's. He started with one pushup. I started with an App and a check mark.<br />
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As I was reading the book which is very short, I realized that Morning Time began in our family as a mini habit. It did not start out as a full blown plan. It grew slowly over time. It started with a hymn.<br />
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I am very against grand schemes as longtime readers must know by now. We should never have a goal to eat an elephant and according to Mini Habits we should only have a goal to take one bite today. Maybe we will take two or three but we will have succeeded when we have taken that first bite. <br />
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I am all for using the tools of modernity which help us create and succeed at mini goals. In fact, I suspect that our fragmented lives have helped us rediscover this old truth. As a mother of many children I lived a very fragmented life. Any large goal was quickly overwhelmed by reality, especially in homeschooling, but small successes bred more small successes.<br />
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This is why I used to say stop planning your school and go do it. If you are frustrated about something not getting done in your home or school, get up and go do a tiny part of that...Right Now! Read a chapter of a book to your children Now. Pick up your Bible Now. You don't need a plan to read through the whole Bible in a year all you need to do is pick up your Bible and read a chapter today, pat yourself on the back, and do it again tomorrow. Do this for a lifetime and you will have read through the Bible many times, far more times than your grand scheme would have allowed.<br />
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One day I was so frustrated with our inability to fit in nature walks that I took the kids to Lookout Mountain in the rain. We had one of our most difficult and most memorable hikes ever that day. We may not be able to hike every week next year but we can hike one day.<br />
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Many of you have read through my Morning Time posts and have written me. Sometimes you get frustrated because you try to birth your MT as a full grown adult. If that is not working for you go back and try doing a couple of small things consistently together in the morning because that is the heart and soul of MT. It is also the heart and soul of written narrations. The power of the written narration is in the dailiness of it-the lifetime habit of writing. There is no power in a grand scheme for writing which never happens. <br />
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Most of us are involved in planning our school year right now. I hope
you will remember to schedule your days in small increments which
Charlotte Mason calls short lessons. There is tremendous power in doing
something for a short period of time consistently. I hope you will
schedule in rest steps. The Grand Scheme is a recipe for failure. It is
the little things done daily that add up to an education and a life.Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240353902995298142noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719222628695008638.post-18735969105693404932014-08-06T06:48:00.003-07:002014-08-06T06:48:32.725-07:00Toddlers and Teens (MT Addendum)I just can't give this topic a rest. I hear the frustrations that many of you face as you deal with the daily realities of children who do not cooperate with your well-laid plans. For the most part the non-cooperators are either toddlers or teens.<br />
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I have tried to think back and remember how I handled my toddlers during the intense years. For about 2 years I did that thing where I scheduled out all my children's hours during the day and evening and always had the toddlers assigned to an older child. This was perfect for that short but intense time of my life. That was around the time I skipped Morning Time one year. I regretted skipping it later but things were pretty desperate and I didn't have the confidence that about Morning Time that I do now.<br />
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We also did not have a TV. This probably changed things considerably for me. I am not critical of those who have a TV and use it with their toddlers only I am sure that not having one changed the dynamic for me.<br />
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It helped that the children were born into MT and eased their way into participating. I remember my now 21yo son peeking up out of his bassinet every morning. I kept his bassinet in the living room during MT and he drifted in and out, sometimes peeking his head over the edge to smile at us. Most of my babies were more high maintenance than this though. <br />
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I strongly believed in toddlers taking naps and conned most of my children into taking them well into their first grade year. <br />
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I happen to think that one of the main selling points of MT is that the younger children are being stretched to understand things far beyond the usual toddler fare. The best I can say is deal with the interruptions and keep a goin'. <br />
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I made all the children sit quietly through the Bible time and I think this was good preparation for sitting in church, but after that I let the toddlers play on the floor. I did not have twins but I don't imagine it would work to let them play together. They must play quietly by themselves or else chaos and fights ensue.<br />
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I really feel badly that I don't have any magic answers about toddlers but I did have MT with toddlers for years and years and years and somehow we muddled through. Sometimes I melted down. Sometimes I cried. Sometimes they made me laugh when I should not have been laughing. Sometimes I spanked them. Sometimes I asked all the children to pray while I dealt with one particular child in another room and sometimes that took up the entire morning. As a matter of fact, take the time you need to take to make sure your children obey you. If your children do not obey you then you cannot possibly homeschool in any meaningful way. You will have times of peace followed by times of testing. Keep a goin'. It still is going to add up.<br />
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If I only had toddlers I would add things to MT very slowly when they were ready keeping it joyful. <br />
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As for teens, I used to let my high school students go very early in MT. Now MT is geared only to the 2 I have at home so that is not as necessary. My high school students might be doing their own work in another room but often they would hover within earshot and throw out comments or run in to prove they knew the names of more presidents.<br />
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If I was starting MT with a group of kids and had an older, disruptive teen, I would probably not bring the whole house down trying to get cooperation from that child. I would try to let that child see that I would work with him by letting him out of MT but I would still make sure that child had a challenging amount of school work. It is always sad to let a child go like this but sometimes it has to be done and you know that child may still grow up to tell you how helpful MT was.<br />
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Children are born persons. Treat them with respect but keep your standards and expectations high because having low standards is demeaning and insulting to the personhood of your child. Expect obedience and make it happen. Don't have a lot of rules but make sure you follow through on every single rule you do have. OR Else. Or else your life will be miserable and you will not find the joy you were meant to have in your children. <br />
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25 years ago, about last Friday, my oldest son was 4 almost 5. I was pregnant with my 4th child. I was nauseated. I remember it well. I sat on the couch with my three little boys and we read nursery rhymes and practiced for Awana. Sometimes I fell asleep. Once, as the little boys played on the couch and I slept, an electric candle tipped over and burned a hole in the couch. Thankfully, God gave me a good sense of smell which our whole family learned to trust over the years. </div>
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I didn't like that dark house we were living in but we were soon going to move to a little blue house on a pond where many happy memories would bud and bloom, but I didn't know that yet. I just woke up each morning, felt nauseated, and read to the boys. Then we acted out nursery rhymes and took long walks which usually ended with me carrying two and sometimes three people home. So much for strollers. </div>
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25 years in the future was unfathomable. My life was pregnancy, nurse, repeat. Read-aloud. Read the Bible. Pray. Sing. Say poems. Learn speeches. Talk. Play. Draw. Read-aloud. Morning Time. Day after day after day after year after year after decade after decade. Little tiny moments captured in such a way that they would never be forgotten. Not by me, not by them. </div>
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Not all family memories are happy ones. Eleven sinners in one house can make a mess of trouble. Not all memories are happy ones but some are. </div>
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Someday, not long from now, you may visit me in my old age as I sit and rock and perhaps you will catch a hint of the voices in my head. I put them there one grain at a time. Perhaps if you could live long enough you would see other old men (and one lovely woman) in other rocking chairs and you would hear those same voices echo in their heads too. "Old men forget but all is not forgotten." </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, "What are days of auld lang syne, Pa?"<br />"They are the days of a long time ago, Laura," Pa said. "Go to sleep, now."<br />But
Laura lay awake a little while, listening to Pa's fiddle softly playing
and to the lonely sound of the wind in the Big Woods,…<br />She was glad
that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were
now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It
can never be a long time ago.”
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Thank-you for joining me on these 31 Days of Morning Time. </div>
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Psalm 126:6<br />
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<span class="text Ps-126-6" id="en-KJV-16122">"He that goeth forth and
weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with
rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him."<Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240353902995298142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719222628695008638.post-30600522076330185422014-08-06T06:45:00.002-07:002014-08-06T06:47:31.811-07:00Favorite Family Read-Alouds <b>Day 30~ </b><br />
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I can hardly think of anything I have enjoyed more these last 30 years than reading aloud. When life was less complicated and didn't include a television we read aloud morning, noon and night but these days <i>Morning Time</i> is a way for me to cling to this for a few more years. <i>Morning Time</i> has been a small way to stand against the rising tide of technology even though technology has made some parts of it much easier.<br />
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There is nothing so simple as picking up a book and reading it. <i>Morning Time</i> provides the time and the place. You provide the will.<br />
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You might want to read these posts also:<br />
<a href="http://www.ordo-amoris.com/2010/05/literature-of-honor-for-boys.html" target="_blank">The Literature of Honor for Boys</a><br />
<a href="http://www.ordo-amoris.com/2012/07/literature-of-honor-for-little-boys.html" target="_blank">The Literature of Honor for Little Boys</a> (Please add the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A5MRGIM/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00A5MRGIM&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Anatole books by Eve Titus</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00A5MRGIM" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> to the top of this list)<br />
<a href="http://www.ordo-amoris.com/2012/05/how-it-all-began.html" target="_blank">The first year of Morning Time: How it all Began </a><br />
<a href="http://morningtimemoms.blogspot.com/2008/09/books-for-boys-middle-grades.html" target="_blank">Books for Boys: The Middle Years </a><br />
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I asked each member of our family to name their 5 favorite read-alouds. They each answered me remarkably quickly. I hope you will enjoy the lists. The trends are generally obvious with a few surprises. For those who don't understand <i>The Wind and the Willows</i>, I hope these lists encourage you to try again. <br />
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<b>Andrew:</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B5KV9J0/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00B5KV9J0&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B00B5KV9J0&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=dominionfamil-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00B5KV9J0" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BNGH4C2/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00BNGH4C2&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">The Adventures of Tom Sawyer</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00BNGH4C2" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> by Mark Twain
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0066238501/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0066238501&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">The Chronicles of Narnia</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0066238501" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> by C.S. Lewis, Illustrated by Pauline Baynes
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B00CJL3ICA/?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&linkCode=ur2&qid=1382713110&sr=1-1-acs&tag=dominionfamil-20" target="_blank">Little Britches Series by Ralph Moody</a><br />
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<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=ur2&o=1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006UTZVEK/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B006UTZVEK&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Complete House of Arden Series by E. NESBIT: The House of Arden and Harding's Luck</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B006UTZVEK" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0082RDZ28/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0082RDZ28&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">The King of Ireland's Son</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0082RDZ28" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> by Padraic Colum
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<b>Alex: </b><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1930900260/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1930900260&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=1930900260&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=dominionfamil-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1930900260" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A735CXK/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00A735CXK&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00A735CXK" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9997483170/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=9997483170&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">The Marsh King by C. Walter Hodges</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=9997483170" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<i>Penrod </i>by Booth Tarkington (Try to find this at used book sales. I am just not able to confirm the Kindle editions are unabridged. Yes, there is racism in these books. I use that as an opportunity to discuss racism.)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1930900260/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1930900260&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">A Tree for Peter by Kate Seredy</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1930900260" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008HSECHY/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B008HSECHY&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Huckleberry Finn </a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B008HSECHY" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />by Mark Twain
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<b><br /></b>
<b>Emily:</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1405264152/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1405264152&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=1405264152&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=dominionfamil-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1405264152" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1405264152/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1405264152&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">The Wind in the Willows</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1405264152" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> by Kenneth Grahame<br />
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<i>The Blue Fairy Book</i> by Andrew Lang<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004UK189I/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004UK189I&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">The Yellow Fairy Book (Andrew Lang's Fairy Books)</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B004UK189I" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<i>The Red Fairy Book</i> by Andrew Lang<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670306339/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0670306339&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Family Grandstand by Carol Ryrie Brink</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0670306339" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<b>James:</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1883937019/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1883937019&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=1883937019&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=dominionfamil-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1883937019" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1883937019/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1883937019&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow by Allen French</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1883937019" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060264454/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0060264454&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Little House on the Prairie</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0060264454" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
by Laura Ingalls Wilder<img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0064400077" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> (Buy the hardcover set)
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<i>Penrod and Sam</i> by Booth Tarkington (the final Penrod book is <i>Penrod Jashber</i> making a trilogy)<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060598247/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0060598247&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">The Chronicles of Narnia</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0060598247" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
by C.S. Lewis (Buy the hardcover!)<br />
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<i>Tom Sawyer</i> by Mark Twain<br />
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<b>Timothy:</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0064400034/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0064400034&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0064400034&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=dominionfamil-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0064400034" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1442474440/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1442474440&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Treasure Island (Scribner Classics)</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1442474440" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> by Robert Louis Stevenson
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0064400034/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0064400034&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Farmer Boy </a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0064400034" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> by Laura Ingalls Wilder<br />
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<i>The Wind in the Willows</i> by Kenneth Grahame<br />
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<i>The Magician's Nephew</i> by C.S. Lewis<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FTOANM2/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00FTOANM2&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Cheaper by the Dozen</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00FTOANM2" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> by Frank B. Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey<br />
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<b>Mama:</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BIPOJVM/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00BIPOJVM&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B00BIPOJVM&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=dominionfamil-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00BIPOJVM" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<i>Swallows and Amazons </i>by Arthur Ransome<br />
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<i>Little House in the Big Woods </i>by Laura Ingalls Wilder<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004TS1MGK/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004TS1MGK&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">The Hiding Place</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B004TS1MGK" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00847TZGG/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00847TZGG&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Men of Iron by Howard Pyle</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00847TZGG" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00BIPOJVM" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525444513/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0525444513&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Pooh's Library: Winnie-The-Pooh, The House At Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young, Now We Are Six (Pooh Original Edition)</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0525444513" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> </i>(First books I buy for my children's families)<i>
</i><br />
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<b>Tim:</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618009361/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0618009361&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0618009361&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=dominionfamil-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0618009361" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AHGJPZS/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00AHGJPZS&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20"> The Lord of the Rings - Boxed Set: The Hobbit / The Fellowship of the Ring / The Two Towers / The Return of the King</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00AHGJPZS" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
by J.R.R. Tolkien<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0084AVGPG/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0084AVGPG&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">The White Company</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0084AVGPG" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618009361/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0618009361&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Farmer Giles of Ham </a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0618009361" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
by J.R.R. Tolkien (Also a terrific audiobook: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0007177445/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0007177445&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Farmer Giles of Ham: Complete & Unabridged</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0007177445" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />)<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0082ZJOYS/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0082ZJOYS&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">The Black Arrow</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0082ZJOYS" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
by RLS(If you are lucky you may find a Scribner's copy illustrated by N.C. Wyeth.)<br />
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<b>Nathaniel:</b><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1442481307/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1442481307&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=1442481307&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=dominionfamil-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1442481307" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004UK6B2M/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004UK6B2M&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">With Wolfe in Canada by G.A. Henty</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B004UK6B2M" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<br />
<i>The Chronicles of Narnia</i> by C.S. Lewis<br />
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<i>The Hobbit</i> by Tolkien<br />
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<i>The Wind in the Willows </i>by Grahame<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1442481307/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1442481307&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">The Last of the Mohicans (Scribner Classics)</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1442481307" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> (Always choose the Scribner's copy when it is available for any book. Illustrated by N.C.Wyeth)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0082ZEO8Y/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0082ZEO8Y&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0082ZEO8Y" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<b>Nicholas: </b><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0803281951/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0803281951&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0803281951&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=dominionfamil-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0803281951" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<i>Little Britches</i> by Ralph Moody<br />
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<i>Man of the Family</i> by Ralph Moody<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003NHS31U/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B003NHS31U&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">The Home Ranch</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B003NHS31U" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
by Ralph Moody<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416949410/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1416949410&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1416949410" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
<br />
<i>The Chronicles of Narnia</i> by Lewis<br />
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<b>Christopher: </b><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007978OY6/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B007978OY6&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B007978OY6&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=dominionfamil-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B007978OY6" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AQMEV8E/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00AQMEV8E&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00AQMEV8E" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<i>Last of the Mohican</i>s by James Fenimore Cooper (Note that this book appears more than once as a favorite. This surprises some people who do not enjoy Cooper but several of my boys went on to read many more Cooper books on their own.)<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007978OY6/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B007978OY6&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">The Lord of the Rings</a>
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<i>Penrod </i> (Again. Laugh and the world laughs with you)<br />
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Chronicles of Narnia by Lewis<br />
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<b>Great Books Not Mentioned:</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0082Z1CVQ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0082Z1CVQ&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Little Women</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0082Z1CVQ" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> and others by Louisa May Alcott<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008LMD6SM/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B008LMD6SM&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0084BNXR4/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0084BNXR4&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0084BNXR4" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> by Howard Pyle (All Howard Pyle books are excellent)<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FC277M/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000FC277M&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Understood Betsy </a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B000FC277M" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> by Dorothy Canfield
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007MB5CEE/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B007MB5CEE&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Caddie Woodlawn</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B007MB5CEE" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> and others by Carol Ryrie Brink (A family favorite author)
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0753404737/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0753404737&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">The Kingfisher Book of Tales from Russia</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0753404737" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> (Alex, Andrew, Emily and I thoroughly enjoyed these tales which I picked up randomly from a book sale once.)
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007DEVSM/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0007DEVSM&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Black fox of Lorne by Marguerite De Angeli</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0007DEVSM" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
(This may be hard to find but if you ever see it, grab it and other by this author.)<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004U6R0LM/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004U6R0LM&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B004U6R0LM&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=dominionfamil-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B004U6R0LM" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0068Q8D8G/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0068Q8D8G&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0068Q8D8G" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<i>Kidnapped</i> by RLS (You can get this for free on Kindle but it would be better to get the Scribner Classic illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. Be careful with Kindle editions. Some are abridged.)<br />
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<b>Suggestion of the Day for <i>Morning Time </i>Memory:</b> <br />
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This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream:— <br />
There spread a cloud of dust along a plain; <br />
And underneath the cloud, or in it, raged <br />
A furious battle, and men yelled, and swords <br />
Shocked upon swords and shields. A prince's banner <br />
Wavered, then staggered backward, hemmed by foes. <br />
A craven hung along the battle's edge, <br />
And thought, "Had I a sword of keener steel— <br />
That blue blade that the king's son bears,— but this <br />
Blunt thing—!" He snapped and flung it from his hand, <br />
And lowering crept away and left the field. <br />
Then came the king's son, wounded sore bested, <br />
And weaponless, and saw the broken sword <br />
Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, <br />
And ran and snatched it, and with battle-shout <br />
Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down <br />
And saved a great cause that heroic day. <br />
<br />Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240353902995298142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719222628695008638.post-12972185714565079162014-08-06T06:42:00.002-07:002014-08-06T06:42:39.299-07:00Organizing Morning Time<b>Day 29~</b><br />
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As we come down the home stretch, I thought it was time to share how I organize our <i>Morning Time. </i></div>
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I am pretty sure someone like Mystie could come up with a better way of organizing it than I have. Once I fell into using my sheet I didn't change it up much over the years. </div>
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Here is a sample MT sheet from the past:</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">The
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<br /></div>
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I also have a notebook with any information I need such as a list of the names of Jesus's disciples or the 12 tribes of Israel. I keep my current MT sheet and our current poem in the front pocket of this notebook.</div>
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I use sheet protectors and keep my Ambleside Term selections, completed MT sheets and a list of the books we have read for the year. At the end of the year I just pop all the MT sheets for the year and our list of books read into one sheet protector in the back of the notebook. </div>
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I also have a poetry notebook with all of our memorized poems printed out so that each day we can just review the next poem. I keep miscellaneous memory in a separate section of the poetry notebook. </div>
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The first few years of MT I was always scrambling around looking through different poetry books for certain poems we had memorized. It took me years to reach this level of basic organization but even this basic level saves us much time each day that we used to spend searching for things. </div>
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Once again, I do not share any of this with you because it is profound but because it is not. If I can do it, you can. The organization is to save time the real point is to just do it. </div>
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I make out my MT sheet for the week and when it is completed, in one week or two or three, I make out the new sheet. It is always motivating to make out that new sheet. Although I plan out my Ambleside Terms for the year, I would never presume to plan out MT for more than a week in advance. It would be too discouraging to be perpetually behind. </div>
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Broad plans are for the future, precise plans are for the week. I do keep a running list of books I plan too read aloud in the future. Sometimes I actually get to these books. I love moving a book from the To Be Read pile to the Reading Now pile.</div>
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There you have it. The heart of MT is the <i>Morning Time</i> Sheet and having all materials handy.</div>
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Dig the grave and let me lie.<br />
Glad did I live and gladly die,<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This be the verse you grave for me:<br />
Here he lies where he longed to be;<br />
Home is the sailor, home from sea,<br />
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Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240353902995298142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719222628695008638.post-16079130792423388242014-08-06T06:41:00.002-07:002014-08-06T06:41:49.677-07:00Nature Notebooks<b>Day 28~</b><br />
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Before I discuss more about reading aloud, I thought I would share my secret for doing nature notebooks. When my oldest children were little we took a nature walk every day. We have almost always been blessed to live in the path of nature. We would walk and find objects to draw and come home and draw or paint them. I did try in the early years to use watercolors as Charlotte Mason suggests. Not being an artist this attempt failed and I stuck to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000E23RSQ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000E23RSQ&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Prismacolor Colored Pencils</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B000E23RSQ" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
for years although lately my friend and CM enthusiast Jeannette Tulis has tried to teach me the dry brush method. I used to purchase our nature notebooks from <a href="http://www.greenleafpress.com/" target="_blank">Greenleaf Press</a> but now I just pick up drawing books from <i>Hobby Lobby.</i> For the younger children I buy the spiral books.<br />
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But after the "real school" years began and there were babies and babies and babies, it was much harder to take that walk and then come home to draw. I did not want to give up on the idea of nature notebooks so I devised a cheat.<br />
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I collected field guides, drawing books and nature books and we pulled those out each day. While I read aloud, the children drew in their nature notebooks.<br />
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This turned out to be a perfect solution for our family and as a consequence we have volumes of nature notebooks scattered throughout our home, some done by talented artists and others.....well, others...but each and every one of them representing the idea of the importance of nature and seeing.<br />
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Because of this and for good or for evil, we rarely feel the need to encumber our real nature hikes with nature notebooks. We usually manage to bring them along but often chose to enjoy our hikes without the added weight. This is not strictly legit for those pursuing a real CM education but it is a workaround that has helped us continue through thick and thin.<br />
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So each morning as I begin our read aloud time, I pause to let the kids get our their nature notebooks. This is something they can begin quite young, almost any age really. The youngest children will enjoy imitating their siblings and it will make them feel a part of things and it will keep them quiet for a couple of seconds.<br />
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One other tip, you can also use your television or computer monitor to bring up images for children to draw. We have been doing that a little bit this year. Any book you can get on Kindle or PDF can be projected on the screen.<br />
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Here are a few of my favorite resources for nature study:<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=sibley%20guide&linkCode=ur2&sprefix=sibley%2Caps%2C188&tag=dominionfamil-20&url=search-alias%3Daps" target="_blank">Sibley Guides</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=ur2&o=1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
My husband is a birder and he loves Sibley best but it is easy to collect all manner of field guides at library book sales.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067945120X/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=067945120X&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=067945120X&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=dominionfamil-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=067945120X" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1580174930/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1580174930&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1580174930" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140153799/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0140153799&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Naming Nature: A Seasonal Guide for the Amateur Naturalist</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=thornton%20burgess&linkCode=ur2&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Athornton%20burgess&tag=dominionfamil-20&url=search-alias%3Daps" target="_blank">Thornton Burgess</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=ur2&o=1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> books with illustrations<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1889538434/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1889538434&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">The Tree Book for Kids and Their Grown Ups</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1889538434" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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For inspiration:<br />
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<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0140153799" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=edwin%20way%20teale&linkCode=ur2&rh=i%3Astripbooks%2Ck%3Aedwin%20way%20teale&sprefix=edwin%20w%2Cstripbooks&tag=dominionfamil-20&url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks" target="_blank">Edwin Way Teale Books</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=ur2&o=1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=gladys%20taber&linkCode=ur2&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Agladys%20taber&sprefix=gladys%20ta%2Caps&tag=dominionfamil-20&url=search-alias%3Daps" target="_blank">Gladys Taber Books</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=ur2&o=1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1888683562/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1888683562&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Pleasant Valley</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1888683562" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> and others by Louis Bromfield<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Annie-Dillard/e/B000APWASA/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&linkCode=ur2&qid=1382620479&sr=8-2-ent&tag=dominionfamil-20" target="_blank">Annie Dillard</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=ur2&o=1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<b>All Things Bright and Beautiful </b>by Cecil Frances Alexander <br />
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All things bright and beautiful,<br />
All creatures great and small,<br />
All things wise and wonderful:<br />
The Lord God made them all.<br />
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Each little flower that opens,<br />
Each little bird that sings,<br />
He made their glowing colors,<br />
He made their tiny wings.<br />
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The rich man in his castle,<br />
The poor man at his gate,<br />
He made them, high or lowly,<br />
And ordered their estate.<br />
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The purple headed mountains,<br />
The river running by,<br />
The sunset and the morning<br />
That brightens up the sky.<br />
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The cold wind in the winter,<br />
The pleasant summer sun,<br />
The ripe fruits in the garden,<br />
He made them every one.<br />
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The tall trees in the greenwood,<br />
The meadows where we play,<br />
The rushes by the water,<br />
To gather every day.<br />
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He gave us eyes to see them,<br />
And lips that we might tell<br />
How great is God Almighty,<br />
Who has made all things well.<br />
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<br />Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240353902995298142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719222628695008638.post-11065106686154370472014-08-06T06:40:00.003-07:002014-08-06T06:40:57.838-07:00Reading Aloud in Morning Time: History, etc. <b>Day 27~</b><br />
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Perhaps reading aloud is what most of us think about when we think of sitting down with our children each morning. In fact, after all the hard work of the early parts of <i>Morning Time,</i> reading aloud almost seems to bring with it a wonderful, relaxing peace. In our family we usually read aloud from 2 or 3 subject books followed by the grand finale of MT our fun, literary book.<br />
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Today I thought we could discuss some of the non-literary books we read aloud in MT saving our literature selections for another post.<br />
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Quite often our reading aloud centers on history. Some of you know that I am not overly concerned about chronology. Taking a hint from Charlotte Mason in my younger years, I learned that we could handle reading from several different time periods at once without problems. When I am working on books for each child's individual reading lists I DO pick a time period for their reading but even then I do not let that stop me from making sure they read certain books before they graduate no matter what the era. In my opinion chronology is overrated and can be a stumbling block. Too much chronology can steal some of the joy out of finding that <i>'science of relations.' </i> Some mothers are so bent towards chronology that they use up valuable time reading inferior books just to stick with the time frame. "Ain't nobody got time for that."<br />
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<a href="http://www.amblesideonline.org/CM/vol6complete.html#6_1_10_00" target="_blank"><i>"Education is the Science of Relations"</i></a>; that is,
that a child has natural relations with a vast number of things and
thoughts: so we train him upon physical exercises, nature lore,
handicrafts, science and art, and upon many living books, for we know
that our business is not to teach him all about anything, but to help
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I think of MT as a place to read what is called a history spine. Often I have two different spines going at the same time. I might be reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004W0JF00/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004W0JF00&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Our Island Story</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B004W0JF00" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
along with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/096438034X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=096438034X&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">George Washington's World</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=096438034X" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
. Once again remember to keep it short. It may take me two or three years to get through a Marshall book. Last year we only read two spines and one carried over from the year before: The Story of the Thirteen Colonies by Marshall and the previously mentioned <i>George Washington's World</i>. This year we are reading Dorothy Mills <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1615381120/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1615381120&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">The Book of the Ancient Greeks</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1615381120" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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So we generally read a spine book of some sort, some other subject book such as our current book <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307454584/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0307454584&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20%22%3EScience%20Matters:%20Achieving%20Scientific%20Literacy%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307454584%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E" target="_blank">Science Matters </a>and then a literary book which may or may not match up to the spine but usually doesn't. <br />
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Altogether we read about 15-20 books out loud each year but this includes Shakespeare's plays (generally 3), Plutarch's Lives, history, science, biography and literature. I wish this were a bigger number but it is what it is. In the olden days we would have read about 20 literature selections a year not counting other books but these days our lives are much busier with less time after school for reading. This is one reason I cling to MT. Reading aloud is important to me. It offers our family a shared cultural heritage and common core. I am working hard to make sure Alex and Andrew have at least some of this commonality with their brothers and Emily<br />
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Not all read-alouds have to be heavy. Here are a few series which provide much learning without much stress on the part of the reader and they provide the best Morning Time gift: good memories.<br />
Try to find the old versions, I don't trust updates. <br />
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Great Series to work through:<br />
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<a href="http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/COFA.htm" target="_blank">Childhood of Famous Americans</a><br />
<a href="http://www.valerieslivinglibrary.com/wewere.htm" target="_blank">We Were There</a><br />
<a href="http://www.valerieslivinglibrary.com/signature.htm" target="_blank">The Story of Signature Biographies</a><br />
<a href="http://www.thorntonburgess.org/PDF%27s/Thornton%20Burgess%20Books.pdf" target="_blank">Thornton Burgess Books</a><br />
<a href="http://www.valerieslivinglibrary.com/lm.htm" target="_blank">Landmark Books</a><br />
<a href="http://www.valerieslivinglibrary.com/henty.htm" target="_blank">G.A Henty Books</a><br />
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<b>The Lake Isle of Innisfree</b><br />
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<br />Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240353902995298142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719222628695008638.post-33513420389244691702014-08-06T06:39:00.002-07:002014-08-10T13:11:41.082-07:00The Beauty of Grammar and the Short Lesson<b>Day 26~</b><br />
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We didn't always do a bit of grammar in <i>Morning Time</i> but it has become one of my favorite sections of MT in the last couple of years. </div>
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I am not a grammarian. I want to be and I have tried to be but it has been a slow road. I noticed it was a slow road for the children too. We could study, fill out worksheets, and take tests but if I randomly asked someone what part of speech a word was they invariably got it wrong. Sometimes they could not remember the most basic words. This led me have a deep mistrust of programs which taught grammar over and over and over again. It also led me to realize that Charlotte Mason was right about grammar being best taught in context through narration and dictation and in short lessons. </div>
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A few years ago I began reading aloud <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=86ESAAAAIAAJ&num=13" target="_blank">The Mother Tongue,</a> an OOP grammar series which was recommended to me by people who knew grammar. This reading worked well in MT. We would read a tiny section and discuss it. I still had trouble holding concepts in my head but I was making progress and as I did the kids did. </div>
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(Note: This book has recently been updated for modern students with an answer key and student workbook. These are very well done.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/099055290X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=099055290X&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">The Mother Tongue: Adapted for Modern Students (The Mother Tongue Set)</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=099055290X" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=099055290X" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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After we finished reading aloud those books I was looking for another way to incorporate grammar into MT. I have every grammar resource known to man around my house. I throw money at weak areas. If money could make me a grammarian I would be teaching English in a university. As the boys were becoming familiar with diagramming sentences in a series of books they were using for more formal grammar study, I decided to use the companion book <a href="http://www.growingwithgrammar.com/1DID.html" target="_blank">Digging into Diagramming</a> to enhance that study. </div>
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At the same time, I had purchased a pile of Michael Clay Thompson books but was having trouble fitting them into our days. </div>
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Last year we began diagramming one sentence a day in MT. This went very well. Then this year I added studying one sentence a day using <a href="http://www.rfwp.com/series/practice-sentences-student-workbooks" target="_blank">MCT's Practice books</a>. MCT breaks down each sentence four ways. This simple idea has gone a long way in untangling grammar for me. First you break down each word into its part of speech. Secondly, you find out what job the words or phrases are performing such as: subject, predicate or direct object. Then you look for phrases and clauses. Finally you discuss the poetics of the sentence. We are now doing this one sentence at a time and loving it. Best of all grammar is starting to make sense. For this type of group study of the MCT books you only need the teacher's edition.</div>
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Diagramming one sentence and breaking down another sentence takes less than 5 minutes a day usually. Very doable and so rewarding.This way of teaching grammar in very short lessons, with much discussion and application, works. </div>
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I use a whiteboard. First I read a small section of the diagramming book and then I put up a sample sentence. The next day I let one of the boys diagram a similar sentence from the book and then the next day the other boy does it. Then if all is well, we move to the next type.</div>
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For the MCT sentence, I write the sentence of the day on the white board. Then we write under each word the part of speech it is, we add parenthesis to prepositional phrases or infinitives and discuss subject and verb followed by any other things such as direct objects or indirect objects. Finally, discuss whether it is dependent or independent and end with any confusing vocabulary words. We don't always stick to the script sometimes we go ahead and discuss the vocabulary first. </div>
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We do all this right before we read aloud so it is almost like a break and we all enjoy it. I hope to work through many of these practice books in this way.</div>
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The boys do have other grammar workbooks they use during their own school time but I also keep those short. Without this MT grammar time, I would expect far less fruit from their other studies and of course, they each must complete one written narration a day which I read and discuss with them, although I do not deal with every mistake, every time. </div>
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Alex uses <a href="http://growingwithgrammar.com/" target="_blank">Growing With Gramma</a>r and Andrew is working through <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0838823440/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0838823440&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Stewart English Program: Principles Plus.</a> </div>
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Unlike Shakespeare, you will not find pages and pages of books on Amazon dedicated to helping you teach Plutarch. To tell the truth this is good. As with most things it is better to do something than to read about doing it. I believe that so much that I would be happy if you stopped reading this right now and instead picked up Plutarch and began reading a paragraph or two to your children.<br />
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But there are quite a few articles online from the Charlotte Mason community about reading Plutarch. These articles can inspire you and give you hints about how to go about it.<br />
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How do I go about reading Plutarch?<br />
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When I first started I used <a href="http://www.amblesideonline.org/PlutarchSch.shtml" target="_blank">Anne White's</a> notes from Ambleside Online. I printed off all of her notes and the text of the Life and put them in my MT notebook. This was very helpful and I highly recommend doing this.<br />
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But I am also lazy and after I got the hang of Plutarch, I found it easier just to pick up the volume and read, marking my copy of the book wherever we stopped.<br />
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Personally, I don't really like to read children's versions of Plutarch because what I really like is the way he says what he says. The stories, of course, are beneficial for virtue and citizenship but the language of the Dryden/Clough version is superior. It is beautiful and worthy to sit on a shelf besides Shakespeare and the King James Bible. A child who hears this language is a fortunate child.<br />
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Certainly, I would not begin my small children on the full Plutarch though. I started later when I already had older kids, but the small children who do sit in while you are reading to the older children will still benefit from hearing this, I believe.<br />
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So I would say that children's versions serve a good purpose but don't let them keep you from eventually reading the real thing.<br />
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I just pick up my volume of Plutarch and start reading. I do not read more than a page and half a day and often much less. The ideas are packed densely. This is the cheesecake of literature.<br />
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Plutarch throws a lot of names around. I only stop to comment on the main ones: <br />
"Who was Aristomache again? Oh, yeah she is Dionysius' wife and Dion's sister."<br />
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If I am confused, I assume the kids are and I stop and figure out what is going on out loud. If I come across something that I have a background in, I will stop and explain what I am bringing to the table. I stop often and ask the kids what just happened. I stop to note interesting word choices and we discuss them.<br />
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"What if Heraclides be perfidious, malicious and base..." Perfect place for a vocabulary lesson and one where the kids can figure out what perfidious means from the context.<br />
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I don't bog down ever reading with ever possible discussion but I do only read small amounts with lots of discussion along the way. Usually, once we get the hang of the direction of the Life, our comprehension goes way up which is why using Anne White's study guides is probably a good idea for newbies.<br />
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I hope this is clear. Please feel free to ask questions.<br />
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Here are links I keep promising:<br />
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<a href="http://www.circeinstitute.org/2012/11/plutarch-does-it-again" target="_blank">Plutarch Does it Again</a> by Cindy Rollins at the Circe Blog<br />
<a href="http://www.circeinstitute.org/2012/02/waiting-for-lycurgus" target="_blank">Waiting for Lycurgus</a> by Cindy Rollins at the Circe Blog (This might give you a picture of how we read Plutarch)<br />
<a href="http://www.amblesideonline.org/PlutarchSch.shtml" target="_blank">Ambleside Online Plutarch</a><br />
<a href="http://www.amblesideonline.org/WhyPlutarch.shtml" target="_blank">Why Read Plutarc</a>h by George Grant<br />
<a href="http://www.afterthoughtsblog.net/2013/10/31-days-of-charlotte-mason-plutarch-by.html" target="_blank">Afterthoughts 31 Days of Charlotte Mason's Plutarch post</a><br />
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/plutarch%20site:amblesideonline.org/PR/" target="_blank">Google search of Parents Review </a><br />
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<b>Marc Antony's Funeral Oration from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare</b><br />
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;<br />
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.<br />
The evil that men do lives after them;<br />
The good is oft interred with their bones;<br />
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus<br />
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:<br />
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,<br />
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.<br />
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest--<br />
For Brutus is an honourable man;<br />
So are they all, all honourable men--<br />
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.<br />
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:<br />
But Brutus says he was ambitious;<br />
And Brutus is an honourable man.<br />
He hath brought many captives home to Rome<br />
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:<br />
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?<br />
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:<br />
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:<br />
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;<br />
And Brutus is an honourable man.<br />
You all did see that on the Lupercal<br />
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,<br />
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?<br />
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;<br />
And, sure, he is an honourable man.<br />
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,<br />
But here I am to speak what I do know.<br />
You all did love him once, not without cause:<br />
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?<br />
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,<br />
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;<br />
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,<br />
And I must pause till it come back to meCindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240353902995298142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719222628695008638.post-51825725568829569752014-08-06T06:38:00.000-07:002014-08-06T06:38:03.518-07:00Our Best Loved Family Poems (Blast from the Past)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(I am working on the PDF of my <i>Morning Time</i> posts and I thought I would add a few post archived from my old, dead blog.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Blast from the Past) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In these days of computer software
it really isn’t hard to make a family poetry book. I keep all our memorized
poems and speeches in a notebook but this summer I hope to turn that into a
bound book. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the meantime, I asked each member
of our family to tell me their favorite poems.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Timothy: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Crossing the Bar Tennyson (See below)<br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To a Mouse Burns</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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And his all time favorite:</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Donkey</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
G.K.Chesterton</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When fishes flew and forests walked<br />
And figs grew upon thorn,<br />
Some moment when the moon was blood<br />
Then surely I was born. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With monstrous head and sickening
cry<br />
And ears like errant wings,<br />
The devil’s walking parody<br />
On all four-footed things. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The tattered outlaw of the earth,<br />
Of ancient crooked will;<br />
Starve, scourge, deride me: I am dumb,<br />
I keep my secret still. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fools! For I also had my hour;<br />
One far fierce hour and sweet:<br />
There was a shout about my ears,<br />
And palms before my feet. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nicholas: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sunset and evening star,<br />
And one clear call for me!<br />
And may there be no moaning of the bar,<br />
When I put out to sea,<br />
But such a tide as moving seems asleep,<br />
Too full for sound and foam,<br />
When that which drew from out the boundless deep<br />
Turns again home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Twilight and evening bell,<br />
And after that the dark!<br />
And may there be no sadness of farewell,<br />
When I embark;<br />
For tho’ from out our bourne of Time and Place<br />
The flood may bear me far,<br />
I hope to see my Pilot face to face<br />
When I have crost the bar.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">James: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
The Highwayman Noyes (link below)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The moon was a ghostly galleon
tossed upon cloudy seas….</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nathaniel: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">If Kipling</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Keep a’ Goin’ Frank L Stanton</span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“We Shall Fight” Winston Churchill</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">St. Crispin’s Day Speech from Henry V William
Shakespeare</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Benjamin: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Paul Revere’s Ride Longfellow</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Redwall poems</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emily: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE BEE is not afraid of me,<br />
I know the butterfly;<br />
The pretty people in the woods<br />
Receive me cordially. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The brooks laugh louder when I come,<br />
The breezes madder play.<br />
Wherefore, mine eyes, thy silver mists?<br />
Wherefore, O summer’s day?</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Andrew : </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Knight Whose Armour Didn’t Squeak AA Milne</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SONG FOR SNOWY WEATHER</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> AA Milne</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The more it<br />
Snows-tiddley-pom<br />
The more it<br />
Goes-tiddley-pom<br />
The more it<br />
Goes-tiddley-pom<br />
on<br />
Snowing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And Nobody<br />
Knows-tiddley-pom,<br />
How cold my<br />
Toes-tiddley-pom<br />
Are Growing.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alex:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Alex can’t quite get his mind around what I am talking about. He has just
narrated to me almost every Pooh story and told me each was his favorite. “You
know the one where Pooh spills honey?” or “You know where Pooh goes hunting
with Piglet?” “I like the one with Tigger and what’s his name…..Roo.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let’s just say his favorite poet is
AA Milne.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tim: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Song of the Chattahoochie Sidney Lanier </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">which begins “Out of the hills of Habersham,” and Tim loves
those hills.<br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">November Elizabeth Coatsworth</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,<br />
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: black;">The Highwayman Alfred Noyes</span> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as recited by George Grant.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cindy: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,<br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Cotter’s Saturday Night Burns</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,<br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Jenny Kissed Me Leigh Hunt</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lucy II</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Wordsworth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She dwelt among the untrodden ways<br />
Beside the springs of Dove;<br />
A maid whom there were none to praise,<br />
And very few to love. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A violet by a mossy stone<br />
Half-hidden from the eye!<br />
—Fair as a star, when only one<br />
Is shining in the sky. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She lived unknown, and few could
know<br />
When Lucy ceased to be;<br />
But she is in her grave, and, O!<br />
The difference to me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So there they are: our family
favorites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What is your favorite poem? </span></div>
Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240353902995298142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719222628695008638.post-77572805771864795262014-08-06T06:36:00.002-07:002014-08-06T06:36:22.060-07:00Plutarch: Why?<b>Day 24~ </b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.circeinstitute.org/2011/10/why-read-plutarch">I wrote this for the Circe Institute</a>:</b><br />
(With some changes for the blog)<b> </b><br />
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Our family came to enjoy
reading Shakespeare together after years of longing. It was a heart’s desire that became a
reality over time. Not so with Plutarch and his Lives. When I first read
how some Charlotte Mason Cottage Schools (PNEU) in Britain read <i>Plutarch’s Lives</i>
in class I barely gave it a thought. One reason was my own dismal
education. Plutarch who? It took many years of hearing the name and the
book mentioned before I had the faintest stirring in that direction. To
tell the truth I wasn’t ready to appreciate the author at all. But as
time went by, I began to trust Charlotte Mason and her ideas; this
inevitably led to reading <i>Plutarch’s Lives</i> aloud to my children.<br />
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My first faltering attempts to read <i>Pericles</i>, one of the Greek
lives, were tarnished by my own inability to read long sentences
correctly. When it comes to long sentences Plutarch beats Thomas
Jefferson hands down. Over time I began to get the hang of it and now I
find it an absolute joy to trip through phrase after phrase of
Plutarch’s long thoughts. This density of thought makes Plutarch perfect
for short readings, appropriate for homes and schools.<br />
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Our students
benefit from hearing these long sentences; their minds are forced to
attention and they begin to absorb the purposes of the English phrase. I
say English because, at least around here, we generally read Arthur
Cough’s revision of John Dryden’s translation.<br />
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The old PNEU schools used Plutarch to teach citizenship.<br />
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“Citizenship
becomes a definite subject rather from the point of view of what may be
called the inspiration of citizenship than from that of the knowledge
proper to a citizen, though the latter is by no means neglected. We find
Plutarch's Lives exceedingly inspiring. These are read by the teacher
(with suitable omissions) and narrated with great spirit by the
children.” (<i>Towards a Philosophy of Education</i>, 185) </blockquote>
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Certainly,
we find ourselves in need of teaching citizenship in these dark days.
Plutarch can provide us with a way out of the red state/blue state
divide into the clear air of individual responsibility and the
consequences of ideas.<br />
<br />
Reading Plutarch is an excellent tool for
training the judgment. The book is set up to compare the lives of the
Greeks and the Romans, alternating between them.<br />
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Children “learn to answer such questions as,--"In what ways did Pericles
make Athens beautiful? How did he persuade the people to help him?" And
we may hope that the idea is engendered of preserving and increasing
the beauty" (185).</blockquote>
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“Plutarch is like the Bible in this, that he does not label the actions
of his people as good or bad but leaves the conscience and judgment of
his readers to make that classification. What to avoid and how to avoid
it, is knowledge as important to the citizen....” (187). </blockquote>
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This is a beautiful thing. When presented with the facts, children
allowed to come to their own conclusions will be forced by nature to
make their own judgments, thus developing their consciences in ways that
cannot be easily uprooted.
Long sentences, citizenship and judgment are hefty reasons for
persevering as a teacher in learning to read aloud <i>Plutarch’s Lives</i>
in a quality translation.<br />
<br />
In our family, I read one or two of the long
paragraphs a day stopping along the way frequently to discuss the
meaning of the vocabulary or to deconstruct a sentence, figuring out
what is being said. It can be a fun exercise almost like doing a group
puzzle. <i>The Lives</i> do not need to be rushed; we usually read
only 3 a year. Take your time and enjoy the ramble. They are not the
type of book you read through once and call it a day. The greatest
profit is gained by a lifelong friendship with the work.<br />
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Tomorrow I will link to more resources for using Plutarch and explain in more detail how I go about reading Plutarch.<br />
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Plutarch is not easy but I can now say with Charlotte that it should not be skipped.<br />
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<b>Suggestion of the Day for <i>Morning Time </i>Memory:</b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrYVTpsAGYk" target="_blank">Before the Throne of God (Hymn)</a> </b><br />
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Before the throne of God above<br />
I have a strong and perfect plea:<br />
A great High Priest, whose name is Love, <br />
Who ever lives and pleads for me.<br />
<br />
My name is graven on His hands, <br />
My name is written on His heart; <br />
I know that while in heaven He stands<br />
No tongue can bid me thence depart<br />
No tongue can bid me thence depart.<br />
<br />
When Satan tempts me to despair, <br />
And tells me of the guilt within, <br />
Upward I look, and see Him there<br />
Who made an end to all my sin.<br />
<br />
Because the sinless Savior died, <br />
My sinful soul is counted free; <br />
For God the just is satisfied<br />
To look on Him and pardon me<br />
To look on Him and pardon me<br />
<br />
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Praise the One, <br />
Risen Son of God! <br />
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Behold Him there, the Risen Lamb<br />
My perfect, spotless righteousness, <br />
The great unchangeable I am, <br />
The King of glory and of grace! <br />
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One with Himself I cannot die<br />
My soul is purchased by His blood<br />
My life is hid with Christ on high, <br />
With Christ, my Savior and my God<br />
With Christ, my Savior and my God <br />
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<br />Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240353902995298142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719222628695008638.post-52001856861010854822014-08-06T06:33:00.003-07:002014-08-06T06:33:54.352-07:00Memorizing Shakespeare<b>Day 22~</b><br />
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I highly recommend memorizing passages from any play you are enjoying. For some plays there are a wealth of passages worth remembering and for others you have to dig deep but I think it is worth the effort.<br />
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Harold Bloom has written quite a bit about the need to memorize Shakespeare. Lea Carpenter broke this down in a <a href="http://bigthink.com/english-lessons/lesson-10-harold-bloom-how-does-memorizing-shakespeare-change-the-way-we-think-or-write" target="_blank">2011 article</a>.<br />
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"We are “influenced” by what we remember. Bloom, celebrated and vilified
in equal measure, still never wavers from this central theme, and
implicit in it is a larger one: literature matters. “Shakespeare is
God,” Bloom has said, and one interpretation of that is that one author
more than any other has colored the way we see the world. We should show
respect.<br />
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“Possession by memory is what I try and teach my students,” Bloom tells
Tanenhaus. Any actor who has played Hamlet or Juliet knows this is true.
Memorization (a comparatively easy task with iambic pentameter) is an
excellent conduit to empathy for the poet, a far more powerful and
relevant conduit than, say, knowing about his or her sex life."</blockquote>
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Over the years I have come to prioritize the memorizing of Shakespeare over other poetry just because it is rare to find better meter or meaning. Five of our last six poems have come from Shakespeare. When in doubt pick Shakespeare.<br />
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One thing I failed to mention in the earlier memory sections is how we go about memorizing poems. For the most part we just read the poem every day and gradually begin to leave out words. About 2 weeks into this I will assign the poem as a narration and then in a couple of weeks more I will do it again. When I think we almost have it I will set an end date and push to leave out more and more. Finally when we have learned the poem I put in on my review list every week for a while. <br />
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To get you started here are few passages to memorize (<a href="http://www.ordo-amoris.com/2011/09/10-passages-from-shakespeare-to.html" target="_blank">and here is another post I wrote</a>) from The Bard:<br />
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1. The Quality of Mercy (Portia in The Merchant of Venice)<br />
2. Hamlet's To Be or Not to Be Soliloquy (This is quite delightful with its odd words)<br />
3. Marc Antony's Friends, Romans, Countryman (Julius Caesar)<br />
4. All the World's a Stage (As You Like It)<br />
5. St. Crispin's Day Speech (Henry V, every boy should know this) <br />
7. How Sweet the Moonlight... (Merchant of Venice)<br />
8. The Man that has no music...(Merchant of Venice)<br />
9. Fear No More (Cymbeline)<br />
10. When Icicles Hang (Love's Labour's Lost)<br />
11. Sonnet 29<br />
12. Sonnet 18<br />
13. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Macbeth)<br />
14. Thy husband is thy lord, thy keeper..(Kate's speech from The Taming of the Shrew)<br />
15. But soft what light through yonder window breaks (Romeo and Juliet)<br />
16. The lunatic, the lover and the poet ( A Midsummer's Night's Dream)<br />
17. Then you must speak of one who loved not wisely (Othello's death speech)<br />
18. Wolsey's Farewell to his Greatness (Henry V)<br />
19. Give thy thoughts no tongue... (Polonius's famous advice to Laertes, Hamlet)<br />
20. This royal throne of kings, this sceptered Isle.. (Richard II<br />
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<b>Suggestion of the Day for <i>Morning Time </i>Memory:</b><br />
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<b>From Richard II by William Shakespeare </b><br />
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This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,<br />
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,<br />
This other Eden, demi-paradise,<br />
This fortress built by Nature for herself<br />
Against infection and the hand of war,<br />
This happy breed of men, this little world,<br />
This precious stone set in the silver sea,<br />
Which serves it in the office of a wall,<br />
Or as a moat defensive to a house,<br />
Against the envy of less happier lands,<br />
This blessed plot, this earth,
this realm, this England<br />
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From Richard II, Act 2 (Shakespeare)<br />
<br />Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240353902995298142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719222628695008638.post-5737602997187421232014-08-06T06:32:00.003-07:002014-08-06T06:32:47.444-07:00Reading Shakespeare in Morning Time: How?<b>Day 21~</b><br />
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<b>The Reality: </b><br />
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Right up front I will tell you that for all of our reading of Shakespeare my children do not love him as I do. That is OK. This is another instance where I am counting on the long haul and in this case it is the extra long haul. I say that so that you don't think that the value of reading Shakespeare is an immediate reward or based on what the children enjoy. Even though education is the training of the affections, it is often a future hope. Some of you will have a certain temperament of child who will revel in Shakespeare. Great. But if reading Shakespeare is good, and it is, then you can afford to read it even when it is unappreciated, just keep it short. Do not weary the children with pushing through too much material.<br />
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I read Shakespeare and/or Plutarch immediately after our initial prayer, singing, and part of our Bible time. I do this for the upper high school students who may leave after that. I am not sure what I am going to do with Andrew in 11th grade. MT is now geared to Andrew and Alex and it has been rich and rewarding. I have tailored his schedule to Morning Time this year and I am hoping he can stay for the vast majority of it next year but we shall see.<br />
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<b>The Reading: </b><br />
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My system for reading Shakespeare is quite simple. I usually read a synopsis or story form of the play from either <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0067L8EWC/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0067L8EWC&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Tales from Shakespeare</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0067L8EWC" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> by Charles and Mary Lamb or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0765194902/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0765194902&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children</a>
by E. Nesbit. This may take between one and three <i>Morning Times.</i><br />
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I usually then spend one day reading through the cast of characters. This is very helpful as we start reading. I may, more often with the historical plays, pull out a reference book and read more for my own benefit. That way I can pass on tidbits of information as we go. By far my favorite Shakespeare reference is: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AZS03FO/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00AZS03FO&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00AZS03FO" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />. This book is so well-written you can read it for pleasure. Asimov is opinionated but I am guessing that is what makes the book so fascinating.<br />
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At this point I begin reading the play with Act I, Scene I and almost always just read one scene a day even if it is just a tiny scene. Sometimes if the scene is super-short or we are almost finished with the play, I will read two but that is rare. Some plays have extra long scenes that are best broken up into two readings. <i>Antony and Cleopatra</i> is Shakespeare's longest play and it shows in the scenes.<br />
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Being a minimalist for years I read the plays aloud by either pausing and changing voices slightly between speakers or deadpanning the name of the speaker before saying the part. Each way depended on the scene. It is easy to do separate voices if the scene is between a man and a woman. My accents are so bad I get into trouble very quickly if I try to give each character a separate accent. At the end of this post I will describe my new way of reading the plays. <br />
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<b>The Movies: </b><br />
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As we are getting into the play I begin thinking about watching a version of it. There are many ways to approach this.<br />
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*You can watch one version of the play before you read it and a different version afterwards. This works well with plays which have many movies such as <i>Hamlet </i>or <i>Julius Caesar. </i><br />
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<i>*</i>You watch the play midway through the reading which is often the best way. Then you get the benefit of some familiarity and the movie and the reading begin to work symbiotically.<br />
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*You can cap off your reading of the play with a movie.<br />
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When you do watch a production you may want to just use up a whole MT for that purpose. I have found that in a busy family, it is hard to carve out time to watch something together. Skipping a regular MT to watch Shakespeare is a good compromise. Depending on the ages of your children and the quality of the movie, you may want to break up the movie into two days. Yay for intermissions!!<br />
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It is also valuable to watch plays randomly, plays you haven't gotten to yet or plays you would like to review. Some Shakespearean movies are so well-done they are enjoyable as entertainment and there are many plays which have quirky but fun adaptations. Some plays will be shot as stage productions and some as regular movies.<br />
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Warning: Do your research before turning on the movie. I turned on a 1960s BBC production of <i>A Midsummer Night's Dream</i> once only to find none of the fairies wore shirts and then there was our famous <i>King Lear</i> fiasco. I haven't had the heart to read <i>Lear </i>again since that gruesome movie. Often theater companies will take a stance on interpreting every innuendo with zeal. This is frustrating so <a href="http://www.charlottemasonhelp.com/2009/07/shakespeare-movies-for-family.html" target="_blank">read reviews!!</a><br />
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Some day I hope to compile my own list of favorite movies. <br />
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<b>The New Deal:</b><br />
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I recently blogged about our new way of reading Shakespeare. I now try to buy an audio version of the play we will be reading. I prefer the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/mn/search/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=arkangel%20shakespeare&linkCode=ur2&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aarkangel%20shakespeare&sprefix=arkangel%20%2Caps%2C172&tag=dominionfamil-20&url=search-alias%3Daps" target="_blank">Arkangel Productions</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=ur2&o=1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> and hope to collect them all someday. I download the play to my computer and then hook the computer up to our TV via an HDMI connection. We then listen to the play while reading along on the screen. For instance for Macbeth I go to this site: <a href="http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/" target="_blank">Macbeth Scenes</a>.<br />
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The downside of this is that if we want to discuss as we go I have to pause the CD. When reading Shakespeare I will often ask the kids what they think something means especially metaphors. I don't do this for every metaphor but once a day I will usually ask a question as we read. If a scene is especially confusing I will stop explain what just happened and then read it again. Once again, I don't do this for every confusing scene. The kids quickly pick that Shakespeare uses nuances of language and they begin to stretch for them which is one of the reasons Shakespeare is so valuable.<br />
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There is one other aspect to reading Shakespeare with children that I will cover tomorrow and tomorrow...oops, that is memorizing Shakespeare.<br />
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<b>Suggestion of the Day for <i>Morning Time </i>Memory:</b><br />
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<b>Sonnet 29</b><br />
<b> William Shakespeare</b><br />
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When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
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I all alone beweep my outcast state,
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And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
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And look upon myself and curse my fate,
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Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
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Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
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Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,
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With what I most enjoy contented least;
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Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
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Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
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(Like to the lark at break of day arising
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From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
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For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
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That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
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<br />Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240353902995298142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719222628695008638.post-60837424987288149272014-08-06T06:31:00.003-07:002014-08-06T06:31:46.499-07:00Reading Shakespeare in Morning Time: Why?<b>Day 20~ </b><br />
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When I first read Susan Schaeffer MacCaulay's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1433506955/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1433506955&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">For the Children's Sake</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1433506955" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
when my oldest was 3 I was most excited by the idea of reading Shakespeare to my children. Her descriptions of her little girls returning home from school joyously playing Shakespeare melted my heart. That is what I wanted for my children.<br />
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I had already developed my own love of Shakespeare. In highschool we had studied via <span class="st"><i>Dino de Laurentiis </i>Romeo and Juliet and one summer I bought one of those huge volumes of<i> The Complete Works of Shakespeare</i> and read with delight <i>The Taming of the Shrew.</i> After I went to college I forgot about Shakespeare until I picked up MacCaulay's book and recalled the joy I found in the meter of <i>The Taming of the Shrew</i>. No one had told me that Shakespeare was often written in meter. I stumbled onto the meter on my own and that discovery filled me with joy. I wanted my children to have that from an early age.</span><br />
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<span class="st">And yet year after year after year went by and I was never able to incorporate the reading of Shakespeare into our <i>Morning Time. </i>This was one of life's disappointments.</span><br />
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<span class="st">Then when my oldest was around 12 or 13 a group of ladies began what was called PUO or Parents' Union Online. You know it today as <a href="http://www.amblesideonline.org/curriculum.shtml" target="_blank">Ambleside Online.</a> This awoke in me a fresh vision to introduce my children to <a href="http://www.amblesideonline.org/ShakespeareSch.shtml" target="_blank">Shakespeare</a> and so that summer we set up our lawn chairs in the back yard each afternoon and began reading <i>A Midsummer's Nights' Dream</i> one scene at time. It was the perfect play to start with. The children laughed.</span><br />
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<span class="st">Since that time I have continued to read Shakespeare one scene at at time to my children and the scenes turned into acts and the acts turned into plays until we have now read together almost the entire canon. </span><br />
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<span class="st">And that is it really. One scene. Another scene. An Act. A play.</span><br />
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<span class="st">No lesson plans. No fancy resources. It can be THAT simple. In the next few posts I will be giving you lots of hints and helps but never forget that all you really need to do is pick up a play and start reading.</span><br />
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<span class="st">That is my story but you might be wondering why you should read Shakespeare. Here is what Charlotte Mason says, </span><br />
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”To become intimate with Shakespeare in this way
is a great enrichment of mind and instruction of conscience. Then, by
degrees, as we go on reading this world – teacher, lines of insight and
beauty take possession of us, and unconsciously mould our judgments of
men and things and of the great issues of life.” (<i>Charlotte Mason, Ourselves, Book 2, page 72</i>)
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There’s the rub: the instruction of conscience and the molding of our
judgments- truth, beauty and yes, goodness, all within the canon of the
plays of William Shakespeare.
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Then, of course, there are the added utilitarian benefits to vocabulary and cultural literacy.<br />
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Tomorrow I will describe more fully how we approach a play but I did want to address one more aspect of reading Shakespeare-inappropriate material. It is true that sometimes Shakespeare is coarse. He does not shy away from presenting coarse people as coarse. He never feels the need to sanitize his characters. He shows them to us as they are.<br />
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You can handle this in many different ways:<br />
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*You can read the plays out loud skipping awkward sections. I am quite good at reading ahead and skipping parts.<br />
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*You can avoid plays that are too mature such as <i>Pericles</i> or <i>The Merry Wives of Windsor</i>.<br />
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*You can read the parts without comment since they will most likely not be understood by the immature anyway.<br />
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*You can read them and use them as a chance to talk about mature themes.<br />
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While most plays will have at least a little bit of uncomfortable material overall these inappropriate parts are rare. Most families will be able to work around them without problem.<br />
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Although this repeats much of what I say here and the formatting is weird you may want to read another article I wrote on <a href="http://www.circeinstitute.org/2011/09/teaching-shakespeare-to-children" target="_blank">Shakespeare for Circe</a>. <br />
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<b>Suggestion of the Day for <i>Morning Time </i>Memory:</b> <br />
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<i>The Merchant of Venice</i>, Act IV, Scene I [The quality of mercy is not strained]</h1>
by <a href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/122">William Shakespeare</a>
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<pre>The quality of mercy is not strained;
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
'T is mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown:
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthronèd in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much
To mitigate the justice of thy plea;
Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice
Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.</pre>
- See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21707#sthash.0wKF8VnO.dpuf</div>
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<h1 class="TITLE">
<i>The Merchant of Venice</i>, Act IV, Scene I [The quality of mercy is not strained]</h1>
by <a href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/122">William Shakespeare</a>
<br />
<pre>The quality of mercy is not strained;
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
'T is mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown:
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthronèd in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much
To mitigate the justice of thy plea;
Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice
Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.</pre>
- See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21707#sthash.0wKF8VnO.dpuf</div>
The Quality of Mercy is not Strain’d
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<div class="info">
<i class="date"><a href="http://audiopoetry.wordpress.com/2006/05/07/the-quality-of-mercy-is-not-straind-2/" rel="bookmark" title="11:39 am"></a></i><i class="comments-popup"></i>William Shakespeare (Portia in The Merchant Of Venice)</div>
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The quality of mercy is not strain’d,<br />
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven<br />
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;<br />
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:<br />
‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes<br />
The throned monarch better than his crown;<br />
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,<br />
The attribute to awe and majesty,<br />
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;<br />
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;<br />
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,<br />
It is an attribute to God himself;<br />
And earthly power doth then show likest God’s<br />
When mercy seasons justice. <br />
<div id="stcpDiv" style="left: -1988px; position: absolute; top: -1999px;">
<h1 class="TITLE">
<i>The Merchant of Venice</i>, Act IV, Scene I [The quality of mercy is not strained]</h1>
by <a href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/122">William Shakespeare</a>
<br />
<pre>The quality of mercy is not strained;
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
'T is mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown:
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthronèd in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much
To mitigate the justice of thy plea;
Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice
Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.</pre>
- See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21707#sthash.0wKF8VnO.dpuf</div>
<div id="stcpDiv" style="left: -1988px; position: absolute; top: -1999px;">
<h1 class="TITLE">
<i>The Merchant of Venice</i>, Act IV, Scene I [The quality of mercy is not strained]</h1>
by <a href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/122">William Shakespeare</a>
<br />
<pre>The quality of mercy is not strained;
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
'T is mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown:
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthronèd in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much
To mitigate the justice of thy plea;
Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice
Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.</pre>
- See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21707#sthash.0wKF8VnO.dpuf<br />
<div id="stcpDiv" style="left: -1988px; position: absolute; top: -1999px;">
<h1 class="TITLE">
<i>The Merchant of Venice</i>, Act IV, Scene I [The quality of mercy is not strained]</h1>
by <a href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/122">William Shakespeare</a>
<br />
<pre>The quality of mercy is not strained;
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
'T is mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown:
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthronèd in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much
To mitigate the justice of thy plea;
Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice
Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.</pre>
- See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21707#sthash.0wKF8VnO.dpuf<br />
<div id="stcpDiv" style="left: -1988px; position: absolute; top: -1999px;">
<h1 class="TITLE">
<i>The Merchant of Venice</i>, Act IV, Scene I [The quality of mercy is not strained]</h1>
by <a href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/122">William Shakespeare</a>
<br />
<pre>The quality of mercy is not strained;
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
'T is mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown:
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthronèd in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much
To mitigate the justice of thy plea;
Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice
Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.</pre>
- See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21707#sthash.0wKF8VnO.dpuf</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="stcpDiv" style="left: -1988px; position: absolute; top: -1999px;">
<h1 class="TITLE">
<i>The Merchant of Venice</i>, Act IV, Scene I [The quality of mercy is not strained]</h1>
by <a href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/122">William Shakespeare</a>
<br />
<pre>The quality of mercy is not strained;
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
'T is mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown:
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthronèd in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much
To mitigate the justice of thy plea;
Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice
Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.</pre>
- See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21707#sthash.0wKF8VnO.dpuf</div>
<div id="stcpDiv" style="left: -1988px; position: absolute; top: -1999px;">
<h1 class="TITLE">
<i>The Merchant of Venice</i>, Act IV, Scene I [The quality of mercy is not strained]</h1>
by <a href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/122">William Shakespeare</a>
<br />
<pre>The quality of mercy is not strained;
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
'T is mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown:
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthronèd in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much
To mitigate the justice of thy plea;
Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice
Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.</pre>
- See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21707#sthash.0wKF8VnO.dpuf</div>
Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240353902995298142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719222628695008638.post-5764163542935957872014-08-06T06:20:00.001-07:002014-08-06T06:20:19.457-07:00Morning Time: Ambleside Categories<b>Day 18~ </b><br />
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As I try to walk through these <a href="http://www.amblesideonline.org/curriculum.shtml" target="_blank">Ambleside </a>categories I want to try and be very honest so that you do not get overwhelmed or discouraged.<br />
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Always, always remember that the purpose of MT is to gather tiny moments not do big projects. I put those Ambleside categories at the top of my MT sheet to remind me to include snatches of them throughout the week.<br />
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Before the beginning of the school year I work on term selections for our 3 Terms. Term 1 is August- November. Term 2 is January-March and Term 3 is April-June. Often Term 3 is our weakest term. I am somewhat serendipitous about these selections. Often I follow along with the Ambleside Online terms but just as often I make a different decision.<br />
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Here is our Term 1 selections for this year:<br />
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<b>Ambleside Selections 2013-2014</b></div>
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<b>TERM 1</b> : <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">August-November</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.amblesideonline.org/ComposerSch.shtml" target="_blank"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Composer:</b></a></div>
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Franz Josef Haydn (1732-1809; Classical) <br />
String Quartet Op 76 no 3 "Emperor" OR String Quartet Op
76 no 4 "Sunrise"<br />
London Symphony no 104 (4 weeks)<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Creation (4 weeks)<br />
A horn concerto</div>
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<a href="http://www.amblesideonline.org/ArtSch.shtml" target="_blank"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Artist:</b></a></div>
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John Singleton Copley (American, 1738-1815) (<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This term's composer: Haydn</span></i>)<br />
1. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:J_S_Copley_-_Paul_Revere.jpg">Paul
Revere</a>, 1768-70<br />
2. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Watsonandtheshark-original.jpg">Watson
and the Shark</a>, 1778 (<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Graphic
depiction of a real event</span>) OR <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/John_Singleton_Copley_-_The_Copley_Family_-_WGA5214.jpg">The
Copley Family</a>, 1776-7 (<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">for
more sensitive students</span>)<br />
3. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Death_of_the_Earl_of_Chatham_by_John_Singleton_Copley.jpg">The
Death of the Earl of Chatham</a>, 1779-81<br />
4. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Siege_and_Relief_of_Gibraltar_%282%29.jpg">The
Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782</a>, 1783-91<br />
5. <a href="http://uploads8.wikipaintings.org/images/john-singleton-copley/the-red-cross-knight-1793.jpg">The
Red Cross Knight</a>, 1793 (<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lynn
Bruce's </span><a href="http://www.amblesideonline.org/Art2002Sep.shtml#Copley"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">study notes</span></a>)<br />
6. <a href="http://uploads2.wikipaintings.org/images/john-singleton-copley/saul-reproved-by-samuel-for-not-obeying-the-commandments-of-the-lord-1798.jpg">Saul
Reproved by Samuel for Not Obeying the Commandments of the Lord</a>, 1798<br />
Further Interest: <a href="http://uploads0.wikipaintings.org/images/john-singleton-copley/the-nativity-1777.jpg">The
Nativity</a>, 1777</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.amblesideonline.org/ShakespeareSch.shtml" target="_blank">Shakespeare:</a> </b>The
Tempest</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.amblesideonline.org/PlutarchSch.shtml" target="_blank">Plutarch</a>:</b> Brutus</div>
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You can see from the above selections that I followed along with Ambleside for our composer study and artist study, I made a slight change for Plutarch, and I went my own way for Shakespeare.</div>
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Even though it is still October we are ahead on both Shakespeare and Plutarch. On the other hand we have only listened to Haydn a few times, much less than usual and we haven't looked at our Copley prints as much as I would like, but more on that tomorrow.<br />
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For the month of November we will sing several of our Harvest hymns and review many autumn poems. December is also not scheduled because from Thanksgiving on our Advent season takes on a life of its own. It is a nice break from routine. We still have MT but I keep it to a bare minimum using Handel's Messiah as our framework and reading aloud from books which give us a cozy holiday feel. I generally put aside all of our history reading for that time, along with even Shakespeare and Plutarch. This break (sabbath rest?) helps us to return to our regular MT in January with renewed vision.<br />
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Here are our selections for after Christmas this year.<br />
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<b>TERM 2: January-March</b></div>
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<b>Composer</b></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pyotr Ilyich
Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)</div>
1. Symphony no 6 "Pathetique"<br />
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2. Piano Concerto no 1<br />
3. Serenade for Strings<br />
4. 1812 Overture<br />
5. String Quartet in D maj (Andante Cantabile)<br />
6. Swan Lake</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Artist:</b></div>
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Edouard Manet (man-AY; 1832-1883; French Impressionism) </div>
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1. <a href="http://artchive.com/artchive/M/manet/tuileries.jpg.html">Concert in the
Tuileries</a>, 1860-62 (<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Notes
at </span><a href="http://artchive.com/artchive/M/manet.html"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Artchive</span></a>) OR <a href="http://artchive.com/artchive/M/manet/manet_dejeuner.jpg.html">Luncheon on
the Grass</a>, 1863 (<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">some
nudity; but arguably his most famous painting. Notes </span><a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/manet/dejeuner/"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">here</span></a>) .<br />
2. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Old_Musician.JPG">The Old Musician</a>,
1862<br />
3. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edouard_Manet_053.jpg">The Races at
Longchamp</a>, 1864<br />
4. <a href="http://www.cgfaonlineartmuseum.com/manet/p-manet33.htm">The Fifer</a>,
1866<br />
5. <a href="http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/manet/manet_railway.jpg.html">The
Railway</a>, 1872; <a href="http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/audio-video/audio/manet-railway.html">NGA
Lecture</a> about this painting<br />
6. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edouard_Manet,_A_Bar_at_the_Folies-Berg%C3%A8re.jpg">Le
Bar aux Folies-Bergère</a> 1881-82; (<a href="http://artchive.com/artchive/M/manet.html"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Audio</span></a><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> from Artchives; or </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye5kbf2_wdI"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">YouTube video</span></a><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">; not previewed).</span><br />
Additional notes for
further study <a href="http://www.amblesideonline.org/DegasManet.shtml">here</a>.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Shakespeare: </b>Macbeth</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Plutarch: </b>Dion</div>
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We have already started both Macbeth and Dion so Term 3 just might work this year. </div>
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<b>Suggestion of the Day for <i>Morning Time </i>Memory:</b><br />
<br />
<b>US Oath of Citizenship:</b><br />
<br />
<i>"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce
and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate,
state or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject
or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of
the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic;
that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will
bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I
will perform noncombatant service in the armed forces of the United
States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national
importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I
take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose
of evasion; so help me God."</i><b> </b> </div>
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<br />Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240353902995298142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719222628695008638.post-53454002361241259692014-08-06T06:19:00.002-07:002014-08-06T06:19:09.356-07:00Starting Morning Time in the Early Years<b>Day 17~ </b><br />
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I am writing this post because this last week I got to spend time with 5 of my grandchildren. Let's just say with Shakespeare "Old men forget..." and old women too but grandchildren can give us something to help us <a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="57">"be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd."</a><br />
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First let me address the mom with only little ones at home, whose oldest is maybe 4 or 5. When you read about our <i>Morning Time</i> you must remember that it grew organically from my reading and priorities. It did not start out full-blown. Sure as my younger children were born they joined MT midstream but that was not how it began.<br />
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Young moms can begin their morning liturgies with just a Bible verse, song and prayer and then build from there. Young moms can have pieces of MT throughout the morning in 10 minute spurts. Maybe you have a Bible time and then go outside for awhile or take a nature walk. We did that a lot when my oldest was 4 and 5. Later you could say a nursery rhyme or even have nursery rhyme reading before other reading. Think of each of these things as only taking 10 minutes. I think it would be good to read one nursery rhyme everyday while randomly reading others.<br />
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In other words, this sort of liturgy will work best if you grow your own organically within your family. I think the beauty of thinking of it as liturgy rather than scheduling is that liturgy contains a feeling of freedom. Structure is good which is why MT works over many years but too much structure is bad. You will get more benefit, as a young mom, from the boundaries you set if you don't set too many.<br />
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I learned this from watching my daughters-in-law. They are each remarkable mothers.<br />
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Watching toddlers reminds me that children are always learning whether we structure their time or not. The liturgy of MT is a way to gather up moments of time for posterity but if you try to carry too many moments at a time in the beginning you may spill the whole thing. Don't panic. The point of it being for the long haul is that you can build it slowly.<br />
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Ideas have consequences. If you believe this idea is good for your family, you can easily afford the time it will take to build it slowly and organically.<br />
I often became overly ambitious and overdid MT over the years. I would add things that just didn't work. Since there are plenty of things that do work, don't be afraid to tweak until you find what works for your family.<br />
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That is not to say there is not a time to push-through something difficult. I had to push to keep us singing but it paid off eventually. Not all rewards will be immediate.<br />
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It takes wisdom to build this sort of structure over time. If you find something is not working pray about it. God is good. I hastily quit singing hymns because it was not working in our MT but the Lord gently led me to reinstate them through the encouragement of friends even though our singing had not improved.<br />
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I hope this is helpful for those of you with only little children. Later as your MT grows slowly your other children will be a part of something that uniquely fits your own family.<br />
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<b>Suggestion of the Day for <i>Morning Time </i>Memory:</b><br />
(Doesn't get any better than this for boys)<b> </b><br />
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<b> St. Crispin's Day Speech from Shakespeare's Henry V</b><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">WESTMORELAND</span>. O that we now
had here
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But one ten thousand of those men
in England
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That do no work to-day!
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<span style="color: #990000;">KING</span>. What's he that wishes
so?
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My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair
cousin;
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If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
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To do our country loss; and if to
live,
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The fewer men, the greater share of
honour.
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God's will! I pray thee, wish not
one man more.
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By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
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Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
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It yearns me not if men my garments
wear;
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Such outward things dwell not in my
desires.
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But if it be a sin to covet honour,
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I am the most offending soul alive.
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No, faith, my coz, wish not a man
from England.
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God's peace! I would not lose so great
an honour
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As one man more methinks would share
from me
<br />
For the best hope I have. O, do not
wish one more!
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Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland,
through my host,
<br />
That he which hath no stomach to this
fight,
<br />
Let him depart; his passport shall
be made,
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And crowns for convoy put into his
purse;
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We would not die in that man's company
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That fears his fellowship to die with
us.
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This day is call'd the feast of Crispian.
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He that outlives this day, and comes
safe home,
<br />
Will stand a tip-toe when this day
is nam'd,
<br />
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
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He that shall live this day, and see
old age,
<br />
Will yearly on the vigil feast his
neighbours,
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And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.'
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Then will he strip his sleeve and
show his scars,
<br />
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's
day.'
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Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
<br />
But he'll remember, with advantages,
<br />
What feats he did that day. Then shall
our names,
<br />
Familiar in his mouth as household
words-
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Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
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Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and
Gloucester-
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Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.
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This story shall the good man teach
his son;
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And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go
by,
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From this day to the ending of the
world,
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But we in it shall be remembered-
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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
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For he to-day that sheds his blood
with me
<br />
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so
vile,
<br />
This day shall gentle his condition;
<br />
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
<br />
Shall think themselves accurs'd they
were not here,
<br />
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles
any speaks
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That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's
day.Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240353902995298142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719222628695008638.post-58046934456139493772014-08-06T06:17:00.002-07:002014-08-06T06:17:10.303-07:00Scheduling Morning Time<b>Day 16~</b><br />
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I mentioned in an earlier post the <i>Morning Time</i> was born out of my own reading of <a href="http://www.amblesideonline.org/CM/toc.html" target="_blank">Charlotte Mason's writing</a>s and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1433506955/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1433506955&linkCode=as2&tag=dominionfamil-20">For the Children's Sake </a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dominionfamil-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1433506955" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
by Susan Schaeffer MacCaulay. Those writings inspired me to introduce my children to 4 areas:<br />
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<a href="http://www.amblesideonline.org/ComposerSch.shtml" target="_blank"><b>Composers</b></a><br />
<a href="http://www.amblesideonline.org/ArtSch.shtml" target="_blank"><b>Artists</b></a><br />
<a href="http://www.amblesideonline.org/PlutarchSch.shtml" target="_blank"><b>Plutarch </b></a><br />
<a href="http://www.amblesideonline.org/ShakespeareSch.shtml" target="_blank"><b>Shakespeare</b></a><br />
<b><a href="http://www.amblesideonline.org/Folksongs.shtml" target="_blank">(Folk Songs)</a> </b>(We no longer do this but you might want to.)<b><br /></b><br />
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In the next few posts I will discuss how we cover those areas in our <i>Morning Time. </i>These days I often refer to <a href="http://www.amblesideonline.org/curriculum.shtml" target="_blank">Ambleside Online</a> when scheduling these subjects. <br />
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Here is a picture of the top portion of my MT sheet which is where I keep the information for these subjects:<br />
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<b>Scheduling Morning Time</b><br />
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This gives me a chance to talk a little bit about scheduling. As you can see the MT sheet is divided into the 5 days of the week but it is very rare for me to have MT all 5 days of the week. I do try to make sure we have it 4 days and on bad weeks 3 days. It is important to make MT a priority, otherwise it will always be pushed aside, but realistically speaking 5 days is almost impossible in a family with doctor's appointments and other crises. So the days of the week at the top are not really the days we do certain things. With the Ambleside selections the days of the week really don't mean anything at all.<br />
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As I work through a day, I check things off with a pen. If we discuss a composer or listen to music or look at a picture, I make a check by that item. At the end of the week these Ambleside selections will have zero to four checks beside them. Shakespeare and Plutarch will alternate between one and three. I will also make notes or circle things we completely finish. <br />
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I will even be humble enough to show you what a used sheet looks like:<br />
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That was embarrassing.<br />
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In the coming days I will explain more about how we go about studying these Ambleside selections but today I will talk a little about how much time all of this takes. <br />
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<b>Time Frame</b><br />
<br />
Morning Time can take anywhere from 1 hour to 2 in our house. Generally I would say about an hour and a half. A couple of things help me keep it around that amount of time. I don't have to look around for any materials. I have them all beside me when I start. In the early years, everyday was an adventure of trying to find this song and that poem. I finally spent one summer making up a memory notebook, a MT notebook and the family hymnbooks. I keep a basket in the living room with teacher's editions of textbooks and <i>Morning Time</i> books and materials.<br />
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We don't have as many interruptions as when the kids were little but for some families you might want to look on the interruptions as chances to take a short break. Sometimes we snack while enjoying MT. I try not to let interruptions throw me off completely. I have learned to pick right up wherever we were after a phone call or other problem. The children have learned to come to MT with their own reading materials so if there is a problem they can get some of their lists done during the timeout.<br />
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To be honest MT has always taken about that long even when I had small children. I just kept plugging along. I didn't make the kids sit totally quietly either. After Bible time they were allowed to play on the floor. I don't suggest letting them wander off unless you want to find they have ironed several big patches of carpet in a far room.<br />
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Let me also add here that I usually do the Ambleside Selections early in MT sometimes even as a part of the Morning Meeting. I usually do Shakespeare/Plutarch immediately after Bible time so that they older highschool students can leave. 11th and 12th grade students can benefit from MT but often there work load requires they leave early. It is hard to let them go but it usually must be done. If you have a high school student who has not learned to love MT then you may want to compromise with them and let them leave early. MT is more fun without the sulkers, and bad attitudes can infect the rest of the family. Learn to enjoy what you can with your children without getting too depressed that the ideal cannot be reached.<br />
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I am sure this is confusing. I will try to answer questions in the comments.<br />
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<b>Suggestion of the Day for <i>Morning Time </i>Memory:</b><br />
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<b>Judges in the Bible:</b><br />
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<tr><th class="" style="padding: 0.1em;">In the Book of Joshua</th>
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<li>Joshua</li>
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<th class="" style="padding: 0.1em;">In the Book of Judges</th>
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<li>Othniel</li>
<li>Ehud</li>
<li>Shamgar</li>
<li>Deborah</li>
<li>Barak</li>
<li>Gideon</li>
<li>Abimelech</li>
<li>Tola</li>
<li>Jair</li>
<li>Jephthah</li>
<li>Ibzan</li>
<li>Elon</li>
<li>Abdon</li>
<li>Samson</li>
</ul>
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<th class="" style="padding: 0.1em;">In First Samuel</th>
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<li>Eli</li>
<li>Samuel</li>
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<br />Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240353902995298142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719222628695008638.post-43340996554487583092014-08-06T06:12:00.001-07:002014-08-06T06:12:08.232-07:00Beyond Poetry: What Else to Memorize<b>Day 15~ </b><br />
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<b>Creeds and Catechisms:</b>The Apostle's Creed<br />
The Nicene Creed<br />
The Westminster Shorter Catechism<br />
The Heidelberg Catechism<br />
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<b>Historical Documents:</b><br />
The Bill of Rights (The First 10 Amendments) You can also use MT as a time to read through all the amendments, one a day with discussion. We found this to be enlightening.<br />
The Declaration of Independence (I recommend memorizing to the first HE HAS.)<br />
The Preamble to the Constitution<br />
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<b>Speeches: </b><br />
The Gettysburg Address<br />
The War Inevitable by Patrick Henry (The boys love this)<br />
We Shall Fight by Winston Churchill<br />
George Washington's Farewell Addressses<br />
Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech<br />
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<b>Pamphlets etc.:</b><br />
Thomas Paine's "These are the times that try men's souls..."<br />
Samuel Adams' "Comtemplate the mangled bodies..."<br />
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<b>Other Memory Ideas:</b><br />
Planets<br />
Continents and Oceans<br />
Presidents<br />
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I would love to hear the unusual things your family was blessed to memorize.<br />
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<b>Suggestion of the Day for <i>Morning Time </i>Memory:</b><br />
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I just<b> </b>love to read this. It flows. It speaks. It thinks. It is truly beautiful and that alone tells us something about the founding fathers.<br />
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<b>Declaration of Independence</b> <br />
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When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one
people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with
another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and
equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle
them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they
should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.<br />
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted
among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these
ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to
institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and
organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to
effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that
Governments long established should not be changed for light and
transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that
mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to
right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the
same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism,
it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and
to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the
patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity
which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The
history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated
injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment
of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be
submitted to a candid world.<br />
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He has refused his Assent......</blockquote>
<br />Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240353902995298142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719222628695008638.post-81863040229409941972014-08-06T06:10:00.002-07:002014-08-06T06:10:32.237-07:00Other Memory Work<b>Day 14~</b><br />
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definition of the grammar stage as "remembering," we can avoid making the mistake of looking at memorization as something to help us keep information sorted in our mind. Of course, that is one way of using memorization but it is the least useful way for our purpose of training the affections of our children. <br />
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So far we have talked about memorizing songs, Psalms, creeds and catechisms, Bible passages, and poetry. In a way that is just the beginning. Before we ever break out the periodic table of elements or the math flashcards, there are still myriads of things which will order our children towards truth, beauty and goodness.<br />
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The most obvious choices come from history. Primary source documents can be memorized. Every American child should know <i>The Bill of Rights.</i><br />
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Speeches of great men such as Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr., and Patrick Henry can be memorized.<br />
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Parts of pamphlets can be memorized: <br />
"These are the times that try men's souls..." by Thomas Paine<br />
"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen..." by Samuel Adams.<br />
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This is how these words seep into our hearts and come out again in our own speech and writing. <br />
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<i>The Declaration of Independence </i>is a document so rich in use of language that just memorizing it will inform the minds of your children in ways I cannot even begin to explain and it may teach them logic too.<br />
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There are lists that are worth our time. We particularly love memorizing the presidents. Every other week or so we have a <i>presidents bee</i> to see how many we can name. This is the kind of information that the children love to have because they run across it in life and can make connections.<br />
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The names of the planets or the oceans or continents are also things that can help in the science of relation.<br />
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I have found if something can be learned by way of flashcards or the computer, it might not be something we need to cover in MT. I am thinking of things like States and Capitals. But memorizing the Presidents is something else altogether. Each time we have a <i>presidents bee</i> it gives us a chance to discuss different presidents. I often give hints such as, "He was considered one of the worst presidents," or, "His wife was called Lemonade Lucy." It becomes a way to play with a timeline and picture the past as it moves towards where we ourselves stand in time.<br />
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We are not memorizing these things as a utility but rather as a way of being connected to the past or being connected to truth or goodness or beauty. This sort of information should not puff us up as know-it-all smart-alecs but this sort of memorization should humble us as we apply it to the future.<br />
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Each day after we have worked on our poetry we move into our last memorization category which I have ingeniously called <b><i>Misc. Memory. </i></b>There I put all those extra things I want us to remember and contemplate. As with the other categories, we always had a new part where we were working on something over many weeks repeating it daily, and a review part where we read or recite something from the past. Our misc. memory list is not long but it does contain some of the most important things we have memorized for ordering our minds.<br />
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<b>Suggestion of the Day for <i>Morning Time </i>Memory:</b><br />
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<b>The Preamble to the Constitution </b><br />
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<span class="heading"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="preamble">We the People </a></span> of
the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish
Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense,
promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to
ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution
for the United States of America.<b> </b></blockquote>
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<br />Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240353902995298142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719222628695008638.post-48222105571181509262014-08-06T06:09:00.000-07:002014-08-06T06:09:01.484-07:00Favorite Poems to Memorize<b>Day 13~ </b><br />
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Just so we are clear. There are 3 ways to enjoy poetry.<br />
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We can read it for pleasure.<br />
We can memorize it for the future.<br />
We can study it to understand how it means. <br />
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You can find a <a href="http://morningtimemoms.blogspot.com/2008/09/family-poetry-list.html" target="_blank">longer list of poems we have memorized here</a> but today I thought I would narrow that list down to the favorites.<br />
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<b>10 Favorites for younger children:</b><br />
(Don't forget lots of nursery rhymes) <br />
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<li>Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson (and several more)</li>
<li>Who has seen the Wind by Christina Rossetti</li>
<li>The Pasture by Frost</li>
<li>Mist and All by Dixie Willson</li>
<li>Lullaby of an Infant Chief by Walter Scott</li>
<li>To Be a Pilgrim by John Bunyan</li>
<li>Little Things by Julia Carey</li>
<li>Weather the Weather by Anonymous</li>
<li>White Sheep by Rossetti</li>
<li>The Creation by Cecil Francis Alexander</li>
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<b>25 Favorites for middle school and up:</b><br />
(Not including Shakespeare; He is in a class by himself.)<br />
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<li>The Fool's Prayer by Edward Sill </li>
<li>Sonnet on His Blindness by Milton</li>
<li>To a Mouse by Robert Burns</li>
<li>The Road not Taken by Frost</li>
<li>The Village Blacksmith by Longfellow</li>
<li>The Sluggard by IsaacWatts</li>
<li>Opportunity by Edward Sill</li>
<li>Casey at the Bat by Thayer</li>
<li>Sail On by Joaquin Miller</li>
<li>The Charge of the Light Brigade by Tennyson</li>
<li>Pretty Good by Charles Osgood</li>
<li>The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats</li>
<li>Ozymandias by Shelley </li>
<li> Breathes by Walter Scott</li>
<li>The Second Coming by Yeats</li>
<li>Sea Fever by Masefield </li>
<li>The Destruction of Sennacherib by Bryon</li>
<li>The Road not Taken by Frost</li>
<li>Recessional by Kipling</li>
<li>IF by Kipling</li>
<li>The Arrow and the Song by Longfellow</li>
<li>Crossing the Bar by Tennyson</li>
<li>Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening by Frost</li>
<li>In Flander's Fields by McCrae</li>
<li>Requiem by RLS</li>
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As with the hymns this was nearly impossible. And now it is your turn. What are your favorite poems for memorizing?<br />
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<b>Suggestion of the Day for <i>Morning Time </i>Memory:</b><br />
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<b>Crossing the Bar by Alfred, Lord Tennyson </b><br />
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Sunset and evening star,<br />
And one clear call for me!<br />
And may there be no moaning of the bar,<br />
When I put out to sea,<br />
But such a tide as moving seems asleep,<br />
Too full for sound and foam,<br />
When that which drew from out the boundless deep<br />
Turns again home.<br />
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Twilight and evening bell,<br />
And after that the dark!<br />
And may there be no sadness of farewell,<br />
When I embark;<br />
For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place<br />
The flood may bear me far,<br />
I hope to see my Pilot face to face<br />
When I have crost the bar.</div>
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