Visit Pioneer Woman’s Homeschooling blog today to catch my post, Book Review: Letters for Freedom-The American Revolution.
Here’s an excerpt:
I love history. I mean, I really love history. However, when I was in elementary, intermediate and high school, I did NOT like history…not even a little bit.
History = Boring Textbooks
History = Meaningless outlines on the blackboard.
History = Tediously detailed questions that, in my opinion at the time, were not relevant to my life.
So, as you can imagine, I look for ways to make history “come alive” to my kids.
I have not done away with textbooks. There is a place for them, after all, but I don’t depend on them for anything more than fact gathering. Mostly, the textbooks I use serve as my personal “refresher course,” so I can draw out the important facts for verbal discussions as the kids and I read through the MUCH MORE INTERESTING historical fiction. Read the rest…