Homeschool Ping
>> I have been using an interesting combination of curiculumn
That’s an interesting combination of letters you used to spell “curriculum”. And I know it’s not a typo, because you did it twice.
I’m all in favor of homeschooling but I sure hope you’re outsourcing your spelling lessons. :-)
where’d you get the Little Britches series from? I got the complete set of Maybury’s books and my kids are reading them.
I’m with you ... the “Whatever happened to” series is great, especially the one on natural law (justice) and inflation (penny candy).
Thought you might be interested in our other readings.
We have read all the Little Britches stories, and we also use Economics in One Lesson, Whatever Happened to Penny Candy, and the Clipper Ship Strategy for Economics.
Great minds think alike!
Little Britches is priceless.
The Ingenious Yankees by Joseph Gies
I've become a big fan of Gies and his histories (many are written with his wife)
This particular history covers the period in America from 1776 to 1876 when we became a world power through innovation, technical application and growth. He does a great job of showing the tension between innovation/invention, patent law and determination.
The chapters cover one major invention and its inventors. It is very objective and forthright in its approach and you'll discover great men you've never or rarely heard of. I highly recommend it for homeschoolers.
Check out all their other histories as well.
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I liked the “Whatever Happened...” books when I was in middle school.
Are the “Little Britches” stories as awful as some of the other self-reliant/whatever books I ran into at homeschool fairs? The “Elsie Dinsmore” series was particularly dire.
Try throwing in a couple of Robert Heinlein’s science fiction novels for juveniles (if you don’t know which are for juveniles check since some of his other stuff wasn’t) for flavor, they don’t get much more self-reliant than “Have Spacesuit Will Travel” or “The Rolling Stones”.