Name: Thrive! NCHE Convention
Start: 2024-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-05-25T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Winston-Salem, NC

Tagged: character, great men, History

This topic has 4 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 12 years, 9 months ago by anniepeter.

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July 9, 2011 at 3:13 pm
anniepeter
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Who do you absolutely want your kids to know and read about – and what living books/films do you consider best to portray them? I have a ds 5, dd 11, ds 15, dd 18 – so if you have particular suggestions for specific ages/genders you could share that as well.
I would start out with my suggestions, but I’m ashamed to say – I really don’t know enough to say. I haven’t read many biographies. I’m looking for some deep, thought-provoking, character-inspiring stuff for my 15 yo son most particularly. I guess I would say I’m particularly drawn to A. Lincoln and Robert E. Lee – but I don’t know any specific books that are best.
Julie

July 15, 2011 at 9:01 pm
anniepeter
Participant
Bumping this up – hoping someone might be interested in responding.
Julie
July 16, 2011 at 8:14 pm
Sonya Shafer
Moderator
If you download the samples of Stories of America and Stories of the Nations, you’ll see the ones I like to include up to the 1850s or so.
July 16, 2011 at 10:14 pm
LillyLou
Participant
We just read about William and Caroline Herschel who discovered Uranus in (I believe) the 1780’s (we read about them in our Astronomy book). It’s fascinating, really-they were homeschooled by thier father who taught them music (he was a musician), mathmatics, and Astronomy. William enjoyed making telescopes, which they sold for extra income when they moved from Germany to England to work in a theatre. Once they figured out Uranus was a planet, not a comet, they were asked by the government to be full time Astronomers. Cool story-especially considering Caroline, who was educated against her illiterate mother’s wishes-she wanted her daughter to stay illiterate and serve her. Also of note is that they were the first to discover a planet in many hundred years and they were Christians who wanted to not name their planet after a false god. That didn’t work out, obviously, but they went on to discover many other things, and their discovery of Uranus led to the discovery of Neptune.
My daughter (8) really thinks it’s neat that they were homeschooled kids . I looked online and it looks like there have been many works done especially on Caroline Herschel. I’m sure your librarian could help you locate some wonderful books on one or both of the siblings.
Have fun!
July 17, 2011 at 10:30 pm
anniepeter
Participant
Thank you very much ladies. I will check these out!
Julie