The Children's Homer or ???

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  • August 15, 2012 at 1:19 am
    missceegee
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    In a few months, my dh, his parents and my dd11 are traveling to Greece and Turkey for 2 weeks in to follow Paul’s missionary journey. This will be a trip of a lifetime! DH’s uncle is a biblical scholar and theologian and is taking them on a tour in Paul’s footsteps. I am working on some things to tie in for dd11. We are doing SCM module 6 for history this coming year, but I’m adding in some things to tie into this awesome trip. 

    • The Great Courses dvd – The Great Tours: Greece & Turkey, from Athens to Istanbul – We began this today and it’s very good. DD11 and DH are simply watching and listening. 

    • She will keep a travel journal daily during the trip.

    I would like to give her a book or two to begin and then take with her and I’m looking for suggestions. Hubby enjoyed Lawhead’s Byzantium, but its 880 pages might be a bit much. What about The Children’s Homer by Padraic Collum? Any other thoughts?

    We are doing the full module 6 for history, so I don’t want it to be too heavy, but just enough to pique her interest and reading while she travels.

    Thanks,

    Christie

    August 15, 2012 at 2:15 am
    momto2blessings
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    What an awesome opportunity!!  I was going to suggest “The Boys’ and Girls’ Plutarch,” but I just flipped through my copy and it’s pretty weighty…I don’t think my 10 or 13 yo would read on their own.  “The Children’s Homer” looks much more doable/enjoyable for that age (on our list to read this year). “The Golden Fleece” by Colum also looks good! It’s on our reading list…we’re doing module 1 and half of module 2 this year. My 10yo really liked “The Heroes” by Charles Kingsley last year (an AO selection of Greek fairy tales for children).

    I haven’t looked indepthly at this yet, but plan to utilize it when we start studying Greece later this year: http://www.abc.net.au/arts/wingedsandals/default_lowband.htm.  HTH some, and you get more ideas:)  Blessings, Gina

    August 15, 2012 at 2:21 am
    momto2blessings
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    Just a heads up that I just now noticed there’s a spot on the above site to ‘ask the oracle’ about your future that you might want to avoid! Gina

    August 15, 2012 at 4:28 pm
    SueinMN
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    We enjoyed Rosemary Sutcliffe’s Black Ships before Troy and The Wanderings of Odysseus more than The Children’s Homer. But make sure you get the illustrated version that has beautiful watercolored illustrations.

    Don’t you get to go with too?

    August 15, 2012 at 5:30 pm
    momto2blessings
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    Don’t mean to hijack, but can I ask Sue a qu.?  I have Children’s Homer scheduled for my 4th grader this year and the Sutcliffe books for my 7th grader. My 4th grader is an excellent reader (reading Lord of the Rings right now at his insistence). Would you recommend both kids just reading Sutcliffe? Anything we’d miss from Children’s Homer? Thanks! Gina

    August 17, 2012 at 1:24 am
    missceegee
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    Thanks, ladies. I will check them out. Christie

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