Public Domain Books: Exploration and Discovery

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The Knighting of Sir Walter Raleigh

Copies of any of the following can be ordered via the print-on-demand Espresso Book Machine at Third Place Books for around $9-13./book.

History Textbooks
Story Anthologies
Explorers

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Public Domain Books: Heroes and Heroines

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The Accolade, Edmund Blair Spencer

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Holiday Stories in the Public Domain

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Copies of most of the following can be ordered via the Espresso Book Machine at Third Place Book's Lake Forest Park location for around $9-13./book.
For a wide variety of thematic lists, see: Books for Boys and Girls 

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Public Domain Catholic School Books

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Copies of any of the following can be ordered via the Espresso Book Machine at Third Place Book's Lake Forest Park location for around $9-13./book.

Religion
Language Arts

Stories for Boys and Girls
"Father Finn's Famous Stories"

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So Many Books...

0 comments Posted by Kristine at 8:55 PM


Thanks to an especially good few weeks of estate sale/thrift store shopping, I now have stacks of new books to be read. Among them:
  • The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1919)
  • Millbrook by Della Thompson Lutes (1938)
  • The Corner Store by Albert Idell (1953)
  • The Foolish Gentlewoman by Margery Sharp (1948)
  • A Breath of Air by Rumer Godden (1951)
  • The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield (1921)
  • So Big/Cimmaron/Show Boat by Edna Ferber (1958)
  • As The Earth Turns by Gladys Hasty Caroll (1934)
  • To Remember Forever by Gladys Hasty Carroll (1963)
  • The Folks by Ruth Suckow (1934)
  • Full House by Molly Keane (1935)
  • Time After Time by Molly Keane (1983)
  • In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden 
  • The Darling Buds of May: The Pop Larkin Chronicles by HE Bates
  • Lost Empires by JB Priestley (review here) 
  • The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen (1935)
Children's Books:
  • Rose Hawthorn: The Pilgrimage of Nathaniel's Daughter (Vision Books) by Arthur and Elizabeth Odell Sheehan (1959)
  • Bernadette and the Lady (Vision Books) by Hertha Pauli (1956)
  • Nancy Drew: The Mystery of the Ivory Charm by Carolyn Keene (1936)
  • Mimi at Camp by Anne Pence Davis (1935)
  • Cherry Ames: At Hilton Hospital by Helen Wells (1959)
  • Cherry Ames: Flight Nurse by Helen Wells (1945)
  • Happy House by Jane Abbott (1920)
  • The Seven Sleuths' Club by Carol Norton (1928)
  • Jane, Stewardess of the Air Lines by Ruthe S. Wheeler (1934)
  • The Soujourner by Marjorie Rawlings (1953)
  • Polly and Eleanor by Lillian Elizabeth Roy (1922)
  • Ethel Morton at Sweetbrier Lodge by Mabell S.C. Smith (1915)
  • Ethel Morton at Rose House by Mabell S.C. Smith (1915)
  • Ethel Morton's Holidays by Mabell S.C. Smith (1915)
Some interesting information on various children's series books can be found at:

Also, I recently discovered The Books of the Century, a website that compiles, by year, four different lists of books published during the twentieth century: 1) The top ten bestsellers in fiction, as recorded by Publishers Weekly. 2) The top ten bestsellers in nonfiction, also as recorded by Publishers Weekly. 3) The main selections of the Book-of-the-Month Club, which was founded in 1926. 4) Critically acclaimed and historically significant books, as identified by consulting various critics' and historians' lists of important books. It's a fantastic resource for discovering new books!

Here's my list-in-progress of books and/or authors to hunt down, compiled from the above site, previous reads, and my favorite book blogs:

Authors:
  • Margaret Ayer Barnes
  • H.E. Bates
  • Sybille Bedford
  • Elizabeth Bowen
  • Dorothy Canfield Fisher
  • Gladys Hasty Carroll
  • Ivy Compton-Burnett
  • Rumer Godden
  • Elizabeth Goudge
  • Storm Jameson
  • Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • Molly Keane
  • Rosamond Lehmann
  • Rose Macaulay
  • Nancy Mitford
  • Mollie Panter-Downes
  • Mari Sandoz
  • Margery Sharp
  • Ruth Suckow
  • Edith Templeton
  • Dorothy Whipple
  • E. H. Young
Books: 

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Della Thompson Lutes

0 comments Posted by Kristine at 11:03 AM

It was this blog post that first introduced me to Della Thompson Lutes (and Ruth Suckow, whom I'll be reading next), and for that, I am eternally grateful. I've just finished reading Millbrook, one of her six autobiographical novels, and it was truly a delight!  The book is set in a small Southern Michigan farming community in the 1880s; here is a sample that seemed especially timely now, at the very height of summer:

Summer was far too busy a season to allow for much visiting, speculation, or gossip. Women were in their kitchens. Bread to bake as well as cakes, cookies, and pies; vegetables to prepare; milk to care for; butter to churn.

They were in the gardens: fruit to pick for shortcakes, pies, tarts, preserves. They were in their poulty yards: young chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese to be fed, watered, housed, gathered in from storms; eggs to be brought in.

They washed: shoulder-sweated shirts and stiff, groin-sweated overalls; sheets yellowed by soil-stained, perspiring bodies. And in a wooden tub on a bench too low for comfort, scrubbing their knuckles on a corrugated board of zinc, using soft soap they themselves had made.

They ironed, sensibly, only the clothing that showed, and linen for the tables. Where there were girls and young women, of course, there were innumerable ruffles -- petticoats, corset covers, lawn and organdie dresses. The irons were solid and heavy (used in winter, tipped up sideways between the knees, for cracking nuts, and also heated for warming beds) and, even through the padded holder, seared and callused the hands.

They worked: Adelaide from the first paling of a morning sky until the bats flew at dusk and the night hawk dipped, cleaving the air with a downward noisy swish of his stiffly outspread wings; but her heart was light. (Millbrook, p. 258-9)


I'm waiting on a copy of the author's famed Country Kitchen, and will be eagerly tracking down copies of her other books as well. While all are currently out-of-print, copies can be found quite inexpensively online. Hopefully one day her work will again be back in print because it is truly worthy of a wider reading audience.

Though there is sadly little that has been published about her life, a wonderful introductory essay is: A Word For What Was Eaten: An Introduction to Della T. Lutes and Her Fiction by Lawrence R. Dawson. The following biography is an excerpt, also written by Mr. Dawson, from the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature: Volume 1: The Authors by Phillip A. Greasley, Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature.

Della Thompson grew up on a farm in Summit Township in Jackson County, Michigan, the only child of Elijah Bonnet Thompson, of New York state, and Almira Frances (Bogardus) Thompson, of Detroit. Completing high school in Jackson at sixteen, she became accredited to teach in country schools. Those years were the source of her retrospective writing. She taught in Jackson County and then in Detroit for a few years. In 1893 she married Louis Irving Lutes and had two sons, the older being killed in a shooting accident when he was seven.

She said that her first writing for money appeared in the Detroit Free Press. In October 1905, the Delineator began her six-part story, "Deestrick No. 5." Her first book, Just Away: A Story of Hope (1906) was promoted by the death of her son, Ralph, and dedicated "To the mothers who sorrowed with me in my sorrow." Impressed by this work, the publishers invited her in 1907 to Cooperstown, New York, to join the editorial staff of their journals American Motherhood, Table Talk, and Today's Housewife. In 1924 she became housekeeping editor of Modern Priscilla and manager of the Priscilla Proving Plant (a Betty Crocker-type institute).in Newton, Massachusetts.

Her writing was directed by her editorial responsibilities under the Priscilla organization disbanded after the 1929 stock market crash, her articles, pamphlets and books being mainly concerned with home-making topics. Still, her stylistic qualities of common sense and often pungent wit grew during these years.

The appearance of her essay "Simple Epicure" in the Atlantic of March 1935 began her success with a larger public. This essay and others which quickly followed provoked an unusually broad reaction from the magazine's readers, a great many of whom were men. These essays were collected and published in 1936 as The Country Kitchen; the book established her as a best-selling, sought-after writer and speaker. During her last years, her surviving sone, Robert, became her leg man, researching her last books. She died on July 13, 1942, at Cooperstown, New York. Her ashes were returned, as she wished, to Michigan for interment at Horton.

Significance: Della Lute's writing is significant for its rendering of the end-of-the-century cultural period, as her readers recognized when her articles and books appeared during the 1930s and 1940s. Appealing to natives of rural Michigan and the Midwest, her books brought letters of praise from every part of the nation and from other countries, including Russia. Detailing the landscapes through the changing seasons, her stories also brought alive local politics, schooling, architecture and interior decoration, moral standards, social attitudes, and, in a unique way, the food as "prepared by late nineteenth century southern Michigan farm wives" ("A Word..." 31). Her readers commended her writing particularly for its affectionate, realistic, and accurate recording of rural family life as it was lived in America at the end of the nineteenth century.

Select Books by Della Thompson Lutes:
  • The Country Kitchen (1936)
  • Homegrown (1937)
  • Millbrook (1938)
  • Gabriel's Search (1940)
  • Country Schoolma'am (1941)
  • Cousin William (1942)
A few contemporary reviews of The Country Kitchen, a wildly successful bestseller which was voted "The Most Original Book Published in 1936," can be found here:

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Vision Books: A Chronological List

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By Publication Date:
  1. St. John Bosco and the Children's Saint, Dominic Savio by Catherine Beebe (1955)
  2. St. Therese and the Roses by Helen Walker Homan (1955)
  3. Father Marquette and the Great Rivers by August Derleth (1955)
  4. St. Francis of the Seven Seas by Albert J. Nevins (1955)
  5. Bernadette and the Lady by Hertha Pauli (1956)
  6. St. Isaac and the Indians by Milton Lomask (1956)
  7. Fighting Father Duffy by Jim and Virginia Lee Bishop (1956)
  8. St. Pius X, the Farm Boy Who Became Pope by Walter Diethelm (1956)
  9. St. Ignatius and the Company of Jesus by August Derleth (1956)
  10. John Carroll: Bishop and Patriot by Milton Lomask (1956)
  11. St. Dominic and the Rosary by Catherine Beebe (1956)
  12. The Cross in the West by Mark Boesch (1956)
  13. My Eskimos: A Priest in the Artic by Roger P. Buliard (1956)
  14. Champions in Sports and Spirit by Ed Fitzgerald (1956)
  15. Francis and Clare, Saints of Assisi by Helen Walker Homan (1956)
  16. Christmas and the Saints by Hertha Pauli (1956)
  17. Edmund Campion, Hero of God's Underground by Harold C. Gardiner (1957)
  18. Modern Crusaders by John Travers Moore and Rosemarian Staudacher (1957)
  19. Our Lady Came to Fatima by Ruth Fox Hume (1957)
  20. The Bible Story, The Promised Lord and His Coming by Catherine Beebe (1957)
  21. St. Augustine and His Search for Faith by Milton Lomask (1957)
  22. St. Joan, The Girl Soldier by Louis de Wohl (1957)
  23. St. Thomas More of London by Elizabeth M. Ince (1957)
  24. Mother Seton and the Sisters of Charity by Alma Power-Waters (1957)
  25. St. Thomas Aquinas and the Preaching Beggars by Brendan Larnen and Milton Lomask (1957)
  26. Father Damien and the Bells by Arthur and Elizabeth Sheehan (1957)
  27. Columbus and the New World by August Derleth (1957)
  28. St. Philip of the Joyous Heart by Francis X. Connolly (1957)
  29. Lydia Longley, the First American Nun by Helen A. McCarthy (1958)
  30. St. Anthony and the Christ Child by Helen Walker Homan (1958)
  31. St. Elizabeth's Three Crowns by Blanche Jennings Thompson (1958)
  32. Katharine Drexel, Friend of the Neglected by Ellen Tarry (1958)
  33. St. Louis and the Last Crusade by Margaret Ann Hubbard (1958)
  34. Kateri Tekakwitha, Mohawk Maid by Evelyn M. Brown (1958)
  35. St. Benedict, Hero of the Hills by Mary Fabyan Windeatt (1958)
  36. The Cure of Ars, The Priest Who Outtalked the Devil by Milton Lomask (1958)
  37. Catholic Campuses, Stories of American Catholic Colleges by RosemarianStaudacher (1958)
  38. St. Helena and the True Cross by Louis de Wohl (1959)
  39. Governor Al Smith by James Farley and James Conniff (1959)
  40. Kit Carson of the Old West by Mark Boesch (1959)
  41. Rose Hawthorne: The Pilgramage of Nathaniel's Daughter by Arthur and Elizabeth Sheehan (1959)
  42. The Ursulines, Nuns of Adventure by Harnett T. Kane (1959)
  43. Mother Cabrini, Missionary to the World by Frances Parkinson Keyes (1959)
  44. More Champions in Sports and Spirit by Ed Fitzgerald (1959)
  45. St. Margaret Mary, Apostle of the Sacred Heart by Ruth Fox Hume (1960)
  46. When Saints Were Young by Blanche Jennings Thompson (1960)
  47. Frances Warde and the First Sisters of Mercy by Sr. Marie Christopher (1960)
  48. Vincent de Paul, Saint of Charity by Margaret Ann Hubbard (1960)
  49. Florence Nightingale's Nuns by Emmeline Garnett (1961)
  50. Pope Pius XII, the World's Shepherd by Louis de Wohl (1961)
  51. St. Jerome and the Bible by George Sanderlin (1961)
  52. Saints of the Byzantine World by Blanche Jennings Thompson (1961)
  53. Chaplains in Action by Rosemarian Staudacher (1962)
  54. St. Catherine Laboure and the Miraculous Medal by Alma Power-Waters (1962)
  55. Mother Barat's Vineyard by Margaret Ann Hubbard (1962)
  56. Charles de Foucauld, Adventurer of the Desert by Emmeline Garnett (1962)
  57. Martin de Porres, Saint of the New World by Ellen Tarry (1963)
  58. Marguerite Bourgeoys, Pioneer Teacher by Sister Mary Genevieve (1963)
  59. Father Kino, Priest to the Pimas by Ann Nolan Clark (1963)
  60. Children Welcome: Villages for Boys and Girls by Rosemarian Staudacher (1963)
  61. St. Gregory the Great, Consul of God by George Sanderlin (1964)
  62. Peter and Paul: The Rock and the Sword by Blanche Jennings Thompson (1964)
  63. Irish Saints by Robert T. Reilly (1964)
  64. Dear Philippine: Mission of Mother Duchesne by Margaret Ann Hubbard (1964)
  65. Peter Claver, Saint Among Slaves by Ann Roos (1965)
  66. John Neumann, The Children's Bishop by Elizabeth Odell Sheehan (1965)
  67. St. Francis de Sales by Blanche Jennings Thompson (1965)
  68. Sarah Peter: The Dream and the Harvest by Alma Power-Waters (1965)
  69. Good Pope John by Elizabeth Odell Sheehan (1966)
  70. In American Vineyards, Religious Orders in the United States by Rosemarian Staudacher (1966)
  71. Brother Andre of Montreal by Ann Nolan Clark (1967)
  72. Edel Quinn: Beneath the Southern Cross by Evelyn Brown (1967)

A Timeline of Vision Books
(Note: If I wasn't sure about a title's placement, it is listed in italics)

  • The Bible Story, The Promised Lord and His Coming by Catherine Beebe
  • Peter and Paul: The Rock and the Sword by Blanche Jennings Thompson
  • St. Helena and the True Cross by Louis de Wohl (ca 245/6-330)
  • St. Jerome and the Bible by George Sanderlin (347-420)
  • St. Augustine and His Search for Faith by Milton Lomask (354-430)
  • St. Benedict, Hero of the Hills by Mary Fabyan Windeatt (480-547)
  • St. Gregory the Great, Consul of God by George Sanderlin (540-604)
  • Saints of the Byzantine World by Blanche Jennings Thompson 
  • Irish Saints by Robert T. Reilly
  • Francis and Clare, Saints of Assisi by Helen Walker Homan (1181/2-1253)
  • St. Dominic and the Rosary by Catherine Beebe (1170-1221)
  • St. Anthony and the Christ Child by Helen Walker Homan (1195-1231)
  • St. Elizabeth's Three Crowns by Blanche Jennings Thompson (1207-1231)
  • St. Louis and the Last Crusade by Margaret Ann Hubbard (1215-1270)
  • St. Thomas Aquinas and the Preaching Beggars by Brendan Larnen and Milton Lomask (1225-1274)
  • St. Joan, The Girl Soldier by Louis de Wohl (1412-1431)
  • Columbus and the New World by August Derleth (1451-1506)
  • St. Thomas More of London by Elizabeth M. Ince (1478-1535)
  • St. Ignatius and the Company of Jesus by August Derleth (1491-1556)
  • St. Francis of the Seven Seas by Albert J. Nevins (1506-1552)
  • St. Philip of the Joyous Heart by Francis X. Connolly (1516-1595)
  • Edmund Campion, Hero of God's Underground by Harold C. Gardiner (1540-1581)
  • St. Francis de Sales by Blanche Jennings Thompson (1567-1622)
  • Martin de Porres, Saint of the New World by Ellen Tarry (1579-1639)
  • Peter Claver, Saint Among Slaves by Ann Roos (1580-1654) 
  • Vincent de Paul, Saint of Charity by Margaret Ann Hubbard (1581-1660)
  • St. Isaac and the Indians by Milton Lomask (1607-1646)
  • Marguerite Bourgeoys, Pioneer Teacher by Sister Mary Genevieve (1620-1700)
  • Father Marquette and the Great Rivers by August Derleth (1637-1675)
  • Father Kino, Priest to the Pimas by Ann Nolan Clark (1645-1711)
  • St. Margaret Mary, Apostle of the Sacred Heart by Ruth Fox Hume (1647-1690)
  • Kateri Tekakwitha, Mohawk Maid by Evelyn M. Brown (1656-1680)
  • Lydia Longley, the First American Nun by Helen A. McCarthy (1674-1758)
  • John Carroll: Bishop and Patriot by Milton Lomask (1735-1815)
  • Dear Philippine: Mission of Mother Duchesne by Margaret Ann Hubbard (1769-1852)
  • Mother Seton and the Sisters of Charity by Alma Power-Waters (1774-1821)
  • Mother Barat's Vineyard by Margaret Ann Hubbard (1779-1865)
  • The Cross in the West by Mark Boesch 
  • The Cure of Ars, The Priest Who Outtalked the Devil by Milton Lomask (1786-1859)
  • St. Catherine Laboure and the Miraculous Medal by Alma Power-Waters (1806-1876)
  • Kit Carson of the Old West by Mark Boesch (1809-1868)
  • Frances Warde and the First Sisters of Mercy by Sr. Marie Christopher (1810-1884)
  • John Neumann, The Children's Bishop by Elizabeth Odell Sheehan (1811-1860)
  • St. John Bosco and the Children's Saint, Dominic Savio by Catherine Beebe (1815-1888; 1842-1857)
  • Florence Nightingale's Nuns by Emmeline Garnett (1820-1910)
  • St. Pius X, the Farm Boy Who Became Pope by Walter Diethelm (1835-1914)
  • Father Damien and the Bells by Arthur and Elizabeth Sheehan (1840-1889)
  • Bernadette and the Lady by Hertha Pauli (1844-1879)
  • Brother Andre of Montreal by Ann Nolan Clark (1845-1937)
  • Mother Cabrini, Missionary to the World by Frances Parkinson Keyes (1850-1917)
  • Rose Hawthorne: The Pilgramage of Nathaniel's Daughter by Arthur and Elizabeth Sheehan (1851-1926)
  • Katharine Drexel, Friend of the Neglected by Ellen Tarry (1858-1955)
  • Sarah Peter: The Dream and the Harvest by Alma Power-Waters
  • Charles de Foucauld, Adventurer of the Desert by Emmeline Garnett (1858-1916)
  • Fighting Father Duffy by Jim and Virginia Lee Bishop (1871-1932)
  • St. Therese and the Roses by Helen Walker Homan (1873-1897)
  • Governor Al Smith by James Farley and James Conniff (1873-1944)
  • Pope Pius XII, the World's Shepherd by Louis de Wohl (1876-1958)
  • Edel Quinn: Beneath the Southern Cross by Evelyn Brown (1907-1944)
  • My Eskimos: A Priest in the Artic by Roger P. Buliard (1909--)
  • Our Lady Came to Fatima by Ruth Fox Hume (1917)
  • Good Pope John by Elizabeth Odell Sheehan 
  • Modern Crusaders by John Travers Moore and Rosemarian Staudacher
Not Classified:
  • Champions in Sports and Spirit by Ed Fitzgerald 
  • Christmas and the Saints by Hertha Pauli
  • Catholic Campuses, Stories of American Catholic Colleges by Rosemarian Staudacher 
  • The Ursulines, Nuns of Adventure by Harnett T. Kane 
  • More Champions in Sports and Spirit by Ed Fitzgerald 
  • When Saints Were Young by Blanche Jennings Thompson 
  • Chaplains in Action by Rosemarian Staudacher 
  • Children Welcome: Villages for Boys and Girls by Rosemarian Staudacher 
  • In American Vineyards, Religious Orders in the United States by Rosemarian Staudacher

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Garden Notes: 07/26/10

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No notes today, but lots of pictures...















































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Back-to-School Planning

0 comments Posted by Kristine at 10:29 PM


I was startled to realize this morning that the new school year is nearly upon us and I have given zero thought to my plans all summer long (that's a first!). I haven't been on my favorite homeschooling websites or blogs, I didn't attend the local convention, and I haven't so much as glanced at any of the curriculum catalogs that have been arriving in the mail. Yikes!

Last year, I had optimistically assumed that we would school year-round, straight through the summer, yet once again that didn't happen. My husband lost his job in May and having him home all day, plus dealing with the garden and having to work extra hours, etc., has made school work rather impossible. We've done some Math this summer, and lots of other little 'odds 'n ends,' but we'll clearly have a bit of catching up to do next month. 

We'll be returning to school full-time on August 17th; since I'll have two back in public school this year, it seemed easiest to plan according to their schedule.  In many ways I'm anticipating an easier year, since I've relinquished my two more challenging students. I'll have Maddie and Jaymon home with me - in fifth and sixth grades, respectively. Nevertheless, I wanted to keep our work as simple (for me!) as possible, with very little pre-planning required - though room to plan if I should so choose. You see, I've come to the conclusion that I cannot be trusted to plan consistently. Sometimes, I'm very enthusiastic about it (too enthusiastic perhaps, and not entirely realistic!) - other times, it's just a big headache and I want something easy. Too often, I leave myself no room for "easy." I think, or at least I hope, that this year I've found the perfect solution, at least for our core subjects.

Religion
Language Arts
History
History is my favorite subject, but also the subject that gives me the greatest anxiety. This year, in particular, I'm feeling very lost. For now, my tentative plan is to wrap up the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and then start on the history of the Americas (3x/week), while continuing to use our K-12 text for World History (2x/week).  When we first started homeschooling, I used K-12's history text and loved it, so I'm not sure why it was ever abandoned! I will, of course, be supplementing with living books and hands-on projects.
Science
I'm going to force myself to do a formal science program this year. It's my least favorite subject (well, aside from math), and the one that is most often neglected - yet my kids love it. Last year, I fell in love with Real Science-4-Kids at a homeschool convention, so I've decided to use their Chemistry Level I. I'm not sure how many of their "Kogs" we'll realistically be able to manage, but I'm going to try to utilize all of them.

Math

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Peace Studies

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© Karen Karabasz

"A culture of peace will be achieved when citizens of the world understand global problems, have the skills to resolve conflicts and struggle for justice non-violently, live by international standards of human rights and equity, appreciate cultural diversity, and respect the Earth and each other." – Hague Appeal for Peace, Global Campaign for Peace Education Statement

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."- Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter From Birmingham Jail", in Why We Can’t Wait, by same author.

"Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience." - Thomas Merton

Core Texts
Supplements

(The titles marked with an asterik* are books that I am certain to use, while the others are under consideration.)
Other
Curricula

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English Village Life: A Reading List

2 comments Posted by Kristine at 5:49 PM


Authors

Paintings by Helen Allingham (1848-1926)

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New Planters

0 comments Posted by Kristine at 2:43 PM


Last month, while browsing at my favorite antique mall, I fell in love with a small Madonna head vase and purchased it. This past week, I was lucky enough to find three additional vases/planters at local thrift stores... naturally, now I can't wait to collect more! Catholic Home and Garden has a wonderful, informative page on collecting religious head vases and planters.





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