At the moment I'm collecting resources for a very last-minute fall and winter tree study. I'll post those plans when they're complete, but in the meantime I wanted to share what I've discovered thus far.
A tree and forest study for younger kids can be found at Small Things; Pinterest also has some fun ideas. Exploring Nature with Your Child by Dorothy Edwards Shuttleworth has a lovely chapter entitled "Trees and How to Know Them" and the second and/or third book below would be perfect.
Projects: Gelatin Leaf Prints, Pressed Leaves, Leaf Relief, Wax Dipped Leaves
Tree Information
A tree and forest study for younger kids can be found at Small Things; Pinterest also has some fun ideas. Exploring Nature with Your Child by Dorothy Edwards Shuttleworth has a lovely chapter entitled "Trees and How to Know Them" and the second and/or third book below would be perfect.
Projects: Gelatin Leaf Prints, Pressed Leaves, Leaf Relief, Wax Dipped Leaves
Tree Information
- A Year Among the Trees, or, The Woods and By-Ways of New England by Wilson Flagg (1890)
- Among Green Trees: A Guide to Pleasant and Profitable Acquaintance with Familiar Trees by Julia Rogers (1902)
- Trees That Every Child Should Know: Easy Tree Studies for All Seasons of the Year by Julia Rogers (1909)
- The Secret Life of Trees by Colin Tudge
- A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America by Donald Culross Peattie
- A Natural History of Western Trees by Donald Culross Peattie
Tree Identification
- Tree Identification Book: A New Method for the Practical Identification and Recognition of Trees by George Symonds
- The Sibley Guide to Trees by David Sibley -- Simply the best!
- Trees of North America (Golden Field Guide Series) by C. Frank Brockman
- Northwest Trees by Stephen Arno
- Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope by George Sudworth
- The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet by Jim Robbins
- American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation by Eric Rutkow - How America's trees and forests shaped the nation.
- The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston
- The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant
- How to Keep a Naturalist's Notebook by Susan Leigh Tomlinson
- Keeping a Nature Journal by Clare Walker Leslie
- New Eyes for Plants by Margaret Colquhoun
- Drawing from the Book of Nature by Dennis Klocek
- Draw 50 Flowers, Trees, and Other Plants by Lee Ames
- A Crow Doesn't Need a Shadow: A Guide to Writing Poetry from Nature by Lorraine Ferra
- The Alphabet of the Trees: A Guide to Nature Writing by Christian McEwan, Mark Stratman
- Words in Place: Reconnecting with Nature Through Creative Writing by Paul Matthews
Morning Work
- Morning Exercises and School Recreations by Charles W. Mickens
- Lives of the Saints for Everyday of the Year [Library of Catholic Devotions]
- 'Round the Year with the Poets by Martha Capps Oliver
- The Gift of Music by Jane Stuart Smith
- A Book of Golden Deeds by Charlotte Yonge
- The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature by David George Haskell
- Stories from Shakespeare by Marchette Chute
- Essays Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Mabie Wright
- Baltimore Catechism No. 2
- Bible History and Bible History Workbook
- Introduction to the Bible by Fr. John Laux
- Reading the Old Testament: An Introduction by Lawrence Boadt
- You Can Understand the Bible by Peter Kreeft
- Ignatius Catholic Study Bible: Genesis and Ignatius Catholic Study Bible: Exodus
- Walking the Bible: A Journey Through the Five Books of Moses + DVD by Bruce Feiler
- Lepanto Grammar [Voyages in English] 8
- Wordly Wise 5
- Writing With Skill
- Sing Me The Creation and Words in Place: Reconnecting with Nature Through Creative Writing - two amazing books by Paul Matthews
- How to Read a Book + DVDs
- Year-long poetry study (details TBA)
Math
- Saxon Algebra 1/2
History / Geography
- Connecting with History, Vol. 1: A Guide to Salvation History - Old Testament and Ancient Cultures Through 63 B.C.
- The Old World and America by Bishop Furlong
- The Book of the Ancient World and The Book of the Ancient Greeks by Dorothy Mills
- Readings from Heritage History's Ancient Greece CD and Ancient Rome CD
- Map Trek: The Complete Collection
- The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
- Gilgamesh by Bernarda Bryson
- Tales of Ancient Egypt by Roger Lancelyn Green
- The Cat of Bubastes by G.A. Henty
- Behold Your Queen! A Story of Esther by Gladys Malvern
- Warrior Scarlet by Rosemary Sutcliff
- God King by Joanne Williamson
- The Spartan by Caroline Dale Snedeker
- The Foreigner: A Story of Ruth by Gladys Malvern
- String, Straight-Edge and Shadow: The Story of Geometry
- The Boys' and Girls' Herodotus
- Lives from Plutarch by John McFarland, Pleasant and Audrey Graves
- Caesar's Gallic War by Olivia Coolidge
- The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Dale Snedeker
- Getting Started with Latin by William Linney
Science
- Natural Science Through the Seasons by James A. Partridge
I definitely have obsessive tendencies when it comes to planning our curriculum and at the moment I'm completely obsessed with audio. It started when planning literature for my high schooler next year, when I realized that there were recordings made of authors reading their own work:
Caedmon was formed in 1953 by college graduates Barbara Holdridge and Marianne Roney. Its first release was a collection of poems by Dylan Thomas as read by the author himself. The company went on to record other notable writers reading their own works, such as W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and many more. The label expanded further to encompass other types of spoken word recordings, including children's stories, speeches, plus English- and foreign-language classics. (Source)More about Caedmon here.
History (Old Time Radio at Internet Archive)
To save the audio files to your computer, right-click on the MP3 link and select "Save Target As..."
- American History Through the Eyes of Radio - An AMAZING resource!
- Adventures in Research - Sponsored by Westinghouse, Adventures of Research was broadcast from 1946 into the 1950s. Historically accurate, these fifteen-minute shows are highly entertaining and a fantastic way to learn about scientific discoveries throughout history.
- Biographies in Sound: An excellent hour-long documentary radio program that was produced in the 1950s - audio biographies include F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis,Carl Sanburg, Thornton Wilder, Frank Lloyd Wright, etc.
- You Are There: Dramatised events from U.S. and world history
- Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
- Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" Narrated by the Author: Side 1, Side Two
- William Faulkner Audio Archive (Faulkner also recorded an LP, entitled "Faulkner Reads From His Works")
- J.R.R. Tolkien Reads and Sings His Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers - Return of the King
- American Rhetoric: Top 100 Speeches
- Naropa Institute Archives: Contains over 5,000 hours of readings, lectures, performances, seminars, panels and workshops conducted at Naropa by many of the leading figures of the U.S.literary avant-garde (Kerouac, Ginsburg, Burroughs, etc.).
- Lolita and Poems Read by Vladimir Nabokov (Spoken Arts LP)
- Conversations Regarding the Future of Architecture (1956; 33 min.): Interviews with Ernest Kump, Gordon Bunshaft, Eero Saarinen, Philip Johnson, Mies Van Der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Richard J. Neutra, and others.
Hey, Hey LBJ...Songs of the U.S. Anti-War Movement (1967 - Crisis Records, Monterey Park, CA) *Song descriptions are from the back of the album cover.
- Ship Ahoy - "Ship Ahoy" was provoked at an anti-war demonstration. A heckler submitted that well honed ethereal question: "Sure we want out...but how do we get out?" "By boat," replied the demonstrators.
- Empty - "Empty" is an on-the-spot interview with the individual citizen of Vietnam and his dilemma; which is to live in spite of U.S. aid, and Marshall Ky's ambitions. Survival is his way of life. His modern history documents that his current war has endured for a hundred years.
- The Dean Rusk Song - "The Dean Rusk Song" sings for itself, but its touchstone is worth reciting: New York Times, January 26, 1966, page one..."Weary, Rusk Tells of World's Mischief." "Weary looking and harried, Secretary of State Dean Rusk offered the House Foreign Affairs Committee this wry comment on the troubles that beset him: 'The world is round. Only one third of the human beings are asleep at one time, and the other two thirds are awake and up to some mischief somewhere.'"
- Hitler Ain't Dead - "Hitler Ain't Dead" was generated durin gthe Dominican crisis. LBJ received a rousing hand from 4,000 labor leaders, when he quoted a 19th century Senator, George Frisbie Hoar: "I have seen the glories of art an architecture, and mountain and river. I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau, and the full moon rise over Mont Blanc. But the fairest version on which these eyes ever looked was the flag of my country in a foreign land."
- Just Another Day - "Just Another Day" is a heart-blow in the solar region. Student demonstrations forced the Board of Trustees to get the University of Pennsylvania out of the Germ Warfare research business. The song grew out of the two year fight.
- R. and R. - "R. and R." is G.I. jargon for 'Rest and Relaxation.' The G.I. in this song has a few comments to make, apropros of the status quo.
- Hands Off - "Hands Off" is dedicated to the G.I.'s couragous enough to oppose the war and take the consequences. Privates Petrick, Johnson, Mora, Samas, and Capt. Levy...and the many more to come.
- Quiet Sound - "Quiet Sound" has an evocative and haunting melody. Bill's mother participated in a silent WSP demonstration in February, 1965 when the bombings of North Vietnam began. Since then the silence has declined.
- And Freedom Too - "And Freedom Too is a Groove In. President Eisenhower, in 1953, confided: "Now let us assume we lost Indo China. If Indo China goes, several things happen right away. The peninsula, the last bit of land hanging on down there, would scarcely be defensible. The tin and tungsten that we so greatly value from that area would cease coming. So when the U.S. votes $400,000,000 to help that war, we are not voting a giveaway program. We are voting for the cheapest way that we can prevent the occurence of something that would be of a most terrible significance to the U.S.A., our security, our power and ability to get certain things we need from the riches of the Indo-Chinese territory and from South-East Asia."
- Exploitation Blues - "Exploitation Blues" is what they have all over the world where the U.S. exports freedom and justice, and an equal opportunity to be napalmed in your yard.
- Hey, Hey LBJ - "Hey, Hey, L.B.J." is an offspring of the chant punctuating the April 15th Spring Mobilization in New York and San Francisco
- How Far We Have Come - Sums up 200 years of American history.
Other popular songs from the Vietnam War era:
- Where Have All The Flowers Gone - Kingston Trio (1961)
- Masters of War - Bob Dylan (1963)
- Eve Of Destruction - Barry McGuire (1965)
- With God On Our Side (He'll End the Next War) - Manfred Mann (1965)
- It's Good News Week - Hedgehoppers Anonymous (1965)
- I Ain't Marching Anymore - Phil Ochs (1965)
- For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield (1966)
- Universal Soldier - Donovan (1967)
- People Got To Be Free - Rascals (1968)
- Sky Pilot - Eric Burdon and The Animals (1968)
- The 'Fish' Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die-Rag - Country Joe and The Fish (1969)
- War - Edwin Starr (1969)
- Give Peace a Chance - John Lennon (1969)
- Bring Them Home - Pete Seeger (1969)
- Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969)
- Tricia, Tell Your Daddy - Jay and the Americans (1970 - Written for Tricia Nixon)
- Imagine - John Lennon (1971)
- Bring Our Brothers Home - Covered Wagon Musicians (1972)
Labels: Music, The American Pageant, U.S. History, Vietnam War
In Country: Folk Songs of Americans in the Vietnam War
3 comments Posted by Kristine at 8/20/2012 04:21:00 PM- Green T-Shirt Blues - Saul Brody
- Grunt - Bill Ellis
- Six Clicks - Chuck Rosenberg
- Saigon Warrior - Saul Broudy, Robin Thomas
- First Cav - Bill Ellis
- Ho Chi Minh Trail - Toby Hughes, Saul Broudy, Chuck Rosenberg
- The Panther Pack is Prowling/Ling Po Drove the Truck Away - Chip Dockery
- King of the Trail - Chip Dockery
- Tchepone - Toby Hughes, Robin Thomas, Chuck Rosenberg
- Sitting in the Cab of My Truck - Chip Dockery
- Ba Muoi Ba - Chuck Rosenberg, Bill Ellis
- Pull the Boom from the Gas Hole - Dick Jonas, Chuck Rosenberg, Robin Thomas
- Jolly Green - Bull Durham, Saul Broudy, Robin Thomas, Tom Price
- Cobra Seven - Toby Hughes, Saul Broudy, Chuck Rosenberg, Tom Price
- Green Beret and Friendly FAC - Chuck Rosenberg, Tom Price, Robin Thomas
- Firefight - Bill Ellis
- Will There Be a Tomorrow? - Dick Jonas, Bill Ellis, Chuck Rosenberg, Robin Thomas, Lisa Ellis, Sherry Hughes, Kathy Jonas
- I've Been Everywhere - Chuck Dockery
- Here I Sit - Saul Brody
- Fighter Pilot's Christmas - Dick Jonas, Saul Brody, Chuck Rosenberg, Robin Thomas
- Chu Yen - Saul Brody, Robin Thomas
- Boonie Rat Song - Chuck Rosenberg
- Battle Hymn of the River Rats - Dick Jonas
- Crack Went the Rifle - Bull Durham, Saul Brody, Robin Thomas, Tom Price
- Freedom Bird - Bill Ellis
- Played Around and Stayed Around in Vietnam Too Long - Chuck Rosenberg, Saul Broudy, Bull Durham
Labels: Music, Vietnam War
Atomic Platters: Cold War Music from the Golden Age of Homeland Security
0 comments Posted by Kristine at 8/20/2012 03:41:00 PMCompiling these playlists was an educational experience, to say the least! I had no idea there were so many Cold War-themed songs out there (here is a categorical list) - and covering such a range of genres.
Disc: 1 (YouTube Playlist)
- Intro CONELRAD Radio Alert 'Real Thing' (WBEN AM, Buffalo, NY)
- Slim Gaillard Quartette: Atomic Cocktail (background)
- Fay Simmons: You Hit Me Baby Like An Atomic Bomb (background)
- The Kavaliers: Get That Communist, Joe (background)
- The Buchanan Brothers: Atomic Power (background)
- Groucho Marx: Civil Defense Spot: Excellent Chances
- Amos Milburn: Atomic Baby (background)
- Doris Day: Tic, Tic, Tic (background)
- The Five Stars: Atom Bomb Baby (background)
- Carson Robison: I'm No Communist (background)
- Civil Defense Spot: How Much Time Do We Have (Keep Working)
- The Talbot Brothers of Bermuda: Atomic Nightmare (background)
- Skip Stanley: Satellite Baby (background)
- Wanda Jackson: Fujiyama Mama (background)
- Bill Haley and His Comets: Thirteen Women (And Only One Man) (background)
- Bob Hope: Civil Defense Spot: Pattern of Survival
- Hank Williams: No, No Joe (background)
- Hawkshaw Hawkins: When They Found The Atomic Power (background)
- Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup: I'm Gonna Dig Myself A Hole (background)
- Josephine Premice: Leave De Atom Alone
- Dennis James (Announcer); Leo Hoegh (Civil Defense Director)
- Billy Chambers: Fallout Shelter (background)
- Sheldon Allman: Radioactive Mama (background)
- Teresa Brewer: Satellite (background)
- Walker Edmiston as Barky: I Dreamt I Saw Khrushchev (In A Pink Cadillac) (background)
- Art Linkletter: Civil Defense Spot: Don't Use the Phone!
- Al Rex: Hydrogen Bomb (background)
- Jackie Doll and his Pickled Peppers: When They Drop The Atomic Bomb (background)
- Sir Lancelot: Atomic Energy (background)
- Homer Harris (with Muddy Waters): Atomic Bomb Blues (background)
- Eddie Hill: I Changed My Mind
- Lowell Blanchard and the Valley Trio: Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb (background)
- Floyd Tillman: This Cold War With You (background)
- Civil Defense Spot: Take The Step (Grandma's Pantry)
Disc: 2 (YouTube Playlist)
- Civil Defense Spot: CONELRAD 'Test Announcement'
- Dick 'Two Ton' Baker: Bert The Turtle (The Duck And Cover Song) (background)
- Sheldon Allman: Crawl Out Through The Fallout (background)
- Karl and Harty: When The Atom Bomb Fell
- Jim Eanes: They Locked God Outside The Iron Curtain
- Sammy Salvo: A Mushroom Cloud (background)
- Tony Bennett: Civil Defense Spot: Nuclear Attack
- H-Bomb Ferguson: Rock H-Bomb Rock (background)
- Roosevelt Sykes: Sputnik Baby (background)
- Sonny Russell: Fifty Megatons (background)
- Linda Hayes with the Red Callender Sextette: Atomic Baby (background)
- Civil Defense Spot: Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow (Short film, 8:58 min)
- Ray Anderson: Stalin Kicked The Bucket (background)
- Warren Smith: Uranium Rock (background)
- The Louvin Brothers: Great Atomic Power (background)
- Fred MacMurray: Civil Defense Spot: Family Fallout Shelter Booklet
- Tommy James: The Commies Are Coming
- Tom Lehrer: We'll All Go Together When We Go (background)
- The Cuff Links: Guided Missiles (background)
- Ray Anderson and the Homefolks: Sputniks And Mutniks (background)
- Civil Defense Spot: CONELRAD, Sounds Pretty Complicated
- The Goldwaters: Down In Havana
- Marty Robbins: Ain't I Right (background)
- The Commodores: Uranium (background)
- Civil Defense Spot: Take the Step (Four Wheels To Survival)
- Jack Holden and Frances Kay: The Fiery Bear (background)
- The Crown City Four: Watch World War Three (On Pay TV) (background)
- Al Rogers and his Rocky Mountain Boys: The Hydrogen Bomb (background)
- Elton Britt: The Red We Want Is The Red We Got
- Pat Boone: Civil Defense: Warning Signals
- Mike Fern, Mike (aka Mike Fernandez): A Bomb Bop (background)
- Carl Mann: Satellite No. 2 (background)
- Mike and Bernie Winters: Fallout Shelter (background)
- Hank King with Bud Williams and his Smiling Buddies: Your Atom Bomb Heart (background)
- Civil Defense Spot: In Time Of Emergency (Not Contagious) (Short film, 25 min)
Disc: 3 (YouTube Playlist)
- Civil Defense Spot: How much time do we have? (Disaster on a Big Scale)
- Dr. Strangelove and the Fallouts: Love That Bomb (background)
- Glenn Barber: Atom Bomb (background)
- Elton Britt: Uranium Fever (background)
- Spencer and Spencer: Russian Bandstand (background)
- Boris Karloff: Civil Defense Spot: Protect Your Home
- Swan's Silvertone Singers: Jesus Is God's Atomic Bomb
- The Pilgrim Travelers: Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb
- Sam Hinton: Old Man Atom
- The Sons Of The Pioneers: Old Man Atom
- Roy Acuff: Advice To Joe (background)
- Civil Defense Spot: In Time of Emergency
- Dore Alpert: Fallout Shelter (background)
- Fred Kirby: When That Hell Bomb Falls (background)
- Hal Block with the Tony Borrello Orchestra: The Senator McCarthy Blues
- Ann-Margret: Thirteen Men (background)
- Mitzi Gaynor: Civil Defense Spot: 640-1240
- The Buchanan Brothers: There's A Power Greater Than Atomic (background)
- Louisiana Red: Red's Dream (background)
- Little Caesar and the Red Callender Sextette: Atomic Love
- Arthur 'Guitar Boogie' Smith and his Crackerjacks: Mr. Stalin You're Eating Too High Off The Hog (background)
- Civil Defense Spot: Psychiatrist (Shelter Signs)
- The Spirit of Memphis Quartet: Atomic Telephone (background)
- The Goons (Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan): A Russian Love Song (background)
- Red McCoy with the Sons of the Soil: Rock And Roll Atom (background)
- Red River Dave (Dave McEnery): Ballad Of Francis Powers (There's a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere)
- Howard Duff: Civil Defense Spot: Remember, 640-1240
- Mike Russo: Agnes (The Teenage Russian Spy) (background)
- Bo Diddley: Mr. Khruschev
- Toni Fisher, and the Wayne Shanklin Orchestra: West Of The Wall (background)
- Chris Cerf: (My) Fallout Filly (With The Atomic Kiss) (background)
- Jay Chevalier: Khrushchev And The Devil
- Dexter Logan and Darrell Edwards: The Song Of The Atom Bomb
- Sammy Cahn and Paul Weston: Civil Defense March (Heads Up America) (background)
- Civil Defense Spot: In Time of Emergency (Brilliant Nuclear Flash)
Disc: 4 (YouTube Playlist)
- Civil Defense Spot: How Much Time Do We Have? (Fortress Main Street)
- Billy Hughes and his Rhythm Buckeroos: Atomic Sermon (background)
- Buddy Hawk and his Buddies: Death Of Joe Stalin (Good Riddance)
- Golden Gate Quartet: Atom and Evil (background)
- Tommy Duncan: Relax And Take It Easy (background)
- Connie Francis: Civil Defense Spot: Be Prepared Today, for Survival Tomorrow
- Rudy Gaddis: Uranium Fever (background)
- Dude Martin's Round-Up Gang: Atom Bomb Baby (background)
- Janet Greene: Poor Left-Winger (background)
- Jimmie Driftwood: The Bear Flew Over The Ocean (background)
- Civil Defense Spot: In Time Of Emergency (Basic Supplies)
- Dexter Gordon: Bikini (background)
- Red River Dave (Dave McEnery): Trial Of Francis Powers (background)
- Don Meehan: An Open Letter To Khrushchev
- Bradley Kincaid: Brush The Dust From That Old Bible
- Joni James: Civil Defense Spot: Every Living Thing
- Al Barkle with the Tri-Tones: Sputnik II (background)
- The Buchanan Brothers: (You Got To Pray To The Lord) When You See Those Flying Saucers (background)
- Loy Clingman: Uranium Blues (background)
- The Louvin Brothers: Weapon Of Prayer
- Announcer: Don Pardo: Civil Defense Spot: Message from Mars (CONELRAD Jingle)
- George McKelvey: My Radiation Baby (My Teenage Fallout Queen) (background)
- Unidentified: H-Bomb
- The Charades: Hammers And Sickles (background)
- Jerry Engler and the Four Ekkos: Sputnik (Satellite Girl) (background)
- Johnny Cash: Civil Defense Spot: Help Ourselves
- Harold Weakley: To Russia With Care (background)
- Bobby Marchan and the Clowns: Rockin' Behind The Iron Curtain (background)
- Prescott Reed: Russia, Russia (Lay That Missile Down)
- Carl Perkins: Tennessee
- Ferlin 'Terry Preston' Husky: Let's Keep The Communists Out
- Don Windle: The Iron Curtain Has Parted
- Bing Crosby and Ken Carpenter: Stars For Defense Outro
Labels: Cold War, Music, The American Pageant, U.S. History
Ch. 40 - The Stalemated Seventies
Resources
- Watch The Century, America's Time: Approaching the Apocalypse (YouTube) (Study Guide)
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Watch The Century, America's Time: Starting Over (YouTube) (Study Guide)
- Lecture: The Vietnam War (.doc)
- Lecture: The Nixon Enigma (.doc)
Readings
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A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Ch. 19: Surprises (Discussion Guide)
Nixon "Vietnamizes the War" (p. 948)
The Great Tape Controversy (p. 956)
- Watch All the President's Men
The Unmaking of a President (p. 959)
- Watch Nixon
Defeat in Vietnam (p. 962)
Labels: Cold War, The American Pageant, U.S. History
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