Sunday, February 18, 2007
War of 1812
In past years of homeschooling, we could never find much on the War of 1812. We found kiddy books on the Star Spangled Banner. We found grown-up books on the war. We found long, dry, boring books in the children's section of the library. Last week, we finally bumped into a decent resource. Jean Fritz's The Great Little Madison is a biography of James Madison. Because of what was involved in his life, this book works well for studying things like the Constitution and Federalist Papers, as well as the War of 1812. I wish, when some of the older kids were still homeschooling, I'd thought of seeking out a biography from this time period as a way to find information on events.
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When I was teaching the war of 1812 on student teaching I wanted to find something about the Battle of New Orleans. Here is a clip from www.brickfilms.com that I thought was great: http://www.brickfilms.com/films/830
ReplyDeleteThanks for the recommendation. We are starting the War of 1812 today. Amazingly enough our library system has 1 copy of it and it's checked in!
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