So, I was so excited about doing Book Club with the Heroes Then and Now Series with my 9-11 girls...then I started reading them. Sigh....I had read Glady's Aylward many years ago with my older son. We LOVED it! I had always wanted to read more. What I didn't think about is the fact that a lot of these books will be dealing with a lot of behavior that I just don't want to share with 9-11 year old girls! (The books say 10 and up, but I say High School for many of them!)
So...Plan B...
My new plan for 9-11 Girls Book Club is to read classic books that have been made into movies. I am calling it:
From the Page to the Stage!
The books I have chosen are:
- Sept. - Pollyanna (1913) Eleanor H. Porter
- Oct. - The Story of Dr. Doolittle (1920) Hugh Lofting
- January - Gladys Aylward (1930) Janet and Geoff Benge
- Feb - Mr. Poppers Penguins (1938) Richard and Florence Atwater
- March - Charlotte’s Web (1952) E.B. White
- April - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) Roald Dahl
- May - Nims Island (1994) Wendy Orr
I carefully chose these to span from 1913 10 1994. This way we can still do a timeline of what else was going on in the world at each time period. And I will have a World map for them to mark the ones that take places in "real" places. As far as the lapbook, I have changed it to a notebook. The girls will be filling out a sort of movie poster each month. (You can see it
HERE.) This will be printed on card stock and then on the back we will do a few lapbook pages for each book.
Lot's and lot's of ideas! I am jazzed about the new plan, even though I am bummed that we are not studying Missionaries. My daughter and I will still be reading a few of the others that I had already bought.
Happy Homeschooling,
Jamin
