So I am starting preliminary planning for next year's literature-based chunk of American History, from Lewis and Clark to the U.S. entry into the Great War.
Googling around, I found this homeschooler's astonishingly detailed ten-week unit study on the Civil War.
She may have saved me a month of work!
Seriously: I never fail to be amazed at what families are capable of if they are interested in a subject.
Now here's what I was looking for when I stumbled on it: Where can I get a set of military-history manipulatives? You know, the little statues of soldiers and tanks and fortifications that I can spread out on a big map so we can re-enact battles? Like Risk but, you know, real?
Preferably it should come with a riding whip so we can practice sweeping them all off the map in one motion, sending our enemies' fortifications clattering to the floor.
Perhaps I need to look for the Evil Genius Supply Company… you know, the contractors who built that cool model of Fort Knox in Goldfinger.
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