My rating: 4/5 stars I am fairly certain that I originally read The Witch of Blackbird Pond when I was in elementary school. As it’s historical fiction, it seems likely that it was assigned to me to learn about colonial history. In any case, I remembered none of it, so I figured it was time…
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Rifles for Watie (1958)
My rating: 4/5 stars Finished reading Rifles for Watie a couple days ago. It is about a boy from Kansas who joins up with the Union army because he and his family want the Kansas territory’s slavery status to be determined by the settlers, not by people crossing over from Missouri to stuff the ballots….
A Project
Every year I tell my elementary students to create reading goals for themselves. Mine, I tell them, is to read every Newbery book. They look unimpressed until I tell them how many that is – 88! That doesn’t even include the ones that receive Newbery Honors each year. I’ve tried over the years to keep…
A New Beginning
>I’m not sure whether I’ll do much with this blog at this point, but I wanted to reserve the name for future use. For now I’ll continue to work with our Shutterfly site to give updates about our family, and may return to this once I’ve accomplished some other goals.
