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Articles

This page is in process--there will be more to come. Feel free to copy for personal or classroom use, but please include the website and author info.

Most of the world history articles are papers written for class handouts in my tenth grade world history class at a private Christian school.

HISTORY TOPICS

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Civil War

Differential Freight Rates, Balance of Trade, and the Civil War

The Rebel Yell

History: General Topics

4 Different Views of History
--A Very Quick Synopsis

Origins of BC and AD

Streamlined Timeline of English Language
--from King Alfred's English

History: Ancient

          Egypt--

Bare Bones Chart on Ancient Egypt to fill out
--with a link to the answers

Champollion and the Rosetta Stone

Cleopatra

Curse of the Mummy and King Tut's Tomb

Uniqueness of Moses' Laws

Greece--

Greek Myths--who believed them and was there any basis in fact?

Greek Origins of the Marathon

Rome--

Crucifixion--a very quick history

Gladiator, The Movie: Truth & Fiction

Philosophies of the Stoics and Epicureans

Ptolemy and Darwin

Religion of the Romans

Miscellaneous--

Classic Ages: Stone, Bronze, Iron

Cuneiform-- Development of

King Nebuchadnezzer's Dream--Line-up of Nations Foretold

Progressive Decline of Democracies

Religion of the Canaanites

 

History: Medieval and Renaissance

Ancient Runes of the Anglo Saxons

Gospel in a Shamrock
--St. Patrick's story from King Alfred's English

Halloween: The Real Meaning

Origins of Last Names

OTHER TOPICS

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Composition and Grammar

Avoiding Comma Kazi  --Missed or Misplaced Commas That Bomb Your Paper

Playing the Game Called Grammar

Homeschooling and Child Rearing

Is Santa Real?  - For Christian parents who don't want their kids to miss the fun of Santa, but hate for him to be the central focus at Christmas.

Just Keep Me Home (humorous song/poem about homeschooling)

What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing At Home on a School Day?  (A brief and entertaining apologetic for homeschooling)

Notes From Various Books

Every now and then, I take notes on a book if it offers up such well-expressed insight that I know I'll want to review it later, or of course, if it is borrowed from a friend and she wants it back! Anyway, I thought that these bits and pieces might help someone know whether or not they might like one of these selections, or at least, to just enjoy the notes themselves.

Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami?
by David Bentley Hart (problem of evil)

Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading by Eugene Peterson (mix of subjects by the theologian who did the NT paraphrase The Message)

One Life Solution: Reclaim Your Personal Life While Achieving Greater Personal Success by Henry Cloud [on general life principles]

People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil by M. Scott Peck (problem of evil)

The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck [life principles]

Random Christian topics

On Babel, Pentecost and Tongues

Easter --When is it?

Six Keys to Interpreting Scripture

Really Random

Publishing Tools

You Can Do A Rubik's Cube!

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Book-favs for high school and beyond

More Links

NCCA STUDENTS 


Links to other stuff I like and recommend


Knowledge Quest's 5 Must-Have, No-Cost Resources for Homeschooling


Math and more

The Kahn Academy-- All homeschoolers should know about this guy (really!). Click here for a short pbs video introduction to what Kahn is about.


History

Write in HIEROGLYPHICS

culturefocus.com

openculture.com -- for free audio books plus much, much more!

KnowledgeQuest.com recommendations as well as Terri Johnson's whole website.

Owl and Mouse free online geography games (I love these)


Science

Stardome

Video science online

Principles of Physics (animated demonstrations)


Video shorts

Galileo & the telescope

Galileo proven right

The Evolution of Beauty

Drawing the City of Rome


Video programs

J.J. Abrams(creator of Lost) TED talk on technology & movies

Merchants of Cool

The Paradox of Choice--Why Less Is More

Laser Archaeology

ted.com

Top Ten TED talks (what's TED? Find out!)


Random stuff

Use Replyforall to have an advertiser send money to a charity you select every time you send an email--and it's free to you! I help bring clean water to people in impoverished areas.

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