Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Wednesday, August 01, 2012
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Monday, July 16, 2012
Theodore Boone : the abduction by John Grisham
Theo's best friend April is missing and the authorities fear she has been abducted by a distant cousin who escaped from prison and is back in town. But Theo knows that April was staying alone because her Mom abandoned her and her Dad was out of town playing with his band and puts the pieces together in order to bring April home.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Tuesday, July 03, 2012
Book Review ~ Teen
Death Run by Jack Higgins - Twins Rich and Jade Chance become embroiled in their Father's work when their math teacher turns out to be "The Banker" John Chance rescued from "The Tigers" clutches. Fast paced thriller.
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
The Battle of New Orleans
Andrew Jackson lead to victory one of the most diverse and motley assortments of American troops ever put together.
Spirit of New Orleans
Road to New Orleans
Afro-Creoles in the Battle of New Orleans
- The regular army's 7th and 44th infantry regiments
- Militia units from Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana
- Two Battalions drawn from the free black population of New Orleans
- Chocotaw Indians
- Pirates under the command of Jean Lafitte
Spirit of New Orleans
Road to New Orleans
Afro-Creoles in the Battle of New Orleans
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
Book Review ~ Peter, Paul and Mary Magdalene by Bart D. Ehrman
Peter, Paul and Mary Magdalene The Followers of Jesus In History and Legend
Ehrman explains how the stories made up about Peter, Paul and Mary Magdalene give us insight into what the people of that period were thinking.
Ehrman explains how anything supposedly written by Peter is highly suspect as Peter was an illiterate fisherman. Explores the stories concerning Simon Peter's "contest" with Simon Magus. Tells how Peter supposedly refused to heal his own daughter who was paralyzed to keep her a virgin. And explores the myth of Peter's martyrdom, he was supposedly crucified upside down because he preached sexual abstinence even for married people.
Paul was well educated and spoke Greek. Doubtful he spoke Hebrew/Aramaic. The letters Paul wrote are at odds with what was written about him in Acts. The views in Acts that women were to stay home and have babies are not Paul's. Supposedly beheaded by Nero, and his blood was replaced with "milk". Paul was a figure of controversy even in his own time.
Mary Magdalene the most interesting from my point of view. Little is know about her and she is only mentioned in the four Gospels of the New Testament 13 times, although she is often confused with other Mary's (Mary of Bethany for example) and unnamed women in the Bible. In The Golden Legend she is a reformed sex offender who can work miracles. In The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown she is Jesus' secret wife and the mother of his child. In Jesus Christ Superstar she was sexually attracted to Jesus and possibly intimate with him. The Last Temptation of Christ had Jesus imagining an alternate life with Mary Magdalene as his wife while he was being crucified. While in the Bible she is only on the fringes of the group of Jesus and his disciples along with other women. In fact all we know about her from the Bible is that demons were cast out of her and that she was the first to see the empty tomb, and that she was the one who proclaimed that "Jesus Was Risen", making her the first apostle. More then likely she was illiterate. There are no surviving text written by Mary or claiming to be written by Mary. The Gospel of Mary is a book about her written years after her death.
Ehrman explains things in an easy to understand way and has written an interesting book about Peter, Paul & Mary Magdalene.
Ehrman explains how the stories made up about Peter, Paul and Mary Magdalene give us insight into what the people of that period were thinking.
Ehrman explains how anything supposedly written by Peter is highly suspect as Peter was an illiterate fisherman. Explores the stories concerning Simon Peter's "contest" with Simon Magus. Tells how Peter supposedly refused to heal his own daughter who was paralyzed to keep her a virgin. And explores the myth of Peter's martyrdom, he was supposedly crucified upside down because he preached sexual abstinence even for married people.
Paul was well educated and spoke Greek. Doubtful he spoke Hebrew/Aramaic. The letters Paul wrote are at odds with what was written about him in Acts. The views in Acts that women were to stay home and have babies are not Paul's. Supposedly beheaded by Nero, and his blood was replaced with "milk". Paul was a figure of controversy even in his own time.
Mary Magdalene the most interesting from my point of view. Little is know about her and she is only mentioned in the four Gospels of the New Testament 13 times, although she is often confused with other Mary's (Mary of Bethany for example) and unnamed women in the Bible. In The Golden Legend she is a reformed sex offender who can work miracles. In The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown she is Jesus' secret wife and the mother of his child. In Jesus Christ Superstar she was sexually attracted to Jesus and possibly intimate with him. The Last Temptation of Christ had Jesus imagining an alternate life with Mary Magdalene as his wife while he was being crucified. While in the Bible she is only on the fringes of the group of Jesus and his disciples along with other women. In fact all we know about her from the Bible is that demons were cast out of her and that she was the first to see the empty tomb, and that she was the one who proclaimed that "Jesus Was Risen", making her the first apostle. More then likely she was illiterate. There are no surviving text written by Mary or claiming to be written by Mary. The Gospel of Mary is a book about her written years after her death.
Ehrman explains things in an easy to understand way and has written an interesting book about Peter, Paul & Mary Magdalene.
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Dave Out Loud ~CoH
The Carnival of Homeschooling is being hosted at Dave Out Loud this week. Be sure to drop by and check out my submission.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Did you know?
Francis Scott Key author of The Star Spangled Banner owned slaves.
Lyrics
Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us as a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Lyrics
Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us as a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
"Remember the Raisin"
One of the nice things about homeschooling is you can thoroughly cover history, not just those parts of history that are currently in vogue
Out of the Battle of
the River Raisin, came one of the great American rallying cries of the War of
1812, “Remember the Raisin!”
The Informed Parent ~CoH
Check out this weeks Carnival of Homeschooling hosted by The Informed Parent.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
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