Homeschooling

If you are interested in homeschooling, here is a website about what it is like to be a kid homeschooled with the Charlotte Mason curriculum: http://jklivingston.home.mindspring.com/bell/

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Break

 I wanted to let you know that I will be taking a break for a while. I will have the rest of If for you then!
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A study of Titus and Philopoemen

Titus                                                                                
Failings:  Ambition and greed for honor.  
Strengths: Caution, loyal to friends, merciful, generous.
       Philopoemen 
Failings: Obstinacy, greed for honor, and Ambition, lack of caution, often mean and cruel. (See my posts on him.)
Strengths: Valour, did many brave things, had it in him to command, in or out of office.

A bit about them: Titus was not in battle, but he did command his men well. Do you think he should get less credit for having his army ready made? I don't think so. He could have wrecked the whole thing, even though it was already there. Have you ever seen a well-run organization have a change in management, and the whole thing goes downhill? That could have happened. He still had to run it well. Just having it there did not make it easy.
Philopoemen was very brave, but he often put himself first. He was often very mean to conquered people. He did have to build his army up, and keep it going, and he had to have a lot of courage, more so than Titus, to oppose Rome. He was not nice, however, and did not act with discretion in war, but wasted away his life by acting prematurely. He prodigalled away his life, by acting with haste, not like Titus, who acted with caution, as did Fabius, yet Titus moved, and did fight many battles. So I think better of Titus. Titus was kind, and combined the good points of Fabius with the good points of a "fights lots of battles" general. If you want to learn more about Philopoemen, look at my posts about him, under the label "Plutarch." I wrote them a long time ago, so they are not the best. However, Philopoemen was very honest. He changed, however, and was very mean to the Spartans.

The End
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Even More Good Books

I should put this one first: The Bible.
Galileo and the Magic Numbers
Winston Churchill's History of World War 2
Did you know that Winston Churchill has more words in print than Dickens and Sir Walter Scott combined?!

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More Good Books

Here are some more good books to read:
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Men of Iron
A Little Princess
Swiss Family Robinson
Robinson Crusoe
Swallowdale (Swallows and Amazons forever!)
Swallows and Amazons


More next time!
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Good Books

Here are some really good books to read:

Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit
The Hiding Place
The books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The original Sherlock Holmes
The Little White Horse 

More coming!
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Popsicle recipes

Popsicles are a good summer treat, as well as being easy to make. We used self-picked strawberries. You cut the tops of some strawberries, at least 1 cup, and blend them up with some honey. Then you can use molds or take an ice cube tray, and pour it in there. Cover it with plastic wrap for the ice tray, and put them in the freezer. Freeze over night. When you take them out, for the ice tray, stick toothpicks or Popsicle sticks in for the handles. Special molds have handles already.

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Old T.V. shows

Did you know that those old T.V. shows like Marvin the Martin and Bugs Bunny are on YouTube? If you are looking for fun entertainment, these are great! Roadrunner and Duck Dodgers are out there as well.

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Chess

Do you like to play chess? Have you even heard of it? Would you like to know what it is? Chess.com will tell you! It is a free website that you can play chess on. You can play against the computer, or against other people!

I love to play chess!
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Valentine's day

What are you doing for Valentine's day? Please tell me in a comment!

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I'm back! and About Science posts

Hey! Happy New Years! I'm back posting again!

About the Science posts, I do different books at different times, so I don't say when a new book is narrated.

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Break

I will be taking a break from blogging from now until New Years.

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Chernobyl

I just read about Chernobyl. Here is a link to Wikipedia on Chernobyl.  I found it very interesting.

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Hello!

Hello! I really like to read, so I will be posting reviews of books on my blog, chapter by chapter. I also like animals. One of my favorites is The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. It is a really great book! Also, Plutarch is a great author. He wrote about famous men, like Brutus, from Julius Caesar, Fabius, a great general for Rome, Solon, a wise leader, and others.

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