Monthly Archives: August 2018
HISTORY DEBATE TOPIC: PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC SITES
Get your kids to discuss whether progress should be allowed to obliterate places of historic, or even ‘legendary’ importance. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5434219/Fears-final-resting-place-Robin-Hood-vanish.html
TRIVIA TRAIL: FAMOUS ALBANIAN
Question: Who was the Albanian woman, Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, better known as? Answer: Mother Theresa, born in Albania on August 26th, 1910.
HISTORIC FANTASY: JOAN SZECHTMAN’S RICHARD III IN THE 21st CENTURY TRILOGY
Fantasy-wise, here’s a time travel twist teens should enjoy. In Joan Szechtman’s Richard III In The 21st Century series, the much maligned monarch come forward to our time, rather than someone going back to his. http://www.rachelleayala.com/2012/08/authorinterview-joan-szechtman-on.html
HISTORY LURE: BIG BEN
If you have mechanically-minded kids you think should become history-minded as well, try enticing them with the story of Big Ben. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/england/london/articles/big-ben-facts-elizabeth-tower-london/ https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/what-tune-does-big-ben-chime/ And if they want to know what the chimes ‘say’, it’s: Lord through this hour Be thou our guide So by Thy power No foot shall slide. Although, as a child, […]
HISTORY SHARE: FAMOUS SISTERS
Happy International Sisters Day. I don’t happen to have one, but a lot of people do. And a lot of famous people have or did have sisters. Some were equally well-known, others got overshadowed. Check out these ones. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/spiritofthings/jetsun-pema/4769466 http://dangerouswomenproject.org/2016/07/08/arsinoe-iv/ https://englishhistory.net/tudor/citizens/mary-boleyn/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/maria-anna-mozart-the-familys-first-prodigy-1259016/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/bronte_sisters.shtml http://www.welkmusicalfamily.com/lennonsisters.html
Time Travelling With Kids 