Reading notes: Monday and Tuesday

How quickly the days pass, and the reading lists pile up!

Read with the older girls:

• Landmark History of the American People, the chapter on wagon trains

• Story of Science Vol. 2, the chapter on Rene Descartes

• Poem: “The Cord” by Leanne O’Sullivan (Poetry 180)

• The Faerie Queene Book 1, Spenser, continued

We enjoyed this lovely video of screenshots from the 1894 George Allen edition with illustrations by Walter Crane.

Read to the littles:

• Caps for Sale

• Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes

On my own:

• The Giver by Lois Lowry

• revisited Lolita (sections) and listened to these three lectures on it at Open Yale Courses