Saturday, September 29, 2012

Homer- Odyssey - VIDEO SPARKNOTES - Teacher Resources for Living Books Curriculum

Homer- Odyssey - VIDEO SPARKNOTES - Teacher Resources for Living Books 
Curriculum

 Teacher Resources and Educator Lessonplan Ideas to support our Living Books Curriculum inspired by Charlotte Mason Homeschooling

  PART 1




Homer - The Odyssey Video SparkNote Part 1
 Check out Homer's The Odyssey Video SparkNote: Quick and easy Odyssey synopsis, analysis, and discussion of major characters and themes in the epic poem. For more Odyssey resources, go to www.sparknotes.com/lit/odyssey.


  Part 2

 

Homer - The Odyssey Video SparkNote Part 2


  Part 3



Homer - The Odyssey Video SparkNote Part 3



Homer- Odyssey - VIDEO SPARKNOTES - Teacher Resources for Living Books 
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 Teacher Resources and Educator Lessonplan Ideas to support our Living Books Curriculum inspired by Charlotte Mason Homeschooling
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Homer - Odyssey - Movie - Teacher Resources for Living Books Curriculum

Homer - Odyssey - Movie - Teacher Resources for Living Books Curriculum

The Odyssey - Homer - Teacher Resources for our Living Books Curriculum inspired by Charlotte MAson Homeschooling Ideas



Odyssey Movie - Teacher Resources from across the Web


Odyssey Film Adaptions
Watch Odyssey Movie Online
http://www.lucylearns.com/odyssey-movie.html



Homer - Odyssey - Movie - Teacher Resources for Living Books Curriculum

The Odyssey - Homer - Teacher Resources for our Living Books Curriculum inspired by Charlotte MAson Homeschooling Ideas

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Homer - Odyssey - Teacher Resources for Living Books Curriculum

Homer - Odyssey - Teacher Resources for Living Books Curriculum
to support or Living Books Curriculum inspired by Charlotte Mason Homeschooling -
Teacher Resources and General Educator Resources we like


  • VERSIONS OF THE ODYSSEY

ONLINE TRANSLATIONS

Home-  Odyssey translated by Robert Fagles
http://www.scribd.com/doc/52280051/Homer-The-Odyssey-Fagles#page=116

Audio Version
http://archive.org/details/HomersOdyssey

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  • PEOPLE And PLACES in the Odyssee
Places mentioned in the Odyssey 


List of People and Places mentioned in the Odyssee



Character Map of People in Relation to Odysseus



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  • MAPWORK
Odysseus Travel Map
http://www.lucylearns.com/Odysseus-Travel-Map.html

Map of Odysseus Journey and interesting points on its validity


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SUPPLEMENTARY RESOURCES

Odyssey Movie Online


Odyssey Film Adaptions



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  • SPARKNOTES



MORE

Check out Homer's The Odyssey Video SparkNote: Quick and easy Odyssey synopsis, analysis, and discussion of major characters and themes in the epic poem. For more Odyssey resources, 
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/odyssey/section1.rhtml

http://www.bookrags.com/notes/od/

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  • INTERACTIVE - ANCIENT GREECE

some overview of Gods and Goddesses encountered in Homers Odyssey

http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/GREECE/home.html




  • GREEK MYTHOLOGY
ITUNES U - university lectures - greek mythology
These lectures discuss various theories that address the origin, structure, and meaning of mythology. The theories of Frazer, Harrison, Malinowski, Eliade, Freud, Jung, Levi-°©‐Strauss, Campbell, and others are explored and applied through an intensive study of Greek mythology. Other mythologies in close geographic proximity with Greece, such as Mesopotamia, Babylon, Syria, Egypt, and Rome are investigated. In addition other mythologies, such as Norse, Japanese, Mayan, Aztec, Hindu, sections of Africa, and Navajo and other southwestern Pueblo cultures are visited. Through analysis of the divine narratives and legends of these cultures, the following archetypes are addressed: Creation, Flood/Cosmic Disaster, Origin of Humans, Mother Goddess, Dying & Resurrection, Afterlife, Trickster, and Hero. The Archetype Lectures were adapted from Georgia Nugent's lectures in Mythology for the Teaching Company.


http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/mythology/id497995501

Second Delphic Hymn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bydqNRYgbuc&feature=youtu.be


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  • COMPARATIVE POETRY

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C.P.Cavafy's poem 'Ithaca', recited by Sir Sean Connery and with music specially composed by Vangelis.


ITHACA [1910, 1911]
As you set out for Ithaca
hope that your journey is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laestrygonians and Cyclops,
angry Poseidon-don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare sensation
touches your spirit and your body.
Laestrygonians and Cyclops,
wild Poseidon-you won’t encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.
Hope that your journey is a long one.
May there be many summer mornings when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you come into harbors you’re seeing for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind-
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to learn and learn again from those who know.
Keep Ithaca always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you’re destined for.
But don’t hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so that you’re old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you’ve gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaca to make you rich.
Ithaca gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you would have not set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaca won’t have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you’ll have understood by then what these Ithacas mean.
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

CHAPTER 3 - 20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne - Teacher Resources for Homeschooling



CHAPTER 3 -  20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne - Teacher Resources for Homeschooling 

our Teacher Resources - inspired by  Charlotte Mason Homeschooling with a Living Books Curriculum  suitable for Lesson plan Supplements, Unit Study and High School Charlotte Mason Homeschooling Curriculum Support


  • VOCABULARY 

~ fatiquing
~ amiable
~ archiotherium
~ hyracotherium
~ oreodons
~ cheropotamus
~ babiroussa
~ poop
~ mizzenpeak
~ lee

~~~~~~~ Resources ~~~~~~



  • fatiquing
    brief visit, short stay, travel, stopover, rest, linger
    20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne     Quote Jules Verne - Chapter 3

    " Oh, I know! I had just returned from a most fatiquing journey."
  • amiable

    20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne Quote Jules Verne - Chapter 3
    " And besides, the unicorn may be amiable enough to lead chase towards the coast of France.

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  • FRIGATE SHIP

~Parts of a Frigate Sailing Ship
http://lifelearningwithlivingbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/parts-of-sailing-frigate-20000-leagues.html


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  • MAPWORK

~ France
~ China
~ Congo
~ New York
~ New Jersey Coast
~ Atlantic Ocean
~ Flanders ( Flemish)
( old country - Belgium nr Netherlands and France) http://www.theotherside.co.uk/tm-heritage/background/flanders-medieval.htm




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  • Creatures

~ Narwhal
Our Narwhal Teacher Resourceshttp://lifelearningwithlivingbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/narwhal-teacher-resources-20000-leagues.html

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CHAPTER 3 -  20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne - Teacher Resources for Homeschooling 

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Parts of a Sailing Frigate - 20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne Teacher Resources


Parts of a Sailing Frigate Ship - 20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne Teacher Resources
Teacher Resources for our Living Books Curriculum inspired by Charlotte Mason Homeschooling
Overall Profile of a sailing frigate - Parts of a Sailing Ship Labelled 


As the Abraham Lincoln sails off from New Yorjk in the third chapter of Jules Verne " 20000 leagues under the Sea" a lot of nautical terms and sailing terms are mentioned that lead us to investigate what a sailing frigate might have looked like, and what particular parts of a ship are found where ...

Whilst there is no direct evidence of what kind of sailing frigate was referred to a few references might help to simultate our imagination ...

This is a typical Sailing Frigate













images courtesy of Ron Wanttaja ( copyright 1996) ..with thanks



Parts of a Sailing Frigate Ship - 20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne Teacher Resources
Teacher Resources for our Living Books Curriculum inspired by Charlotte Mason Homeschooling
Overall Profile of a sailing frigate - Parts of a Sailing Ship Labelled 

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Monday, September 17, 2012

Abalone - Teacher Resources Nature Study Marine Animals

Abalone - Teacher Resources Nature Study Marine Animals

Inspired by Charlotte Mason Homeschooling with a Living Books Curriculum



We are currently reading the Living Book " Island of the Blue Dolphin" by Scott O'Dell and many marine animals feature in it . Here I assemble teacher resources we used to complement the reading and narration of this book .

  • Animals
Animals encountered in Island of the Blue Dolphin ( Scott O'Dell )



***** Abalone

- Diving for Abalone Video
Diving for Abalone in the Ocean Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KquR9jUEnBw&feature=youtube_gdata_player



- Shucking Abalone Shells / Discover Pearl Video Part 1


Video on how to shuck Abalone

- Shucking Abalone Shells / Discover Pearl Video Part 2




  This is a 10 minute video on How-To clean an abalone after it has been shucked.
- Cooking Abalone Video Part 3






  • Abalone Biology
Image courtesy of abalone project conservation




Abalone - Teacher Resources Nature Study Marine Animals
Inspired by Charlotte Mason Homeschooling with a Living Books Curriculum

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Island of the Blue Dolphin - Scott O'Dell - Teacher Resources for our Living Books Curriculum

Island of the Blue Dolphin - Scott O'Dell - Teacher Resources for our Living Books

Inspired by Charlotte Mason Homeschooling with a Living Books Curriculum



  • Map work
- Aleutians Islands ( home of the Aleuts)

- San Nicolas Island, Ventura, CA, USA ( island of the True Story)

- Santa Catalina Island



  • Chapter Study Guide
- useful for prompting narration ideas and to stimulate deeper emotional relevance study

http://neyture.info/teachered/novels/ISLAND.pdf


  • Online Game based on Island of the Blue Dolphin
- http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/dolphin/home2.shtml



  • Movie version of Island of the Blue Dolphin
- a movie adaptation




" Island of the Blue Dolphin Movie Youtube "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy_8WKudsiw&feature=youtube_gdata_player


  • Animals
Animals encountered in Island of the Blue Dolphin ( Scott O'Dell )



***** Abalone
Abalone Teacher Resources
- Diving for Abalone Video
- Shucking Abalone Shells / Discover Pearl Video Part 1
- Shucking Abalone Shells / Discover Pearl Video Part 2
- Cooking Abalone Video Part 3
- Abalone Biology




***** Elephant Seal
Elephant Seal Teacher Resources

In progress





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Saturday, September 15, 2012

Frida Kahlo - Artist Study - Homeschooling Teacher Resources



Frida Kahlo - Artist Study - Homeschooling Teacher Resources

***ARTIST STUDY - FRIDA KAHLO

  • Frida Kahlo Bio
~ watch Frida Kahlo's Bio on Youtube ( very strong emotional content)

  • Frida's World Iphone App
~ check out Frida's World App on Iphone ( Fun)


in progress
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CHAPTER 2 - 20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne - Teacher Resources for Homeschooling


CHAPTER 2 -  20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne - Teacher Resources for Homeschooling 

our Teacher Resources - inspired by  Charlotte Mason Homeschooling with a Living Books Curriculum 

  • VOCABULARY 

~ sojourn
~ interim
~ enigma
~ hypothesis
~ assertions
~ conjecture
~ ichthyology
~ capricious
~ gimlet
~ partisans
~ leviathan
~ revictualled


~~~~~~~ Resources ~~~~~~



  • sojourn
    brief visit, short stay, travel, stopover, rest, linger    20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne Quote Jules Verne - Chapter 2" Now, after a half-year's sojourn in Nebraska, I had to come back to New York at the end of March ... "

     
  • interim 
    temporary, stopgap, period of time, time in between , interval, duration

    20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne     Quote 
    Jules Verne - Chapter 2" In the interim I was occupying myself most busily in classifying my mineralogical, botanical, and zoological riches, when the puzzling accident happened to the Scotia. "
  • enigmamystery, conundrum, problem, riddle, secret, teaser

    20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne Quote 
    Jules Verne - Chapter 2" There remained, then, but two possible solutions of the enigma, and the adherents of them constituted 2 distinct parties. "
  • hypothesis
    theory , belief, deduction, interpretation, sugesstion

    20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne     Quote 
    Jules Verne - Chapter 2" But the hypothesis of a war machine had to be abandoned because of the declarations made by various governments. "
  • assertions
    declaration, positive statement ,insistence, confirmation    20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne Quote 
    Jules Verne - Chapter 2
    "And, as the public interest was so vitally involved and would not suffer any lasting interruption to transatlantic communications, the truth of governmental assertions could not be doubted."



  • conjectur
  • ichthyology
  • capricious
  • gimlet
  • partisans
  • leviathan
  • revictualled
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  • MAPWORK

~ Nebraska
~ New York
~ Paris



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  • Creatures

~ Narwhal

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Narwhal Teacher Resources
~ Videos and Narwhal Myths as well as life with Narwhals a viewpoint from people 
living with them
~ printable pictures of narwhal
http://lifelearningwithlivingbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/narwhal-teacher-resources-20000-leagues.html

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CHAPTER 2 -  20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne - Teacher Resources for Homeschooling 

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Friday, September 14, 2012

Narwhal Teacher Resources - 20000 Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne Homeschooling Living Books Curriculum







Narwhal Teacher Resources - 20000 Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne 

inspired by Charlotte Mason Homeschooling with a Living Books Curriculum

  • The Narwhal







  • NARWHAL
Scientific name: Monodon monoceros

Common names:

 
Unicorn of the sea

Narwhal Video
Narwhal Tooth - Unicorn Myth
  • Narwhal Facts
http://staff.washington.edu/klaidre/narwhalfaq.html



  • Living with Narwhals

 **Contains images of whale hunting some may find offensive** From the wonderful BBC documentary, A Boy Among Polar Bears, this video clip shows the Inuits hunting narwhals.









 




 




 






  • Narwhal Myth
The Inuit tribe has their own legend about just how the narwhal grew its tusk:

"A wicked woman lived with her daughter and her son, who was born blind. As the son got older, his sight improved, even though the mother tried to convince him of his helpless state. One day a polar bear came near the house and the mother told the son to aim a bow and arrow at the bear through the window covered with seal skin and strike him down. The boy pulled back the arrow and the mother took aim from him. 

The arrow struck the heart of the bear and although the boy could hear the groans of the dying bear, the mother laughed scornfully at him, saying that he had missed the bear. That night the mother and the daughter had fresh polar bear meat while the mother cooked dog meat for the son. Later the boy's sister told her brother that his shot was successful and secretly gave him meat.

Time passed and an old man came to the house for a visit. Before he left, he told the young girl how she could help her brother regain his sight. In the spring, he told them to watch for a red throated loon who would swim trustingly toward them. Once the loon was close enough, the blind brother should wrap his arms around the loon's neck and the loon would take him to the bottom of the lake. Once they came up, his sight would return. The loon told the young man not to tell about his regained sight until later in the summer when he would send a pod of belugas to their campsite.

When summer came and the ice began to break, the belugas began to move. On one occasion, a pod was closer to land than usual. The young man grabbed his harpoon and told his sister to accompany him to help him aim. They went to the shoreline and the mother, seeing the son with a harpoon, became concerned and followed them. Once she was close to them, the son gave the end of the line from the harpoon to his mother, asking her to tie it around her waist to hold the harpooned animal. The concerned mother told her daughter to make sure he was after a small animal as she was tied to the harpoon. The son instead aimed for the largest whale and harpooned him. The mother was cast into the sea. As she submerged she spiraled around the line, with her long hair twisting into a long lance. This is how the narwhal came to be."

myth of the narwhal story courtesy of narwhal.org 
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GENERAL 20000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne - Teacher Resources Homeschooling

20000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne - Teacher Resources Homeschooling
NAUTILUS
Catalogue of Nautilus Designs
over the years many artists, designers and illustrators had a go and creating their artistic renditions of the " Nautilus" submersible or submarine the way they thought Jules Verne may have imagined it , this website lists a catalogue of Nautilus designs that stay closest to the true vision as Jules Verne intended the Nautilus to look like... 
http://www.vernianera.com/Nautilus/Catalog/
MAPWORK
http://www.its.uci.edu/~mredmond/Maps/Nemo.html
CHAPTER VOCABULARY

 http://webpages.charter.net/stoneturtle3/20K/20Kassignments.html

GAMES

 DOLPHIN BEHAVIOUR
http://www.immersionlearning.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=147

 BELUGA WHALES
http://www.immersionlearning.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=239

GENERAL JULES VERNE

 Jules Verne Bio
http://www.unmuseum.org/verne.htm

 Jules Verne Books
http://www.readingforfuture.com/Jules%20Verne.htm
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CHAPTER 1 20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne - Teacher Resources for Homeschooling


CHAPTER 1 20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne - Teacher Resources for Homeschooling 

our Teacher Resources - inspired by  Charlotte Mason Homeschooling with a Living Books Curriculum 


CHAPTER 1 - " A Shifting Reef" 



  • VOCABULARY 

~ phosphorescent
~ apparition
~ phenomena
~ archipelago 
~ zest
~ afoul
~ impugn
~ cetacean
~ retrograde
~ prodigy
~ brusquely
~ isosceles triangle


~~~~~~~ Resources ~~~~~~
  • archipelago (  island group or island chain, a cluster of islands. The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι- – arkhi- ("chief") and πέλαγος – pélagos ("sea") acc to wikipedia
  • apparitionghost,delusion,spirit,illusion,phantom,appearance

    20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne Quote 
    Jules Verne - Chapter 1
    The human mind is ever hungry to believe in new and marvellous phenomena, and so it is easy for us to understand the vast excitement produced throughout the whole world by this supernaturalapparition.
  • afoulamiss,defectively,wrongly
    ( Youngsters could stay up all night, every night in the summer, withoutrunning afoul of the law.)
    20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne Quote 
    Jules Verne - Chapter 1
    " Now either the sand reef had been submitted to the intermittent eruption of a geyser or theGovernor  Higginson had fallen afoul of some aquatic mammal, until then unknown, which could spout from its blowholes pillars of water mixed with air and vapour. ..." 
  • brusquelyin a lively manner, enthusiastically, briskly, lively, energetically

  • 20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne Quote
    Jules Verne - Chapter 1    " The public demanded brusquely that at any cost the seas must be relieved of the presence of this formidable cetacean.
  • impugnchallenge, criticize, attack, call into question, cast doubt upon,dispute
    to impugn  is to dispute the truth, validity, orhonesty of; to

    20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne Quote
    Jules Verne - Chapter 1    " The last-named gentleman, whose good faith no  one could impugn, stoutly affirmed that in the year 1857, from the ship Castillan, he had seen this enormous serpent, which until that time
  • phenomenon
    rare occurence, wonder, marvel, rarity, anomaly , peculiarity20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne Quote
    Jules Verne - Chapter 1    " To be sure, light- minded people everywhere jested about the phenomenon, but grave and practical nations, such as England, America, and Germany, were inclined to treat the affair more seriously. ... "
  • phosphorescence
    20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne     Quote
    Jules Verne - Chapter 1    " For some time prior to the opening of our story ships at sea had been met by an enourmous object, a long thing shaped like a spindle and infinitely larger and more rapid in its movement than a whale. At times it was phosphorescent. .. "

    Difference Fluorescence and Phosphorescence 
    ~ Definition Phosphorescence and Videos to explain phosphorescence v fluorescence 
    http://lifelearningwithlivingbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/phosphorescence-versus-fluorescence.html
  • zestflavour, taste, interest , relish, keen enjoyment

    20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne Quote 
    Jules Verne - Chapter 1
    " The cheaper magazines replied delightedly and with inexhaustible zest, .... " 
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  • MARINE CREATURES

~ Kraken
~ Whales
~ sea serpent
~ Moby Dick

~~~~~~~ Resources ~~~~~~


KRAKEN
http://www.unmuseum.org/kraken.htm

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  • SCIENCE/MATH

~ nautical leagues
~ longtitude
~ latitude
~ knots
~ isosceles triangle

~~~~~~~ Resources ~~~~~~


 isosceles triangle
Isosceles Triangle
Isosceles Triangle ( Chapter 1 Jules Verne 20000 leagues under the sea) 

( http://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/isosceles-triangle.html) 



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  • MAPWORK
~ Aleutian Islands
~ Cape Clear



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  • CHARACTER STUDIES
~ Bishop Eric Pontoppidan 
~ Carolus Linnaeus
~ Paul Heggede



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20000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne Chapter Teacher Resources for Homeschooling 



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