Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Geography


Katie and Patrick are studying Ancient Rome this year. Katie is reading Famous Men of Rome, along with Saint stories and historical fiction about Roman times. Patrick is reading many ancient Roman authors of history and literature, as well as some Church history next semester. He dove into Livy and Virgil this week.

Our country studies always include map studies, and one project that all the kids have enjoyed is making relief maps of the areas they study. Katie's is the third map of Italy, and each has been a little different. I like that she included Vatican City, not just Rome, when she labeled her cities. She also did a good job of finding Italy's neighbors. Since our atlas is from the late 1980s, she had to look online to see what countries took the place of Yugoslavia.

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