Welcome to our Celebrate Freedom (& Simplicity) in Biblical Home Education Facebook Party Door Prize post! If you aren’t at the party on the Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page, click on over there now! “Like” the Page and join the fun for more great prizes from Me & My House and others! Then read below to find out how to enter the drawing for this Door Prize. If it is after 8 p.m. central time, Tuesday July 12, 2011, sorry, you missed the party. But if it’s before midnight, you may still be able to enter to win this and other Door Prizes. Scan through the recent blog posts.
Tonight, Hal & Melanie Young of Raising Real Men have donated TWO sets of Hero Tales from American History Volumes 1 & 2, a $10 value, for TWO blessed attenders of the Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Party. Thanks so much Hal & Melanie! “Like” Raising Real Men on Facebook.
Here’s the CD set TWO blessed attenders are going to win!
Keep reading for instructions to enter the drawing.
Heroes
We all need them. Men and women of virtue and character to look up to. Teddy Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge wrote about some great ones and Hal Young reads of them to us, with awesome background sounds. ~ Me
Hero Tales from American History
by Theodore Roosevelt & Henry Cabot Lodge
History, Virtue, Character, Heroism… and Fun!
Hear angry French mobs, footsteps in the forest, waves slapping on the hull and cannonfire…It’s like you’re really there!Each CD is one hour long and each story is 7 to 11 minutes long. Appropriate for all ages.
Volume 1
George Washington
Daniel Boone
George Rogers Clark
The Battle of Trenton
BenningtonVolume 2
Kings Mountain
Stony Point (Revolutionary War)
Gouveneur Morris (French Revolution)
The Philadelphia (Barbary Pirates)
The Wasp (War of 1812)
The Privateer General ArmstrongYou can download a sample story at the bottom of this page on Hal & Melanie’s website.
Two winners of this drawing will receive Hero Tales from American History Volumes 1 & 2 CD set. You can enter this drawing several ways. Increase your chances of winning by doing all of them! Each must be a separate comment to this post (below.)
1) Post a comment below answering: Who’s your favorite Hero from early American history?
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Nothing puts history in context like a timeline. And nothing makes a timeline more helpful than awesome visuals. Wonders of Old is a beautiful, new Timeline Book of World History. This timeline in colorful pictures is divided into streams for the different areas of the world. Wonders of Old:Ancient Timeline, that I received for review, covers time from Creation to the end of the Roman Empire. Tapping on a label (event with date) will bring up additional information about it. Tapping on a picture will bring up the wikipedia page for it. Swiping will move you down the timeline horizontally (forward in time), or to another part of the world (at the same time,) vertically. This is a thorough, informative and gorgeous timeline app. Whether you are using it along with your history studies, or you’re just swiping and tapping around to learn a variety of new things, you’ll enjoy this app. Even my dad said, “Now this is the kind of app I’d like.” It will provide hours of fun learning. The second app in this series, Wonders of Old:Medieval Timeline, was just released. It continues where Ancient leaves off and goes through the 16th century. There will be 4 apps in this series, when they are completed.
Geography should be studied right alongside of history, so you can see where things happened and get a better understanding of them. The Map Trek app is the perfect companion to Wonders of Old to do just that, and it works in much the same way. It too is divided into 4 timeperiods—with just the first, Ancient, currently available. Along the (more simplified) timeline are labels (and some map pics) of key happenings. Tap the label and a map of the event opens up. The maps are clearly labeled and have drop pins at points of interest. Tap a pin and information about the location, related to the event, opens up. You can pinch and spread to zoom in and out. These interactive maps can be used along with your pen and paper mapwork you do for your journals, or as a standalone enrichment activity.
