Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
by Jean Lee Latham
We stop often to talk about what is happening in the story, mainly so that I can provide more historical context. Here are a few notes I've made so far:
chapter 1: The Good-luck Spell
- find Salem MA on a map
negative numbers (easiest to show with the Mortensen material)
silver shilling
chapter 2: The Privateers
- cooper
The Forgotten Arts & Crafts: Skills from Bygone Days
by John Seymour
chapter 3: Word from the Pilgrim
- one room schoolhouse
Battle of Lexington
slate & slate pencil from Colonial Williamsburg
quill pen & black walnut ink
chapter 4: "Boys Don't Blubber"
- inflation
Treaty of Paris
chapter 5: A Voice in the Night
- indentured servitude
chapter 6: "Sail by Ash Breeze!"
- word sum: be + calm + ed
chapter 7: The Almanac
- word sum: rope + walk + er + s
handmade rope
cordage as a possible future main lesson block ?
Fibers of Life: Natural Cordage & Rope Making by Jeffrey Gottlieb
history of surveying / flooding of the Nile River
String, Straightedge, and Shadow: The Story of Geometry
by Julia Diggins
chapter 8: "Lock, Stock, and Bookkeeper"
- Isaac Newton's Principia
chapter 9: Anchor to Windward
- stitiching samplers
The Antique Sampler Set
NOTE:
discard all the embroidery floss in this kit and replace with DMC
chapter 10: Freedom
- the Big Dipper and the North Star
chapter 11: What Next?
- freedom of speech
we also talked about flag burning as being protected free speech
War of 1812 and impressment
yellow fever
Fever 1793
by Laurie Halse Anderson
chapter 12: Down to the Sea (we spent two days on this chapter)
- Roaring Forties of the North Atlantic
look at a globe and find 40th parallel north (circle of latitude)
candle flame and carbon dioxide
Cape of Good Hope
latitude & longitude lesson
approximate our latitude & longitude using a globe, then look it up
how latitude was measured - daytime - by the sun's angle in the sky
Anno's Sundial
by Mitsumasa Anno
look back at sundial experiment we did in the fall and redo it
(we did this on 09/14/2022 and 04/18/2023)
how longitude was measured - nighttime
chronometer - what time the sun rose as compared to London
we should get a sextant! (how to use a sextant)
chapter 13: Discovery
-
Bourbon is called Réunion Island today
pass out world maps for children to keep and record Nat's voyages (Carson-Dellosa "The World" CD-3093)
add to map:
Salem MA
Cape of Good Hope
Réunion Island
voyage of the Henry
chapter 14: Nineteen Guns
- review terminology of landforms & water features (using Word Study Classification box S5 and Colored Globe of the Continents)
chapter 15: "Sail Ho-o-o-o-o!" (we spent two days on this chapter)
- angle of the globe
East India Company
look through country flags in Continent Race to find ones that resemble the flag of England, and check if they were once colonies
water phosphorescence (algae)
episode 5, "Ocean," of Wild Isles narrated by David Attenborough
(14:00 - 15:41)
chapter 16: A Simple Matter of Mathematics
chapter 17: Lunars and Moonlight
chapter 18: The Astrea to the Rescue
chapter 19: Strange Sailing Orders
chapter 20: Book Sailing
chapter 21: "Sealing is Safer"
chapter 22: Science and Sumatra
chapter 23: Captain Bowditch Commanding
chapter 24: Man Against the Fog
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