Hi everyone, welcome to day 1 of our 2012 ~ 10 Days of Homeschooling Blog Hop! I absolutely love participating in this series because it’s always packed full of seriously AWESOME ideas from seriously AWESOME bloggers!
This year we have 28 bloggers participating! I believe that equals 280 posts full of educational activities and ideas for you! …I know, I’m a math wizard ;o)
Psst….GIVEAWAY ALERT!…at the end of the blog hop I’ll be offering a Giveaway for the ENTIRE set of Classical Literature unit studies, so make sure to enter at the bottom of this post!
This year my topic is 10 Days of Classic Literature. I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to create some super fun Unit Studies for some of the great Classical Literature out there! Over the next 10 days I will be sharing one unit study each day, for a total of 10 units you can go through with your students!
And at the end of this fantastic hop, I’ll be hosting a giveaway for all 10 units!
Each unit study contains educational lessons, activities and a fun lap book that your students will work on as they progress through the book. They also include book reports, vocabulary, critical thinking, and comprehension. These studies are geared towards grades Kindergarten-4th, but can probably be adapted for older students as well.
I really designed these units to be a fun addition to reading the classics. I didn’t want them to be too stressful for myself or my kiddos, but instead give them something fun to do along with the stories to help them remember what they’ve learned in a fun hands-on way. The lap books included are wonderful for reviewing subject matter, and a great creative interactive homeschooling tool.
So…with all that said, I’d like to introduce my first unit to you!
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a fantastical adventure of a little girl who falls down a rabbit hole and into the fantasy world called “Wonderland”. The story plays with logic and literary nonsense, and is filled with poems and songs. Wonderland itself is a place filled with allegory, symbolism, and pure whimsy. This book is great for fostering children’s imagination and its narrative course and structure are credited with being enormously influential in the fantasy genre of literature.
In this unit students will assess characters, learn new vocabulary, write their own poem, and answer some of the core questions addressed in this novel.
Here is a sample of the lap book that students will create during the course of the study.
The units also include forms for predicting story plots, character analysis, identifying the protagonist and antagonist, a story timeline, and a final book report on the novel.
What’s the cost? Each unit is only $2.00!
Can’t wait? You can get the whole set of 10 Classical Literature Units at a discount! Click below:
10 Classical Literature Unit Study Mega Pack
Win It!
Since I love to give things away for free, I’m offering a giveaway for all 10 Literature units!
Mandatory entry:
Simple leave a comment below to enter to win! I’ll be choosing 1 winner from all 10 days of comments, so make sure to come back and leave a comment for each study release!
Additional Optional Entries: (not required to win, leave a separate comment on this post for each additional entry)
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Enter to win the Classic Lit Unit Pack from @ericahomeschool! Enter thru 4/27/11! http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/?p=8150
Nitty Gritty Giveaway Details:
- The give away will be open until midnight EST Friday April 27, 2012. Winner will be announced by Monday April 30, 2012.
- No purchase necessary to win.
- Must be 18 years of age or older to enter.
- If prize winner forfeits or does not claim the prize, prize will be re-awarded at my sole discretion.
- Void where prohibited by law.
- Make sure to leave a separate comment for each entry, winner will be chosen at random!
- This giveaway is offered to US residents only!
- Odds of winning based on number of entries.
- This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook.
- NOTE: In order to enter the contest you must leave a comment on my blog post. To leave a comment scroll to the bottom of the post and fill in the “Speak Your Mind” form. (If you are reading this via RSS, you will need to visit my actual blog to post a comment.)
- Disclosure: I am offering a pack of all 10 unit studies for giveaway on my blog.
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This is super cool!
Love the inclusion of the book reports, critical thinking and reading comprehension!
It would be great to win!
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So awesome!! Cannot wait to get started!
Looks great! I subscribe by email and follow you on Facebook.
Erica! These are incredible! I couldn’t wait, so I just downloaded them all. Thanks for making them available.
It looks amazing!
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wow Erica! Another great series from you! I am so excited to get a copy of this and the other literature!!
In the words of Plato “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” My poppits all have are amused by great books, I’d love to move into doing some studies with them. We have read a few of the above. We did recently expand on “Around the World in 80 days” that was fun, marking the map and so on. You are a very clever chick-a-dee, Erica, I’d love to win this!
oh and in my great classic-ness typo… let’s try *are all amused*
These look wonderful! Can’t wait to put them to use with my kiddoes!
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These are such great classics to read together. There are many of our favourite read alouds on this list. I look forward to seeing what the other days of great literature hold!
This looks amazing!! Can’t wait to use it!
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These look amazing. Would love to win.
Would love to win. We’re book lovers here.
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those are 10 great books, and I’d love to have activity ideas for them
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We love classic literature!
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I’d love to win! I’m not great at unit studies but I’d like to give it a shot. This looks like fun.
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I would love to win this, my oldest just did Alice in Wonderland as her ballet recital last year.
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Looks really fun! I subscribe to your emails and follow you on Facebook. Thanks.
You are so creative and inspiring! Thank you! I have recently started homeschooling my 1st grader who has ADHD and we love Alice in Wonderland. I would love to win! Thanks for all you do:)
These look great! Thank you for the time you put into them!!
Would love to have this!
these look great! love the lapbooking parts too
WOW! This looks amazing and we would love to win it!
These look amazing!
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These look great and I would love to win!
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These look great! I would love to win one.
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These look great! Thank you for the giveaway! I also subscribe via RSS feed.
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I stumbled across your website this weekend and I’ve fallen in love. lol. The work you do and the information you provide are awesome. We are a new homeschooling family (looking to start as soon as we decide on a curriculum for our kindergartener and preschooler). If it’s one thing we love in this house it’s books especially the classics. Would love to win this. My kiddos would be amazed and have so much fun!.
These look like fun!
This looks awesome! We love doing unit studies on children’s books.
This looks like a terrific package! We’d love to win.
I would love to win this…we have almost all of these books on our list for next school year.
I am a follower by email…thanks for such a wonderful blog.
One of my favorite blogs!!
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These look FUN!
We school through the summer months, so I look for fun activities to do then. This looks like it fits the bill!
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I’d love to win this for my older son!
This would be such an amazing tool to use!! We are such book lovers
I was just starting to look around for something like this, love it!
Great books. Great way to study them.
This would be great for our summer reading.
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How timely! I was online last night searching for unit studies to go along with classic lit. Very excited for these….and super affordable, thank you!
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I would love to use this.
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This looks wonderful and it would be nice to win.
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This would be too cool!
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We would love to win this unit study! Thank you so much for the opportunity!
I would love to have this and other unit studies for literature!
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We love doing classical literature studies. My boys think it’s a treat to “take a break” from school stuff. I’m such a sneaky momma, that I never tell them it IS school stuff!
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Looove this. We finished our Grammar program early and this would be a great Language Arts study to do through the end of our school year. Would love to win!
These look really cool!
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This is great, would love to win!!!
This looks so exciting! I would love to win this.
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This would be such a blessing to our household. Well done.
WOW!!!! These are so impressive Erica! We have your Geography and Earth Expedition….
THESE..well we trulyl NEEd them!!!! Would be great for us for numerous reasons!
Millions of thank yous for making available!
Keep em coming…you are a REAL help to all of us out here!
WOW!!!! These are so impressive Erica! We have your Geography and Earth Expedition….
THESE..well we truly NEEd them!!!! Would be great for us for numerous reasons!
Millions of thank yous for making available!
Keep em coming…you are a REAL help to all of us out here!
I love this! Please enter me in the giveaway.
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This is awesome! You did a great job! So talented.
Would love to win these.
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So cool, I would LOVE this set!
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These look great! You are so talented. Thank you for offering these to us.
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My daughter loves Alice and Wonderland. This is a fantastic unit study. Thank you.
This is a great idea. I love all the books you have included. We would love to win this.
What a great collection of studies! Thank you for the chance to win!
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We are book lovers and would enjoy doing these reports.
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These look great. I would love to incorporate them into school next year or maybe over the summer.
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How exciting!!!
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My daughter LOVES to read. Just had a birthday and most of her gifts were books.
I would love to win these unit studies.
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I would love to win this!!