May 18, 2016

Chapter 27: A Changing World

Activities for this chapter:





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William Blake:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_did_those_feet_in_ancient_time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_England

What we did:

We made the cotton gin described in the activity book, but cut slats in the "screen" so that it would actually work--it did!

I planted cotton seeds from some cotton that we had gathered from an already harvested field--I didn't think it would grow, but it did:



A show-and-tell on the British monetary system with bookmark giveaway:














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