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Vasco, Pizarro, Leonardo, Marco, Martin and John
I best get on with this 6 week review now that we’ve finished our 8th week of school. I’ll begin with our journeys through British, American and World History. This is our third year reading Our Island Story by H.E. … Continue reading
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Tagged da vinci, history, Marco Polo, Our Island Story, the Pope, Tudors
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James narrates “The Story of Marco Polo”
James will be spending next school year with Marco Polo and his travels. This week he got an introduction to the man in a chapter from M.B. Synge’s The Discovery of New Worlds