Liturature Wednesday

So on Thursday I have decided to put more focus and the classic book we are reading. Classics are very important, Key, in leadership education. You can learn so much from older literature. So many values are obviously displayed in the characters of the books. We have been learning about Honor this last month and decided to read Robin Hood.

Wednesdays we attend our local libraries reading time. The boys enjoy the stories and Milton does a little volunteering during craft time. I found a couple more books with Robin Hood stories to supplement our current book.

So what I have started out with is a few different pictures of Robin Hood to include the Disney version. I also found maps so we can follow where his adventures lead him. The one you see on top is of the Sherwood and Barnsdale area of Nottingham shire.(county). This not only shown the towns but the location of many historical Robin Hood events. Under that are two other maps. One of just the County of Nottingham  and where it is located in the country of England and and older map of old England. This is to help incorporate geography and to help the life of Robin Hood to come alive.

The packet of paper has a real timeline of the documentation and oral history of the hero of the people. It also has an pretty extensive history of Robin Hood and some of his other Merry Men to include places lived, marriages, burials and geographic locations of events. Also the history of King owned forests. I even found pictures of the head stones of Robin and Little John.

So how is this exciting to a 7 year old? It makes it real. He was a real person. After just sharing these maps with him the afternoon he was already able to point out the location of Nottingham on a different England map in a book about knights.

Then this afternoon we watched the Disney version of Robin Hood and pointed out parts of the story that was the same and ones that were different.

What now? I plan on having Milton locate and plot the places on the map where Robin Hood and his Merry Men go so we can see all of the places they go and to identify places that are still existing today from their adventures.