Saturday, August 11, 2007
Friday, August 10, 2007
R.M.Ballantyne's Adventure Classics
Some are listed twice on Project Gutenberg as plain text and HTML versions.
Away in the Wilderness
The Battery and the BoilerAdventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables
Battles with the Sea
The Big Otter
Black Ivory
Blown to Bitsor, The Lonely Man of Rakata
Blue LightsHot Work in the Soudan
The Butterfly's BallThe Grasshopper's Feast
The Butterfly's BallThe Grasshopper's Feast
Charlie to the Rescue
The Coral Island
The Coral IslandA Tale of the Pacific Ocean
The Coral Island A Tale of the Pacific Ocean
The Coxswain's Bridealso, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue
The Crew of the Water Wagtail
Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines
Digging for GoldAdventures in California
The Dog Crusoe and his Master
The Dog Crusoe and His MasterA Story of Adventure in the Western Prairies
Dusty Diamonds Cut and PolishedA Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure
Erling the Bold
Fighting the Whales
Fighting the Whales
The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands
Fort DesolationRed Indians and Fur Traders of Rupert's Land
The Garret and the Garden
Gascoyne, The Sandal Wood TraderA Tale of the Pacific
The Giant of the NorthPokings Round the Pole
The Golden DreamAdventures in the Far West
The Gorilla Hunters
The Hot Swamp
Hudson Bay
Hunted and Harried
Hunting the Lions
In the Track of the Troops
The Iron Horse
The Island Queen
Jarwin and Cuffy
Jeff Benson, or the Young Coastguardsman
The Lifeboat
Life in the Red BrigadeLondon Fire Brigade
The Life of a Ship
The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse
The Lonely IslandThe Refuge of the Mutineers
The Madman and the Pirate
Man on the OceanA Book about Boats and Ships
Martin Rattler
Martin Rattler
The Middy and the MoorsAn Algerine Story
My Doggie and I
The Norsemen in the West
The Ocean and its Wonders
Personal Reminiscences in Book Makingand Some Short Stories
Philosopher Jack
The Pioneers
The Pirate CityAn Algerine Tale
Post Haste
The Prairie Chief
The Red Eric
The Red Man's RevengeA Tale of The Red River Flood
Red RooneyThe Last of the Crew
Rivers of Ice
The Rover of the AndesA Tale of Adventure on South America
The Settler and the Savage
Shifting WindsA Tough Yarn
Silver Lake
Six Months at the Cape
Twice Bought
Ungava
Up in the CloudsBalloon Voyages
The Walrus HuntersA Romance of the Realms of Ice
The World of Ice
The World of Ice
The Young Fur Traders
The Young Fur Traders
The Young Trawler
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It/Project Gutenberg
There was no way to link to these other than a search because the authors are listed under "various". Click here.
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Historic girls; stories of girls who have influenced the history of their times/University of Virginia Library
ZENOBIA OF PALMYRA: THE GIRL OF THE SYRIAN DESERT 1
HELENA OF BRITAIN: THE GIRL OF THE ESSEX FELLS 22
PULCHERIA OF CONSTANTINOPLE: THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN HORN 45
CLOTILDA OF BURGUNDY: THE GIRL OF THE FRENCH VINEYARDS 61
WOO OF HWANG-HO: THE GIRL OF THE YELLOW RIVER 79
EDITH OF SCOTLAND: THE GIRL OF THE NORTHERN ABBEY 98
JACQUELINE OF HOLLAND THE GIRL OF THE LAND OF FOGS 114
CATARINA OF VENICE: THE GIRL OF THE GRAND CANAL 134
THERESA OF AVILA: THE GIRL OF THE SPANISH SIERRAS 151
ELIZABETH OF TUDOR: THE GIRL OF THE HERTFORD MANOR 174
CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN: THE GIRL OF THE NORTHERN FIORDS 192
MA-TA-OKA OF POW-HA-TAN: THE GIRL OF THE VIRGINIA FORESTS 208
Click here.
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Monday, August 6, 2007
Arm Chair Traveller
Here are some fun old travel books.
This one for Corsica, Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads is from 1888. Step back in time and do the Grand Tour.
Familar Spanish Travels, 1911. Needs the zip file download to view pictures.
Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921
A Traveller in War-Time, Winston Churchill, very direct writer, easy to speed read. Interesting!
English Travellers of the Renaissance, a history of traveling for culture and education.
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
Sunny Memories of a Foreign Land, Volume I and II by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Normandy Picturesque, 1870, travels in France. Very Grand Tourish and interesting, and much is still the same.
How to Enjoy Paris in 1842
Intended to Serve as a Companion and Monitor, Containing
Historical, Political, Commercial, Artistical, Theatrical
And Statistical Information
John Locke, author of Concerning Humane Understanding(books 1 and 2), and (books three and four) popularized the idea of didactic travel for young people. The Grand Tour was a European travel itinerary that flourished from about 1660 until the arrival of mass rail transit in the 1820s. It was popular amongst young British upper-class men and served as an educational rite of passage for the wealthy. Similar trips were made by the wealthy of other Northern European nations. Its primary value lay in the exposure both to the cultural artifacts of antiquity and the Renaissance and to the aristocratic and fashionable society of the European continent. A grand tour could last from several months to several years.
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Copy Work, Decorative List or Assignment Page
I made a lined page with the vintage picture to the left of a girl reading in an apple tree.
Printing tip: In order to get rid of the extra print on the top and on the bottom of the page which shows the document title and web page address, go to print preview and delete the header and footer before printing. Here are the directions for versions of IE and Fire Fox at Google Documents.
Far Off, Social Studies/Project Gutenberg
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Copywork Pages for Poetry/Early Elementary
The Months
The Wind by Christina Rossetti
The Rainbow by Christina Rossetti
Words, about using them wisely.
Little Things
Printing tip: In order to get rid of the extra print on the top and on the bottom of the page which shows the document title and web page address, go to print preview and delete the header and footer before printing.
Here's the directions for other version of IE and Fire Fox at Google Documents.
Monday, July 30, 2007
Girl's Adventure Series: The Campfire Girls/Project Gutenberg
Ethel Hollister's Second Summer as a Campfire Girl (Benson)
Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes; The Quest of a Summer Vacation (Francis)
Campfire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains; or, A Christmas Success against Odds (Francis)
The Camp Fire Girls at Camp Keewaydin; Or, Paddles Down (Frey)
The Camp Fire Girls at School; Or, The Wohelo Weavers (Frey)
The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit; Or, over the Top with the Winnebagos (Frey)
The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods; Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping (Frey)
The Camp Fire Girls Go Motoring Or, Along the Road That Leads the Way (Frey)
A Campfire Girl's First Council Fire; The Camp Fire Girls In the Woods (Stewart)
The Camp Fire Girls at Long Lake; Bessie King in Summer Camp (Stewart)
The Camp Fire Girls on the Farm; Or, Bessie King's New Chum (Stewart)
The Camp Fire Girls on the March Bessie King's Test of Friendship (Stewart)
The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill (Vandercook)
The Lincoln Story Book/Project Gutenberg
Sunday, July 29, 2007
A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales/Project Gutenberg
Printing and Binding books
The Brother HL5150D is a laser printer which runs less expensive copies than ink jets. It got excellent reviews across the net, especially at PriceGrabber.com. This site which sells the replacement laser toner cartridges reports that the printing cost per page is .011 cents! A very good price for copies, especially two sided copies which would run you half that amount per page, about .0055 cents per page.
You can always bind the books yourself. Here are some home book binding helps:
Book binding tutorial Skip to step 3 if you are making your own copies. This looks very labor intensive, but you might pick up a few helpful tips even if you don't make a book from scratch.
Homemade leather or book binding glue
Office Depot charges .08 cents a copy, so I won't be asking them to copy a book for me. They will do a nice comb binding for $2.39. You can punch holes in pages and use brads, but a comb binding makes turning pages so much easier. I plan to try this with a few books soon. I'll post when I do.
Another idea would be to punch holes in a book and place it into a ring binder. This would be especially good for books which you plan to just use for school, rather than reading books you plan to keep in your library.
Feel free to add ideas for binding books.
Friday, July 27, 2007
Thursday, July 26, 2007
A History of Painting/Project Gutenberg
FIG. 45.—SODOMA. ECSTASY OF ST. CATHERINE. SIENNA.
FIG. 46—CORREGGIO. MARRIAGE OF ST. CATHERINE AND CHRIST. LOUVRE.
Rollo at Play & Rollo in the Woods by Jacob Abbott/Project Gutenberg
1. In cultivating the thinking powers; as frequent occasions occur, in which the incidents of the narrative, and the conversations arising from them, are intended to awaken and engage the reasoning and reflective faculties of the little readers.
2. In promoting the progress of children in reading and in knowledge of language; for the diction of the stories is intended to be often in advance of the natural language of the reader, and yet so used as to be explained by the connection.
3. In cultivating the amiable and gentle qualities of the heart. The scenes are laid in quiet and virtuous life, and the character and conduct described are generally—with the exception of some of the ordinary exhibitions of childish folly—character and conduct to be imitated; for it is generally better, in dealing with children, to allure them to what is right by agreeable pictures of it, than to attempt to drive them to it by repulsive delineations of what is wrong."
Rollo in the Woods
Rollo at PlaySafe Amusements
Books by Jane Austen/Project Gutenberg
Lady Susan
Love and Friendship
Mansfield Park
Northanger Abbey , audiobook Northanger Abbey
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice , audiobook Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh 1798-1874
About Jane Austin
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
The New Vertical Script Primer/19th Century Books
This is the seventh lesson:
Click here to view the book.
An improved grammar of the English language by Noah Webster/19th Century Books
Noah Webster's American Spelling Book/19th Century Books
Very thorough multi-grade spelling book which looks as if it could be used in sections from elementary through early middle school. It would also be useful for review and remediation for older students.
The American drawing-book/19th Century Books
I found this at 19th Century Books, part of University of Pittsburgh Digital Library System. It's quite a thorough and professional drawing course. The first section is just learning lines, and if you skip to the next section on rudimentary drawing, you'll see why you need to master this.
"Mary Louisa Molesworth typified late Victorian writing for girls. Aimed at girls too old for fairies and princesses but too young for Austen and the Brontës, books by Molesworth had their share of amusement, but they also had a good deal of moral instruction. The girls reading Molesworth would grow up to be mothers; thus, the books emphasized Victorian notions of duty and self-sacrifice."
The Cuckoo Clock
Grandmother Dear, A Book for Boys and Girls
The Rectory Children
Rosy
The Tapestry Room A Child's Romance
Us, An Old Fashioned Story
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Monday, July 16, 2007
Saving Texts
Google documents allows you to upload the Project Gutenberg text with just the url. Then you can amend it for personal use, like edit out extra print, and save it as a zipped HTML, RTF, pdf, Open Office, Word or plain text. You save the text to these different file type by clicking on "file" in the edit mode of your saved documents at Google Documents.
The only negative aspect of doing this is that the pictures do not load, so you'd have to add them back if you upload non-plain text. In this case, it would be easier to download the zip file text off Project Gutenberg, or just have a large file of the HTML stored.
Another helpful Google Documents function under "file" in edit mode is Word Count. This analyzes the documents word count and readability level. I'm not sure how accurate it is, but it will give the grade level. You can analyze children's vintage texts with Word Count if you are curious about the reading level.
Here is another free place to turn documents into pdf files.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Alphabet Copywork for Preschool - Kindergarten
I'm having a bit of fun making copy work pages with vintage illustrations. These are free to share and print for personal use. Please give me a link back if you post these on the net. I'll do the entire alphabet as I find pictures.
Printing tips: I suggest that you click "print preview" on your computer before you print, and change the setting to "portrait" for best results. Also, you may have to change the print settings. Most are fine at 100% - lines at margins will be even upon printing.
Letter A
Letter B
Letter C
Letter D
Letter E
Letter F
Letter G
Letter H
Letter I
Letter J
Letter K
Letter L
Letter M
Letter N
Letter O
Letter P
Letter Q
Letter R
Letter S
Letter T
Letter U
Friday, July 13, 2007
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Stories of Birds/Project Gutenberg
A nice little reader with educational bird stories and poetry. Looks like a third grade level reader with b/w illustrations, and suggestions for field studies. Click here.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
The Nest in the Honeysuckles, and other Stories/Project Gutenberg
Published in 1855 by the American Sunday School Union in Eastern Pennsylvania. Moral tales and character education. "No books are published by the American Sunday-School Union without the sanction of the Committee of Publication, consisting of fourteen members, from the following denominations of Christians, viz. Baptist, Methodist, Congregational, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and Reformed Dutch. Not more than three of the members can be of the same denomination, and no book can be published to which any member of the Committee shall object."
The Summer Holidays/Project Gutenberg
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Aunt Mary's Primer(K-First)/Project Gutenberg
"A FEW WORDS TO THE TEACHER.
When Little Mary (or any other little girl or boy) knows all the letters perfectly, let the teacher turn over a page and pronounce one of the mono-syllables. Do not say a, m, am—but say am at once, and point to the word. When the child knows that word, then point to the next, and say as, and be sure to follow the same plan throughout the book. Spelling lessons may be taught at a more advanced age; but it will be found that a young child will learn to read much more quickly if they be dispensed with in the Primer. In words of more than one syllable, it is best to pronounce each syllable separately, car, pet,—po, ker,—and so on. In the lesson on "Things in the Room," point out each thing as the child reads the word, and indeed, wherever you can, try to associate the word with its actual meaning. Show a child the word coach as a coach goes past, and she will recollect that word again for ever. In the "Lesson on the Senses," make the child understand how to feel cold and heat, by touching a piece of cold iron or marble, and by holding the hand to the fire,—how to smell, to hear, to see, and to taste. In the "Lesson on Colours," be sure to show each colour as it is read; and endeavour to make every Lesson as interesting as you can. Never weary a child with long lessons. The little poem at the end is intended to be read to the child frequently, that she may gradually learn it by heart. " ~ Aunt Mary's Primer, published in 1851.
Note: Don't hold child's hand to fire(which means near)! This is an old book(pre-electricity), and safety meant something different back then. I'm sure most people know this, but since it's quoted here I feel obliged to mention this.
Friday, July 6, 2007
Thursday, July 5, 2007
The Absurd ABC By Walter Crane/Project Gutenberg
Boy's Historical Adventure Series:Project Gutenberg
By Joseph A. Altsheler (Joseph Alexander), 1862-1919
The Forest of Swords
A Story of Paris and the Marne (English)
The Forest Runners
A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kentucky (English)
The Free Rangers
A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi (English)
The Guns of Bull Run
A story of the civil war's eve (English)
The Guns of Shiloh
A Story of the Great Western Campaign (English)
The Hosts of the Air (English)
The Hunters of the Hills (English)
The Lords of the Wild
A Story of the Old New York Border (English)
The Masters of the Peaks
A Story of the Great North Woods (English)
The Rock of Chickamauga
A Story of the Western Crisis (English)
The Rulers of the Lakes
A Story of George and Champlain (English)
The Scouts of Stonewall
The Story of the Great Valley Campaign (English)
The Scouts of the Valley (English)
The Shades of the Wilderness
A Story of Lee's Great Stand (English)
The Shadow of the North
A Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign (English)
The Star of Gettysburg
A Story of Southern High Tide (English)
The Sun Of Quebec
A Story of a Great Crisis (English)
The Sword of Antietam
A Story of the Nation's Crisis (English)
The Texan Scouts
A Story of the Alamo and Goliad (English)
The Texan Star
The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty (English)
The Tree of Appomattox (English)
The Young Trailers
A Story of Early Kentucky (English)
Under Joseph Alexander:
Before the Dawn
A Story of the Fall of Richmond (English)
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Making Shadow Puppets/Project Gutenberg
Hand Shadows to Be Thrown upon the Wall by Henry Bursill. A SERIES OF NOVEL AND AMUSING FIGURES FORMED BY THE HAND, published in 1859.
Click here.
Monday, July 2, 2007
Children's Play: The Rescue of the Princess Winsome/Project Gutenberg
"Appealing to children because of its association with their favorite heroine, and to their parents because of its high moral tone and the beauty of its lines, the play has found great favor among children's clubs for their private theatricals, in many cases rivalling the success of the "Little Colonel" and her friends in obtaining funds for charitable purposes. "
Beatrix Potter Books, some Audio/Project Gutenberg
A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories
The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter
Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter
The Story of Miss Moppet
The Tailor of Gloucester
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
The Tale of Ginger and Pickles
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher
The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse
The Tale of Mr. Tod
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers
The Roly-Poly Pudding
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies
The Tale of the Pie and the Patty Pan
The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes
The Tale of Tom Kitten