Civics
I scored 53 out of 60 on the Civics Quiz
making the rounds (hat tips to lynx and
tjic). I had Jamestown founded a
century too early, the Monroe doctrine exactly backwards, placed the quote in the wrong
preamble, had the wrong president warning against foreign entanglements, missed the
point on the Gulf of Tonkin, blew it with Plato, and choose the wrong philosopher’s
analysis of democracy in America.
I will be refreshing some of
these long lost facts by watching a lecture series on the History
of the United States from The
Teaching Company. We got this one and one on Classical
Mythology for our homeschool curriculum this year. Both the kids will be
watching these if we can chain them to the floor long enough to get it going or slip it
in between Buffy
episodes.
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