I like to add literature into our curriculum as much as possible, and my daughter, book-lover that she is, has no objection. Biographies can be a strong supplement to any subject, including math and science. Since we are studying botany this term, we read about George Washington Carver’s struggles to obtain an education in a time when most African Americans were still working on their former slave master’s land. After explaining that this George Washington is a different one, lol, we discovered his many contributions  to the field of science and agriculture and thus discovered just how relevant the field of  botany is. My daughter has a new found appreciation for the study of plants, InshaALLAH.

We used a lapbook purchased from Currclick for this project. We left out the pages that had bible verses and so on….I finally took the time to learn how to alter lapbook templates to add Quran instead of bible verses and I may do that in the near future, InshaALLAH.

This was a fun project – we even found a comic book about peanuts and used a page from it for our lapbook.

This was only the second comic that she’s ever read and she fell in love with the format. Of course, this caused me to use all my spare time to find other educational comics for her. I finally stumbled upon the Chester Comix web site and purchased the Freedom’s Fury: Harriet Tubman comic this one is in the app store for iTunes, and the Ancient Africa comic. I purchased the Ancient Africa comic from Amazon but there are some free pages from it which are available to download on the site.

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