{"id":8312,"date":"2001-11-30T19:23:49","date_gmt":"2001-11-30T19:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/?post_type=catbird-seat&#038;p=8312"},"modified":"2020-04-23T19:24:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T19:24:32","slug":"integrated-curriculum-ideas","status":"publish","type":"catbird-seat","link":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/catbird-seat\/integrated-curriculum-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrated Curriculum Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\nSeveral homeschool parents have asked me for an example of integrated curriculum ideas for them to use.\u00a0 While teaching high school English, I felt obligated to expose my students to Herman Melville&#8217;s <em>Moby Dick<\/em>.\u00a0 My own high school teacher made it the most boring book I had ever read.\u00a0 He would read aloud in different tones each day, then ask us to write what we thought.\u00a0 That was the extent of his &#8220;teaching.&#8221;\u00a0 When it was my turn to teach this novel, I took this approach: The students followed world maps of the global journey of the whaling ship, Pequod.\u00a0 They researched cultural differences between the Puritans of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and the South Islands natives of Queequeg&#8217;s type.\u00a0 There were numerous examples of new vocabulary for them to look up.\u00a0 There are also terms linked to cultural practices such as St. Elmo&#8217;s Fire that the student&#8217;s were asked to study.\u00a0 Many had fun learning the math and practical applications associated with the art of sailing a large vessel.\u00a0 There is still an extensive museum about the whaling industry located in New Bedford and they are thrilled to send information, pictures, and answer questions.\u00a0 Of course, we studied the transcendental philosophy to which Melville subscribed, a fascinating cult in itself.\u00a0 Melville brought moral values to the novel in spite of his involvement with transcendentalism, probably because of his New England background, even using scriptural allusions and analogies.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThis integrated curriculum was the common kind of learning in all grades of 50 years ago.\u00a0 &#8220;New&#8221; programs of the same are labeled &#8220;whole&#8221; curriculums, or &#8220;balanced,&#8221; even &#8220;infused.&#8221;\u00a0 I&#8217;m just glad to see some school returning to it!\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8312","catbird-seat","type-catbird-seat","status-publish","hentry","category-from-the-catbird-seat"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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