morning greeters . .
morgana and chanda read from david macaulay's book castle this morning (after reading the "chivalrous knights" chapter in gombrich). i worked on my "follow your arrow" shawl.
it's not easy for me to imagine people building these castles. i don't know why. i can imagine them building churches . . there's something about putting all that effort into one building for one person, but maybe they saw it as protection for the town. you needed your lord and his knights to keep the town safe . . chanda is reading king arthur and his knights of the round table by roger lancelyn green.
chanda worked on her feudalism lesson.
morgana's drawing of peasants harvesting the grain . .
and her writing . . she's currently working on a report about eleanor of aquitaine.
dinner tonight was colorful: carrot soup with beet salad.
korrina was off early this afternoon from work and stopped by. i got to hear all about her jury duty adventures yesterday and the day before. she's so glad to have it over with. now she says they can't call her for another six years. while we talked i worked on my shawl and finally finished the first clue. she was on her way to a knitting group at la casita yarn shop in brooklyn.
Lovely work. You are right about the protection, somewhere safe if the area was under siege. We visited some amazing castles last year, all that workmanship, totally awesome!
ReplyDeleteit would be exciting to visit an ancient castle!
DeleteYou have to watch the movie that goes with the book on YouTube here. The cartoons in between are a bit annoying, but you get to see castles in England.
ReplyDeleteoh yes! thank you. wouldn't it be nice to visit the castles with san . . . !
DeleteMaybe one day we should all meet in New York, take a tour of the Cloisters, then fly over to San's part of Great Britain, explore the castles there, and finally go to Germany and tour a few of them there. Wouldn't that be exiting!
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