*I don't have time to do a full report, but I wanted those of you who have requested this to at least have a list of resources.
*This is not a complete list. He took a bunch of online classes this year that are not included.
Anders's Education August 2023 - July 2024
Summer camps this year were:
A week with Grandma
The Davidson Young Scholars conference in Reno, Nevada
Stryker Air Soft
Rowing
CTY class in writing mysteries
Fencing
Key
Anything in red we highly recommend.
Anything in blue we recommend.
Anything in gray Anders or/and I do not recommend.
Anything in black we have no opinion (yet)
All work/books were completed unless otherwise noted.
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT & SELF DEFENSE
Orthodontics – Anders had a palate expander this year.
Osteopath – Anders saw an osteopath three or four times. She says his body is very tight.
Running – Anders ran a mile three to five days a week for exercise. I don’t think this was enough exercise. It was the bare minimum.
Anders swam often and played baseball at the farm.
He attended 8 Cotillion dances/classes. He is the second shortest boy his age. He does well for a short guy.
BUSINESS/LIFE SKILLS
Business / Economics
Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons by Jon Peterson – Anders said only huge D&D fans should read this book. He said they will like it, but it is very sad.
Watched YouTube: Peter Thiel: Successful Businesses are Based on Secrets | WIRED
When Google Met Wikileaks
Usborn Money for Beginners
Usborn Business for Beginners
Taking Responsibility: Self-Reliance and the Accountable Life by Nathanial Branden –
"one of the most interesting books I have ever read."
Life Skills
Introduction to The Theory of Constraints by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
MATH
Ray’s New Higher Arithmetic
Life of Fred Beginning Algebra
Life of Fred Advanced Algebra
Life of Fred Geometry
Art of Problem Solving, Pre Algebra
The Official Guide to the HiSet Exam
Notes:
Anders’s father strongly disagrees with Anders studying algebra or any higher math. He sees it as a waste of time. Soooooo….. this is where we are stopping. (He will get a certificate in accounting though.)
Anders easily passed the HiSet exam’s math section. He scored above an 80% which means he is qualified for college classes.
LOGIC
Think Analogies level B1 (this workbook series is completed)
Mind Benders level 5
Math Analogies, Level 3
Math Analogies, Level 4
Balance Benders Level 3
Balance Math teaches Algebra
Olsat level f
GRAMMAR / SPELLING
Editor in Chief, level 3
WRITING
Wrote 20 5-paragraph essays using HiSet exam prompts
READING
The Official Guide to the HiSet Exam
Jar City by Arnaldur Indridason – Anders says it wasn’t too scary, but it was gruesome. It had adult themes, but Anders did not have an issue with it. He thought it was a phenomenal book.
Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet
The Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Best of Sherlock Holmes
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes & His Last Bow
The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear
The Sign of the Four–
Anders loved all of the Sherlock Holmes books, though some were better than others.
by Patricia Wrede
Dealing with Dragons
Searching for Dragons
Talking to Dragons
Calling on Dragons
Anders loved all of these books immensely.
by Randall Frankes & Bill Wisher
The Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Anders loved all of these books.
By John Grisham
Kid Lawyer
The Abduction
The Accused
The Activist
The Fugitive
The Accomplice
By Brandon Mull
Sky Raiders - Five Kingdoms series
Rogue Knight - Five Kingdoms series
Crystal Keepers - Five Kingdoms series
Death Weavers - Five Kingdoms series
Time Jumpers - Five Kingdoms series
Everything else by Brandon Mull
Until the Lights Come Back On: A Cyber Thriller by Lilly Setterdahl – He learned a lot about Sweden. Otherwise this was just a fun book.
HISTORY (1850-1950)
*Years are approximate. Most documentaries are from YouTube, but I also use Amazon Prime, Apple TV, and Netflix, among other things. I have put all documentaries in quotation marks. This is not quite proper grammar, but I don’t want to go back through them and check their length to see if it should be quotation marks or italics.
*Some books are from a previous era in history that we already studied, but that he was not a good enough reader yet to read on his own at that time.
*Anders did the comments
Read The Story of the World, Volume 4: Early Modern Times by Susan Wise Bower
Read The History of Scotland for Children by Fiona Macdonald (pages 129-completion)
Read The Usborne History Britain (pages 234-294)
Was read DuPont: Behind the Iron Curtain by Gerard Colby (pages 1-32)
Was read selections from Food in History by Reay Tannahill (the chapters on the colonial era)
1850: Read Adventures of Richard Wagner by Opal Wheeler – Super funny. Not the most important education-wise, but a really fun read.
1850: Read The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge—This was suss. Weird. Worth reading to know what weird stuff is published.
1850: Read Tycoon’s War by Stephen Dando-Collins – This shows how two men fought a war legally. They were able to have guns and men and fight and do it within the bounds of the law. It teaches how 20 men can make a difference, can be an army. It shows how tiny battles can win a war.
1850: Read The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by TJ Stiles – He locks up his wife for two months because she didn’t allow him to leave all his money to his smartest son! And that’s just one of the things that he did.
1851: Read Moby Dick: The Illustrated Nobel by Herman Melville – You have to read it for some of the references. You want to understand what Moby Dick is. You also want to learn about whaling.
1852: Read Buffao Bills Life Story by William F. Cody – He did a trick shot and killed ten people with one bullet. He was legendary. The book was super fun.
1852: Watched Charles Dickens’s Bleak House BBC video – It has some redeeming qualities. It shows you how life was in the 1850’s.
1852: Watched Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford BBC video – The ending was not satisfying. If it were, I would give it a red. This shows how medicine worked in the 1850’s. It was such a swindle! The placebo effect is so powerful.
1853: Van Gogh’s Van Goghs: Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam by Richard Kendall – His painting were kind of interesting.
1855: Watched Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit BBC video
1855: Watched Open Range 2004
1857: Mutiny Memoirs by A.R.D. Mackenzie – This is a sold good book. Nothing mind blowing. But interesting and good.
1859: Read On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Young Readers Edition – So interesting. This man debunked every hypothesis that every scientist had at the time. He was a genius!
1860: Watched Shane, The Cowboys, Stagecoach, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Once Upon a Time in the West, Blazing Saddles, City Slickers – Anders loved all of these, but he quickly realized all Westerns are kind of the same and decided he is done with that genre. So I had him watch Firefly which he decided is the greatest TV show of all time. Then of course he had to watch Serenity and then read every comic in that universe.
1860: Farmer Boy, Little House in the Big Woods, Little House on the Prarie, On the Banks of Plum Creek, By the Shores of Silver Lake, The Long Winter, Little Town on the Praroe, These Happy Golden Years, and The First Four Years by Laura Ingles Wilder –Anders says he loved these books even more now than he did when I read them to him when he was three. He says reading them was like saying hi to an old friend.
1860: Read Who Was Frederick Douglass by April Jones Prince – Not very interesting but important to know about.
1860: Read Anchor’s Aweigh: The Story of David Glasgow Farragut by Jean Lee Latham – Interesting. A sailor in the British navy. One man fights to the death and makes a huge difference. He was fine with dying. He didn’t die though.
1860: Read Hershey: Milton S. Hershey’s Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams by Michael D’Antonio – A very interesting story about a very interesting man.
Youtube battle of Gettysburg full documentary by Ctv4history
When Georgia Howled: Sherman on the March by GPB
YouTube Lee & Grant – Worthy Adversaries Documentary by The People Profiles
YouTube The Battle of Bull Run: The First Major Battle in the American Civil War
YouTube Battle of bull tun documentary
Battle of Antietam by Dalton Morgan by Timeline
Battle of Chicamauga by Tony Willoughby Civil War
Chicamauga: Animated Battle Map by American Battlefield Trust
Field Trip: Ate dinner at The Old Place—a restaurant in Los Angeles that was built in 1930 but was from “the old west” in every sense of the word, it was still the old west in that area of los angeles then, they don’t have a freezer and cook all food over the fire, they are surrounded by other old buildings so it looks like a little town, so amazing
1862 Lost Gold and Silver Mines of the Southwest by Eugene L. Conrotto – it made me want to run off into the middle of nowhere and start searching for these mines. I loved this book. Really fun.
1862 Story of a Common Soldier by Leander Stillwell -- I loved the frank way the guy writes. He seems like an honest guy. When he tells you a story, he tells you what happens to those guys later. He was honest about all the looting the army did. They didn’t harm the families, they just looted them. They stole corn from a guy and the guy peititioned congress to be reimbursed.
1865 Ulysses S. Grant Memoirs and Selected Letters – This is worth reading but not as good as some of the other memoirs he has read.
1860 Memoirs of General W.T.Sherman – This was too boring Anders did not finish it.
1865 Morgan: American Financier by Jean Strouse – He is one of the greatest financial advisors the US has ever had.
1865 A. Lincoln: A Biography by Ronald C. White, Jr. – He was a really interesting guy. He went from being a broke farmhand to President of the United States.
1865 Disney’s Alice in Wonderland 2004 – This movie is so stupid. You have to watch it for the references, but what a stupid movie.
1867 The Prodigal Apprentice by George MacDonald – His misadventures were kind of stupid but it teaches you interesting things about the law.
1867 The Journal of Sean Sullivan: A Transcontinental Railroad Worker by William Durbin
1867 Texas Ranch House PBS Home Video – This was so dumb. Just watch Westerns.
1868: The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Anthony Belt – I looooved this book, especially the stuff about ants.
1868 Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger, Jr. –A really interesting story. It really shows what it is like to live in poverty in that time period.
1869 The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons by John Wesley Powell—It’s a diary. It’s super detailed. It’s funny. It’s a fantastic true story.
1869 Watched War and Peace: The Complete Miniseries made in 2016 – It was okay, not amazing. This was unnecessary due to my thorough understanding of the Napoleonic wars. Maybe put it on a girl curriculum.
1869 War and Peace 1967 version by Sergei Bondarchuk – Nope.
1870 The Seven Dog Brothers by Mauri Kunnas – fun, but most likely pointless.
1870 Gone with the Wind -- Amazing.
1870 Carl Larsson’s Home, Family and Farm: Painting from the Swedish Arts and Crafts Movement – Really interesting.
1870 Titan: The Story of John D. Rockefeller by Ron Chernov – Not trustworthy, like the author tried to make Rockefeller sound less evil than he was.
1870 Here a Plant, There a plant, Everywhere a Plant, Plant: A Story of Luther Burbank by Robert Quackenbush – If someone is super into plants or biology they would love this book, otherwise it’s worth reading to know these things, but it’s not great or anything.
1870 Randolph Caldicott: The Children’s Illustrator by Marguerite Lewis – Not that interesting. – Just another book about a painter.
1870 The classic Autobiography of John D. Rockefeller: Random Reminiscences of Men and Events by John D. Rockefeller – Anders says this book was fascinating.
1870 The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son – This explains his business and how to continue it. It was so interesting.
1870 Who Was Thomas Alva Edison by Margaret Frith – This book is … a lie. But you might want to read it to understand the mainstream narrative? The truth is that he stole his ideas from Tesla.
1872 The History of the Standard Oil Company (briefer version) by Ida M. Tarbell – Rockefeller was an evil scamming bastard according to this book. Teaches you to not be emotional in business.
1874 Benjamin’s Ring: The Story of Richard Wagner’s ‘The Ring of the Nibelung for Young Readers’ by Roz Goldfarb – This is fun, but if you have done this history program… there is nothing new in this.
1875 The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie—Carnegie is my favorite of the Robber Barons. Carnegie was a good guy.
1876 Who Was Alexander Graham Bell? By Bonnie Bader – He beat Jay Gould! That was the only exciting part in the book.
1876 Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons by Edward J. Renehan, Jr. – This guy was clearly evil. The writer tried to make him seem not that bad. It was fascinating to read how the writer tried to spin it. It’s good to read books like this so you can learn to see through liars.
1876 Sing Faster: The Stagehands’ Ring Cycle DVD – Anders says he got nothing out of this as he had already read the book and he is an actor so he already knows what it’s like on a set.
1877 Untamed Land by Lauraine Snelling – Good but not great. It’s about a young family. It shows you what life was like for regular people in a small town in the 1870’s. It was nice to read about regular people.
1879 Founder of Modern Medicine: Louis Pasteur by John Hudson Tiner – Good not great. It has a lot of interesting facts about modern medicine. Valuable information.
1880 The Art of Money Getting or Golden Rules for Making Money by P.T. Barnum – Really good. Useful.
1880 Heidi by Joanna Spyri – This would be good for a girl. Boys should skip it.
1881: The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi – A solid, fun kid’s book with good morals to teach.
1881: Pinocchio – The book is way better.
1881: Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield – I only read half of this book. I only read until it got into the part about the murder, about ¾ of the way through. I didn’t want to read about the murder.
1884: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott – Super interesting but super boring. You will hate it when you are reading it but afterwards you will realize what a brilliant book it is.
1886: My Inventions by Nikola Tesla – He tells you all his ideas. Edison took some of them. His ideas were so incredible.
1886: Who Was Nikola Tesla by Jim Gigliotti – This seems to be Edison’s version of Tesla. It also tells you about his childhood.
1886: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla and Other Works– He tells how Edison stole his ideas.
1888: The Miracle Worker – I did not enjoy this movie, but it is interesting and awesome that a deaf and blind person can learn.
1889: Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog): Fun. It’s just a funny book. It’s timeless, so it’s not really a history book that gives you an idea of the day.
1890: Victorian Slum House PBS – A bunch of city slickers try to be Victorians. It’s hilarious.
1890: Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns 1840-1900 – To talk with normies you have to know this but it’s boring.
1890: The Opulent Interiors of the Gilded Age by Arnold Lewis, James Turner, and Steven McQuillin – I didn’t read it, just leafed through it. Really pretty.
1890: Read The Myth of the Robber Barons: A New Look at the Rise of Big Business in America by Burton W. Folsom, Jr. – This book was excellent. It gave me new information about the guys I have been reading about.
1892: Read The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman – It was okay. Just about some woman going crazy.
1893: The Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 by Stanley Appelbaum – this was how carnivals were invented. Some inventors came to show off their stuff but it was more for shows and showmen. It’s interesting but not that interesting. This is where Tesla got canceled.
1894: Read The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling – Fun. Kind of like Tarzan’s childhood. Tarzan is a lot better. Too good to skip, but not that great.
1894: The Jungle Book movie. Like the book, good. Not great.
1894: Under the Flaming Sky: The Great Hincley Firestorm of 1894 by Daniel James Brown – I learned many interesting things from it. This fire is why the fire departments as we know them were invented.
1895: The Importance of Being Earnest – I did not enjoy this movie very much, but it shows that if you are good, good things will happen.
1895: The Mysterious Rays of Dr. Rontgen by Beverly Cherman – Interesting but I already knew a lot about xrays so not crucial.
1895: Mellon: An American Life by David Cannadine – I liked this book but did not trust it. I think Mellon was actually a good guy and the author was trying to make him look bad.
1896: Hurrah for the Life of a Sailor: Fifty Years in the Royal Navy by William Robert Kennedy – This book was just liked Kidnapped just better, more realistic, and based in reality. Gave you a sense of what it was like to be a sailor. It is definitely worth reading.
1897: Roald Amundsen: A saga of the Polar Seas by J. Alvin Kugelmass – This book is okay. It teaches you to copy the natives. When in the freezing cold eat the Inuit diet.
1897: Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling – Good, classic adventure novel. It gave a good sense of the time period in a small fishing colony.
1900: Read The National Parks: America’s Best Idea by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns – Reads like propaganda.
1900: Read Oil Man: The Story of Frank Phillips and the Birth of Phillips Petroleum by Michael Wallis – Good but not great. Frank Phillips is basically the good version of Rockefeller. He didn’t get as rich because he wasn’t evil.
1900: Read Famous Mathematicians by Frances Benson Stonaker – Excellent. Very fun to read. I am impressed by how important math is in the invention of weapons.
1900: Read Monopolies in America: Empire Builders & Their Enemies from Jay Gould to Bill Gates This book starts off slow, but it gets really interesting by the end. I learned that big business is unstoppable.
1900: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum – It’s okay.
1900: City of Quart: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis – It was not that good. It was about how they built LA. If you live in LA it tells you some interesting things.
1900: 1900’s House – So funny.
1900: Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns 1900-1910 – To talk with normies you have to know this but it’s boring.
1900: Hockey: A People’s History – To talk with normies you have to know this but it’s boring.
1900: The Wonder Clock or Four and Twenty Marvelous Tales by Howard Pyle – These are the short stories Pyle wrote when he was young. They are hilarious and amazing. (Everything Pyle wrote is amazing.)
1900: Los Angeles Then and Now by Rosemary Lord – This is just to see the pictures. Meh.
1902: Peter Pan by JM Barrie – It was excellent but sad. Just entertainment. Nothing of real value though.
1902: Watched Trip to the Moon on YouTube. This was made by Goerge Melies. It was one of the first movies. What is fascinating about it is the girls wearing tights. Cinema began as trashy, challenging the current modesty norms to get attention.
1903: Watched The Great Train Robbery. This was the first film to use modern editing techniques.
1905: The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster – This book is terrifying but it is like The Matrix. You have to read it.
1905: Read The Clansman by Thomas Dixon Jr – A super racist book. A fantasy in which most white people are good and all Jews and Blacks are bad. A white girl gets raped by a black man and kills herself rather than live with the shame.
1906: Read Confessions of a Monopolist by Frederic C. Howe – One of the most important business books I have ever read.
1906: Read The Immigrants Journey by Roger Andersen – Really fun. Excellent pretty realistic historical fiction. It’s a life story of only the good parts. Anders learned a lot about how immigrants came to the US and how they lived.
1906: Read Little Britches by Ralph Moody – It was a good little kids’ book. It’s cute. It has some fun parts and good moral lessons, that is why it is blue. Otherwise it would be black. It might be better read to a little kid. But it did give a really good sense of the time period.
1907: Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles by Les Standiford – This book was really really good and I would give it double red if I could.
1907: The Wrek of the Zanzibar by Michael Morpurgo – It’s like a diary. It’s fun. It tells about life on Corsica, the island Napolean lived on. Useful to imagine life on Island. Fun but not that useful.
1908: The Wind and the Willows by Kenneth Grahame This is a good, well-written book. It was just fun. (Roslyn thinks it is perfectly historically placed as the plotline involves irresponsible drivers.)
1909: Trial by Ice: A Photobiography of Sir Ernest Shackleton by K.M. Kostyal—It’s basically what they did at the North Pole just in the south. I liked the pictures. It shows you how powerful mother nature is.
1910: The People’s Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century by Steven Watts— It shows you how good things happen to good people. It had good tips for advertising. It also teaches you to teach your workers well.
1910: My Life and Work by Henry Ford Pretty much the same information as The People’s Tycoon except more engineering. If you are an engineer, read this one. If you are not, read The People’s Tycoons.
1910: Young Henry Ford: A Picture History of the First Forty Years This book gives you more information about his childhood, so I liked that, but I already knew everything else.
1910: Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns 1910-1920 – To talk with normies you have to know this but it’s boring.
1911: The Anglo-American Establishment by Carroll Quigley – This book explains a lot of things you lean in history that were happening behind the scenes, some things that made no sense before make sense.
1912: Tarzan of the Apes, The Return of Tarzan, The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Son of Tarzan, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar– These are really really good.
1914: The 39 Steps by John Buchan – A fantasy in which some guys stop World War 1. Very fun. It tells you all about the secret services. Anti-German but it makes them sound awesome.
1914: Beau Geste by P.C. Wren – a too-formulaic heist story. Good for teaching story formula. Not good for history
1914: Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw – Much better than the movie. Less hysteric. More realistic. I learned that you should not try to turn a poor person into a rich person because then you will make it so that that poor person has no place to go. I also learned that how you speak makes you part of specific groups. This book was good in that it teaches you stuff. But it wasn’t as fun as some of the other books I have read.
1914: My Fair Lady – Eliza is too annoying of a character
1914: Ben Hur—Epic battle scenes but terrible special effects.
1915: Birth of a Nation by DW Griffith. This was the movie version of The Clansman. Griffith got in so much trouble for this movie that his next movie was an apology for it. Fascinating that it was already unacceptable to be racist and in Hollywood in 1915.
1916: The Red Baron: The Graphic History of Richthofen’s Flying Circus and the Air War in WWI by Wayne Vansant – very entertaining and informative.
1917: The Bolshevik Myth: An Anarchist’s Eyewitness Account of the Betrayal and Failure of the Russian Communist Revolution by Alexander Berkman – An informative and interesting history book. Not as entertaining as a regular book, but interesting.
1917: My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography by Leon Trotsky – the author came across as both dumb and evil.
1917: Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists by Anthony C. Sutton –This book teaches you about corruotion. And how the world works.
1918: The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming This should be blue just for being so sad. This book was heartbreaking. But it was easy to read and good.
1920: Hollywood Then and Now by Rosemary Lord – This is just pictures. It’s fine.
1920: Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns 1910-1920 – To talk with normies you have to know this but it’s boring.
1920: Hockey: A People’s History Episode 3 and 4 – To talk with normies you have to know this but it’s boring.
1920: The Wild Children by Felice Holman – It’s a fun book. It gives you detailed information on how the revolution went from the perspective of a person who wasn’t doing anything to help or stop it. That’s the only good thing about it. Otherwise there wasn’t much of plot.
1920: The Phantom Chariot – Good but depressing.
1922: John Carter of Mars: The First Five Novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs – One of the greatest books I have ever read. Better than Howard Pyle.
1922: The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenite – This is one of the greatest poems ever written. Mind numbing. Hilarious.
1923: Animal Farm by George Orwell – This book is really interesting. Explores interesting ideas. It explains the Bolshevik revolution so well. I loved it when I was 5 but this time I got so much more out of it.
1923: Radio Rescue by Lynne Barasch – This is light reading. It’s a little kids book. It’s worth reading.
1924: The Orphan Train Rider: One Boy’s True Story by Andrea Warren – This is a good book. Almost red. But so so sad.
1927: The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles S. Lindbergh – It was all about his plane trip. It was very good. I would have liked more of his childhood. It’s worth reading because you learn a lot about planes and how they work.
1929: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett – This is a fun book the female character is so annoying it gets blue. It’s a fun mystery. Doesn’t really give you a feel for the time period. This does not need to be part of the curriculum.
1929 The Maltese Falcon (made in 1941) – The movie was better than the book. It’s a good movie. But this does not need to be part of the curriculum.
1929: The Untouchables by Eliot Ness with Oscar Fraley – so interesting. This is a book about trust. Trustworthy men who are loyal to each other and honest can take down a crime empire. Very inspiring.
1929: The Untouchables (made in 1987) – This movie was good but it should have stuck to the book more.
1930: Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns 1930-1940 – To talk with normies you have to know this but it’s boring.
1932: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley – Anders said this book was really interesting.
1934: Mary Poppins (made in 1964) – We skipped the book and just watched the movie. In a girl curriculum I would probably read the book. This was to understand the cultural references.
1934: Thank you, Jeeves by PG Woodhouse -- It was a very silly book that I think Henrik might like. It portrayed most of the rich people as idiots and silly. What I learned is that most rich people that did not earn their money are very easy to spot. The dumb rich people acted like they were living in wonderland.
1935: Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls – I read this in one sitting as it was so good I could not put it down. This book is a masterpiece.
1936: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown – Epic.
1936: Boys in the Boat (made in 1923) - Love it, but it’s not as good as the book.
1936: Modern Times (movie) – hilarious. And gives a great idea as to the historical era.
1937: Grinding it out: The Making of McDonald’s by Ray Kroc – Fascinating.
1937: Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (made in 1937)
1938: Bringing Up Baby (movie) – eh, kinda funny. Doesn’t really give you any historical information either.
1939: American Pravda: Understanding World War II by Ron Unz – This fascinating article challenges the mainstream narrative of the war not in a Holocaust-denial way but rather in a this-should-make-sense, let’s-look-at-both-sides way.
1939: Churchhill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War by Patrick Buchanan – Anders thought this book was very interesting and informative.
1939: When the Siren Wailed by Noel Streatfeild – Anders thought this book was riveting. But he didn’t like that the kids disobeyed their parents and there were no consequences.
1939: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (made in 1939) – great. Wonderful movie. Way better than I thought it would be.
1939: The Wizard of Oz (made in 1939)
1939: Stagecoach (made in 1939) – Really good movie. It’s like a car chase movie but done with a stagecoach and horses.
1940: Hitler’s Personal Security by Peter Hoffman – Very very interesting
1940: The Great Dictator (made in 1940) – Hilarious and definitely succeeded in making fun of Hitler / serving as propaganda.
1940: Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – Fascinating.
1940: North to Freedom by Anne Holm – It was a well written book. Very emotional.
1940: Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns 1940-1950 – To talk with normies you have to know this but it’s boring.
1941: The Black Stallion by Walter Farley – It was about this big powerful black horse that kicked lots of horse butt. I learned about horse racing.
1942: War As I Knew It by General George S. Patton – Anders loved this book. Great war strategy ideas.
1943: Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project by General Leslie M. Groves – In the German Atomic Bomb it is claimed that the Germans invented the bomb and the Americans stole it. This book claims the Americans invented it. The German Atomic Bomb is more convincing. But I love reading both sides.
1943: The German Atomic Bomb by David Irving – Really interesting. Much more convincing than the other book.
1945: Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard – A really cute book. Doesn’t teach you anything about history though.
1945: They Were Expendable (made in 1945), Howdy Doody, The Ed Sullivan Show –Worth seeing a little for the time but not interesting or fun.
1945: Might Over Right: How the Zionists Took Over Palestine by Adel Safty – Traumatizing and almost made me lose faith in humanity but that it was really really really good.
1946: It’s a Wonderful Life (made in 1946) – A really nice movie that restores your faith in humanity.
1947: Miracle on 34th Street (made in 1947) – It was very good, but not crazy good.
1948: The John Wayne Code – It was just about a cowboy. Worth reading but not particularly good.
1948: Three Godfathers – good.
1949: In the First Circle by Alexander Solzhenitsyn – Way too much describing, otherwise it’s good. You learn all about how the Soviets were super afraid of nukes and then super ballsy after they got one. This book was about decoding stuff.
1949: Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R.Tolkien – Everything he writes is amazing. But this is not particularly historical.
1949: 1984 by George Orwell – It’s a psychology book. It was very good. Sad ending.
1949: She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
1950: Hockey: A People’s History episode 5 and 6 – To talk with normies you have to know this but it’s boring.
1949: In the First Circle by Alexander Solzhenitsyn – Entertaining but had way too much description
1955: Truth for Germany: The Guilt Question of the Second World War by Udo Walendy – This book argues that Churchill was the main villain of World War II. It is really interesting.
SCIENCE
1862 Lost Gold and Silver Mines of the Southwest by Eugene L. Conrotto – it made Anders want to run off into the middle of nowhere and start searching for these mines. He loved this book. Really fun.
Geology Underfoot in Southern California by Arthur G. Sylvester and more – It’s good but nothing super interesting and if you are a geology nerd you don’t learn anything that interesting. Sea levels have been rising since before the dinosaurs. More water has been coming to Earth. Sea Levels have been rising since before Antarctica.
Newton’s Laws: A Fairy Tale by Sarah Allan Entertaining and fun but nothing amazing.
Light: A Fairy Tale (Fairy Tale Physics) Fairy Tale Physics A Fairy Tale by Sarah Allan Entertaining and fun but nothing amazing.
Fluid Mechanics: A Fairy Tale (Fairy Tale Physics) Fairy Tale Physics by Sarah Allan Entertaining and fun but nothing amazing.
Thinking About Nuclear Weapons: Principles, Problems, Prospects by Michael Quinlan Really interesting but too much politics and not enough information about the actual bombs.
Notes
Each week Anders picked an essential vitamin or mineral and watched YouTube videos about them, deficiency symptoms, and foods high in those vitamins.
Anders was resistant to learning more science as he already knows more than most adults and isn't going into a scientific field / plans to be a lawyer or businessman.
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