Second, there are detailed daily lesson plans. The five-year scope and sequence is enough to take your breath away. First of all, there's a very comprehensive and thorough organizational structure. It was at that point that I decided that I, too, could become a unit study mom. I spent a number of minutes just staring at the impressive stack of papers that constitutes each of these volumes. I have to confess to being a unit-study-phobic homeschool mom. As a result, the rest of us unit-study-phobic homeschool moms can merely walk in her footsteps and teach the way we really want to teach in our heart of hearts. Besides that, we wouldn't even know where to begin. But we moms are afraid that it's either too much work or just plain too overwhelming and time-consuming to construct such a study. How would you choose to spend your school time? Reading through textbooks and completing workbook pages? Or by reading Justin Morgan Had a Horse and raising frogs? I think most of us (and our students) would choose the latter. She's done her best to provide everybody moms and students alike with the means of making it such. Jacey and Birdie are owned by Mary and Joe Forfa, Honey by Adrienne Bull, and Skylar by Joan Hamilton.A wonderful adventure! That's what author Dorian Holt believes that learning should be. Jacey, Birdie, and Skylar are 11th generation offspring. Honey is a 10th generation descendant of Pal, the dog that originally played Lassie.

Family reunion: Lassie and (l to r) Jacey, Birdie, Honey, and Skylar. The bronze sculpture was created by Pennsylvania artist Eric Berg. There is a statue of Lassie at the Doylestown District Center. She has appeared in books, cartoons, and has her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Lassie has appeared in 11 films, had a radio show that ran for four years, and a television show that ran for 321 episodes. Through seven movies and almost 20 years of television shows, Lassie was played by Pal and his offspring. The first dog to play Lassie was Pal, trained by legendary animal trainer, Rudd Weatherwax. The fictional female dog has always been played by male dogs in movies and on television. In 1943, the book was turned into the classic movie, Lassie Come Home, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Roddy McDowall. Knight was inspired to write the story by his wife’s rough-coated collie, Toots. Their home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The story was so popular that Knight expanded it into a book.Īt the time that he wrote the book, Knight and his wife lived on Springhouse Farm in Springfield, Bucks County.

Lassie first appeared in a short story, Lassie Come Home, written by Eric Knight. While you’ve probably heard of Lassie, did you know that she got her start in Bucks County? Cats may rule the Internet, but 72 years ago a dog named Lassie ruled movie screens and then, for 19 seasons, television screens.

Lassie the book