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Posted: July 09 2012 at 1:28pm | IP Logged Quote nissag
I'm doing a unit study for my children on Ukraine. I'd love to get your input on materials (books, audio, video, websites) that I should include.

I want to cover history, art, music, food, literature, language, and geography.

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Read The Kitchen Madonna (Rumer Godden) if you haven't already. As you possibly already know, the plot centers around a Ukrainian immigrant/refugee in London who is homesick because the kitchen of the family for whom she works as housekeeper has no "good place," ie an image of Our Lady. It's a beautiful story with lots of insights into Urkainian culture, even though it's set in England.

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Here's a big list I worked from a bit.
http://eclectic-homeschool.blogspot.com/2009/08/ukraine-unit -study.html.
We always check the tourism info when we study another country - http://www.traveltoukraine.org/
Kids History site the kids read on -
http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/hi/History_of_Ukraine


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Posted: July 09 2012 at 6:27pm | IP Logged Quote nissag
Fantastic! Thank you both.

I hadn't realized that "The Kitchen Madonna" had anything to do with Ukraine. Super. I only have "A Doll's House" here. On my list now.

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SallyT wrote:
Read The Kitchen Madonna (Rumer Godden) if you haven't already. As you possibly already know, the plot centers around a Ukrainian immigrant/refugee in London who is homesick because the kitchen of the family for whom she works as housekeeper has no "good place," ie an image of Our Lady. It's a beautiful story with lots of insights into Urkainian culture, even though it's set in England.
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For more info on Kitchen Madonna, MaryM did some footwork here. There's a little Ukrainian/Polish crossover in this book.

If you search the forums, you'll find loads of ideas based on the Ukrainian eggs art. Lots of books and ideas to go from there.

A book that is a crossover of Ukraine and Hungarian is a favorite of ours, OOP, but so wonderful: Poppy Seed Cakes by Margery Clark. I posted a bit of sleuthing I had done here related to the book.

The Mitten, in its various forms, is a Ukrainian Legend.

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