🗺 Post Archives: Homeschool Maps & Geography

All the Ivans dreaming of their villages
all the Marias dreaming of their walled cities,
picking up fragments of New World slowly,
not knowing how to put them together nor how to join
image with image, now I know how it was with you, an old map
made long before I was born shows ancient
rights of way where I walked when I was ten burning with desire
for the world’s great splendors, a child who traced voyages
indelibly all over the atlas, who now in a far country
remembers the first river, the first
field, bricks and lumber dumped in it ready for building,
that new smell, and remembers
the walls of the garden, the first light.

—Denise Levertov

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons on maps, atlases, and geography from the River Houses Homeschool Network. See our regular States & Countries posts for still more geographical teaching resources, and add your name to our free River Houses mailing list to get posts like these delivered right to your mailbox every week! 😊