CM: Is this enough for a fifth grader to do for History?

[sagira]

This is the first time we're doing History in fifth, logic stage, and ds is following this sequence:

 

Day 1 Listen to and read chapter in SOTW 4, look up locations on globe and map, answer questions, type up rough outline for narration

Day 2 Listen to and read second section, answer questions, encyclopedia readings for both first and second sections, add important people, places, facts to outline

Day 3 Mapwork, timeline work (using book and encyclopedia), flesh out outline and choose one paragraph to write about. As ability increases, perhaps add another paragraph for a total of two.

Day 4 Encyclopedia Internet links and possible activity, edit and finish full written narration (paragraph due Monday morning)

 

Does this sound like "enough" for a brandnew 10-year-old? He's a reluctant writer so far, but we're working on it and he's making progress slowly but surely.

 

ETA: We also have the SOTW 4 AG timeline cards for our use as review and copies to paste in our Book of Centuries.

[AK_Mom4]

It looks good to me!

[sagira]

Thanks! For History readings, I'm having ds narrate in a tape recorder. 

 

Anyone else? Is this a good level of work in history for an average fifth grader?

[Penelope]

I think it looks good. It also depends on what else he will be doing, though. In fifth my ds did not do that much writing every week in history, because he used WWS and did more writing in science.

[sagira]

He's going to be using ILL and Wordsmith Apprentice for Grammar/Writing. In history, he has one typed narration a week (up to 2 paragraphs) and he writes facts and names on index cards. I may write down the facts and names if it becomes too tiresome for him. We also still work on Penmanship 4X a week, and he has some writing in Science.

[sagira]

I guess it is, then :)

 

Starting school this Tuesday - goal this week is to test out and get used to new schedule and get dd6 and ds10 off to a good start this schoolyear.

[Chrysalis Academy]

That looks great to me, too!  My 5th grader didn't do writing in history for the first half of the year,  because she was using WWS and that felt like plenty of writing.  By the second half of the year, we added in outlining or summaries for history.  Also, at the beginning of the year we were doing an artist/musician one day a week . . . we ended up dropping that and spending one history period each week focusing on learning world geography (countries) continent by continent.  She also read a lot of historical fiction, much of which we discussed and some of which she wrote about (a la SWB's suggestions for 5th grade literary analysis).