In our family, history is a curricular spine. This year, we're reading SOTW 1 and lots of corresponding picture books, junior nonfiction selections, a few historical fiction chapter books and adapted classics (Odyssey, Aeneid, Gilgamesh, myth anthologies). Art includes picture/artefact study and creating clay and pastel artworks inspired by ancient masterworks (using Artistic Pursuits Ancient Art and Vincent's Starry Night). Language Arts includes CAP's Writing and Rhetoric: Fable and Narrative 1 (though also unrelated literature selections), and science includes history projects like mummifying a chicken and building a working catapult and ballista, bios of Archimedes and Galen, and selections from Berean Builders Science in the Ancient World. Only math stands alone, though even that includes Mummy Math, What's Your Angle, Pythagoras?, The Librarian Who Measured the Earth and some early mathematicians in the science book.
Hey @caffeineandbooksI love that idea. Do you follow a particular curricula? Just wondering where you get your list of corresponding/correlating books, nonfiction selections, classics, literature, etc., and how you line them up with SOTW.
New history program from Classical Academic Press
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Hey @caffeineandbooksI love that idea. Do you follow a particular curricula? Just wondering where you get your list of corresponding/correlating books, nonfiction selections, classics, literature, etc., and how you line them up with SOTW.