What to do with Augustus Ceasar's World?

[missmoe]

Okay, when using Foster's World of books what do you do with them? Do you just read them? Do you outline? Write summaries?

 

Please help my tired brain with planning history this year?

[Stacy in NJ]

As part of his Ancient History study this year, my 7th grader read several pages per week and wrote a 2-3 paragraph summary. He used this as his spine for 2nd semester.

[rieshy]

When we did Foster's books I'd write difficult words or names on a board for the older kids to see as I read. Then the kids would take turns (one child a day) doing narrations of the day's readings. They could use the written notes as cues if they needed them. The youngest listeners would color or build during the readings- but sometimes they'd narrate as well.

[MamaT]

We used Augustus Caesar's World to go along with our study of Rome last year. I read it aloud and we discussed things as we went.

[mcconnellboys]

I do this, too. I use these books as wrap-ups when we're at the end of a time period, since they cover multiple cultures.

[Jen+4dc]

We used Augustus Caesar's World to go along with our study of Rome last year. I read it aloud and we discussed things as we went.

 

This is what we did. It's a nice narrative and lead to some good discussions.

[cbollin]

I'm using it currently in RTR (MFW) with my 6th grader.

 

Right now I'm more or less reading it to myself, then summarizing the chapter by doing a dramatic reading/retelling from the text instead of a word by word read aloud of the text. I'm not sure why on this book, but I'm getting physically tired from reading it word for word out loud. So, we add in a dramatic flare with it. The other day I ended up putting a toy snake in a bowl of fruit to act out the death of Cleopatra.

 

I have my daughter narrate it back to me. I've also gone to making copies of the 2 page spread of pictures that happen right before the unit sections. That helps us to keep track of everyone in the story and then at the end we have a "pre made" timeline and notebook pages of those people and events; those go in the history notebook. coloring is optional.

 

I've done this book about 5 years ago with my oldest, so I know it will get easier on me with reading it out loud. But for now, the copying of the unit sections and dramatic retelling will do. My current 6th grader does other notebooking summaries and art work, so it all balances out.

 

-crystal