fmburney Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 do you all follow wtm method to teach history? Do you make outline one day? summary another? look up in atlas and on the globe? make timelines. it seeems like alot work . Can you clarify for me which days you do diffrent history activities;outlining, summaries, research, redaing.how many times week you do it and on avg how long it takes. im doing schedule this week for fall. i have 11year old boy and was wondering outside history spine how many days a week do you set aside structured reading and for how long?(history books nonfiction or historical fiction thats not part of his independent reading time.my son not crazy about "structured reading"(we use timer)how make sure they are actually redaing the material not skimmimg>hes great reader but prefers free reading where he reads alot fantasy i really appreciate it your help mariss Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacy in NJ Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 (edited) do you all follow wtm method to teach history? Do you make outline one day?summary another? look up in atlas and on the globe? make timelines. it seeems like alot work . Can you clarify for me which days you do diffrent history activities;outlining, summaries, research, redaing.how many times week you do it and on avg how long it takes. im doing schedule this week for fall. i have 11year old boy and was wondering outside history spine how many days a week do you set aside structured reading and for how long?(history books nonfiction or historical fiction thats not part of his independent reading time.my son not crazy about "structured reading"(we use timer)how make sure they are actually redaing the material not skimmimg>hes great reader but prefers free reading where he reads alot fantasy i really appreciate it your help mariss I have two sons doing logic stage history. My oldest, ds13, uses History Odyssey as written. My little guy, ds12 in 6th grade, does history TWTM way. Here's his history schedule for most weeks: Monday: Read and outline 2 pages from (UILE) Usborne Internet Linked Encyclopedia. These pages are cross-referenced with SOTW via the Activity Guide (AG) Tuesday: Read one or two sections of a chapter from SOTW, answer questions from the AG, and write a short narration of the reading(s) Wednesday: Read the remaining sections in the chapter of SOTW, answer questions from the AG, do the map work from the AG, and add dates/figures to a timeline. That's it. We do assign daily fiction reading that corresponds to our history cycle. Currently he's reading Sir Gawain and the Green Night. I assign a certain number of pages daily, and he reads and than gives a short verbal narration of what he's read. HTH, Stacy ETA: At the beginning of the school year, I put together a reading list for him that includes about 10 history related fiction books. I cull the names of the books from TWTM reading list and from the AG recommended literature selections. I purchase these books so I have them readily available when I want to assign them. Edited September 7, 2010 by Stacy in NJ more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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zaichiki Posted September 9, 2010 Share Posted September 9, 2010 do you all follow wtm method to teach history? Ummm... in theory, yes -- in practice, sorta. mariss Monday: current events Ds chooses an article from the WSJ or the Economist and outlines it. Tuesday: history spine Ds reads a spread in History: The Definitive Visual Guide and outlines. Wednesday: timeline, atlas, globe I bought the timeline book from Sonlight. He uses this. Thursday: history spine Ds reads a section in the National Geographic Almanac of World History Friday: primary sources (We like Fordham's site.) Ds reads and researches primary sources. He'll sometimes print something that he finds on-line and put it in his notebook. Other times he'll find a recipe to try and cook it for us (and print up the recipe for his notebook). Other things he's included in his notebook have been notes and or drawings of games, copies of poems, pictures of clothing, etc. Another idea is to read a book written by someone in that time period/culture and write a summary with added comments for the notebook. Each week ds also reads historical fiction from Sonlight. He's responsible for a book a week, but decides on his own when/how much to read each day. This year the historical fiction comes from Core 6. We're utilizing the SOTW books and activity guides for the younger two. It keeps us all together chronologically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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