ondreeuh Posted May 4, 2014 Share Posted May 4, 2014 I will have a 6th grader next year. He covered ancient, medieval, and 2 years of American history (early and later) in grades 2-5. Do I repeat this lineup again in middle school years? This is exactly what we did in grades 2-5. For 6th we are doing K12 Intermediate World History A with Human Odyssey 1, which is ancients and medieval. For 7th we'll do Intermediate World History B with Human Odyssey 2 which covers the rest of world history. Then for 8th we will do Hakim's History of US, maybe using guides, maybe not. K12 uses a consolidated version of Hakim for grades 5-6, but we used other stuff, and I am not concerned about it being too easy for my son. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birchbark Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 We finished the 4yr cycle in 6th and 7th. 6th - Early modern period - Geo Washington's World, Story of Napoleon, Story of the Great Republic, Growth of the British Empire, Hearts and Hands 7th - Modern period - Oak Meadow World History 7, What in the World 3 8th - Geography focus - Around the World in 180 Days, Halliburton's Book of Marvels, and Mapping the World with Art Next time around I am not planning on doing a 4yr cycle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JadeOrchidSong Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Lori D. And lewelma, Would you mind sharing your read alouds and books for Medieval Times for history? I am so challenged now for it. I have been combing the forums for ideas. I would really like to do history in a more fun and less stressful way in order to keep homeschooling. Thanks! My boys are middle school age by the way and love fictions and interesting non fictions books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewelma Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Oh dear, I think you pm-ed me and I forgot! so sorry. This is what my older boy read for 6th grade. (he got through about 75%) 400-1000 Early Middle ages: Knights and Castles, Feudalism, Vikings Sept, Oct Beowulf the Warrior , Sutcliff , The story of Rolf and the Viking Bow French , Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ,Tolkien (optional) Conn Yankee in King Arthur's Court , The Once and Future King, White, (trilogy) Tales from Arabian Nights Lang, 1000-1400 High Middle ages: Crusades, Holy Roman Empire Byzantium, Plague Nov, Dec Ivanho Crispin: Cross of Lead, Avi Catherine Called Birdy, Cushman Mary, bloody Mary Meyer Sir Nigel, Doyle The White Company, Doyle Canturbury Tales, Original, just a few stories, Lord of the Rings, Tolkien, (trilogy) Jan Eastern China, India, Japan, Africa (Mali), Khmer Empire Jan, Feb A Single Shard, Park Lady of Ch'lao Kuo diary series South America Incas, Aztecs, Conquistadors Feb, Mar Lady of Palenque diary series The Left-handed Spirit The captive O'Dell Early Rennaissance Apr, May, June Joan of Arc, Twain, Black Arrow, Stephenson Trumpeter of Krakow Dante's divine comedy Chwast (graphic novel), Optional by Sutcliff Outcast- Britain under roman rule, focus on celts and picts Sutcliff has a series on Arthur Mark of the horse lord – brtian under roman rul, N tribes Shining Company – britain, fuedal chiefs, saxons Blood Fued , Sutcliff , britain, constantinople Sword Song – vikings Daughter of Time, Tey L Queen Elizabeth mystery, modern This is what my dh read out loud to the kids 6th and 2nd grade. Some are just topics that he went through with history encyclopedias which is why there is no book attached. History: Middle Ages and Early Rennaissance 400-1000 Early Middle ages: Knights and Castles, Feudalism, Vikings Sept, Oct British White Stag (Attila the Hun) Vikings Beowolf Castles, feudalism Castle, City Macaulay King Arthur and His Knights, Pyle Arabian, Islam One Thousand and One Nights, McCaughrean Byzantine Holy Roman Empire 1000-1400 High Middle ages: Crusades, Holy Roman Empire Byzentine empire, Plague Nov, Dec Crusades High middle ages Adventures of Robin Hood, Pyle Midwife's apprentice Adam of the Road, Gray - 13th C england, NE Award Shadow of a bull – Bull fighting Canturburly tales McCaughrean Mongol empire Plague Eastern China, India, Japan, Africa, Khmer Empire Jan, Feb Samurai's Tale, Haugaard South America Incas, Aztecs, Conquistadors Feb, Mar Secret of the Andes Around the World's Rim Early Rennaissance 100 years war Apr, May, June Arts and science Explorers Shakespeare Macbeth, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Taming of the Shrew; Much Ado About Master Cronhhill – Plague in 1654, London fire USA – native americans Optional: Eyewitness: Vikings, Knights, Midevial Life, Castle, Arms and Armor, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenjenn Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 I have a rising 6th grade and a very accelerated 4th grader. We're totally jumping the SotW ship (we just finished Vol. 3) and doing the History of US volumes this year by Joy Hakim. I love, love, LOVE SotW, but I feel like it was getting stale for both of my kids. I wanted to do US History. In particular we have a road trip taking us to Boston, NY, etc, in late November and August-Nov will give us a great opportunity for a learning adventure about early US history. I then may have them read SotW V4 concurrently for the second semester. After that, heck if I know. My oldest is applying to a public arts Magnet school. That school does World Cultures and Geography for 7th and 8th which is another reason I wanted to be sure she got some solid US history this year. If she goes to that school, she won't see US history again until 10th grade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiguirre Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 We're going to do 2 streams: a US history online class using Hakim and a home brew world history using these books: http://smile.amazon.com/Greek-Classics-Edition-Teachers-Guide/dp/1479175412/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=045BHDDSA0QK225ZA8NZ http://smile.amazon.com/Ancient-Rome-Edition-Teachers-Guide/dp/1479176079/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=0VHVNFE9RR75T553A463 http://smile.amazon.com/World-Europe-Edition-Teachers-Guide/dp/0983758158/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=0HZ6JANS9WFJV26C4M5W We'll also listen to some non-fiction history audiobooks in the car and watch some movies about the appropriate time periods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JadeOrchidSong Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 lewelma, you are precious!!! Thank you for the amazing list! My dh and I take turns reading at bedtime to the boys. This list will get us back to track. Thank you so very much! We hope we can visit you in NZ and speak Chinese with your ds. How is his Boya going? My boys are really slow and I am to blame because I hate teaching Chinese. I believe it is the hardest language for reading and writing! It is probably better to switch them to easier Chinese from Singapore Chinese. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Lori D. And lewelma, Would you mind sharing your read alouds and books for Medieval Times for history? I am so challenged now for it. I'm neither LoriD nor lewelma, but .... Here's the mega list of resources that my daughter used when she was in 8th grade (quite some moons ago). Since she'd only begun homeschooling in 7th grade, she was on the second year of a three year sweep through world history and was studying the time period AD500 to AD 1700. The list includes books, videos and music. She was/is a speedy reader so she read many more books than others might. Asterisked entries were used only in part. Eighth Grade History Reading and Resource List Dorling Kindersley History of the World edited by Plantagenet Somerset Fry ** The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon ** The Story of Mankind: A Picturesque Tale of Progress by Olive Beaupre Miller ** The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart The Man Who Loved Books by Jean Fritz Across a Dark and Wild Sea by Don Brown The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White Brendan the Navigator by Jean Fritz The Illustrated History of the World, Vol. 3, Rome and the Classical West by J. M. Roberts ** The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley – audio (Vol. 1) The Brendan Voyage by Tim Severin ** Then and Now by Stefania and Dominic Perring ** I am Mordred by Nancy Springer The Illustrated History of the World, Vol. 4, The Age of Diverging Traditions by J. M. Roberts ** Tusk and Stone by Malcolm Bosse Muhammad by Demi The Shining Company by Rosemary Sutcliff The Real Middle Earth by Brian Bates ** The Middle Ages by Mike Corbishley ** Beowulf the Warrior by Ian Serraillier Beowulf: A New Telling by Robert Nye The Collected Beowulf by Gareth Hinds Maples in the Mist by Minfong Ho Ancient Cliff Dwellers of Mesa Verde by Caroline Arnold The Arabian Nights retold by Neil Philip The Age of Chivalry edited by Merle Severy ** His Majesty’s Elephant by Judith Tarr Charlemagne and the Early Middle Ages by Miriam Greenblatt Prison Window, Jerusalem Blue by Bruce Clements Norse Gods and Giants by Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire The Real Vikings by Melvin and Gilda Berger Medieval Knights by Trevor Cairns ** Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way by Joy Hakim ** The Edge on the Sword by Rebecca Tingle Alfred the Great and the Saxons by Robin May The Time Traveler Book of Viking Raiders by Anne Civardi and James Graham-Campbell Blood Feud by Rosemary Sutcliff The Song Dynasty by Scott Ingram Hakon of Rogen’s Saga by Erik Haugaard Early Explorers of North America by C. Keith Wilbur ** The Cartoon History of the Universe III by Larry Gonick Fafnir by Bernard Evslin The King’s Shadow by Elizabeth Alder 1000 Years Ago on Planet Earth by Sneed Collard The Legend of the Cid by Robert Goldston Shakespeare Stories by Leon Garfield ** Shakespeare and MacBeth: The Story Behind the Play by James Barter Shakespeare’s MacBeth (video) William the Conqueror by Thomas B. Costain Anna of Byzantium by Tracy Barrett A Travel Guide to Medieval Constantinople by James Barter Robin Hood by Neil Philip A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E. L. Konigsburg Daily Life in the Middle Ages by Paul B. Newman ** Brother Cadfael videos: A Morbid Taste for Bones and Monk’s Hood Tales of the Crusades by Olivia Coolidge A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park Saladin by Diane Stanley In a Dark Wood by Michael Cadnum The Story of the Wise Men by Regine Pernoud and Canon Grivot Canticles of Ecstasy (the music of Hildegard von Bingen) by Sequentia The Magna Charta by James H. Daugherty Marvels of Science by Kendall Haven ** The Road to Damietta by Scott O’Dell Eyewitness Medieval Life by Andrew Langley Music of the Gothic Era (The Early Music Consort of London/David Munrow) Brother Sun, Sister Moon (video) (Wertmuller and Zeffirelli) Book of the Lion by Michael Cadnum Angkor: Heart of an Asian Empire by Bruno Dagens ** Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe (video, BBC production) Quest for a Maid by Frances Hendry Castle by David Macaulay The Ramsay Scallop by Frances Temple Girl in a Cage by Jane Yolen Archers, Alchemists, and 98 Other Jobs You Might Have Loved or Loathed by Priscilla Galloway The King’s Swift Rider by Mollie Hunter Marco Polo: To China and Back by Steven Otfinoski Cathedral by David Macaulay The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer as retold by Geraldine McCaughrean Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (read by Prunella Scales and Martin Starkie)** Dog of the Bondi Castle by Lynn Hall Harold the Herald by Dana Fradon Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354 by James Rumford The Inferno of Dante (cantos 1 – 5) translated by Robert Pinsky Beckett (video, 1964) The Lion in Winter (video, 1968) A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman ** The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly The Second Mrs. Giaconda by E. L. Konigsburg Rats, Bulls, and Flying Machines by Deborah Prum The Passion of Joan of Arc (video, 1928, Carl Th. Dreyer) 1492: Music from the Age of Discovery by The Waverly Consort The Cargo of the Madalena by Cynthia Harnett 1492: The Year of the New World by Piero Ventura The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain Great Painters by Piero Ventura ** Accidental Explorers by Rebecca Stefoff ** Greensleeves: A Collection of English Lute Songs by Julianne Baird and Ronn McFarlane Beware, Princess Elizabeth by Carolyn Meyer The Sea King: Sir Francis Drake and His Times by Albert Marrin Elizabeth R: The Lion’s Cub (video, BBC production, 1971) Elizabeth (video, 1998, with Cate Blanchett) Den of the White Fox by Lensey Namioka From Coronado to Escalante: The Explorers of the Spanish Southwest by John Miller Morris Cantos 1 – 5 of Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves: A retelling of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, Book 1 by Roy Maynard On the Banks of the Helicon: Early Music of Scotland by the Baltimore Consort The Inquisition (video, The History Channel, 1996) The Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes (adapted by Leighton Barret) The World of Captain John Smith by Genevieve Foster ** The World of Lully by the Chicago Baroque Ensemble John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress retold by Gary D. Schmidt I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Dowland: Ayres and Lute Lessons by the Deller Consort Out of Many Waters by Jacqueline Dembar Greene The Trial and Execution of Charles I by Leonard W. Cowie Rembrandt by Ceciel de Bie and Martijn Leenen The Reduced Shakespeare Company (video, Acorn Media, 2003) Witch Child by Celia Rees At the Sign of the Sugared Plum by Mary Hooper Vivaldi’s Ring of Mystery: A Tale of Venice and Violins (audio) Girl with a Pearl Earring (video, 2003) Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootAnn Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 On the topic of Mapping the World With Art (McHenry) -- it is GREAT, but don't feel like you have to do it in the order she gives them to you. If you are using it as part of a geography study, just do them in the order you are studying things. It makes a lot more sense to re-order them than to do them in the way she suggests if your studies don't line up. We should have started with Africa, for example .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saddlemomma Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 We started classical education late, therefore we need to finish up our first history rotation in the next couple years. 6th Grade: TOG 3 7th Grade: TOG 4 8th Grade: Interest-led and cultural geography. For high school, we'll start the rotation again with Ancients and go more in-depth with on those things DD is most interested in. That's the plan right now, however, who knows what will happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JadeOrchidSong Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Thank you, Kareni! Are the books in the order of time or places? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Thank you, Kareni! Are the books in the order of time or places? Aside from the first three books (which cover larger spans of time), the books are in roughly chronological order. Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 In 8th next year for my boys, I have designed a US history course using Hakim's 10 volume set as a spine and plenty of DVDs and original sources. I think it will be a fun and interesting year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewelma Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 We hope we can visit you in NZ and speak Chinese with your ds. How is his Boya going? My boys are really slow and I am to blame because I hate teaching Chinese. I believe it is the hardest language for reading and writing! It is probably better to switch them to easier Chinese from Singapore Chinese. We're making progress, but you know how it is .... slow. But older is now having his class taught only in Mandarin so that is good. He is still using Boya. I just looked at Singapore Chinese last night, but there is no english in it, so won't work that well over here. I am considering switching my younger into Easy Step in Chinese so he can have more written exercises. It is a mission, but we will persevere! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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