serendipitous journey Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 Since the designers of Ursa Minor (a new, free, STEM-y and non-faith-based Charlotte Mason curriculum) have a lot going on this summer, and haven't been able to make schedules yet, I thought we could share schedules that we design/use. Out of respect for Ursa Minor's ownership of their content, I'd ask for any shared schedules to be only used in one's own homeschool and not distributed to others -- we can just refer people to the post or thread that's relevant, or to the Ursa Minor site itself. And if we use Ursa Minor links to Amazon pages it will help them financially; any links on my schedules will use the URLs from Ursa Minor's links. Here is my tentative term schedule for Ursa Minor Year 7 with minimal commentary. I myself am planning on a few substitutions but this is based on the original plan. Am happy to have (and grateful for) feedback. T1 means Term 1, or about 12 weeks of school, and so on for Term 2 and Term 3. NOTE: several components are not listed here: memory work, geography drills, Book of Centuries, foreign languages, and so on. National and World History T1 - T3: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus T1: A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC (Blackwell History of the Ancient World) T2: Early China: A Social and Cultural History (New Approaches to Asian History) T3: The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity (CONTENT WARNING: This book has too much explicit violence for my child at this age. Preview carefully.) Government, Economics, Philosophy and Religion T1: Plutarch (Aristides) T1: Code of Hammurabi (NOTE: this is pretty short. You might want to spread another term's reading into this space.) T2: Plutarch (Cato the Elder) T2: What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy T3: Marcus Aurelius' Meditations T3: Native North America Literature T1: Gilgamesh (Selections. No link given. We're probably using Stephen Mitchell's translation.) T2: Tun-Huang T3: Watership Down Shakespeare T1: The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library) T2: As You Like It (Folger Shakespeare Library) T3: The Comedy of Errors (Folger Shakespeare Library) Poetry T1: The Dream Keeper and Other Poems (Langston Hughes) T2 - T3: The Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson Grammar and Composition: very rough schedule based on MCT implemention guide. T1: Grammar of Literature (T1 - T3: 4 Practice for Literature is a component of grammar not specified by Ursa Minor, which may or may not be a deliberate omission. You would begin it after the student completes Grammar of Literature and distribute across the remaining weeks of school.) T1 - T2: Vocabulary of Literature (start mid-term of Term 1?) T1 - T3, beginning after the student completes Grammar of Literature: Writing of Literature. Science and Geography T1 - T3: 1/3 Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding for the Middle Grades (you may wish to try for 1/2 the book if you didn't begin in Year 6) T1 - T3: Science Matters T1 - T3: Charting the World: Geography and Maps from Cave Paintings to GPS with 21 Activities T1: The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution T2: Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History T3: The Voyage of the Beagle: The Illustrated Edition of Charles Darwin's Travel Memoir and Field Journal Logic T1 - T3: The Critical Thinking Building Thinking Skills Level 3 Verbal Art and Music Study: see https://ursaminorlearning.com/artist-rotation/ and Composer Study for specific works T1 - T3: Explorers’ Sketchbooks: The Art of Discovery & Adventure by Lewis Jones T1 - T3: Artistic Pursuits, Middle School Book 2 2018/2019 Artist and Composer Study (individual art and music pieces) T1 artist: Caravaggio T1 composer: Scarlatti T2 artist: Van Gogh T2 composer: Blind Lemon Jefferson T3 artist: Kandinsky T3 composer: Andalusi Nubah Handwork/Skills (find project suggestions here) Take a course in first aid and CPR and consider child/infant CPR as well. Look for classes from the Red Cross, YMCA, community centers, etc. T1: Weaving/Basket Making T2: Computer Hardware T3: Baking 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa B Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 Did you see their math expansion suggestions under subject sequences? I'm thinking of using a few subjects out of Ursa Minor, not the whole curriculum. I plan to look into the math expansion suggestions and a few others this week or next. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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