Ohio12 Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 I used to be on this board all the time when my kids were little! I homeschooled allllll the way through and we are almost done! I am now preparing to take a little group of middle schoolers through SOTW Ancients and I am looking for help like a newbie again. Where is the best place to go to find the latest supplements that go with SOTW? I am specifically looking for youtube or Kahn academy or literature supplement ideas. Things that will enrich the curriculum and ensure it is enough for middle grades. My SOTW activity guide is 12 years old. Is there a thread on here for sharing ideas or a different forum where people are doing this? thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeAgain Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 This may or may not help, but our plan for our next go around is this: Ancients:Investigating World HistoryReading Like A Historian And many of the books on Sonlight's list, just because we have them already. We found some pretty good documentaries on Netflix and Amazon Prime, so we'll use those instead of searching for others. I do plan on reinforcing with our history encyclopedia and using that to practice outlining and writing narrations, which will evolve to papers using multiple sources at the end of the year. One of our more important books will be Teaching What Really Happened:Avoiding The Tyranny Of Textbooks. Actually, that's more for me, but I want to focus on HOW we examine evidence and draw conclusions, and how to ask the silent questions when looking at a text. What was omitted? What point of view is this? What other documents/evidence from that time support or negate this point of view? When was this written? We're secular, but in middle school I make my kids read a chronological study bible. I want them to be literate about a dominate culture in the U.S., and I want them to be able to put stories in context. Ours does both, with historical notes on each page about the region and people. By high school I want them to be able to use more of that information to understand how the people thought and why their cultures were the way they were. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 Welcome back! And how generous of you to lead a co-op class. : ) Not that you asked for any opinions, but I'll toss out this unsolicited thought anyways (lol): while I think SOTW vol. 4, and possibly vol. 3, would work for middle schoolers, vol. 1 and 2 are extremely young in tone and content (written for the average early elementary gr. 1-4 age range), so you may want to do something else as the "spine" for Ancients for middle schoolers. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 20 minutes ago, Lori D. said: Welcome back! And how generous of you to lead a co-op class. : ) Not that you asked for any opinions, but I'll toss out this unsolicited thought anyways (lol): while I think SOTW vol. 4, and possibly vol. 3, would work for middle schoolers, vol. 1 and 2 are extremely young in tone and content (written for the average early elementary gr. 1-4 age range), so you may want to do something else as the "spine" for Ancients for middle schoolers. Agreeing here, and I would add that I also think that 3 and 4 are too young for middle schoolers. I'd take a look at the Human Odyssey series. Here are links to HO1, HO2, and HO3. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 (edited) Here are past threads that might help with lining up materials and resources (I'm still looking for other threads for you):"8th Grade Ancients Spine" "Biblioplan, TOG, Wayfarers, Mystery of History or other for ancients?" And here are some websites with lists of movies/videos to go with History studies:- Nest Videos (Christian company; animated biographies of famous people -- check the library)- Susan Wise-Bauer Blog: Story of the World video links: vol. 1 (Ancients); vol 2 (Middle Ages); vol. 3 (early Modern); vol. 4 (Modern)- Drive Through History: Holy Land; Ancients; American Hisory (family friendly educational videos -- check the library)- Schlessinger Media videos (US and World History; educational videos for different grade levels -- check the library)- Guest Hollow (elementary through high school -- books & movies to go with History)- World History Movies (many family-friendly titles) Also, possibly look at a one of the other chronological history curricula providers for book list ideas, or possibly a different spine with middle-school activities:BiblioplanMystery of HistoryWayfarersTapestry of GraceTruth QuestTrismsPandia Press: History Odyssey (which is different from the K-12 Human Odyssey mentioned above) Edited February 25, 2019 by Lori D. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenecho Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 I blogged about our first 13 chapters (what books, activities, videos we used...plus added links to some other activities and stuff we didn't use), and also made a more sparse chart of what we did for the Myceneans and Greeks (which I combined with science). While my kids were younger (most of the books will be for littler kids) a lot of the activities and most of the videos would work for middle schoolers too (especially those we did with our co-op, which had little kids through highschoolers in the group). Chap 3, 4 (mummies), and 11-13 I think had activities/resources that would work well for middle schoolers. http://imaginativehomeschool.blogspot.com/2016/09/story-of-world-our-lessons-plans.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momto6inIN Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 My 5th grader is listening along to SOTW Ancients with my 1st grader, and it's way too easy for her if that was her only spine, even with supplements. She is loving reading K12's Human Odyssey on her own and that would make a great spine for middle school. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohio12 Posted February 25, 2019 Author Share Posted February 25, 2019 Thank you for putting these together for me Lori. D.! On 2/23/2019 at 1:40 PM, Lori D. said: Here are past threads that might help with lining up materials and resources (I'm still looking for other threads for you):"8th Grade Ancients Spine" "Biblioplan, TOG, Wayfarers, Mystery of History or other for ancients?" And here are some websites with lists of movies/videos to go with History studies:- Nest Videos (Christian company; animated biographies of famous people -- check the library)- Susan Wise-Bauer Blog: Story of the World video links: vol. 1 (Ancients); vol 2 (Middle Ages); vol. 3 (early Modern); vol. 4 (Modern)- Drive Through History: Holy Land; Ancients; American Hisory (family friendly educational videos -- check the library)- Schlessinger Media videos (US and World History; educational videos for different grade levels -- check the library)- Guest Hollow (elementary through high school -- books & movies to go with History)- World History Movies (many family-friendly titles) Also, possibly look at a one of the other chronological history curricula providers for book list ideas, or possibly a different spine with middle-school activities:BiblioplanMystery of HistoryWayfarersTapestry of GraceTruth QuestTrismsPandia Press: History Odyssey (which is different from the K-12 Human Odyssey mentioned above) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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