Starting SOTW III

We finally have gotten to start SOTW III!  My student is going to be answering the questions on the quizzes that go along with this volume as a method of review each week.  Here are the books to go along with chapter 1:

Bergen, Lara. The travels of Francisco Pizarro. Austin : Steadwell Books, c2000.   

Blashfield, Jean F. Germany. New York : Children's Press, 2013.   JUST CHAPTER 4!!!!!

   

Clark, Ann Nolan. Secret of the Andes. New York : Viking Press, 1952. 

 

 

   

 

Elbl, Martin. Tales from the Amazon. Milwaukee, Wis. : Penworthy Pub. Co., c1986.

 

Gates, Phil. Terror on the Amazon : the quest for El Dorado. New York : Dorling Kindersley Pub., 2000.

 

Harrison, Michael. Don Quixote. Oxford ;: Oxford, 1995.   Your child might also like to at least read a little from the actual adult version of this!  

 

Haviland, Virginia. Favorite fairy tales told in Spain. Boston : Little, Brown, 1963.

 

Kimmel, Eric A. Don Quixote and the windmills. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.

 

Kimmel, Eric A. The two mountains : an Aztec legend. New York : Holiday House, c2000.

 

 

 

 

Lourie, Peter. Lost treasure of the Inca. Honesdale, Pa. : Boyds Mills Press, c1999.

 

Mathews, Sally Schofer. The Sad Night : the story of an Aztec victory and a Spanish loss. New York : Clarion Books, c1994.

 

Pollard, Michael. The Amazon. New York : Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish, 1998.

 

Treviño, Elizabeth Borton de. I, Juan de Pareja. New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, c1965.

 

Van Laan, Nancy. The legend of El Dorado : a Latin American tale. New York : Knopf, c1991.

 

 

 

 

Wisniewski, David. Rain player. New York : Clarion Books, [c1991]. 

 

I gave my student an activity on pirates and a couple of maps to look over; one included labeling the oceans of the world.

I also asked him to write a short report about what he thought of Don Quixote:

Was he a man of his time, behind the times, or ahead of the times?  Why?

Why do you think readers have loved the story of Don Quixote ever since it was written right down to present day?

What do you think of the length of the original book?  Have you heard the word "quixotic"?  What does it mean?  Do you think that is a good description of Don Quixote?

What are your opinions of Sancho Panza?
 

We are working on his timeline for this year and I AM going to manage to get a picture of it posted THIS year!

 

Books for SOTW III, chapter 2:

Coville, Bruce. Hans Brinker. New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2007.    

Davis, Kevin A. Look what came from the Netherlands. New York : Franklin Watts, c2002.

 

De Jong, Meindert. The wheel on the school. New York, NY : Harper, 1954. 

 

 

 

   

 

Dodge, Mary Mapes. Hans Brinker, or, The silver skates. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, [2002].

 

Heinrichs, Ann. The Netherlands. New York : Children's Press, c2003.

 

Lasky, Kathryn. Mary, Queen of Scots : queen without a country. New York : Scholastic, 2002.

 

Leodhas, Sorche Nic. Always room for one more. New York : Holt, 1965.

  

The Netherlands : enjoy the ride. Peterborough, N.H. : Cobblestone Pub., c2009.

 

Venezia, Mike. Rembrandt. Chicago, IL : Childrens Press, c1988.

 

Woelfle, Gretchen. Katje, the windmill cat. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, c2001.

 

Yolen, Jane. Queen's own fool : a novel of Mary Queen of Scots. New York : Philomel Books, c2000.

 

 

 

Books to go along with chapter 3:

 

Bruchac, Joseph. Pocahontas. Orlando : Harcourt, c2003.

Coleman, Brooke. The colony of Virginia. New York : PowerKids Press, 2000.

 

D'Aulaire, Ingri. Pocahontas. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, c1946.

 

Penner, Lucille Recht. The Thanksgiving book. New York : Hastings House, c1985.

 

 

 

Rosen, Daniel. New beginnings : Jamestown and the Virginia Colony, 1607-1699. Washington, DC : National Geographic, c2005.

 

Sewall, Marcia. James Towne : struggle for survival. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2001.

 

Smith, C. Carter. The Jamestown colony. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Silver Burdett Press, c1991.

 

Williams, Suzanne. Powhatan Indians. Chicago, Ill. : Heinemann Library, c2003.

 

 

 

Books for Chapter 4:  

 

Beattie, Owen. Buried in ice. New York, N.Y. : Scholastic/Madison Press Book, c1992. 

   

Blashfield, Jean F. Cartier : Jacques Cartier in search of the Northwest Passage. Minneapolis, Minn. : Compass Point Books, c2002.

 

Durbin, William. The broken blade. New York, N.Y. : Delacorte Press, 1997.

 

 

Goodman, Joan E. Beyond the sea of ice : the voyages of Henry Hudson. New York : Mikaya Press ;, c1999.

 

Kalman, Bobbie. Canada : the land. New York : Crabtree Pub., c2010.

 

Kalman, Bobbie. Canada : the culture. New York : Crabtree Pub., c2010.

 

Montgomery, L. M. Anne of Green Gables. New York : Sterling Pub., 2004.

 

Olson, Nathan. Canada. Mankato, Minn. : Capstone Press, c2005.

 

Sonneborn, Liz. Samuel de Champlain. New York : Franklin Watts, c2001.

 

 

 

Weaver, Janice. Hudson. Toronto, Ont. ;: Tundra Books, c2010.

 

 

Books for Chapter 5: 

 

Heinrichs, Ann. Japan. New York : Children's Press, 2006.

 

Hoobler, Dorothy. The demon in the teahouse. New York : Philomel Books, c2001.

 

 

Kalman, Bobbie. Japan : the culture. St. Catharines, ON : Crabtree Pub., c2009.

 

Kimmel, Eric A. Sword of the samurai : adventure stories from Japan. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1999.

 

Kimmel, Eric A. Three samurai cats : a story from Japan. New York : Holiday House, 2003.

 

McCarthy, Ralph F. The inch-high samurai. Tokyo ;: Kodansha International, 1993.

 

San Souci, Robert D. The samurai's daughter : a Japanese legend. New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c1992.

 

Schomp, Virginia. Japan in the days of the samurai. New York : Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish, 2002. 

 

 

For my student, I really felt that a lot of these were repeats that we've covered in earlier SOTW volumes (when did they start suggesting the same books over and over again?)  So, I went ahead and had him also listen to SOTW 6 and I gave him book suggestions for it, too:

 

Avi. Finding Providence : the story of Roger Williams. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1997.  

 

 

 

Bulla, Clyde Robert. Squanto, friend of the pilgrims. New York : Crowell, c1954.

 

DePaola, Tomie. An early American Christmas. New York : Holiday House, 1987.

 

George, Jean Craighead. The first Thanksgiving. New York : Philomel Books, 1993.

 

Harness, Cheryl. Three young pilgrims. New York : Bradbury Press ;, c1992.

 

  

Homes in the wilderness : a pilgrim's journal of Plymouth plantation in 1620. Hamden, CT : Linnett Books, 1988, c1939.

 

McGovern, Ann. ... if you sailed on the Mayflower in 1620. New York : Scholastic, 1991, c1969.

 

Penner, Lucille Recht. The pilgrims at Plymouth. New York : Random House, c1996.

 

Sakurai, Gail. The Thirteen Colonies. New York : Children's Press, c2000.

 

 

Sewall, Marcia. The pilgrims of Plimoth. New York : Atheneum, 1986.

 

Waters, Kate. On the Mayflower : voyage of the ship's apprentice & a passenger girl. New York : Scholastic, 1996.

 

Waters, Kate. Sarah Morton's day : a day in the life of a pilgrim girl. New York : Scholastic Inc., 1989.

 

Whitehurst, Susan. William Bradford and Plymouth : a colony grows. New York : Rosen Publishing Group's PowerKids Press, 2002. 

 

   

 

Whitehurst, Susan. A Plymouth partnership : Pilgrims and native Americans. New York : PowerKids Press, 2002

 

 

Next up, SOTW chs. 7 and 8.  Additional books to go along with chapter 7:

Africa : the art & power of Benin. Peterborough, NH : Cobblestone Pub., 2005.    

African kingdoms. New York, NY : Kids Discover, 2010.  

 

Anderson, David A. The origin of life on earth : an African creation myth. Mt. Airy, MD. : Sights Productions, c1991. 

 

Bial, Raymond. The strength of these arms : life in the slave quarters. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1997. 

 

   

 

Chambers, Veronica. Amistad rising : a story of freedom. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1998.

 

Feelings, Tom. The middle passage : white ships/black cargo. New York : Dial Books, 1995.

 

Grifalconi, Ann. The village that vanished. New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2002.

 

McKissack, Pat. Nzingha, warrior queen of Matamba. New York : Scholastic, 2000.

 

Musgrove, Margaret. Ashanti to Zulu : African traditions. New York : Dial Press, c1976.

 

 

 

 

 

Olaleye, Isaac. In the Rainfield : who is the greatest?. New York : Blue Sky Press, c2000.

 

Peffer-Engels, John. The Benin Kingdom of West Africa. New York : PowerKids Press, 1996.

 

Price, Christine. Talking drums of Africa. New York : Scribner, c1973.

 

Siegelson, Kim L. In the time of the drums. New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, c1999.

  

The Yoruba of West Africa. Peterborough, NH : Cobblestone Pub., 1998. 

 

 

For chapter 8:

 

Doak, Robin S. Iran. Minneapolis, Minn. : Compass Point Books, c2004.  

 

Fast, April. Iraq : the land. New York : Crabtree, c2010.

 

Gaag, Nikki van der. Baghdad. Milwaukee, WI : World Almanac Library, 2006.

 

Macaulay, David. Mosque. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2003.

 

 

 

 

 

Osborne, Mary Pope. Season of the sandstorms. New York : Random House, c2005.

 

Shields, Sarah. Turkey. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2009.

 

Taus-Bolstad, Stacy. Iran in pictures. Minneapolis, MN : Lerner Publications, 2004.

 

Thompson, Lauren. One riddle, one answer. New York : Scholastic Press, c2001.

 

Walker, Barbara K. A treasury of Turkish folktales for children. Hamden, Conn. : Linnet Books, c1988. 

 

 

For Christmas break, I gave my student SOTW chs. 9 and 10  to cover and we will cover those when he returns in January.

Books for Ch. 9:

Browning, Robert. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, (1971).    

Gray, Shirley W. Germany. Minneapolis, Minn. : Compass Point Books, c2002.

 

Hodges, Margaret. The hero of Bremen. New York : Holiday House, c1993.

 

Lane, Kathryn. Germany : the people. New York : Crabtree Pub., c2001.  

 

 

Rabe, Monica. Sweden. Milwaukee : Gareth Stevens Pub., 1998.

  

The complete fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. New York : Bantam Books, 2003. (Can't tell from new catalog how illustrated this one is, so your student may just prefer the few single stories I put on the list, rather than this compendium....)   

 

Wallis, Diz. Battle of the beasts. Brooklyn, N.Y. : Ragged Bears, c2000.

 

Wolkstein, Diane. The glass mountain. New York : Morrow Junior Books, 1999.

 

Zelinsky, Paul O. Rapunzel. New York : Dutton Children's Books, c1997.

 

Zobel, Derek. Denmark. Minneapolis, MN : Bellwether Media, 2011.

 

If your student is going to read the shorter picture books of fairy tales, rather than any of the non-fiction books, they really should read any authors' notes at the beginning and end of the books which talk about where these stories come from so that they have a fuller picture of their import....

 

Books for Ch. 10:

 

Kalman, Bobbie. China : the land. New York : Crabtree, c2008

 

Beshore, George. Science in ancient China. New York : F. Watts, c1988.  (While this book mainly covers a lot about very ancient science, it also covers early modern agriculture and this is the section of the book your student should read.)

 

   

Blumberg, Rhoda. Shipwrecked! : the true adventures of a Japanese boy. New York : HarperCollins, c2001.   

   

Davol, Marguerite W. The paper dragon. New York, N.Y. : Athenuem Books For Young Readers, c1997.   

  

Demi. Liang and the magic paintbrush. New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, c1980.

 

Kalman, Bobbie. Japan : the culture. St. Catharines, ON : Crabtree Pub., c2009.

 

Kimmel, Eric A. Ten suns : a Chinese legend. New York : Holiday House, 1998.

 

Ray, Deborah Kogan. Hokusai : the man who painted a mountain. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2001. 

 

   

 

Simonds, Nina. Moonbeams, dumplings & dragon boats : a treasury of Chinese holiday tales, activities & recipes. San Diego : Harcourt, Inc., 2002.

 

Snyder, Dianne. The boy of the three-year nap. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1988.

 

Zhang, Song Nan. The children of China : an artist's journey. Montreal, Quebec ;: Tundra Books, c1995.

 

 

At least we've made a dent in SOTW III this year, lol!  I thought we'd never get into it....

 

Regena

 

 

 

 

 

Wrapping up SOTW II, FINALLY!

At last!  We are finally wrapping up our book from last year so that we can get started on SOTW III.  I certainly hope our winter is not as bad this year!  With our late start and already being behind we will never get finished!

We are currently looking at the last topic in SOTW II:  England and Spain at War, ch. 42 (I think).  This means we get to finally start getting into PIRATES!  Hooray! 


Further reading for the time period:

Adkins, Jan. What if you met a pirate? : an historical voyage of seafaring speculation. Brookfield, Conn. Roaring BrookPress, 2004. 



Gallagher, Jim. Sir Francis Drake and the foundation of a world empire. Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2000.  

 

Humble, Richard. A 16th century galleon. New York : P. Bedrick Books, 1995. 

 

 

  

Hynson, Colin. Elizabeth I & the Spanish Armada. Columbus, Ohio : School Specialty Pub., 2006. 

   

Malam, John. You wouldn't want to be a pirate's prisoner! : horrible things you'd rather not know.   New York : Franklin Watts, 2002.  

 

Marrin, Albert. The sea king : Sir Francis Drake and his times. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1995.   My boys love Marrin's books!

 

   

Marrin, Albert. Terror of the Spanish Main : Sir Henry Morgan and his buccaneers. New York : Dutton, 1999. 

   

Matthews, John. Pirates. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2006. 

  

(An interactive book with pop-ups, pull-outs, documents to look at, etc.)

 

Maynard, Christopher. Pirates! raiders of the high seas. New York, N.Y. : DK Pub., 1998. 

   

Mortimer, Ian. The time traveler's guide to Elizabethan England [compact disc/unabridged]. Prince Frederick, MD : p2013. 15 sound discs (17 hr., 45 min.) These are gauged as "adult" but give good accounts of daily life in England at this time period if you might be interested in listening to or reading some of it.... 

 

OR

 

Mortimer, Ian. The time traveler's guide to Elizabethan England.

              

Netzley, Patricia D. Pirates. San Diego, CA : Kidhaven Press, c2002.

        

Real pirates outlaws of the sea. [DVD] :. Visual Materials. Distributed by Questar, 2006.   Some of the pirate related books will cover pirates from all ages and especially the golden age, but we are more interested in the sixteenth century ones right now....

   

Stanley, Diane. Good Queen Bess : the story of Elizabeth I of England. New York : Four Winds Press, c1990.  (if not already read)

 

I also asked my student to practice writing backwards, as Leonardo did; I have a little pocket we can tuck that writing into on his timeline (you might try writing with your non-dominant hand, too; try writing in some sort of code, etc.)

 

I also asked him to tell me who his favorite pirate was of the 1500's and why....

 

Regena

Exploration of the New World

Our next area of study has involved exploration and settlement of the new world.  My student listened to chapter 40.

Additional readings:

 

Armstrong, Alan W. Raleigh's page. New York : Random House, c2007.

 

Coleman, Brooke. Roanoke : the lost colony. New York : PowerKids Press, 2000.

 

 

Fritz, Jean. The Lost Colony of Roanoke. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2004.

 

 

Kent, Zachary. The mysterious disappearance of Roanoke Colony in American history. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c2004.

 

Korman, Susan. Sir Walter Raleigh : English explorer and author. Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2001.

 

 

Miller, Lee. Roanoke : the mystery of the Lost Colony. New York : Scholastic Nonfiction, c2007.

 

Mortimer, Ian. The time traveler's guide to Elizabethan England.

I asked him to write a little report for me about Elizabeth.  What made her such a famous monarch?  How was she different from other monarchs of her time?  How did she succeed in making England rich and famous?  What were some of her greatest mistakes?  her greatest challenges?

Here's a notebooking form that can be used for this:

http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/elizabeth_i_notebooking_page_2.pdf

 

and here is a copywork page related to Macbeth:

 

http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/macbeth_copywork_manuscript.pdf

 

Here are some common phrases coined by Shakespeare, many of which we still use today.  You might like to take a look at these:

 

http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/common_phrases_and_sayings_shakespeare_0.pdf

 

In looking at Roanoke and its aftermath, you might like to read some from this page about peoples known as Melungeons and how that grouping came about....

 

http://whatisamelungeon.webs.com/

 

We spent a couple of weeks on this topic.

 

Next, I had him listen to SOTW ch. 41 (two weeks).

Additional reading:

Blashfield, Jean F. Cartier : Jacques Cartier in search of the Northwest Passage. Minneapolis, Minn. : Compass Point Books, c2002. 

 

 

Doherty, Craig A. The Huron. Vero Beach, Fla. : Rourke Publications, 1994. 

   

Donaldson-Forbes, Jeff. Jacques Cartier. New York : PowerKids Press, 2002. 

   

Eagen, Rachel. Newfoundland and Labrador. Toronto ;: Scholastic Canada, 2009. 

   

Heinz, Brian J. The wolves. New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 1996.

 

   

Martin, Rafe. The rough-face girl. New York : Putnam, 1992.

    

Newfoundland and Labrador. Peterborough, NH : Cobblestone Pub., 2004. 

   

Shields, Charles J. John Cabot and the rediscovery of North America. Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, 2002. 

We have, of course, been working through the maps that accompany SOTW (adding to them), as well as some of the other activities (he is not interested in coloring).  We are also working on getting his timeline started for this year!  I will really, REALLY try, this year, to get some pics of that!

Regena

Elizabethan England and Shakespeare

For our next study, I asked my student to listen to SOTW chs. 38 and 39, related to Queen Elizabeth and Shakespeare.

Additional reading:

Aliki. William Shakespeare & the Globe. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1999. 



Chrisp, Peter. Welcome to the globe! : the story of Shakespeare's theater. New York : Dorling Kindersley Pub., c2000. 

 

  

Ganeri, Anita. The young person's guide to Shakespeare : with performances on CD by the Royal Shakespeare Company. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1999. 

   

Greenblatt, Miriam. Elizabeth I and Tudor England. New York : Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish, 2002. 

   

Morley, Jacqueline. Shakespeare's theater. New York : P. Bedrick Books, 1994. 

 

  

Shakespeare, William. A midsummer night's dream. New York, NY : SparkNotes, c2003. 

   

Shakespeare, William. Something rich and strange : a treasury of Shakespeare's verse. New York : Kingfisher, 1995.

 

    

Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. New York, NY : Spark Pub., c2003. 

   

Stanley, Diane. Bard of Avon : the story of William Shakespeare. New York : Morrow Junior Books, 1992. 

 

  

Stanley, Diane. Good Queen Bess : the story of Elizabeth I of England. New York : Four Winds Press, c1990. 

 

  

Williams, Marcia. Bravo, Mr. William Shakespeare!. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, c2000.

Phrases still used today first coined by Shakespeare:

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/phrases-sayings-shakespeare.html

Shakespearean insults:

http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/

(Be ready to throw a few at me....)

Shakespeare's words:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMkuUADWW2A

Video Sparknotes: Macbeth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzAujyWpK_s

...and there are many more options for summaries, hearing audio, etc....



Regena

Beginning of 2014 School Year

We didn't start this year until after Labor Day, and began the year with a review of our last topical area from last year:  The Renaissance and Reformation.

I asked my student to review SOTW chs. 36 and 37, which cover those topics.

Additional books regarding Renaissance artists/scientists:

Andronik, Catherine M. Copernicus : founder of modern astronomy. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c2002. 

 

  

Anholt, Laurence. Leonardo and the flying boy : a story about Leonardo da Vinci. Hauppauge, N.Y. : Barron's, 2000. (simple, but perhaps fun....)

   

Burch, Joann Johansen. Fine print : a story about Johann Gutenberg. Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, c1991. 

 

  

Connolly, Sean. Leonardo da Vinci. Des Plaines, Ill. : Heinemann Library, c2000. 

   

Fritz, Jean. Leonardo's horse. New York : Putnam's, c2001. 

 

  

Hightower, Paul. Galileo : astronomer and physicist. Springfield, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c1997.

    

Macdonald, Wendy. Galileo's leaning tower experiment : a science adventure. Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, c2009. 

   

Mayhew, James. Katie and the Mona Lisa. New York : Orchard Books, 1999. (simple, but perhaps fun....)

 

  

Mitton, Jacqueline. Galileo : scientist and stargazer. Oxford ;: Oxford University Press, 1997. 

   

Mühlberger, Richard. What makes a Rembrandt a Rembrandt?. New York : Viking, 1993. 

   

Richmond, Robin. Introducing Michelangelo. Boston : Little, Brown, 1992. 

   

Sís, Peter. Starry messenger : a book depicting the life of a famous scientist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, physicist, Galileo Galilei. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996.

 

   

Stanley, Diane. Leonardo da Vinci. New York : Morrow Junior Books, 1996. 

   

Stanley, Diane. Michelangelo. New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, c2000. 

 

  

Visconti, Guido. The genius of Leonardo. New York : Barefoot Books, c2000.

 

 

I reviewed a little from the end of the year last year, and gave my student a Mayan excavation kit left over from my days of homeschooling with my boys.  I don't see anything like it online at the moment, but I think I have seen similar kits at places such as Hobby Lobby.  Here are a couple of kits I do see that are related:

 

 

 

Rainbow Resource Center actually has a bunch of these!

 

http://www.rainbowresource.com/prodlist.php?subject=14&category=4259

 

I also gave him a Da Vinci Kit:

 

 

He built the model that was included in it and we are going to use the timeline to add to his timeline for the year.

 

There are many kits of models of various inventions of da Vinci that may be purchased from various sources.  I see that RRC carries this one, as well: 

 

http://www.rainbowresource.com/searchspring.php?q=da+vinci+kit

 

Sometimes Barnes and Noble or even Half Price Books will have such kits for a great price!  I think that I never paid more than $10 for any of mine and we used them for years!

 

Regena