Last Week of SOTW3 Logic Stage History Ch 38 and 42

The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 3: Early Modern Times by Susan Wise Bauer wasn't meant to be used primarily in this Logic (Dialectic) stage. Maybe it was just a way to organize our year.  And it worked.  So, I'm thrilled. Thrilled :-)  We practiced outlining and narrations that coincide with a classical education.  We've read many historical fiction AND non-fiction that followed along with the table of contents in this spine.  It's finished, and we have grown a year older and wiser in the process.  We very much enjoy Jim Weiss's recordings as well as meeting him at the Cincinnati Great Homeschool Convention (4/2014).  

We'll continue to use Story of the World for the last year of our Logic stage history studies.  That, however, is 2 months away, and we aren't there yet.  Enjoying our summer is the next big assignment!

SLIDE CREDITS TO G2

MEXICO AND TEXAS SOTW3CH35and40

SOTW3CH 35, begins on page 329, entitled Mexican Independence with sections about The Cry of Dolores and the struggle for The Republic of Mexico.  Mainly about Mexico 1810 between 1822.  We UPDATEd OUR MAPS FROM GRAMMAR STAGE IN BINDERS & ADDed AN ALAMO PAGE.

We INVESTed IN A BOOK:

Into Mexico with General Scott - Edwin Sabin

Book of Border Battles - Edwin Sabin Brave Hearts in the Alamo, Victory at San Jacinto, Face to Face with Mexico

Historical Tales - American II - Charles Morris Heroes of the Alamo, How Houston Won Freedom for Texas

? Historical Tales - Spanish American - Charles Morris

From Empire to Republic, The Beginning of the Struggle for Independence, The Continuance of the Struggle...

And we OUTLINEd

SOTW3CH 40, begins on page 367, about Mexico and Her Neighbor with a section about Remember the Alamo and was accompanied by a reading in Guerber's Story of the Great Republic: Ch. XXVI  The Mexican War, 1836 along with Copeland, The Story of the Alamo, Dover Coloring Book page.  

The Mexican-American War was a section with all kinds of excitement, and was accompanied with a reading from Guerber's Story of the Great Republic: Ch. XXVII  The Slavery Quarrel 1846-1848.

The accompanying KHE pages are  Pg. 342; Texas and Mexico 1835-1848, KHE pages:  Pgs. 330-331; The Arts 1708-1835. Pgs. 332-333; Architecture 1708-1835. Pgs. 334-335; Science and Technology 1708-1835. Pgs. 337-339; The World at a Glance 1836-1913.

The most exciting part of these 2 chapters was G3's reading about General Scott. He loved the Sabin book.  G2 was thrilled to make the Alamo in a Minecraft format.  

SOTW3 References to the Dark Continent

• SOTW3CH 36, begins on page 337, The Slave Trade Ends, The Work of the Abolitionists
• Comments on Underground Railroad Museum in CVG (w/ pictures) and the Wilberforce movie we watched (Amazing Grace).
• SOTW3CH 37, begins on page 343, Troubled Africa The Zulu Kingdom
• KHE pages:  Pgs. 308-309; Africa 1700-1830
• KHE pages:  Pgs. 272-273; African States 1550-1700

INVEST IN A BOOK THIS WEEK (Choose and report on one)

Stories from Uncle Tom's Cabin - H. E. Marshall (beginner book on kindle)

The Story of Livingstone - Vautier Golding (beginner level book on kindle about a Scotsman)

The Story of H. M. Stanley by Vautier Golding

Stories of the Gorilla Country - Paul du Chaillu (intermediate level kindle book w/ stories of hippos)

Up from Slavery - Booker T. Washington (intermediate book on kindle, read early chapters & review)

Oom Paul's People - Howard Hillegas (advanced level period kindle book w/ chapter 2 about Boers)

[BONUS:  MS OFFICE POWER POINT SKILLS PRACTICE]

SOTW3 Ch 30 and 34 Topics from Latin America

We combined chapter 30, which begins on page 283, about Freedom in the Caribbean, The Haitian Revolt and chapter 34, begins on page 319, about Freedom for South America, Simon Bolivar: The Liberator and Freedom, But Not Unity.  

We read from Mr. Haaren's book about Kosciusko, Mr. Bachman's Great Inventors and Their Inventions Mr. Bell, Mrs. Guerber's Story of the Great Republic about Haiti and More Land Bought along with  Jackson Stories, and Mrs. Synge's Struggle for Sea Power about The Adventures of Baron Humboldt, The Shannon and the Chesapeake.  We didn't get to My Name is Not Angelica by Scott O'Dell Dutch Caribbean island slave revolt this time.  But explored the websites https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/crash-course1/crash-course-world-history/you-aint-the-boss-of-me/v/crash-course-world-history-30 and https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/crash-course1/crash-course-world-history/you-aint-the-boss-of-me/v/crash-course-world-history-31.

The Tapestry Of Grace unit about a re-written Frankenstein story (not Mary Shelley's) was very much pursued by all 3Gs.  The questions were easy to discuss in a small group last week as each student clearly felt that Dr. Frankenstein was wrong and a very sad person.  I'd never read the book, but seen a version of the story in a movie a very long time ago. I"m so proud of my kids for reading this and being clear about their views.

SOTW3Ch32 Lewis and Clark

• All Read Janet Benge, Geoff Benge.  Meriwether Lewis: Off the Edge of the Map, YWAM Pub, 2001. Off the Edge of the Map, A Fearless Young Man, Looking for Adventure, Terra Incognita AND EVERYONE WINS BECAUSE WE LIKED THIS BOOK! WHY? It has many pieces of dialogue, and we've visited some of the places that are discussed in the book. 

http://lewis-clark.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfoQBTPY7gk Schoolhouse rock Elbow ROom
The Opened West (http://www.lapbooklessons.com/OregonTrailLapbook.html)

SOTW3CHChapter 32, begins on page 297  

Lewis and Clark Map the West

Haaren – William Ewart Gladstone

Bachman, Great Inventors and Their Inventions:  Guglielmo Marconi

Trails of the Pathfinders. By G. B. Grinnell

The Louisiana Purchase by Robert Tallant , The War of 1812 by Richard B. Morris , The Great Little Madison by Jean Fritz bio-president during War of 1812 , Pirate Lafitte & the Battle of New Orleans by Rbt. Tallant War of 1812, The Lively Lady by Kenneth. The Incredible Journey of Lewis & Clark by Rhonda Blumberg , Naya Nuki by Kenneth Thomasma. Sacajawea’s friend captured with her ,

Zebulon Pike, Soldier & Explorer by Leonard Wibberley explored southwest 1806, Bold Journey: West with Lewis & Clark by Charl  So much good reading about this time period. We were able to do 3 books.

Tecumseh's Resistance

 How has the world transformed? Review the National Geographic Map inserted into the green book

Haaren - Count Von Bismarck

Bachman, Great Inventors and Their Inventions:  John P. Holland

Guerber Story of the Great Republic: Ch. XIV  The Gerrymander, 1809

SOTW3Ch31 The Changing World of Factories VS Jefferson Ideals

In all this reading, we learned that Jefferson didn't like what was happening in Europe during the Industrial Revolution. He abhorred what it did to the people and to the earth.  As we prepared for the readings on Lewis and Clark during SOTW3CH32, we saw the disconnect that existed in the US government between those who wanted to grow the economy with industry versus those who wanted to grow the country with more land and natural resources.
Read TOG Week 4 General Information for all Grades "Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase" p.11
TOG Week 4 Dialectic Level History Accountability Questions #1-4 & Thinking Questions 1-2 p16

SOTW3CH31, begins on page 289

A Different Kind of Rebellion

The World of the Factories

Bachman,  Great Inventors and Their Inventions:  Thomas A. Edison

The Luddites

•  Bachman, Great Inventors and Their Inventions:  Orville and Wilbur Wright
• Guerber Story of the Great Republic: Ch. XXII  New Inventions, Ch. XXIII  Whitman’s Ride, Ch. XXIV  The Mormons, 1831
•  War Inventions and How they Were Invented   by Charles Gibson
•  Listen on your kindle called With Lewis and Clark by Edwin Sabin. (ALL THREE WIN!!!)
• Scott O’Dell, Streams to the River, River to the Sea about Sacagawea.  G2 Wins this one! She read the whole book and entered it on Goodreads. 
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• CHESTER COMIX CROSSWORD PUZZLE, LEWIS and CLARK
• (the Chester Comix website has so many helps for teaching)
• Usborne pages:  Pgs. 340-341; Life in the New Towns
• KHE pages:  Pgs. 340-341; Industrial Revolution 1836-1913
• KHE pages:  Pg. 327; Unrest in Britain 1811-1832

SOTW3 CH29 AND 33 ALL THINGS NAPOLEON

SOTW3CH29, begins on page 275

THE RISE OF BONAPARTE

Napoleon Comes to Power

Synge Struggle for Sea Power:  Napoleon Bonaparte, Horatio Nelson
Haaren - Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon & the Napoleonic Wars by Albert Marrin
(Hillyer) Children’s History of the World:  Ch73
Guerber Story of the Great Republic:  Ch. X  The United States Buys Land (1803)
Synge, Great Englishmen, Horatio Nelson
Henty. At Aboukir and Acre I read this and decided to pass for kids reading b/c it didn't focus on the French as much as it did a British kid and native Egyptians.

Jakob Walter, The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier. [TRYING OUT THE TAPESTRY OF GRACE DIALECTIC TRACK]

Eugenie Foa.  The Boy Life of Napoleon / Afterwards

 

http://www.heritage-history.com/www/heritage.php?Dir=pseudochar&Person=napoleon&FileName=napoleon

The Emperor Napoleon

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/history/1600s-1800s/french-revolution-tutorial/v/french-revolution--part-4----the-rise-of-napoleon-bonaparte
Haaren - Horatio Nelson
https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/crash-course1/crash-course-world-history/you-aint-the-boss-of-me/v/crash-course-world-history-29
Usborne pages:  Pgs. 334-335; The Empire of Napoleon
KHE pages:  Pgs. 320-321; The Napoleonic War 1797-1815

SOTW3CH33, begins on page 309

The End of Napoleon

Napoleon's Wars (And 1812, Too)

Synge Struggle for Sea Power:  The Beginning of the Struggle British Admiral Duncan defeated the Dutch in their own port. The Battle of the Nile, Copenhagen, Napoleon, Emperor of the French, The Battle of Trafalgar, The Death of Nelson, A Second Charlemagne, The Rise of Wellington

Guerber Story of the Great Republic: Ch. XV  The War of 1812, 1812

http://www.heritage-history.com/www/heritage.php?Dir=pseudochar&Person=napoleon&FileName=napoleon

Waterloo!

In Belgium a year ago this month.

Synge Struggle for Sea Power:
The Defense of Saragoza, Sir John Moore at Coruna, The Victory of Talavera, The Peasant Hero of Tyrol, The Empire at its Height, Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow, Wellington's Victories in Spain, Spain for the Spaniards, The Fall of the Empire, The Congress

One Of The 28th - a Tale of Waterloo. http://librivox.org/one-of-the-28th-a-tale-of-waterloo-by-g-a-henty/

Guerber Story of the Great Republic: Ch. XVI  “Don’t Give Up the Ship”  1815, Ch. XVII  The Star-Spangled Banner, Ch. XVIII  Clinton’s “Big Ditch” (1825)

SOTW3CH28and39 China 19th Century

SOTW3CHChapter 28, begins on page 267

CHINA AND THE REST OF THE WORLD

The Kingdom at the Center of the World

Bachman,  Great Inventors and Their Inventions:  Elias Howe & the Invention of the Sewing Machine

Guerber Story of the Great Republic:  Ch. VIII  A New President, China, 1735-1796

1796 Chi’en-lung of China abdicates in favor of this son (define abdicate!) (Who is his son? Why his son?)

                              An imperial edict forbids importing opium to China (Did it work?)

The Rise of the Opium Trade

Bachman,  Great Inventors and Their Inventions:  Cyrus H. McCormick and the Invention of the Reaper

Guerber Story of the Great Republic:  Ch. IX  Death of Washington, China

Grace Lin.  Where the Mountain Meets the Moon.  READ-NO REPORT

CH. 28. Confucius: The Golden Rule (book), http://www.amazon.co...The Golden Rule

CH. 28. The Greatest Power (Demi, book), http://www.amazon.co...test Power demi

SOTW3CHChapter 39, begins on page 361

CHINA ADRIFT

The First Opium War

1839 The First Opium War begins

1842 The First Opium War ends with the Treaty of Nanjing

Mara L. Pratt.  American History Stories, Volume III.  Kindle version, chapters

The Administration of James Madison , Dolly Madison , The War of 1812 , Hull's Surrender of Detroit , The American Army of Two , The Constitution and the Guerriere , Old Ironsides , The Wasp and the Frolic , The Lost War Sloop , "Don't Give Up the Ship" , The Friendly Foes , A Young Hero , A Lucky Shot , An Adventure of the Ship President , A Story of Sackett's Harbor , A Story of Stonington , Commodore Perry , "Remember the River Raisin" , Our Capital Taken by the English , The End of the War.

Usborne pages:  Pgs. 354-355; Changes in China

KHE pages:  Pgs. 344-345; The Opium Wars 1830-1864

SOTW3CH27 What Engineering Minds Want to Know about History

SOTW3CH 27, begins on page 259

A Changing World

Steam and Coal in Britain

·         READ & SUMMARIZE in Goodreads:  Howard, Ellen.,  The gate in the wall (Not a door - mind you)

·         Synge Struggle for Sea Power:  Story of the Steam-Engine

·         Bachman, Great Inventors and Their Inventions:  The Invention of the Spinning Machines

·         Builders of Our Country II.  Chapters about Howe and Whitney.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/0/22301464

Cotton and Guns in America

·         Bachman, Great Inventors and Their Inventions:  Eli Whitney & the Invention of the Cotton Gin

·         Guerber Story of the Great Republic:  Ch. VII  A Wonderful Invention, 1797

·         CH. 27, Schlessinger Media has a DVD James Watt and also Eli Whitney (Inventors of the World)

·        
Continue memorizing US Presidents and making notes about each president in order that they become special and memorable. (I'm up to #14)

·         https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/crash-course1/crash-course-world-history/you-aint-the-boss-of-me/v/crash-course-world-history-32

Usborne pages:  Pgs. 338-339; The Industrial Revolution

KHE pages:  Pgs. 296-297; Industry:  Early Revolution 1708-1815

SOTW3 Ch26 Let's Look at Catherine of Russia

SOTW3CH26, begins on page 249

Catherine the Great

Princess Catherine Comes to Russia

Bachman, Great Inventors and Their Inventions:  George Stephenson and Invention of the Locomotive
The Baldwin Project image: www.mainlesson.com 

Russia. 1774-1775
1700, Beginning of the Great Northern War between Russia and Sweden
1762, Catherine the Great is proclaimed empress of Russia
1796, Catherine the Great of Russia dies

Catherine the Great

KHE pages:  Pgs. 310-311; Modernizing Russia 1730-1796

Bachman, Great Inventors and Their Inventions:  Invention of the Electric Engine

Withrow, Brandon; Withrow, Mindy (2007-11-01). Hearts and Hands (History Lives) (Kindle Locations). Christian Focus Publications. Kindle Edition..  William Wilberforce, William Carey, Elizabeth Fry, Liang Fa, Adoniram and Ann Judson, Fidelia Fiske, Sojourner Truth and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and David Livingstone. Additional background features include: Awakening Church Timeline; What was the Awakening Church?; The Development of Church Music; An Era of Social Reform; Revolutions and Rebellions; A New Method of Missions; The Rise of Protestant Denominations; Other Christians of the Awakening Church; and The Beginnings of the Modern World.   

SOTW3Ch25 French Revolution and Admiral Nelson Stuff

SOTW3 CH25, begins on page 239

Revolution Gone Sour

The Storming of the Bastille

Synge Struggle for Sea Power:  [Note: We've not traveled to Paris yet...]

Bachman, Great Inventors and Their Inventions Watts

Hillyer, Children’s History of the World:  Ch72

Guerber Story of the Great Republic [We continue to plug through US History with Mrs. Schott and memorize the order in which states were admitted along with vital president information. She is presenting facts about each president in order to help us remember why they were special and thus, in which order they served.]

The Reign of Terror

It took a while, but we sat thru all of the Kahn Academy presentations about the French Revolution.
KHE pages:  Pgs. 318-319; The French Revolution 1789-1799
Bachman, Great Inventors and Their Inventions Fulton

Finish reading: Janet Benge, Geoff Benge.  Benjamin Franklin: Live Wire  YWAM Publishing, 2005

We really enjoyed reading The Story of Nelson by Sellar.  The name Horatio will always mean something to us. (This reading source and Nelson image came from our Heritage History British Empire cd.)

You really should READ about travel to London with Kids. We did and wrote about it here.

Briefly SOTW3 CH24, 41 Australia and New Zealand in History

SOTW3 CH24, begins on page 229

Sailing South

Captain Cook Reaches Botany Bay

M. B. Synge. Struggle for Sea Power:
Lang, John.   The Story of Captain Cook (images from Heritage 
History British Empire cd -It really is a GREAT BUY.)

Australia. 1765, 1771

The Convict Settlement

Australia. 1770-1773

SOTW3 CH 41, begins on page 375

New Zealand and Her Rulers

The Treaty of Waitangi

Synge Struggle for Sea Power: 

The New Zealand Wars

Marshall, Our British Empire
Extra Reading:
The Remarkable Voyages of Captain Cook by Rhonda Blumberg
Voyages to Paradise: Exploring in the Wake of Captain Cook by Wm. R. Gray, 
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens England 1775-80 burning of Newgate prison, London
Janet Benge, Geoff Benge.  Benjamin Franklin: Live Wire  YWAM Publishing, 2005

We're excited about finishing The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings so we can see the movies filmed in New Zealand.

SOTW3 Chapter 23 The New Country AND A Review of Young Patriot's American History

Begins on page 219

The New Country

The American Constitution

Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry

Hillyer Children’s History of the World

Guerber Story of the Great Republic: 

The First American President (1789-1797)

Guerber Story of the Great Republic

Benge, Janet; Benge, Geoff. John Adams: Independence Forever (Heroes of History). Finish this source.

More LIBERTY’S KIDS videos

Begin using the state cards (index cards) to memorize and know USA flags.  Go ahead and get your kindergarten flags book out for the United States flags and birds we studied.  Begin to memorize the US Presidents.

This seems like a good a time as any to tell you that we've enjoyed following along the history of the United States with Mrs. Schott via the CurrClick website.  The interaction with her via "lecture" (more like discussion) is very helpful in keeping us on track to learning the US Presidents in order and giving a separate perspective from our old SOTW materials, both Bauer and Synge.  She points out events in our nation's history that are brought to life with stories, videos and links to national park/historical sights on-line.  She encourages each child to use the chatbox wisely. She quizzes our geographers with helpful surveys. She encourages us to read the Eggleston spine for the course.  There are other research questions she challenges us with as well.  She receives the scanned research work and comments regularly and fairly.  Finally, we've pulled the state flag materials out of the kindergarten/first grade comb binders and are incorporating the process through each state with our vexillological study.  (This was our year to study Illinois because that's where we live.  We are also completing the second round through every nation's flag in the world describing what each nation's flag means according to their own description.) So, each week we process through three presidents and three states in order to review who these presidents were and the significance of three states' flags a week. This was my attempt to introduce my students to Mrs. Schott because she may be our best source for the Rhetoric stage of economics and government courses.  We have no trouble using the interface at CurrClick and enjoy the class recordings easily available there as well.  Finally, I appreciated the price for each semester course and have engaged all three of my students in the process.  This was an affordable, successful way to fill in the gaps of my teaching American History this year. 

SOTW3 Chapter 22 Revolution!

Begins on page 209

Revolution!

Discontent in the British Colonies & The American Revolution

Narrate from 
M. B. Synge. Struggle for Sea Power
Guerber Story of the Thirteen Colonies (Last week of this source.)
Mara L. Pratt. American History Stories - II
Benge, Janet; Benge, Geoff. John Adams: Independence Forever (Heroes of History).
"Declaration of Independence" pages from American Revolution Hands on History at Scholastic
Everyone played the Bunker Hill game from the SOTW3 Activity Guide [Whether on not they liked it]

History took place this week under duress b/c there were so many other things to do besides study our country's fight for independence.  But, from the Mommy, history study did take place. We will continue to use these same sources for history next week, but add in more Liberty's Kids episodes.

Each G has read the pages about those who signed the Declaration in For You They Signed, by Marilyn Boyer who my husband got to hear at an ICHE conference several years ago.

SOTW3 Chapter 21 Fighting Over North America

Begins on page 199

Fighting Over North America

Three Pointless Wars

M. B. Synge. Awakening of Europe. (Done with this source.)

M. B. Synge. Struggle for Sea Power  

Hillyer.  Children’s History of the World

Guerber Story of the Thirteen Colonies:  King William’s War,
Several pages from American Revolution Hands on History at Scholastic

The Seven-Year War

M. B. Synge. Awakening of Europe 

Guerber Story of the Thirteen Colonies:  Seven Years’ War,

Mara L. Pratt. American History Stories - II 

Benge, Janet; Benge, Geoff. John Adams: Independence Forever (Heroes of History). Emerald Books.

Liberty’s Kids


The boys and I have read the Henty book about this time period in North America called True to the Old Flag and found this chapter very interesting to discuss and even debate about for history.

SOTW3CH20 Logic Stage (Classical?) History Study

CHAPTER 20:  THE IMPERIAL EAST

Emperor Chi'en-lung's Library

DIRECTION TO MY 3Gs WAS TO READ THESE LITTLE KID BOOKS OR NOT GET SCREEN TIME DURING THE SCHOOL WEEK.  They read these books.
Ms. Frizzle's Adventures: Imperial China
George Washington by Ingri d'Aulaire, Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
Water Buffalo Days: Growing Up in Vietnam by Huynh Quang Nhuong

The Land of the Dragon

I used a coloring book about different historical periods in China to discuss the difference between the Ming and Qing dynasties.  The examples were from a Dover Publications coloring book and showed the Manchu and Mongol influence on the Qing clothing styles in culture (A precursor to the craziness in France a couple chapters later).

But on the other side of the world: American history was addressed by the following sources...

Guerber Story of the Thirteen Colonies:  Franklin, Washington, Ch. LV, Braddock’s Defeat,

Mara L. Pratt. American History Stories - II (Kindle Locations 6-14). Heritage History.
Causes of the Revolution, The Stamp Act, Behavior of the Colonists, Daughters of Liberty, The Boston Boys, A Brave Little Girl, The Boston Massacre, The Boston Tea-Party, Revolutionary Tea, The Patriotic Barber, Battle of Lexington, Paul Revere's Ride, Yankee Doodle, The Women at Lexington, Capture of Ticonderoga, Battle of Bunker Hill, General Warren, The March to Quebec, Washington and His Army, The Red-coats Leave Boston, Declaration of Independence

Withrow, Brandon; Withrow, Mindy (2007-11-01). Hearts and Hands (History Lives) (Kindle Locations 16-19). Christian Focus Publications. Kindle Edition.
Awakening Church Timeline, What was the Awakening Church? Jonathan Edwards: An inward sweet sense, Johann Sebastian Bach:Soli Deo Gloria, The Development of Church Music, John Wesley: My heart strangely warmed

CHESTER COMIX:  VIRGINIA GEOGRAPHY Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle I created from the teacher guides on the website that are very helpful in discussing both the physical land characteristics of Virginia (a site for Revolutionary and Civil War battles) AND the cultural historical-geography of the area.