History Plans, Term One

I'm designing my own history plans this year, pulling from several different resources.  I'm trying an experiment this year of reading through all of world history during the first half of the year.  We are using A Child's History of the World for our overview, and reading a few short chapters every day (we started this last week). While we are doing that, we will do a narrower study of two specific times/places. I asked Clavier to choose, and he picked Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece.


During the second half of the year we will read an overview of American History, and study Native Americans and New World Explorers.


I use OneNote to plan, and here is what we're doing the first term of the school year for Ancient Egypt. Many of the activities come from History Odyssey: Ancients and History Pockets: Ancient Civilizations. Some of the reading choices are from Classical House of Learning, Veritas Press, and our own shelves.


Read Aloud: History


• Child's History of the World- Start 08/05/13


Week 1: 9/3
• Time Traveler: Pharaohs and Pyramids
Week 2: 9/9
• Story of the World, Vol. 1 Chap. 2-3
• The 5,000-Year-Old Puzzle (library)
Week 3: 9/16
• Egyptian Cinderella
• The Temple Cat
• Seeker of Knowledge (library)
Week 4: 9/23
• Story of the World, Vol. 1 Chap. 4
• You Wouldn't Want to Be Tutankhamen
Week 5: 9/30
• Story of the World, Vol. 1 Chap. 12-13
• You Wouldn't Want to Be a Pyramid Builder
Week 6: 10/7
• Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt
• Science in Ancient Egypt (library)
Week 7: 10/14
• Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt
•  Ancient Science
• You Wouldn't Want to Be Cleopatra
Week 8: 10/21
• Ancient Science
• You Wouldn't Want to Be an Egyptian Mummy!
• If I Were a Kid in Ancient Egypt: Children of the Ancient World (library)
Week 9: 10/28
• Tut's Mummy Lost and Found
• Hieroglyphs

History: Assignments (I'm not sharing all the details, so as not to violate copyright.)

• Week 1
• Finish "What is History" Pocket (we started this at the end of last year)
• Copy work/dictionary: papyrus

• Week 2
• Mapping
• Start Pocket 3, “Ancient Egypt.” Complete the Pocket Label, Words to Know, and Student Booklet. 

• Week 3
• Copy work/dictionary "gods" and "pyramids."
•  Pocket 3, Life Along the Nile.
• Week 4
• Continue Pocket 3, Postcard from Ancient Egypt and The Great Pyramid.
• Week 5
• Copy work/dictionary "temple."
• Mapping
• Week 6
• Finish Pocket 3, if needed.
• Timeline 
• Week 7
• Ancient Science project
• Notebooking pages
• Week 8
• Ancient Science project
• Notebooking pages
• Week 9
• Hieroglyphic Note