I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'M THE MAP!! (Where does that come from? Ha ha!)
During your reading (with your parent), look up some maps of what you're studying and get familiar with each country or kingdom. There's a million to choose from. And for those of you that have the activity book, you can look up the maps for each chapter.
We're going to be doing some map work and timeline stuff at Vanguard.
Read chapters 10-19 in The Story of the World Vol. 1.
Each chapter talks about a different kingdom or country. What similarities are there between them? What are the differences? What things did you like about these countries, and what did you not like? Are we seeing the same things happening today as they did back then?
Discuss these questions with your parents and then write your answers down in your commonplace book.
Click here for an article about what the prophets say about our history and what we need to learn from studying it.
I also want to clarify what your commonplace book is. Remember it's a journal of sorts so don't treat it like another school notebook where you just write your answers down. Think about what you would tell your future self or other people you might think would read it. When you write your answers down in it, make sure you write the date, and what you're studying from so that later when you look through it, you'll know how you came by the notes you put in it. Believe me, when you look back on it years from now you'll surprise yourself at what you've learned over the years. And you'll appreciate the work that you put into your book! Your posterity will thank you too!
Get your Cultural Literacy book out, and put these words on notecards:
Cleopatra
Pharaohs
Tutankhamen
Alexander the Great
Athens
Trojan War
Augustus Caesar
Brutus
I realize that some of these words don't go with what we've read so far, but I decided it would be better to give you an even amount of words to study over the year, than to give you a ton of words for just one week.
Bring your colored pencils or crayons to class this week! We're using them for our timelines, and our maps. :)
JOURNEYMAN
This week I want you to look at this website here.
To get you started, look at the part that says: What resources are available? Click on the picture under See My Family Tree. Watch the videos, and set up your own account.
Look at the whole website and learn as much as you can. We're going to have a family history specialist come and help us with anything that we need, so make sure you come with questions!
We want to be able to work on more than just getting our accounts started, so your goal this week is to really start working on your ancestors. Have your parents help you! I think this is something that you'll enjoy together. I'm excited to see what you come up with, and I'm sure our specialist will be excited to help with more than just setting up accounts! :D
If you have a laptop that you could bring that would be great! Just email me and let me know if you can. I also have a couple I could bring if we don't have enough.
This is going to be exciting to see!!
MASTER
For master this week we're reading The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. This was a fun and interesting book to read.
In your commonplace book I want you to write down 10 interesting facts about Egypt in your book.
Do we have similarities with these facts in our world today? What are they?
There are a lot of interesting pictures of artifacts and monuments in this book, so let's make our own picture/mural of our Vanguard to put on the wall!
Bring all cool artsy things that you'd want to put onto our Vanguard mural! And while we're making it we'll discuss the book!
I'm excited to see what we come up with so come with ideas! :D
