February Journeyman

Happy Valentine's day everyone! In honor of all that mushy gushy stuff, I want everyone to find out how your grandparents/parents proposed and prepare a presentation on that!

And here is an optional funny video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUmPSvIcjIs

It's a Studio C sketch called Grandparent's Little Secret.

Know/Understand

Make and bring food made from a family recipe, and bring a copy of the recipe to share.

Become/Serve

Spend at least 15 minutes on family search.

See you there!

Medieval Europe!

February Apprentice

This month we're reading about Medieval Europe!

What do you think of when you hear Medieval times?  For me, Sword in the Stone, Robin Hood, and a bunch of other movies! Plus there's Celtic Women, Loreena McKennitt, and a bunch of other singers and bands.  :)

Take a look at this pretty song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lh6kuTjTiU

Study/Learn

Read Story of the World Vol. 2, ch. 1-3, 14-16, and 18-19.
While you're reading you can underline and add to your timeline of when things happened.  For example the first Crusade happened in 1096. 

Write these down on note cards:

Byzantine Empire
Dark Ages
Feudalism
Feif
Guilds
Battle of Hastings
Knights
Medieval
Norman Conquest
Serfs
Vassals
William the Conqueror
Cast System

Where applicable, add your note cards to your timeline.

Know/Understand

Here are a list of some people that we read about in The Story of the World.

Augustine
Charles the Hammer - Tara
Eric the Red - Jessica
Alfred the Great
Saladin - Anthony
El Cid (Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar) - Jaykob
Richard the Lionhearted - Jayson
John Lackland
Robin Hood - Elaine
Rabbi of Cordova
Leif Ericsson
William the Conqueror - Amanda
 
Pick a person you'd like to learn more about, and research online or at the library about them.  You might want a parent nearby to help you. 
Also if you happen to find another person that's not on the list that you want to use, just let me know and I'll add them!
Get out your timelines and add more dates if you haven't gotten them all down.

Remember to email me who you're researching so that we don't overlap!

Become/Serve

Write a "journal entry" from the person you researched, and be prepared to read it to the class. (Make it longer than a couple of sentences.)  Also come prepared to tell us a little more about whose journal entry you're reading from.   Maybe we'll be able to guess who it is!

Also study up on your cards.  Come to class prepared with thoughts or questions that might have popped up over your studies this Vanguard year!  Write them down if you need.  I want to discuss how our year has been so far and what we've learned and how our ideas have changed.

The more discussion the better! :D

History for January

Apprentice Presentations

Isa- The creation
Jaykob- David & Goliath
Kylee- Mormon buried the plates
Caleb- Laban and Nephi
Paige-Amlici


Master Class Presentations

Tara- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Jessica- The story of the Hunchback
Isa- The Story Of The Envious Wezir & The Prince & The Ghuleh for her Masters

January Master Class

Master Class

Go to this link HERE and click on the introductory note link. 
Skim the introductory note just so you have an idea what these stories are, and where they come from. 

Now, what I'd like you to do is go through some of these stories and pick one to present in class.
Let me know what you pick so that we don't overlap!

Also if you notice, the stories are in old English style which is great because it'll probably expand our vocabulary! :D  So just for fun, I want you to keep track of how many words you don't know for sure. 

That's it!  If we happen to have time, maybe I'll pull out a movie we could watch.  There's Sinbad, and Aladdin of course.  I'm sure there's more.  Any suggestions?

Happy reading!!

Journeyman

I'm so excited to be the student mentor for history! We are going to have a great time learning more about our family history.

Watch this video about Tigger’s family tree. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLPnAas_EpE

Study/Learn

I thought it would be really fun to find out how everyone in Vanguard is related, so I created a group on Relative Finder. Open this web page: https://www.relativefinder.org/#/main and sign in through FamilySearch. Once you’ve done that, click Join Groups and look up Vanguard. There is another Vanguard group, but ours has a different description. Ours just says that we are a homeschool group. The password to join is WeAreTheVanguard. That will connect you so you can see how everyone is related. Remember, no one can see how they are related to you until you join the group, so you should join as soon as you can.

Know/Understand

Read 1 Nephi 5:14-16. Do you think that family history was important to Lehi? Why? Journal about it, and come ready to discuss it in class.

OPTIONAL: This is a fun little story. It’s pretty short, so go ahead and read it if you can, but it isn’t necessary.  https://familysearch.org/blog/en/relative-finder-big-family-cousins/?repeat=w3tc

Apply/Share

Once you have an account, Relative Finder lets you see famous people you are related to. For example, I’m related to Isaac Newton. He is my 1st cousin 11 times removed. Find someone famous or important you are related to, and come prepared to tell us 3 fun or inspiring facts about them. If you choose fun, make it fun. It can be a story, their shoe size, what you think their dating profile would look like if they had one, or anything you find interesting.

India & the Middle East!

Apprentice

Study/learn

Read: The Story of the World vol. 1 chapters 30,31,34,35-42.
           The Story of the World vol. 2 chapters 4,5,6,7,12.

It's kind of tedious to skip chapters, but if this helps just read the chapters about Rome, India, and Islam.  The other chapters about Christianity, and China will come later.  Just go as far as chapter 12 in volume 2 and you'll have gone far enough.


Put these on note cards:

Caligula
Pax Romana
Cato
Charlamagne
Julius Caesar- I came, I Saw, I Conquered
Oedipus
Attila the Hun
Carthage
Genghiskhan
Hammurabi
Hannibal
Ottoman Empire
Persian Empire


Now that you have an overview of what was going on in the world we're going to study up on India.

Watch these videos on India:

Part one

Part two

Part three





The Middle East is also apart of what we're studying this month, and I have found out that most of what we're learning for that region is about Islam.  So here is a history video about Islam.

Here

Come prepared to discuss what you learned in The Story of the World, and what this video teaches.  There are some differences that I want to note when we're in class.










Present:

A Bible or a Book of Mormon story with the time frame, so that we can put it in our timeline.  Just so that we have a good overview of what's going on in the world at this time.   Make sure you bring pictures or something to make it a fun/interesting presentation.  Everyone falls asleep when we don't really prepare, and this should be pretty easy since we already know the stories.


Also let me know what you're presenting and I'll put it on the blog so that we don't overlap. Thanks!!


Know/Understand

Now I want you to get out your timelines!  This is where the real fun begins!  Take your timeline and tape it on a wall.  Take your note cards (ALL NOTE CARDS) and label them on your timeline if you can.  If you have time, make your timeline awesome by color coding it, or adding pictures!  Anything to make it yours and help you remember better.




Become/Serve

Now that you've read and studied make sure to discuss with your parents about what you learned.  And also write in your journal about what you've learned and how it's changed your perception of how things are in the world.


Now time for a game!!!

At class we're going to play a timeline game so come prepared to play.  I'll have a prize ready for the team that wins so make sure you've got your timeline buried in your brain! :D  Also make sure to bring them to class.  Or if you'd rather not take it off your wall, take a picture of it and send it to me and I'll show the class!  I'm excited to see what you've done with them!

October History

Ancient Greece and Rome!

Apprentice

This week we're studying Greece and Rome.  This is the time of history when things start getting more and more interesting, because archeologists have more records and evidence of what happened!

What to study

Read the Story of the World chapters 20-29. 

Read this article about Paul in the New Testament.  It's interesting to think that we're reading New Testament times.  That the Savior and those that followed him lived during this period of time.  

Put these words on notecards:

Romulus & Remus

Punic Wars

Roman Empire

Rubicon

Fall of Rome

Holy Roman Empire

Caesar

Constantine the Great

Constantanople

Know/understand

We all know that the Story of the World is a broad overview of our history, so now I'd like you to look up one of these topics and study some more on the subject.  If you happen to pick a subject that would use a map, make sure to look one up and label it.  A good place to print your own map is here.

Email/text me what you pick so that we don't overlap.  I'll make sure to update the blog. :)

The Greece alphabet- Anthony

The stories of Homer - Isa

The Olympics- Afton

Cyrus the Great

The Spartans - Mack

The Athenians - Tara

The war between Greece and Persia - Jayson

The Peloponnesian War

Alexander the Great - Annie

The rise of Romec- Kylee, Caleb

The Roman Gods - Amanda

The Roman builders - Jessica

Gladiators- Jaykob

The Punic Wars - Paige

Also, make a list of what similarities we have today that the Greeks and Romans had back then.  You'll be surprised how much history effects us, and how we still use some of the same things, and images they used.  

Why study history?  Because it effects us more than we think! :D

What kinds of things do we want to keep that helps our society?  What kinds of things that's in society that hurts us?  Those are thought provoking questions.  Brainstorm it with your parents and then record in your commonplace book what you came up with.  

Apply/share

Now here's the fun part!  Come to History class ready to present a 3 minute presentation on what you learned.  Make sure you have maps/pictures to show us.  Pictures ALWAYS make a presentation better.

I'm excited to see/hear what you come up with!!

Journeyman

Study/learn

Now that we've learned how to look up our ancestors, and we've started our own personal history and journaling, we're going to branch out.  

We're going to start our own genealogy binder.   So get an old binder that's not in use, or get a new one and label it so you know that it's your family history binder.

We're going to start with our parents.  Print, if you can, a childhood picture of your parents.  If they haven't gotten this already written down, ask your parents these questions:

What's your mother's full name?

What's your father's full name?

Name your aunts and uncles and their years of birth.  Make sure to separate them into your mother's side of the family and your fathers side.

What were your mother's date/place and circumstance of birth?

What were your father's date/place and circumstance of birth?

Make a list of what their favorite things were as a child.  (like favorite: tv show, movie, toy, scripture story, food, best friend(s), drink, candy, holiday.) 

Have each parent tell a favorite childhood memory.

Remember to type all of this information up and print it off and put it in your binder.

Know/understand

Since we've started this family history journey, (and history in general) how has your perspective changed since starting?  Journal about it, and come prepared to have a discussion in class.

Apply/share

In class we want you to tell us one of their stories! Pick a favorite and come and share it!  :D

Master

Study/learn

Read: Famous Men of Greece, and Famous Men of Rome by John H. Haaren and A.B. Poland.
As you're reading these books, if you happen to come across something that you already know, you are free to skip or skim over it.


Know/understand

Now that you're done reading about Greece and Rome, mark on your timelines these dates:

When Greece started
The rise of Rome
The fall of Rome
And at least 5 significant dates in between.



Apply/share

Come to class ready to tell us what you liked most about both these Empires.