The overview below is based on The Well Trained Mind. The time commitment seems overly burdensome to me. I'd love to hear details on how others do a classical education. Summary of notebook usage follows this outline.
Kindergarten
Reading:
As much read aloud time as possible.
Basic phonics 10-30 min every day.
Practice reading easy books.
Writing:
Practice printing 10 min daily.
Copy short sentences from model.
Math:
Count and write 1-100.
Skip count by 2's, 5's, and 10's.
First Grade
Language:
Do Spelling Workout A for 10-15 min daily.
Begin First Language Lessons for 15-20 min daily.
Spend 30 min daily reading and making notebook page.
Fun reading 30 min daily.
Practice penmanship.
Writing:
Simple letters to friends 2x week.
Copy short sentences 2-3 days per week for 5-20 min.
Math:
30-40 min daily
History:
Study ancient times (3 hrs a week)
Read biographies and easy history books to child.
Ask child to narrate what you just read.
Make notebook pages.
Science:
Study animals, the human body and plants twice a week for 60 min each
Religion:
World religions through history study.
10-15 min family religious study.
Art:
Do Drawing with Children, art projects, or picture study 1-2x weekly
Music:
1 hr per week listening to classical music.
Begin instrument.
Second Grade
Language:
Do Spelling Workout B or C for 10-15 min daily.
Begin First Language Lessons for 20 min daily.
Spend 30 min daily reading and making notebook page.
Fun reading 30-60 min daily.
Memory work for 10 min daily
Begin cursive penmanship.
Writing:
Simple letters to friends 2x week.
Write from dictation 3 days per week for 10-20 min.
Math:
40-60 min daily
History:
Study medieval- early Renaissance times (3 hrs a week)
Read biographies and easy history books to child.
Ask child to narrate what you just read.
Make notebook pages.
Science:
Study basic earth science and astronomy twice a week for 60 min each
Religion:
World religions through history study.
10-15 min family religious study.
Art:
Picture study for 1 hr weekly or do art projects.
Music:
1 hr per week listening to classical music.
Begin or continue instrument.
Third Grade
Language:
Do Spelling Workout C or D for 15 min daily.
Spend 30 min daily reading and making notebook page.
Do formal grammar for 20-30 min daily
Fun reading 30-60 min daily.
Memory work for 10 min daily
Continue penmanship.
Writing:
Longer letters to friends 1x week.
Write from dictation 3 days per week.
Begin a writing program twice a week for 20-30 min each day
Math:
40-60 min daily
History:
Study late Renaissance - early Modern times (3 hrs a week)
Read history books to child.
Assign easy biographies and history books to child.
Ask child to narrate what you just read.
Make notebook pages.
Science:
Study basic chemistry twice a week for 60-90 min each
Latin:
Memorize vocabulary; study language daily.
Religion:
World religions through history study.
10-15 min family religious study.
Art:
Picture study for 1 hr weekly or do art projects.
Music:
1 hr per week listening to classical music.
Begin or continue instrument.
Fourth Grade
Language:
Do Spelling Workout D, E or F for 15 min daily.
Spend 30-45 min daily reading and making notebook page.
Do formal grammar for 20 min daily
Fun reading 30-60 min daily.
Memory work for 10 min daily
Continue penmanship.
Writing:
Longer letters to friends biweekly.
Write from dictation 2-3 days per week.
Do your own writing program twice a week for 20-30 min each day
Math:
40-60 min daily
History:
Study Modern times (3 hrs a week)
Read history books to child.
Assign easy biographies and history books to child.
Ask child to narrate what you just read.
Make notebook pages.
Science:
Study basic physics twice a week for 90 min each
Latin:
Learn vocabulary and basic syntax rules for 45 min daily.
Religion:
World religions through history study.
10-15 min family religious study.
Art:
Picture study for 1 hr weekly or do art projects.
Music:
1 hr per week listening to classical music.
Begin or continue instrument.
(*All time ranges mean start with lowest time and work up to highest time.)
Notebook Summary
Language:
1. Spelling. Rules the child is having difficulty with and a list of trouble works he consistently misspells.
2. Grammar. File any grammar exercises the child completes.
3. Reading.
a. My reading. Summaries or illustrations of books from reading lists.
b. Memory work. All pieces learned and recited.
c. Writing. Copywork assignments, dictation, composition assignments, letters and other writings.
History:
Contains pictures, compositions and historical narrations, arranged chronologically and separated by year of study.
Science:
1. Life science divided into
Animals
Human Body
Plants
2. Earth science divided into
Earth
Sky and Space
3. Chemistry divided into
Definitions
Experiments
4. Physics divided into
Definitions
Experiments
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Friday, May 29, 2009
Classical Education Science
Science study follows the same time periods as history - we learn the same science people in those time periods knew and discovered.
Grade 1: Biology - the physical world, animals and people
First graders, who are studying the ancients, learn about those things the ancients could see - animal life, the human body, and plants. They make collections, take nature walks, and sprout beans in jars.
Label notebook "Life Science" and divide into 3 sections:
Animals
Choose 20 topics from The Kingfisher First Animal Encyclopedia and spend a week on each. For scientific classification, see this post. For activities suggested in book fill out an experiment page with complete sentences answering the following questions:
What did we use?
What did we do?
What happened?
What did we learn?
Make narration pages (once every two weeks) from outside sources (library books). Hunt for animals outside, put specimens in a bughouse and draw a picture. Write answers to these questions:
Does it have a backbone?
Does it have fur?
Does it have wings?
What does its skin feel like?
How many feet does it have? What do its feet look like?
How many legs does it have? What do the legs look like?
What does its body look like?
What does it eat?
How big is it?
What do its babies look like?
Is it domesticated or wild?
Is it endangered?
The Human Body
Choose ten topics (one a week) from the Kingfisher First Human Body Encyclopedia. Read each topic, make a narration page, do any experiments and make experiment pages, do additional library reading.
Plants
Spend 6 weeks with Green Thumbs: A Kid's Activity Guide to Indoor and Outdoor Gardening
This simple project book explains the basic facts about seeds, plants, and trees and offers indoor and outdoor gardening projects. Pick an activity a week, do it, and make an experiment page.
Grade 2: Earth Science and Astronomy - the earth and the sky
Second graders collect facts about the earth and sky just as Copernicus and Tycho Brahe observed the heavens.
For each unit, choose 18 topics from the text (listed first below), read and narrate (use prompting questions: Tell me 2 or 3 things you learned. What was the most interesting thing we read?). Do additional reading from library and do an activity from one of the activity books suggested and make an experiment page.
Earth Science:
The Usborne First Encyclopedia of Our World
More Mudpies to Magnets
Astronomy:
The Usborne First Encyclopedia of Space.
The Spotter's Guide: The Night Sky
Glow-in-the-Dark Constellations: A Field Guide for Young Stargazers
The Stargazer's Guide to the Galaxy
Grade 3: Chemistry - the way the elements work together
Third graders study atoms and molecules, what elements are, and how they interact. They study the great chemists - Robert Boyle, Georg Ernst Stahl, Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton.
Divide your notebook into two sections-
Experiments:
The book Adventures with Atoms and Molecules (also book 2) contains 60 experiments so choose two per week and fill out an experiment page (see grade 1).
Definitions:
All chemical terms in the books are underlined. After doing the experiment, look up these underlined terms in a basic or advanced science encyclopedia and make a definition page that contains the term, it's definition and a drawing or diagram that makes the term clear.
Grade 4: Physics - the laws that govern the universe
Fourth graders, studying modern times, learn basic physics and are introduced to the elements of computer science. Physics is simply the study of the physical world and how it works - how sound travels, magnetism, the laws of electricity, energy and motion.
Do two experiments a week from Physics Experiments for Children (9 from each chapter) and fill out an experiment page. Then read more from a science encyclopedia (see Chemistry) and write a 3-4 sentence narration, explaining one or two of the concepts covered.
The book suggested above was chosen because the experiments are simple, use mostly household items and cover all 7 major physics topics (water matter, air matter, mechanical energy and machines, heat, sound, light and magnetism and electricity. If you want more advanced books try these:
Starting with Science: Solids, Liquids and Gases by Louise Osborne
Starting with Science: Simple Machines
Electricity and Magnetism
Sound and Light
Energy and Power
Grade 1: Biology - the physical world, animals and people
First graders, who are studying the ancients, learn about those things the ancients could see - animal life, the human body, and plants. They make collections, take nature walks, and sprout beans in jars.
Label notebook "Life Science" and divide into 3 sections:
Animals
Choose 20 topics from The Kingfisher First Animal Encyclopedia and spend a week on each. For scientific classification, see this post. For activities suggested in book fill out an experiment page with complete sentences answering the following questions:
What did we use?
What did we do?
What happened?
What did we learn?
Make narration pages (once every two weeks) from outside sources (library books). Hunt for animals outside, put specimens in a bughouse and draw a picture. Write answers to these questions:
Does it have a backbone?
Does it have fur?
Does it have wings?
What does its skin feel like?
How many feet does it have? What do its feet look like?
How many legs does it have? What do the legs look like?
What does its body look like?
What does it eat?
How big is it?
What do its babies look like?
Is it domesticated or wild?
Is it endangered?
The Human Body
Choose ten topics (one a week) from the Kingfisher First Human Body Encyclopedia. Read each topic, make a narration page, do any experiments and make experiment pages, do additional library reading.
Plants
Spend 6 weeks with Green Thumbs: A Kid's Activity Guide to Indoor and Outdoor Gardening
This simple project book explains the basic facts about seeds, plants, and trees and offers indoor and outdoor gardening projects. Pick an activity a week, do it, and make an experiment page.
Grade 2: Earth Science and Astronomy - the earth and the sky
Second graders collect facts about the earth and sky just as Copernicus and Tycho Brahe observed the heavens.
For each unit, choose 18 topics from the text (listed first below), read and narrate (use prompting questions: Tell me 2 or 3 things you learned. What was the most interesting thing we read?). Do additional reading from library and do an activity from one of the activity books suggested and make an experiment page.
Earth Science:
The Usborne First Encyclopedia of Our World
More Mudpies to Magnets
Astronomy:
The Usborne First Encyclopedia of Space.
The Spotter's Guide: The Night Sky
Glow-in-the-Dark Constellations: A Field Guide for Young Stargazers
The Stargazer's Guide to the Galaxy
Grade 3: Chemistry - the way the elements work together
Third graders study atoms and molecules, what elements are, and how they interact. They study the great chemists - Robert Boyle, Georg Ernst Stahl, Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton.
Divide your notebook into two sections-
Experiments:
The book Adventures with Atoms and Molecules (also book 2) contains 60 experiments so choose two per week and fill out an experiment page (see grade 1).
Definitions:
All chemical terms in the books are underlined. After doing the experiment, look up these underlined terms in a basic or advanced science encyclopedia and make a definition page that contains the term, it's definition and a drawing or diagram that makes the term clear.
Grade 4: Physics - the laws that govern the universe
Fourth graders, studying modern times, learn basic physics and are introduced to the elements of computer science. Physics is simply the study of the physical world and how it works - how sound travels, magnetism, the laws of electricity, energy and motion.
Do two experiments a week from Physics Experiments for Children (9 from each chapter) and fill out an experiment page. Then read more from a science encyclopedia (see Chemistry) and write a 3-4 sentence narration, explaining one or two of the concepts covered.
The book suggested above was chosen because the experiments are simple, use mostly household items and cover all 7 major physics topics (water matter, air matter, mechanical energy and machines, heat, sound, light and magnetism and electricity. If you want more advanced books try these:
Starting with Science: Solids, Liquids and Gases by Louise Osborne
Starting with Science: Simple Machines
Electricity and Magnetism
Sound and Light
Energy and Power
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Classical Education History Resource List
Textbooks:
Story of the World books 1-4
Story of the World activity books 1-4
Usborne Internet Linked Encyclopedia of World History
Kingfisher History Encyclopedia (basic text for Logic stage but helpful in grammar stage)
Great Men and Women to Cover
Grade 1 - Ancients 5000 B.C. - A.D. 400:
Cheops, pharaoh of Egypt (2700-2675 B.C.)
Abraham (2100 B.C.)
Hammurabi (1750 B.C.)
Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt (1480 B.C.)
Moses (1450 B.C.)
Tutankhamen (1355 B.C.)
Nebuchadnezzar (1146-1123 B.C.)
King David (1000 B.C.)
Homer (800 B.C.)
Romulus (753-716 B.C.)
Sennacherib (705-681 B.C.)
Lao-tse, Chinese philosopher (born 604 B.C.)
Pythagoras (581-497 B.C.)
Confucius, K'ung Fu-tsu (551-479 B.C.)
Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama (550-480 B.C.)
Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
Plato (427-347 B.C.)
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.)
Hannibal, fought with Rome (218-207B.C.)
Cicero (106-43B.C.)
Julius Caesar (100-44B.C.)
Virgil (70-19B.C.)
Ceasar Augustus (45B.C.-A.D.14)
Jesus Christ (4B.C.-A.D.33)
Saint Paul (A.D.45)
Nero (died A.D. 68)
Constantine the Great (ruled A.D. 306-337)
Grade 2 - Medieval/Early Renaissance 400-1600:
Saint Augustine (writing c. 411)
Attila the Hun (433-453)
King Arthur (probably killed in 537 at Battle of Camlan)
Mohammed (570-632)
Charlemagne (ruled 768-814)
Alfred the Great (849-899)
Leif Ericsson (discovered America c. 1000)
Edward the Confessor (1042-1066)
Genghis Kan (b. 1155)
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400)
Jan van Eyck (1390-1441)
Johannes Gutenberg (1396-1468)
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512)
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
Michelangelo (1475-1564)
Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521)
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Raphael (1483-1520)
Nostradamus (1503-1566)
John Calvin (1509-1564)
Hernando Cortes (entered Mexican capital, 1519)
Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)
Walter Raleigh (1554-1618)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Suggested biographies (not sure why these aren't in chronological list above):
Sir Francis Drake
Elizabeth I
Joan of Arc
Leif Ericsson
Marco Polo
Montezuma
Grade 3 - Late Renaissance/Early Modern 1600-1850:
Mary Stuart, Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587)
Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616)
James I of England (1566-1652)
Queen Nzinga of Angola (1582-1644)
Shah Jahan (1592-1666)
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)
Charles I (1600-1649)
Rembrandt (1606-1669)
John Milton (1608-1674)
Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
Louis XIV of France (1638-1715)
Issac Newton (1642-1747)
William Penn (1644-1718)
Peter I, Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Yoshimune (1684-1751)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Frederick William I, Frederick the Great (1688-1740)
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Qianlong (1711-1795)
Maria Theresa (1717-1780)
Catherine the Great (1729-1796)
George Washington (1732-1799)
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Betsy Ross (1752-1836)
Phyllis Wheatley (1753-1784)
Louis XVI (1754-1793)
Marie Antoinette (1755-1793)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
George III of England (1760-1820)
Eli Whitney (1765-1825)
Captain James Cook (1768-1771)
Tecumseh (1768-1813)
Napoleon (1769-1821)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) and WIlliam Clark (1770-1838)
Simon Bolivar (1783-1830)
Shaka Zulu (1787-1828)
Sacagawea (1788-1812)
Nat Turner (1800-1831)
Historical Topics
the Mayflower
early American Settlements
Russia under Peter the Great and his successors
Prussia in the eighteenth century
the Enlightenment
the agricultural revolution
Native American cultures
the British in India
the French Revolution
British-French conflict in Canada
the American Revolution
the Napoleonic Wars
the industrial revolution
Simon Bolivar's fight for independence in South America
the siege of the Alamo
the California gold rush
Australia's beginnings as a penal colony
Grade 4 - Modern 1850-Present:
Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)
Louis Joseph Papineau (1786-1871)
Samuel Morse (1791-1872)
Commodore Matthew Perry (1794-1858)
Santa Anna (1794-1876)
Robert E Lee (1807-1870)
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
David Livingstone (1813-1873)
Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
Victor Emmanuel II (1820-1878)
Susan B Anthony (1820-1906)
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
Harriet Tubman (1820-1913)
Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)
Catewayo of the Zulus (1826-1884)
Sitting Bull (1831-1890)
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910)
George Custer (1839-1876)
Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
Mutsuhito (emperor of Japan) (1852-1912)
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
Henry Ford (1863-1947)
Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) and Orville Wright (1871-1948)
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924)
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Josef Stalin (1879-1953)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
Dwight D Eisenhower (1890-1969)
Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)
Francisco Franco (1892-1975)
Mao Zedong (1893-1976)
Czar Nicholas II (1895-1917)
Amelia Earhart (1897-1932)
Albert Einstein (1897-1955)
Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974)
John F Kennedy (1917-1963)
Nelson Mandela (1918-)
Margaret Thatcher (1925-)
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Neil Armstrong (1930-)
Saddam Hussein (1937-)
Bill Gates (1955-)
Suggested biographies (not sure why these aren't in chronological list above):
Louisa May Alcott
Susan B Anthony
Clara Barton
Mary McLeod Bethune (educator born as 15th child of former slaves)
Elizabeth Blackwell (first woman dr)
Frederick Douglass
Emma Edmonds
Albert Einstein
Mohandas Ghandi
Langston Hughes
Helen Keller
Mary Todd Lincoln
Thurgood Marshall
Louis Pasteur
Molly Pitcher
Eleanor Roosevelt
Babe Ruth
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Harriet Tubman
Major Events:
Africa under European control
the Indian mutinies
the Crimean War
the Victorian era
the Civil War
exploration of the American West
Euro-American conflict with the Native American tribes
the Boxer Rebellion
World War I
the Russian Revolution
the Soviet Union
the Great Depression
the New Deal
civil war in Spain
the Axis and the Allies
World War II
Nazi Germany/Hitler
the Holocaust
Zionism/the Jews' return to Palestine
apartheid/South African segregation
China under Mao
the Korean War
the civil-rights movement
the Vietnam War
landing on the moon
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*Well Trained Mind also includes an extensive list of supplemental reading for all grades which would be worth perusing.
Story of the World books 1-4
Story of the World activity books 1-4
Usborne Internet Linked Encyclopedia of World History
Kingfisher History Encyclopedia (basic text for Logic stage but helpful in grammar stage)
Great Men and Women to Cover
Grade 1 - Ancients 5000 B.C. - A.D. 400:
Cheops, pharaoh of Egypt (2700-2675 B.C.)
Abraham (2100 B.C.)
Hammurabi (1750 B.C.)
Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt (1480 B.C.)
Moses (1450 B.C.)
Tutankhamen (1355 B.C.)
Nebuchadnezzar (1146-1123 B.C.)
King David (1000 B.C.)
Homer (800 B.C.)
Romulus (753-716 B.C.)
Sennacherib (705-681 B.C.)
Lao-tse, Chinese philosopher (born 604 B.C.)
Pythagoras (581-497 B.C.)
Confucius, K'ung Fu-tsu (551-479 B.C.)
Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama (550-480 B.C.)
Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
Plato (427-347 B.C.)
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.)
Hannibal, fought with Rome (218-207B.C.)
Cicero (106-43B.C.)
Julius Caesar (100-44B.C.)
Virgil (70-19B.C.)
Ceasar Augustus (45B.C.-A.D.14)
Jesus Christ (4B.C.-A.D.33)
Saint Paul (A.D.45)
Nero (died A.D. 68)
Constantine the Great (ruled A.D. 306-337)
Grade 2 - Medieval/Early Renaissance 400-1600:
Saint Augustine (writing c. 411)
Attila the Hun (433-453)
King Arthur (probably killed in 537 at Battle of Camlan)
Mohammed (570-632)
Charlemagne (ruled 768-814)
Alfred the Great (849-899)
Leif Ericsson (discovered America c. 1000)
Edward the Confessor (1042-1066)
Genghis Kan (b. 1155)
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400)
Jan van Eyck (1390-1441)
Johannes Gutenberg (1396-1468)
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512)
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
Michelangelo (1475-1564)
Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521)
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Raphael (1483-1520)
Nostradamus (1503-1566)
John Calvin (1509-1564)
Hernando Cortes (entered Mexican capital, 1519)
Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)
Walter Raleigh (1554-1618)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Suggested biographies (not sure why these aren't in chronological list above):
Sir Francis Drake
Elizabeth I
Joan of Arc
Leif Ericsson
Marco Polo
Montezuma
Grade 3 - Late Renaissance/Early Modern 1600-1850:
Mary Stuart, Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587)
Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616)
James I of England (1566-1652)
Queen Nzinga of Angola (1582-1644)
Shah Jahan (1592-1666)
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)
Charles I (1600-1649)
Rembrandt (1606-1669)
John Milton (1608-1674)
Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
Louis XIV of France (1638-1715)
Issac Newton (1642-1747)
William Penn (1644-1718)
Peter I, Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Yoshimune (1684-1751)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Frederick William I, Frederick the Great (1688-1740)
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Qianlong (1711-1795)
Maria Theresa (1717-1780)
Catherine the Great (1729-1796)
George Washington (1732-1799)
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Betsy Ross (1752-1836)
Phyllis Wheatley (1753-1784)
Louis XVI (1754-1793)
Marie Antoinette (1755-1793)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
George III of England (1760-1820)
Eli Whitney (1765-1825)
Captain James Cook (1768-1771)
Tecumseh (1768-1813)
Napoleon (1769-1821)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) and WIlliam Clark (1770-1838)
Simon Bolivar (1783-1830)
Shaka Zulu (1787-1828)
Sacagawea (1788-1812)
Nat Turner (1800-1831)
Historical Topics
the Mayflower
early American Settlements
Russia under Peter the Great and his successors
Prussia in the eighteenth century
the Enlightenment
the agricultural revolution
Native American cultures
the British in India
the French Revolution
British-French conflict in Canada
the American Revolution
the Napoleonic Wars
the industrial revolution
Simon Bolivar's fight for independence in South America
the siege of the Alamo
the California gold rush
Australia's beginnings as a penal colony
Grade 4 - Modern 1850-Present:
Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)
Louis Joseph Papineau (1786-1871)
Samuel Morse (1791-1872)
Commodore Matthew Perry (1794-1858)
Santa Anna (1794-1876)
Robert E Lee (1807-1870)
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
David Livingstone (1813-1873)
Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
Victor Emmanuel II (1820-1878)
Susan B Anthony (1820-1906)
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
Harriet Tubman (1820-1913)
Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)
Catewayo of the Zulus (1826-1884)
Sitting Bull (1831-1890)
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910)
George Custer (1839-1876)
Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
Mutsuhito (emperor of Japan) (1852-1912)
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
Henry Ford (1863-1947)
Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) and Orville Wright (1871-1948)
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924)
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Josef Stalin (1879-1953)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
Dwight D Eisenhower (1890-1969)
Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)
Francisco Franco (1892-1975)
Mao Zedong (1893-1976)
Czar Nicholas II (1895-1917)
Amelia Earhart (1897-1932)
Albert Einstein (1897-1955)
Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974)
John F Kennedy (1917-1963)
Nelson Mandela (1918-)
Margaret Thatcher (1925-)
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Neil Armstrong (1930-)
Saddam Hussein (1937-)
Bill Gates (1955-)
Suggested biographies (not sure why these aren't in chronological list above):
Louisa May Alcott
Susan B Anthony
Clara Barton
Mary McLeod Bethune (educator born as 15th child of former slaves)
Elizabeth Blackwell (first woman dr)
Frederick Douglass
Emma Edmonds
Albert Einstein
Mohandas Ghandi
Langston Hughes
Helen Keller
Mary Todd Lincoln
Thurgood Marshall
Louis Pasteur
Molly Pitcher
Eleanor Roosevelt
Babe Ruth
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Harriet Tubman
Major Events:
Africa under European control
the Indian mutinies
the Crimean War
the Victorian era
the Civil War
exploration of the American West
Euro-American conflict with the Native American tribes
the Boxer Rebellion
World War I
the Russian Revolution
the Soviet Union
the Great Depression
the New Deal
civil war in Spain
the Axis and the Allies
World War II
Nazi Germany/Hitler
the Holocaust
Zionism/the Jews' return to Palestine
apartheid/South African segregation
China under Mao
the Korean War
the civil-rights movement
the Vietnam War
landing on the moon
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*Well Trained Mind also includes an extensive list of supplemental reading for all grades which would be worth perusing.
Classical Education: History Memorization
Grade 1 (Ancient 500BC-AD400):
The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia has a Ready Reference that lists names of Egyptian dynasties, principal pharaohs, Chinese dynasties, kings of Rome, and emperors of the Roman Empire. Aim to memorize at least two of these lists by the end of the first grade year. A first grader who reads a list out loud every day will have it memorized within weeks.
Grade 2 (Medieveal/Early Renaissance 400-1600):
Memorize a Shakespeare Sonnet, a selection from one of his plays and two lists.
#1 - The rulers of England from Egbert through Elizabeth 1, along with each ruler's family allegiance (Saxon, Dane, Norman, Plantagenet, Lancaster, York, Tudor).
#2 - One of the following: Rulers of Scotland from Malcolm II through James VI, the later Holy Roman Emperors or the rulers of other medieval countries - France, Spain, Japan, Russia, or the major wars and major discoveries (listed in back of Kingfisher book).
Grade 3 (Late Renaissance/Early Modern 1600-1850):
Memorize beginning (at least) of Declaration of Independence, the first 12 presidents of the US and major wars for the time period. Assign other lists (rulers of other countries, important discoveries and explorations) at your discretion.
Grade 4 (Modern 1850-Present):
Know the Preamble to the Constitution, the Gettysburg Address and the purpose (if no the exact words) of the ammendments. Finish the list of US Presidents , dates of major wars, and capitals of 50 states.
The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia has a Ready Reference that lists names of Egyptian dynasties, principal pharaohs, Chinese dynasties, kings of Rome, and emperors of the Roman Empire. Aim to memorize at least two of these lists by the end of the first grade year. A first grader who reads a list out loud every day will have it memorized within weeks.
Grade 2 (Medieveal/Early Renaissance 400-1600):
Memorize a Shakespeare Sonnet, a selection from one of his plays and two lists.
#1 - The rulers of England from Egbert through Elizabeth 1, along with each ruler's family allegiance (Saxon, Dane, Norman, Plantagenet, Lancaster, York, Tudor).
#2 - One of the following: Rulers of Scotland from Malcolm II through James VI, the later Holy Roman Emperors or the rulers of other medieval countries - France, Spain, Japan, Russia, or the major wars and major discoveries (listed in back of Kingfisher book).
Grade 3 (Late Renaissance/Early Modern 1600-1850):
Memorize beginning (at least) of Declaration of Independence, the first 12 presidents of the US and major wars for the time period. Assign other lists (rulers of other countries, important discoveries and explorations) at your discretion.
Grade 4 (Modern 1850-Present):
Know the Preamble to the Constitution, the Gettysburg Address and the purpose (if no the exact words) of the ammendments. Finish the list of US Presidents , dates of major wars, and capitals of 50 states.
Classical Education Reading List: Modern
4th graders should be studying Early Modern times (1850-Present). Stories should be read chronologically in order listed below. In addition to asking for suggestions from children's librarian, read stories and poems by, about, or from the following:
Robert Louis Stevenson, all the novels
Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Heidi by Johann Spyri
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (not the abridged Disney version)
HG Wells, all the novels
Louisa May Alcott, all the novels
Andrew Lang, all the novels
Frances Hodgson Burnett, all the novels
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Peter Pan and all the Plays by James Barrie
Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories and The Jungle Books
Beatrix Potter, all the novels
Laura Ingalls Wilder, all the novels
Walter de la Mare, collected poems
Carl Sandburg, collected poems
John Ciardi, collected poems
TS Eliot, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
(For the readings lists for the other grammar years I linked to the specific edition recommended in the Well Trained Mind. At this level I figured it was not as important but check her list if you are having trouble finding a version you like at the appropriate level).
Robert Louis Stevenson, all the novels
Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Heidi by Johann Spyri
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (not the abridged Disney version)
HG Wells, all the novels
Louisa May Alcott, all the novels
Andrew Lang, all the novels
Frances Hodgson Burnett, all the novels
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Peter Pan and all the Plays by James Barrie
Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories and The Jungle Books
Beatrix Potter, all the novels
Laura Ingalls Wilder, all the novels
Walter de la Mare, collected poems
Carl Sandburg, collected poems
John Ciardi, collected poems
TS Eliot, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
(For the readings lists for the other grammar years I linked to the specific edition recommended in the Well Trained Mind. At this level I figured it was not as important but check her list if you are having trouble finding a version you like at the appropriate level).
Classical Education Reading List: Late Renaissance/Early Modern
3rd graders should be studying Late Renaissance/Early Modern times (1600-1850). Stories should be read chronologically in order listed below. Read stories and poems by, about, or from the following:
John Milton
French fairy tales (many collected by Charles Perrault)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift:
~Gulliver's Travels by Riordan and Ambrus
Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Victor Hugo:
~The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Hugo and Marc Cerasini
~Les Miserables by Hugo and Monica Kulling
Alexandre Dumas:
~The Three Musketeers by Dumas and Felder
William Blake, Songs of Innocence
William Wordsworth, collected poems
Jane Austen
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Robert Browning, The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Grimms' Fairy Tales
Charles Dickens:
~A Christmas Carol
~Great Expectations by Dickens and Kulling
~Oliver Twist by Dickens, Martin and Zallinger
Edward Lear, the nonsense poems
Chistina Rosetti, children's poems
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Mark Twain, all the stories
James Fenimore Cooper, all the novels
Jules Verne, all the novels
Norwegian folktales:
~East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Fifty-Nine Norwegian Folk-Tales
Herman Melville:
~Moby Dick by Melville and Drummond (uses lines from actual novel)
John Milton
French fairy tales (many collected by Charles Perrault)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift:
~Gulliver's Travels by Riordan and Ambrus
Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Victor Hugo:
~The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Hugo and Marc Cerasini
~Les Miserables by Hugo and Monica Kulling
Alexandre Dumas:
~The Three Musketeers by Dumas and Felder
William Blake, Songs of Innocence
William Wordsworth, collected poems
Jane Austen
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Robert Browning, The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Grimms' Fairy Tales
Charles Dickens:
~A Christmas Carol
~Great Expectations by Dickens and Kulling
~Oliver Twist by Dickens, Martin and Zallinger
Edward Lear, the nonsense poems
Chistina Rosetti, children's poems
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Mark Twain, all the stories
James Fenimore Cooper, all the novels
Jules Verne, all the novels
Norwegian folktales:
~East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Fifty-Nine Norwegian Folk-Tales
Herman Melville:
~Moby Dick by Melville and Drummond (uses lines from actual novel)
Classical Education Reading List: Medieval/Early Renaissance
2nd Graders should be studying Medieval/Early Renaissance times (400 - 1600). Stories should be read chronologically in order listed below. Read stories and poems by, about, or from the following:
Saint Augustine
Beowulf
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:
~Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady by Hastings
Canterbury Tales:
~Chaucer the Cat and the Animal Pilgrims by Borlenghi
~The Canterbury Tales by McCaughrean
~The Fairie Queene by Edmund Spenser
William Shakespeare (all the plays):
~The Shakespeare Can Be Fun series by Burdett
~William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream by Coville
~William Shakespeare's Macbeth by Coville
~William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by Coville and Nolan
~Shakespeare Stories by Garfield
~Shakespeare Stories II by Garfield
~ Tales from Shakespeare by Lamb
The Inferno by Dante
King Arthur:
~Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory (look for retellings of the Arthur legend; most are based on Malory
~Knights of the Round Table by Gross
~The Kitchen Knight: A Tale of King Arthur by Hodges
Erasmus
Martin Luthur
John Calvin
Sir Thomas Wyatt (sometimes shows up in stories about Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn)
John Knox
Rene Descartes
Saint Augustine
Beowulf
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:
~Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady by Hastings
Canterbury Tales:
~Chaucer the Cat and the Animal Pilgrims by Borlenghi
~The Canterbury Tales by McCaughrean
~The Fairie Queene by Edmund Spenser
William Shakespeare (all the plays):
~The Shakespeare Can Be Fun series by Burdett
~William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream by Coville
~William Shakespeare's Macbeth by Coville
~William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by Coville and Nolan
~Shakespeare Stories by Garfield
~Shakespeare Stories II by Garfield
~ Tales from Shakespeare by Lamb
The Inferno by Dante
King Arthur:
~Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory (look for retellings of the Arthur legend; most are based on Malory
~Knights of the Round Table by Gross
~The Kitchen Knight: A Tale of King Arthur by Hodges
Erasmus
Martin Luthur
John Calvin
Sir Thomas Wyatt (sometimes shows up in stories about Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn)
John Knox
Rene Descartes
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Classical Education Reading List: Ancient Times
1st Graders should be studying ancient times (5000BC - AD 400). Stories should be read chronologically in order listed below. Read stories and poems by, about, or from the following:
The Bible
Homer:
~Trojan Horse by Clement-Davies
~The Odyssey by McCaughrean
~Black Ships Before Troy by Sutcliffe
Greek and Roman myths:
~The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus by Aliki
~Pandora by Burleigh
~Twelve Labors of Hercules by Cerasini
~King Midas: The Golden Touch by Demi
~Theseus and the Minotaur by Fisher
~Greek Myths (read all 16 tales) by McCaughrean
~Favorite Greek Myths by Osborne
Aesop's Fables
Plato
Aristotle
Egyptian myths:
~The Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt (all 13 stories) by Fisher
Indian folktales:
~Folk Tales and Fairy Stories from India by Ghose
African folktales:
~The Adventures of Spider: West African Folktales by Arkhurst
Confucius
Chinese and Japanese folktales:
~The Five Chinese Brothers by Bishop
Ancient Chinese and Japanese poetry
Cicero
Virgil
English, Irish, and Welsh fairy tales:
~Traditional Irish Fairy Tales by Stephens
~One Hundred and One Celtic Read-Aloud Myths & Legends by Verniero
The Bible
Homer:
~Trojan Horse by Clement-Davies
~The Odyssey by McCaughrean
~Black Ships Before Troy by Sutcliffe
Greek and Roman myths:
~The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus by Aliki
~Pandora by Burleigh
~Twelve Labors of Hercules by Cerasini
~King Midas: The Golden Touch by Demi
~Theseus and the Minotaur by Fisher
~Greek Myths (read all 16 tales) by McCaughrean
~Favorite Greek Myths by Osborne
Aesop's Fables
Plato
Aristotle
Egyptian myths:
~The Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt (all 13 stories) by Fisher
Indian folktales:
~Folk Tales and Fairy Stories from India by Ghose
African folktales:
~The Adventures of Spider: West African Folktales by Arkhurst
Confucius
Chinese and Japanese folktales:
~The Five Chinese Brothers by Bishop
Ancient Chinese and Japanese poetry
Cicero
Virgil
English, Irish, and Welsh fairy tales:
~Traditional Irish Fairy Tales by Stephens
~One Hundred and One Celtic Read-Aloud Myths & Legends by Verniero
Classical Education: Reading in Grammar Stage
WHAT TO READ:
Read (or be read to) for 20 -30 min in 1st grade, working up to 45 min by 4th grade of assigned reading according to the same schedule as history and science:
Ancients (5000BC-AD400) - Grades 1, 5, 9
Medieval-Early Renaissance (400-1600) - Grades 2, 6, 10
Late Renaissance-early modern (1600-1850) - Grades 3, 7, 11
Modern (1850-present) - Grades 4, 8, 12
Give the child simplified versions of the original literature he'll be reading in higher grades, or introduce him (through stories and biographies) to a writer he'll encounter later. This reading should be a bit of a challenge. Use books on tape as a good supplement. Fun reading (30-60 min daily) is totally separate and should be at or below his reading level.
READING NOTEBOOK:
Keep a My Reading notebook (biographies and nonfiction should be included in the history notebook) which will include narrations on some of the books he has read and enjoyed. By 3rd grade these narrations should be at least 3/4 page long.
POETRY MEMORIZATION:
Every 2-3 weeks child should memorize a poem (any poem at all, not necessarily tied to the correct time period) or speech and recite it to you. This exercises memory, stores beautiful language in his mind and gives him presentation practice. Memorize 8-12 pieces in 2nd grade, and 12-15 in 3rd grade.
Read (or be read to) for 20 -30 min in 1st grade, working up to 45 min by 4th grade of assigned reading according to the same schedule as history and science:
Ancients (5000BC-AD400) - Grades 1, 5, 9
Medieval-Early Renaissance (400-1600) - Grades 2, 6, 10
Late Renaissance-early modern (1600-1850) - Grades 3, 7, 11
Modern (1850-present) - Grades 4, 8, 12
Give the child simplified versions of the original literature he'll be reading in higher grades, or introduce him (through stories and biographies) to a writer he'll encounter later. This reading should be a bit of a challenge. Use books on tape as a good supplement. Fun reading (30-60 min daily) is totally separate and should be at or below his reading level.
READING NOTEBOOK:
Keep a My Reading notebook (biographies and nonfiction should be included in the history notebook) which will include narrations on some of the books he has read and enjoyed. By 3rd grade these narrations should be at least 3/4 page long.
POETRY MEMORIZATION:
Every 2-3 weeks child should memorize a poem (any poem at all, not necessarily tied to the correct time period) or speech and recite it to you. This exercises memory, stores beautiful language in his mind and gives him presentation practice. Memorize 8-12 pieces in 2nd grade, and 12-15 in 3rd grade.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Classical Education Overview
From the book The Well Trained Mind by Susan Wise Bauer and Jessie Bauer
Three repetitions of the same four year pattern linking history with the sciences mastered in each period.
Ancients (5000BC-AD400) - Grades 1, 5, 9:
Biology, Classification, Human Body
Medieval-Early Renaissance (400-1600) - Grades 2, 6, 10:
Earth Science, Astronomy
Late Renaissance-early modern (1600-1850) - Grades 3, 7, 11:
Chemistry
Modern (1850-present) - Grades 4, 8, 12:
Physics, Computer Science
Trivium:
Grammar Stage (grades 1-4): Lay the building blocks for all other learning just as grammar is the foundation for language. Focus on fact learning - memorization, rules of phonics and spelling, rules of grammar, poems, vocab of foreign languages, stories of history and literature, descriptions of plants, animals, and human body, math facts, etc.
Logic Stage (grades 5-8): Cause and effect, relationships among different fields of knowledge, the way facts fit together into a logical framework. Learn algebra and logic, the logic of writing (paragraph construction), reading (criticism and analysis of texts), history (why?).
Rhetoric Stage (grades 9-12): Apply the rules of logic learned in the logic stage with the foundational info from the grammar stage and express conclusions in clear, forceful, elegant language. Also specialize in whatever branch of knowledge attracts her.
DISCLAIMER: I plan to use many elements of the classical education; however the entire program is a little more intense than CM, whose philosophies resonate more with me. I am only including the portions of classical I like on this blog. For a more complete reference, refer to The Well Trained Mind by Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer.
Three repetitions of the same four year pattern linking history with the sciences mastered in each period.
Ancients (5000BC-AD400) - Grades 1, 5, 9:
Biology, Classification, Human Body
Medieval-Early Renaissance (400-1600) - Grades 2, 6, 10:
Earth Science, Astronomy
Late Renaissance-early modern (1600-1850) - Grades 3, 7, 11:
Chemistry
Modern (1850-present) - Grades 4, 8, 12:
Physics, Computer Science
Trivium:
Grammar Stage (grades 1-4): Lay the building blocks for all other learning just as grammar is the foundation for language. Focus on fact learning - memorization, rules of phonics and spelling, rules of grammar, poems, vocab of foreign languages, stories of history and literature, descriptions of plants, animals, and human body, math facts, etc.
Logic Stage (grades 5-8): Cause and effect, relationships among different fields of knowledge, the way facts fit together into a logical framework. Learn algebra and logic, the logic of writing (paragraph construction), reading (criticism and analysis of texts), history (why?).
Rhetoric Stage (grades 9-12): Apply the rules of logic learned in the logic stage with the foundational info from the grammar stage and express conclusions in clear, forceful, elegant language. Also specialize in whatever branch of knowledge attracts her.
DISCLAIMER: I plan to use many elements of the classical education; however the entire program is a little more intense than CM, whose philosophies resonate more with me. I am only including the portions of classical I like on this blog. For a more complete reference, refer to The Well Trained Mind by Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer.
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