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Story of the World Volume 3

6th Grade — Jan 12, 2015 · Comments off

sotw-tnI used the 42 chapters of The Story of the World Volume 3 as guideline to weekly lessons, and created my own history curriculum for my son’s Grade 6 year.

This is what I did:

I used The Story of the World’s 42 chapters as guide for 42 weeks, reading a chapter a week. Then I divided the activities in the Activity Guide for each chapter into daily activities, so that we could do some history every day.

  • I created Activity Sheets to use with each chapter, so my son will complete an activity sheet during the course of every week. On the Activity Sheet, I included
    • a block with Vocabulary words (related to the chapter we read) – new words I thought my son didn’t know yet, together with their explanations, which he can review every day.
    • space for copywork – sentences included on my Mom’s page (from the Activity Book)
    • A map for mapwork, as explained in the Activity Book
    • Pictures to colour (from the Activity Book)
  • I made a list of the Longer Text Assignments (creative writing assignments) that 6th graders are supposed to cover in learning English as home language in schools (so that I had an idea of what to teach my son). Then I integrated them into our Story of the World theme for the week. For example, the first chapter in the Story of the World Vol 3 is about The holy Roman Empire and the Riches of Spain, and one of the Longer Text Assignments for the year is to write a newspaper article. So I made the assignment to Write a Newspaper Article reporting on Charles V’s life and desire to become “Holy Roman Emperor” OR King Philip II and Spain’s riches (the information which he can find in The Story of the World chapter we’re reading). I compiled a rubric for each Longer text assignment, that I can use to mark this assignment (he has a week to complete it), so that I can see where my son needs guidance.
  • I searched and found some books that more or less corresponds with the weekly theme from the Story of the World to use for reading together, and worked out more or less how many pages we should read per day. I didn’t get a book for every week’s theme, but it roughly works out a book for every 4 or so weeks. If we finish a book too quickly, we’ll just find a gap-filler. Not all the books are true stories or historical fiction, some are just for fun reading.
  • Then I found some video clips on Youtube to just complement our weekly theme.
  • I created Timeline Entries for every week, which Buck can paste into his Book of Centuries (from https://simplycharlottemason.com/store/basic-book-of-centuries/) we’ve been working on since 1st Grade.
  • I also created sheets of Create-your-own-Lego-character, so that Buck can look at a photo of the main character spoken of in The Story of the World for the week and create his own version of the person.
  • I included a list of Research Topics as reminder of which library books to look out for.
  • I then added some other interesting topics to study for the same time-period our history covers, which include Art Period, Weapons, Natural Disasters, Composers and Inventions.

 

Listen to samples of the Audio Book of The Story of the World Vol3:

You can download my files (and others) here:

To view our book list for Grade 6, click here.

To view our complete curriculum for Grade 6, click here.

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