Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Story of the World: Our Lessons and Resources


I am starting a series where I share our Story of the World adventures.  We started when my son was 7, and went very slowly at first, adjusting lessons to his short attention span.   The next year we joined up with a co-op doing this Volume, and went at a much faster pace, so later chapters (7 and on) show that somewhat.   I took notes and am gradually adding these as I have time.  Sorry for the slow place on adding new units.

NOTE:   I don't want anyone to think you HAVE to do all the supplementary stuff we did for SOTW.  Many people just read the chapters and talk about them, maybe do an extra activity now and then.    We did so much at first because I have a kiddo that needed that to get him engaged, and also because I love history and just wanted to do some of these things with him.  But as we progressed we gradually did less projects and supplementing.
 
STORY OF THE WORLD POSTS
All of my Story of the World posts will be linked below, once they're published.

GENERAL SOTW RELATED POSTS

OTHER HISTORY RELATED POSTS


OUR LESSON PLANS/IDEAS BY CHAPTER
Each post will be linked as it is added

INTRO
How Do We Know What Happened
- What Is History
- What is Archaeology

Chap 1
The Earliest People
- The First Nomads
- The First Nomads Become Farmers

Chap 2
Egyptians Lived on the Nile River
- Two Kingdoms Become One
- Gods of Ancient Egypt

Chap 3
The First Writing

Chap 4
The Old Kingdom of Egypt
- Making Mummies
- Egyptian Pyramids

Chap 5
The First Sumerian Dictator

Chap 6
- The Jewish People

Chap 7
- Hammurabi and the Babylonians

Chap 8
- The Assyrians

Chap 9
The First Cities of India
- The River Road
- The Mystery of Mohenjo-Daro

Chap 10
The Far East:  Ancient China
- Lei Zu and the Silkworm
- The Pictograms of Ancient China
- Farming in Ancient China

Chap 11
Ancient Africa
- Ancient Peoples of West Africa
- Anansi and Turtle
- Anansi and the Make Believe Food (Sorry, we skipped this)

Chap 12
The Middle Kingdom of Egypt
- Egypt Invades Nubia
- The Hyksos Invade Egypt

Chap 13
The New Kingdom of Egypt
- The General and the Woman Pharaoh
- Amenhotep and King Tut

Chap 14
The Israelites Leave Egypt (Moses/Exodus)

Chap 15
The Phoenicians

Chap 16
The Return of the Assyrians

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Chapter 18 - 25 (Ancient Greece)
For now, I'm just sharing a outline of the resources I used for these chapters.


Please stop by often to see what's been added!



This post is linking up at Hip Homeschool Moms, The Homeschool Nook, A Little Bird Told Me, Love to Learn Hop, School House Review, Dear Homeschooler Bookshelf, Throwback Thursday, and Back to Homeschool Blog Hop 2017 (no longer up): Curriculum, and various other homeschool link-ups.

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15 comments:

  1. How great! I love reading what others are doing with Story of the World! We are also using it and have been taking our time to go through it.

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    1. I'm the same way. I love too see all the creative things people do with it.

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  2. How great that you coop is working with Story of the World. I love that you are posting what you have been adding to the lessons to engage your child. Having ADHD kiddos myself, this would have been very helpful to read when I was going through this same book.

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    1. Thanks. So how did your kids do with Story of the World? Did you do anything to supplement that worked well? If so, I'd love to hear about it...maybe try out some of your ideas.

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    1. I am sorry I have been so slow about adding more chapters (and sorry I missed your comment earlier). I was finding it hard to keep up with both homeschool and blogging...and planned to add the rest come summer. Where are you in SOTW? I did make an outline for what we did in ancient Greece...it doesn't have all the paragraph by paragraph info, but it does have the extra resources/videos we used with it. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oxjmtCoHHP1tsROwG08lcTptBBCC9sVBLSlt4zlA_uM/edit?usp=sharing

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  4. Thanks for sharing! I'm going to share this with my Story of the World Group.

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  5. What a wonderful round- up of adventures. Thanks for sharing with us at Love to Learn. Pinned.

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  6. Pinning to my homeschool history board. :)

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  7. wow... all we did was read through it and talk. :) Never thought about doing anything extra with it. Good job!

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    1. Thanks. A lot of people do just read and talk about it and there's nothing wrong with that. I love history and wanted my son to love it too...but when we started this he had never even let me read a chapter in a chapter book to him. He struggled with just listening to things half the length of a SOTW chapter even when there was pictures. But I loved history and desperately wanted him to love it too...and I liked how SOTW handled this and hadn't found anything shorter that was similar, so I just went to great lengths to make it work. (Plus I was kinda excited to do some hands on history projects...as time went on my son got less interested in those though and we did them less often). I hope when people read this they don't feel pressured to do as much, especially if less is working just fine...or that they think you HAVE to do this much with this curriculum. Many people don't do any of this and their kids still love it.

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  8. Gale... that pausitiveLiving contest IS for USA as well as Canada. the math thing is for canada laws. so please enter

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