Homeschool 2012/13: Historical Fiction for Middle Ages

August 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Along with our wonderful history curriculum, Mystery of History, we’ll be reading lot of historical fiction.  It’s such an exciting way to study history–and makes it more memorable, too!  We’re in volume 2, which covers Pentecost (A.D.  29) through the Gutenberg Press (1456).  This period of history always feels very boy-oriented to me:  evil Roman emperors, Vikings, Knights, Robin Hood, and Marco Polo!  It should be a fun year!

We’ll also be listening to Story of the World in the car (end of volume 1 through volume 2).

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In the following list, the number before the book name is the corresponding chapter in Mystery of History.  (I’m sure we won’t have time to read all of these, but here’s what we’ll choose from.)

1-  John: Son of Thunder (Ellen Gunderson Traylor) own

1- Twice Freed (Patricia St. John) own

2- Adventures in Odyssey:   Bible Eyewitness Hall of Faith, New Testament stories — audiobook at library

9- Pompeii. . .  Buried Alive (Kunhardt) library; The Buried City of Pompeii (Tanaka) library; Eyewitness: Volcano (Dorlink Kindersly) DVD at library

22- Days of Knights and Damsels: An Activity Guide (Carlson) own

22- The Knight and the Dragon (Tomie DePaola) own

22- St. George and the Dragon (Hodges) own

22- The Barefoot Book of Knights (Matthews) own

22-The Door in the Wall (Margueite de Angeli) own

22- Castle (David MacCauley) library

22- Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess, Page (Platt) library

22- The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (Pyle) own on Kindle

22- King Arthur and His Knights (Jim Weiss) audiobook at libary

23- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (Mark Twain) audiobook at library

24- Camelot — DVD at library

25- Across a Dark and Wild Sea (Don Brown) library

32- Beowulf (children’s version) library

38- Arabian Nights (Jim Weiss) audiobook at library

37- Son of Charlemagne (Barbara Willard) own

39- Beorn the Proud (Pollard) own

40- The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow (French) library

47- Grimm’s Fairy Tales — own on Kindle

52- Leif the Lucky (D’Aulaire) library

53- Macbeth: For Kids (Burdett) or in Lamb’s Book of Shakespeare — both at library

53- MacBeth- DVD of the play — library

53- Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare (Nesbitt) own on Kindle

55- Cathedral (David MacCauley) library

58- Paula the Waldensian (Lecomte, translated by W.M. Strong) own on Kindle

62- Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest (Ann McGovern) own

62- Robin Hood — movie versions

63- The Trumpeter of Krakow (Kelly) library

63- Men of Iron (Pyle) own on Kindle, audiobook at library

64- The Apple and the Arrow (Buff) library

66- Adam of the Road (Gray) own

71- Marco Polo for Kids (Herbert) library

71- Marco Polo (Kent) own

72- In Freedom’s Cause:  A Story of Wallace and Bruce (Henty) audiobook at library

78- The Beggar’s Bible (Vernon) own

78- Morning Star of the Reformation (Thomson) own

79- Chanticleer and the Fox (adapted by Barbara Cooney) library

81- Joan of Arc (Morpurgo) own

 

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Lapbook Fun

October 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment

I have just updated this post and added it to a page.  I hope this helps you enjoy lapbooks in your homeschool!

We’ve been doing lapbooks at our house for a number of years now.  It’s really a fun way to organize the unit study and have a culminating project that doesn’t take up too much space.  I keep them handy on a book-shelf and often see the kids take one out to look through it (reviewing what they’ve learned!)

I’ve made up my own and purchased complete kits.  But I really love finding free ones online.  More and more are being posted all the time.
Below you’ll find some links that will help you find one on almost any subject you can think of.  By the way, if you don’t know what a lapbook is, look at Jimmie’s Squidoo site or Jamin’s blog for a full tutorial!

My Posts about lapbooking:

(To see other posts than what is listed below, click on “lapbooks” under Categories in the sidebar.)

Ten Commandments

Weather, Obedience, and Money

Thanksgiving/Pilgrims

Polar Regions

Resurrection

Human Body

Outer Space

Plants

Goodnight Moon

Olympics

Oceans

Deserts

Martin Luther and Reformation

Rainforest

American Indians

Kung Fu Panda

Africa

Simple Machines

Vikings

Cowboys

Pirates

World Explorers

Colonial Times

Revolutionary War

Hermit Crabs

Civil War

Industrial Revolution Through Great Depression

Katy and the Big Snow

Johnny Appleseed

September 11

Free lapbooks:

http://lapbooksbycarisa.homestead.com/TotBooks.html

http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.com/Lapbooks2.html

http://www.lapbooklessons.com/FreeLapbooks.html

http://www.homeschoolhelperonline.com/lapbooks.htm

http://www.homeschoolshare.com/Lapbooks_at_HSS.php

http://www.handsofachild.com/freebie.html

http://liveandlearnpress.com/freebies.php

http://www.knowledgeboxcentral.com/frse.html

http://www.psscentral.com/index.php?pr=Bible_Story_Mini_Books

Companies that sell lapbook packages:

(Almost all of these can be purchased through CurrClick.com also.)

http://www.handsofachild.com/

http://liveandlearnpress.com/

http://www.knowledgeboxcentral.com/

http://homeschoolinthewoods.com/

http://ajourneythroughlearning.com/

http://www.fortunatelyforyoubooks.com/

Notebooking Pages (lined paper)

http://www.homeschool.consumerhelpweb.com/basics/notebooking-pages.htm

Images and Clip-Art for Lapbooks

University of Texas
Timelines http://www.lib.utexas.edu/exhibits/portraits/index.html
google.com (images)

http://www.ace-clipart.com/

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Viking lapbook

May 3, 2009 By 1 Comment
In our history study, we have made it up to the Viking age.  We did a lapbook last week on vikings.  We read a lot of library books, including the Magic Tree House book “Viking Ships at Sunrise” and a much more advanced (and more enjoyable!) book called “Rolf and the Viking Bow.”  My sons have also done some neat drawings of vikings and ships. 
I like to create our own lapbooks and will be doing that for our next one (check back to see what it is!), but this one was completely from a Hands of a Child project pack.

Find it at CurrClick.
CurrClick

Below  are some pictures.  I love the cover designed by my 7 yo son.  It says “No Horns”.  We learned that vikings didn’t have horns on their helmets!

Timeline of events, clothing, vocabulary, family life, weapons,sagas, societal classes

Ships, trade, language, kennings, maps

(Sorry the picture is turned–I can’t figure out how to fix it.)
My saga (written by my 8 yo son), famous vikings, religion, and burial

 

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