An Overview of this Years Assignments
Susan Wise Bauer does a wonderful job of telling the Story of the World in her book entitled as such. Because we are hoping to give your child a visual timeline at the end of the year, we do not assign the chapters in order of the week, but instead to coordinate with the timeline dates.
At times we will have your student read a whole chapter, or two, and other times we have chosen just a section to go along with the week's lesson.
Please have your student read the chapter before class, then do the corresponding activities, and the maps which have to do with the country in the title.
Week One: Yamato Dynasty / 3 Kingdoms in Korea
Story of the World
Chapter 9: "East of China"
Additional Reading: None
Week Two: Rome Sacked the Visigoths
Story of the World
Chapter 1: “The Glory That Was Rome”
Additional Reading: Chapter 4: “The Byzantine Empire”
Week Three: End of Skandagupta's Reign
Story of the World
Chapter 5: “The Medieval Indian Empire”
Additional Reading: Chapter 2 “The Early Days of Britain”
Week Four: Augustine Begins His Mission
Story of the World
Chapter 3: “Christianity Comes to Britain“
Additional Reading: Chapter 4 “The Byzantine Empire”
Chapter 8 Section: “Yang Chien Unites North and South”
Week Five: Muhammed Flees to Medina
Story of the World
Chapter 6: “The Rise of Islam”
Additional Reading: Chapter 7 “Islam Becomes an Empire”
Week Six: Battle of Tours
Story of the World
Chapter 11: “The Kingdomof the Franks”
Additional Reading: Chapter 12 “The Islamic Invasion”
Week Seven: Charlemagne
Story of the World
Chapter 13 “The Great Kings of France”
Additional Reading: None
Week Eight: Viking Raids on Europe
Story of the World
Chapter 14 “The Arrival of the Norsemen”
Additional Reading: Chapter 15 Section one Entitled “The Vikings Invade England”
Week Nine: Maori Settle In
Story of the World
Chapter 10 “The Bottom of the World”
Additional Reading: 8 section two entitled “The Tang Dynasty”
Week Ten: Alfred the Great Comes to the English Throne
Story of the World
Chapter 15 second section entitled “Alfred the Great”
Additional Reading: Chapter 16 “England After the Conquest”
Week Eleven: The Battle of Hastings
Story of the World
Chapter 15 third section entitled “The Battle of Hastings”
Additional Reading: Chapter 17 “Knights and Samurai”
Week Twelve: Jerusalem Captured by Crusaders
Story of the World
Chapter 18 First two sections of “The Age of Crusades” Entitled:
“A Command from the Pope”
“Recapturing Jerusalem”
Additional Reading: Chapter 20 “The Diaspora”
Week Thirteen: Saladin Retakes Jerusalem
Story of the World
Chapter 18 last two sections of “The Age of Crusades” Entitled:
“Saladin of Jerusalem”
“El Cid and the “Reconquest of Spain” “
Additional Reading: None
Week Fourteen: King John and The Magna Carta
Story of the World
Chapter 19: “A New Kind of King”
Additional Reading: None
Week Fifteen: Marco Polo
Story of the World
Chapter 21 and 22
“Mongols Devastate the East”
“Exploring the Mysterious East”
Additional Reading: None
Week Sixteen: Mansa Musa
Story of the World
Chapter 29 “African Kingdoms”
Additional Reading: None
Week Seventeen: Tenochtitlan Built
Story of the World
Chapter 32 “The American Kingdoms”
Additional Reading: Chapter 25 “The End of the World”
Week Eighteen: Prince Henry the Navigator
Story of the World
Chapter 28 “The Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal”
Additional Reading: None
Week Nineteen: Joan of Arc
Story of the World
Chapter 26 ” France and England at War”
Additional Reading: None
Week Twenty: War of Roses
Story of the World
Nothing assigned
Further Reading: TBD
Week Twenty One: End of the Byzantine Empire
Story of the World
Chapter 24 “The Ottoman Empire”
Additional Reading: None
Week Twenty Two: Ivan the Great
Story of the World
Chapter 23 “The First Russians”
Additional Reading: None
Week Twenty Three: Christopher Columbus
Story of the World
Chapter 31 “Exploring the New Worlds”
Additional Reading: None
Week Twenty Four: The Start of the Reformation
Story of the World
Chapter 34, 35, and 36
“Martin Luther’s New Ideas”
“The Renaissance”
“Reformation and Counter Reformation”
Week Twenty Five: Explorers Encounter Kingdoms
Story of the World
Chapter 33 “Spain, Portugal, and the New World”
Additional Reading: Chapter 30 “India Under the Moghuls”
Week Twenty Six: Queen Elizabeth
Story of the World
Chapter 38 “England’s Greatest Queen”
Additional Reading: None
Week Twenty Seven: Roanoke Island
Story of the World
Chapter 40 “New Ventures to the Americas”
Additional Reading: None
Week Twenty Eight: Spanish Armada
Story of the World
Chapter 42 “Empires Collide”
Additional Reading: None
Week Twenty Nine: Native Americans
Story of the World
Chapter 41 “Explorations in the North”
Additional Reading: Chapter 37 “The New Universe”
Week Thirty: Shakespeare
Story of the World
Chapter 39 “Englands Greatest Playwright”
Additional Reading: None