An Overview of this Years Assignments

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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. 

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Week One: Yamato Dynasty / 3 Kingdoms in Korea​

Story of the World 

Chapter 9: "East of China"

Additional Reading: None


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Week Two: Rome Sacked the Visigoths

 Story of the World 

Chapter 1: “The Glory That Was Rome”

Additional Reading: Chapter 4: “The Byzantine Empire”


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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”


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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”


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Week Five: Muhammed Flees to Medina

 Story of the World 

Chapter 6: “The Rise of Islam”

Additional Reading: Chapter 7 “Islam Becomes an Empire”


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Week Six: Battle of Tours

 Story of the World 

Chapter 11: “The Kingdomof the Franks”

Additional Reading: Chapter 12 “The Islamic Invasion”


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Week Seven: Charlemagne

 Story of the World 

Chapter 13 “The Great Kings of France”

Additional Reading: None


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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”


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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”


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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”


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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”


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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”


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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


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Week Fourteen: King John and The Magna Carta

 Story of the World 

Chapter 19: “A New Kind of King”

Additional Reading: None 


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Week Fifteen: Marco Polo

 Story of the World 

Chapter 21 and 22

“Mongols Devastate the East”

“Exploring the Mysterious East”

Additional Reading: None


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Week Sixteen: Mansa Musa

 Story of the World 

Chapter 29 “African Kingdoms”

Additional Reading: None 


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Week Seventeen: Tenochtitlan Built

 Story of the World 

Chapter 32 “The American Kingdoms”

Additional Reading: Chapter 25 “The End of the World”


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Week Eighteen: Prince Henry the Navigator

 Story of the World 

Chapter 28 “The Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal”

Additional Reading: None


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Week Nineteen: Joan of Arc

 Story of the World 

Chapter 26 ” France and England at War”

Additional Reading: None


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Week Twenty: War of Roses

 Story of the World 

Nothing assigned

Further Reading: TBD


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Week Twenty One: End of the Byzantine Empire

 Story of the World 

Chapter 24 “The Ottoman Empire”

Additional Reading: None


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Week Twenty Two: Ivan the Great

 Story of the World 

Chapter 23 “The First Russians” 

Additional Reading: None 


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Week Twenty Three: Christopher Columbus

 Story of the World 

Chapter 31 “Exploring the New Worlds”

Additional Reading: None


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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”

 


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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”


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Week Twenty Six: Queen Elizabeth

 Story of the World 

Chapter 38 “England’s Greatest Queen”

 Additional Reading: None


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Week Twenty Seven: Roanoke Island

 Story of the World 

Chapter 40 “New Ventures to the Americas”

Additional Reading: None


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Week Twenty Eight: Spanish Armada

 Story of the World 

Chapter 42 “Empires Collide”

Additional Reading: None 


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Week Twenty Nine: Native Americans

 Story of the World 

Chapter 41 “Explorations in the North”

Additional Reading: Chapter 37 “The New Universe”


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Week Thirty: Shakespeare

 Story of the World 

Chapter 39 “Englands Greatest Playwright”

Additional Reading: None