Inca, Aztec and Maya

Rachel, you really are my hero!!!  This is list is incredible (and printed ) in my folder.  Thank you so much for taking the time to write and then post this list.  It was very kind of you, and I am thankful!!!  You are amazing.  

I am always amazed how together you are on this stuff and the stuff I want to do (like chickens).  DH and I have been talking about moving, I might talk him into moving down your street yet.  (Haha, just kidding.  I’m not moving anywhere hotter than here)     I am going to have to remember that Heritage History is there and use it more often. 

I thought that I would of course leave up our timeline of the Ancient Egypt, Greek and Rome studies along with the Bible figures.  Then we could add a few important more figures along the dates to make the parralel connections with.  We will review the Bible stories that are in the timeframe of the figures.

I love notebooking because it is less “crafty” than lapbooking, and still allows a lot of freedom to choose a topic or design for a narration.  I loved the bookmarks that my3boys or 4my boys (I think) came up with for helping me have a visual reminder of optional narration types to use.  (those are laminated and are ready to go, thank you!)

I was going to look for coloring books (Dover?) because sometimes that helps my girls focus on the story better.  I am going to try to find some (a few!) projects to make out of the stories we are reading. 

I love the map ideas of tracking the movements, and since I have very limited wall space, maybe we can have a few of the 8 1/2 x11 size that we can use for the notebooks and 1 for the wall. 

If we use living books, and incorporate maps, timelines, projects, scriptures, and notebooking it should really make these cultures mean something to our children as well…does this sound like an interesting module to you?  Any other ideas?

Heidi – Do you think that the unit study could come in handy as I look for project ideas?  It looked like it could have some ideas.  Anyway, thanks for that link, that is on my list now too.  =)

Rachel, are most of these books from the Heritage History site or Amazon?  Thanks again.  Sheila

Ladies!  This is all so amazing!  Thank you for sharing all your hard work of organizing this.  I was thinking of doing something similar this year, shortening the Roman study and adding in other ancient cultures, but it certainly wasn’t of this magnitude.  I also may cover some of it during next summer if we don’t get through it all.

Awesome!

Here’s the book list and projects I did with my son a couple years ago.

http://www.squidoo.com/lostempires 

I also have links to free items online that might be useful to others.

I’m bumping –

I would also like to know with the other ancients, how do you incorporate bible into this?

thanks

I don’t know how helpful I will be; I don’t use the Modules and do our Bible separately.

Also, the main bulk of our new year doesn’t start till mid-Oct., only the first 2 weeks of Sept for misc. studies, so I have just barely begun to put a schedule together.

It’s not hard to add in another time period, it’s just whether you want to do it more structurally or just just add books in as needed. So you could have one day for the “other” ancient civilization for the time period you’re working in while the other 2 days are for the Modules; just keep the pace fairly  consistant. It doesn’t have to be perfectfully in line (sometimes I’ve been a couple hundred years off), just close. That way you don’t have to actually stop anywhere in the Modules to cover something else, just keep moving forward and those 3 days are basically parallel to each other. If you keep a timeline or BOC, they will keep it all together (even without one they will, but the visuals make it easier). I guess the same would be true if you’re using the Modules for Bible study, too.

My suggestion is to find out what books of these cultures you can get at the library or purchase and write them down in the chronological order that they would fall in, in relation to the SCM Modules. Put that piece of paper in the Module (like an insert) or where you will use it at the appropriate timing.

I do Bible as a separate subject. This year I’m going to do Ancient History 2 days and Middle Ages/Renaissance history 2 days. The daily Bible study is the Greenleaf History of the Old Testament; for the Ancients, I’m using Gerber’s book as a spine and All Through the Ages for other book suggestions (as well as our Sabbath reading out of A Child’s History of the Hebrew People from Dorothy Zeligs ). I’ll assign independant reading for the two time periods on their respective days (we’ve done this method for this past year, studying Am. Hist. and early middle ages at the same time).

Plus, one day I will read from (or they’ll listen to) a collection of folk tales/fables/fairy tales from a region that we are studying. I think they’ll be able to parallel the times due to using these resources and makin special note of what time epriod we’re in and using a BOC and our Adam’s Timechart.

As you can tell, I’m at the beginning of this scheduling and I haven’t solidified how I will completely put it all together. I just plugged-in what I think I’m going to do on what day on my weekly schedule last night.

HTH (but I’m not sure!),

Rachel

ps. I recommend Genghis Kahn and the Mongol Horde for ages 9-12 by LAndmark, too. My children really enjoyed and learned a lot from that book.