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American
History Curriculum Daily Schedule Week 9
This is our daily schedule
page for week nine of our American history
curriculum.
Materials
and books are listed here in more detail.
See
below the schedule for notes.
| Week 9 |
Day 1 |
Day
2 |
Day 3 |
Day 4 |
Day
5 |
Viking Treasure Chest
|
Read the book.
Put
the stickers on the Viking World poster. |
Sundial
project
Put the stickers on the mythology poster. |
Viking
Boat Model |
Play Hnefatafl |
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| Reader |
Leif
the Lucky
p.1-12
Put cover of
book into timeline (1000 A.D.).
|
Leif
the Lucky
p.14-25 |
Leif
the Lucky
p.26-38 |
Leif
the Lucky
p.40-54
End of book! |
Leif
Bingo Game Questions and Answers (goes with Leif the Lucky book) Viking Bingo
Cards: 1, 2, 3
|
| History Reading |
p.1-13
The Discovery of the Americas
This
Country of Ours Chapter
1 (1st part) |
p.14 - 24 The Discovery
of the Americas
This Country of
Ours Chapter
1 (2nd part) |
p. 25 - 35 The Discovery
of the Americas
|
p.36 - 43 The
Discovery of the Americas
End of the book! |
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| Map/Globe |
The
Viking Treasure Chest Poster "The Viking World" |
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| Notebooking |
Viking
Explorer Game |
A
day in the life of a Viking writing activity
|
Draw
Write Now:
p.36-27 The East |
Timeline
Cut and Paste
Use this
page as a guide. |
Write
a message in runes |
| Science |
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| Cooking |
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| Timeline Entries |
Leif the
Lucky 1000 A.D. |
See notes below |
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| Extras |
Iceland
and Greenland Video |
Thorkel
and the trading ship Shockwave game |
Wee Sing: Marine’s
Hymn |
Viking
boat model *not needed if you have the Treasure Chest |
Vikings
in America Video
Leif Bingo Game |
Map
notes:
1. Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Trinidad, Strait of Magellan, Philippine
Islands, New Foundland, Canada, Cape of Good Hope
2. Norway, Iceland, Greenland,
Scandinavia: (Norway, Sweden, Denmark) 3. Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Scotland,
Ireland, England, Normandy, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Hedeby, Russia, Iceland,
Faroes Islands, Vinland (Newfoundland), Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Arabia,
Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf, Baghdad, etc.
We
played "where is that?". We looked at the map provided on the Viking Treasure
Chest poster and then located the places on our globe.
Timeline notes:
When reading the Discovery of the Americas book you may want to enter in the following:.
Marco Polo
1492 Columbus
Bartolomeu Dias 1488 rounded the Cape of Good
Hope
Vasco da Gama 1497-1499 sailed to India
King Ferdinand, Queen Isabella
of Spain
John Cabot 1497 sailed to New Foundland, Canada
Amerigo Vespucci
Balboa 1513 the first European to sight the Pacific Ocean
Ferdinand Magellan
1519 left Spain to begin a journey around the Earth
1522 Magellan’s one surviving
ship returns to Spain without him (he died in 1521 in the Philippine islands) |
