Another sneak peek into Rev. to Rev.
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 8:10 pm
Ladies,
I thought you might enjoy another sneak peek into Revival to Revolution. So, here goes! Our guide will be scheduling Map Trek maps to coordinate with the history study in Revival to Revolution. We are blessed that the Johnson's are producing a special printable CD for Heart of Dakota of just the needed maps for Revival to Revolution from the Map Trek series.
Another sneak peek is that we will be including a weekly "Worthy Words" entry in the Student Notebook based on primary source documents. These "Worthy Words" will be excerpts from speeches and letters that give insight into what the students are reading within their history on that particular day. I have just finished finding, reading, sorting, and gathering the selections and am very excited about them. Of course, at this level, the students will mainly be reading and pondering the meaning of these not-so-easy excerpts, but it is a great introduction into primary source documents that provides a wonderful glimpse into the time period.
A third terrific part of the Revival to Revolution guide will be having classic poetry about historic events and people matched to the readings once weekly as well. After reading the whole poem and thinking about its meaning and the connections to the history reading for that day, the students will be copying a portion of each classic poem into their Student Notebook. The poems are by wonderfully famous authors and include poets like Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Phillis Wheatley, Lord Byron, John Greenleaf Whittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Carl Sandburg, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord AlfredTennyson, and others! They are not easy, but they are inspiring, and they will make the kiddos think!
One last item that I'll share is that the Student Notebook will also have a small full-color picture of a famous painting each week which shows an event or person that the students have read about that week in history. The paintings are beautiful and really do bring history off the pages and hopefully into students' hearts!
And in case you weren't remembering, there will be a section at the beginning of the notebook for research entries on the lives of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. There will be an entry box for each of the signers, with each man's picture, so students will have one place to record their findings about the the men who were willing to sign away their very lives so that America could be free! We will be including a book option to use for the research on the signers within our packages. If you desire to use your own source instead that may add time to the day but will work as well. Research will be done once weekly in Revival to Revolution.
Blessings,
Carrie
I thought you might enjoy another sneak peek into Revival to Revolution. So, here goes! Our guide will be scheduling Map Trek maps to coordinate with the history study in Revival to Revolution. We are blessed that the Johnson's are producing a special printable CD for Heart of Dakota of just the needed maps for Revival to Revolution from the Map Trek series.
Another sneak peek is that we will be including a weekly "Worthy Words" entry in the Student Notebook based on primary source documents. These "Worthy Words" will be excerpts from speeches and letters that give insight into what the students are reading within their history on that particular day. I have just finished finding, reading, sorting, and gathering the selections and am very excited about them. Of course, at this level, the students will mainly be reading and pondering the meaning of these not-so-easy excerpts, but it is a great introduction into primary source documents that provides a wonderful glimpse into the time period.
A third terrific part of the Revival to Revolution guide will be having classic poetry about historic events and people matched to the readings once weekly as well. After reading the whole poem and thinking about its meaning and the connections to the history reading for that day, the students will be copying a portion of each classic poem into their Student Notebook. The poems are by wonderfully famous authors and include poets like Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Phillis Wheatley, Lord Byron, John Greenleaf Whittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Carl Sandburg, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord AlfredTennyson, and others! They are not easy, but they are inspiring, and they will make the kiddos think!
One last item that I'll share is that the Student Notebook will also have a small full-color picture of a famous painting each week which shows an event or person that the students have read about that week in history. The paintings are beautiful and really do bring history off the pages and hopefully into students' hearts!
And in case you weren't remembering, there will be a section at the beginning of the notebook for research entries on the lives of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. There will be an entry box for each of the signers, with each man's picture, so students will have one place to record their findings about the the men who were willing to sign away their very lives so that America could be free! We will be including a book option to use for the research on the signers within our packages. If you desire to use your own source instead that may add time to the day but will work as well. Research will be done once weekly in Revival to Revolution.
Blessings,
Carrie