Sam – 5Th Grade 2021-2022 Course of Study
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Sam – 5th Grade 2021-2022 Course of Study Bible Old Testament: Prophets/Kings New Testament: Life of Christ (gospels in harmony), part 1 Scripture Memory as a family Our 24 Family Ways by Clay Clarkson Developing a Quiet Time Instruction With Mom (Not Consumed Resource) Route 66: Atrip Through the 66 Books of the Bible With Mom Jesus, Who Are You (Beginner Inductive Bible Study) A Content Heart: Finding Godly Contentment in a Me-First World (Not Consumed) Language Arts (Reading, Oral/Written Narration, Copywork/Penmanship/Dictation, Grammar, Recitation, Typing) • 3 Written Narrations per week (once a month edit a narration) • Common Place Book • Poetry Memorization (Finish Level 1 & Start Level 2, IEW) • Typing.com & Easy Peasy Computer Science History This Country of Ours by H.E. Marshall Answering the Cry for Freedom by Gretchen Woelfle, ch. 5-8 George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster History Tales and/or Biography Trial and Triumph by Richard Hannula * ** Of Courage Undaunted: Across the Continent with Lewis and Clark by James Daugherty ** *** Theodore Roosevelt by Janet & Geoff Benge Geography Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling The Complete Book of Marvels by Richard Halliburton consists of Book 1, The Occident and Book 2, The Orient Ten minutes of map drills each week Locate places from the day's reading on a map In addition, these geography concepts should be explained and taught this year: • Term 1(draw and water color each one): Land forms such as continent, island, mountain, hill, isthmus (neck), mainland, peninsula, cape, plain, prairie, shore, forest, field, plain, tundra, desert, oasis. Bodies of water such as: brook, creek (stream), river, pond, lake (inlet, outlet), sea, ocean, cove, bay, gulf, strait • Term 2: Food crops (vegetables, grains, fruit) Other useful plants • Term 3: Trees, flowers What plants need to grow. Natural History/Science • The Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock, as scheduled for Nature Study. • Madam How and Lady Why, Volume II, Further Afield by Charles Kingsley, with notes by Anne White • Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton • The Child's Book of Nature, Book II, Animals, by W. Hooker • Great Inventors and Their Inventions by Frank P. Bachman • (or The Story of Inventions Michael J. McHugh and Frank P. Bachman) • The Ocean Of Truth by Joyce McPherson or other biography of Isaac Newton • Exploring Creation with Chemistry & Physics (Apologia) Science Biography Biography of Alexander Graham Bell: Always Inventing by Tom L. Matthews (library) Biography of George Washington Carver by Janet & Geoff Benge Mathematics • Right Start Math, Level E • Math-U-See Epsilon (supplement) • Your Business: Sports Store OR Bookstore (Simply Charlotte Mason) Foreign Language • Spanish Poetry * Rudyard Kipling ** Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Hiawatha *** John Greenleaf Whittier and Paul Laurence Dunbar Literature Plutarch's Lives, following AmblesideOnline's Plutarch rotation Begin a play each term following AmblesideOnline's Shakespeare rotation Julius Caesar: https://archive.org/details/juliuscaesar_1002_librivox/juliuscaesar_01_shakespeare.mp3 **The Two Gentlemen of Verona *** Romeo and Juliet Memorize Shakespeare together The Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch (Kindle & Library) Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson ** Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens *** Kim by Rudyard Kipling The following short works - *** The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving *** Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (library) *** Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving Additional Books for Free Reading Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes Black Beauty by Anna Sewell Lassie Come Home by Eric Knight Gentle Ben by Walt Morey Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright The Borrowers by Mary Norton By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder Little Women by Louisa May Alcott King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge Michael Faraday, Father of Electronics by Charles Ludwig *Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham **Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith **Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt Picture Study Jan VanEyck (1395-1441; Flemish Northern Renaissance) (SCM) ** Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510; Florentine Renaissance) (SCM) *** Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840; German Romantic) (free on AO) Drawing https://www.weareteachers.com/third-grade-art/ Hymns https://amblesideonline.org/Hymns.shtml July: Come Thou Almighty King August: Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior September: I Am Resolved October: To God Be The Glory November: The Love of God December: Tell Me The Story Of Jesus January: O God, Our Help In Ages Past February: Leaning on the Everlasting Arms March: At Calvary April: Am I A Soldier Of The Cross? May: Now Thank We All Our God June: 'Tis So Sweet To Trust in Jesus Folksongs Wee Sing Fun-n-Folk July: Crawdad Song August: Bought Me a Cat September: Polly Wolly Doodle October: Short’nin’ Bread November: Turkey in the Straw December: Jingle at the Window January: Buffalo Gals February: The Arkansas Traveler March: The Railroad Cars Are Coming April: Little Liza Jane May: Shoo Fly June: Oh, Dear! What Can the Matter Be? Music Composer https://amblesideonline.org/ComposerSch.shtml Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) and Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921; Romantic) ** Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685-1750; Baroque) *** Franz Liszt (1811-1886; Romantic) .