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We are happy to announce that our Task Card Series is now available in PDF form. Thank you for your encouragement, support, and patience!

The High School History and Literature Series will be rolling out next. Volume Three is in our editor's hands and our hope is that all four volumes will be done by summer.

Posted by Amy Kate at 5/8/2013 6:25 PM | Add Comment

High School History and Literature Vol. 3 Early Modern Supporting Links

General Links for Multiple Weeks:
Literature -
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nawest/content/quiz/index.htm

Writing Literary Analysis Papers -
http://www.roanestate.edu/owl/types.html

http://www.germanna.edu/tutor/handouts/english/literary_analysis.pdf

http://www.gmc.edu/students/arc/documents/Literary%20analysis.pdf

Week One:

History
http://elizabethan.org/

http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-music.htm

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/liza/hd_liza.htm

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/16th_century/raleigh.asp

Literature
http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/sonnet/wyatt.php?section=15

http://www.bardweb.net/

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/shakespeare-sonnets.html

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/shakesonnets/summary.html

Week Two:

History
http://elizabethan.org/

Literature
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature-study-guides.html

Week Three:

History
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/pdf/eng/Doc.7-ENG-Heberle_en.pd

A translation of the Peace of Westphalia:
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/westphal.asp.

Week Four:
Literature
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/pilgrims-progress.html

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/pilgrims-progress.html

http://acacia.pair.com/Acacia.John.Bunyan/

http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpbunyan.html

Week Five:

History
http://www.pbs.org/empires/japan/theprogram.html

http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/tps/1450_jp.htm#social

Literature
http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/pope/rape.html

Week Six:
Explore documents on the Quing Emperors here:
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/tps/1450.htm#qingovt

Literature
http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/drydenj/about.htm

http://www.poemhunter.com/john-donne/

www.sparknotes.com/poetry/donne/

http://www.poemhunter.com/john-dryden-2/

Week Seven:

Fine Arts
http://www.muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=323

http://www.muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=477

Documents
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/tps/1450_sa.htm#taj

Literature
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gulliver/

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/gullivers-travels/book-summary.html

www.lonestar.edu/library/kin_GulliversTravels.htm

Week Eight:

Government documents
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/statech.asp

Literature
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/lesmis/context.html

Dynamic Interaction
http://guides.mtholyoke.edu/history255spring2013

Week Nine:

History
www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/

www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/civil_war_revolution/

Literature
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/lesmis/context.html

Week Ten:
Primary Source Documents
http://www.historytools.org/sources/equiano.pdf

http://amhistory.si.edu/onthewater/oral_histories/life_at_sea/pdf/guide_equiano.pdf

Dynamic Interaction
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/spirituals/meaning.cfm

thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/files/2012/02/Thabiti-Jonathan-Edwards-slavery-and-theological-appropriation.pdf

Week Eleven:
History

http://en.chateauversailles.fr/history/versailles-during-the-centuries/living-at-the-court/a-day-in-the-life-of-louis-xiv

Literature
www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/faust/poem-summary.html

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/faust/poem-summary.html

http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/faust.html

Dynamic Interaction Literature
www.nndb.com/people/962/000024890/

Week Twelve:

Fine Arts
www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_6_2.html

www.biography.com/people/ivan-iv-9350679www.biography.com>

www.biography.com/people/peter-the-great-9542228

Literature

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/faust/poem-summary.html

http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/faust.html

Week Thirteen:

Text of Treaty of Paris

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/paris.asp

Literature

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/pride-and-prejudice/book-summary.html

Dynamic Interaction Literature
http://www.janeausten.org/

Week Fourteen:
Read journal entries from voyages to the South Seas here:
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/index_voyaging.html

Study historical maps here:
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/index_maps.html

Study cultural atlases here:
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/index_cultural.html

Read accounts of indigenous people here:
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/index_indigenous.html

Literature:

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/pride-and-prejudice/book-summary.html

Week Fifteen:
History
http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/ufhatch/pages/03-Sci-Rev/SCI-REV-Home/index.html

Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/newton-philosophy/

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz/

Week Sixteen:
Government
Montesquieu

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/montesquieu/

John Locke
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke-political/

Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/berkeley/

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/franklinautobio/context.html

Dynamic Interaction Literature

http://www.bronte.org.uk/haworth-and-the-brontes/family-and-friends/charlotte-bronte

Week Seventeen:

Government
The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson
www.loc.gov>">www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/DeclarInd.html

Common Sense, Thomas Paine
">hua.umf.maine.edu/Reading_Revolutions/Paine.html

The Federalist Papers, Hamilton
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fedpapers.html

Philosophy
plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke-moral/

Dynamic Interaction
http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/aea/index.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/

Literature
xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/bb/bb_main.html

Dynamic Interaction Literature
www.melville.org/

Week Eighteen:
Historical Figures
www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents

Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume/

Government
Articles of Confederation
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/articles.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/continental/intro01.html

Constitution of the United States
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/constitution/

Alien and Sedition Acts
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/alsedact.asp

Week Nineteen:
Government
Declaration of the Rights of Man
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp

Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/voltaire/

Dynamic Interaction

http://www.history.com/topics/french-revolution

Dynamic Interaction Literature
www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/poet/thoreau.html

http://thoreau.eserver.org/images.html

Week Twenty
Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal/

Dynamic Interaction
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/cotton-gin-patent/

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/industrial-revolution/

Government
Karl Marx
http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/communist/

Literature

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/emerson-essays/study-help/essay-questions.html

Dynamic Interaction Literature
www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/poet/emerson.html

Week Twenty-One:

Government
Napoleonic Code

www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Napoleonic_code.html

Dynamic Interaction Literature
charlesdickenspage.com/

Week Twenty-Two:
Government
Missouri Compromise

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Missouri.html

Monroe Doctrine
www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Monroe.html

Marshall Court

www.supremecourthistory.org/history-of-the-court/history-of-the-court-2/the-marshall-court-1801-1835/

Week Twenty-Three:
Philosohpy
Kant
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant/

Week Twenty-Four:
Dynamic Interaction
http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/essay-colonization-of-africa.html

Literature -

http://www.prestwickhouse.com/PDF/SAMPLE/201612.pdf

Week Twenty-Five:

History
http://www.ampltd.co.uk/digital_guides/india_during_the_raj_parts_1_and_2/publishers-note-part-1.aspx

Dynamic Interaction
www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/east_india_01.Shtml

http://www.ampltd.co.uk/digital_guides/india_during_the_raj_parts_1_and_2/publishers-note-part-1.aspx

Literature
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/crime/context.html

Dynamic Interaction Literature
www.district158.org/mbrand/AP%20Eng.%20Lit/AP%20English%20Literature%20&%20Composition/C%20and%20P%20SG%20pdf.pdf

Week Twenty-Six:
Literature
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/crime/context.html

Week Twenty-Seven:
Government
Dawes Act
www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=50

Dynamic Interaction
www.history.com/topics/trail-of-tears

Week Twenty-Eight:
Government
Slavery Abolition Act 1833
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk>

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/lesson27.html

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
">avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/fugitive.asp

Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/johann-fichte/

Historiography
http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=17014406

Dynamic Interaction

abolition.e2bn.org/people.html

Week Twenty-Nine:

Dynamic Interaction
owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/3/33/

Dynamic Interaction Literature
www.waltwhitman.org/

Week Thirty:
Government
www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/home_rule_movement_01.shtml

Dynamic Interaction
Explore the life of Charles Darwin in pictures here:
http://darwin-online.org.uk/life1.html

Explore documents here:
http://darwin-online.org.uk/manuscripts.html

Queen Victoria Documentary
http://www.pbs.org/empires/victoria/

Dynamic Interaction Literature
www.hardysociety.org/index.php/hardy

Week Thirty-One:
Government
Secession and the Confederacy
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/csapage.asp

Fine Arts
Music: Civil War Music of the North and South www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/civil-war-music/

Dynamic Interaction http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/lincoln/

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/civil-war-approach/

Lincoln Movie
http://www.thelincolnmovie.com/?order

Week Thirty-Two:
Government
Emancipation Proclamation
*Be sure to note additional resources at the bottom of the page.
www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/

Appomattox
www.eyewitnesstohistory.com>

www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/appomatx.html

Dynamic Interaction
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook27.asp

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/cwfrm.htm

Ken Burns Civil War documentary
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/

Dynamic Interaction Literature www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/timeline/hawthorne.html

Week Thirty-Three:
Government
Reconstruction Acts
http://ocw.nd.edu/history/african-american-history-ii/lecture-notes/reconstruction-act-of-1867

Fourteenth Amendment
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/14thamendment.html

Fifteenth Amendment

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/15thamendment.html

Plessy v. Ferguson

http://www.streetlaw.org/en/landmark/cases/plessy_v_ferguson#Tab=Decision

Dynamic Interaction Literature
www.marktwainhouse.org/

Week Thirty-Four:

Government
72 Resolutions

www.canadahistory.com/sections/documents/federal/Quebec%20Conference.html

British North America Act

http://www.canadahistory.com/sections/documents/federal/BNA%201867.html

http://www.canadahistory.com/sections/documents/federal/Constitution%20Act%201867.html

Historical Figures
Lucy Maud Montgomery
www.lmmontgomery.ca/aboutlmm/herlife

Dynamic Interaction
www.cbc.ca/history/EPISODESUM2LE.html#e10

Dynamic Interaction Literature

http://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/robertburns/biography.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/robertburns/works/types/song/

Week Thirty-Five:
Dynamic Interaction

www.biography.com/people/groups/captains-of-industry

http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/industrial-age-america-robber-barons-and-captains-industry

Week Thirty-Six:
Civilization and Culture

www.sparknotes.com/history/american/gildedage/

Dynamic Interaction

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/gildedage.html

Historiography

http://www.academicearth.org/lectures/paris-belle-epoq

Posted by Amy Kate at 4/22/2013 8:03 PM | Add Comment

Pacing Your Recitation and Enrichment Week

Thank you for the fabulous feedback on our Recitation and Enrichment Series. Our family's school year and my music studio are both well under way and I find I am long overdue in addressing your questions related to pacing. This post will detail how a typical week of Recitation and Enrichment unfolds in our home.

Each Recitation and Enrichment week-plan includes objectives or material in the following categories. I've used an asterisk to note categories that are used daily and have noted the day of the week when others are used within parentheses.

*History Timeline Sentence
*Copywork, Dictation, and Recitation
*Latin and English Grammar
*Math and Science Memory Work
Nature Study (Friday - our flex day)
Fine Arts (Music portion on Tuesday, Art portion on Wednesday)
Geography (Thursday)
*Vocabulary
Manners or Character Traits (Monday)
*Literature and Poetry
*Custom

Our Recitation and Enrichment time takes about 45 minutes each school day. We begin with the Custom section, which I use to note our family's study of our church's catechism and the Bible. We spend ten to fifteen minutes on this section.

From there, we move on to the cumulative recitaitons. We begin with the History Timeline Sentence. I call out the topic, provided for you in bold print, and my children recite the corresponding history sentence. From there, we recite our Latin, English, Math, and Science recitations. We do this in a formal and focused manner, so it takes no more than five minutes.

Copywork, Dictation, and Recitation work follows the same pattern each week. On Monday, I read the selection several times aloud. On Tuesday, my girls complete prepared dictation or copywork according to the tiered approach described in the Introduction of each volume. Memorization of the selection is the focus of Wednesday and Thursday.

Vocabulary exploration follows a set pattern each week as well. On Monday the term is introduced on a large marker board. We briefly list derivatives underneath the term. On Tuesday and Wednesday, we add to our list of derivatives with the aid of a dictionary, thesaurus, and internet resources. On Thursday, we share sentences using these words.

Having completed our daily work, we turn toward enrichment topics. Monday tends to feel like an extra full day, so a brief discussion related to Manners and Character Traits fits perfectly. Tuesday is devoted to exploration of the Music portion and Art is covered on Wednesday. Geography topics are explored on Thursday, and Nature Study is reserved for our flex day on Friday when we have more time.

Literature and Poetry selections are read aloud after lunch, so I have not included those here.

I hope you're enjoying this series and find that it helps you accomplish your goals for Recitation and Enrichment in your home-school!

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Excited to Present

We are excited to present the Recitation and Enrichment Series!

This series is for those who are seeking a comprehensive, well-paced memory work program that integrates copywork, dictation, and timeline work. It is also for those who want to incorporate Charlotte Mason style enrichment and include all grade levels in meaningful ways.

The Recitation and Enrichment Series provides a weekly plans for Relational Learning for grades 1-12.Each volume includes detailed instructions for interacting with the topics in the week plans. There are thirty-two week plans in each volume and each week plan includes Recitation and Enrichment objectives.

The Recitation portion includes incremental and cumulative recitations in History, Latin Grammar, English Grammar, Math, and Science. This portion is comprehensive and meant to be used daily. Latin, English, Math, and Science Recitations focus on the 'grammar' or structure of each subject and also introduce or reinforce vocabulary. History timeline sentences are structured around key words that are memorized chronologically. Included are Montessori style three part History Timeline Cards, which reinforce vocabulary in a visual manner and provide practice with chronology and concurrent events. Copywork and Prepared Dictation is incorporated into the program and relies on a tiered approach which is described in detail in the instructions. This tiered approach ensures that all grades are involved and challenged.

The Enrichment portion provides pacing for Charlotte Mason style Nature Study as well as objectives in Music, Art, Geography, Vocabulary, Literature, and Poetry. A Custom section is included for topics personal to your family. We use it for hymn study and catechesis. Detailed instructions describe an innovative tiered approach for use with each Enrichment section.

Volumes 1-4 are available in downloadable version now. Pre-orders of spiral bound copies will be available soon. Read more about this series at our Products page and see sample pages on our Home Page. Questions may be answered in the Recitation and Enrichment portion of our FAQs.

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O Canada!

We are thrilled to announce that our Canadian History Task Card Set is available and ready to ship.

This K-8 course is comprised of discovery-oriented tasks designed to facilitate engaged learning about Canadian History. Your students will investigate and explore Canadian culture and history through engaged learning designed to introduce and reinforce key content related to Canadian History. Task Card Sets include a Course Introduction and a set of task cards for student use. This course is comprehensive and the recommended literature is especially rich. Enjoy!

Through June 19 receive $5 off with promotion code: CANADA.

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Canadian History Supporting Links

Links for Research and Enrichment:

Canada: A People's History
http://www.cbc.ca/history/EPISODESUM2LE.html

Canada History
http://www.canadahistory.com/

Canadian History
http://suite101.com/canadianhistory

Prime Ministers
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/primeministers/index-e.html

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/primeministers/kids/index-e.html

Arctic Animals
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/arctic-animals

L.M. Montgomery
http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/Search.do?R=VE_445&lang=en&ex=on

Maps to Print:

Map of Canada
http://d-maps.com/carte.php?lib=canada_map&num_car=1536&lang=en

Map of North America
http://d-maps.com/carte.php?lib=north_america_map&num_car=1396&lang=en

World Map
http://d-maps.com/carte.php?lib=northern_atlantic_ocean_map&num_car=3200&lang=en

Pictures to Print:

*Print at your own discretion with regards to copyright law and personal use. Google images is also available and owide selection. You may have to scroll to select appropriate pictures.

Pictures of First Nations Daily Life

Pictures of First Nations Art and Artifacts

Pictures of Explorers

Pictures of Acadian Daily Life

Pioneer Daily Life 1700s

Pictures depicting the war of 1812

Pictures of Immigrants

Pictures of Buffalo Hunts

Large Picture of a Buffalo

Pictures of Gold Mining and Gold Miners

Pictures of animals of the arctic

Pictures of Canadian Pacific Railway

Pictures of early days of Ice Hockey

Lyrics to "O Canada"

Pictures of Trench Warfare

Text of "In Flanders Field"

Pictures of Kids during the Great Depression

Pictures of Canadian Recruiting Posters from WWII

Pictures of large variety of Canadians

Pictures of great achievements of Canadians since 1945

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