Ancient History by Region

We have completed our prehistory study and plan on covering Ancient History region by region during first and second grade. I'll list the best resources we find as we go along. The outline is on this page and the resource lists will be linked from here.

I know it is more common and popular to study history chronologically rather than regionally, and there are many programs and schedules available for this. For this first pass through Ancients, I decided to focus on the culture of Ancient people rather than the timelines. We are using a timeline to add events to in order to see the progression through history.







Note: Because of a big shift in how we approach our schooling, including a heavier emphasis on child-led and child-chosen subjects, this history sequence has been abandoned. I will leave the completed parts here, but don't want anyone to start on them thinking more are coming!

I don't schedule most of the resources we use. When we start a unit, I gather books and documentaries and we jump into the pile and go through things by interest. We do start each unit with reading from the Usborne Encyclopedia of World History and Story of the World to give us a basic framework. We are a non-religious family and all materials are fully secular unless noted individually otherwise. Because religion plays an important part in history, we are doing a separate World Religions study and omitted the sections of Story of the World that were primarily religious in nature.

• Stone Age
• Southwest Asia/Near East
• Sumer and Akkad, Babylonians, Assyrians
• Phoenecians
• Persia
• Africa/Egypt
• East Asia/China
• South Asia/India
• Americas
• Europe
• Europe
• Greece
• Rome

Michael Clay Thompson: Island Level "Schedule"

Michael Clay Thompson loves language and this is clear in his educational materials. I have to assume he does not love schedules because in the many books in Island Level, there is not one schedule. We completed our main lesson once per week, with the extra practice or Practice Island scattered in on other days. See additional notes at the bottom of the list.

1. Grammar Island 5-28
2. Grammar Island 29-44
3. Grammar Island 45-64
4. Grammar Island 65-74, extra practice on page 169 in TM
5. Grammar Island 75-87, extra practice on page 171 in TM
6. Grammar Island 88-94, extra practice on page 173, 177, 189 in TM
7. Grammar Island 95-114
8. Grammar Island 115-126, extra practice on pages 179, 190 in TM
9. Grammar Island 127-135, extra practice on pages 181, 191 in TM
10. Grammar Island 136-158, extra practice on page 192 in TM
11. Music of the Hemispheres 1-37
12. Sentence Island 7-56
13. Building Language 3-39
14. Sentence Island TM 268-269, one assignment of student's choice
15. Building Language 40-48
16. Sentence Island TM 268-269, one assignment of parent's choice
17. Music of the Hemispheres 38-47, pages 162-163 in TM
18. Sentence Island 57-108
19. Building Language 49-56
20. Sentence Island TM 278-279, one assignment of student's choice
21. Building Language 57-64
22. Sentence Island TM 278-279, one assignment of parent's choice
23. Music of the Hemispheres 48-63, refer to pages 154-155, 164-165 in TM
24. Sentence Island 109-146
25. Building Language 65-74
26. Sentence Island TM 292, one assignment of student's choice
27. Building Language 75-81
28. Sentence Island TM 292, one assignment of parent's choice 
29. Music of the Hemispheres 64-79, refer to pages 154-155, 166-167 in TM
30. Sentence Island 147-188
31. Building Language 82-85
32. Sentence Island TM 304, one assignment of student's choice
33. Building Language 86-93
34. Sentence Island TM 304, one assignment of parent's choice
35. Music of the Hemispheres 80-103, refer to pages 154-155, 168-169 in TM
36. Sentence Island 189-226
37. Building Language 94-101
38. Sentence Island TM 314, one assignment of student's choice
39. Building Language 102-109
40. Sentence Island TM 314, one assignment of parent's choice
41. Music of the Hemispheres 104-105
42. Sentence Island 227-256
43. Building Language 110-117
44. Sentence Island TM 324, one assignment of student's choice
45. Building Language 118-125
46. Sentence Island TM 324, one assignment of parent's choice 
47. Music of the Hemispheres 106-116, refer to pages 154-155,170-171 in TM
48. Building Language 136-128
49. Music of the Hemispheres117-130, refer to pages 154-155, 172-173 in TM

Notes:

• I include the extra practice in Grammar Island within the lesson in the list, though we did them during a different time slot than the main lesson. 
• We did not do all of the extra practice, just enough to know my daughter understood. 
• Likewise, we did not do all the writing activities in Sentence Island, just enough to have fun with the concepts.
• We do BraveWriter-style poetry teas. We talked about what we had learned from Music of the Hemispheres during the poetry teas and related it to the poetry we were reading.
• Beginning with week 11 (as soon as we had finished Grammar Island) we completed two sentences from Practice Island per week.
• If you are looking to do copywork or dictation, the sentences in Practice Island can be used for short passages.
• I do realize that 49 lessons does not fit into most people's "school year". I don't really think in school years, so this simply doesn't matter to me.