A World of Adventure

Days

• 1 Ancient Egypt
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• 31 Ancient Greece
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• 61 Ancient Rome
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• 91 The Middle Ages - Ch 1 The Door in the Wall; Begin an Herb Garden; Books of Bible; Hebrews 4:12
• 92 Ch 2 TDITW; Vocab Cards; Make Beef Barley Soup and Pumpernickel; Botany; whittling; illuminations and calligraphy
• 93 Ch 3 TDITW; Friendly Letter; Vocab Cards; Monocots, Dicots
• 94 Ch 4 TDITW; Guilds; Flower Study
• 95 Sect5 TDITW; embryo and endosperm; soak pinto beans
• 96 II Tim 3:16; Section 6 TDITW; Vocab Cards; photosynthesis
• 97 Section 7 TDITW; Mystery plays; pease porridge and bannock; pollination; Romanesque and Gothic Architecture
• 98 Section 8 TDITW; Beowulf; play chess; feudalism; fruit
• 99 Section 9 TDITW; Vikings; seed scattering
• 100 Section 10 TDITW; special rules at meals; gymnosperms
• 101 Ps 119:105; Ch 1 Adam of the Road; poetry; feudalism; spores; minstrels
• 102 Ch 2 Adam of the Road; asexual reproduction
• 103 Ch 3 Adam of the Road; coats of arms; water movement and respiration;
• 104 Ch 4 Adam of The Road; Battle of Hastings and Wm the Conqueror; leaves
• 105 Ch 5 Adam of the Road; informal note; peasants and nobles; roots
• 106 Eph 6:10-18; Ch 6 Adam of the Road; London Bridge; stems
• 107 Ch7 Adam of the Road; stewardship; middle ages food; unusual plants
• 108 Ch8 Adam of the Road; figurative language; working class; biomes; Bayeux Tapestry
• 109 Ch 9 Adam of the Road; The Great Charter; Romanesque and Gothic art
• 110 Ch 10 Adam of the Road; pilgrimages; folklore; gothic art
• 111 Ch 11 Adam of the Road; banking; strides in science
• 112 Ch 12 Adam of the Road; knights and castles;
• 113 Ch 13 Adam of the Road; crusades; use the homegrown herbs; cream cheese and chives; potato cakes with chives
• 114 Ch 14 Adam of the Road; courts; dill dip
• 115 Ch 15 Adam of the Road; King Edward; Black Death; parsley biscuits; spaghetti with parsley and garlic sauce; herb butter
• 116 Ch 16 and 17 Adam of the Road; The Fall of Adam; puns; poetry; mint; minted carrots
• 117 Ch 18 and 19 Adam of the Road; write a poem; farming; basil crostini; basil pesto and pasta
• 118 Ch 20 and 21 Adam of the Road; wassail; Epiphany; early, high, and late Middle Ages; Onions baked with oregano; focaccia with fresh herbs
• 119 Ch 22 and 23 Adam of the Road; Roasted Lemon-Herb Chicken; Mashed Potatoes with Fresh Herbs
• 120 Medieval Feast - Hot Spiced Cider, Thick Leek Soup, Pokerounce (Honey Toast with Pine Nuts)
• 121 The Renaissance and Reformation; note taking; biographies; vocabulary cards; Story of the World Volume 2, Ch 35 p 339-348 Gutenberg; astronomy
• 122 Along Came Galileo pp 1-13; libraries; Italy; banking; alchemy
• 123 Psalm 96; Dante Alighieri; Machiavelli; Galileo; Italian artists
• 124 Pizza Napoletana; myths; Botticelli; da Vinci;
• 125 Advent; Vocabulary Card; Kinds of Pasta; regions of Italy; Stracciatella; Almond Biscotti Cookies; the sun; distance from sun experiment; Buonarroti, Raphael, Titian
• 126 St. Francis of Assisi; Spaghetti Bolognese; Antipasto; Italian Salad Dressing; Biscuit Tortoni; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter
• 127 Luther; Library Skills; North German Plain; Reformation in Germany; Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto; Durer, Hans Holbein the Younger
• 128 Block printing; Maximilian I, Braised Stuffed Beef Rolls (Rinderrouladen), German Stollen, Apples and Potatoes, Bavarian Pork Roast, Potato Dumplings; moons; Moonlight Sonata; potato printing
• 129 Joachim Neunder and Reformed Church; Dewey Decimal; German Apple Pancakes; galaxies
• 130 Pietistic Movement; library skills; Switzerland; Hapsburgs;
• 131 Swiss Reformation; Calvin; Zwingli; Swiss Muesli, stars, Vocabulary card
• 132 Zwingli and Calvin; Raclette, Chocolate-Nut Fondue, Cholermus Pancakes, Black Holes, Asteroids, Meteors and Comets
• 133 Charlemagne, library skills, France geography and culture, croissants, Vocab cards
• 134 Bernard of Clarivaux, Celts, Vikings, SOW Vol 2 pp 247-253 Ch 25 The Plague; crepes; satellites; vocab cards
• 135 Card catalog; Hundred Years' War; Mary Stuart, Henry III, Brioche
• 136 Be Thou My Vision; Louis XIV; Quiche Lorraine, Green Salad with Classic French Dressing, French Bread, Design a Game Board
• 137 Doxology; England; Rich Scones
• 138 Isaac Watts (1674) and hymns, Wm Caxton, Miles Coverdale, Edmund Spenser, The Globe, Richard I, Toad In the Hole
• 139 Model Parliament, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Elizabeth I; Cheddar Cheese Soup, Hot Cross Buns
• 140 Joy to the World, Walter Raleigh, James II, Queen Anne; Roast Beef, Browned Roast Potatoes, Yorkshire Pudding; astronomy game
• 141 Puritans; Vocab Cards, Scotland, Vikings; Scotch Shortbread Cookies
• 142 Robert Bruce, James VI; haggis, Scottish oatcakes
• 143 Spain, Ebro River, Hapsburg Family, astronomy game, Handel
• 144 Cervantes (Don Quixote), shipbuilding; Spanish potato omelette
• 145 paella, flan, Handel
• 146 Christmas hymns, Spanish Crullers (churros),
• 147 Portugal, Madeira Islands, The Azores, King Philip II of Spain; Portuguese Stone Soup, Portuguese Sweet Bread, schedule trip to planetarium
• 148 Netherlands geography, dikes and dams; Wm, Prince of Orange; New Amsterdam (New York), Van Leeuwenhoek; Vocab card; fine pottery; Jan Van Eyck; Peter Brueghel, Rembrandt
• 149 Erasmus, historical timeline; St. Nicolas; Dutch Fried Puffs (Olie Bollen)
• 150 Space Party or Out of This World Party; Moon Rocks or Solar System Cake
• 151 The Age of Exploration; The Swiss Family Robinson Ch 1; sampler platter at seafood restaurant
• 152 Ch 2 SFR, analogy, Buy some pet fish, Under the Sea Pencil Holder Craft
• 153 Ch 3 SFR, SOW Vol2 , Ch14 pp 133-145 The Arrival of the Norse Men; continental slope
• 154 Ch 4 SFR, Marco Polo
• 155 Ch 5 SFR, Prince Henry of Portugal, ocean tides, Beaufort Scale,
• 156 Ch 6 SFR, letter writing, Christopher Columbus, oceans
• 157 Memorize Exodus 20:1-17; Ch 7 SFR, iceburgs, fresh and salt water experiment
• 158 Ch 8 SFR, tropics, lighthouses, water pressure and density
• 159 Ch 9 SFR
• 160 Ch 10 SFR, Vasco da Gama, John Cabot, oceans
• 161 Ch 11 SFR, Vocab cards, Magellan, trip to aquarium
• 162 Ch 12 SFR, encourage pastor(s), Ocean Project brainstorming
• 163 Ch 13 SFR, Hernando Cortes, Aztecs; Tortillas
• 164 Ch 14 SFR, Spanish conquistadors
• 165 Ch 15 SFR, Northwest Passage, Marquette, LaSalle
• 166 Ch 16 SFR, Francis Drake, Henry Hudson
• 167 Ch 17 SFR, Roald Amundsen
• 168 Finish SFR, write an essay, add dates to timeline
• 169 Sail On! Sail On! by Joaquin Miller; setting goals; pick an explorer to read about
• 170 Cinquain, editing sentences
• 171 Intermediate goals
• 172 "Sea Fever", read about explorers
• 173 More character training-short term goals
• 174 Limericks
• 175 Alphabet Poem, cartographers, latitude
• 176 Bible Treasures Game, concrete poetry, explorers, longitude
• 177 Name Poetry, read more about explorers
• 178 Work on Bible Treasures Game, "The Things That Have Never Been Done Before" by Edgar Guest
• 179 Work on Bible Treasures Game; "You Musn't Quit"
• 180 Tropical Island Party or Under the Sea Party