Core G Books and History Add-In's for the Study of Ancients

Core G Books and History Add-In's

In Process

This is going to take some time to type up all the books I've got lined up....here are a few to get us started on the list:

Favorite Spine books:
 (books that we will be reading off and on through the whole core, or most of the core):

Story of the World: Ancients, SOTW: Activity Book, SOTW Test Book
Mystery of History: Vol.1: Creation Through Resurrection
BiblioPlan: Ancients Companion, BP:Ancient Maps,
will be using BP Medieval History Companion & Maps
Invitation to the Classics, A Guide to Books You've Always Wanted to Read
The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia

Memoria Press:
The Book of the Ancient World by Dorothy Mills (Reader, Teacher, and Student books)

Lesser Used Spine Books:
One Million Things: Ancient History DK PUblishing
Usborne Introduction to Archaeology by Abigail Wheatley
Usborne Encyclopedia of World Hisoty by Jane Bingham
The Usborne Internet-linked Encyclopedia of World History 
The Usborne Encyclopedia of the Roman World
The Atlas of Ancient Worlds
Holman Bible Atlas


PB:Picture Book
GN: Graphic Novel

It needs to be stated that I spent a few weeks doing each week, so there are numerous resources that we used.

Week 1:
The Sumerians by Elaine Landau
The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Heroes in Mythology by Jim Weiss
The Kingdom Strikes Back by Dr. Winter and John Holmann
Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
DVD:
The History Channel Egypt Collection Box Set, The Daily Life of Ancient Egyptians...
Ancient Egypt Unearthed (2009)

 The Trojan War
Cleopatra by Diane Stanley (PB)
Khan Academy: Law Code of Hammurabi, The Babylonian Mind....various video's.
Pharaoh and Foot Soldiers by Kristen Butcher
Story of the Nile by Anne Millard

Week 2:
The Pharaoh's of Ancient Egypt (Landmark) by Elizabeth Payne
Gilgamesh, The Hero by Geraldine McCaughrean
You Wouldn't Want to Be Tutankhamen! by David Stewart
You Wouldn't Want to Be an Egyptian Mummy!  by David Stewart
10 Kings and Queens Who Changed the World by Clive Gifford
Miram by Beatrice Gomley
Tirzah by Travis Lucille
Ancient Egypt by Daniel Cohen
Ancient Wonders by Tim Wood
Ancient Egypt -Eyewitness-by George Hart

Week 3:

DVD: In Search of Myths and Heroes by Michael Wood PBS Home Video
Cleopatra by Adele Geras
Hittite Warrior by Joanne Williamson
The Usborne Internet-linked Encyclopedia of World History

Khan Academy: Ishtar Gate, Towers of Babel, The Cradle of Civilizations, The Sumerians and Mesopotamia's, Sumerian Art, ....

Week 4:

Ancient China (Eyewitness Books) 2005
God King

Week 5:
Greek Myths by Olivia Coolidge

Week 6:
Lamps, Scrolls & Goatskin Bottles by Julia Hans
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
The Trojan War by Olivia Coolidge
Pyramid by David Macaulay

Week 7:
Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff
Within the Palace Gates by Anna Siviter
Famous Men of Greece by Memoria Press
The Wanderings of Odysseus by Rosemary Sutcliff
Theras and His Town
Glaudia, the Greek Slave by Emma Leslie (Lamplighter book)
Youtube: Who Were the Greeks, Episode 1

Week 8:
Galen and the Gateway to Medicine by Jeanne Bendick
Tools of the Ancient Greeks; a Kids Guide to the History & Science of Life in Ancient Greece by Kris Bordessa
Audio CD: Galileo and the Stargazers by Jim Weiss
Youtube: The Aeneid: The animated short,
Socrates, and the Socratic Method
Archimedes the Greatest Mathematician
 DVD: The Greeks; Crucible of Civilization, PBS

Week 9:
Beyond the Desert Gate by Mary Ray
The Art of the Etruscans by Shirley Glubok
Khan Academy has a lot under :"Etruscans"
Alexander the Great (DK) by Peter Chrisp
Alexander the Great (World in the Time of...)by Fiona MacDonald
Khan Academy: Ancient Near East, The Cyrus Cylinder, Ancient Persia, Ancient Rome, Royal Tombs of Ur, Afghanistan: The Ancient Thebes with it's Necropolis, OLMEC mask.., Lasting Legacy of Alexander the Great...
The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
DVD: In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great 2010
You Wouldn't Want to Be in Alexander the Great's Army! Jacqueline Morley
Mystery of the Roman Ransom by Henry Winterfield
Tools of the Ancient Romans by Rachel Dickenson
Youtube:
Hoplite Spartan Phalanx: historical real tactics (with historical Greek music in background)
DVD:
PBS Roman City by David Macaulay (very good!!!)
National Geographic, Alexander the Great, the Man Behind the Legend 2004


Week 10:
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Roman Gladiator by John Malam
youtube:
Alexander Sarcophagus by SmartHistory
Hannibal: The Man, The Myth, The Mystery by Goddess Mohamed
Dipylon Amphora by SmartHistory
Ezekiah, Attic Black Figure Amphora
Hannibal Verses Rome by Lupi
Exekia, Dionysus Kylix
Hannibal Barca by Twodeez (Parts 1, 2, and 3) very good!

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Sonlight Core F Week 35 August 17- 24, 2014

Sonlight 

Core F 

Week 35 

August 17- 24, 2014

In Process

This week Dd and I *finally* got the itch to hit our community pool.  We swam Monday through Thursday, and would have swam on Friday but we had to pack for our trip back down to Indiana.  The pool here is absolutely freezing!!!  But, after about 5 minutes of swimming it starts to feel a little warmer---but don't stop swimming!  I'm glad she finally wanted to go swimming here.  It use to be that we would see people in and around the pool all the time, but lately it has been abandoned---I wonder if the pool heater stopped working, or if school started, or why the sudden decrease in numbers?

This week we finished all our Core F things except for Dd's "Reader", Water Sky.  Once she finishes that book up we will be done.  I've been checking my books, and ordering the ones I need for Sonlight; plus some extra ones that look particularly good.  Some of the books I'm getting to go along with our Core G: I have all the Sonlight books, and have picked some add-in's from Chelle's blog, WP's Ancient course, and Rainbow Resources Ancients course.  I already have a lot of add-in's but found a few books from those sources that I didn't have yet, and thought I'd post some of the books we are going to be reading in Core G.  I am getting excited to repeat our journey into studying Ancient history again!

This was another big keyboarding week! Which is great!  She has figured out how to play the following songs:
The Wallace and Gromit Theme
Pirates of the Caribbean Theme
(Some of) Concerning Hobbits
Misty Mountains (another LOTR song)
First Noel (Christmas song)
My Country Tis of Thee

This was also a Lego Week, and she made a wall art piece out of disc's---I'll try to post pictures soon.

Our lessons this week:

Bible:
We had a few pages of Greenleaf to do before we could start with the new Veritas Press bible program.

2 Chronicles 14-16
read both bible and Believer's Bible Commentary
"Greenleaf" The Greenleaf Guide to the Old Testament pg. 106
Asa, King of Juday

International Children's Bible Field Guide pg. 77-92
David, Solomon, Kings

The Greenleaf Guide To Old Testament History by Rob G. Shearer and Cyndy A. Shearer (Sep 1, 1994)

"Greenleaf" Lesson 122 pg.105
Abijam, King of Judah
1 Kings 15
2 Chronicles 13
read with both bible and Believer's Bible Commentary

Archeological Study Bible--Maps in the back
"Greenleaf" Lesson 125 Elijah pg 107
1 Kings 15:25- 16 (Bible & B.B. Commentary)
Nadab, Baasha, Elah
Zimri, Omri, Ahab- Kings of Israel

1 Kings 17
Elijah and Ravens and Gentile Women Widow
read with Bible and Believer's Bible Commentary

NIV Archaeological Study Bible: An Illustrated Walk Through Biblical History and Culture by Walter C. Kaiser Jr. and Duane Garrett

Archeological Bible pg 526:
"Archaeological Sites" Zarephath

Believer's Bible Commentary   [BELIEVERS BIBLE COMMENTARY -SS] [Hardcover] by W.(Author) ; MacDonald, William(Author); Farstad, Arthur L.(Editor) MacDonald (Mar 31, 1995)

Psalms 25 - Bible and Believer's Bible Commentary
Acts 15 - " " " "


Core F and Add-In's:
This week we watched some good video's on YOUTUBE about the countries we have been studying, these are the ones we watched this week:

Is New Zealand For You?  time: 9:24

Waltzing Matilda

Australia's Great Barrier Reef by Travel Channel  time: 4:42

Antarctica Documentary    time: 1:27:35

Penguins of the Antarctica Nature Documentary    time: 48: 50

on Khan Academy we watched:
The Atom, Proton, Neutron, and Electron




For our Australia project Dd made "Aussie Cumin Potatoes" online, and made them.  They were super good!!  High Recommend!  She also made Stuffed Apples--which were also fantastic.



Music for the week:
Another week of two soundtracks:
The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey
Desolation of Smaug


100 Gateway Cities
completed our last pages!

Best-Loved Folktales of the World
completed our last pages!

EHN / WorldBook pages:
we finished all our pages and all our reading of WB!


Math: Math U See, Pre-Algebra
7 A-E

Audio:

Sir Knight of the Splendid Way Dramatic Audio (Lamplighter Theatre) by W.E. Cule and John Rhys-Davies (2011)

Sir Knight and the Splendid Way by Lamplighter-completed

Exploring Creation with Chemistry and Physics (Young Explorer Series) by Jeannie Fulbright (Aug 1, 2013)

Science: Apologia: Chemistry and Physics
pg 49-54

Fun Reader:

The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford

The Incredible Journey-in process



SL Reader 1:

The Horse and His Boy (The Chronicles of Narnia, Full-Color Collector's Edition) by C. S. Lewis

The Horse and His Boy: completed

SL Reader 2:

Water Sky by Jean Craighead George

Water Sky-in process


Current Events:
CNN Student News
each day- Monday - Friday


Language Arts:
Daily Grams: pg.'s 109-114

Grammar Ace: Lesson 26

We started AAS back up again--we had stopped during all the chaos of our move...

AAS 7: Step 12 completed
(Reviewed Step 11 this week)

IEW Fix-It Frog Prince: Week 11: completed



and next we will start our new VP Bible program--
"Chronicles through Malachi"

and Core G!

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