Supporting Links

Year One Supporting Links

History
General
  • You might want to start by having your oldest students read this selection on “How to Read a History Assignment.”
  • This classic, beloved game is now available to play for free! Play Oregon Trail online!
  • Another great game, also available and free to play! Play Amazon Trail online!
  • A Child’s History of the World for Year 1.
  • A real treasure: Study guide for the Holman Bible Atlas! This is a 69-page pdf download file.
  • The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Van Loon
  • Great site! You can look up words and make your own glossary. Input the words you want included and push send. You will get a professional looking glossary of all your words. Best of all IT IS FREE!
  • Highland Heritage has a number of resources you might love to use; however, there is no answer key for some of the literature helps.
  • Norton online quizzes – Western Literature
  • Judaism: all kinds of useful information. Pre-read before letting them loose, but wholesome for most children, I think.
  • If you and your children enjoy praying for different countries of the world, you will enjoy linking up with this page on Worldwide Missions. It contains statistics that give a clear picture of the prayer needs of various countries. Year 1 encourages you to lead your children in prayer for all Hindus and Buddhists. Look at this site to find those areas most in need!
  • The “Ism” book online. Basic definitions that will help you in your worldview studies.
  • Bible dictionary that you may find helpful during Year 1
  • A user recommends the NIV Archaeological Study Bible ISBN: 031092605X
  • Great Studio Projects in Art History by William Reid (ISBN 0825138523): This art history project book can be used in all four year-plans! There are 80 projects and the time period goes through the 1980’s.
  • Here’s real help with Feast Nights: food timeline and recipes galore! Enjoy!
  • Cookie Dough Recipe: A great alternative to salt dough maps.
  • Try Crayola’s Model Magic: a great lightweight soft modeling substance. It air-dries quickly, and after it’s dry, it can be sanded, painted, or decorated. Model magic can replace Fimo for most projects suggested in Tapestry.
  • Graphic Organizers on Tap: a fantastic resource for all of your graphic organizing needs.
  • If you would like to make personalized graphic organizers, click here.
  • This site can be for reviewing parts of speech. Activities include matching, concentration, flash cards, and a word search.
  • Click here for another grammar game.
  • Make online crossword puzzles here or here. These are great for reviewing vocabulary!
  • Daily Grammar Excellent site!
  • Online Writing Lab
  • Transition words for writing.
  • Great speech outline: .pdf file
Time Lines
Unit 1

Week 1: Curtain Rises on Egypt: Gift of the Nile

Week 2: Pharaohs & Pyramids

Week 3: Egyptian Polytheism & the Judgment of God

  • Read about Egyptian gods here.
  • See the article, “Why Did God Allow the Killing of All the Firstborn in Egypt?” for the correlation of each plague to an Egyptian god, plus more information on God’s judgment of Egypt.
  • Want to know more about Egyptian mythology? Look no further! Use images from this site to decorate writing projects, display boards, etc. Also great for art projects!
  • Egyptian Religion from Kidipede
  • Plagues versus Egyptian Gods: worksheet with teacher answers
  • This site includes games, recipes, and basic information for several Jewish holidays.

Week 4: Creation Through Noah

Week 5: Abraham & Ancient Mesopotamian Civilizations

Week 6: The Patriarchs: From Canaan to Egypt

Week 7: In The Wilderness: The Tabernacle & the Law

Week 8: In The Wilderness: Holiness – Worshipping God as God

Week 9: In The Wilderness: Slaves to Warriors

  • Hebrew for Christians
  • This site includes games, recipes, and basic information for several Jewish holidays.
Unit 2

Week 10: The Indus Valley, Hinduism, & Buddhism

Week 11: Ancient China: Confucius & Taoism

Week 12: Ancient Americas

Week 13: Early Greek Cultures of the Bronze Age

Week 14: Early Greek Cultures of the Archaic Period

Week 15: The Promised Land: Conquest & Settlement

Week 16: Israel’s Judges and Neighbors

Week 17: The Rise of Saul & the Philistines

Week 18: King David and the Phoenicians

Unit 3

Week 19: Solomon’s Divided Heart

Week 20: The Divided Kingdom

Week 21: The Assyrian Scourge: The Northern Kingdom Is Deported

Week 22: The Chaldeans (New Babylonians) and the Babylonian Captivity

Week 23: The Medes and Persians: The Israelites Return Home

Week 24: Persians and Greeks: The Persian Wars

Week 25: The Golden Age of Greece and the Peloponnesian Wars

Week 26: Greek Achievements: Science, Mathematics, and Philosophy

Week 27: Alexander the Great: Preparation for Proclamation

Unit 4

Week 28: The Etruscans and the Founding of Rome

Week 29: The Roman Republic: Everyday Life

Week 30: The Roman Republic Expands: The Punic Wars

Week 31: From Republic to Empire

Week 32: Imperial Rome: Backdrop to the Atonement

Week 33: The Zenith of Imperial Rome: Backdrop to the Early Church

Week 34: Rome Decays: Saints and Martyrs of the Early Church

Week 35: Christianity Conquers Rome: Of Church Hierarchies

Week 36: Western Rome Falls: Theology and Church Councils

Geography

We suggest that you use a good world history atlas so that your students can have practice at the skill of using maps and legends. Click the link below for our recommendation. The next choice is to use the supporting links that you find here. Please only let your student look at the teacher map in Map Aids as a last resort.

Also:

Holman Bible Atlas: Colorful maps and informative text provide valuable information for those studying Bible history. This is a spine text for Year 1 that your rhetoric students will use over and over again. Younger students can use this to find map labels. 298 pages HB.

General

Online Maps, Map Vendors, and More!

Unit 1

Week 1: Curtain Rises on Egypt: Gift of the Nile

Week 2: Pharaohs & Pyramids

Week 3: Egyptian Polytheism & the Judgment of God

Week 4: Creation Through Noah

Week 5: Abraham & Ancient Mesopotamian Civilizations

Week 6: The Patriarchs: From Canaan to Egypt

Week 7: In The Wilderness: The Tabernacle & the Law

  • No objectives

Week 8: In The Wilderness: Holiness – Worshipping God as God

  • No objectives

Week 9: In The Wilderness: Slaves to Warriors

Unit 2

Week 10: The Indus Valley, Hinduism, & Buddhism

Week 11: Ancient China: Confucius & Taoism

Week 12: Ancient Americas

Week 13: Early Greek Cultures of the Bronze Age

Week 14: Early Greek Cultures of the Archaic Period

Week 15: The Promised Land: Conquest & Settlement

Week 16: Israel’s Judges and Neighbors

Week 17: The Rise of Saul & the Philistines

Week 18: King David and the Phoenicians

Unit 3

Week 19: Solomon’s Divided Heart

Week 20: The Divided Kingdom

Week 21: The Assyrian Scourge: The Northern Kingdom Is Deported

Week 22: The Chaldeans (New Babylonians) and the Babylonian Captivity

Week 23: The Medes and Persians: The Israelites Return Home

Week 24: Persians and Greeks: The Persian Wars

Week 25: The Golden Age of Greece and the Peloponnesian Wars

Week 26: Greek Achievements: Science, Mathematics, and Philosophy

Week 27: Alexander the Great: Preparation for Proclamation

Unit 4

Week 28: The Etruscans and the Founding of Rome

Week 29: The Roman Republic: Everyday Life

  • No objectives this week

Week 30: The Roman Republic Expands: The Punic Wars

Week 31: From Republic to Empire

Week 32: Imperial Rome: Backdrop to the Atonement

Week 33: The Zenith of Imperial Rome: Backdrop to the Early Church

Week 34: Rome Decays: Saints and Martyrs of the Early Church

  • No objectives this week

Week 35: Christianity Conquers Rome: Of Church Hierarchies

Week 36: Western Rome Falls: Theology and Church Councils

Worldview
General
  • If you and your children enjoy praying for different countries of the world, you will enjoy linking up with this page on Worldwide Missions. It contains statistics that give a clear picture of the prayer needs of various countries. Year 1 encourages you to lead your children in prayer for all Hindus and Buddhists. Look at this site to find those areas most in need!
  • The “Ism” book online. Basic definitions that will help you in your worldview studies.
  • Bible dictionary that you may find helpful during Year 1
  • A user recommends the NIV Archaeological Study Bible ISBN: 031092605X
Unit 1 – The Books of Moses

Week 1: Curtain Rises on Egypt: Gift of the Nile

Week 2: Pharaohs & Pyramids

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 3: Egyptian Polytheism & the Judgment of God

Week 4: Creation Through Noah

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 5: Abraham & Ancient Mesopotamian Civilizations

Week 6: The Patriarchs: From Canaan to Egypt

Week 7: In The Wilderness: The Tabernacle & the Law

Week 8: In The Wilderness: Holiness – Worshipping God as God

Week 9: In The Wilderness: Slaves to Warriors

Unit 2 – All Governments Are Established by God

Week 10: The Indus Valley, Hinduism, & Buddhism

Week 11: Ancient China: Confucius & Taoism

Week 12: Ancient Americas

Week 13: Early Greek Cultures of the Bronze Age

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 14: Early Greek Cultures of the Archaic Period

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 15: The Promised Land: Conquest & Settlement

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 16: Israel’s Judges and Neighbors

Week 17: The Rise of Saul & the Philistines

Week 18: King David and the Phoenicians

  • No helpful links this week.
Unit 3 – Preparing the World for its Savior

Week 19: Solomon’s Divided Heart

  • Neat project for learning about the temple.

Week 20: The Divided Kingdom

Week 21: The Assyrian Scourge: The Northern Kingdom Is Deported

Week 22: The Chaldeans (New Babylonians) and the Babylonian Captivity

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 23: The Medes and Persians: The Israelites Return Home

Week 24: Persians and Greeks: The Persian Wars

Week 25: The Golden Age of Greece and the Peloponnesian Wars

Week 26: Greek Achievements: Science, Mathematics, and Philosophy

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 27: Alexander the Great: Preparation for Proclamation

  • Link to the texts of the books of Macabees:
Unit 4 – In the Fullness of Time

Week 28: The Etruscans and the Founding of Rome

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 29: The Roman Republic: Everyday Life

Week 30: The Roman Republic Expands: The Punic Wars

Week 31: From Republic to Empire

Week 32: Imperial Rome: Backdrop to the Atonement

Week 33: The Zenith of Imperial Rome: Backdrop to the Early Church

Week 34: Rome Decays: Saints and Martyrs of the Early Church

Week 35: Christianity Conquers Rome: Of Church Hierarchies

Week 36: Western Rome Falls: Theology and Church Councils

  • Review Units 3 and 4.
Literature

General

  • Great site! You can look up words and make your own glossary. Input the words you want included and push send. You will get a professional looking glossary of all your words. Best of all IT IS FREE!
  • Highland Heritage has a number of resources you might love to use; however, there is no answer key for some of the literature helps.
  • Norton online quizzes – Western Literature
  • Judaism: all kinds of useful information. Pre-read before letting them loose, but wholesome for most children, I think.
Unit 1 – The Books of Moses

Week 1: Curtain Rises on Egypt: Gift of the Nile

Week 2: Pharaohs & Pyramids

Week 3: Egyptian Polytheism & the Judgment of God

Week 4: Creation Through Noah

Week 5: Abraham & Ancient Mesopotamian Civilizations

Week 6: The Patriarchs: From Canaan to Egypt

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 7: In The Wilderness: The Tabernacle & the Law

Week 8: In The Wilderness: Holiness – Worshipping God as God

Week 9: In The Wilderness: Slaves to Warriors

Unit 2 – All Governments Are Established by God

Week 10: The Indus Valley, Hinduism, & Buddhism

Week 11: Ancient China: Confucius & Taoism

Week 12: Ancient Americas

  • At this excellent site, read in translation from the original Creation myth of the Ancient Mayans, Popol Vuh.
  • Indian mythology and Legends: Click on Native American Legends on the left and you can search the people groups alphabetically.

Week 13: Early Greek Cultures of the Bronze Age

Week 14: Early Greek Cultures of the Archaic Period

Week 15: The Promised Land: Conquest & Settlement

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 17: The Rise of Saul & the Philistines

  • An excellent study guide for the book Hittite Warrior (.pdf file). If warning comes up for your Adobe Reader click cancel and the page will load.

Week 18: King David and the Phoenicians

  • No helpful links this week.
Unit 3 – Preparing the World for its Savior

Week 19: Solomon’s Divided Heart

  • Scroll almost all of the way down for an excellent study guide for the King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Includes comprehension questions and tests. (Dig around…this is a very helpful site!)

Week 20: The Divided Kingdom

Week 21: The Assyrian Scourge: The Northern Kingdom Is Deported

  • Click here for worksheets on Jonah.
  • Jonah (NIV), Amos (NIV, KJV). Just the first chapter of each will come up. You’ll have to click on “next chapter” to continue reading.

Week 22: The Chaldeans (New Babylonians) and the Babylonian Captivity

Week 23: The Medes and Persians: The Israelites Return Home

  • Study guide for the book of Esther

Week 24: Persians and Greeks: The Persian Wars

  • All you need to know about Greek theatre.
  • A simpler, shorter summary of Greek theatre with some good pictures. Suitable for Dialectics and up independently, and you can read aloud from this site to youngersMiddle students and up can read independently, read aloud for younger students.
  • Spark Notes and summaries for: Agamemnon, Antigone, and Oedipus the King. You may want to make sure the subject matter is not too much for your child.
  • Spark notes for The Libation Bearers
  • The complete Xenophon is here: you’d choose the Anabasis if you want to read Xenophon.
  • Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)

Week 25: The Golden Age of Greece and the Peloponnesian Wars

  • Spark Notes and summary for Medea. You may want to make sure the subject matter is not too much for your child. Here is another wonderful guide to Medea.
  • Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)

Week 26: Greek Achievements: Science, Mathematics, and Philosophy

Week 27: Alexander the Great: Preparation for Proclamation

  • Background on the true Eratosthenes. How does this week’s story for young children compare with known facts from this resource?
  • Plato’s Crito to read on screen or print and read.
  • Plato’s Phaedo to read on screen or print and read.
Unit 4 – In the Fullness of Time

Week 28: The Etruscans and the Founding of Rome

Week 29: The Roman Republic: Everyday Life

Week 30: The Roman Republic Expands: The Punic Wars

Week 31: From Republic to Empire

Week 32: Imperial Rome: Backdrop to the Atonement

Week 33: The Zenith of Imperial Rome: Backdrop to the Early Church

Week 34: Rome Decays: Saints and Martyrs of the Early Church

Week 35: Christianity Conquers Rome: Of Church Hierarchies

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 36: Western Rome Falls: Theology and Church Councils

Augustine: Confessions

Writing

General

  • Here’s a great site to bookmark for all your graphic organizing needs and questions. What is a Graphic Organizer?
  • If you would like to make personalized graphic organizers, click here.
  • This site can be for reviewing parts of speech. Activities include matching, concentration, flash cards, and a word search.
  • Click here for another grammar game.
  • Make online crossword puzzles here or here. These are great for reviewing vocabulary!
  • Daily Grammar Excellent site!
  • At the right is a picture one of our users sent in of the sentence pocket suggested in Marcia’s introductory notes. Click on the picture to see all the details up very close!
  • Online Writing Lab
  • Transition words for writing.
  • Great speech outline: .pdf file

SAT Preparation:

Writing College Admissions Essays

Evaluations and Rubrics:

  • A great link for evaluating writing in grades 2-5. An interactive rubric for the student to use as a checklist.
  • Click here to evaluate writing for grades 6-8. Another great interactive student checklist!
  • I recommend you show a student his grading rubric (or better yet, have him help you develop one!) before he starts his project or writing assignment. Click here to develop rubrics automatically from this site for most types of evaluations!
Unit 1 – The Books of Moses

Week 1: Curtain Rises on Egypt: Gift of the Nile

  • Level 1: Click here or here for some neat online activities as you are teaching nouns. Use next week too!
  • Level 2: Nouns
  • Levels 3-7: For reviewing the steps in the writing process, click here.
  • Levels 8-11: More advanced explanation of steps in the writing process.

Week 2: Pharaohs & Pyramids

Week 3: Egyptian Polytheism & the Judgment of God

Week 4: Creation Through Noah

  • Level 1: Coloring pages: Adam and Eve and Noah’s Ark.
  • Level 2: Grammar Worksheets
  • Level 3: This site can be used as you are teaching or reviewing the parts of speech. You’ll enjoy matching, concentration, flash cards, and a word search.
  • Levels 3-6: Sample dictation sentences from the Bible.
  • Levels 4-12: If you are beginning to learn or review prepositions this week in grammar, click here for a crossword puzzle that will reinforce this knowledge.
  • Levels 4-12: Another review: A preposition word search.

Week 5: Abraham & Ancient Mesopotamian Civilizations

Week 6: The Patriarchs: From Canaan to Egypt

Week 7: In The Wilderness: The Tabernacle & the Law

Week 8: In The Wilderness: Holiness – Worshipping God as God

Week 9: In The Wilderness: Slaves to Warriors

Unit 2 – All Governments Are Established by God

Week 10: The Indus Valley, Hinduism, & Buddhism

Week 11: Ancient China: Confucius & Taoism

Week 12: Ancient Americas

Week 13: Early Greek Cultures of the Bronze Age

  • Levels 1-8: Scholastic site for writing and publishing your own poetry.
  • Levels 3, 6, 8: For more helps in teaching your poetry unit, click here.
  • Levels 3, 6, 8, 10: For further helps on teaching your poetry unit, click here.
  • Levels 4-5: Cluster diagram (pdf file)

Week 14: Early Greek Cultures of the Archaic Period

  • Level 1: Greek Myth coloring pages. Click on the right side of the screen.
  • Level 2: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
  • Levels 3, 6: You won’t want to miss this site for teaching your poetry unit. Excellent!
  • Levels 3, 6, 8, 10: For further helps on teaching your poetry unit, click here and here.

Week 15: The Promised Land: Conquest & Settlement

Week 16: Israel’s Judges and Neighbors

Week 17: The Rise of Saul & the Philistines

  • No links.

Week 18: King David and the Phoenicians

  • Levels 3, 6, 8, 10: Use this site for your lesson on Hebrew poetry.
  • Levels 4-5: Here is a cover that you can use for your state notebook. (pdf file)
  • Levels 4-5: Click here for a ready-to-use Table of Contents for your notebook. (pdf file)
  • Level 9: Grading rubric for writing a research paper.
  • Level 12: Review this site for an extensive list of business communiques.
Unit 3 – Preparing the World for its Savior

Week 19: Solomon’s Divided Heart

Week 20: The Divided Kingdom

Week 21: The Assyrian Scourge: The Northern Kingdom Is Deported

Week 22: The Chaldeans (New Babylonians) and the Babylonian Captivity

Week 23: The Medes and Persians: The Israelites Return Home

Week 24: Persians and Greeks: The Persian Wars

Week 25: The Golden Age of Greece and the Peloponnesian Wars

Week 26: Greek Achievements: Science, Mathematics, and Philosophy

Week 27: Alexander the Great: Preparation for Proclamation

Unit 4 – In the Fullness of Time

Week 28: The Etruscans and the Founding of Rome

Week 29: The Roman Republic: Everyday Life

Week 30: The Roman Republic Expands: The Punic Wars

Week 31: From Republic to Empire

Week 32: Imperial Rome: Backdrop to the Atonement

Week 33: The Zenith of Imperial Rome: Backdrop to the Early Church

Week 34: Rome Decays: Saints and Martyrs of the Early Church

Week 35: Christianity Conquers Rome: Of Church Hierarchies

Week 36: Western Rome Falls: Theology and Church Councils

Level 10: Instructions for building your own website.

Levels 4, 5, 7, 9: Write a speech.

Level 6: How to write a research paper.

Level 8: A nice character sketch form.

Government
General
  • Massive site: teacher’s use, probably, initially, although you’ll use it to find sites for your children. If they want to read the originals, here they are!
  • All ages will love this site on US Government. This site transcends unit boundaries. It’s GREAT!
Unit 1 – Napoleon’s World

Week 1: When John Adams Was President

Week 2: Napoleon: The Man and His Career

Week 3: Early Industrial Revolution

  • FAQs about the Code Napoleon. You can also follow a link here about the Code Napoleon.
  • Read excerpts from the Code here.

Week 4: Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase

Week 5: Jefferson and the Supreme Court

  • No links for this week.

Week 6: Madison and the War of 1812

Week 7: Reshaping Europe and South America

Week 8: South America in Transition

Week 9: Monroe and the American Hemisphere

Unit 2 – The Age of Industry & Expansion

Week 10: John Quincy Adams and Political Realignments

Week 11: Jacksonian Democracy

Week 12: Revolutions in Texas & Europe

Week 13: Victorian England

Week 14: Victorians at Home and Abroad

Week 15: Manifest Destiny

Week 16: Sea to Shining Sea

Week 17: The Oregon Trail

  • No links for this week.

Week 18: 1848: Gold Dust & Gunpowder

Unit 3 – Nations Uniting & Dividing

Week 19: Westerners in Asia

Week 20: Franklin Pierce & the Crimean War

Week 21: America Divides & Italy Unites

  • No links for this week.

Week 22: Lincoln and the Start of the Civil War

  • No links for this week

Week 23: Decisive Years of the Civil War

Week 24: Closing Years of the Civil War

Week 25: Andrew Johnson vs. Radical Reconstruction

  • No links for this week.

Week 26: Ulysses Grant & the Plains Indians Wars

  • No links for this week.

Week 27: Technological Progress & the Unification of Germany

  • No links for this week.
Unit 4 – The Gilded Age

Week 28: Introducing Africa and Reforming Empires

Week 29: The Scramble for Empire

  • No links for this week.

Week 30: Imperialism and Culture

Week 31: Waves of Immigrants

Week 32: Captains of Industry

Week 33: Labor Issues and the New South

Week 34: Farmers, Populists, Gold Strikes and Gold Standards

Week 35: Powerful Men and Inspiring Women

Week 36: The Balkan Problem & American Imperialism

  • No links for this week.
Arts & Activities
General
  • Use this site for great pictures when making lap books.
  • Great Studio Projects in Art History by William Reid (ISBN 0825138523): This art history project book can be used in all four year-plans! There are 80 projects and the time period goes through the 1980’s.
  • Here’s real help with Feast Nights: food timeline and recipes galore! Enjoy!
  • Cookie Dough Recipe: A great alternative to salt dough maps.
    • 2 c. smooth peanut butter
    • 2 1/2 c. powdered milk
    • 2 1/2 c. powdered sugar
    • 2 c. white corn syrup
      • Blue icing – lakes and oceans
      • Green sprinkles – plains
      • Clear sprinkles – deserts
      • Chocolate chips – mountains
      • Red candy strips – rivers
      • M&Ms – capitals
  • Try Crayola’s Model Magic: a great lightweight soft modeling substance. It air-dries quickly, and after it’s dry, it can be sanded, painted, or decorated. Model magic can replace Fimo for most projects suggested in Tapestry.
Unit 1 – The Books of Moses

Week 1: Curtain Rises on Egypt: Gift of the Nile

Week 2: Pharaohs & Pyramids

Week 3: Egyptian Polytheism & the Judgment of God

Week 4: Creation Through Noah

Week 5: Abraham & Ancient Mesopotamian Civilizations

*Recipes/Seder information under week 9

Week 6: The Patriarchs: From Canaan to Egypt

Week 7: In The Wilderness: The Tabernacle & the Law

Week 8: In The Wilderness: Holiness – Worshipping God as God

Week 9: In The Wilderness: Slaves to Warriors

*Seder/Recipes:

Unit 2 – All Governments Are Established by God

Week 10: The Indus Valley, Hinduism, & Buddhism

Week 11: Ancient China: Confucius & Taoism

Week 12: Ancient Americas

  • Make a gourd birdhouse. Parental supervision needed.
  • One set of instructions on making a gourd rattle or musical instrument called a Shekere.
  • Lure construction. Mine this website for information on making your own lures.
  • Lessons plans about Ancient Mayan art.
  • Make your name glyph using a Mayan syllabary. Also has info on numbers and background of their language.
  • Great coloring pages for Aztec culture.
  • Book suggestion by a user: Mexico! 40 Activities to Experience Mexico Past and Present by Susan Milord. This is a great book: you’ll use it this year and next. ISBN: 1885593228

Week 13: Early Greek Cultures of the Bronze Age

Week 14: Early Greek Cultures of the Archaic Period

Week 15: The Promised Land: Conquest & Settlement

Week 16: Israel’s Judges and Neighbors

Week 17: The Rise of Saul & the Philistines

Week 18: King David and the Phoenicians

Unit 3 – Preparing the World for its Savior

Week 19: Solomon’s Divided Heart

  • A fun video on Solomon’s temple.
  • Solomon’s Temple: pictures here and here.

Week 20: The Divided Kingdom

Week 21: The Assyrian Scourge: The Northern Kingdom Is Deported

Week 22: The Chaldeans (New Babylonians) and the Babylonian Captivity

Week 23: The Medes and Persians: The Israelites Return Home

Week 24: Persians and Greeks: The Persian Wars

Week 25: The Golden Age of Greece and the Peloponnesian Wars

Week 26: Greek Achievements: Science, Mathematics, and Philosophy

Week 27: Alexander the Great: Preparation for Proclamation

Unit 4 – In the Fullness of Time

Week 28: The Etruscans and the Founding of Rome

Week 29: The Roman Republic: Everyday Life

Week 30: The Roman Republic Expands: The Punic Wars

Week 31: From Republic to Empire

Week 32: Imperial Rome: Backdrop to the Atonement

Week 33: The Zenith of Imperial Rome: Backdrop to the Early Church

Week 34: Rome Decays: Saints and Martyrs of the Early Church

Week 35: Christianity Conquers Rome: Of Church Hierarchies

Week 36: Western Rome Falls: Theology and Church Councils

  • Review Units 3 and 4.
  • Complete all hands-on projects this week for your Unit Celebration.
Field Trips

On this page, we hope to post field trip ideas from YOUR state that dovetail with Tapestry subjects as organized in our week-plans. Please submit your ideas via email, and please try to include the following information:

  • Your email address (for our sake, in case we have questions, but you can tell us if you’re willing to have your email linked as a contact person for more info about your recommendation).
  • The name of the attraction.
  • ANY online links to explain, give information, about the attraction.
  • A short paragraph explaining why the attraction would serve homeschoolers.

THANKS for your help! We will post states as their submissions come in, and under the weeks as listed below:

**IMAX often has great films that are an excellent addition to your academic studies. Find out what is playing, and where, to schedule this activity for your family.

Unit 1 – The Books of Moses

Week 1: Curtain Rises on Egypt: Gift of the Nile

  • Virtual field trip of Egypt. Use anytime during this unit.
  • Movie-goers will enjoy Mystery of the Nile, a story of a modern-day expedition traveling down the Blue Nile from its source into the Mediterranean. One highlight was an ancient Nubian city that most people have never heard of. The movie was quite fair to Christians, with a very memorable scene of Ethiopian Christians worshipping. It also explained how Christianity was preserved in Ethiopia, and the role of the Nile in tying Christians together.
  • The Museum of World Treasures in Wichita, Kansas. I would have a hard time choosing a specific week to go, because most weeks would apply. The museum has mummies from Egypt, a replica of the Rosetta Stone as well as coins, pottery, and many other artifacts from ancient civilizations. The mummies themselves make the trip worth it.
  • Creation Museum in Petersburg, KY. Cheap rates. Teaches youngsters about creation from a Biblical perspective.
  • Ancient Egypt Collection: Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology in Memphis, TN
  • National Geographic: Treasures of the Earth Museum in Indianapolis, IN

Week 2: Pharaohs & Pyramids

  • A user recommends the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois. They have a permanent exhibit called “Inside Ancient Egypt”. This provides a very good overview of the culture.
  • Two users recommended a field trip to King Tut and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs. Click to see if it’s coming near you!
  • Ancient Egypt Collection: Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology in Memphis, TN.
  • National Geographic: Treasures of the Earth Museum in Indianapolis, IN.

Week 3: Egyptian Polytheism & the Judgment of God

  • When studying Ancient Egypt, if you are in the Philadelphia area, the University of Pennsylvania has some good displays to reinforce your unit.
  • The Cummer Art Museum in Jacksonville, Florida has various collections and beautiful gardens, but of particular interest to Year 1 TOG users is their collection of antiquities dating from 2100 B.C. to 300 A.D. This collection has fine examples of the art of Egypt, Etruria, Greece and Rome. Currently, a Cameo Exhibition of Art of the Ancient Mediterranean world and the Ancient Americas is on display in the Millner Gallery. Note: Tuesday evenings are AT&T Free Tuesdays and admission is free from 4-9 P.M.
  • Ancient Egypt Collection: Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology in Memphis, TN.
  • National Geographic: Treasures of the Earth Museum in Indianapolis, IN.

Week 4: Creation Through Noah

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 5: Abraham & Ancient Mesopotamian Civilizations

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 6: The Patriarchs: From Canaan to Egypt

Week 7: In The Wilderness: The Tabernacle & the Law

  • The Holy Land Experience in Orlando, FL is a lot of fun for the whole family! They have musicals, plays, gift shops, authentic Jewish food and many more fun activities!

Week 8: In The Wilderness: Holiness – Worshipping God as God

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 9: In The Wilderness: Slaves to Warriors

  • No helpful links this week.
Unit 2- All Governments Are Established by God

Week 10: The Indus Valley, Hinduism, & Buddhism

Week 11: Ancient China: Confucius & Taoism

Week 12: Ancient Americas

Week 13: Early Greek Cultures of the Bronze Age

  • Can’t quite make that field trip to Greece happen this year? Hidden in the heart of Nashville, Tennessee is a full-scale replica of the Parthenon that houses an awe-inspiring 42-foot replica of Athena (complete with Nike in her palm). A full day can be made of this field trip as it is located in Centennial Park with a lake, bench swings, and even a stage (which hosts Shakespeare in the Park each summer). Visit the website to schedule a field trip and download excellent educational resources.

Week 14: Early Greek Cultures of the Archaic Period

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 15: The Promised Land: Conquest & Settlement

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 16: Israel’s Judges and Neighbors

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 17: The Rise of Saul & the Philistines

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 18: King David and the Phoenicians

  • No helpful links this week.
Unit 3 – Preparing the World for its Savior

Week 19: Solomon’s Divided Heart

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Week 20: The Divided Kingdom

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Week 21: The Assyrian Scourge: The Northern Kingdom Is Deported

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 22: The Chaldeans (New Babylonians) and the Babylonian Captivity

Week 23: The Medes and Persians: The Israelites Return Home

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 24: Persians and Greeks: The Persian Wars

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 25: The Golden Age of Greece and the Peloponnesian Wars

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 26: Greek Achievements: Science, Mathematics, and Philosophy

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 27: Alexander the Great: Preparation for Proclamation

  • No helpful links this week.
Unit 4 – The Book of Moses

Week 28: The Etruscans and the Founding of Rome

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 29: The Roman Republic: Everyday Life

  • The Cummer Art Museum in Jacksonville, Florida has various collections and beautiful gardens, but of particular interest to Year 1 Tapestry users is their collection of antiquities dating from 2100 B.C. to 300 A.D. This collection has fine examples of the art of Egypt, Etruria, Greece and Rome. Currently, a Cameo Exhibition of Art of the Ancient Mediterranean world and the Ancient Americas is on display in the Millner Gallery. Note: Tuesday evenings are BellSouth Free Tuesdays and admission is Free from 4-9 P.M.

Week 30: The Roman Republic Expands: The Punic Wars

  • A user shares the great suggestion of taking a trip to the zoo and talking with the elephant trainers. She has arranged this trip ahead of time for her Lower Grammar students. Maybe you’ll even get to see baby elephants!

Week 31: From Republic to Empire

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 32: Imperial Rome: Backdrop to the Atonement

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 33: The Zenith of Imperial Rome: Backdrop to the Early Church

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 34: Rome Decays: Saints and Martyrs of the Early Church

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 35: Christianity Conquers Rome: Of Church Hierarchies

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 36: Western Rome Falls: Theology and Church Councils

  • No helpful links this week.

Year Two Supporting Links

History
General
Unit 1 – The Middle Ages

General Resources for this Unit

Week 1: Twilight of the Western Roman Empire

Week 2: Byzantine Empire & the Eastern Orthodox Church

Week 3: Byzantine Empire & Rise of Islam

Week 4: The Making of Medieval Europe: Charlemagne

Week 5: Developments During the Viking Age

Week 6: Medieval Life: Feudalism

Week 7: The High Middle Ages

Week 8: The Mongols, Marco Polo, and the Far East

Week 9: The Reshaping of Medieval Europe

Week 10: Early Lights of the Reformation

Unit 2 – Renaissance & Reformation

Week 11: Introduction to the Southern Renaissance

  • A massive Teacher’s Site for the Renaissance.
  • You’ll find this website very helpful to answer dialectic questions about frescoes. (Note that this website is not in keeping with early creationist viewpoints.)
  • Use this link to answer dialectic questions about shallow relief and Donatello.
  • Teacher’s guide and multiple activities for the read-aloud Renaissance Artists who Inspired the World.
  • Reproductions of European art, parental supervision needed. (Classic nudity)
  • Giotto – (Classic nudity)
  • Petrarch
  • To answer dialectic questions about Petrarch, check out this website.
  • To answer dialectic questions about Dante, check out this website.

Week 12: The Southern Renaissance & the Early Explorers

Week 13: The Southern Renaissance & the Age of Exploration

Week 14: Spanish Dominion & the New World: Aztecs & Incas

Week 15: The Northern Renaissance & Its Scholars

Week 16: The Reformation: Martin Luther & the German States

Week 17: Reformation in Switzerland, England, & Scandinavia

Week 18: Counter Reformation, French Huguenots, & the Netherlands

Week 19: Elizabethan England & the Scottish Reformation

Unit 3 – Of Crowns & Colonies

Week 20: Early New World Colonies & Eastern Europe

Week 21: Puritans in New England

Week 22: Charters, Creeds, & the English Civil War

Week 23: Restoration Colonies & the Age of Louis XIV

Week 24: Dissenters in America & the Age of Reason

Week 25: Colonists & Native Americans

Week 26: Empires at Odds

Week 27: Thirteen Established Colonies

Unit 4 – Age of Revolutions

General Resources for this Unit

Week 28: Shaping Influences on Colonial Culture

Week 29: French & Indian War

Week 30: Give Me Liberty!

Week 31: First Battles for Independence

Week 32: Waging the Revolutionary War

Week 33: America under the Articles of the Confederation

Week 34: Writing the Constitution

Week 35: Federal Republic & French Revolution

Week 36: Perilous Times: The Adams Administration

Geography

We suggest that you use a good world history atlas so that your students can have practice at the skill of using maps and legends. Click the link below for our recommendation. The next choice is to use the supporting links that you find here. Please only let your student look at the teacher map in Map Aids as a last resort.

General

Online Maps, Map Vendors, and More!

Unit 1 – The Middle Ages

Week 1: Twilight of the Western Roman Empire

Week 2: Byzantine Empire & the Eastern Orthodox Church

Week 3: Byzantine Empire & Rise of Islam

Week 4: The Making of Medieval Europe: Charlemagne

Week 5: Developments During the Viking Age

Week 6: Medieval Life: Feudalism

Week 7: The High Middle Ages

Week 8: The Mongols, Marco Polo, and the Far East

Week 9: The Reshaping of Medieval Europe

Week 10: Early Lights of the Reformation

  • Use this world map to do your unit review. (pdf file)
Unit 2 – Renaissance & Reformation

Week 11: Introduction to the Southern Renaissance

Week 12: The Southern Renaissance & the Early Explorers

Week 13: The Southern Renaissance & the Age of Exploration

Week 14: Spanish Dominion & the New World: Aztecs & Incas

Week 15: The Northern Renaissance & Its Scholars

Week 16: The Reformation: Martin Luther & the German States

Week 17: Reformation in Switzerland, England, & Scandinavia

Week 18: Counter Reformation, French Huguenots, & the Netherlands

Week 19: Elizabethan England & the Scottish Reformation

Unit 3 – Of Crowns & Colonies

General Resources for this Unit

  • A map of the 13 Colonies is found here.

Week 20: Early New World Colonies & Eastern Europe

Week 21: Puritans in New England

Week 22: Charters, Creeds, & the English Civil War

Week 23: Restoration Colonies & the Age of Louis XIV

Week 24: Dissenters in America & the Age of Reason

Week 25: Colonists & Native Americans

Week 26: Empires at Odds

Week 27: Thirteen Established Colonies

Unit 4 – Age of Revolutions

Week 28: Shaping Influences on Colonial Culture

Week 29: French & Indian War

Week 30: Give Me Liberty!

Week 31: First Battles for Independence

Week 32: Waging the Revolutionary War

  • A nice animated atlas that you can use for the rest of this year-plan.
  • Battles of the Saratoga Campaign

Week 33: America under the Articles of the Confederation

Week 34: Writing the Constitution

Week 35: Federal Republic & French Revolution

Week 36: Perilous Times: The Adams Administration

Worldview
General
  • ICLNet’s Christian books online – Bibles, primary source documents, etc. Enough treasure for a lifetimes research!
  • Bible Gateway (Including Online Bible: many translations)
  • Operation World: Year 2 encourages your children to pray for Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists. This site, for many, will replace the need for a copy of Operation World.
  • BBC Religion and Ethics: this site enables you to read about various religions.
  • The Ism Book: an online book for basic definitions that will help you in your worldview studies.
  • A Treasury Of Primary Documents: organizing principle is “documents that pertain to Early American history.” Begins at 500 B.C. – 1800 A.D.
  • Helpful information on the History of World Missions, including a time line.
  • YWAM: missionary puzzles and coloring pages
Unit 1 – The Middle Ages

Week 1: Twilight of the Western Roman Empire

Week 2: Byzantine Empire & the Eastern Orthodox Church

Week 3: Byzantine Empire & Rise of Islam

Week 4: The Making of Medieval Europe: Charlemagne

Week 5: Developments During the Viking Age

Week 6: Medieval Life: Feudalism

Week 7: The High Middle Ages

Week 8: The Mongols, Marco Polo, and the Far East

  • Need a substitute for Trial and Triumph this week? Read here about Waldensians.
  • A Christian Response to Hinduism

Week 9: The Reshaping of Medieval Europe

Week 10: Early Lights of the Reformation

Unit 2 – Renaissance & Reformation

Week 11: Introduction to the Southern Renaissance

Week 12: The Southern Renaissance & the Early Explorers

Week 13: The Southern Renaissance & the Age of Exploration

Week 14: Spanish Dominion & the New World: Aztecs & Incas

Week 15: The Northern Renaissance & Its Scholars

Week 16: The Reformation: Martin Luther & the German States

Week 17: Reformation in Switzerland, England, & Scandinavia

Week 18: Counter Reformation, French Huguenots, & the Netherlands

Week 19: Elizabethan England & the Scottish Reformation

Unit 3 – Of Crowns & Colonies

Week 20: Early New World Colonies & Eastern Europe

Week 21: Puritans in New England

Week 22: Charters, Creeds, & the English Civil War

Week 23: Restoration Colonies & the Age of Louis XIV

Week 24: Dissenters in America & the Age of Reason

Week 25: Colonists & Native Americans

  • There are no Church History Objectives for this week.

Week 26: Empires at Odds

Week 27: Thirteen Established Colonies

Unit 4 – Age of Revolutions

Week 28: Shaping Influences on Colonial Culture

Week 29: French & Indian War

Week 30: Give Me Liberty!

Week 31: First Battles for Independence

  • There are no Church History Objectives for this week.

Week 32: Waging the Revolutionary War

  • There are no Church History Objectives for this week.

Week 33: America under the Articles of the Confederation

  • There are no Church History Objectives for this week.

Week 34: Writing the Constitution

  • There are no Church History Objectives for this week.

Week 35: Federal Republic & French Revolution

  • There are no Church History Objectives for this week.

Week 36: Perilous Times: The Adams Administration

  • There are no Church History Objectives for this week.
Literature

General

  • A webpage full of great helps for this year-plan. Check it out!
  • Lots of neat forms at Highland Heritage!
  • Primary Source documents: an exhaustive site for teacher and older students. Begins at 500 BC and keeps going through Early American history.
  • FreeBooknotes.com presents Cliff’s Notes-like help for many works.
  • You won’t believe this Wordsmyth site. Make your own glossary. Type in a list of vocabulary words, and push send. IT’S FREE!
Unit 1 – The Middle Ages

Week 1: Twilight of the Western Roman Empire

Week 2: Byzantine Empire & the Eastern Orthodox Church

Week 3: Byzantine Empire & Rise of Islam

Week 4: The Making of Medieval Europe: Charlemagne

Week 5: Developments During the Viking Age

Week 6: Medieval Life: Feudalism

Week 7: The High Middle Ages

Week 8: The Mongols, Marco Polo, and the Far East

Week 9: The Reshaping of Medieval Europe

Week 10: Early Lights of the Reformation

Unit 2 – Renaissance & Reformation

Week 11: Introduction to the Southern Renaissance

Week 12: The Southern Renaissance & the Early Explorers

Week 13: The Southern Renaissance & the Age of Exploration

Week 14: Spanish Dominion & the New World: Aztecs & Incas

Week 15: The Northern Renaissance & Its Scholars

Week 16: The Reformation: Martin Luther & the German States

Week 17: Reformation in Switzerland, England, & Scandinavia

Week 18: Counter Reformation, French Huguenots, & the Netherlands

Week 19: Elizabethan England & the Scottish Reformation

Unit 3 – Of Crowns & Colonies

Week 20: Early New World Colonies & Eastern Europe

Week 21: Puritans in New England

Week 22: Charters, Creeds, & the English Civil War

Week 23: Restoration Colonies & the Age of Louis XIV

Week 24: Dissenters in America & the Age of Reason

Week 25: Colonists & Native Americans

Week 26: Empires at Odds

Week 27: Thirteen Established Colonies

Unit 4 – Age of Revolutions

Week 28: Shaping Influences on Colonial Culture

Week 29: French & Indian War

Week 30: Give Me Liberty!

Week 31: First Battles for Independence

Week 32: Waging the Revolutionary War

Week 33: America under the Articles of the Confederation

Week 34: Writing the Constitution

Week 35: Federal Republic & French Revolution

Week 36: Perilous Times: The Adams Administration

Summer Reading:

A Tale of Two Cities

Writing
General
  • Here’s a great site to bookmark for all your graphic organizing needs and questions. What is a Graphic Organizer?
  • If you would like to make personalized graphic organizers, click here.
  • This site can be used as you are teaching and reviewing parts of speech. You’ll find matching, concentration, flash cards, and a word search.
  • Click here for another grammar game.
  • Daily Grammar Excellent site!
  • Make online crossword puzzles here. These are great for reviewing vocabulary!
  • Play Word Games
  • At the right is a picture one of our users sent in of the sentence pocket suggested in Marcia’s introductory notes. Click on the picture to see all the details up very close!

SAT Preparation:

Writing College Admissions Essays

Evaluations and Rubrics:

  • Great link for evaluating writing for grades 2-5. This is an interactive rubric for the student to use as a checklist.
  • Click here to evaluate writing for grades 6-8. Another great interactive student checklist!
  • Click here to develop rubrics automatically! Show your student his grading rubric (or better yet, have him develop one) before he starts his project or writing assignment!
Unit 1 – The Middle Ages

Week 1: Twilight of the Western Roman Empire

Week 2: Byzantine Empire & the Eastern Orthodox Church

Week 3: Byzantine Empire & Rise of Islam

Week 4: The Making of Medieval Europe: Charlemagne

  • Levels 4-5: Want to use level-appropriate sentences from the Bible for dictation? Click here.
  • Levels 4-12: If you are beginning to learn or review prepositions this week in grammar, click here for a crossword puzzle that will reinforce this knowledge.
  • Levels 4-12: Preposition word search

Week 5: Developments During the Viking Age

Week 6: Medieval Life: Feudalism

Week 7: The High Middle Ages

Week 8: The Mongols, Marco Polo, and the Far East

  • There are no helpful links this week.

Week 9: The Reshaping of Medieval Europe

Week 10: Early Lights of the Reformation

Unit 2 – Renaissance & Reformation

Week 11: Introduction to the Southern Renaissance

Week 12: The Southern Renaissance & the Early Explorers

Week 13: The Southern Renaissance & the Age of Exploration

  • Level 1: Need more practice on capitalization or punctuation? Click here for more worksheets.
  • Level 6: Venn diagram
  • Level 9: Instructions for creating an outline.

Week 14: Spanish Dominion & the New World: Aztecs & Incas

Week 15: The Northern Renaissance & Its Scholars

Week 16: The Reformation: Martin Luther & the German States

Week 17: Reformation in Switzerland, England, & Scandinavia

Week 18: Counter Reformation, French Huguenots, & the Netherlands

Week 19: Elizabethan England & the Scottish Reformation

Unit 3 – Of Crowns & Colonies

Week 20: Early New World Colonies & Eastern Europe

  • Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
  • Levels 2-4: Very simple story map (pdf file)
  • Level 2: Sample Aesop’s fables to print/show students before beginning their fables.
  • Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)
  • Another source from which you can read/download/print a free copy of Aesop’s fables.

Week 21: Puritans in New England

  • Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
  • Level 2: Sample Aesop’s fables to print/show students before beginning their fables.
  • Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)
  • Another source from which you can read/download/print a free copy of Aesop’s fables.
  • Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website.
  • Level 4: Very simple story map (pdf file)

Week 22: Charters, Creeds, & the English Civil War

  • Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
  • Level 2: Sample Aesop’s fables to print/show students before beginning their fables.
  • Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)
  • Another source from which you can read/download/print a free copy of Aesop’s fables.
  • Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website.
  • Level 4: Very simple story map (pdf file)
  • Level 10: Biography (review for high schoolers)

Week 23: Restoration Colonies & the Age of Louis XIV

  • Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
  • Level 2: Sample Aesop’s fables to print/show students before beginning their fables.
  • Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)
  • Another source from which you can read/download/print a free copy of Aesop’s fables.
  • Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website.
  • Level 4: Very simple story map (pdf file)
  • Level 10: Biography (review for high schoolers)

Week 24: Dissenters in America & the Age of Reason

  • Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
  • Level 2: Excellent site that you’ll use all through your book report mini-unit
  • Level 3: Describing Wheel (pdf file), Very simple story map (pdf file)
  • Level 3: Sample Aesop’s fables to print/show students before beginning their fables.
  • Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)
  • Another source from which you can read/download/print a free copy of Aesop’s fables.

Week 25: Colonists & Native Americans

  • Levels 1, 6: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
  • Level 3: Sample Aesop’s fables to print/show students before beginning their fables.
  • Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)
  • Another source from which you can read/download/print a free copy of Aesop’s fables.

Week 26: Empires at Odds

  • Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
  • Level 3: Sample Aesop’s fables to print/show students before beginning their fables.
  • Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)
  • Another source from which you can read/download/print a free copy of Aesop’s fables.

Week 27: Thirteen Established Colonies

Unit 4 – Age of Revolutions

Week 28: Shaping Influences on Colonial Culture

  • No links for this week.

Week 29: French & Indian War

  • No links for this week.

Week 30: Give Me Liberty!

  • No links for this week.

Week 31: First Battles for Independence

  • Levels 3, 6, 8, and 10: Upper levels especially will find this site on meter helpful during your poetry unit

Week 32: Waging the Revolutionary War

  • No links for this week.

Week 33: America under the Articles of the Confederation

  • No links for this week.

Week 34: Writing the Constitution

  • No links for this week.

Week 35: Federal Republic & French Revolution

  • No links for this week.

Week 36: Perilous Times: The Adams Administration

  • No links for this week.
Government
General
Unit 1 – The Middle Ages

Week 1: Twilight of the Western Roman Empire

Week 2: Byzantine Empire & the Eastern Orthodox Church

Week 3: Byzantine Empire & Rise of Islam

Week 4: The Making of Medieval Europe: Charlemagne

  • No links for this week.

Week 5: Developments During the Viking Age

Week 6: Medieval Life: Feudalism

Week 7: The High Middle Ages

Week 8: The Mongols, Marco Polo, and the Far East

Week 9: The Reshaping of Medieval Europe

  • No links for this week.

Week 10: Early Lights of the Reformation

  • No links for this week.
Unit 2 – Renaissance & Reformation

Week 11: Introduction to the Southern Renaissance

  • There are no objectives this week.

Week 12: The Southern Renaissance & the Early Explorers

Week 13: The Southern Renaissance & the Age of Exploration

Week 14: Spanish Dominion & the New World: Aztecs & Incas

Week 15: The Northern Renaissance & Its Scholars

Week 16: The Reformation: Martin Luther & the German States

Week 17: Reformation in Switzerland, England, & Scandinavia

Week 18: Counter Reformation, French Huguenots, & the Netherlands

Week 19: Elizabethan England & the Scottish Reformation

Unit 3 – Of Crowns & Colonies

Week 20: Early New World Colonies & Eastern Europe

Week 21: Puritans in New England

Week 22: Charters, Creeds, & the English Civil War

Week 23: Restoration Colonies & the Age of Louis XIV

Week 24: Dissenters in America & the Age of Reason

Week 25: Colonists & Native Americans

Week 26: Empires at Odds

Week 27: Thirteen Established Colonies

Unit 4 – Age of Revolutions

General Resources for this Unit

  • U.S. Government for Kids: everything you need to know for government for kids.
  • Congress for Kids: at each webpage you can read a bit about the topic and then click on “Show What You Know” for a reinforcement activity. If you click on “Play More” it takes you to a list of links for games, quizzes, maps, etc.
Arts & Activities
General
  • Great food link!
  • European Artist: parents please preview; could contain classic nudity
  • Use this site for great pictures when making lap books.
  • Here’s real help with Feast Nights: food timeline and recipes galore! Enjoy!
  • A timeline of classical music where you can also listen to the great composers!
  • Jamestown Online Adventure: Play an online game to see if you know better than the early settlers did.
  • Puzzlemaker input a list of words and this site will generate crosswords, word searches, codes, etc.
  • Cookie Dough Recipe: A great alternative to salt dough maps.
    • 2 c. smooth peanut butter
    • 2 1/2 c. powdered milk
    • 2 1/2 c. powdered sugar
    • 2 c. white corn syrup
    • Blue icing – lakes and oceans
    • Green sprinkles – plains
    • Clear sprinkles – deserts
    • Chocolate chips – mountains
    • Red candy strips – rivers
    • M&Ms – capitals
  • Try Crayola’s Model Magic: a great lightweight soft modeling substance. It air-dries quickly, and after it’s dry, it can be sanded, painted, or decorated. Model Magic can replace Fimo for most projects suggested in Tapestry.
Unit 1 – The Middle Ages

Week 1: Twilight of the Western Roman Empire

Week 2: Byzantine Empire & the Eastern Orthodox Church

Week 3: Byzantine Empire & Rise of Islam

Week 4: The Making of Medieval Europe: Charlemagne

Week 5: Developments During the Viking Age

Week 6: Medieval Life: Feudalism

Week 7: The High Middle Ages

Week 8: The Mongols, Marco Polo, and the Far East

Week 9: The Reshaping of Medieval Europe

  • A great idea for making stained glass looking projects is to use window cling paints! Special black paints (looks like leading) are filled in with special colored paints. When dry you can peel it off and apply to a window or mirror. Check out “DecoArt Liquid Rainbow Paint, Peel and Stick-On Transparent Paint”, and “Window Art” by Barbara Kane (Klutz).

Week 10: Early Lights of the Reformation

  • Learn about the origin of your family’s surname!
  • Finish all hands-on projects.

Unit Celebration: Medieval Feast

  • Medieval Feast recipes: Click here or here.
  • Medieval costumes
  • Another site about medieval costumes
  • General information about Medieval Feasts.
  • A user shared: “We are getting ready for our feast on Saturday, and I went shopping for material to attempt to make costumes. Check out Halloween costume clearance sales! I found great costumes for a nominal fee! Most were priced from $.74 – $4.99. Some things need to be altered a bit, but it cut my work dramatically! Happy Feasting!”
  • Wassail Song
Unit 2 – Renaissance & Reformation

General Resources for this Unit

Week 11: Introduction to the Southern Renaissance

Week 12: The Southern Renaissance & the Early Explorers

Week 13: The Southern Renaissance & the Age of Exploration

Week 14: Spanish Dominion & the New World: Aztecs & Incas

Week 15: The Northern Renaissance & Its Scholars

Week 16: The Reformation: Martin Luther & the German States

Week 17: Reformation in Switzerland, England, & Scandinavia

Week 18: Counter Reformation, French Huguenots, & the Netherlands

Week 19: Elizabethan England & the Scottish Reformation

Unit 3 – Of Crowns & Colonies

Week 20: Early New World Colonies & Eastern Europe

Week 21: Puritans in New England

  • No links for this week.

Week 22: Charters, Creeds, & the English Civil War

Week 23: Restoration Colonies & the Age of Louis XIV

Week 24: Dissenters in America & the Age of Reason

Week 25: Colonists & Native Americans

Week 26: Empires at Odds

Week 27: Thirteen Established Colonies

Unit 4 – Age of Revolutions

General Resources for this Unit

Week 28: Shaping Influences on Colonial Culture

  • How to make a hornbook: links here and here.

Week 29: French & Indian War

Week 30: Give Me Liberty!

  • No links for this week.

Week 31: First Battles for Independence

  • No links for this week.

Week 32: Waging the Revolutionary War

  • No links for this week.

Week 33: America under the Articles of the Confederation

  • Wig making resource. This site includes step by step instructions for how to make a variety of wigs and the information on it can be adapted for making colonial wigs.
  • 18th century clothing: interactive guide

Week 34: Writing the Constitution

Week 35: Federal Republic & French Revolution

Week 36: Perilous Times: The Adams Administration

  • No links for this week.
Field Trips

On this page, we hope to post field trip ideas from YOUR state that dovetail with Tapestry subjects as organized in our week-plans. Please submit your ideas via email, and please try to include the following information:

  • Your email address (for our sake, in case we have questions, but you can tell us if you’re willing to have your email linked as a contact person for more info about your recommendation).
  • The name of the attraction.
  • ANY online links to explain, give information, about the attraction.
  • A short paragraph explaining why the attraction would serve homeschoolers.

THANKS for your help! We will post states as their submissions come in, and under the weeks as listed below:

**IMAX often has great films that are an excellent addition to your academic studies. Find out what is playing, and where, to schedule this activity for your family.

Unit 1 – The Middle Ages

Week 1: Twilight of the Western Roman Empire

  • No links for this week.

Week 2: Byzantine Empire & the Eastern Orthodox Church

Week 3: Byzantine Empire & Rise of Islam

  • A user suggests taking a virtual tour of the Taj Mahal.

Week 4: The Making of Medieval Europe: Charlemagne

  • Find a castle to visit near your home.
  • Ravenwood Castle in New Plymouth, Ohio. A user recommends this bed and breakfast castle in which you can stay in one of the rooms (the King Arthur site was her favorite) or rent a smaller castle of your own in the village. A complimentary breakfast is served in the castle and you may pay extra for dinner and lunch as well. Jan’s family actually stayed in a gypsy wagon in the woods across from the castle which fit in their budget nicely.

Week 5: Developments During the Viking Age

  • A user recommends the Higgins Armory Museum in Worchester, Massachusetts. Worth the drive, residents of CT, MA, NH, and VT will find this to be a satisfying and interesting field trip. Here are a few reasons that she encourages this trip:
    1. Young children to adults can try on and dress up in replica metal helmets and simple period costumes.
    2. Get close to the armor and weapons in the main hall, appreciating the details.
    3. Impressive authentic and replica chain mail displays and detailed descriptions of period curiosities.
    4. Several cultures are represented…the best being the Middle Ages.
    5. Great gift shop that offers items we can really use.

Week 6: Medieval Life: Feudalism

  • A user recommends The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. The Harding Collection of Arms and Armor is great to supplement this week’s study. Oh — and admission is free on Tuesdays!

Week 7: The High Middle Ages

  • No links for this week.

Week 8: The Mongols, Marco Polo, and the Far East

Week 9: The Reshaping of Medieval Europe

  • Medieval Show: Make online reservations for your unit celebration: Buena Park, CA; Dallas, TX; Schaumburg, IL; Toronto, ON; Lyndhurst, NJ; Hanover, MD; Myrtle Beach, SC; Kissimmee, FL.
  • Camlann Medieval Village in Carnation, Washington (near Seattle). A living-history-museum project portraying rural England in the year 1376.

Week 10: Early Lights of the Reformation

  • Word Spring Discover Center in Orlando, Florida. Great place to learn about the art and science of translation and how God’s word carries hope around the world to people in their own language.
Unit 2 – Renaissance & Reformation

Week 11: Introduction to the Southern Renaissance

  • Renaissance Festivals in Plantersville, Texas; Holly, Michigan; or Manheim, Pennsylvania. (School days available; check the links for dates.)
  • National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. A user recommends a guided tour about Renaissance art. An educational tour can be arranged in advance. Of course, it is all FREE!

Week 12: The Southern Renaissance & the Early Explorers

  • Visit the Nina, the most historically accurate replica of a Columbus ship ever built. Click here to see if this exhibit is near you.
  • Corpus Christi has replicas of the Pinta and the Santa Maria.

Week 13: The Southern Renaissance & the Age of Exploration

  • No links for this week.

Week 14: Spanish Dominion & the New World: Aztecs & Incas

  • Cambridge, MA The Peabody Museum at Harvard. A large collection of Aztec items, carvings and replicas of wall paintings that was quite impressive. They also offer a 60 minute hands-on class for 4-7th graders.

Week 15: The Northern Renaissance & Its Scholars

  • No links for this week.

Week 16: The Reformation: Martin Luther & the German States

  • No links for this week.

Week 17: Reformation in Switzerland, England, & Scandinavia

  • A field trip we have enjoyed several times is MennoHof. MennoHof is an interpretive center for the Amish and Mennonite faiths, located in Shipshewana, Indiana.The museum has several parts, including a history of the Reformation that is portrayed in a room made to look like a dungeon in which Anabaptists were imprisoned. Be sure to watch for the “Anabaptist Catcher” hanging on the wall. There are further exhibits which depict the church history and beliefs of several groups, particularly the Amish, Mennonite, and Hutterites.The museum is appealing to children, with a model of a ship that immigrants traveled on, a play area with Amish-made toys, and a “Tornado Room” (too scary for the littlest ones) explaining the Mennonite role in disaster relief today. You might want to browse their small bookstore area, too. One of my favorite cookbooks came from MennoHof.I specifically remember both Zwingli and Michael Sattler from the history portion of the museum. The exhibits do an excellent job of relating the church history to an understanding of the varying modern-day practices of the Amish, Mennonites, and Hutterites. If you wish to understand the faith basis for the lifestyles modeled by these groups, this is the place to be.

Week 18: Counter Reformation, French Huguenots, & the Netherlands

Week 19: Elizabethan England & the Scottish Reformation

  • No links for this week.
Unit 3 – Of Crowns & Colonies

Week 20: Early New World Colonies & Eastern Europe

Week 21: Puritans in New England

Week 22: Charters, Creeds, & the English Civil War

  • No links for this week.

Week 23: Restoration Colonies & the Age of Louis XIV

  • No links for this week.

Week 24: Dissenters in America & the Age of Reason

  • No links for this week.

Week 25: Colonists & Native Americans

  • No links for this week.

Week 26: Empires at Odds

  • No links for this week.

Week 27: Thirteen Established Colonies

  • A user recommends the Spanish colonial field trip she and her family went on to El Rancho de las Golondrinas in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She said, “The date is 1820, but we used at the end of year 2 Unit 3. They have demonstrators for many colonial crafts like candle dipping, dying wool, a school house, sheep shearing, making tortillas, a mill, etc. Best time to go is special events because they have more demonstrators.”
Unit 4 – Age of Revolutions

Week 28: Shaping Influences on Colonial Culture

  • No links for this week.

Week 29: French & Indian War

  • No links for this week.

Week 30: Give Me Liberty!

Week 31: First Battles for Independence

  • A great recommendation for a field trip to the Peabody Museum on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, MA. There is a great deal of history just on the campus alone. We bought a self guided tour book at the visitor center for $2.00 and then walked around. The tour points out buildings where George Washington’s troops stayed during the Revolutionary war and other interesting facts. Then the Peabody Museum has a large exhibit on Native Americans; they break the tribes into different regions of the country. There are many real artifacts that made everything we have been studying come to life! Definitely worth the trip if you live in the area. (One warning though: there is a section of the museum that focuses on natural history and it is BIG into Darwinism. If necessary, you can talk about it/prepare ahead of time.)

Week 32: Waging the Revolutionary War

  • A user in NH urges families to consider walking the Freedom Trail through Boston, Massachusetts. She shares this about her experiences there:This is a fool-proof hike taking participants to see some of the most well-known historical sites in Boston. It is a free, self-guided path from Boston Common out to the Bunker Hill Monument. See the Old North Church (one if by land, two if by sea) the graves, homes, and monuments of revolutionary leaders. Paul Revere’s home, Boston Latin School, Fanuel Hall, Quincy Market and much more add opportunities to relax and/or eat along the way. Free maps of the trail are available at Boston Common Station.How do you walk the Freedom Trail? Well, we took the “T” (public rail system) to Boston Common. Once above ground there is a huge, can’t-miss-it map erected for visitors that points the way clearly to the sidewalk adjacent to the “T” portal. One simply follows the red stripe and big, bronze medallions embedded on the sidewalks through Boston. Voila! You will pass other T stations in case you need to abandon the trek and don’t want to go all the way back to the Common. (The “T” lines are all color coded and are extremely intuitive and user friendly to ride.)As we wove through the North End, we enjoyed spring flowerboxes on almost every home and shop. We sampled delicious goodies and took great historical photos along the way including our tour of the Old North Church (small fee) and Paul Revere’s Home. If you are especially observant in graveyards and look for placards on buildings you will be rewarded with a lot of those “connected to history moments.” I love that feeling, like when we stood on the very cobble stones that Paul Revere, John Adams, Benj. Franklin and others stood on- right outside Mr. Revere’s doorstep!Ultimately, we crossed the Charles River to Bunker Hill. Along the shore of the Charles there is Old Ironsides and the Boston Tea Party Ship (replica) that you can tour. We chose to explore Old Ironsides and had a guide who explained the life of a naval man of the times in great detail. It was well worth the time, and little extra walking, to experience this facet of American History.All totaled, it was a pretty long day. But, to be fair, we walked at a comfortably slow pace, stopped frequently to explore, read, soak in the history, discuss relevant topics and eat. We checked out every nook and cranny while hiking, and relaxed on the Bunker Hill lawn watching children fly kites before heading back to North Station to be out of the city for dinnertime. It was an unforgettable day, and for our family, we plan NOT to make it a once in a lifetime experience, but hike the trail again!

Week 33: America under the Articles of the Confederation

Week 34: Writing the Constitution

Week 35: Federal Republic & French Revolution

  • No links for this week.

Week 36: Perilous Times: The Adams Administration

Year Three Supporting Links

History
General

Timelines:

Presidents:

  • Do you want pictures only? Click here for a picture gallery.
  • Another excellent site for studying the Presidents: POTUS (Presidents of the United States)
  • Coloring pages of every president for your Lower Grammar kids
  • Make a full color book on the Presidents.
  • Site for inaugural addresses of the presidents

States:

  • Use this site as you are making your deck of state cards. 50states.com
  • This site shows the dates that each state entered the Union.
  • Flashcards of the 50 States: Outline of State, flag, bird, small map showing where the state is located in the region. The back has info about the state.
Unit 1 – Napoleon’s World

General Resources for this Unit

Week 1: When John Adams Was President

Week 2: Napoleon: The Man and His Career

Week 3: Early Industrial Revolution

Week 4: Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase

Week 5: Jefferson and the Supreme Court

Week 6: Madison and the War of 1812

Week 7: Reshaping Europe and South America

Week 8: South America in Transition

Week 9: Monroe and the American Hemisphere

Unit 2 – The Age of Industry & Expansion

Week 10: John Quincy Adams and Political Realignments

Week 11: Jacksonian Democracy

Week 12: Revolutions in Texas & Europe

Week 13: Victorian England

Week 14: Victorians at Home and Abroad

Week 15: Manifest Destiny

Week 16: Sea to Shining Sea

Week 17: The Oregon Trail

Week 18: 1848: Gold Dust & Gunpowder

Unit 3 – Nations Uniting & Dividing

Week 19: Westerners in Asia

Week 20: Franklin Pierce & the Crimean War

Week 21: America Divides & Italy Unites

Week 22: Lincoln and the Start of the Civil War

Week 23: Decisive Years of the Civil War

Week 24: Closing Years of the Civil War

Week 25: Andrew Johnson vs. Radical Reconstruction

  • An Eyewitness Account by the Lakota Chief Red Horse recorded in pictographs and text at the Cheyenne River Reservation, 1881. Click on the various episodes on the left to see great images!
  • Plains Indians and horses: Scroll down and find some nice pictures. Text is Dialectic up, and a little hard to read.
  • The Plains Indians and their dependence on buffalo: This site encompasses art and history. A Native American artist created this tapestry and kids are encouraged to think constructively in order to understand its meaning. Explanations and online matching activity are provided.
  • HUGE gorgeous site with all kinds of links to follow up. Westward Expansion is only ONE part of this site on the Gilded Age
  • Andrew Johnson

Week 26: Ulysses Grant & the Plains Indians Wars

Week 27: Technological Progress & the Unification of Germany

Unit 4 – The Gilded Age

Week 28: Introducing Africa and Reforming Empires

Week 29: The Scramble for Empire

Week 30: Imperialism and Culture

Week 31: Waves of Immigrants

Week 32: Captains of Industry

Week 33: Labor Issues and the New South

Week 34: Farmers, Populists, Gold Strikes and Gold Standards

Week 35: Powerful Men and Inspiring Women

Week 36: The Balkan Problem & American Imperialism

Geography

We suggest that you use a good world history atlas so that your students can have practice at the skill of using maps and legends. Click the link below for our recommendation. The next choice is to use the supporting links that you find here. Please only let your student look at the teacher map in Map Aids as a last resort.

General

Online Maps, Map Vendors, and More!

  • Euratlas
  • National Geographic: modern maps (source; printable) for every country in the world.
  • More great outline maps: easy to use and nice and clear!
  • Excellent link for all units! Click here for the Historic Atlas Resource.
  • An excellent site for reviewing geography. Click here and scroll down to “All of our Maps and Software”. Free downloadable games for each continent, includes capitals and where the country belongs!
  • Great historical map site.
  • Interactive Historic Atlas.
  • Creator has done a superb job making this site, which will be lots of help in all four year-plans.
  • MegaMaps: print up maps from the size of a single page to 7 feet across!
  • Imperial History of the Middle East: Who has conquered the Middle East over the course of world events? View this 90-second flash presentation!

States:

  • Use this site as you are making your deck of state cards: 50states.com
Unit 1 – Napoleon’s World

Week 1: When John Adams Was President

Week 2: Napoleon: The Man and His Career

Week 3: Early Industrial Revolution

Week 4: Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase

Week 5: Jefferson and the Supreme Court

  • There are no objectives this week.

Week 6: Madison and the War of 1812

Week 7: Reshaping Europe and South America

Week 8: South America in Transition

Week 9: Monroe and the American Hemisphere

Unit 2 – The Age of Industry & Expansion

Week 10: John Quincy Adams and Political Realignments

Week 11: Jacksonian Democracy

Week 12: Revolutions in Texas & Europe

Week 13: Victorian England

Week 14: Victorians at Home and Abroad

Week 15: Manifest Destiny

Week 16: Sea to Shining Sea

Week 17: The Oregon Trail

Week 18: 1848: Gold Dust & Gunpowder

Unit 3 – Nations Uniting & Dividing

Week 19: Westerners in Asia

  • Blank outline map of China
  • The same site at Enchanted Learning offers more information about China. Excellent!
  • All the outline maps, geographical information, and map labels you’ll need for a study of China.
  • Map of China
  • Map of Japan
  • Outline map of Japan
  • Pictures of China, Japan and India

Week 20: Franklin Pierce & the Crimean War

  • No links for this week.

Week 21: America Divides & Italy Unites

  • Very clear map showing slave and free states.
  • Blank outline map of the United States. This is a pdf file.
  • This is a really neat animated atlas that you can use anytime while studying the rest of this year-plan. Don’t miss it!

Week 22: Lincoln and the Start of the Civil War

Week 23: Decisive Years of the Civil War

  • No links for this week.

Week 24: Closing Years of the Civil War

  • No links for this week.

Week 25: Andrew Johnson vs. Radical Reconstruction

Week 26: Ulysses Grant & the Plains Indians Wars

Week 27: Technological Progress & the Unification of Germany

Unit 4 – The Gilded Age

General Resources for this Unit

Week 28: Introducing Africa and Reforming Empires

Week 29: The Scramble for Empire

Week 30: Imperialism and Culture

Week 31: Waves of Immigrants

Week 32: Captains of Industry

Week 33: Labor Issues and the New South

Week 34: Farmers, Populists, Gold Strikes and Gold Standards

Week 35: Powerful Men and Inspiring Women

Week 36: The Balkan Problem & American Imperialism

Worldview
General
  • Great site on Kierkegaard!
  • Another massive site: teacher’s use initially. You’ll use it to find sites for your children. If they want to read the originals, they are here!
  • Worldwide Missions: Year 3 encourages you and your children to pray for Hindus and Buddhists. Three weeks are devoted to the lives of the missionaries. You will enjoy reading summaries of their lives. Site contains statistics that give a clear picture of prayer. Use of this site removes the need to purchase Operation World.
  • The Ism Book: an online book for basic definitions that will help you in your worldview studies.
  • YWAM: missionary puzzles and coloring pages
Unit 1 – Napoleon’s World

Week 1: When John Adams Was President

Week 2: Napoleon: The Man and His Career

Week 3: Early Industrial Revolution

Week 4: Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase

Week 5: Jefferson and the Supreme Court

Week 6: Madison and the War of 1812

Week 7: Reshaping Europe and South America

Week 8: South America in Transition

Week 9: Monroe and the American Hemisphere

Unit 2 – The Age of Industry & Expansion

Week 10: John Quincy Adams and Political Realignments

Week 11: Jacksonian Democracy

Week 12: Revolutions in Texas & Europe

Week 13: Victorian England

Week 14: Victorians at Home and Abroad

Week 15: Manifest Destiny

Week 16: Sea to Shining Sea

Week 17: The Oregon Trail

Week 18: 1848: Gold Dust & Gunpowder

Unit 3 – Nations Uniting & Dividing

Week 19: Westerners in Asia

Week 20: Franklin Pierce & the Crimean War

  • No links for this week.

Week 21: America Divides & Italy Unites

  • No links for this week.

Week 22: Lincoln and the Start of the Civil War

Week 23: Decisive Years of the Civil War

Week 24: Closing Years of the Civil War

Week 25: Andrew Johnson vs. Radical Reconstruction

  • No links for this week.

Week 26: Ulysses Grant & the Plains Indians Wars

  • Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species (selections). Required reading for this week’s Pageant of Philosophy.
Unit 4 – The Gilded Age

Week 27: Technological Progress & the Unification of Germany

Week 28: Introducing Africa and Reforming Empires

Week 29: The Scramble for Empire

Week 30: Imperialism and Culture

Week 31: Waves of Immigrants

Week 32: Captains of Industry

Week 33: Labor Issues and the New South

Week 34: Farmers, Populists, Gold Strikes and Gold Standards

Week 35: Powerful Men and Inspiring Women

Week 36: The Balkan Problem & American Imperialism

Literature

General

  • Massive site: initially teacher’s use in gathering background information. If student wants to read the originals, they are here!
  • FreeBooknotes.com presents Cliff’s Notes-like help for many works.
  • Several books assigned, and some not assigned but interesting to Rhetoric level students (like works of Voltaire and Darwin) are found here.
  • Wordsmyth: look up words, make your own glossaries. Type in a list of vocabulary words and push send. You will get professional style glossary pages.
  • Norton online quizzes – Western Literature
Unit 1 – Napoleon’s World

Week 1: When John Adams Was President

Week 2: Napoleon: The Man and His Career

Week 3: Early Industrial Revolution

Week 4: Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase

Week 5: Jefferson and the Supreme Court

Week 6: Madison and the War of 1812

Week 7: Reshaping Europe and South America

Week 8: South America in Transition

Week 9: Monroe and the American Hemisphere

Unit 2 – The Age of Industry & Expansion

Week 10: John Quincy Adams and Political Realignments

Week 11: Jacksonian Democracy

Week 12: Revolutions in Texas & Europe

Week 13: Victorian England

Week 14: Victorians at Home and Abroad

Week 15: Manifest Destiny

Week 16: Sea to Shining Sea

Week 17: The Oregon Trail

Week 18: 1848: Gold Dust & Gunpowder

Unit 3 – Nations Uniting & Dividing

Week 19: Westerners in Asia

Week 20: Franklin Pierce & the Crimean War

Week 21: America Divides & Italy Unites

  • No links for this week.

Week 22: Lincoln and the Start of the Civil War

Week 23: Decisive Years of the Civil War

  • No links for this week.

Week 24: Closing Years of the Civil War

Week 25: Andrew Johnson vs. Radical Reconstruction

Week 26: Ulysses Grant & the Plains Indians Wars

Week 27: Technological Progress & the Unification of Germany

Unit 4 – The Gilded Age

Week 28: Introducing Africa and Reforming Empires

Week 29: The Scramble for Empire

Week 30: Imperialism and Culture

Week 31: Waves of Immigrants

Week 32: Captains of Industry

Week 33: Labor Issues and the New South

Week 34: Farmers, Populists, Gold Strikes and Gold Standards

Week 35: Powerful Men and Inspiring Women

Week 36: The Balkan Problem & American Imperialism

An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Spark Notes for The Importance of Being Earnest

Writing
General
  • Here’s a great site to bookmark for all your graphic organizing needs and questions. What is a Graphic Organizer?
  • If you would like to make personalized graphic organizers, click here.
  • Quia can be used as you are teaching or reviewing the parts of speech. You’ll find matching, concentration, flash cards, and a word search.
  • Or, click here for another grammar game.
  • Make online crossword puzzles here or here. These are great for reviewing vocabulary!
  • Daily Grammar. Excellent site!
  • At the right is a picture one of our users sent in of the sentence pocket suggested in Marcia’s introductory notes. Click on the picture to see all the details up very close!

SAT Preparation:

Writing College Admissions Essays

Evaluations and Rubrics:

  • Here is a great link for evaluating writing for grades 2-5. This is an interactive rubric for the student to use as a checklist.
  • Click here to evaluate writing for grades 6-8. Another great interactive student checklist!
  • Click here to develop rubrics automatically! Show your student his grading rubric (or better yet, have him develop one) before he starts his project or writing assignment!
Unit 1 – Napoleon’s World

Week 1: When John Adams Was President

Week 2: Napoleon: The Man and His Career

  • Levels 3-5: Your student may enjoy practicing combining words into sentences with this fun online activity.
  • Levels 4-5: Want to use level-appropriate sentences from the Bible for dictation? Click here.
  • Level 9: Transition words

Week 3: Early Industrial Revolution

Week 4: Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase

Week 5: Jefferson and the Supreme Court

Week 6: Madison and the War of 1812

Week 7: Reshaping Europe and South America

Week 8: South America in Transition

Week 9: Monroe and the American Hemisphere

Unit 2 – The Age of Industry & Expansion

Week 10: John Quincy Adams and Political Realignments

Week 11: Jacksonian Democracy

Week 12: Revolutions in Texas & Europe

Week 13: Victorian England

Week 14: Victorians at Home and Abroad

Week 15: Manifest Destiny

Week 16: Sea to Shining Sea

Week 17: The Oregon Trail

Week 18: 1848: Gold Dust & Gunpowder

Unit 3 – Nations Uniting & Dividing

Week 19: Westerners in Asia

Week 20: Franklin Pierce & the Crimean War

Week 21: America Divides & Italy Unites

Week 22: Lincoln and the Start of the Civil War

Week 23: Decisive Years of the Civil War

Week 24: Closing Years of the Civil War

Week 25: Andrew Johnson vs. Radical Reconstruction

Week 26: Ulysses Grant & the Plains Indians Wars

Unit 4 – The Gilded Age

Week 27: Technological Progress & the Unification of Germany

  • Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
  • Level 2: Very simple story map (pdf file).
  • Level 2: Sample Aesop’s fables to print/show students before beginning their fables
  • Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)
  • Another source from which you can read/download/print a free copy of Aesop’s fables.

Week 28: Introducing Africa and Reforming Empires

Week 29: The Scramble for Empire

Week 30: Imperialism and Culture

Week 31: Waves of Immigrants

  • Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
  • Levels 3, 6, 8, and 10: For further helps on teaching your poetry unit, click here.

Week 32: Captains of Industry

  • Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
  • Level 4: Here is a cover that you can use for your state notebook. (pdf file)
  • Level 4: Click here for a ready-to-use Table of Contents for your notebook. (pdf file)

Week 33: Labor Issues and the New South

Week 34: Farmers, Populists, Gold Strikes and Gold Standards

  • No links for this week.

Week 35: Powerful Men and Inspiring Women

  • No links for this week.

Week 36: The Balkan Problem & American Imperialism

  • No links for this week.
Government
General
  • Massive site: teacher’s use, probably, initially, although you’ll use it to find sites for your children. If they want to read the originals, here they are!
  • All ages will love this site on US Government. This site transcends unit boundaries. It’s GREAT!
Unit 1 – Napoleon’s World

Week 1: When John Adams Was President

Week 2: Napoleon: The Man and His Career

Week 3: Early Industrial Revolution

  • FAQs about the Code Napoleon. You can also follow a link here about the Code Napoleon.
  • Read excerpts from the Code here.

Week 4: Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase

Week 5: Jefferson and the Supreme Court

  • No links for this week.

Week 6: Madison and the War of 1812

Week 7: Reshaping Europe and South America

Week 8: South America in Transition

Week 9: Monroe and the American Hemisphere

Unit 2 – The Age of Industry & Expansion

Week 10: John Quincy Adams and Political Realignments

Week 11: Jacksonian Democracy

Week 12: Revolutions in Texas & Europe

Week 13: Victorian England

Week 14: Victorians at Home and Abroad

Week 15: Manifest Destiny

Week 16: Sea to Shining Sea

Week 17: The Oregon Trail

  • No links for this week.

Week 18: 1848: Gold Dust & Gunpowder

Unit 3 – Nations Uniting & Dividing

Week 19: Westerners in Asia

Week 20: Franklin Pierce & the Crimean War

Week 21: America Divides & Italy Unites

  • No links for this week.

Week 22: Lincoln and the Start of the Civil War

  • No links for this week

Week 23: Decisive Years of the Civil War

Week 24: Closing Years of the Civil War

Week 25: Andrew Johnson vs. Radical Reconstruction

  • No links for this week.

Week 26: Ulysses Grant & the Plains Indians Wars

  • No links for this week.

Week 27: Technological Progress & the Unification of Germany

  • No links for this week.
Unit 4 – The Gilded Age

Week 28: Introducing Africa and Reforming Empires

Week 29: The Scramble for Empire

  • No links for this week.

Week 30: Imperialism and Culture

Week 31: Waves of Immigrants

Week 32: Captains of Industry

Week 33: Labor Issues and the New South

Week 34: Farmers, Populists, Gold Strikes and Gold Standards

Week 35: Powerful Men and Inspiring Women

Week 36: The Balkan Problem & American Imperialism

  • No links for this week.
Arts & Activities
General
  • Use this site for great pictures when making lapbooks.
  • A vast resource for further research on 19th-Century Art. Click on 19th-Century Art.
  • Excellent architecture sight: www.greatbuildings.com
  • This art history project book can be used in all four year-plans, as it goes through the 1980’s. There are 80 projects in this book entitled Great Studio Projects in Art History, and is written by William Reid. ISBN 0825138523
  • Here’s real help with Feast Nights: food timeline and recipes galore! Enjoy!
  • Classics for Kids: a great website for composers and their music.
  • Classicalworks: a great site with an extensive timeline.
  • A user shared: “Home Depot Kids’ Workshops are a blast! They give the child a complete project kit which includes everything they need for materials to build something. Plus they give them a work apron and pins for completing the project. They were so proud of themselves.”
  • Puzzlemaker: put in a list of words and it will generate word searches, crosswords, codes, etc.
  • Brainpop Free educational movies. You can watch two free per day. Aimed at grades 3-8, but fun for all!
  • Cookie Dough Recipe: A great alternative to salt dough maps.
    • 2 c. smooth peanut butter
    • 2 1/2 c. powdered milk
    • 2 1/2 c. powdered sugar
    • 2 c. white corn syrup
      • Blue icing – lakes and oceans
      • Green sprinkles – plains
      • Clear sprinkles – deserts
      • Chocolate chips – mountains
      • Red candy strips – rivers
      • M&Ms – capitals
Unit 1 – Napoleon’s World

Week 1: When John Adams Was President

Week 2: Napoleon: The Man and His Career

Week 3: Early Industrial Revolution

Week 4: Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase

Week 5: Jefferson and the Supreme Court

Week 6: Madison and the War of 1812

Week 7: Reshaping Europe and South America

Week 8: South America in Transition

Week 9: Monroe and the American Hemisphere

Unit 2 – The Age of Industry & Expansion

Week 10: John Quincy Adams and Political Realignments

Week 11: Jacksonian Democracy

Week 12: Revolutions in Texas & Europe

Week 13: Victorian England

Week 14: Victorians at Home and Abroad

Week 15: Manifest Destiny

Week 16: Sea to Shining Sea

Week 17: The Oregon Trail

Week 18: 1848: Gold Dust & Gunpowder

Unit 3 – Nations Uniting & Dividing

Week 19: Westerners in Asia

Week 20: Franklin Pierce & the Crimean War

Week 21: America Divides & Italy Unites

Week 22: Lincoln and the Start of the Civil War

Week 23: Decisive Years of the Civil War

Week 24: Closing Years of the Civil War

Week 25: Andrew Johnson vs. Radical Reconstruction

Week 26: Ulysses Grant & the Plains Indians Wars

Week 27: Technological Progress & the Unification of Germany

Unit 4 – The Gilded Age

Week 28: Introducing Africa and Reforming Empires

Week 29: The Scramble for Empire

Week 30: Imperialism and Culture

Week 31: Waves of Immigrants

Week 32: Captains of Industry

Week 33: Labor Issues and the New South

Week 34: Farmers, Populists, Gold Strikes and Gold Standards

Week 35: Powerful Men and Inspiring Women

Week 36: The Balkan Problem & American Imperialism

Field Trips

On this page, we hope to post field trip ideas from YOUR state that dovetail with Tapestry subjects as organized in our week-plans. Please submit your ideas via email, and please try to include the following information:

  • Your email address (for our sake, in case we have questions, but you can tell us if you’re willing to have your email linked as a contact person for more info about your recommendation).
  • The name of the attraction.
  • ANY online links to explain, give information, about the attraction.
  • A short paragraph explaining why the attraction would serve homeschoolers.

THANKS for your help! We will post states as their submissions come in, and under the weeks as listed below:

**IMAX often has great films that are an excellent addition to your academic studies. Find out what is playing, and where, to schedule this activity for your family.

Unit 1 – Napoleon’s World

Week 1: When John Adams Was President

Week 2: Napoleon: The Man and His Career

Week 3: Early Industrial Revolution

  • Visit the Eli Whitney Museum in Hamden, Connecticut
  • The Lowell National Historical Park in Lowell, Massachusetts is open all year long, and they have a wonderful program about the Industrial Revolution.
  • Steamboat Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. Don’t miss this opportunity to see a real steamboat that was recovered from a Kansas City cornfield! It sunk in 1856 in the Missouri River and when the river rerouted itself the boat ended up several feet underground in the middle of a farmer’s field. In 1988 a family and some of their friends recovered the boat and its contents. Items are still being preserved and displayed even though there already rooms full of items! Very neat field trip!!
  • Robert Fulton’s Birthplace in Quarryville, Pennsylvania would be a great way to learn about the life of a great American.
  • If you are in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, consider visiting Slater Mill. Their website has pre-visit information, discussion questions, and a glossary under For Educators. Have fun!
  • Robert Fulton Birthplace

Week 4: Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase

  • Visit Jefferson’s home: Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Week 5: Jefferson and the Supreme Court

  • Visit the Smithsonian in Washington DC.
  • Supreme Court in Washington DC. If you can’t go to DC, consider visiting your local or state court.

Week 6: Madison and the War of 1812

  • A user recommends the Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine in Maryland where a battle took place during the war of 1812, prior to Key writing the Star-Spangled Banner.
  • USS Constitution Museum in Charlestown, MA

Week 7: Reshaping Europe and South America

  • Louisiana State Museum, the site of the Louisiana Purchase Transfer in New Orleans, Louisiana.
  • The Arch in St. Louis, Missouri has a wonderful (free) museum that features Lewis and Clark’s entire journey.

Week 8: South America in Transition

Week 9: Monroe and the American Hemisphere

Unit 2 – The Age of Industry & Expansion

Week 10: John Quincy Adams and Political Realignments

Week 11: Jacksonian Democracy

Week 12: Revolutions in Texas & Europe

  • The Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, will make a great family outing anytime during this unit. They are open all year long for experiencing an 1830’s New England village. The characters dress in costume and they have many wonderful demonstrations on gardening, musket firing, tin, pottery, blacksmith, carding mill, broom making, etc. They offer at least 2 homeschool days each year, with discounted rates and special programs as well as a calendar of other homeschool days with rates based on number of students.

Week 13: Victorian England

Week 14: Victorians at Home and Abroad

  • Many little theaters across the country make presentations of Dicken’s A Christmas Carol. Check your local attractions, or if you are in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, click here for ticket information.

Week 15: Manifest Destiny

Week 16: Sea to Shining Sea

  • No links for this week.

Week 17: The Oregon Trail

Week 18: 1848: Gold Dust & Gunpowder

Unit 3 – Nations Uniting & Dividing

Week 19: Westerners in Asia

Week 20: Franklin Pierce & the Crimean War

Week 21: America Divides & Italy Unites

Week 22: Lincoln and the Start of the Civil War

Week 23: Decisive Years of the Civil War

Week 24: Closing Years of the Civil War

  • No links for this week.

Week 25: Andrew Johnson vs. Radical Reconstruction

  • No links for this week.

Week 26: Ulysses Grant & the Plains Indians Wars

  • No links for this week.

Week 27: Technological Progress & the Unification of Germany

  • No links for this week.
Unit 4 – The Gilded Age

Week 28: Introducing Africa and Reforming Empires

Week 29: The Scramble for Empire

  • No links for this week.

Week 30: Imperialism and Culture

Week 31: Waves of Immigrants

Week 32: Captains of Industry

  • No links for this week.

Week 33: Labor Issues and the New South

Week 34: Farmers, Populists, Gold Strikes and Gold Standards

  • No links for this week.

Week 35: Powerful Men and Inspiring Women

  • No links for this week.

Week 36: The Balkan Problem & American Imperialism

Year Four Supporting Links

History
General

Great link for the whole year!

Wonderful huge site: Atlas of the 20th Century.

Another massive site with Primary Source materials: teacher’s use, probably, initially, although you’ll use it to find sites for your children. If they want to read the originals, here they are!

All ages will love this site on US Government. This site transcends unit boundaries. It’s GREAT!

The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Van Loon is now online: read from the screen or print to your heart’s content.

Eyewitness History is GREAT! It has first-hand accounts, graphics, and a wonderfully user-friendly interface. Bookmark today and use it all four years! I recommend that you start by clicking on “index” and then scroll through, noting upcoming topics in your Year-Plan! Enjoy!

Have you chosen the Spielvogel books as a spine? If so, click here to find more teaching helps! To navigate through this site, you’ll want to click on the picture of your text, or one similar, to find interactive quizzes, internet activities, and more!

Use this site for great pictures when making lapbooks.

On This Day

Have Fun with History: Excellent resource of videos, people and event timelines, and activities!

Timelines

Presidents:

Unit 1 – Casting Off the Moorings

General Resources for this Unit

Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century

A Nation Rises (1700s-1840)

The Century of Iron (1844-1859)

Through the Golden Door (1870-1899)

Significant Milestones (1900-1902)

Week 2: The Progressive Era

Week 3: Wilson’s Reforms & Europe’s War

Week 4: Deadlock and Death

Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts

  • Review Russian history up to the Russian Revolution. This page is especially good for those who are new to Tapestry in Year 4.
  • Large site devoted to organizing links connected with the Russian Revolution. Primary source documents, maps, biographies–it’s all here! Parental screening advised, since I’m sure there must be some pro-Marxist sites included.
  • Direct link to helpful time line on the above site.

Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace

Week 7: Postwar America

Week 8: America’s Roaring 20’s & Russia’s Stalin

Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler’s Early Career

Unit 2 – Depression and Destruction

General Resources for this Unit

Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market

Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America

Week 12: FDR and the New Deal

Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement

  • Excellent online biography of Adolph Hitler. Detailed and interesting! Read Part 2: The Triumph of Hitler this week.
  • Listen to Bing Crosby’s Little Drummer Boy.
  • Outstanding highly hyper linked page on Neville Chamberlain. This page will give you MUCH valuable information that is not available in enrichment books recommended for this week. Please take some time to follow hyper links that interest you, or are terms/events about which you know very little. This site is highly recommended.
  • This link on the policy of appeasement from the above page is HIGHLY recommended reading this week, especially the primary source quotes at the bottom. In reading them you will gain valuable insight into WHY this policy was followed.
  • Outline of Hitler’s maneuvers Leading up to the Munich Crisis. Wonderful original audio clips from various world leaders including the leaders of Britain (Chamberlain), Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Germany (Hitler).
  • Neville Chamberlain is often quoted (and belittled) for his famous statement that his appeasement of Hitler over Czechoslovakia at the Munich Conference had earned Europe “peace in our time.” To read the text of his ironic statement, click here
  • Official Amelia Earhart site, or read about her last flight here.
  • Corrie ten Boom
  • For the dialectic study of Mussolini: Benito Mussolini
  • For the dialectic study of Mussolini: Encyclopedia Britannica on Benito Mussolini (Italian dictator)

Week 14: Blitzkrieg!

Week 15: World-Wide War

Week 16: Unconditional Surrender

Week 17: Hot War to Cold War

Week 18: A Jewish Homeland

Unit 3 – Conformity to Counterculture

Week 19: India’s Independence

Week 20: China’s Revolution

Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare

Week 22: Eisenhower’s Oasis

Week 23: Conformity and Change

Week 24: Kennedy’s New Frontiers

Week 25: Camelot and Crisis

Week 26: Johnson’s Great Society

Week 27: A Nation in Distress

Unit 4 – The Postmodern World

Week 28: Nixon: Détente and Watergate

Week 29: Ford’s Integrity

Week 30: Carter’s Malaise

Week 31: Reagan’s Revolution

Week 32: G.H.W. Bush’s New World Order

Week 33: Clinton’s Lost Opportunity

Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror

Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?

Week 36: Reflections and Revelation

Geography

We suggest that you use a good world history atlas so that your students can have practice at the skill of using maps and legends. Click the link below for our recommendation. The next choice is to use the supporting links that you find here. Please only let your student look at the teacher map in Map Aids as a last resort.

General

Online Maps, Map Vendors, and More!

Unit 1 – Casting Off the Moorings

Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century

Week 2: The Progressive Era

Week 3: Wilson’s Reforms & Europe’s War

Week 4: Deadlock and Death

  • Excellent! All the maps you’ll need for teaching about WWI.

Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts

Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace

Week 7: Postwar America

  • No objectives for this week.

Week 8: America’s Roaring 20’s & Russia’s Stalin

  • No links for this week.

Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler’s Early Career

Unit 2 – Depression and Destruction

General Resources for this Unit

Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market

Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America

Week 12: FDR and the New Deal

  • No objectives for this week.

Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement

Week 14: Blitzkrieg!

Week 15: World-Wide War

  • These interactive maps should help show the spread of WWII.
  • One more set of maps that you will find helpful this week.
  • A helpful link for learning more about the Balkans.
  • Here is a .pdf file to download if you need a blank world map.

Week 16: Unconditional Surrender

  • No objectives for this week.

Week 17: Hot War to Cold War

  • Outline maps of Europe, with or without labels.

Week 18: A Jewish Homeland

  • Outline map of the Middle East
  • Another choice for an outline map of the Middle East
  • Find every label in the Student Activity Pages here.
  • Predominant religions and ethnicity of the Middle-east here
  • Operation World: click country lists. Click on Asia to find individual middle-east countries. National pages have information regarding people, languages, and religions of a particular area.
Unit 3 – Conformity to Counterculture

Week 19: India’s Independence

Week 20: China’s Revolution

  • How to make a Salt Map.
  • A salt dough map example.
  • Animated map of Mao’s Long March.
  • Use this site and click on the map of Asia, and then the map of China for location of cities.
  • All the outline maps, geographical information, and map labels you’ll need for a study of China.

Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare

Week 22: Eisenhower’s Oasis

Week 23: Conformity and Change

  • Outline map of Cuba
  • Use this site and click on the map of the Islands of the Caribbean, and then the map of Cuba for location of cities.
  • Information on Cuba

Week 24: Kennedy’s New Frontiers

Week 25: Camelot and Crisis

Week 26: Johnson’s Great Society

  • Outline map of Vietnam from EnchantedLearning.com
  • Details about Vietnam from WorldAtlas.com
  • Blank outline map of Vietnam

Week 27: A Nation in Distress

  • No links for this week.
Unit 4 – The Postmodern World

Week 28: Nixon: Détente and Watergate

Week 29: Ford’s Integrity

Week 30: Carter’s Malaise

Week 31: Reagan’s Revolution

Week 32: G.H.W. Bush’s New World Order

Week 33: Clinton’s Lost Opportunity

Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror

Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?

Week 36: Reflections and Revelation

Worldview
General
  • Does your denomination send out missionaries to various areas of the world? Do a Google search for your own mission’s site and bookmark it. Then, each week, you can return to that site and pray for specific missionaries!
  • Blue Letter Bible: A wonderful study aid for teaching devotions or checking Hebrew and Greek words. Historical maps and artwork is also included!
  • Operation World website: excellent for praying daily for missions
  • The “Ism” Book: an online book for basic definitions that will help you in your worldview studies.
  • YWAM: missionary puzzles and coloring pages
Unit 1 – Casting Off the Moorings

Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century

Do you understand these terms and remember these key people? If not, take some time to click and review!

Take some time to look up names with which you are not familiar. See if you can spot their position with regard to the terms listed above:

There have been outstanding people and events worldwide that must also be remembered in any quick review of the history of the Church to the beginning of the 20th Century:

Week 2: The Progressive Era

Week 3: Wilson’s Reforms & Europe’s War

  • Fanny Crosby: scroll down to find a list of songs she wrote. Listen to them online!

Week 4: Deadlock and Death

Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts

  • Billy Sunday – focus on background, methods, and message

Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace

  • No links for this week.

Week 7: Postwar America

Week 8: America’s Roaring 20’s & Russia’s Stalin

Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler’s Early Career

Unit 2 – Depression and Destruction

Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market

Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America

Week 12: FDR and the New Deal

Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement

Week 14: Blitzkrieg!

Week 15: World-Wide War

Week 16: Unconditional Surrender

Week 17: Hot War to Cold War

Week 18: A Jewish Homeland

Unit 3 – Conformity to Counterculture

Week 19: India’s Independence

Week 20: China’s Revolution

Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare

Week 22: Eisenhower’s Oasis

Week 23: Conformity and Change

Week 24: Kennedy’s New Frontiers

Week 25: Camelot and Crisis

Week 26: Johnson’s Great Society

Week 27: A Nation in Distress

Unit 4 – The Postmodern World

Supplement 13: Rhetoric Church History Options for Unit 4

Week 28: Nixon: Détente and Watergate

Week 29: Ford’s Integrity

Week 30: Carter’s Malaise

Week 31: Reagan’s Revolution

Week 32: G.H.W. Bush’s New World Order

Week 33: Clinton’s Lost Opportunity

Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror

  • No links for this week.

Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?

  • No links for this week.

Week 36: Reflections and Revelation

Literature

General

  • FreeBooknotes.com presents Cliff’s Notes-like help for many works.
  • You won’t believe this site. You can look up any word, you can even make your own glossary. You type in a list of vocabulary words, decide what you would like included and push send. You then get a professional paged glossary of all your words. AND IT IS FREE! (You do have to register first.)
  • Norton online quizzes — Western Literature
Unit 1 – Casting Off the Moorings

Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century

Week 2: The Progressive Era

Week 3: Wilson’s Reforms & Europe’s War

Week 4: Deadlock and Death

Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts

Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace

Week 7: Postwar America

Week 8: America’s Roaring 20’s & Russia’s Stalin

Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler’s Early Career

Unit 2 – Depression and Destruction

Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market

Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America

Week 12: FDR and the New Deal

Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement

Week 14: Blitzkrieg!

Week 15: World-Wide War

Week 16: Unconditional Surrender

Week 17: Hot War to Cold War

  • No links for this week.

Week 18: A Jewish Homeland

Unit 3 – Conformity to Counterculture

Week 19: India’s Independence

Week 20: China’s Revolution

Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare

Week 22: Eisenhower’s Oasis

Week 23: Conformity and Change

Week 24: Kennedy’s New Frontiers

Week 25: Camelot and Crisis

Week 26: Johnson’s Great Society

Week 27: A Nation in Distress

Unit 4 – The Postmodern World

Week 28: Nixon: Détente and Watergate

Week 29: Ford’s Integrity

Week 30: Carter’s Malaise

Week 31: Reagan’s Revolution

Week 32: G.H.W. Bush’s New World Order

Week 33: Clinton’s Lost Opportunity

Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror

  • Shel Silverstein website full of activities and ideas for teaching
  • Raising Dragons is one of the books in the Dragons in Our Midst series. Check out their website!

Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?

  • Shel Silverstein website full of activities and ideas for teaching
  • Raising Dragons is one of the books in the Dragons in Our Midst series. Check out their website!

Week 36: Reflections and Revelation

Raising Dragons is one of the books in the Dragons in Our Midst series. Check out their website!

Shel Silverstein website full of activities and ideas for teaching

Writing
General
  • Here’s a great site to bookmark for all your graphic organizing needs and questions. What is a Graphic Organizer?
  • If you would like to make personalized graphic organizers, click here.
  • This site can be used as you are teaching or reviewing the parts of speech. You’ll find matching, concentration, flash cards, and a word search.
  • Interactive Graphic Organizers
  • Or, click here for another grammar game.
  • Make online crossword puzzles here or here. These are great for reviewing vocabulary!
  • Daily Grammar. Excellent site!
  • At the right is a picture one of our users sent in of the sentence pocket suggested in Marcia’s introductory notes. Click on the picture to see all the details up very close!

SAT Preparation:

Writing College Admissions Essays

Evaluations and Rubrics:

  • Lisa has contributed this great link for evaluating writing for grades 2-5. This is an interactive rubric for the student to use as a checklist.
  • Click here to evaluate writing for grades 6-8. Another great interactive student checklist!
  • I recommend you show a student his grading rubric (or better yet, have him help you develop one!) before he starts his project or writing assignment. Click here to develop rubrics automatically from this site for most types of evaluations!
Unit 1 – Casting Off the Moorings

Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century

  • Level 1: Click here for some neat online activities as you are teaching nouns. Use next week too!
  • Level 2: Parts of grammar
  • Levels 3-7: For reviewing the steps in the writing process, click here.
  • Levels 8-11: More advanced explanation of steps in the writing process.

Week 2: The Progressive Era

Week 3: Wilson’s Reforms & Europe’s War

Week 4: Deadlock and Death

  • Levels 4-6: Want to use level-appropriate sentences from the Bible for dictation? Click here.
  • Levels 4-12: If you are beginning to learn or review prepositions this week in grammar, click here for a crossword puzzle here that will reinforce this knowledge.
  • Levels 4-12: Preposition Wordsearch
  • Levels 5-8: Descriptive Writing
  • Levels 10-11: More advanced cluster diagram for oldest students.

Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts

Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace

  • Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website

Week 7: Postwar America

Week 8: America’s Roaring 20’s & Russia’s Stalin

  • Level 1: Coloring page of Warren G. Harding
  • Level 2: For further help with learning the steps of the writing process, click here.
  • Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website.
  • Level 11: Go to these sites for helps and practice college application essays:

Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler’s Early Career

Unit 2 – Depression and Destruction

Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market

Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America

Week 12: FDR and the New Deal

Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement

Week 14: Blitzkrieg!

Week 15: World-Wide War

Week 16: Unconditional Surrender

Week 17: Hot War to Cold War

Week 18: A Jewish Homeland

  • No links for this week.
Unit 3 – Conformity to Counterculture

Week 19: India’s Independence

  • Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
  • Level 2: Samples of Aesop’s fables to show students in pre-writing phase
  • Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)

Week 20: China’s Revolution

  • Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
  • Level 2: Samples of Aesop’s fables to show students in pre-writing phase
  • Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)

Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare

  • Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
  • Level 2: Samples of Aesop’s fables to show students in pre-writing phase
  • Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)

Week 22: Eisenhower’s Oasis

  • Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
  • Level 2: Samples of Aesop’s fables to show students in pre-writing phase
  • Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)

Week 23: Conformity and Change

  • Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
  • Level 2: Samples of Aesop’s fables to show students in pre-writing phase
  • Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)

Week 24: Kennedy’s New Frontiers

Week 25: Camelot and Crisis

Week 26: Johnson’s Great Society

Week 27: A Nation in Distress

Unit 4 – The Postmodern World

Week 28: Nixon: Détente and Watergate

Week 29: Ford’s Integrity

Week 30: Carter’s Malaise

Week 31: Reagan’s Revolution

Week 32: G.H.W. Bush’s New World Order

Week 33: Clinton’s Lost Opportunity

Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror

Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?

Week 36: Reflections and Revelation

Government
General
  • Another massive site: teachers use, probably, initially, although you’ll use it to find sites for your children. If they want to read the originals, here they are!
  • All ages will love this site on US Government. This site transcends unit boundaries. It’s GREAT!
Unit 1 – Casting Off the Moorings

Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century

Week 2: The Progressive Era

Week 3: Wilson’s Reforms & Europe’s War

  • No links for this week

Week 4: Deadlock and Death

  • No links for this week

Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts

Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace

Week 7: Postwar America

Week 8: America’s Roaring 20’s & Russia’s Stalin

Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler’s Early Career

Unit 2 – Depression and Destruction

Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market

Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America

  • No links for this week.

Week 12: FDR and the New Deal

Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement

Week 14: Blitzkrieg!

  • No links for this week.

Week 15: World-Wide War

Week 16: Unconditional Surrender

Week 17: Hot War to Cold War

  • No links for this week.

Week 18: A Jewish Homeland

  • No links for this week.
Unit 3 – Conformity to Counterculture

Week 19: India’s Independence

Week 20: China’s Revolution

Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare

  • No links for this week.

Week 22: Eisenhower’s Oasis

Week 23: Conformity and Change

  • No helpful links this week.

Week 24: Kennedy’s New Frontiers

  • No links for this week.

Week 25: Camelot and Crisis

  • No links for this week.

Week 26: Johnson’s Great Society

Week 27: A Nation in Distress

  • No links for this week.
Unit 4 – The Postmodern World

Week 28: Nixon: Détente and Watergate

Week 29: Ford’s Integrity

Week 30: Carter’s Malaise

  • No links for this week.

Week 31: Reagan’s Revolution

Week 32: G.H.W. Bush’s New World Order

  • Employment Division v. Smith

Week 33: Clinton’s Lost Opportunity

Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror

Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?

Week 36: Reflections and Revelation

  • No links needed this week.
Arts & Activities
General
  • A user recommends watching “Fly me to the Moon”, an animated feature about three young flies that catch a ride on Apollo 13. Can be rented or found on Netflix.
  • Use this site for great pictures when making lapbooks.
  • A vast resource on 20th-Century Art. Click on General, Early, or Later 20th-Century Art.
  • This art history project book can be used in all four year-plans, as it goes through the 1980’s. There are 80 projects in this book entitled Great Studio Projects in Art History, and is written by William Reid. ISBN 0825138523
  • Here’s real help with Feast Nights: food timeline and recipes galore! Enjoy!
  • Lowe’s and Home Depot stores have kid’s workshops on selected Saturdays each month! They give the child a complete kit with all the materials needed to build a project. They set up worktables with hammers, wood glue, screw drivers, etc. They also give aprons and pins for completing the project. Call your local store for details!
  • Puzzlemaker: input a list of words and this site will generate crosswords, word searches, codes, etc.
  • Cookie Dough Recipe: A great alternative to salt dough maps
    • 2 c. smooth peanut butter
    • 2 1/2 c. powdered milk
    • 2 1/2 c. powdered sugar
    • 2 c. white corn syrup
  • Blue icing – lakes and oceans
  • Green sprinkles – plains
  • Clear sprinkles – deserts
  • Chocolate chips – mountains
  • Red candy strips – rivers
  • M&Ms – capitals
Unit 1 – Casting Off the Moorings

General Resources for this Unit

Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century

Week 2: The Progressive Era

Week 3: Wilson’s Reforms & Europe’s War

Week 4: Deadlock and Death

Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts

Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace

Week 7: Postwar America

Week 8: America’s Roaring 20’s & Russia’s Stalin

Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler’s Early Career

Unit 2 – Depression and Destruction

Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market

Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America

  • Stock Market Information from Nasdaq

Week 12: FDR and the New Deal

Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement

Week 14: Blitzkrieg!

Week 15: World-Wide War

Week 16: Unconditional Surrender

Week 17: Hot War to Cold War

Week 18: A Jewish Homeland

Unit 3 – Conformity to Counterculture

Week 19: India’s Independence

Week 20: China’s Revolution

Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare

Week 22: Eisenhower’s Oasis

Week 23: Conformity and Change

Week 24: Kennedy’s New Frontiers

Week 25: Camelot and Crisis

Week 26: Johnson’s Great Society

Week 27: A Nation in Distress

Unit 4 – The Postmodern World

Week 28: Nixon: Détente and Watergate

Week 29: Ford’s Integrity

Week 30: Carter’s Malaise

Week 31: Reagan’s Revolution

Week 32: G.H.W. Bush’s New World Order

Week 33: Clinton’s Lost Opportunity

Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror

  • For your mini-poster: George W. Bush
  • Crafts for your overview of Asia: Japan
  • Read about Edward Knippers here or here. (Beware of nudity in some artwork.)

Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?

Week 36: Reflections and Revelation

  • Have fun playing games in which you put the Presidents in order: here or here.
  • Joel Sheesley
  • Makoto Fujimura
  • CIVA – Christians in the Visual Arts. Check out the kinds of exhibitions that this group sponsors, the artist directory for perspective art collectors
Field Trips

On this page, we hope to post field trip ideas from YOUR state that dovetail with Tapestry subjects as organized in our week-plans. Please submit your ideas via email, and please try to include the following information:

  • Your email address (for our sake, in case we have questions, but you can tell us if you’re willing to have your email linked as a contact person for more info about your recommendation).
  • The name of the attraction.
  • ANY online links to explain, give information, about the attraction.
  • A short paragraph explaining why the attraction would serve homeschoolers.

THANKS for your help! We will post states as their submissions come in, and under the weeks as listed below:

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Unit 1 – Casting Off the Moorings

Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century

Week 2: The Progressive Era

Week 3: Wilson’s Reforms & Europe’s War

Week 4: Deadlock and Death

Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts

  • Hillwood Museum – One of the premier art collector’s museums in the US. The museum features the most comprehensive collection of Russian imperial art outside of Russia – Washington, DC.
  • Fort Worth Museum of Science and History in Texas. The museum has an exhibit on air.

Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace

  • If you didn’t make the trip while studying Year 3, consider it now: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s home in Rocky Ridge: Mansfield, Missouri.
  • Warren Harding home in Marion, Ohio
  • Heard Museum – McKinney, Texas. Finishing up Anne of Green Gables this week and Wind in the Willows we thought it would be nice to see of some of the outdoors up close and personal.

Week 7: Postwar America

Week 8: America’s Roaring 20’s & Russia’s Stalin

Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler’s Early Career

Unit 2 – Depression and Destruction

Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market

Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America

  • Von Trapp Family Museum and Lodge in Stowe, Vermont.
  • Visit the courtroom of “To Kill a Mockingbird” (Gregory Peck film) Recreated for the film in great detail!!! This link submitted by Erin.

Week 12: FDR and the New Deal

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Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement

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Week 14: Blitzkrieg!

Week 15: World-Wide War

Week 16: Unconditional Surrender

  • The National WWII Museum in New Orleans.
  • American airlines C.R. Smith Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. With reading and discussion this week on the atomic bomb and Rosie the Riveter, we thought a field trip to learn more about airplanes would be beneficial.

Week 17: Hot War to Cold War

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Week 18: A Jewish Homeland

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Unit 3 – Conformity to Counterculture

Week 19: India’s Independence

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Week 20: China’s Revolution

  • If there is a “China Town” in your city, you could visit there.

Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare

Week 22: Eisenhower’s Oasis

Week 23: Conformity and Change

Week 24: Kennedy’s New Frontiers

Week 25: Camelot and Crisis

Week 26: Johnson’s Great Society

Week 27: A Nation in Distress

Unit 4 – The Postmodern World

Supplement 13: Rhetoric Church History Options for Unit 4

Week 28: Nixon: Détente and Watergate

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Week 29: Ford’s Integrity

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Week 30: Carter’s Malaise

Week 31: Reagan’s Revolution

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Week 32: G.H.W. Bush’s New World Order

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Week 33: Clinton’s Lost Opportunity

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Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror

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Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?

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Week 36: Reflections and Revelation

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