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
- The Dream of the Rood text with some annotations
Week 2: Byzantine Empire & the Eastern Orthodox Church
- Lots of stories from the Arabian Nights
- The Koran
Week 3: Byzantine Empire & Rise of Islam
- Lots of stories from the Arabian Nights
- The Koran
Week 4: The Making of Medieval Europe: Charlemagne
Week 5: Developments During the Viking Age
Week 6: Medieval Life: Feudalism
- Vocabulary words for Canterbury Tales
- Enrichment from Harvard about Chaucer
Week 7: The High Middle Ages
- The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle. This is not the same version recommended in Tapestry, but will make a good alternate for Upper Grammar or Dialectic.
- LISTEN to Canterbury Tales!
- For your optional rhetoric lit assignment: Canterbury Tales
- Enrichment from Harvard about Chaucer
Week 8: The Mongols, Marco Polo, and the Far East
- The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter.
- Dante’s Inferno: A Virtual Tour of Hell (great link for rhetoric level, some nudity although drawings are very vague)
Week 9: The Reshaping of Medieval Europe
- The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter.
- Dante’s Inferno: A Virtual Tour of Hell (great link for rhetoric level, some nudity although drawings are very vague)
Week 10: Early Lights of the Reformation
- Hear a trumpet: Trumpeter of Krakow
- The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Dante’s Inferno: A Virtual Tour of Hell (great link for rhetoric level, some nudity although drawings are very vague)
Unit 2 – Renaissance & Reformation
Week 11: Introduction to the Southern Renaissance
- I, Juan De Paraja study guide. Scroll down for the .pdf file to download.
- Sonnet 73
Week 12: The Southern Renaissance & the Early Explorers
- I, Juan De Paraja study guide. Scroll down for the .pdf file to download.
- The Second Mrs. Giaconda review
Week 13: The Southern Renaissance & the Age of Exploration
- The Faerie Queen
- I, Juan De Paraja study guide. Scroll down for the .pdf file to download.
Week 14: Spanish Dominion & the New World: Aztecs & Incas
- Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb, includes this week’s read aloud.
- Shakespeare for Kids
- Shakespeare for Teens: Why Teach Shakespeare?
- Morning Girl Teaching Guide (caution: nude picture top left)
- Summary from SparkNotes: Winter’s Tale, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Romeo and Juliet
Week 15: The Northern Renaissance & Its Scholars
- Biography of Erasmus
- Marlowe’s The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
- Excerpt from Doctor Faustus
- SparkNotes from Doctor Faustus
- Summary from SparkNotes: Merchant of Venice, All’s Well That Ends Well
Week 16: The Reformation: Martin Luther & the German States
- The rhymes and history of Mother Goose
- Mother Goose on Enchanted Learning.
- Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb, includes this week’s read aloud
- Shakespeare for Teens: Why Teach Shakespeare?
- Shakespeare’s Sonnets 18, 116, 29
- How do you identify meter?
- SparkNotes for Much Ado About Nothing
- From Foxe’s Book of Martyrs: Chapter on William Tyndale
- Luther’s 95 Theses
- Latin version of the 95 Theses
- Selected works of Martin Luther
- Summary from SparkNotes: Much Ado About Nothing, Cymbeline, Twelfth Night
Week 17: Reformation in Switzerland, England, & Scandinavia
- The rhymes and history of Mother Goose
- Mother Goose on Enchanted Learning
- Take a look at this Shakespeare website for children. You’ll find *very* short versions of some of the bard’s plays.
- Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb, includes this week’s read aloud.
- Absolute Shakespeare
- Summary from SparkNotes: As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Pericles
Week 18: Counter Reformation, French Huguenots, & the Netherlands
- Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb, includes this week’s read aloud.
- Absolute Shakespeare
- Shakespeare’s Sonnets
- Taming of the Shrew
- Spark Notes for Taming of the Shrew
- Summary from SparkNotes: King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet
Week 19: Elizabethan England & the Scottish Reformation
- Take a look at this Shakespeare website for children. You’ll find *very* short versions of some of the bard’s plays.
- Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb, includes this week’s read aloud.
- Absolute Shakespeare
- Macbeth
- Spark Notes for Macbeth
- Summary from SparkNotes: The Tempest, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Othello
Unit 3 – Of Crowns & Colonies
Week 20: Early New World Colonies & Eastern Europe
- Pocahontas biography
- Sparknotes for Don Quixote
- Selected Poetry of George Herbert
- The works of George Herbert.
Week 21: Puritans in New England
- William Bradford biography
- Read from Bradford’s Letter-book here.
- William Bradford’s Of PlymouthPlantation
- The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyun
- John Bunyan: This is an excellent link!!
- Sparknotes for The Pilgrim’s Progress
- Three part study guide for Pilgrim’s Progress: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
Week 22: Charters, Creeds, & the English Civil War
- The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyun
- John Bunyan: This is an excellent link!!
- Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
- Three part study guide for Pilgrim’s Progress: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- Sparknotes for The Pilgrim’s Progress
- John Winthrop’s A Model of Christian Charity
- Poems and study materials for Anne Bradstreet’s poetry. Every poem we’ve assigned, except “As Weary Pilgrim” can be found here.
- Dangerous Journey: (dialectic book) each chapter has its own video.
Week 23: Restoration Colonies & the Age of Louis XIV
- John Donne
- Poems by Donne (list on right side of page)
- Poems by Jonson (list on left side of page)
- Poems by Marvell (list on left side of page)
- Poems by Suckling (list on right side of page)
- Dangerous Journey: (dialectic book) each chapter has its own video.
- John Donne’s Holy Sonnets and the Trinity
Week 24: Dissenters in America & the Age of Reason
- 22-page pdf download study guide for The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Week 25: Colonists & Native Americans
- 22-page pdf download study guide for The Witch of Blackbird Pond
- Milton’s Paradise Lost
- Spark Notes for Paradise Lost.
Week 26: Empires at Odds
- Activities for Paddle-to-the-Sea
- Vocabulary list and comprehension questions for Paddle-to-the-Sea.
- 22-page pdf download study guide for The Witch of Blackbird Pond
- Milton’s Paradise Lost
- Spark Notes for Paradise Lost.
Week 27: Thirteen Established Colonies
- Spark Notes for Robinson Crusoe
- Milton’s Paradise Lost
- Spark Notes for Paradise Lost.
Unit 4 – Age of Revolutions
Week 28: Shaping Influences on Colonial Culture
- Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
- Spark Notes for Gulliver’s Travels
Week 29: French & Indian War
- Social Studies for Kids: Benjamin Franklin
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Spark Notes for The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Week 30: Give Me Liberty!
- Pope’s Rape of the Lock
- Essay on Man
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Paul Revere’s Ride
Week 31: First Battles for Independence
Week 32: Waging the Revolutionary War
- Word Search for And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?
- Paul Revere’s Ride by Longfellow
- Paul Revere biography
- Really nice (22-page pdf file) study guide for Johnny Tremain
- Rouseau’s Confessions
Week 33: America under the Articles of the Confederation
- From EnchantedLearning.com: short biography of Washington
- George Washington’s Rules of Civility
- Really nice (22-page pdf file) study guide for Johnny Tremain
- Political Sermons of the Founding Era: A Calm Address to Our American Colonies, Anonymous, A Constitutional Answer to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley’s Calm Address to the American Colonies
Week 34: Writing the Constitution
- Nice 7-page study guide (pdf file) for Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
- Political Sermons of the Founding Era: A Calm Address to Our American Colonies, Anonymous, A Constitutional Answer to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley’s Calm Address to the American Colonies
Week 35: Federal Republic & French Revolution
- George Washington’s Rules of Civility
- Biography of Phillis Wheatley
- Spark Notes for Robinson Crusoe
Week 36: Perilous Times: The Adams Administration
- Benjamin Banneker
- James Madison
- Spark Notes for Robinson Crusoe
Summer Reading: