WEEK:        13         DATE:                  UNIT:  The World to 1914

 

Weekly Topic       The Spanish-American Empire and Western Europe             

 

Classtime

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kingfisher History

2004/1999 p 337-39

1993 p 557-561

  (The World 1836-1913)

 

Cambridge History

Europe Around the World (9)

p 6-14 this week

(Spanish-American Empire)

 

Story of the World, Vol. 4**

Ch 10 (A Canal…Dry Desert)

sect. “The War of the Pacific”

Ch 13 (The Old Fashioned…)

sect “Brazil’s Republic”

Ch 6 (Two Tries for Freedom)

sect “Paraguay and the…”

 

Usborne History

2000 UILE p 342, 344-45

1985 BOWH p 185

       (Latin America)

Kingfisher History

2004/1999 p  358-59, 360-61

1993 p  590-91, 592-93

   (Italy and Germany)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Story of the World, Vol. 4

Ch 4 (Resurrection/Rebellion)

sect “Italy’s ‘Resurrection’ ”

 

 

 

 

 

Usborne History

2000 UILE p 343

    (Italy and Germany)

Kingfisher History

2004/1999 p 378-79

1993 p 566-67

     (Artists)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Story of the World, Vol. 4

Ch 7 (Two  Empires…)

     (entire chapter)

 

 

 

 

Composer of the Week:

Edvard Grieg

 

Readers

                  K-2

 

 

Katie Meets the Impressionists

 

 

 

 

 

 

                   3+

 

 

Katie Meets the Impressionists

 

 

 

 

                   5+

 

 

 

Around the World in Eighty

         Days

 

 

Family Read

   Aloud

 

 

All of a Kind Family

p 1-49

 

 

Map/Timeline

 

 

 

(1870-71) Franco-Prussian

                     War

(Late 1800s)  Impressionist

                       Art Period

Writing Ideas

 

 

 

 

Grammar: You are visiting one of the Latin American nations. Write a postcard about your visit.

Logic: Did Bolivar truly liberate South America? What role did the U.S. fruit companies play in the region?

Optional Fiction

 and Resources

 

**As you begin this unit, refer

back to the annotation for SOTW on pg 27; you may want to read its chapters for this unit in numerical order.

Kingfisher History (1993)

p 602-603 (People)

p 618-19 (Society and Gov’t)

p 624-25 (Trade)

p 632-33 (War and Weapons)

Katie and the Sunflowers K-3

Van Gogh and Friends      4+

The Impressionist Art Book4+

Trailblazer Series for  3+:

Ambushed in Jaguar Swamp

    (Barbrooke Grub)