History Quest Middle Times Study Guide
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$48.99 – $64.99
$36.74 – $48.74
eBook or print*
*The print format includes a PDF of the student pages, maps, and lists to make copying for family use easier. The PDF link is sent after checkout.
Grade level: 1st through 6th
Pages: 264
Course type: Study guide designed to be used with the History Quest: Middle Times narrative chapter book (Please see the Booklist tab for the literature books required to complete this course.)
Author: Lindsey Sodano
History Quest: Middle Times Study Guide is a comprehensive and engaging, full-year secular history curriculum for elementary-age children. Designed to be used with the History Quest: Middle Times narrative history book and other resources, it provides 34 weeks of creative, hands-on activities, literature suggestions, geography study, and writing assignments that help bring history to life.
Each unit in the guide corresponds to a chapter from History Quest: Middle Times and provides a week’s worth of engaging and interactive activities laid out in clear, easy-to-follow lesson plans. You’ll find a suggested daily schedule that focuses on a different learning technique each day, important terms and concepts related to that week’s reading, resource recommendations, and more. Best of all, each week’s plan can be followed as written in the guide or easily adapted to meet your family’s particular needs and interests.
A helpful appendix section in the back features literature and supply lists for the entire course, as well as map keys and student activity pages (conveniently perforated and reproducible for easy single-family use).
Within the curriculum, we’ve included four weeks of Hygge History, a special tie-in literature study encouraging parents and students to snuggle up together and enjoy classic tales from four cultures that are studied in this course—the Middle East, Britain, Japan, and Africa. Based on the Danish philosophy of hygge, which emphasizes coziness and comfort, these units are a great way to slow down, connect, and learn more about a particular time and place through storytelling. Each Hygge History unit comes with detailed descriptions of suggested books for that week to help you choose the right one for your child.
Through History Quest: Middle Times, students will learn about the ideas, conflicts, inventions, and individuals that shaped the world during the Middle Ages and take their first step in a life-long quest to explore and appreciate history.
Students will learn about events that occurred from approximately 350 CE to the 17th century. Major areas of study include:
Five important learning techniques are woven into each weekly lesson throughout our History Quest Study Guides at age-appropriate levels. Through these techniques, students examine multiple resources, read historically significant literature, develop and strengthen critical thinking skills, practice and refine written and verbal expression, and study world geography and geographical significances throughout the history of humankind.
Medieval history blackline maps
Hands-on activity instructions
Literature and online enrichment recommendations
Weekly unit schedules and supply lists
In addition to this study guide, you will need:
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Main Spines
1. History Quest: Middle Times
2. The Usborne Encyclopedia of World History with Internet Links
Hygge History Literature
There are four units in this study guide that employ the Danish concept of hygge—a joyful mix of coziness, togetherness, and a general feeling of well-being—where enjoyment of classic literature is your only assignment for the week.
#1 Literature of the Middle East. Choose from the following options:
#2 Arthurian Literature. Choose from the following options:
King Arthur: The Sword in the Stone (ISBN 978-0688094034) King Arthur and the Round Table (ISBN 978-0688113407) Excalibur (ISBN 978-0688133801)
Lancelot (ISBN 978-0688148324)
#3 Japanese Folktales. Choose from the following options:
#4 Tales from Africa. Choose from the following options:
Ananse’s Feast: An Ashanti Tale retold by Tololwa M. Mollel (ISBN 0-395-67402-6)
Anansi Goes Fishing retold by Eric A. Kimmel (ISBN 0-8234-0918-X)
Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock retold by Eric A. Kimmel (ISBN 0-8234-0689-X)
Anansi’s Party Time retold by Eric A. Kimmel (ISBN 978-0-8234-1922-7) Anansi and the Magic Stick retold by Eric A. Kimmel (ISBN 0-8234-1443-4) Anansi and the Talking Melon retold by Eric A. Kimmel (ISBN 0-8234-1104-4)
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