Year 5 - Tentative
BIBLE
* Joshua ** Galatians *** Judges
Trial and Triumph: Stories from Church History
* Introduction - Francis of Assisi
** Elizabeth of Hungary - Jonathon Edwards
*** George Whitefield - Richard Wurmbrand
* ** ***Liturgical Year - Read daily entries to learn Church history.
WORLD HISTORY
Streams of Civilization by Mary Stanton and Albert Hyma.
*Chapters 9-11. **Chapters 12-14. ***Chapters 15-17
An Island Story by H.E. Marshall.
* The Stories of Albion and Brutus to How Edmund Ironside Fought for the Crown.
** Canute and the Waves to Henry III of Winchester - Simon de Montfort.
*** Henry III - The Story of the Poisoned Dagger to Edward IV - The Story of the Kingmaker.
*The New Nation by Joy Hakim.
**A Liberty For All? by Joy Hakim.
***A War, Terrible War by Joy Hakim.
* Alfred the Great by Jacob Abbott.
** William the Conquerer by Jacob Abbott.
*** TBA
GEOGRAPHY
The Ultimate Atlas of the World by Philip Steele
* Europe Introduction - Canada and Greenland
** United States of America - Japan
*** Southeast Asia - Antarctica
Plutarch's Lives
* Alcibiades
** TBA
*** TBA
Choose the most important 2 or 3 stories of the week and re-write them in own words as a chronicle of the year, making the heading of each page something like "This Week in History, September 1st, 2003."
LITERATURE
Shakespeare -
* Othello
** TBA
*** TBA
Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch.
ch 15 (Graeae) - ch 28 (Troy)
* Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.
** Children of the New Forest by F Marryat.
*** Kim by Rudyard Kipling.
POETRY
* Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson.** Shakespeare's Sonnets, Especially: XVIII (18), XXIX (29), XXX (30), LIII (53), LIV (54), LVII
(57), LXXIII (73), XCIV (94), CIV (104), CVI (106) CXVI (116), CXXIX
(129). SparkNotes has info for some of the sonnets. Modern translations are available from No Fear Shakespeare.
*** John Donne.
GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION
* ** *** Intermediate Language Lessons
* ** *** Written narrations, 2 per week, varying among subjects. Include one written narration from a reading earlier in the week.
TBA
Include selections from Shakespeare, the Bible, poetry and other sources. These selections may be the same ones used for recitation.
Scott Foresman Grade 5 Mathematics
* Chapters 1-4 ** Chapters 5-8 *** Chapters 9-12
Scott Foresman Grade 5 Science
* Chapters 1-6 ** Chapters 7-12 *** Chapters 13-18
* Climate/Weather
** Skies
*** Shells
DRAWING AND ART
* Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520) Italian Renaissance
The Miraculous Draught of Fishes
** John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) American
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit and here
Lady Agnew of Lochnaw and here
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose and here
Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife
*** Claude Monet (1840-1926) French Impressionist (and here and here)
The Artist's Garden at Vetheuil
Haystacks series
Houses of Parliament series and here.
Woman with a Parasol: Madame Monet and Her Son, 1875, National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (and here)
The Japanese Footbridge
Water Lilies series
Work on drawing skills. Illustrate a scene from reading of choice once a week, more as desired.
* 2009-2010 TERM 1 (This term's artist is Raphael) Music: 20th Century British
Listening selections for this term:
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony 1 (A Sea Symphony)
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on Greensleeves
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
Edward Elgar - Serenade for String Orchestra in E minor Op 20
Edward Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance (the first one is the famous Graduation March)
Edward Elgar - "Enigma" Variations
** 2009-2010 TERM 2 (This term's artist is John Singer-Sargent) Edvard Grieg (1890) & Jean Sibelius (nationalists)
Listening selections for this term:
Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite no 1 (Opus 46: 1. Morning Mood, 2. Aase's
Death, 3. Anitra's Dance, 4. In the Hall of the Mountain King)
Grieg - Piano Concerto in A minor, opus 16
Grieg - Norwegian Dance no 2 (Opus 35 no. 2)
Sibelius - Finlandia, Op. 26 ("Finland," a symphonic poem)
Sibelius - Symphony 1 OR 2 (4 weeks)
*** 2009-2010 TERM 3 (This term's artist is Monet) Maurice Ravel (1915) (Impressionist)
Listening selections for this term:
Daphne et Chloe - selections
Bolero
Mother Goose Suite
Pavane pour une infante dufunte
Piano Concerto in D for left hand
Rhapsody espagnole
Spanish in 10 Minutes a Day by Kristine Kershul.
Latina Christiana I by Cheryl Lowe.
HEALTH
Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling.
The Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit.
The Wouldbegoods by Edith Nesbit.
Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright.
Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry.
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien.
In the Land of the Big Red Apple by Roger Lea MacBride.
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers.
Rainbow Valley by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Magic for Marigold by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt.
Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin.
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham.
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller.
Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter.
The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit.
A Book of Golden Deeds by Charlotte Yonge.
By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
The Peterkin Papers by Lucretia Hale.
The Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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