Story of the World Volume 3 Lesson Plans
These plans look a bit different than the ones I created for SOTW 1 and SOTW 2. This is because I have
become a bit freer with my plans ☺. I now prefer to have weekly goals instead of daily ones planned out for the
year and this is reflected in how I laid out these plans. Also I have not scheduled copywork as I will have my
daughter writing all her own narrations this year.
I used the following books for our history studies…
1. Story of the World: Volume 3, Early Modern Times
2. D’Aulaire’s Pochohantus
3. Landmark’s Landing of the Pilgrims
4. Peter the Great by Diane Stanley
5. Boston Tea Party
6. Winter at Valley Forge
7. A More Perfect Union
8. American Adventures, part 1
9. The Louisiana Purchase
10. Lewis & Clark (from The World Greatest Explorers)
11. Usborne’s Who Were the North American Indians
12. Only the Names Remain
13. Susanna of the Alamo
14. California Gold Rush
I used the following readers…
1. Don Quixote (abridged version)
2. Pochohantus & the Strangers
3. Adventures of Tom Sawyer (abridged version)
4. A Lion to Guard Us
5. Mary of Plymouth (free at google books)
6. Chinese Myths and Fables (selected ones)
7. The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
8. The Three Musketeers (abridged version)
9. Marie Curie’s Search for Radium (part of Elemental Science’s plans)
10. Jane Austen
11. The Story of Daniel Boone
12. Phoebe the Spy
13. Mr. Revere and I
14. Abigail Adams: A Girl…
15. Ben & Me
16. Meet George Washington
17. The Cabin faced West
18. James Cook: the Pacific Coast and beyond
19. Robert Fulton
20. Confucius and the Golden Rule
21. Napoleon
22. Oliver Twist (abridged version)
23. Naya Nuki
24. Louis Pastuer’s Fight against Microbes (part of Elemental Science’s plans)
25. Sojourner Truth: The Path of Glory
26. The Courage of Sarah Noble
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27. Sitting Bull: Great Sioux Chief
28. By the Great Horn Spoon
29. Secret Valley
I used the following read-alouds (generally read a chapter a day)…
1. The School Story
2. Squanto, A Warrior’s Tale
3. The Witch at Blackbird Pond
4. Farmer Boy
5. The Jungle Book
6. Toliver’s Secret
7. Johnny Tremain
8. Carry on Mr. Bowditch
9. Stowaway
10. The Year of the Panda
11. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (abridged)
12. Sign of the Beaver
13. Strawberry Girl
14. Swift Rivers
15. Calico Bush
16. The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
The activities are all in the SOTW 3 Activity Guide. The timeline figures came from this yahoo group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hannah_hs_helps/ , all the additional timeline pictures came from
www.wikipedia.org.
You can find the plans for the state study for free at my blog (www.elementalscience.blogspot.com) or at
our yahoo group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/elemental_science)
My hope is that you will find something useful from these plans. If you have any questions, please feel free to email
me at [email protected].
Blessings,
Paige
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Week 1-6
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
History
Reading
SOTW 3:
Ch. 1 & 2
SOTW 3: Ch. 3
& D’Au
ulaire’s
Pochohantus
SOTW 3:
Ch. 4 & 5
SOTW 3:
Ch. 6
Landmarks:
Landing of the
Pilgrims
Landmarks:
Landing of the
Pilgrims
History
Activity
Mary Stuart
Needlework
Octagon
Make Parkin
Cakes
Play Inuit
Games
Make your
Own
Mayflower
Compact
Make Indian
Pudding
Timeline
Figures
William the
Orange, Mary
Queen of
Scots
James I
Henry
Hudson,
Hideyoshi,
Leyashu
Landing of the
Mayflower
Reading
Don Quixote
(abridged)
Pochohantus
and the
Strangers
Adventures of
Tom Sawyer
(abridged)
Read
Aloud
School Story
School Story
State
Study
Maine
New Hampshire
Squanto
1580-1622
Dye your own
shirt (using
instructions
below)
Squanto
Plymouth
*see below
*see below
Adventures of
Tom Sawyer
(abridged)
A Lion to
Guard Us
Mary of
Plymouth
School Story
Squanto: A
Warrior's Tale
Squanto: A
Warrior's Tale
The Witch at
Blackbird
Pond
Vermont
Massachusetts
x
X
Plymouth
1620
Dye your own Shirt Directions:
Colonists gathered plants to make dye to color their clothing. Walnut shells were used fir brown,
berries for blue or red, poplar leaves for yellow and flowers for yellow or blue. Onion skins were used to
create a soft shade of yellow. To dye a shirt you w
will need: yellow-brown
brown papery outer layers from 6
onions (ask the grocery store for some when the bins are cleaned
cleaned-he'll
he'll probably give you some) , large pot,
water, slotted
lotted spoon, measuring spoons, white all cotton tt-shirt
shirt or socks. Put onion skins in the pot and
cover with water. Heat to a boil and simmer 20 minutes. Scoop out the onion skins. Heat the water again
and drop the T-shirt
shirt or socks into the hot dye bath. To set the dye so it won't wash out, add 2 tbsp. of
white vinegar to the dye bath. Turn off the heat and let the shirt soak in the dye for about an hour. Wring
the clothing out and put it in a sink or pan of cool water to rinse. Wring out the clothing and let dry. The
color will depend on how many skins were used and how diluted the dye was.
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Week 7-12
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
History
Reading
SOTW 3:
Ch. 7 & 8
SOTW 3:
Ch. 9 & 10
SOTW 3:
Ch. 11 & 12
SOTW 3:
Ch. 13 & 14
SOTW 3:
Ch. 15
SOTW 3:
Ch. 16, 17
History
Activity
Traditional
West African
Stamp Pattern
& Persian
Writing
Thirty Years
War Game,
Make Swedish
Apple Cake
Make a
Peacock
Throne
Game: Who is
the man in the
Iron Mask &
Color a
Prussian Flag
Writing
Project: The
Liberty Bell
Puzzle Project:
Crop Rotation
Timeline
Figures
Peter
Stuyvesant,
Queen Nzinga,
Murad IV
30 Years War,
Lemitsu
Aurangzeb,
Taj Mahal,
Great Fire in
London
Louis XIV,
Frederick I of
Prussia
William Penn
Isaac Newton,
Peter the
Great
Reading
Mary of
Plymouth
Chinese Myths
and Fables
The Bears of
Hemlock
Mountain
The Three
Musketeers
The Three
Musketeers
Marie Curie
Read
Aloud
The Witch at
Blackbird
Pond
The Witch at
Blackbird
Pond
Farmer Boy
Farmer Boy
Farmer Boy
The Jungle
Book
State
Study
Rhode Island
Connecticut
x
New York
New Jersey
X
Great Fire in London
1666
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Week 13-18
Week 13
Week 14
Week 15
Week 16
Week 17
Week 18
History
Reading
Peter the
Great & SOTW
3: Ch. 18
SOTW 3:
Ch.19 & 20
SOTW 3:
Ch. 21 & 22
Boston Tea
Party
Winter at
Valley Forge
SOTW 3: Ch.
23 & A More
Perfect Union
History
Activity
Turkish War
Camp
Make sundial
& drink yak
butter tea
Name that
war Game
Make an
American Flag
Work on
memorizing the
Declaration of
Independence
Three
Branches of
Government
Craft
Timeline
Figures
Ahmet III
Siraj ud –
Daulah,
Chi-eng lung
George
Washington,
Daniel Boone
Boston Tea
Party
Revolutionary
War, Paul
Revere
US
Constitution,
Abigail Adams
Reading
Marie Curie &
Stone Fox
Jane Austen
The Story of
Daniel Boone
Phoebe the
Spy
Mr. Revere & I
Abigail Adams
Read
Aloud
The Jungle
Book
The Jungle
Book
Toliver's
Secret
Johnny
Tremain
Johnny
Tremain
Johnny
Tremain
State
Study
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
x
x
X
Daniel Boone
1734-1820
Boston Tea Party
December 16, 1773
Revolutionary War
1775-1783
Paul Revere
1735-1818
US Constitution
September 17, 1787
Abigail Adams
1744-1818
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Week 19-24
History
Reading
Week 19
Week 20
Week 21
Week 22
Week 23
Week 24
American
Adventures,
part 1
American
Adventures,
part 1
American
Adventures,
part 1
SOTW 3:
24 & 25
SOTW 3:
26 & 27
SOTW 3:
28 & first half
of 29
President’s
Memory Cards
Make Message
sticks, play
storm the
Bastille
Be the next
Czar game,
write your own
patent
Make a vase
from the
Chi'en-lung
Period, conquer
the world game
Catherine the
Great
Napoleon
Bonaparte
President’s
Memory Cards
President’s
Memory Cards
Timeline
Figures
x
Benjamin
Franklin
x
Captain Cook,
the storming
of the Bastille
Reading
Meet George
Washington
Ben and Me
The Cabin
Faced West
James Cook:
The Pacific
Coast and
Beyond
Robert Fulton
Confucius and
the Golden
Rule
Read
Aloud
Johnny
Tremain
Carry On Mr.
Bowditch
Carry On Mr.
Bowditch
Stowaway
Stowaway
The Year of
the Panda
State
Study
x
x
x
West Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
History
Activity
Ben Franklin
1706-1790
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Week 25-30
Week 25
Week 26
Week 27
Week 28
Week 29
Week 30
SOTW 3: second
half of 29, The
Louisiana
Purchase
SOTW 3:
30 & 31
SOTW 3:
32, Lewis &
Clark (Greatest
Explorers)
Lewis & Clark
(Greatest
Explorers) &
SOTW 3: 33
SOTW 3:
34 & 35
SOTW 3:
36 & 37
History
Activity
Conquer the
World Game
Color the
Haitian Flag,
William
Wordsworth
memory project
Lewis & Clarks
duds,
Jefferson’s
secret code
Memorize the
Star Spangled
Banner & Know
your knots
Battle for South
America &
Independence
Day Piñata
Early
American
Quilting
Project
Timeline
Figures
The Louisiana
Purchase
The Industrial
Revolution
Lewis & Clark
Expedition,
Tecumseh
Sacajawea
Battle of
Waterloo,
Simon Bolivar
British
Abolition Act,
Shaka Zulu
Reading
Napoleon
Oliver Twist
Naya Nuki
Naya Nuki
Louis Pasteur’s
Fight Against
Microbes
Sojourner
Truth: The
Path of Glory
Read
Aloud
The
Hunchback of
Notre Dame
The
Hunchback of
Notre Dame
Sign of the
Beaver
Sign of the
Beaver
Strawberry
Girl
Strawberry
Girl
State
Study
x
North Carolina
x
South Carolina
Florida
Georgia
History
Reading
Louisiana Purchase
1804
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Tecumseh
1768-1813
Sacajawea
1788-1812
1812
Week 31-36
History
Reading
History
Activity
Week 31
Week 32
Week 33
Week 34
Week 35
Week 36
SOTW 3: Ch. 38
& Who Were
the Native
Americans
Only the
Names
Remain
SOTW 3:
Ch. 39 & 40
Susanna of the
Alamo & SOTW
3: Ch. 41
SOTW 3:
Ch. 42
California
Gold Rush
Bribe: the
game, Alamo
flip book
Maori Sweet
Potato Garden
Gold Strike
Live in a
Mining Camp
Treaty of
Waitangi
California
Gold Rush
X
Core Knowledge Native
American Art Unit
Timeline
Figures
The Great
Trek
x
First Opium
War, The
Mexican
American War
Reading
Sarah Plain
and Tall
The Courage
of Sarah Noble
Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull
By the Great
Horn Spoon
The Secret
Valley
Read
Aloud
Swift Rivers
Swift Rivers
Calico Bush
Calico Bush
The Ballad of
Lucy Whipple
The Ballad of
Lucy Whipple
State
Study
x
x
Alabama
Mississippi
Arkansas
Louisiana
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