Grade 3:  weeks 7-12

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Renaissance History:

*This year, 3rd graders should be memorizing where all of the U.S. states are located and how to spell the state names.  After this, they should memorize all the state capitals.

Text:  An Island Story (not used until week 16)

Week 7:  The Renaissance -Introduction
               pp. 6-9 
                    sample questions:
               *Learn def. of Renaissance and how this "rebirth" exhibited itself in the period. *What is a "Renaissance Man," give example. *What was the new understanding of space? *What was the school of Athens and who are the people in the painting?  Why is Plato pointing up and Aristotle pointing down?  *Who are the different figures in Botticelli's painting and what do they represent?  

                  The Renaissance -Classical World
               pp. 9-11
             *What is a difference between Medieval sculpture and Renaissance sculpture?  Where did the R. sculptors get their idea?  What is humanism?  Describe Italian city-states.  What is impt. about Constantinople? What did Lorenzetti's mural try to convey?  Who was St. Jerome, Erasmus, Sir Thomas More?  Of what import was education given during this era?      

Week 8:  The Renaissance -Guilds, Merchants
               and Trade  (pp. 12-15)

               Shakespeare Stories -
               King Lear  (pp. 29-50)
                    (carry into the following week if need be)

Week 9:  The Renaissance -
               Cities  (pp. 16-19)
               Private Life  (pp. 20-23)

Week 10:  The Renaissance -
                Warfare & weapons (pp. 24-26)
                Printing revolution (pp. 27)
                Reformation (pp. 28-29)
 

Week 11: The Renaissance -
                Science and Invention (pp. 30-31)
                Art  (pp. 32-33)

               Shakespeare Stories -
               Taming of the Shrew  (pp. 101-120)
                 (carry into the following week if needed)          

Week 12: The Renaissance -
                New Worlds (pp. 34-35)

               The Ocean of Truth
                 Chps 1-3

Week 7:  The Railway Children
               (chapters 13-14)

Week 8:  The Whipping Boy
               (chapters 1-5)

Week 9:  The Whipping Boy
               (chapters 6-10)

Week 10:  The Whipping Boy
               (chapters 11-15)

Week 11:  The Whipping Boy
               (chapters 16-19)

Week 12:  Little House in the Big Woods
               (pp. 1-44)

Poetry:  Read one or two poems aloud from
             Favorite Poems Old & New daily.

Reading:  Assign a chapter (or so) of reading each day. Have
                your student find one word he's not familiar with and
                then you give the definition, talk about its context,
                and have him tell you a sentence with the word in it.
                Then have him give a verbal or short written narration
                of the chapter.

                (Your 3rd grader shouldn't take more than 1/2 hr to
                read the assignment.  If it is taking longer, read the
                remaining portion aloud to your student.)

Phonics Skilltext D/4:  approx. 1pp a day

(Language Practice 3:  I suggest starting it in January-- good practice for standardized tests)

Spelling:  weeks 7-12: follow Spelling Power's guidelines

Primary Language Lessons:  Lessons 16-30
    *This book is intended for use in both 3rd & 4th grades.  In order to finish it in two school years (36weeks each), strive to complete 2.5 lessons per week:  2 lessons one week, 3 the next.  I suggest that on the weeks when only 2 lessons are done, that a previous lesson be redone or reviewed.

The Burgess Bird Book:  Read one chapter per week
    (Coming next year:  Jack's Insects by Edmond Selous!)

Nature Walk/outing:  Try to do two outings per week. 
     On at least one of the outings, have your student  focus on one particular group of living things (i.e. mammals, insects, birds, flowers, etc)  Briefly read to yourself one or two lessons about that group in the Handbook of Nature Study and share an interesting fact concerning it with your student at some point during the outing. 

    Have your student record observations in the nature notebook, perhaps including one of the appropriate verses found in the Handbook.

Geology & Crafts

Week 7-  read: Geology Crafts: (pp. 30-31) Volcanoes, (pp. 34) Geysers
               do:  craft in Geology Crafts:  exploding volcano (pp. 32-33)

Week 8- read: Rocks & Minerals (pp. 14-15) Wear and Tear
              do: experiment in Rocks & Minerals:  "cracking up"  (pp. 15)

Week 9- read: Rocks & Minerals (pp. 16-17) The Rock Cycle
              read: Rocks & Minerals (pp. 18-19) Rivers of Fire
              do:  craft in Geology Crafts:  pebble mosaic flowerpot (pp. 35)                                  *This book is going out of print.
                                                                                                                                                           We will be using Science Smart, a book which
                                                                                                                                                     includes the entire text of the above book and more.

Week 10- read: Rocks & Minerals (pp. 20-21) Layer upon Layer
                *think about role of biblical flood in this phenomena
               do: experiment in Rocks & Minerals:  "making sedimentary layers"  (pp. 20)

Week 11- read: Geology Crafts: (pp. 36-37)
               do:  craft in Geology Crafts:  mountain building  (pp. 38-39)

Week 12- do:  craft in Geology Crafts:  landform pop-up book  (pp. 40-44)