This is the independent reading schedule for students in Forms IV, V & VI. These Forms are for students in grades 9 through 12.
Reading is only part of the learning process. Make sure your student is practicing the following:
- Narration: sometimes spoken and sometimes written
- Studying Maps: look at the locations mentioned in the history books and draw and label maps
- Keeping a timeline, or, book of centuries
And last, students should be discussing these topics with others. This can be with other teens and a tutor in a community, or it can be with mom and/or dad at home.
Do not be tempted to waste time on quizzes, word finds, crossword puzzles with history vocabulary words or other work that might be deemed twaddle. Encourage your child to read these good books, keep a detailed timeline book, draw maps (as beautifully as she can), to write some narration passages about what she learned, and to discuss all of these things.
The Birth of Britain, A History of the English Speaking Peoples Vol. 1 by Winston Churchill
- Exodus (paperback)
- Amazon (paperback)
- Audible Audio
The New World: A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume II by Winston Churchill
- Exodus (paperback)
- Amazon (paperback)
- Audible Audio
These books is scheduled at a pace of two or three chapters per week. Winston Churchill’s writing is very meaty, with a lot of information packed in to each sentence. You might want to look at a sample to see if your student is ready for it. Some parents prefer these books for Form IV and above.
This schedule includes three or four geography assignments per week; related to the reading. It also includes four checkboxes per week under “timeline,” encouraging your student to write in his or her timeline book at least four times each week. There will be dates throughout the history reading, as well as in other subjects throughout the school week, and each of these dates should go in your student’s timeline book so that connections can be seen and understood.
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