This is the independent reading schedule for students in Form 4. In a smaller community, this will be used for students in both Forms 4 and 5 and students will meet together. I also recommend adding at least one historic literature track to the assignments for Form 4 and 5 students.
Reading is only part of the learning process. Make sure your Form 4 (or 5) 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, Form 4 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 World of Captain John Smith by Genevieve Foster
- The World of William Penn by Genevieve Foster
- George Washington’s World by Genevieve Foster
- The Year of the Horseless Carriage by Genevieve Foster
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