Week Nine of American History

American History Year One Curriculum
Daily Schedule Week Nine

This is our daily schedule page for week nine of our American history curriculum.

Materials and books are listed here in more detail.

See below the schedule for notes.

Week 9	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5
Viking Treasure Chest	Read the book. Put the stickers on the Viking World poster.	Sundial project Put the stickers on the mythology poster.	Viking Boat Model	Play Hnefatafl	.
Reader	Leif the Lucky p.1-12 Put cover of book into timeline (1000 A.D.).	Leif the Lucky p.14-25	Leif the Lucky p.26-38	Leif the Lucky p.40-54 End of book!	Leif Bingo Game Questions and Answers (goes with Leif the Lucky book) Viking Bingo Cards: 1, 2, 3
History Reading	p.1-13 The Discovery of the Americas This Country of Ours Chapter 1 (1st part)	p.14 - 24 The Discovery of the Americas This Country of Ours Chapter 1 (2nd part)	p. 25 - 35 The Discovery of the Americas	p.36 - 43 The Discovery of the Americas End of the book!	.
Map/Globe	The Viking Treasure Chest Poster "The Viking World"	..	..	.	.
Notebooking	Viking Explorer Game	A day in the life of a Viking writing activity	Draw Write Now: p.36-27 The East	Timeline Cut and Paste Use this page as a guide.	Write a message in runes
Science	.	.	.	.	.
Cooking	..	.	..	..	.
Timeline Entries	Leif the Lucky 1000 A.D.	See notes below	..	.	..
Extras	Iceland and Greenland Video	Thorkel and the trading ship Shockwave game	Wee Sing: Marine’s Hymn	Viking boat model *not needed if you have the Treasure Chest	Vikings in America Video Leif Bingo Game

Map notes:

1. Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Trinidad, Strait of Magellan, Philippine Islands, New Foundland, Canada, Cape of Good Hope

2. Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Scandinavia: (Norway, Sweden, Denmark) 3. Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Scotland, Ireland, England, Normandy, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Hedeby, Russia, Iceland, Faroes Islands, Vinland (Newfoundland), Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Arabia, Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf, Baghdad, etc.

We played "where is that?". We looked at the map provided on the Viking Treasure Chest poster and then located the places on our globe.

Timeline notes: When reading the Discovery of the Americas book you may want to enter in the following:. Marco Polo
1492 Columbus
Bartolomeu Dias 1488 rounded the Cape of Good Hope
Vasco da Gama 1497-1499 sailed to India
King Ferdinand, Queen Isabella of Spain
John Cabot 1497 sailed to New Foundland, Canada
Amerigo Vespucci
Balboa 1513 the first European to sight the Pacific Ocean
Ferdinand Magellan 1519 left Spain to begin a journey around the Earth
1522 Magellan’s one surviving ship returns to Spain without him (he died in 1521 in the Philippine islands)

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