Constructing a Four Star Mandala Tutorial at Highhill Education Homeschool

Monasticism 269-1216

• Read a history spine, Kingfisher History Encyclopedia, p. 102-103. Make notes of key words as you read. Write a few sentences about what you have learned in your history notebook. Another option is to use the Medieval History Portfolio, Homeschool Journey.
• Read The Holy Twins, Benedict and Scholastica by Kathleen Norris
• Read about Gregory and listen to Gregorian chants.
• Read about Saint Francis of Assisi and the Franciscans, Saint Dominic and the Dominicans and
  Venerable Bede (731 he writes The Ecclesiastical History of the English People).
• Color and label an appropriate map such as the one from History Odyssey, Pandia Press, Level 2 (5th-8th grade).
• Mark significant dates on your timeline.
• Optional: Follow a monk's schedule for one day. We ate our meals monastic style, which means one of us read from the Bible while the rest of us were silent (or at least we tried to be). Oh, what fun and quite eye-opening! We had our own little services. Oh, what an exhausting schedule!

  A Monk's Schedule

  1:45 am - Wake Up
  2:00am - Church service: singing and prayers (Matins)
  3:30am - back to sleep
  4:00am - church service: singing and prayers (Lauds)
  5:00am - private scripture reading and prayer
  6:00am - Church service, then breakfast
  7:00am - Work
  8:00am - Church service: singing and prayers (terce)
  9:15am - work
  11:45am - Church service: singing and prayers (Sixtus)
  12:00pm - Midday meal
  1:00pm - Private reading and prayer
  1:45pm - sleep
  2:45pm - Church service: singing and prayers (Nones)
  3:00pm - Work
  5:45pm - Meal
  6:00pm - Church Service: singing and prayers (Vespers)
  7:15pm - Private reading and Prayer
  7:45pm - Church service: vespers
  8:00pm - Bed

Islam 622-750

Alex's (age 20, special needs) notebook page from Sonlight

We learned about Islam and Mohammed. 

• Read from The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia, p. 106-107. Make notes of key words as you read. Write a few sentences about what you have learned in your history notebook. Another option is to use the Medieval History Portfolio, Homeschool Journey.  Compare Islam to Christianity. 
• Color an appropriate map such as the one with History Odyssey, Pandia Press, Level 2 (5th-8th grade), Map 3, “The Islamic Empire”
• Include appropriate dates on your timeline.
• Optional: Explore Islamic art: Geometric Design with Islamic Art at Classic Play, Constructing a Four Star Mandala Tutorial at Highhill Education Homeschool, Islamic Art and Geometric Design: Activities for Learning, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Geometric Drawings at A Waldorf Journey.
• Other good resources for more study: Moors - Muslim Religion in Europe Highhill Education Homeschool, Explorer Study: Ibn Battuta , Leadership Study: Richard the Lion heart and Saladin, Islamic Scientist Study: Alhazan and The Other Side of the Crusades: The Muslims at Angelicscaliwags.

Persecution of the Jews -1300

Persecution of the Jews

• Read from The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia. Make notes of key words as you read. Write a few sentences about what you have learned in your history notebook. Another option is to use the Medieval History Portfolio, Homeschool Journey.
• Color an appropriate map such as the one with History Odyssey, Pandia Press, Level 1 (1-4th grade), Level 2 (5th-8th grade).
• Include appropriate dates on your timeline.

Cathedrals 1101-1460

Sources and Resources:

• The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History, pages pages 206-209
• A Child’s History of the World by V.M. Hillyer, Chapter 45: Muhammad and the Early Years, Chapter 46: Arabian Days
• Story of the World, Volume 2: The Middle Ages by Susan Wise Bauer, Chapter 6: The Rise of Islam, Chapter 7: Islam Becomes an Empire
• The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia
• History Odyssey, Pandia Press, Level 1 (1-4th grade), Level 2 (5th-8th grade or Level 3 (9th-12th grade), Map 3, “The Islamic Empire”
• Medieval History Portfolio, Homeschool Journey
• Geometric Design with Islamic Art at Classic Play

• Constructing a Four Star Mandala Tutorial at Highhill Education Homeschool

• Islamic Art and Geometric Design: Activities for Learning, Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Moors - Muslim Religion in Europe Highhill Education Homeschool

• Explorer Study: Ibn Battuta at Angelicscaliwags

• Leadership Study: Richard the Lion heart and Saladin at Angelicscaliwags

• Islamic Scientist Study: Alhazan and

The Other Side of the Crusades: The Muslims at Angelicscaliwags
• Geometric Drawings at A  Waldorf Journey