Grade 2:  weeks 19-24

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Medieval History:

Text:  An Island Story

Week 19:  Chp. 37:  Hubert de Burgh

                Chp 38:  Simon de Montfort

     *Supplemental:  Knights & Castles
                             pp. 10-17

Week 20:  Chp 39:  Story of Poisoned Dagger

                Chp 40:  War of Chalons

      *Supplemental:  Knights & Castles
                             pp. 18-25

Week 21:  Chp 41:  First Prince of Wales

                Chp 42:  The Hammer of the Scots

     *Supplemental:  Knights & Castles
                             pp. 26-31    

Week 22:  Chp 43:  King Robert the Bruce

                Chp 44:  Battle of Bannockburn

     *Supplemental:  The Canterbury Tales
                             Tales: Knight's
                                       Miller's
                                       Nun's

Week 23:  Chp 45:  Battle of Sluys

                Chp 46:  Battle of Crecy

     *Supplemental:  The Canterbury Tales
                             Tales: Reeve's
                                       Scholar's
                                       Pardoner's

Week 24:  Chp 47:  Siege of  Calais

               Chp 48:  Battle of Poitiers

            *Supplemental:  The Canterbury Tales
                             Tales: Sir Topas'
                                       The Franklin's
                                       The Magistrate's

Week 19:  Pollyanna
                Chps 21-25              

Week 20:  Pollyanna
                Chps 26-30

Week 21:  Pollyanna
                Chps 31-32

               Golden Book of Fairy Tales
               -choose 3

Week 22:  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
                Chps 1-5

Week 23:  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
                Chps 6-10

Week 24:  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
                Chps 11-15

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

Reading:  at child's own pace *Remember, keep it short & sweet;
                easier, rather than too hard!

Phonics workbook:  approx. 1pp a day, if not already finished

Language Practice 2:  1 or 2 pages daily- schedule in order to
                finish before standardized testing

First Language Lessons:  Lessons 149-165
    *If you are starting the book in 2nd grade, do lessons 91-120.

     (For second graders who have already done the first grade portion of the book,
        I suggest doing 3 lessons per week.  There will be, however, eight weeks in
        the year when you only need to do 2 lessons per week.  I've scheduled these
        around holiday periods.

       (For second graders who have not done the first portion of the book, I suggest
        doing five lessons per week.  At the end of the year, however, there will still be
        twenty lessons left, perhaps to continue during the summer.)

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 some 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.

Science Crafts & Topics to cover:

 --coming--