Wednesday, January 19, 2022

List of Reading Like a Historian Lessons - SHEG

I'm doing some professional development right now from Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) and I just wanted to share their current list of Reading Like a Historian history lessons.

In Waldorf, true history begins in 6th grade, starting with World History (Greek and Roman History, the Middle Ages). 7th grade includes the Age of Exploration and the Renaissance & Reformation. 8th grade includes the Age of Revolution and U.S. History to the present day. History is covered chronologically, so U.S. History is not taught until when the U.S. began! There's a lot of U.S. History to cover, so it's a good idea to be prepared with a short list of trusted resources, and SHEG delivers.

These lessons are all FREE and they are fantastic!!! All based on primary sources and include tension (conflicting information between the viewpoints) that gives students great practice in critical thinking.

Highly Recommended!

Introduction Lesson Plans
Lunchroom Fight I Make Your Case!
Lunchroom Fight II Snapshot Autobiography
Evaluating Sources

Historical Thinking Classroom Posters & Charts
Close Reading Contextualization
Corroboration Historical Thinking Chart
Sourcing What is History?

U.S. History
Unit 1: Colonial
Examining Passenger Lists Mapping the New World
Pocahontas The Puritans
The First Thanksgiving Mini Lessons King Philip's War
Salem Witch Trials Portola Expedition
California Missions
Unit 2: Revolutionary and Early America
Great Awakening Stamp Act
American Revolution SAC Boston Massacre
Loyalists Battle of Lexington
Declaration of Independence Shays' Rebellion OUT
Federalists and Anti-Federalists Slavery in the Constitution
Hamilton v. Jefferson
Unit 3: Expansion/Slavery
Manifest Destiny Second Middle Passage
Slavery Narratives Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark SAC Freedom's Journal
Texas Revolution Irish in 19th-Century America
Gold Rush and San Francisco Evaluating Sources on Juana Briones
Unit 4: Civil War and Reconstruction
John Brown's Motivation Radical Reconstruction
Reconstruction SAC Sharecropping
Thomas Nast's Political Cartoons Fort Sumter
Civil War Photographs
Unit 5: The Gilded Age
Battle of Little Bighorn Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Great Plains Homesteaders Chinese Immigration and Exclusion
Albert Parsons SAC Homestead Strike
Pullman Strike Populism and the Election of 1896
1898 North Carolina Election
Unit 6: American Imperialism
Annexation of Hawaii Maine Explosion
Spanish-American War Soldiers in the Philippines
Philippine-American War Political Cartoons
Unit 7: Progressive Era
Background on Woman Suffrage Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois
Child Labor Jacob Riis
Political Bosses Japanese Segregation in San Francisco
Settlement House Movement SAC Edward Curtis
Anti-Suffragists
Unit 8: World War I and the 1920s
Marcus Garvey Great Migration
Sedition in WWI U.S. Entry into WWI
Porvenir Massacre Chicago Race Riots of 1919
League of Nations Palmer Raids
Prohibition Mexicans in the U.S. in the 1920s
Scopes Trial Sacco and Vanzetti
Unit 9: New Deal and World War II
Mexican Migration in the 1930s The Dust Bowl
New Deal SAC Social Security
Migrant Mother Photograph Japanese American Incarceration
Ansel Adams at Manzanar Zoot Suit Riots
The Atomic Bomb
Unit 10: Cold War
The Cold War Korean War OUT
Truman and MacArthur Guatemala OUT
Castro and the United States Cuban Missile Crisis
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Unit 11: Cold War Culture/Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement Photos NAACP Letters
Public Housing Women in the 1950s
Little Rock Nine Montgomery Bus Boycott
John F. Kennedy and Civil Rights Great Society
Anti-Vietnam War Movement Stonewall Riots
Equal Rights Amendment
Unit 12: Late 1900s and Early 2000s
Reaganomics SAC AIDS Crisis
Iran-Contra Affair Kyoto Protocol
NAFTA Iraq Resolution
Hurricane Katrina

World History Lessons
Unit 1: Ancient
Hammurabi's Code Athenian Democracy SAC
Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem Battle of Thermopylae
Roman Republic Fall of the Qin Dynasty
Confucianism and Daoism Augustus
Cleopatra Attila and Pope Leo
Roman Empire and Christianity
Unit 2: Medieval
The Dark Ages Expansion of the Islamic Empire
First Crusade Teotihuacan
Mansa Musa Ibn Battuta
The Black Death in Florence Understanding the Black Death
Inca Empire Martin Luther
Moctezuma and Cortés La Malinche
Moctezuma's Zoo Aztec Encyclopedia
Atahualpa and the Bible Galileo
Unit 3: Modern
The Middle Passage Reign of Terror
Portola Expedition Factory Life
The Sepoy Rebellion Battle of Adwa
Battle of the Somme Armistice
Atatürk and Women's Rights in Turkey Women's War of 1929
Invasion of Nanking Appeasement
Nazi Propaganda India Partition
Assassination of Patrice Lumumba China's Cultural Revolution
The Atomic Bomb The Cold War
The Korean War Cold War in Guatemala
Castro and the United States Cuban Missile Crisis
Iran-Contra Affair
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Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Notes from gr.6 Geometric Drawing Block

I prefer to do String, Straight-edge & Shadow: The Story of Geometry as its own block and then schedule time for a separate Geometric Drawing block. Last year we didn't attempt Geometric Drawing in the Outdoor Classroom, so we are circling back now and devoting some time on it. First, a bit of review!

These notes will be updated as we go along.


Wed, Jan 5


Thu, Jan 6


Mon, Jan 10


Tue, Jan 11


Wed, Jan 12

    begin Geometric Drawing MLB with quote from Plato

    add figures 2 and 3 along with an explanation of how to make them

    practice figure 4 from Dewey


Thu, Jan 13

    add figure 4 along with an explanation of how to make it

    practice figures 5 and 6 from Dewey


Tue, Jan 18

    add figure 5 along with an explanation of how to make it

    practice figures 6, 7, 8, 9, and 12 from Dewey


Wed, Jan 19

    continue to practice figures 7, 8, and 9

    rough draft explanation of how to make figure 6


Thu, Jan 20

    add figures 6, 7, 8, and 9 along with an explanation of how to make them

    practice figure 10 from Dewey

    learn how to bisect an angle, and divide a circle into 12 equal parts using only a compass and straightedge (Geometric Drawing and the Waldorf School Plan by Hermann von Baravalle, pp.14-15)

    explore the 24-division of a circle


Tue, Jan 25

    rough draft an explanation of how to bisect an angle using a compass and a straightedge


Wed, Jan 26


Tue, Feb 1

    add how to draw a perpendicular bisector to MLB

    review area of square/rectangle, triangle, rhombus/parallelogram, and trapezoid

    Finding the Area of Trapezoids Task Cards


Wed, Feb 2


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Notes from gr.5 Decimal Fractions Block

As with the Fractions, this student also had an introduction via the hand-on Montessori math materials first (introducing decimals and their place value, static and dynamic addition and subtraction) for several weeks in December. He is now beginning to create a formal main lesson book. So far we have used the Decimal Fraction Board, Decimal Fraction Exercise, and Decimal Fraction Exercise Activity Set 1. We will move into muliplication and division in this block, and explain in his book how to solve those problems as well.

These notes will be updated as we go along.


Mon, Jan 10


Tue, Jan 11


Wed, Jan 12

    Rounding Decimals Coloring Activity
    FREE on TpT

    add to MLB: what is a decimal? (rough draft is pictured below)

    include an example number written in the Montessori color coding, with four digits before the decimal point and four digits after


Thu, Jan 13


Tue, Jan 18

    Decorating the Tree
    FREE on TpT

    I had him do three of the "Decorating the Tree" problems as repeat addition with the decimals. Then we ignored the decimal point and did the same three problems as long multiplication. Then I showed him that the answers are the same as if you counted up the number of digits behind the decimal point in the problem and put the same number of digits behind the decimal point in the answer (whoever first figured that out was a genius). And he did the remaining problems by multiplying the decimals. Because of the nature of the problems, these were all multiplying by a one digit multiplier.


Wed, Jan 19

    learn how to multiply a 2-digit number by a 2-digit number


Thu, Jan 20


Mon, Jan 24


Tue, Jan 25


Wed, Jan 26


Thu, Jan 27


Tue, Feb 1

    learn how to do long division abstractly (transition from division with the Racks & Tubes)

    practice using problems in Attack Math Division 3 workbook


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