As most of you know, I’ve been trying to develop a schedule that coordinates California state history and geography with the Ambleside Online history rotation. However, comma, because I forgot about California in the first term of this year {oops}, I’m actually a term off. So I’m writing this in preparation for Term 3 of Year 5, but when I do it again with my younger children, I’ll schedule it for Term 2 of Year 5, just as we did Jed Smith in Term 2, but I’d actually suggest him for Term 1.
Below you’ll see that I divided up a biography of Jessie Benton Fremont into a 12-week term schedule that you can easily paste into your regular Ambleside Online plans if you are a California native, or if you simply want to add something about California into your scheduled readings.
Jessie Benton Fremont
by Marguerite Higgins
Week 1: “Hurrah for Jackson” (ch. 1)(fits with AmblesideOnline, Year 5, Term 2)
Week 2: “Whither Thou Goest…” (first half of ch. 2)
Week 3: “Whither Thou Goest…” (second half of ch. 2)
Week 4: Mutiny at Nineteen (first half of ch. 3)
Week 5:Â Mutiny at Nineteen (second half of ch. 3)
Week 6: “…Seeking the Golden Fleece” (first half of ch. 4)
Week 7: “…Seeking the Golden Fleece” (second half of ch. 4)
Week 8: First Lady of the Golden West (first half of ch. 5)
Week 9: First Lady of the Golden West (second half of ch. 5)
Week 10: The Presidential Race (first half of ch. 6)
Week 11: The Presidential Race (second half of ch. 6)
Week 12: “From the Ashes of His Campfire, Cities Have Sprung” (ch. 7)
For that last chapter, I actually divided it up into two also, and assigned it over two days in the twelfth week. The first chapter could be treated the same, but it was a bit shorter than the other chapters and so I chose to keep it all in a single reading. I suppose my student’s narration will tell me if that was a good idea or not!
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