Tapestry of Grace Year 3, Week 10

Tapestry of Grace Year 3, Week 10: John Quincy Adams and Political Realignments

Key Facts:

1. John Quincy Adams
a. Election of 1824
b. Inaugural Address
c. Tariff of Abominations

2. Louis Braille
a. Childhood/ education
b. Valentin Hauy/Charles Barbier
c. Reading with Braille

3. The Erie Canal: A Journey Through Time
a. 363 miles/ built in 8 years
b. Connect the Great Lakes and create the largest (at the time) canal system
c. It paid for itself in less than 10 years

Activities: Make a pine cone bird feeder

Geography: Map of Erie Canal

Unit Projects: Add information on John Quincy Adams to unit display board

Digging Deeper:

• Charles Grandison Finney

Videos:

• John Quincy Adams: National Portrait Gallery: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXA734Tuv4o&feature=related
• Magic Touch - The Louis Braille Story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO3S9lwJDgg
• The Erie Canal Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT78NL34k0c
• The Canal Diggers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcDJ5hmTkpo&feature=related

Reading:

• The Amazing Impossible Erie Canal
• Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille
• Our Country's Presidents (John Quincy Adams)

Tapestry of Grace Year 3, Unit 2

Looking ahead to Tapestry of Grace Year 3, Unit 2 - I'm compiling a list of additional books and resources that I'm considering using to help round out our studies.

Time Travelers: The Early 19th Century ~ The first part of this would be a review of Unit 1 and the rest seems to line up pretty well with Unit 2. We used the American Revolution study last spring, and it was a lot of fun. So, I think this will add a lot of interest to our studies.

Other Resource books:

Out of Darkness, The Story of Louis Braille, Russell Freedman

Amazing Impossible Erie Canal, Cheryl Harness

Their Off! The Story of the Pony Express, Cheryl Harness

The Trailblazing Life of Daniel Boone, Cheryl Harness

A Day That Changed America: The Alamo, Shelley Tanaka & David Craig

The Trail of Tears, Deborah Kent

A Pioneer Sampler: The Daily Life of a Pioneer Family in 1840

Great Pioneer Projects, Rachel Dickinson

Hands-On History Pioneers, Michael Gravios

The Oregon Trail, Blashfield & Jean F.

Samuel Morse and the Telegraph, David Seidman

Gold Fever!: Tales from the California Gold Rush, Rosalyn Schanzer

Tapestry of Grace Year 3, Week 9

Tapestry of Grace Year 3, Week 9: Monroe and the American Hemisphere





Key Facts:


1. South American Geography
a. Brazil
b. Suriname
c. Guyana

2. James Monroe
a. Last American President of the "Virginia Dynasty"
b. Era of Good Feelings/ Panic of 1819
c. The Missouri Compromise
d. One political party transitioning to two political parties

3. Monroe Doctrine
a. Pressured Spain into selling Florida to the United States
b. America would resist European intervention in the Western Hemisphere
c. Cornerstone of American foreign policy


Activities: Make a clay pot


Geography: Finish map of South America



Unit Projects: Add information on James Monroe to unit display board



Digging Deeper:

• Adoniram Judson
• Democracy in America

Videos:

• The Presidents: Part 1: George Washington to James Monroe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGu-fkNeRvY
• The History of the Monroe Doctrine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38cyHchHPhI
• Monroe Doctrine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1G4hPck__c&feature=related

Reading:

• Frankenstein
• Simon Bolivar: Statesman and Liberator
• In the Land of the Jaguar: South America and It's People
• Adoniram Judson: Bound for Burma
• Our Country's Presidents

Tapestry of Grace Year 3, Week 8

Tapestry of Grace Year 3, Week 8: South America in Transition








Key Facts:

1. South American Geography
a. Peru
b. Bolivia
c. Chile
d. Argentina
e. Uruguay
f. Paraguay

2. Simon Bolivar
a. Review from last week

3. Abraham Lincoln - Early years
a. Youth/family/ upbringing
b. Abraham's military career
c. Careers before Presidency

4. Robert E. Lee - Early years
a. Youth/ family/ upbringing
b. United States Military Academy
c. Commissioned as a brevet second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers

5. Slavery in America
a. Indentured servants replaced by slaves
b. Slavery: one of the largest forced migrations in history
c. Transatlatlantic slave trade - triangle of trade


Activities: Cooking with apples


Geography: Continue map of South America - see above


Unit Projects: Add information about slavery to the unit display board


Digging Deeper:

• Adoniram Judson
• McCulloch vs. Maryland

Videos:

• Lincoln Portrait: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vJLJdrS_Go&feature=related
• TeacherTube - General Robert E. Lee: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1gXinIDTMM
• The History of Slavery in America (Part 1): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc1RbUxQv4E

Reading:

• Frankenstein
• Simon Bolivar: Statesman and Liberator
• In the Land of the Jaguar: South America and It's People
• Adoniram Judson: Bound for Burma
• Young Abe Lincoln

Tapestry of Grace Year 3, Week 7

Tapestry of Grace Year 3, Week 7: Reshaping Europe and South America

Key Facts:

1. Simon Bolivar

a. Involved with South American liberation / El Labrador.
b. Referred to as "George Washington of South America"
c. Bolivar died hated by his enemies, outlawed by his own country, but his reputation was restored after his death and grew to mythical proportions.

2. Francisco de Miranda

a. Venezuelan revolutionary helped pave the way for independence in Latin America.

b. Served as a French Revolutionary general and was jailed for suspected treason then acquitted.

c. Signed armistice with Spain, July 1812 at San Mateo.

3. The Congress of Vienna

a. Congress of European leaders met to settle the future boundaries of the continent.

b. Adopted a fair policy of no great rewards and no great punishments.

c. Adopted a policy to restore the status quo ante bellum (the situation as it was before the war).
d. Restored monarchies across Europe.

Activities: Cooking with apples

Geography: Map South America

Unit Projects: Add information about Simon Bolivar to unit display board

Digging Deeper:

• Adoniram Judson
• Democracy in America

Videos:

• Simon Bolivar: The Great Liberator of America: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRDnNL2WhIk&feature=related
• Congress of Vienna lecture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3igypsAnIm0&feature=related

Reading:

• Frankenstein
• Simon Bolivar: Statesman and Liberator
• In the Land of the Jaguar: South America and Its People
• Adoniram Judson: Bound for Burma

Tapestry of Grace Year 3, Week 6

Tapestry of Grace Year 3, Week 6: Madison and the War of 1812

Key Facts:

1. James Madison

a. 4th President of the United States; "Father of the Constitution"

b. Dolley Madison

c. Second Bank of United States chartered

2. War of 1812

a. Key events and causes

b. Battles

c. Treaty of Ghent

3. Chief Tecumseh

a. Shawnee Indian tribe; brother, Tenskwatawa - Shawnee Prophet

b. Tippecanoe

c. Indian confederacy - Native union against western settlers

4. Francis Scott Key

a. Strongly opposed War of 1812; However served briefly in Georgetown field artillery in 1813.

b. Observed bombardment of Fort McHenry

c. Poem: Defense of Fort McHenry, renamed The Star Spangled Banner / national anthem 1931.

Activities: American flag etiquette

Geography: War of 1812 battle maps

Unit Projects: Add information about James Madison to the display board.

Digging Deeper:

• William Wilberforce
• Democracy in America
  

Videos:

• Restoring the home of President James Madison: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30kR0CvmQGQ
• James Madison: The Father of the Constitution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuTj1BFc0jI&feature=related
• First Invasion War of 1812 Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7Hh8W69cos
• First Invasion War of 1812 Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In8ehVBhFCQ&feature=related
• First Invasion War of 1812 Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2sXXwIEhsQ&feature=related
• First Invasion War of 1812 Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmN0NA0pRs0&feature=related
• First Invasion War of 1812 Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P4oubQHCVY&feature=related
• First Invasion War of 1812 Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxmjD8KAl7s&feature=related
• First Invasion War of 1812 Part 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN-ldd5lYmU&feature=related
• First Invasion War of 1812 Part 8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjl10p7EQ1k&feature=related
• First Invasion War of 1812 Part 9: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHfuZ1X-z3k&feature=related
• History of the Star Spangled Banner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDKfw8nysLA&feature=related

Reading:

• Wilberforce: An Activity Book
• The War of 1812: Second Fight for Independence
• Our Flag Was Still There
• The Great Little Madison
• Our Country's Presidents

Tapestry of Grace Year 3, Week 5

Week 5 ~ Jefferson and the Supreme Court





Key Facts:

1. The United States Constitution
a. The Preamble
b. Article 1 - The Legislative Branch
c. Article 2 - The Executive Branch
d. Article 3 - The Judicial Branch
e. Article 4 - The States
f. Article 5 - Amendment
g. Article 6 - Debts, Supremacy, Oaths
h. Article 7 - Ratification
i. Amendments


2. John Marshall
a. 4th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
b. Announced Washington's death, planned his monument and wrote a biography on Washington.
c. Presided over Aaron Burr vs. United States case for treason


3. Judicial Branch
a. Judicial Powers
b. Trial by Jury, Original Jurisdiction, Jury Trials
c. Treason


Activities: Activity from Wilberforce Activity Book


Unit Projects: Add information about the branches of government to the display board.


Digging Deeper:

• William Wilberforce

Videos:

• Drive Through History American History Series (Netflix)
• Declaration of Independence - Remember This. Great Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3zr8ZY5c1c&feature=related
• American Government: Origins of the Three Branches: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbfS1tSYW04&feature=related
• William Wilberforce - The Great Debate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o8R9BVqQr8
  

Movies:

• Amazing Grace (Netflix)

Reading:

• Wilberforce: An Activity Book
• A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
• The Supreme Court

Tapestry of Grace Year 3, Week 4

Key Facts:

1. Thomas Jefferson
a. Author of the draft of the Declaration of Independence, third President, legislator, lawyer, diplomat, architect, inventor, scientist, agriculturist and writer.
b. Monticello
c. The Louisiana Territory purchased from France for $15 million. That's 3 cents per acre
(512 million acres).

2. Meriwether Lewis
a. Personal Secretary of Thomas Jefferson
b. Corps of Discovery Expedition - Served as Naturalist
c. Governor over Louisiana Territory

3. William Clark
a. Second Lieutenant / Captain
b. Corps of Discovery Expedition - Served as Mapmaker and Mediator
c. Principal Indian agent for the Louisiana Territory

4. Sacagawea
a. ShoShone woman married to Toussaint Charbonneau
b. Gave birth during Corps of Discovery Expedition - Interpreter
c. Believed to have died after giving birth to second child

5. William Burr
a. First Vice President to Thomas Jefferson
b. Judiciary Act of 1801
c. Killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel July 11, 1804


Activities: Make a compass


Unit Projects: Add information on Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacagawea to the display board.


Geography: Map out Louisiana Purchase


Digger Deeper:

• 12th Amendment: changed Presidential election rules.
• Sedition Act

Videos:

• John Adams: The Sedition Act: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-2pQuR4Zy8
• The Letters of Adams and Jefferson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKRZRWV7U4s&feature=related
• Thomas Jefferson's Prophetic Wisdom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B93yn0O35Cw
• Monticello: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP0bGckPw84
• The Lewis and Clark Expedition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-FAPBc_vak&feature=related

Reading:

• Thomas Jefferson
• The Louisiana Purchase
• The Year of the Horseless Carriage: 1801 (Read Aloud)

Tapestry of Grace Year 3, Week 3 - Continued

Since last week was so short and I had a full week of history outlined, we will be continuing with it this week. If it becomes necessary, I'll condense a week or two later in the year to keep us on track. This week is full of interesting facts, stories and activities that the boys don't want to miss. Plus, after such a busy weekend, it is nice to know that I already have everything organized and ready to go.

Tapestry of Grace Year 3, Week 3

Week Three: The focus this week is on the Early Industrial Revolution.

Key Facts:

1. Industrial Revolution
a. Started in Europe/Great Britain
b. Machines and Factories
c. Inventions

2. History of the Telegraph
a. William Sturgeon/Electromagnet
b. Joseph Henry & Charles Wheatstone
c. Samuel Morse/Morse Code

3. Eli Whitney
a. The Cotton Gin
b. Eli Whitney Armory/Production of Muskets
c. Machine Tool Industry/Interchangeable Parts

4. Robert Fulton
a. The Steam Engine
b. Steam Warship
c. Commissioned by Napoleon/Designed Submarine (Nautilus)

5. Francis Cabot Lowell
a. The American Textile Industry
b. Power Loom
c. Active Lobbyist/Protective Tariff


Activities: Make a Battery, Make a Cardboard Loom


Unit Projects: Add information on Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton and Francis Cabot Lowell to the display board.


Geography: Labeled map of the British Isles


Digging Deeper:

• Napoleon Code
• Immanuel Kent

Videos:

• Industrial Revolution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO3AW0JAHmU&feature=PlayList&p=FCFEC9A4EA49374D&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=4
• The Industrial Revolution - The Golden Age of Steam: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0ANJEpj79o&feature=related
• Industrial Revolution in pictures: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb4ut4xLEJA&feature=related

Reading:

• A Head Full of Notions
• Swiss Family Robinson
• The Year of the Horseless Carriage: 1801 (Read Aloud)

Tapestry of Grace Year 3, Week 2

Here is an overview of my history plans for Nathan and Ryan this week.

Key Facts:

1. Louis XVIII
a. Palace of Versailles
b. Spent 23 years in exile and was exiled again with the return of Napoleon from Elba.
c. Charter of 1814 - France's new constitution.
d. Last French monarch to die while reigning.

2. Horatio Nelson
a. Joined the Royal Navy at 12 years of age.
b. Over the course of his navy career, Nelson contracted malaria, dysentery
and suffered from seasickness.
c. During the French Revolutionary Wars, Nelson lost an eye.
d. During an attack in the Canary Islands, Nelson lost an arm.
e. Battle of the Nile.
f. Battle of Trafalgar was Nelson's greatest victory and where he lost his life.
g. Famous last words: "Thank God I have done my duty. Kiss me, Hardy."
h. Famous Monuments.

3. The Continental System
a. Starving Britain of money.
b. Destroying British trade, particularly the re-export of colonial goods to Europe.
c. Berlin and Milan Decrees.
d. The Continental System backfired on Napoleon.

4. The Third Coalition
a. Britain, Austria, Russia, Sweden and some German states - striking back at France.
b. Napoleonic Wars.
c. Napoleon on the verge of being master of Europe.

5. Napoleon's Coronation
a. Elaborate ceremony lasting more than three hours.
b. Notre Dame Cathedral.
b. Two brothers (Lucien and Jerome) were banned from the service.


Unit Projects: Continue working on display board. Add information about Napoleon and Horatio Nelson


Geography: Review latitude and longitude. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/01/gk2/longlat.html


Digging Deeper:

• Review life and ministry of William Carey
• Introduce Immanuel Kant
• The Code Napoleon

Videos:

• Louis XVIII video clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU2Ko5ySqrk&feature=PlayList&p=C93BA1A53EF39320&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=30
• The Palace of Versailles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G93EhIGlVS0
• Battle of Trafalgar Documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZAapCalVKY&feature=related
• Napoleon and Josephine's Coronation Scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiKdK63btw0&feature=related
• Napoleon - Austerlitz 1805: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPw9oFH1zlg
• Napoleon in Russia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=458Gw-Xw0u0&feature=related
• Waterloo 1815: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBxbVPERZuU&feature=related

Additional Activities: Create a french meal for dinner

Tapestry of Grace Year 3, Week 1

Here is a quick overview of my history plans for Nathan and Ryan this week.

Key Facts:
1. George Washington

a. Political party - Federalist

b. Vice President - John Adams

c. His picture is on the quarter (since 1932)

d. Only president to run unopposed for both terms.

e. He declined to run a third term - setting a precedent.

f. Fought in the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War.

g. First presidential veto blocking a bill to increase the number of U.S. representatives.

h. Issued a proclamation of neutrality that kept US out of French Revolutionary Wars.

i. Put down the Whiskey Rebellion by summoning militia of several states.

j. Prevented another war with Great Britain through unpopular treaty in 1794.

k. Washington lived in New York City and Philadelphia during his presidency.

2. John Adams

a. Political party - Federalist

b. Vice President - Thomas Jefferson

c. Signed the Alien and Sedition Acts

d. Revealed the XYZ affair

e. Signed a treaty with Napoleon in 1800 preventing war between U.S. and France.

f. Appointed several conservative judges during the last hours of his presidency.

g. Adams was the first president to live in the White House.

h. His Vice President was a political rival and belonged to a different party.

3. French Revolution (1789-1799)
a. Early French revolutionaries were influenced by the American Revolution.
b. Thomas Jefferson was the U.S. minister to France and was sympathetic to their cause.
c. Before the revolution bread cost more than a normal week's wages.
d. King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were out of touch with the common people.
e. During the Reign of Terror more than 18,000 people were beheaded.
f. The French Revolution marked the end of Feudalism.
g. July 14th: Bastille Day (French Independence Day)
h. There were only 7 prisoners at the Bastille when it was stormed by the people.
i. The French motto is Liberte Egalite Fraternite (Freedom, Equality, Fraternity)
j. The tri-colors of the flag: White (colour of the king), Blue and Red (colours of Paris)
k. The French National Anthem called la Marseillaise is a revolutionary song.

4. Napoleon
a. Born in Corsica
b. A brilliant military commander, known for conquering a large part of Europe.
c. Napoleon repeatedly defeated military forces superior in size to his own.
d. He created French kingdoms in Holland, Italy, Germany & Spain reigned by relatives.
e. The army assembled in 1812 by Napoleon was the largest yet seen in Europe.
f. Napoleon took Pope Pius VII's crown and put it on his own head.
g. He was defeated during the final battle at Waterloo
h. Exiled twice (Island of Elba and Island of Saint Helena)


Unit Projects: Start a unit display board. Complete presidential cards for Washington and Adams.

Geography: Make a salt map illustrating geography terms.

Writing Assignment: Write a letter with a quill and homemade ink.

Digging Deeper:

• Reasons for studying history
• Compare and contrast Christianity and Hinduism
• Discuss the life and ministry of William Carey

Videos:

• The Life of George Washington: http://www.earlyamerica.com/gwlifemovie2.htm
• Mount Vernon Virtual Tour: http://www.mountvernon.org/virtual/index.cfm/ss/2/
• Thomas Jefferson Talks with Napoleon Bonaparte: http://www.poplarforest.org/1806/index.html

Additional Activities: Make Hoecakes (Washington's typical breakfast). http://www.mountvernon.org/learn/explore_mv/index.cfm/pid/289/