I found a good book for sale at the library a while ago which I think fills my desire to add something about Native Canadians into Year 2 - so I am adding it in now, so that Echo can do it next year. (I may have Delta listen in on the readings too...)
Most of the year will be based on AO's Year 2
Booklist Change Summary:
- Remove - This Country of Ours. (Used the D'Aulaire biographies where there is an option. TCOO is not used at all)
- Add - Great Canadian Lives
- Add - Canadian Minutes from Historica (these are the "Canadian Minute" ads from TV - we watch them online)
- Add - Native Canadians - Today and Long Ago by Elma Schemenauer
- Add - The Fishing Summer (authors last name is Jam)
- Add - [Short Canadian Picture book TBD]
- Add - Owls in the Family (Fawley Mowatt)
- Optional in Free Reads - Abraham Lincoln & Brighty of the Grand Canyon
- Note - we also don't do Trial and Triumph
- (Add - Young Folk's History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by Nephi Anderson)
Note - I generally tried not to add something without removing something, so as not to overburden the year. For History, that was generally easy, as we were not doing Trial and Triumph, and also removed the US History. For Literature, I made 2 books optional in the Free Reads - and 2 of the Canadian additions are fairly "light" I also looked at the number of readings each week, as well as chronology of the history, to determine where to add in the Canadian content.
Weekly Changes
(I haven't noted the readings by week that you don't read from the AO schedule for the books that were removed.)
GCL= Great Canadian Lives
Week 1
- Young Folk's History... - Chapter 1
- GCL - The Mists of Time (summary)
- The Fishing Summer (entire book)
Week 2
- GCL - Hoei Shin
Week 3
- GCL - Brendan the Bold
Week 4
- GCL - An Igloolik Family
- Canadian Minute - Inukshuk
Week 5
- Young Folk's History... - Chapter 2
- GCL - Leif Ericsson
- Canadian Minute - Vikings
Week 7
- GCL - Gudrid
Week 8
- Native Canadians - Meeting Walter and His Family
Week 9
- Young Folk's History... - Chapter 3
- Native Canadians - Walter's School Play
Week 10
- Native Canadians - Visiting Bev and Aunt Rose
- Canadian Picture Book [TBD]
Week 11
- Native Canadians - Making Bannock [good activity to do]
Week 12
- Native Canadians - Native Peoples Long Ago (Introduction)
Week 13
- Native Canadians - Map [good map to make for the term]
- Young Folk's History... - Chapter 4
Week 14
- Native Canadians - Eastern Woodland Hunters
Week 15
- Native Canadians - Picture Writing
Week 16
- Native Canadians - Eastern Corn Planters
Week 17
- Native Canadians - Visiting a Longhouse
- Young Folk's History... - Chapter 5
- GCL - Dekanawida
- Canadian Minute - Peacemaker
Week 19
- Native Canadians - Prairie Bison Hunters
Week 20
- Native Canadians - The Circle
Week 21
- Native Canadians - The Bison
- Young Folk's History... - Chapter 6
Week 22
- Native Canadians - Western Plateau Peoples
Week 23
- Native Canadians - A Shaped Poem
Week 24
- Native Canadians - Building a Mound House
Week 25
- Native Canadians - Pacific Coast Peoples
- Young Folk's History... - Chapter 7
Week 26
- Native Canadians - Clothing of the Pacific Coast Peoples
Week 27
- Native Canadians - Northern Caribou Hunters
- Owls in the Family Chapter 1
Week 28
- Native Canadians - The Caribou
- Owls in the Family Chapter 2
Week 29
- Native Canadians - The Inuit
- Owls in the Family Chapter 3
- Young Folk's History... - Chapter 8
Week 30
- Native Canadians - Inuit Boats
- Owls in the Family Chapter 4
Week 31
- Native Canadians - Animals of the North
- Owls in the Family Chapter 5
- Owls in the Family Chapter 6
Week 32
- Owls in the Family Chapter 7
- GCL - Robert Thorne the Elder
- Owls in the Family Chapter 8
- Young Folk's History... - Chapter 9
Week 34
- Owls in the Family Chapter 9
Week 35
- Owls in the Family Chapter 10
Week 36
- Owls in the Family Chapter 11
