Jackdaws.

In The Well-Trained Mind, Jesse Wise and Susan Wise Bauer advise that starting in fifth grade, a student should begin to study history using primary source documents. They helpfully include a list of questions the student should run through whenever evaluating a primary source document and then they recommend a few providers of such documents.

There is one on-line called the Internet Modern History Sourcebook (which I will check out another time) and Jackdaws.

Each portfolio/area of interest is to take one to two weeks. The authors don't recommend a set number of these to do, but for fifth grade they recommend six different ones, and for sixth grade they recommend four. These, however, are based on the available materials from Jackdaw for the time period being covered and so are not "grade specific." Hard to say, then, how many one shoould do in any given school year.

The suggestions in WTM for which Jackdaws to study during the same time period as SoTW3 follow a course of American history. Of course, my interests are not the same, so I've had to come up with my own list. (All prices in US dollars from the Jackdaw site)


SoTW2:
Columbus and Explorers Come to the New World $51.95


SoTW3: Possible Jackdaws for study.

SoTW 3:4 The Northwest Passage $27.95

SoTW 3:12 Cromwell's Protectorate $27.95

SoTW 3:12 The Plague and Fire of London$51.95

SoTW 3:16 Newton and Gravitation $51.95

SoTW 3:21? Wolfe at Quebec (1759) $51.95

SoTW 3:25 The French Revolution $51.95

SoTW 3:33 The War of 1812 However, it seems to be a bit one-sided--and on the wrong side for us! $51.95