Colonial America Unit Study | Homeschool History | Charlotte Mason Living Books

Unlike our typical history units, this Colonial America History Block was fairy short in comparison lasting 1-2 weeks. I gathered together resources we already had from the last time we did this unit a few years ago. We didn't purchase any new material for this unit, but there ended up being a couple additions we didn't have the first time. We also omitted a few resources for the sake of time, and even then, we didn't get through everything we had.

One book we ended up not doing at all this time around was The World of Captain John Smith. I thought this would be the perfect book for my 13-year-old son as assigned reading as I liked it so much the first time around. But alas, he didn't get into it as much as I hoped and instead he read the Life and Times of Myles Standish.

For our lesson plans, I basically wrote a list of the materials I hoped we'd get through. I didn't schedule time or days for this, but did restrict the length of the unit to just one week and in reality it took almost two weeks. We worked daily on the our main lesson block reading and doing projects for about 2 hours each day on average.

Our main project for this unit was the weaving project that both my 8-year-old daughter and 13-year-old completed, though it took them until the end of all the history units to finish it. Following this unit, we did a unit on the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the American Revolutionary War.

Check out the blog post that accompanies this video for the complete list of our projects and activities for this unit. You can find more details, links to books and products, pictures and more!
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