Age of Revolution
updated April 14, 2020
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Age of Revolution
for Class 8
Pinterest - Renee Schwartz
My curated collection of visuals! Browse sample main lesson book pages, watercolor paintings, chalkboard drawings, etc. for
Age of Revolution.
FREE eBooks at the Online Waldorf Library
Excellent resource! Published Waldorf curriculum books provided here in PDF format for you to download, keep, and read... for free!
Sample Lessons and Free Curriculum
Live Education curriculum samples:
Other Helpful Resources
BLACKBOARD SKETCHING book
by
FREDERICK WHITNEY (1908)
available online for free - with step by step directions and illustrations
 
European Royal Family Tree Poster
Teaching History through Biography in Grade 8
article by the San Francisco Waldorf Grade School
This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States
by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall (1876-1941)
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1917.
Carrie at The Parenting Passageway also recommend the Mexican Revolution for this block.
Latin American Revolutions Map Activity - FREE on TpT
Great historical fiction choices for the American Revolution
my blog post of Becca's book list
Great historical fiction choices for the Industrial Revolution:
Books to Buy
I'm preparing to teach this block with my eighth grade mostly-unschooling daughter. (She's doing a ton
of cool things including private lessons in yoga, art, machine sewing,
and Spanish. She's also
volunteering in the community, taking an Italy cultural studies class, and spending time working on a farm each week. BUT I'm making sure she does her math as
well as this one main lesson block.)
So far I'm at the point of reading Charles Kovacs' The Age of Revolution
and looking for related activities to explore the chapters further. If you don't feel
like he pays enough attention to the American Revolution,
Steve Sheinkin's King George, What Was His Problem? is great!
I also highly recommend, for the mighty task
of bringing
students up to the present day, Linda Rice's What Was It Like: Teaching
History and Culture through Young Adult Literature. It is a fantastic resource for multi-faceted literature studies throughout the year.
The Age of Revolution
King George, What Was His Problem?
What Was It Like: Teaching History and Culture through Young Adult Literature
NEW INSIGHT on Charles Kovacs' The Age of Revolution: This book is VERY slow. We only made it through Part I. It would be 3
main lesson blocks
if you did every chapter. Although I made some notes on resources that might tie in with
future chapters, we ended up finishing her History in another way (her American
History Booklist). Now I'm working on a deeper book
study of Steve Sheinkin's King George, What Was His Problem?
as a main lesson.
The Age of Revolution
by Charles Kovacs
Table of Contents
Part I: Rebellions
1. Spain and Holland
2. The Dutch Rebellion
3. The Siege of Leyden
Becca combined chapters 1-3 into a two-page spread about the Dutch Rebellion
4. The Divine Rights of Kings
5. Charles I
Becca combined chapters 4-5 into a two-page spread about James I and Charles I
6. Cromwell and the Civil War
7. The Execution of Charles
8. England and Scotland
9. The Lord Protector
Becca combined chapters 6-9 into a two-page spread about Cromwell
listing his positive and negative qualities (6 positives, 8 negatives)
10. The Restoration
11. The Merry Monarch
Becca combined chapters 10-11 into a two-page spread about Charles II
listing his positive and negative qualities (1 positive, 8 negatives)
12. The Plague and the Great Fire
13. The Glorious Revolution
Becca gave chapter 13 its own two-page spread
14. Union of 1707
15. The Jacobite Rebellion
16. Past and Future: Russia and Germany
Part II: The French Revolution
17. The Huguenots
18. Le Roi Soleil
19. Versailles
20. Banking
21. Louis XV and Frederick the Great
22. The Count of Saint Germain
23. Rousseau, Voltaire, and the Aristocrats
24. The American War of Independence
25. Louis XVI. The Three Estates
26. Liberty - Equality - Fraternity
27. The Tuileries
28. Danton, Robespierre and Marat
29. The Reign of Terror
30. Napoleon
31. Egypt
32. Emperor Napoleon and Trafalgar
33. Austerlitz. Wellington. Russia 1812
34. Elba. Waterloo
Part III: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
35. The Threefold State
36. The Beginning of the Industrial Revolution
37. The Arrival of Steam Power
38. The Locomotive
39. The Proletarians
new 2019 Massachusetts quarters - Lowell
40. Liberty and Economics
41. Robert Owen
42. The Workers' Struggle
43. Robert Clive
44. Garibaldi: the Early Years
45. Garibaldi and the Unification of Italy
46. Henri Dunant
47. Abraham Lincoln
48. Tsar Alexander II
49. Bismarck
50. The Turn of the Century
51. The First World War
52. The Rise of Nationalism
53. The Second World War
54. Prospects
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