South African curriculum

In Waldorf, in each grade, we study certain things. So in grade 1 it is Fairy Tales. Grade 2 Nature Stories and The Saints. Grade 3 Old Testament, clothing, fibre and housing etc.

As we live in South Africa we will study our local tribes and history instead of Native American. When the children are older we will study Native Americans. I think it is very important to learn about one's own country - to understand our roots.

I have bought a South African curriculum called Little Footprints. The age suggestion is 4 to 8. I think it is way too academic for that age and use it, spread it out over grade 2 and 3. I do not use it as a stand alone curriculum, but use it as local geography and history blocks. The story books are fantastic.
For grade 4, 5 and 6 I bought Footprints on our Land. It is a very good curriculum. The draw back is that it is very expensive for what you get. The books are all "home" printed in black and white. The covers are a very light weight cardboard, that pick up stains and dirt easily. The teachers guide is also black and white. The cover has a plastic sheet to keep it clean. It is not much more expensive for the producers to have laminated the front cover instead. The binding is also inferior, so you have to be very careful when using your teachers manual. For maybe R20 more the producers could have used the metal ring binding and laminated the front cover.

But after all that I would still buy the Footprints on our Land curriculum for the content alone. The curriculum is a literature based curriculum. It consists of 24 books. I do the first 8 books in grade 4, the next 8 books in grade 5 and the last 8 books in grade 6.

I will be buying the Footprints into the 21 st Century for grade 7 and 8.

Grade 8 curriculum: History

The Age of Revolution
by Charles Kovacs

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'An overview of world history from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, including the French, American and Industrial Revolutions. Kovacs chooses pertinent stories which create a tapestry showing the development of humankind from Medieval times, when every person had their place in the hierarchy of society, to the awakening of individualism in modern times.'


Rebellions

1. Spain and Holland
2. The Dutch Rebellion
3. The Siege of Leyden
4. The Divine Rights of Kings
5. Charles I
6. Chromwell and the Civil War
7. The execution of Charles
8. England and Scotland
9. The Lord Protector
10. The Restoration
11. The Merry Monarch
12. The Plague and the Great Fire
13. The Glorious Revolution
14. Union of 1707
15. The Jacobite Rebellion
16. Past and Future: Russia and Germany

The French Revolution

17. The Huguenots
18. Le Roi Soleil
19. Versailles
20. Banking
21. Louis XV
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
29. The Reign of Terror
30. Napoleon
31. Egypt
32. Emperor Napoleon and Trafalgar
33. Austerlitz
34. Elab, Waterloo

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
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. Henry 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

I will be teaching this as three main lessons, three weeks each as the book has been divided so nicely for it.

Grade 7 curriculum: History

The Age of Discovery
by Charles Kovacs

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Cost is about R100 to R150 depending on the exchange rate. Book Depository does not charge for shipping. Loot shipping is free for orders over R230 so even if the exchange rate is not doing too well, it might still be cheaper to buy from Book Depository if you are getting a single book.

'An overview of world history from the time of the Crusades to the Renaissance, including Saladin, Joan of Arc, Columbus, Magellan, Queen Elizabeth 1 and Francis Drake'

1. The Threefold State
2. Roman Law and Germanic Law
3. The Monks
4. Roman Wealth and Germanic Wealth
5. The Feudal System
6. Knighthood
7. Christian Europe
8. Muhammad
9. The Crescent of Islam
10. Arabian Civilization
11. Charles Martell, Pointers, Charlemagne
12. The New Empire
13. The Vikings
14. King Alfred and the Danes
15. Alfred the Great
16. The Norman Conquest
17. The Crusades
18. Godfrey de Bouillon
19. Saladin and Richard Lionheart
20. The Changes in Europe
21. Gilbert and Rohesia
22. The Growth of Cities
23. King John and the Magna Carts
24. Scotland and England
25. England and France, Joan of Arc
26. Printing and Gunpowder
27. The Age of Discovery
28. Columbus
29. The Year 1492
30. America
31. Pizzaro
32. The fall of the Incas
33. Magellan
34. Crossing the Pacific Ocean
35. The Renaissance
36. Leonardo: Childhood and youth
37. Leonardo in florence and Milan
38. The Last Supper
39. Intentions and the Mona Lisa
40. Raphael and Michelangelo
41. The Wars of the Roses
42. Borgia and Savonarola
43. Martin Luther
44. Luther and the Reformation
45. The Diet of Worms
46. Calvin and knox
47. Henry VIII
48. Mary Queen of Scots
49. The Great Armanda
50. Elizabethan Times, Shakespear, Raleigh
51. Francis Drake

Grade 6 curriculum: Ancient Rome.

Ancient Rome
 by Charles Kovacs

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Cost is about R100 to R150 depending on the exchange rate. Book Depository does not charge for shipping. Loot shipping is free for orders over R230 so even if the exchange rate is not doing too well, it might still be cheaper to buy from Book Depository if you are getting a single book.

'This book includes the most exciting stories of Roman history: the founding of Rome, the early battles against Hannibal and the Carthaginians, Julius Caesar's conquests of Gaul and Britain, Antony and Cleopatra, the decline and fall of the Empire, and the beginning of the Dark Ages.'


From the Foundation of Rome to the time of Marits and Sulla

1. Earlier Civilizations
2. Slavery and the Gift of Christ
3. The Latin people
4. Romulus and Remus
5. The Foundation of Rome
6. The Sabine Woman
7. The Etruscans
8. The Republic of Rome
9. How Horatius Kept the Bridge
10. Patricians and Plebeins
11. Roman Laws and Ways
12. Carthage
13. Hannibal
14. Hannibal Ante Portas!
15. The Destruction of Carthage
16. A Patrician's Home
17. The Plebeians' Home
18. The Cause of the Plebeians
19. Marius
20. The Betrayal of Jugurtha
21. The People from the North
22. Rome is Saved
23. Marius: Public Enemy
24. Marius in Exile
25. Marius' Return
26. The Death of Marius
27. Spartacus

Caesars and Christians

28. Julius Caesar
29. Power
30. Gaul
31. The Celtic People
32. Britain
33. The Rubicon
34. Greetings, O King
35. The Ides of March
36. At Philippi
37. Antony and Cleopatra
38. God on Earth
39. In Palestine and in Rome
40. Caesars and Christians
41. The Arena

Early History of Britain and the Fall of the Roman Empire

42. The Stone Age
43. The Bronze Age
44. The Iron Age
45. Boadicea
46. Alban
47. The Germanic Tribes
48. The Empire Divided
49. The Vision of Constantine
50. The Monks
51. Attila the Hun
52. The Fall of Rome
53. The End of the Empire
54. Angles and Saxons
55. The Bishop of Rome
56. Winfred

Caleb and I are busy with this as our main lesson at the moment. I made it a six week lesson. I will not do this again. I will definitely turn it into two main lessons of four weeks each. Otherwise, we have really enjoyed it.

Grade 5 curriculum: Greek History

Ancient Greece
by Charles Kovacs

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Cost is about R100 to R150 depending on the exchange rate. Book Depository does not charge for shipping. Loot shipping is free for orders over R230 so even if the exchange rate is not doing too well, it might still be cheaper to buy from Book Depository if you are getting a single book.


Greek Mythology

1. The Red Flower of the Gods
2. Pandora's Box
3. An Apple for Aphrodite
4. Helen's Abduction
5. The Battle for Troy
6. The Great Wooden Horse
7. Odysseus the Wanderer
8. No One and the Cyclops
9. Circe the Sorceress
10. The Sirens' Song
11. Return to Ithaca

The Argonauts

12. Jason, Heir to the Throne
13. The Golden Fleece
14. The Voyage of the Argo
15. Sowing the Dragon's Teeth

Perseus

16. A Gift for the King
17. The Gorgons' Cave
18. Perseus to the Rescue
19. A Fateful Throw of the Discus
20. The Milk of a Goddess

The Twelve Labours of Heracles

21. The Path of Virtue
22. The Oracle's Advice
23. Hydra Beheaded
24. The Augean Stables
25. Taming the Twelve Mares
26. Fearless Amazons
27. The Oxen of the Sun God
28. Cerberus, the Hound of Hell
29. Heracles the Immortal

Theseus

30  The Labyrinth of Minos
31  Flight to Freedom
32  The Road to Athens
33  Ariadne's Thread
34  Success and Sorrow

Greek History

35  A Royal Sacrifice
36  Spartan Warriors
37  Athenian Orators
38  A Slave for an Eye
39  The Sunlight Tree
40  Hippias the Cruel Tyrant
41  The Wrath of Darius
42  The Battle of Marathon
43  Xerxes' Mighty Army
44  Treachery at Thermopylae
45  Ships of War
46  The Judgment of the Shards
47  The Golden Age
48  The Love of Wisdom
49  Alcibiades the Traitor
50  The Death of Socrates

Alexander the Great

51  Taming Bucephalus
52  Dreams of Conquest
53  The Gordian Knot
54  The Last Battle