Sneak Peek #4: New Guide Missions to Modern Marvels...

[Carrie]

Ladies,

It is time for a new sneak peek for the new guide Missions to Modern Marvels. As part of the history portion of Missions to Modern Marvels, we'll be finishing Diana Waring's What in the World Vol. III on audio, including Map Trek's mapping activities keyed to our scheduled history readings, and using Draw and Write's Invention, Exploration, and War: The Twentieth Century along with our readings to incorporate fantastic drawing instruction. We will also be using the United State's History Atlas for reference, which we began using in Rev2Rev.

Listed below are What in the World... Vol. III topics. We will begin with Disc 2 around Track 6 for this guide. The previous tracks were used in Rev2Rev.
Track contents
Disc 1:
 Welcome to Modern History (1:30)
 Young Napoleon (10:02)
 Napoleon’s Rise to Power (8:31)
 Emperor Napoleon (7:40)
 Napoleon’s Downfall (9:03)
 Reactionaries (6:00)
 Liberals (7:43)
 The Industrial Revolution (9:18)
 Response & the Age of Revolutions (9:18)
The Victorian Era (6:52)
Disc 2
Charles Darwin (8:08)
Karl Marx (5:13)
David Livingstone & Africa (9:48)
The Rise of Prussia (8:34)
The Franco-Prussian War (7:33)
China & Hudson Taylor (10:24)
Japan, Salvation Army & Spanish American War (6:49)
The Turn of the Century & Russia (8:07)
The Balkan Wars (8:48)
Disc 3
Russia’s Repressive Autocracy (8:17)
Revival & Balkan Conflict (7:53)
Prologue to War (10:13)
The Spark (6:23)
Trenches & Blockades (8:02)
Fall of the Central Powers (7:47)
Economic Chaos & Great Depression (8:57)
Fascist Italy & Militant Japan (10:22)
Hitler’s Germany & Revivals (7:54)
Disc 4
Jewish Palestine & German Conquest (7:28)
Miracle at Dunkirk (9:40)
Battle of Britain (9:35)
Pearl Harbor, Midway, El Alamein (10:55)
D-Day & the Atom Bomb (11:34)
Cold War & the Iron Curtain (7:21)
Brother Andrew & the Berlin Airlift (6:08)
Communist China & Korean War (8:22)
Decolonization & Israel (8:12)

Here's a list of many of the maps what will be covered in Map Trek for Missions to Modern Marvels.
USA (Jim Crow Laws/Right to Vote)
USA (Major Centers of Immigration)
World Empires 1900
The Balkan Wars
World War I (map 1)
World War I (map 2)
The Russian Revolution
The Division of Ireland
Europe, Post WWI
Iberian Peninsula
Famous Early Flights (Lindbergh/Earhart)
The Great Depression
Totalitarianism
China and Japan at War
The Baltic States
World War II (map 1 - Europe)
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor
World War II (map 2 - S. Pacific)
Italy and the Balkan Peninsula
The Growth of Communism
Independence for India
The Middle East
The Nation of Israel
The Cold War
The Korean War
The Vietnam War
The Wars in Asia
Indonesia
New Zealand
Cuba
The Gulf War
9/11 - Attack on the U.S.
Conflict in Iraq

Here's a glimpse at an art lesson from a previous volume of Draw and Write: http://www.drawandwrite.com/FreeArtLesson.html

Drawing projects in this volume of Draw and Write include Model T, Titanic, penguin, seal, WWI soldier, U-boat, Red Baron, Amelia Earhart, Golden Gate Bridge, Sherman Tank, Winston Churchill, Mount Rushmore, jaguar, macaw, Martin Luther King Jr., Apollo 11, space shuttle.

Blessings,
Carrie

[LynnH]

Wow looks great. Noah loves all the resources and I really like all the maps. He will be thrilled that there is more Draw and Write Through History. Funny aside when he had his testing done he obviously scored very low in all fine motor areas,with one exception and that was drawing. The report said something like "surprisingly he scored average on the drawing subtest." I don't think he could figure out how a kid with the tremors he has could get an average score on a drawing test. I attribute that completely to Draw and Write Through History and notebooking pages.

[inHistiming]

Will the level need to be beefed up for a child using the extensions but in high school? I'm thinking that won't be necessary according to what is listed on the description, but I just want to make sure. We are in the midst of searching out curr. for our son who will begin high school in the fall and of course want to look at HOD, as well. Also, how independent will the program be?

[Carrie]

Lynn,

Thanks so much for taking time to share about your son's progress with Draw and Write and the notebooking pages! That is a wonderful testimony and good news for him! We've seen terrific progress in both areas with our own son also. We're looking forward to doing MTMM too.

Blessings,
Carrie

[Carrie]

inHistiming,

The history portion of Missions to Modern Marvels will not need additions for high school beyond the Extension Package. We're looking for the level of independence to be similar to what you see in Rev2Rev.

Blessings,
Carrie

[Heather4Him]

Looks great, Carrie, and I'm excited to hear that we won't need to add anything but the extensions for high school history!! YAY!!!!!
Thanks for all your hard work. You are blessing SO many children and families with your God-given talent and gifts, including ours.

[inHistiming]

Thanks, Carrie, that's great! Does that apply to the science portion as well?

[my2beauties]

Hi Carrie,

Would Missions to Modern Marvels be considered 9th grade?

-Lisa

[inHistiming]

Lisa, the extensions are for 9th and 10th graders using M to MM. So with the extensions, yes, it can be for 9th grade.

[Carrie]

inHistiming,

For science, you'd need to do some tweaking as noted in this thread (if you wanted it to count for high school Chemistry credit). Link: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10600

Blessings,
Carrie

[inHistiming]

Okay, thanks, Carrie!

[mamanlait]

We love Draw and Write and have really enjoyed the What in the World CD's with Diana Waring. I'm really excited to see those resources used in M to MM! I think they both help to finish hammering in the historical concepts that otherwise might get lost in the shuffle. So excited

[water2wine]

inHistiming,

The history portion of Missions to Modern Marvels will not need additions for high school beyond the Extension Package. We're looking for the level of independence to be similar to what you see in Rev2Rev.

Blessings,
Carrie

Awesome! We can't wait to use it. I know it will be wonderful!