How do I make the daily assignment chart from what is giving in the student activity pages.
I thought that the sample lessons at the website were actually in the program. I do not understand how to create these with the info. that is given.
I am so confused.

What Year Plan and Version (Classic or Redesigned) are you using??

The Classic Year Plans are printed on colored paper...the Lesson Plans should be on yellow paper.

The Redesigned Year Plans are printed on white paper...the Lesson Plans should have a yellow outline around the edge of the page.

Let me know if you have more questions...

Ok, Amy... I am going to disagree with you. I would not call the yellow pages lesson plans. If I tried to do everything on that page I would kill myself. You have to choose!!! First of all, I would need to know the ages of your children and whether or not you are using Classic or Redesigned. I have 6th and 8th grade boys doing dialectic and a 1st grade girl doing lower grammar. To be honest, with my first grader I am really concentrating on phonics, math and handwriting..mainly phonics. I read to her from Story of the World or a Literature book or maybe one of the history selections: just one a week. That is it. If I only had lower grammar students, then I would approach it differently. I would do fun hands-on stuff, but I cannot figure out how to fit it in with all of the dialectic work and thye boys hate hands-on stuff. First of all you have to decide what you want them to do (once again this is hard since I don't know the ages.) Are they just doing the history reading? Are the answering questions? What about mapwork. I make a choice for each category that I want them to do. To me, the yellow sheets are too confusing. WAY too much information and choices. So I/we make the choices and then I give them a sheet each week. Here is our sheet for this week: Week 8 Mongols, Marco Polo, Genghis Khan

History
Marco Polo
Encyclopedia of World Religions if needed for questions

Church History
Trial and Triumph chapters 14 and 16-both boys

Literature
Men of Iron ( 2 worksheets)

Geography
Mongol Map

Questions:
Marco Polo timeline worksheet
Questions
Timeline

Writing
Pet Peeve Essay


I'm not sure if I've helped or not, but the yellow sheets are not lesson plans the way I would define it. For example, in the activities section it has make a poster showing the flora and fauna of Japan, make a displey board about people of the Silk Road, and finish your embroidered purse of pouch. We aren't doing ANY of these. Just one would be MORE than enough. We are gone all day Wednesday for co-op and music lessons and we cannot fit all of the dialectic work AND add hands-on that the kids don't enjoy anyway. But other people would make the hands on the goal of their studies, especially if they had lower grammar which has much less reading and no questions to answer. So it is up to you to choose.

Christine

Excuse me, Christine.

Yes, technically the "yellow pages" in Classic OR the "white pages with yellow outline" in Redesigned are Reading Assignment Charts -- NOT lesson plans.

I was using the same terms the OP used to avoid confusion...

Actually, she isn't referring to the assignment charts. It appears that sometime recently, sample assignment charts have been posted which extract the information from the assignment pages and break them down by days, using color coding to tell the child whether they should do the assignment on their own or ask for help. (You find this at the very bottom of the table of contents page.) There's a note that these are not provided in the year-plan, but either she didn't notice this note or it wasn't there when she looked at it.

Answering the question, then: No, there isn't a weekly plan of this kind provided. Yes, it will look overwhelming to create your own at first, because you don't know yet how everything will fit together. But with time, you'll be able to do it. Looking at both the assignment charts and the next two pages, you will learn how to generate your own in whatever format you need (maybe you need to have Wednesday mornings open for piano lessons, and you prefer to hold history discussions on Thursday, or something like that).

What I have done is to make a form for my kids to fill out weekly. It isn't in calendar form, but in list form, with a box to show which day an assignment will be begun and when it will be completed. My kids are responsible for going over the assignment charts and things every Monday morning and generating their own assignment list for the week (for Tapestry and everything else). I check over it, of course. At first, this was an extremely time-consuming process that could take all morning, but now they can do it in half an hour. Even my 7yo can do it, although I'd be willing to do it with him if he needed that.

The main advantage I see with the charts provided is that they break some of the subjects down into smaller steps: for example, the geography assignments are spread over a number of days. It would be very time-consuming to go over each level's assignments every week and break them down like that. In my family, we pretty much do geography all at once, once a week; but we could instead schedule a number of geography sessions through the week, and when that time comes, take a look at the assignments and figure out what we should do today.

Hang in there - with time, you will figure out the approach that works for you, and it won't seem so overwhelming.

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Originally posted by TheFarm:
How do I make the daily assignment chart from what is giving in the student activity pages.
I thought that the sample lessons at the website were actually in the program. I do not understand how to create these with the info. that is given.
I am so confused.

You can easily create a chart like this for yourself. I have created two different forms that may help you to create such charts. I have a Yahoo! group where I share these charts: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Myvariousfiles/files/ The charts will be found in the files section of the group and then in the "Organization" folder. However, if you are familiar with creating charts in Excel, Word, or Publisher (or other programs) you can make your own charts as well.

I have a UG child who is still not reading strongly so he needs more supervision and he needs help breaking his readings into smaller pieces. For him I use the Generic Schedule Sheet. This schedules all his school work as well as TOG. In our house table work gets done first, reading, and crafts later. So on Monday I sit with the big TOG notebook and use the Reading Assignments pages to gather the books he will read and look at how much he needs to read. In our house, we read a little in each book, each day, but some people will read the assignment in each book completely and then move to the next book. Either can work. Then you'll need to use the next two pages to determine if you will do any of the extra work found on those pages. We don't do the vocabulary at this age except on the fly during readings and discussion. I have already spent time over the summer figured out what crafts in each unit we might be interested in doing. Any of these items can also be noted on the schedule sheet. If you intend to do vocabulary or some other thing on a regular basis, you can add a line in the appropriate place that has that typed in. Otherwise, I just hand note things like readings or less regular things like crafts. Finally, I'll turn to the yellow pages to see what he needs to do on those pages and also schedule that work. Obviously you'll want to not schedule a task until your student has done the reading necessary for that work. Now, this takes a lot of time to type up, but in reality it takes me less than 15 minutes to do.

My 12 yo is at the D level. For him, we use the Dialectic Planner sheet, which could be adapted to older or younger students. He gets his assignments on Friday afternoon. He fills out the books and assignments he will be reading and he notes the various tasks he will need to do each day. He then uses the daily chart at the bottom of his page to write down when he intends to do various work. When we started last fall, he needed me to do this for him, but by the end of last school year, he could handle scheduling on his own.

Hi "TheFarm,"
I just wanted to confirm to you that what Beth has explained to you is correct. There are *sample* lesson plans on the website that are broken down daily.

Amy has pointed you in the right direction regarding the yellow-bordered Reading Assignment Charts.

What you are provided with in your year-plan is "a" plan for one full week. As Christine said, you won't be able to do it all, so focus only on the rows/columns that pertain to the subjects you are doing with the learning levels of your kids. Once you determine that, those can be the backbone of your weekly lesson plans. It is up to you to train your older students in learning how to break these weekly assignments into manageable bites throughout the week. The dialectic and rhetoric "sample lesson plans" are really "sample planner pages" that are examples of ways that older students can plan out a given week.

So for younger kids, you look at the cells that pertain to them and use those as a basis to transfer that information to a blank assignment chart. (You'll find some on the Loom under the purple button.)

Just wanted to give you more peace of mind, and please post again if this raises further questions.

Blessings,

I have lesson plans that I have made for each level. I can email them to you if you wish.

Dear "Because of Him",
I would be interested in your lesson plans. I have LG, UG, and Dialectic levels. I'd also love to see your planner pages that you mentioned on another thread.
I really like the idea you shared (on the other thread) about having all the weeks planned out in the summer and put into folders. I tried to print off a bunch of stuff last summer for TOG ahead of time but then found that I didn't end up using a lot of it. Do you ever run into that? And what if don't get something done that week. Does it get you all behind. Things are so unpredictable here (large family), it seems like when I try to plan ahead, it all gets messed up anyways so I end up throwing my hands in the air and thinking, "Why even try!"

My email is khstanton@frontiernet.net

Sincerely,

Renee

Just a friendly reminder that lesson plans based on copyrighted Tapestry book lists or other content should not be freely shared.

Selena and others, we have sample lesson plans on our Go to Egypt free sample online. We also have bland, manipulable BLANK Weekly Assignment Charts, on the Loom.

Breaking down weekly assignments into daily ones is not hard: if you look at the weekly plan samples and then the lesson plan samples, you can see that we're just choosing some (and not all) of the suggested lesson ideas and plugging them into the days where it makes sense to teach/learn them.

We are thinking of making such detailed lesson plans in the future, but are currently flat out with redesigning Year 4.

HTH!

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We are thinking of making such detailed lesson plans in the future, but are currently flat out with redesigning Year 4.

If you do make detailed lesson plans available in the future, I would definitely be interested. I really like the way the sample lesson plans are laid out.

Angela

Duly noted, Angela! THANKS!

Hi

I guess I should clarify that I have lesson PLANNERS that I have made. I am not sharing actual written out Lesson Plans. Sorry for the confusion. Have a great day!

I would love a copy of the assignment chart. I'm new to the groupee forums, so I'm unsure how to post privately. I apologize.

My private email is:
shayandkriss@centurytel.net

I'm new to TOG and will be starting with year 1 next year with my 13 yo dd and 7 yo ds.

Kriss Spencer

Hi "Because of Him,"

I would love to see a copy of your Lesson Planners. My email is pgfreeman@cox.net.

Thanks,
Pamela Freeman