early modern times Early Modern Times For Highschool – Suggestions?

[tuesdayschild]

Wondering if anyone would like to help us idea collect again?

 

We'd really appreciate some suggestions for Early Modern Times (1600-1850 AD), and Early Modern Lit to consider for ds 15+ and dd 13+

 

The dc and I think we have the history spines sorted, maybe, literature and lit guides are still pretty up in the air.

Any suggestions appreciated - rigorous and lighter options both welcomed.

 

(we have until Dec 2014 to nail our choices down)

 

TIA

[Embassy]

If you are looking for documentaries, I have a bunch listed here:  http://eclectic-homeschool.com/learning-about-early-modern-world-with-documentaries/

[tuesdayschild]

Someone suggested we come back and post what we've selected out for our 15 year old son to read alongside his study of Late Renaissance & Early Modern Times history…  it may cause classical purists to weep :tongue_smilie: .

Not all our selections were written during 1600-1850 – some are more modern works, and other books are just easy reading to break up the pace a bit.

We’re in NZ so we’ve chosen what will work for us and our high schooling pathway.

 

Guides & Books (including Class Time Discussion)

Guide: Greenleaf’s yr 3 Literature Guide: British And American Literature 1500-1900 ~Shearer

• Poets & Poetry Greenleaf covers is detailed in our blog post
• Foxes Book of Martyrs  - selections - contained within Greenleaf Guide (GG)
• Poetry for Dummies ~ Timpane
• Play:  Tartuffe ~ Moliere (1669) GG    
• Jeckyll & Hyde ~ Stevenson
• Play:  She Stoops to Conquer ~ Goldsmith (1773) GG  
• On the Duty of Civil Disobedience ~ Thoreau (1845–1849) GG
• Walden ~ Thoreau  (1845–1849) GG

Guide: The Screwtape Letters Literature Guide      

• The Screwtape Letters ~ Lewis
• Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God ~ Edwards  (detailed in Love to Learn’s guide)

Guide: 7 Sisters Homeschool Lit Guide: Les Miserable

• Les Miserable ~ Hugo (abridged)

Guide: Glencoe Literature Online Guide 

• Jane Eyre    

No Set Guides Just Reading & Class Time Discussion

• Pilgrim's Progress ~ Bunyan (unabridged audio)  an "intro listen" as we ramp up the subjects
• Don Quixote ~ Cervantes (1605)  (OYC Course optional) (audio option)
• Play:  The Crucible ~ Miller (set in 1773)
• Lorna Doone ~ R.D. Blackmore (England. Monmouth’s Rebellion) 1673-87 (audio)
• Journals of John Wesley (selections)
• 1714-1788 (William)  Deacon Brodie (online research )
• Captain Cook (documentary) & Journals (selections)
• William Wilberforce ~ Belmonte (biography) Speech to the house (1789)
• Barnaby Rudge ~ Dickens (1780)   (audio)  written 1840–1841
• The Scarlet Letter ~ Hawthorne  (audio option) (1850)

 

Other Titles – Free Reading

• Twenty Years After  ~ Dumas (1625)
• A Parcel of Patterns ~ Walsh SL200 (1665) (easy reading)
• Bonnie Prince Charlie and the 45 ~ Scott  (1745) (audio)
• Kidnapped ~ Stevenson (Scotland) (1751) (easy reading)
• Biography (Whitefield, Wesley, or, Franklin)
• The Arrow Over the Door ~ Bruchac   SL7 (1777)   (easy reading)
• (Opt)  My Brother Sam is Dead ~ Collier  (B. Arnold tie-in)
• Mutiny on the Bounty ~ Bligh  (1789)
• Scaramouche ~ Sabatini  (set in 1789-1799)
• Death to the French ~ Forester (optional)
• Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex ~ Philbrick   (1820)

Summer break reading (Dec 2015)

• 1830+ Tom Brown’s School Days ~ Hughes (Rugby School tie-in to poet Matthew Arnold) 
• Tolkien titles not already read