Jump to content

Menu

Need companion reading to go with Human Odyssey K12 Vol 1


Recommended Posts

Here's my list--not sure if we'll be able to fit it all in, particularly reading assigned to dd.

 

Read-alouds

Gilgamesh-Bernarda Bryson

Tales of Ancient Egypt-Roger Lancelyn Green (we read many but not all)

The Analects-Confucius (collection of short, wise sayings--we'll read some but not all)

Tales of the Greek Heroes-Green

Black Ships Before Troy

The Wanderings of Odysseus

The Aeneid (it might be called In Search of a Homeland--same publisher but different author as BSBT and TWOO above)

Julius Caesar-Shakespeare

Shadow Spinner

King Arthur--this might be Roger Lancelyn Green too

Otto Man of Iron??

 

For dd to read

The Chi Lin Purse

Greek Myths (D'Aulaire or Guerber)

Norse Myths (D'Aulaire)

Anna of Byzantium

Seven Daughters

Adam of the Road

The Vikings (Landmark)

Castle Diary

 

These are mostly books we have on our shelves from years of doing Biblioplan (plus others--Confucius was mine from college). Dd's older sister read most of these but this dd was too young for them last time we cycled through ancients.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Can anyone help me out? I would like to add some fictional and /or  non fiction history books to go along with our history studies. 

 

We didn't use Human Odyssey, so I'm not sure how the timing compares but my daughter began homeschooling in 7th grade.  I planned a three year sweep through world history, and in seventh grade my daughter covered the time period up to 500AD.

 

 

She used the following materials in 7th grade:

 

 

Selections from The Kingfisher Illustrated History of the World by Charlotte Evans et al.

 

The Young People's Story of Our Heritage: The Ancient World, Pre-history to 500BC by V. M. Hillyer and E. G. Huey

 

The Young People's Story of Our Heritage: The Ancient World, 500BC to 500AD by V. M. Hillyer and E. G. Huey

 

A Bone from a Dry Sea by Peter Dickinson

 

Cave of the Moving Shadows by Thomas Milstead

 

Spirit on the Wall by Ann O'Neal Garcia

 

Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

 

Pharaoh's Daughter by Julius Lester

 

Video:  David Macaulay's World of Ancient Engineering:   Pyramid

 

Black Ships before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff

 

Dateline: Troy by Paul Fleischman

 

Inside the Walls of Troy by Clemence McClaren 

 

The Curse of King Tut by Patricia Netzley

 

The Golden Fleece by Padraic Colum

 

Escape from Egypt by Sonia Levitin

 

Troy by Adele Geras   

 

The Wanderings of Odysseus by Rosemary Sutcliff

 

The Cat of Bubastes by G. A. Henty

 

City of Gold and Other Stories from the Old Testament by Peter Dickinson

 

Gods and Goddesses by John Malam

 

The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone by James Cross Giblin

 

Selections from  Cultural Atlas for Young People:  Ancient Greece by Anton Powell

 

Selections from Then and Now by Stefania and Dominic Perring

 

Selections from Usborne Book of Famous Lives

 

Selections from  Heroines by Rebecca Hazell

 

Selections from A Picturesque Tale of Progress, Volume 2 by Olive Beaupre Miller

 

The Story of the World, History for the Classical Child: Ancient Times by Susan W. Bauer

 

Niko: Sculptor's Apprentice by Isabelle Lawrence

 

How Would You Survive as an Ancient Greek? by Fiona Macdonald

 

Calliope Magazine: Taharqo

 

Calliope Magazine: Ancient Celts

 

Alexander the Great by Peter Chrisp

 

Video: Alexander the Great (The History Makers)

 

Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge

 

Selections from Mathematicians are People, Too by Luetta and Wilbert Reimer

 

Science in Ancient Greece by Kathlyn Gay

 

Selections from A Day in Old Athens by William S. Davis

 

Your Travel Guide to Ancient Greece by Nancy Day

 

The Librarian who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky

 

The Emperor's Silent Army by Jane O'Connor

 

Selections from Ancient Japan by J. E. Kidder

 

Hannibal's Elephants by Alfred Powers

 

The Story of the Romans by H. A. Guerber

 

Galen: My Life in Imperial Rome by Marissa Moss

 

Caesar's Gallic War by Olivia Coolidge

 

Selections from Ancient Inventions by Peter James and Nick Thorpe

 

Video:  Anthony and Cleopatra (Royal Shakespeare Company, 1974)

 

Videos:  I, Claudius (Volumes 1-7)

 

Augustus Caesar's World by Genevieve Foster

 

City by David Macaulay

 

The Wadjet Eye by Jill Rubalcaba

 

Video:  David Macaulay's World of Ancient Engineering:   Roman City

 

Song for a Dark Queen by Rosemary Sutcliff

 

Detectives in Togas by Henry Winterfield

 

Video:  Ancient Mysteries:  Pompeii, Buried Alive

 

The Capricorn Bracelet by Rosemary Sutcliff

 

The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff

 

Selections from Wonders of Ancient Chinese Science by Robert Silverberg

 

The White Stag by Kate Seredy

 

Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges

 

Selections from The Dark Ages by Tony Gregory

 

Lady Ch'iao Kuo:  Warrior of the South by Laurence Yep

 

The Dancing Bear by Peter Dickinson

 

Video:  Africa (Ancient Civilizations for Children)

 

The Cartoon History of the Universe II, From the Springtime of China to the Fall of Rome by Larry Gonick

 

Regards,

Kareni

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 weeks later...

Here is my dd's reading list for Human Odyssey 1:

 

Boy of the Painted Cave

Gilgamesh: The Hero

The Golden Bull

Tales of Ancient Egypt

The Golden Goblet

Mara, Daughter of the Nile

Sita's Ramayana

The Ch'i-lin Purse

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

Twenty Jataka Tales

Hittite Warrior

Greek Myths

The Golden Fleece

Theras and His Town

Black Ships Before Troy

The Wanderings of Odysseus

In Search of a Homeland

Eagle of the Ninth

The Bronze Bow

Children of Odin

The Sword and the Circle

Anna of Byzantium

The Thousand and One Arabian Nights

Son of Charlemagne

The Canterbury Tales (McCaughrean)

A Proud Taste of Scarlett and Miniver

I Rode a Horse of Milkwhite Jade

Outlaws of Sherwood

Adam of the Road

 

The books correspond pretty closely with the topics covered in the chapters of the text. She read 7 books with each of the first three units of the text and then 8 books with the final unit, which was slightly longer than the others.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

This is our "History" tie-ins list. I've got them scheduled in the lesson plan spreadsheet in my signature. We read other books for literature.

 

 Tale of Troy Roger Lancelyn Green

 Tales of Ancient Egypt by Roger Lancelyn Green

 The Odyssey by Geraldine Mccaughrean

 D’Aulaire’s Book of Norse Myths

 Eagle of the Ninth Rosemary Sutcliff

 Greek and Roman Myth: Age of Fable by Bulfinch

 Cat Who Went to Heaven by E Cotsworth

 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

 Aeneid by Alfred Church

 Bronze Bow by Elizabeth Speare

 African Beginnings by James Haskins

 Broken Tusk by Uma Krishnawsami

 Meso American Tales- by ?

 

 
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

 Share

×
×
  • Create New...