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Tell me your favorite 20th century history/ literature resources, curricula, study guides etc.

 

Year 4 TOG is not available....

Anyone ever use Sonlight Core 300??

Ambleside Online is way too much (though I could pick and choose...)

 

Any others?? Free resources??

 

How do you teach your 4th year in your last istory cycle???

 

Thanks,

Faithe

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We are using Sonlight 300 this year and love it. We have used SL almost all through our homeschooling time though so we are sort of biased.:001_smile:

My only complaint has been the writing - I don't like how it is organized and I used IEW some also. However, the core just been re-written and it looks like the literary analysis and writing sections have been greatly improved on.

 

Veronica

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The Twentieth Century: A Brief Global History by Richard Goff. I found a syllabus online and there were study questions on that site too. It is a college level text but not too hard.

 

Ds1 really liked this book and ds2 (10th) has read it for fun. For lit, I just added some books that were relavant, like The Jungle, Farienheit 451, The Greatest Generation, etc. that ds would like.

 

Hope this helps.

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Some ideas I had:

 

o The Chosen

o To Kill a Mockingbird

o Night / Diary of Anne Frank / Hiding Place

o City of Thieves

o All Quiet on the Western Front

o The Great Gatsby

o Cry, My Beloved Country

o Town Called Alice

o Old Man and the Sea

o Kon - Tiki

o Kite Runner

o Three Cups of Tea

o Life of Pi

o 1984

o Alas, Babylon

o A Brave New World

 

I was pursuing a 20th Century Global Literature theme because I am planning to do human geography this year. However, my older son heard I was doing Lord of the Rings with my younger son, and he wanted to participate. So at the moment, I don't know what the outcome will be.

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Okay, I was so looking forward to doing that year with my daughter. There were so many wonderful books I just couldn't wait to read and discuss with her. I had already raided our bookshelves and started making lists . . .

 

And then she decided to go to college a year earlier than I had anticipated.

 

Sigh.

 

However, here's the literature list I was busy compiling. The short story selections are drawn from two books I happened to have on my shelves: The Norton Introduction to Fiction (edited by Jerome Beaty) and Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Fiction (edited by James H. Pickering).

 

Short Stories:

 

Irving: Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle

Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown, Rappaccinni's Daughter

Poe: Cask of Amontillado, Purloined Letter, Fall of the House of Usher

Melville: Bartleby the Scrivener

Dostoevksi: Grand Inquisitor

Tolstoy: How Much Land and/or Ivan Ilych

Bierce: Owl Creek Bridge

Conrad: Secret Sharer

Doyle: Speckled Band

Chekov: Lady With the Dog and/or The Darling

Anderson: The Egg

Joyce: Araby and/or The Dead

Kafka: Hunger Artist and/or Metamorphosis

Hemingway: A Very Short Story

Lawrence: Rocking Horse Winner

Porter: The Grave

Faulkner: Rose for Emily, Barn Burning and/or Dry September

Borges: Garden of Forking Paths

Thurber: Catbird Seat

Jackson: The Lottery

Welty: Why I Live at the P.O.

Gordimer: Train from Rhodesia

Garcia Marquez: Very Old Man With Enormous Wings

Kawabata: Grasshopper and Cricket

 

Longer Works:

 

Moliere: Tartuffe

Milton: Paradise Lost – selections

Defoe: Robinson Crusoe

Swift: Gulliver’s Travels

Austen: Pride and Prejudice / Sense and Sensibility / Emma

Hugo: Les Miserables or Hunchback of Notre Dame

Dickens: Great Expectations

Fitzgerald: Great Gatsby

Buck: Good Earth

Huxley: Brave New World

Markandaya: Nectar in a Sieve

Huston: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Steinbeck: Grapes of Wrath or Mice and Men

Williams: Glass Menagerie

Potok: The Chosen

Orwell: 1984

Salinger: Catcher in the Rye

Miller: Crucible

Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451

Fugard: Master Harold and the Boys

 

Oh, and I should mention that we were planning to adapt the Hewitt Modern World History syllabus to use with a text we had on hand.

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Thank you all so much!! There is a lot to look at. I was really mulling over using SL 300, but really for the Lit analysis and writing assignments...but if they are crummy...well...I maight as well just do my own thing.

 

I am off to check that thread Lori posted...thanks!

 

And thanks for the booklists...

 

~~Faithe

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Thank you all so much!! There is a lot to look at. I was really mulling over using SL 300, but really for the Lit analysis and writing assignments...but if they are crummy...well...I maight as well just do my own thing.

 

I am off to check that thread Lori posted...thanks!

 

And thanks for the booklists...

 

~~Faithe

 

I think this was the part Sonlight redid this year. They had the woman who wrote the Sonlight Brit Lit, write the literature and writing part for SL this year.

 

Veronica

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