swimmermom3 Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 Anyone willing to share their favorite resources for ancient history. What did your dc love? What really sparked their interest: literature, hands-on, spines, movies, writing projects, and web sites? If you were doing it again, what would you do differently? Thanks, Lisa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChileMama Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 :lurk5: Check it out, you guys have taught me how to use the popcorn emoticon ;). We'll be doing ancient history next year as well. Since our homechooling year is most likely just a one-year gap year and she will repeat ancients to some extent in ps the following year, that's coloring my thoughts on what to teach. But (as I'm sure so many of you concur), even when they teach a subject in ps, there's so much they don't cover. I do want to have a series of compelling, challenging "read togethers" throughout the year, the center piece of which will be Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, but which will also include Clan of the Cave Bear (part), Wanderings: A History of the Jews, and junior versions of the Iliad and Odyssey, plus perhaps Meeting G-d (about Hinudism and Hindu worship), along with Bible reading when the SOW chapter is a modified Bible story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauracolumbus Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 We will be using Memoria Press' Famous Men of Greece and Rome as well as D'Aulaires and some of the retellings of Homer, Aeneid, etc. I haven't gone thru the Famous Men stuff yet to see what's missing, but am hoping to get more philosophy in. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swimmermom3 Posted June 14, 2009 Author Share Posted June 14, 2009 :lurk5: Anyone else? I would so hate to miss anything:tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 I have been considering either SOTW with AG, tests and Knowledge Quest maps or History Portfolio http://www.homeschooljourney.com/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacy in NJ Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 (edited) My 5th grader will use SOTW I (read independently) with the AG as his spine. His Lit reading will be: Gilgamesh the Hero Egyptian Myths In Search of a Homeland Blackships Before Troy The Wanderings of Odysseus D'Aulaires' Greek Myths He'll also be reading selections not related to history. My 7th grader will use A Little History of the World, Augustus Caesar's World, and Learning Through History Magazines as spines. His Lit reading will be: Gilgamesh the Hero Egyptian Myths The Golden Goblet The Children's Homer Archimedes and the Door of Science Adventures of the Greek Hero's In Seach of a Homeland The Bronze Bow The Eagle of the 9th Young Reader's Shakespeare; Julius Caesar A Single Shard Our geography will be from Ellen McHenry's program. We'll also use the Drive Thru History DVD's as enrichment. HTH, Stacy Edited June 14, 2009 by Stacy in NJ more info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soph the vet Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 We'll be doing a lot of what has already been mentioned...Famous Men, Victor Journey through the Bible, the literature selections, but also the Cultural Atlases for Young People: Rome, Greece, Egypt. We are following Biblioplan Ancients which includes SOTW1 and I'll have my eldest do more outlining this time around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willowcreek Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 Story of Mankind by Van Loon fascinated my oldest, and we are using History Odyssey for anciencts which will use that as the spine for my fifth grader, along with Tales from Ancient Egypt (Roger Lancelyn Green), some others listed in the previous reply and some Olivia Coolidge (which may be read-alouds). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Time4tea Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 Story of Mankind by Van Loon fascinated my oldest, and we are using History Odyssey for anciencts which will use that as the spine for my fifth grader, along with Tales from Ancient Egypt (Roger Lancelyn Green), some others listed in the previous reply and some Olivia Coolidge (which may be read-alouds). What age would you say is appropriate for Story of Mankind? I have a 6th grader that's never done Ancients and never done outlines! Trying not to panic here. Thanks, ~Tea~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagira Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 (edited) My big picture plan is to use: K12's History Odyssey Volume 1: Prehistory through the Middle Ages Landmark's Pharaohs of Egypt Story of the Greeks Story of the Romans Genevieve Foster biographies The Golden Goblet and other historical fiction Stacy in NJ mentioned Edited June 14, 2009 by sagira Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matryoshka Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 For spines, I'm planning on: K12's Human Odyssey vol. 1 The World in Ancient Times series Then, lots and lots of myths, historical fiction, biographies, documentaries, and field trips (mostly to the art museum - not a lot of ancient stuff around here outside of that). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 I'll list some of the books mine really liked this past year. I was surprised that he got so into many of the personalities that most of the reports he wrote were about individuals, rather than other aspects of the various cultures we studied. Painters of the Caves, P. Lauber Ten Kings.... Milton Meltzer, read about various personalities all year To Ride the Gods’ Own Stallion, Diane Wilson Gilgamesh the King, The Revenge of Ishtar, The Last Quest of Gilgamesh, all by Ludmila Zeman (simpler, but LOVE them) Ishtar and Tammuz: A Babylonian Book of the Seasons, Christopher Moore The Golden Goblet, Eloise Jarvis McGraw Video: Macaulay - Pyramid God's People: Stories from the Old Testament, Geraldine McCaughrean The Mysterious Visitor: Stories of the Prophet Elijah, Nina Jaffe The Passover Journey: A Seder Companion, Barbara Diamond Goldin Favorite Fairy Tales Told in India, Virginia Haviland The Prince Who Gave up a Throne, Nancy Serage Buddha, Demi Buddha, Susan L. Roth Ice Mummy, Dubowski The Mystery of Stonehenge, Harriette Abels Skara Brae: The Story of a Prehistoric Village, Olivier Dunrea Troubadour's Storybag: Musical Folktales of the World, Norma J. Livo Crete: Land of Mystery, Leonard Cottrell In Search of Ancient Crete, Piero Ventura, et al The Ancient World: The Phoenicians, Pamela Odijk Video: Legacy of Ancient Civilizations: Carthage and the Phoenicians Growing up Maasai, Tom Shachtman DK Pop-up, Pull-out Mummy D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths Arabian Nights CD, Jim Weiss The Seven Wise Princesses, Wafa' Tarnowska Shadow Spinner, Susan Fletcher, on tape (Arabian Nights) Arabian Nights, Junior Illustrated Classics library The Legend of Lord Eight Deer: An Epic of Ancient Mexico, Pohl Prehistoric North America: The People, Robert Pickering Hands of the Maya, Rachel Crandell Angela Weaves a Dream, Michele Sola' The Mound Builders, William E. Scheele Talking Bones, William O. Steele Cities in the Sand, Scott Warren Archimedes Takes a Bath, Lexau Archimedes and the Door of Science, Jeanne Bendick Galen and the Gateway to Medicine, Bendick DK Legend of a Warrior King: Alexander the Great The Ancient Greece of Odysseus, Connolly The Trojan War, Olivia Coolidge (Fabulous!) The Adventures of Ulysses, Claybourne (Usborne) Usborne Tales of the Trojan War The Librarian who Measured the Earth, Kathryn Lasky (simple, but we hadn't read it earlier) The Nemean Lion, Bernard Evslin (caution with all Evslin books) The Greek Hoplite, Martin Windrow The Greek Armies, Peter Connolly Conquerer and Hero: The Search for Alexander, Stephen Krensky Black Ships Before Troy, Rosemary Sutcliff Bullfinch’s Mythology (both Greek and Roman) Aesop’s Fables Chinese Myths and Legends, O.B. Duane and N. Hutchinson Confucius: The Golden Rule, Russell Freedman Rome in cross-section, Biesty The Roman Fort, Connolly The Cavalryman, Connolly The Legionary, Connolly The Parthenon, Chrisp The Traveler’s Guide to Ancient Rome, Malam Rome, Sheehan and Levy The Colosseum, Chrisp Eyewitness Ancient Rome Hannibal, Green Usborne Roman World DK Revealed Ancient Rome Augustus Caesar's World (good wrap-up) The Eagle of the Ninth, Rosemary Sutcliff The Hydra, Bernard Evslin The Silver Branch, Rosemary Sutcliff The Calydonian Boar, Bernard Evslin Lives of Famous Romans, Olivia Coolidge A Roman Fort, Fiona Macdonald The Furies, Bernard Evslin Medusa, Bernard Evslin Macaulay's City The Celts, Hazel Martell Beowulf, Rebsamen The Anglo-Saxons, BBC Factfinder Tristan and Iseult, Rosemary Sutcliff (Mature content) Myths and Civilization of the Celts, Hazel Mary Martell The Other World: Myths of the Celts, Margaret Hodges (very good) The Mouth of the Night, Iris Macfarlane The Bronze Bow, Elizabeth George Spear Eyewitness Bible Lands A Glorious Past: Ancient Egypt, Ethiopia and Nubia, Ernestine Jenkins Read some chapters from the first volume of A History or US, Hakim The Enchanted Caribou, Elizabeth Cleaver Building an Igloo, Ulli Steltzer The Dancing Fox: Arctic Folktales, John Bierhorst Pyramid of the Sun, Pyramid of the Moon, Leonard Fisher City of the Gods:Mexico's Ancient City of Teotihuacan, Caroline Arnold The Story of Comock the Eskimo, Robert Flaherty (primary source) Land of the Five Suns (Aztecs), Kay McManus Clamshell Boy: A Makah Legend, Terri Cohlene Inuit, Bryan and Cherry Alexander The Makah, Jeanne O. Eder Art of the Far North, Carol Finley This Place is Lonely, Vicki Cobb Hawaiian Myths of Earth, Sea and Sky, Vivian L. Thompson The Warrior and the Wise Man, David Wisniewski Pompeii, Connolly Masada, Waldman Cleopatra: The Queen of Kings, MacDonald The Story of Masada, Yadin Usborne Roman Soldier’s Handbook read excerpts from Plutarch's Lives read from Young Folks' Josephus I also used 3 different collections of world mythology all year for much of his reading. I'm happy to list those if you are interested. The main set is by Geraldine Maccaughrean and includes the Silver Treasure, Bronze Cauldron, Crystal Pool, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swimmermom3 Posted June 15, 2009 Author Share Posted June 15, 2009 Thank you everyone for sharing your resources. Some of the things I have lined up, I am pleased with. There are other areas that I am ...well, disgruntled with. That's where I really appreciate your experienced suggestions. I am considering four different encyclopedias for a spine, or at the least, outlining. I've looked at series like The World in Ancient Times. I can see using 1 or 2 but I don't know if I want to use 5 or so. I have SOTW and I like the story-telling aspect, but the jumping around can make in-depth studies of an area difficult. I have text-books, ugh! Can you do this without a spine as long as you are running a time line along with the studies? Or is that a question for another thread?:tongue_smilie: I also used 3 different collections of world mythology all year for much of his reading. I'm happy to list those if you are interested. The main set is by Geraldine Maccaughrean and includes the Silver Treasure, Bronze Cauldron, Crystal Pool, etc. Yes please, Regena. I would love to hear what collections you are using. My ds enjoys myths and folk tales more than historical fiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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