Luckymama Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 (edited) I've been creating a list of resources to use alongside K12's Human Odyssey Vol 1: Prehistory Through the Middle Ages which I'd like to share :001_smile: By doing so, I hope that others will list their favorite resources too ;) Some brief points: --I've only gone through the "ancient history" sections first, parts 1-3 of 4. I will get to part 4 once I've got the rest of our subjects planned. --I will be using mostly/all secular materials. --The books I've listed are available from my library system or we already own them. I'm sure there are a gazillion fabulous books out there but if I can't get my hands on them easily, they aren't on my lists :D --I will be adding on to this post in sections, so check back later. --I don't know how to easily do nifty links to show you the books on Amazon (like some great posters do) but I will give you the ISBNs. The main resource I will be using is The World in Ancient Times series from Oxford Press (oops no ISBNs sorry). I've matched up the chapters from HO with the various Ancient Times books: Part 1 Chapter 1: How Civilized! Chapter 2: Unearthing Sumer Chapter 3: Working...in Sumer-----------The Ancient Near Eastern World Ch 2, 3, 12-15 Chapter 4: Honoring the Gods------------The Ancient Near Eastern World Ch 5, 6, 9 Chapter 5: Passing it on-----------------The Ancient Near Eastern World Ch 4, 7 Chapter 6: The Sun Sets on Sumer-------The Ancient Near Eastern World Ch 8 (Sargon), 10 (Hammurabi), 11 (court system) Chapter 7: Neb's Babylon----------------The Ancient Near Eastern World Ch 22 Chapter 8: Egypt------------------------The Ancient Egyptian World all Chapter 9: Three Pharaohs--------------The Ancient Egyptian World all Chapter 10: India and China-------------The Ancient South Asian World Ch 1-10 (Indus), The Ancient Chinese World Ch 1-5 (through Shong) Part 2 Chapter 1: Confucius--------------------The Ancient Chinese World Ch 6, 7, 10 Chapter 2: The Confucian Legacy--------The Ancient Chinese World Ch 13-20 (up to Silk Road) Chapter 3: The Birth of Hinduism---------The Ancient South Asian World Ch 13 Chapter 4: The Life of the Buddha--------The Ancient South Asian World Ch 14, The Ancient Chinese World Ch 23 Chapter 5: The Buddha's Teaching...-----same as Chapter 4 Chapter 6: A Chosen People--------------The Ancient Near Eastern World Ch 18, 19 Chapter 7: The People of the Law--------The Ancient Near Eastern World Ch 20 Chapter 8: The Greeks and nature--------The Ancient Greek World Ch 1-4 Chapter 9: The Greek Celebration of Man--The Ancient Greek World Ch 5, 7 (city-states), 18 (Olympics), 19 (art) Part 3 Chapter 1: Two Greek City-States--------The Ancient Greek World Ch 8, 12 Chapter 2: Defending Greece-------------The Ancient Greek World Ch 13, 15 Chapter 3: The Age of Pericles-----------The Ancient Greek World Ch 14, 20 Chapter 4: A Fall, A Rise...---------------The Ancient Greek World Ch 16, 21-26 Chapter 5: The Roman Republic-----------The Ancient Roman World Ch 1-5 Chapter 6: Rome Rising...-----------------The Ancient Roman World Ch 5, 6 Chapter 7: Days of Empire----------------The Ancient Roman World Ch10, 11, 13, 17-20 Chapter 8: Judea and the Rise of...-------The Ancient Roman World Ch 23 Chapter 9: Spread of Christianity---------The Ancient Roman World Ch 24 Chapter 10: Rome on the Wane-----------The Ancient Roman World Ch 14, 25, 26 Sumer/Mesopotamia: Fiction: The Golden Bull Marjorie Cowley, 206p, 2008 (9781580891813) Gilgamesh the Hero Geraldine McCaughrean, 95p, 2003 (0802852629) Nonfiction: National Geographic Investigates Ancient Iraq: archeology unlocks the secrets of Iraq's past Beth Gruber, 64p, 2007 (0792253833) Ancient Near East Learning Through History magazine issue Sumer and its City-States Calliope magazine issue Assyrians Calliope magazine issue Ancient Egypt: Fiction: Egyptian Diary: the Journal of Nakht Richard Platt, 2005 (0763627569) Mara, Daughter of the Nile Eloise Jarvis McGraw, 279p (0140319298) The Golden Goblet Eloise Jarvis McGraw Rise of the Golden Cobra Henry Aubin, 255p (1554510600) Cleopatra VII, Daughter of the Nile (Royal Diaries) Kristiana Gregory, 221p, 1999 (0590819755) The Egypt Game Zilpha Keatley Snyder Nonfiction: Great Egypt Projects You Can Build Yourself Carmella Van Vleet, 122p, 2006 (0977129454) Pyramid David Macaulay (0395214076) The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone James Cross Giblin, 1990 (0690047975) A Visitor's Guide to Ancient Egypt (Usborne Time Tours) Lesley Sims National Geographic Investigates Ancient Egypt Jill Rubalcaba, 64p, 2007 (0792278577) Ancient Egypt Learning Through History magazine issue Tomb Builders Calliope magazine issue The Pyramids and Egypt's Old Kingdom Calliope magazine issue Alexandria under the Ptolemies Calliope magazine issue Taharqo, Ruler of Nubia and Egypt Calliope magazine issue Cleopatra Calliope magazine issue Ancient India: Nonfiction: National Geographic Investigates Ancient India Anita Dalal, 64p, 2007 (1426300700) Ancient China: Fiction: Between the Dragon and the Eagle Mical Schneider, 151p, 1997 (0876146493) Nonfiction: Great Ancient China Projects You Can Build Yourself Lance Kramer Ancient China Learning Through History magazine issue Confucius and Confucianism Calliope magazine issue The Silk Road Calliope magazine issue Edited July 15, 2010 by Luckymama up to China Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt_Uhura Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 WOW you've been busy! I enjoyed reading The Ancient Near Eastern World. Thank you for aligning the chapters. :001_smile: You've hit on most of my other supplements such as the Learning Through History Magazine. I have a book, I"m not at home so I can't look it up...titled something like "A Tale from Ancient Sumer." It's supposed to be the oldest known written story. Here it is. http://www.amazon.com/City-Rainbows-Tale-Ancient-Sumer/dp/0924171707/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279201164&sr=8-1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 Nifty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenNC Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 Here are the things I've gotten set up so far (need to coordinate with the above, thanks!). If last year is an indication, we won't use everything, and I am not sure if some of this comes from others' previous posts (if so, thanks!). I'll be using the Kingfisher history encyclopedia and Mythology of the World as well. This is a preliminary list, I need to do a lot more work on it. HO unit 2 Step into the Stone Age DK Early Humans Discovery Channel’s Ultimate Guide: Iceman http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/iceman/iceman.html Virtual tour of cave paintings http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/cavepaintings/cavepaintings.htm Cave of chauvet-pont-d’arc http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/index.html Lascaux http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en Cave paintings of india http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/rockpain Aboriginal cave paintings in Australia http://www.eniar.org/news/painting.html Unit 3 http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/ziggurats/home_set.html http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/writing/home_set.html Ludmilla Zeman Epic of Gilgamesh trilogy A concept album of the Epic of Gilgamesh by Tony Garone (great!) http://www.garone.net/tony/gilgamesh.html You be the judge on Hammurabi’s code http://www.phillipmartin.info/hammurabi/hammurabi_situation_index.htm 24 exciting plays for world history classes Catalog.socialstudies.com/c/@VQnx2CqNzyY7E/Pages/article.html?article@JWW951A 7 wonders of the ancient world http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sunken/wonders play Ur: Royal Game of Sumer (we have a copy) Unit 4 Ancient Egypt (Usborne) Living History: Pyramids of Ancient Egypt David Macauley Pyramid Pyramid challenge http://www.bbc.co.uk/ancient/egyptians/pyramid_builder_game.shtml Evolution of the alphabet http://www.cedarland.org/alpha.html Phoenician script http://www.jaars.org/museum/alphabet/scripts/phoen.htm Read Mara Daughter of the Nile, The Golden Goblet, Green's Tales of Ancient Egypt Daily life in ancient Egypt http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/egypt/dailylife/dailylife.html Opening of tut’s tomb http://www.nationalgeographic.com/egypt Nova birth of the Himalayas http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/everest/earth/birth/html Complete guide to the Indus civilization http://pubweb.cc.u-tokai.ac.jp/indus/english/index.html Unit 6 Buddhist chanting http://www.buddhanet.net/audio-chant.htm Unit 7 DK Illustrated Children's Bible Holy Land Treasure Chest Eyewitness: Bible Lands Unit 7 Drawing History: Ancient Greece Magnifications: An Ancient Greek Temple The Children's Homer The Children's Herodotus The Golden Fleece and Heroes who lived before Achilles Ancient Greece Treasure Chest Unit 8 Archimedes and the Door of Science Unit 9 a kit called Pandora's Box Socrates and the Three Little Pigs Wise Guy (book on Socrates) Unit 10 Drawing History: Ancient Rome Gods and Goddesses in the Everyday Life of Ancient Romans Ancient Rome sourcebook (World Teacher's Press) Rome in Cross-Section Lives of Famous Romans Heroes and Warriors: Boudicea Queen of the Celts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellyndria Posted July 18, 2010 Share Posted July 18, 2010 Oh, wow. This is making me all excited, and my child is only 5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancer67 Posted July 18, 2010 Share Posted July 18, 2010 THIS IS GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks so much for taking the time to do this. I am so excited to use this with my daughter this year. She loves this book to.:lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtnTeaching Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 This is awesome. Has anyone seen anything out there like this for the second K12 Human Odyssey book?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swimmermom3 Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 What a wonderful list of resources! One thing to be aware of is that both K12 and The World in Ancient Times are extensive resources on their own. Also, there are so many fabulous projects and activities to choose from that if you are not careful, history will quickly take more time than your other subjects put together. Unless you are extremely familiar with all of the content in your major spines, you'll have redundancy. The kids might be okay with the information the first two times, but by the third time, you'll lose them. Be flexible and know when enough is enough. You have put so much effort into your planning; I am sure it will be a fantastic year. Lisa ~ who had resources for ancient history coming out of her ears and used a third of them:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenNC Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 What a wonderful list of resources! One thing to be aware of is that both K12 and The World in Ancient Times are extensive resources on their own. Also, there are so many fabulous projects and activities to choose from that if you are not careful, history will quickly take more time than your other subjects put together. Unless you are extremely familiar with all of the content in your major spines, you'll have redundancy. The kids might be okay with the information the first two times, but by the third time, you'll lose them. Be flexible and know when enough is enough. You have put so much effort into your planning; I am sure it will be a fantastic year. Lisa ~ who had resources for ancient history coming out of her ears and used a third of them:D That's what happened for us last year. I basically listed all the options I had for each lesson in the planning phase, then got a better idea of how it would flow as we went along. That meant a lot of crossing out :) but I liked having all the options in one place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swimmermom3 Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 That's what happened for us last year. I basically listed all the options I had for each lesson in the planning phase, then got a better idea of how it would flow as we went along. That meant a lot of crossing out :) but I liked having all the options in one place. You are a smart woman! That's what I am working towards this year. Instead of a specific week planned for a specific topic, I have a topic per page listed, for example, the Byzantine Empire, and all of the resources available to me. I highlight assignments that work on target goals so I am sure to include them. Then I can reshuffle the order or topics when I make a final decision and do the crossing out you mentioned. I made the tables in Word and I wish I had made them in Excel for ease of moving between topics which is how I do my yearly plan.:tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparkle Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Where were you last year when I was doing Vol. 1 with my ds? :glare: J/K :) This looks like a great list. I'm going to copy it and save it for when I do Vol. 1 again in a few years with dd. Thanks for all your work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenNC Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Where were you last year when I was doing Vol. 1 with my ds? :glare: J/K :) This looks like a great list. I'm going to copy it and save it for when I do Vol. 1 again in a few years with dd. Thanks for all your work! Be sure to clue us in on any suggestions you have for the latter part of vol. 1 or for vol. 2. Never too early to get started on next year!;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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