PinkInTheBlue Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 We are doing American History this year. The big boys just finished My Brother Sam is Dead. I chose it because I pre-scanned it and liked it, it was pretty small and seemed to be a good introduction. They are interested in more early American fiction. Do you have any suggestions for anything from early American discovery through the events of the American Revolution? I need to make a decision and make the purchases by Monday. Thank you! -- They are 14 - 12yr old boys with good reading levels. I like the possibility of matching it up with an Audible recording to read and hear simultaneously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 For Canadian exploration and discovery, I like The Broken Blade. We are reading a couple of James Houston's books, too: The Falcon Bow is an Inuit legend. (He also wrote Tika Liktak....) There are several biographies of Pocahontas that are good. I like one by Joseph Bruchac that we've been reading. It has a chapter from the English perspective then a chapter from the Native perspective, etc.... We've started out the year reading about seafaring men, both voyagers and pirates, too, with reading Gulliver's Travels, Treasure Island, listening to a recording of Dark Frigate, etc. I'm not home right now so I can't look at my list of books we'll be covering when we get more into the colonial period in a week or so, sorry.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 My top suggestions for you: - The King's Fifth (1500s Spanish New World explorers) - Walk The World's Rim (1500s Spanish New World explorers) - Johnny Tremain (American Revolution) - Legend of Sleepy Hollow (set just after American Revolution) - Rip Van Winkle (set just after American Revolution) - Carry On Mr. Bowditch (1790s sailing/navigation) American Historical Fiction (boy or girl protagonist in parenthesis) New World Explorers (in what is now SW U.S.) - The King's Fifth (boy) - Walk The World's Rim (boy) Colonial - Amos Fortune (boy) - Indian Captive (girl) - I Am Regina (girl) - The Witch of Blackbird Pond (girl) - Calico Bush (girl) American Revolution - Johnny Tremain (boy) Post Revolution to Lewis & Clark (1803) - The Journeyman (either) - Carry On Mr. Bowditch (boy) -- self-taught, a young man makes a number of sea voyages and advances the science of navigation - Justin Morgan Had a Horse (either) - Swift Rivers (boy) -- Lewis & Clarke - Streams to the River, River to the Sea (girl) -- Lewis & Clarke, with focus on Sacajewea Classic Early American Literature set in Colonial America - House of Seven Gables (Hawthorne) -- novel - The Minister's Black Veil (Hawthorne) -- short story - Last of the Mohicans (Cooper) -- novel - Evangeline (Longfellow) -- story-length poem - Song of Hiawatha (Longfellow) -- story-length poem set just after the American Revolution - Rip Van Winkle (Irving) - short story - Legend of Sleep Hollow (Irving) - short story Classic Colonial Biographies - Narrative of the Life of David Crockett - Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alphabetika Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Whatever you do, don't miss Johnny Tremain. It's fabulous, IMHO one of the best historical novels ever written. That is all. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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