HappyGrace Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 It can be history, lit, whatever. Feel free to include favorite (tame) movie/documentary choices too. Dd is 12 and pretty sensitive. She cried at a tame Holocaust story (A Cup of Cold Water) so I'll need to be careful with this time period! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cschnee Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 Rilla of Ingleside by LM Montgomery is a very nice novel about life on the home front (Canada) during WWI. Though one of the brothers does get killed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trafal Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 Have you ever read Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank? It takes place in a small town in Florida after a nuclear war in the 1950's. The tone of the book is serious but not IMO overly graphic or gruesome. One of the reasons I like this book is that the cold war period is not a popular setting / time period for literature. I'm old enough to remember the tail end of the cold war in the late '70's . When Reagan got elected I thought I would never live to graduate from Jr High . Of course, now I'm a total conservative:lol: Life's funny that way. At any rate, check out the book. It's a good read. http://www.amazon.com/Alas-Babylon-Pat-Frank/dp/0060741872/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1339887984&sr=1-1&keywords=alas+babylon Also, Sophie's Choice by William Styron You may remember the movie from the '80's with Meryl Streep. It is set in NYC immediately after WWII. http://www.amazon.com/Sophies-Choice-Modern-Library-William/dp/0679602895/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1339888120&sr=1-1&keywords=sophies+choice The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien This takes place in Vietnam. A powerful story but an important one. I suggest you preread this one since your daughter is sensitive. http://www.amazon.com/The-Things-They-Carried-OBrien/dp/0618706410/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1339888161&sr=1-1&keywords=the+things+they+carried HTH Trafal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZooRho Posted June 17, 2012 Share Posted June 17, 2012 Oh my there are way too many movies out there. We did quite a bit of movie watching and documentary watching for our 20th century study this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyGrace Posted June 17, 2012 Author Share Posted June 17, 2012 Thanks-I will check these out!:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiegirl Posted June 17, 2012 Share Posted June 17, 2012 We are doing Modern this year. Some of the books that my 13 yr. old will be reading is: The Innocence of Father Brown--Chesterton Perelandra (and the other two in this sci-fi series)--Lewis Rilla of Ingleside--Montgomery The Hiding Place--Corre Ten Boom The Cay Story of the Von Trapp Family Singers The Miracle Worker All Creatures Great and Small--Herriott 39 Steps--Buchan My side of the Mountain The Never Ending Story Christy Here is the list for my 11 yr. old. He will be reading some of the ones listed above as well as as these: LIttle Britches Poetry for Young People--Robert Frost War of the Worlds Call of the Wild Number the Stars Chronicles of Narnia The Hobbit Breadwinner Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted June 17, 2012 Share Posted June 17, 2012 Anne of Green Gables (and series) To Kill a Mockingbird The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Casablanca (the movie) Animal Farm Ok, that's 5 so I will stop now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted June 17, 2012 Share Posted June 17, 2012 Animal Farm would be one. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyGrace Posted June 18, 2012 Author Share Posted June 18, 2012 GREAT ideas-thank you so much!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybear Posted June 18, 2012 Share Posted June 18, 2012 If she is sensitive, I would be careful with Sophie's Choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted June 18, 2012 Share Posted June 18, 2012 Ditto on Sophie's Choice. Spoiler: The "choice" referred to in the title is when the mother, a holocaust survivor, first arrives in an extermination camp and has to choose which child to keep and which to let go to the gas chamber. This is told in a series of flashbacks. If I recall the story correctly, there is ultimately a suicide at the end of the story. It is quite an adult story and I wouldn't recommend it for a younger reader, especially one who is sensitive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted June 18, 2012 Share Posted June 18, 2012 It can be history, lit, whatever. Feel free to include favorite (tame) movie/documentary choices too. Dd is 12 and pretty sensitive. She cried at a tame Holocaust story (A Cup of Cold Water) so I'll need to be careful with this time period! Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (I think this is a great book for both depression era and intro to civil rights. The Road to Memphis is one of the sequels that I really enjoyed.) Children of Battleship Row (My favorite book about Pearl Harbor, hands down. It is the autobiography of a woman who lived as a girl on Ford Island and experienced the Pearl Harbor attacks.) The Endless Steppe or When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit for Europe in WW2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2_girls_mommy Posted June 18, 2012 Share Posted June 18, 2012 Little Women and the 1995 movie Number the Stars The Hiding Place (there is a movie too, but I haven't seen it yet..) Though this could be tough for a sensitive one too. To Kill a Mockingbird Thats a top 4. There are many other good ones on the lists. But of the ones listed, these are ones I for sure wouldn't miss. Documentaries: as many as possible on the presidents if not wars. The ones on presidents will tell about the wars during their time periods, but maybe not in so much detail as ones about the wars for your sensitive one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelBee Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 Taking notes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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