Chris in PA Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 Hi all! My dd is in 10th grade. We have used TOG year 4 in 8th grade and then switched to Notgrass World history for 9th grade. She will be doing Notgrass American history this year. My problem is this. She never finished the World History text (didn't even get to WWI) and when we did TOG in 8th grade she only got to WWII). This was more my fault than hers. I kept trying to fine tune things hoping she would somehow enjoy it (she really dislikes history). But that never happened. I would like have her study modern history from WWI-present. Does anyone have some resources they could recommend for a child who doesn't care much for history. Ideally I would like to spend a semester on it so she could earn a half credit. TIA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 In 9th grade, we used a hodgepodge when my daughter covered that time period while studying 1700 to 2000. Here are some resources (non-fiction, literature, videos and music) that we used that cover the 20th century: World History the Easy Way, Volume 2 by Charles Frazee American History the Easy Way by William Kellogg World History Map Activities by Marvin Scott The Century for Young People by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster Critical Thinking in United States History, Book Four, Spanish-American War to Vietnam War by Kevin O’Reilly *** Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake and Nutcracker, Berliner Philharmoniker, Mstislav Rostropovich conducting Winsor McCay: The Master Edition (The Sinking of the Lusitania) Claude Debussy: La Mer, Nocturnes, Jeux, The Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez conducting The Battleship Potemkin (video) “Broadway, Blues, and Truth†from RESPECT: A Century of Women in Music Botchan by Soseki Natsume (translated by Umeji Sasaki) Many Lives, Many Stories by Kathryn Abbott and Patricia Minter Witness by Karen Hesse Influenza 1918 (video from PBS) New Orleans Rhythm Kings and Jelly Roll Morton Antarctica by Walter Dean Myers War Game by Michael Foreman Mao Tse-Tung and His China by Albert Marrin “The Butcher Boyâ€, “The Garage†and “Rough House†from The Best Arbuckle Keaton Collection (video) Fluffy Ruffle Girls: Women in Ragtime All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque Charles A. Lindbergh: A Human Hero by James Cross Giblin Inherit the Wind (video) Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw All Quiet on the Western Front (video) The Depression and New Deal by Robert McElvaine Cabaret (video) Radio Comedy Classics: Jack Benny Program and Fred Allen Show Surviving Hitler by Andrea Warren Maus I and Maus II by Art Spiegelman Rabbit-Proof Fence (video) The Verse by the Side of the Road by Frank Ransome, Jr. Elvis Presley title album Aaron Copland, Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, Billy the Kid, Fanfare for the Common Man (New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein) 1940s House (video) Diary of Anne Frank North to Freedom by Anne Holm Shane (video) Frank Sinatra, Come Swing with Me Animal Farm by George Orwell The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi Ed Sullivan’s Rock and Roll Classics, Volume 8: Legends of Rock (video) Beatles, Beatles for Sale Atomic Café (video) Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited “I Have a Dream†by Martin Luther King, Jr. All the President's Men (video) Forrest Gump (video) Judy Collins, Whales and Nightingales Hair (video) The Vietnam War by Marilyn B. Young, John J. Fitzgerald and A. Tom Grunfeld Singers and Songwriters, 1974-1975 Good Morning, Vietnam (video) Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis The Mouse that Roared by Leonard Wibberley The Mouse that Roared (video) Abba, The Definitive Collection W;t by Margaret Edson W;t (video) Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Fax from Sarajevo by Joe Kubert U2, Achtung Baby A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janie Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 All these Idiot's books are interesting. They make history fascinating for those who aren't history people. This one is currently oop (it goes and comes). Buy used and save more. Throw in some map requirements and some historical fiction from a bona fide living book list. And you've got what you need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in PA Posted August 9, 2008 Author Share Posted August 9, 2008 We have that as it was used with TOG year 4. I think we will go with that and I will use the list from Kareni to choose extras from. Thanks ladies! You're awesome! :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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