workingmom Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 DS 10th grade is taking World History this year, wanted to synch some of the in-depth reading/literature discussions with books written in that time period or about that. Any suggestions for a high schooler level reading. I need 3-5 literature books. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RegularMom Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 Can you specify which time period in world history you're covering? Or is it the entire world history in one survey course? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
workingmom Posted August 15, 2015 Author Share Posted August 15, 2015 3500BC to 1500 CE these are the topics in the course description Major topics of Advanced World History A: •Becoming human •Rivers, Cities and First states (3500 – 2500 BCE) •Nomads, territorial states and microsocieties (2000 -1200 BCE) •First empires and common cultures in Afro-Eurasia (1250– 325 BCE) •Worlds turned inside out (1000 - 350 BCE) •The shrinking afro-eurasian world (350 CE – 250 CE) •Han Dynasty and Imperial Rome (300 BCE – 300 CE) •Rise of universal religions (300 – 600 CE) •New empires and common cultures (600 – 1000 CE) •Becoming ‘The World’ (1000 – 1300 CE) •Crises and recovery in Afro-Eurasia (1300 – 1500 CE) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RegularMom Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 In choosing three to five selections from this time frame, I'd probably go for the major classics, like: Gilgamesh Homer's Illiad and/or Odyssey Virgil's Aeneid Beowulf The Canterbury Tales Check the great books list in WTM for a more complete list to choose from, if these aren't to taste. HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin M Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 We are also doing World History using Worlds Together, Worlds Apart Vol B as the spine which is 1300 bc to present. James has spent the last year studying primary the German side of wwII on his own so we have lots of wwII books, some of which he hasn't read yet so spreading throughout the year. More non fiction than fiction. We read Inside Hitler's Bunker together which was interesting. He read William Osborne's Hitler's Secret (fiction), Patton biography by Alan Axelrod and Neal Bascomb's The Nazi Hunters (ya book) as well as Bill O'Reilly's Killing Patton and Hitler's Last Days; On tap for this year is a broad mixture for him to choose from but still wwII heavy. So looking forward to other suggestions The Boy in the Striped Pajama (fiction) The Bridge over the River Kwai, (fiction), Prisoner of Zenda Odyssey, The Yanks are Coming (WWI - Marin) Code Talker - Joseph Bruchac Rocket Boys - Home Hickam Victory in the Pacific - Marin Turn Right at Machu Picchu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
workingmom Posted August 17, 2015 Author Share Posted August 17, 2015 thanks for the suggestions. i like hitting the classics idea. we'll do odyssey first. he did gilgamesh, beuwolf, canterbury tales in an elementary form when he was younger. any lit guide suggestions for odyssey for a high school level Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 We are also doing World History using Worlds Together, Worlds Apart Vol B as the spine which is 1300 bc to present. ... On tap for this year is a broad mixture for him to choose from but still wwII heavy. So looking forward to other suggestions .... Hello Robin, I'll copy a lengthy previous post in case you find some of it of interest. It pertains to only a small slice of the time period that your son will be studying. We came to homeschooling when my daughter was in 7th grade. In 9th grade, she was doing her final year of a three year sweep through world history. I did not include materials used in her course descriptions though many choose to do otherwise. I incorporated many of those books in the reading list that was part of her application materials. Here are her course descriptions for World History and World Literature that year. World History from 1700 to 2000 This reading-based course covers world-changing events of the 18th through 20th centuries which have shaped our culture today; it complements the associated Literature course (listed above) by giving the student a context for the literature studied. The course also includes musical recordings, documentaries, and videos of or about the time. Map work and short writing assignments are required. (Class taken at home in 9th grade.) Awarded 1.00 credits. World Literature from 1700 to 2000 A study of 18th through 20th century short stories and novels with the intent of familiarizing the student with selected literary works of enduring quality. This interdisciplinary course (see the associated History course below) allows the student to explore this time period by reading its literature while also studying its historical context. (Class taken at home in 9th grade.) Awarded 0.50 credits. (She did several other things that year for language arts, so I only gave 0.50 credits for the above.) And here are the materials she used in 9th grade for those two subjects: 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 Poor Richard’s Almanack by Benjamin Franklin George Washington, Spymaster by Thomas B. Allen Tomaso Albinoni – 12 Concerti a cinque Op. 5 Roots by Alex Haley (to p. 126) Georg Philipp Telemann – Suite A Minor, 2 Double Concertos (Michala Petri, Academy of St. Martin-in-the Fields) Amadeus (video) "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift George Washington’s World by Genevieve Foster The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy I Will Repay by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Eldorado by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Sir Percy Hits Back by Baroness Emmuska Orczy The Scarlet Pimpernel (three part video, BBC) Carl Friedrich Abel – Symphonies Op. 10, numbers 1 – 6, La Stagione Francesco Geminiani – 12 Concerti Grossi, I Musici The Art of the Fugue by Bach, Emerson String Quartet Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Longitude (video, A&E) C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower (set of 8 videos, A&E) Lock, Stock, and Barrel by Donald Sobol Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphonies 5 in C Minor, Op. 67, and 6 in F Major, Op. 68, Pastoral "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Cartouche (video) Joseph Haydn – String Quartets, Op. 17, Nos. 1, 2, and 4, Kodaly Quartet Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (translated by Norman Denny) The New Nation by Joy Hakim A Tale of Two Cities (video) Georges Bizet – Carmen Suites No. 1 and No. 2; L’Arlesienne Suites No. 1 and No. 2, Leonard Bernstein Adolphe Adam – Giselle, conducted by Richard Bonynge, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 4 “Romanticâ€, conducted by Eugen Jochum, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Men-of-War: Life in Nelson's Navy by Patrick O'Brian Young Frankenstein (video) Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (video with Kenneth Branagh) Lily Afshar -- A Jug of Wine and Thou (Persian music) Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith Master and Commander (video) Chamber Works by Women Composers, The Macalester Trio Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg Wassail! Wassail! Early American Christmas Music by the Revels "An Occurrence at the Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce Stephen Foster’s Civil War Songs (sung by Linda Russell) 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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