Runningmom80 Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 Title kind of says it all. I'm looking to add some literature selections to The Big History Project. I have a giant list of non-fiction supplements, so now I'm looking for some fiction that would compliment the project. TIA! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kendall Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 What time period? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theelfqueen Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 What about something like Micheners Alaska that starts with prehistory and moves forward in that location (Or Sarum can't think of the author) Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TracyP Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 I'm having a hard time thinking of anything at the high school level. Hopefully somebody else has some ideas. We are doing BHP this year, and I decided to do World Lit for our English credit. I chose that because it has the same big picture feel even though it isn't directly tied to BHP units. You could consider that if you don't find exactly what you are looking for. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nixpix5 Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 I am not familiar with the BHP but if you jump over to veritas press and take a look at their Omnibus levels (1-6) they have primary and secondary reading lists for their history and the secondary reading lists might have something on it worth checking out. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runningmom80 Posted August 28, 2017 Author Share Posted August 28, 2017 I'm having a hard time thinking of anything at the high school level. Hopefully somebody else has some ideas. We are doing BHP this year, and I decided to do World Lit for our English credit. I chose that because it has the same big picture feel even though it isn't directly tied to BHP units. You could consider that if you don't find exactly what you are looking for. This makes a lot of sense! I was also having a hard time finding high school level, and I'm not getting many ideas from other forums either. I think it's a tough ask. I like the idea of World Lit, I think I should go that route. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yvonne Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 (edited) I'm not familiar with the Big History Project, but maybe you could get some ideas from these lists? 36 Books That Changed the World Books That Have Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life Edited August 28, 2017 by yvonne 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runningmom80 Posted August 28, 2017 Author Share Posted August 28, 2017 I'm not familiar with the Big History Project, but maybe you could get some ideas from these lists? 36 Books That Changed the World Books That Have Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life This is an excellent idea. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 (edited) Hmmm... I think it is a bit tough to match up classic literature (novels, short stories, poetry, plays) with a science-based program that covers so much "big picture" and pre-human-history topics... So much of Literature is about the human condition and what it means to be human. I would probably suggest going with something like one of these options, which starts with not worrying about matching or complimenting The Big History Project 😉 : go with a good Lit. program that covers a variety of types of works (novels, novellas, short stories, poetry, plays; and works in different genres from authors of different time periods/cultures/locations): * Excellence in Literature * Essentials in Literature * Illuminating Literature * Lightning Literature * Oak Meadow (etc.) read through authors and works most commonly alluded to in movies, books, and culture:* books from the Bible * Greek epics & myths * King Arthur works * Shakespeare plays * etc. choose works from the most commonly-read works in high school21 Classics You Probably Read in High SchoolLiterary Pursuit: Top 10 Most-Taught Books in High School 30 Books Most Commonly Covered in High School:*The Iliad (Homer) and/or The Odyssey (Homer)*Shakespeare plays (a tragedy and a comedy)*Pride and Prejudice (Austen)*Frankenstein (Shelley)*Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights (Bronte)*The Scarlet Letter or The House of Seven Gables (Hawthorne)*a short story by Edgar Allen Poe*Moby Dick or Billy Budd or Bartleby the Scrivner (Melville)*Alice's Adventures in Wonderland*Great Expectations or Tale of Two Cities or David Copperfield or A Christmas Carol (Dickens)*The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain)*Treasure Island (Stevenson)*The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson)*The Red Badge of Courage (Crane)*Call of the Wild (London)*All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque)*The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)*Brave New World (Huxley)*Animal Farm (Orwell)*1984 (Orwell)*Lord of the Rings trilogy (Tolkien)*Catcher in the Rye (Salinger)*The Old Man and the Sea or A Farewell to Arms or a short story (Hemingway)*To Kill A Mockingbird (Lee)*The Grapes of Wrath or Of Mice and Men or The Pearl (Steinbeck)*The Diary of Anne Frank (Frank)*Lord of the Flies (Goldman)*Death of a Salesman (Miller) or *Cry the Beloved Country (Paten) or Things Fall Apart (Achebe)*Farenheit 451 (Bradbury) choose from a college-bound reading list of classicsCollege Board: 100 Great Books for College-Bound ReadersGreat Schools: 101 Books for College-Bound KidsArrowhead Library System: College-Bound Reading List choose works you want your student to be exposed to before graduation/leaving home -- or works that *you* really want to share with or do with your student make a semester-long or year-long DIY focus study --"If you make up your own literature course list" -- on a genre, author, or time/place period of literature that is of high interest to the student; examples: * lit. topic of personal interest (Roots of Steampunk) * parody/satire (Literary spoof, satire, sarcasm, anyone?) * 19th Century Female Authors (Can I feel dumb here and ask about Victorian era, Pride & Prejudice and British Lit?) * author study (Have you ever done an "author's study"?) * fairytale study (Fairy Tale unit for high school; and, Need ideas... classics: Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, etc.) * fantasy & sci-fi literature (Anybody know of a fantasy & science fiction course?) * science fiction (Science Fiction; and, Science Fiction Unit) * dystopian literature (Dystopian Society or Sci-Fi Literature Study…; Utopian and dystopian Literature) * inspiring classics (High Literature which is encouraging; or, Lightning Lit: American Christian Lit; British Christian Lit) go with works that very strongly/overtly wrestle with human questions as a compliment/contrast to the non-human/science focus of The Big History Project; examples: - Epic of Gilgamesh -- ancient epic: Gilgamesh wrestles with the concept of mortality - Till We Have Faces -- wrestles with questions of human and divine interactions, with both religious and Greek logic reasons - The Jungle -- turn of the century; similar to Dickens, but even more pointedly wrestling with the worker abuses stemming from industrialization - The Book Thief -- 21st century YA work: character of Death attempts to understand human beings, focusing on a German WW2 home front family - something by Charles Dickens -- wrestles with questions of social class, social justice, and the dehumanization of lower class workers with the advent of mechanization and factories BEST of luck! Warmly, Lori D. Edited July 29, 2020 by Lori D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 (edited) Here are world lit. programs, or threads with world lit. ideas for DIY with individual lit. guides:Lightning Literature: World Lit I -- Africa & AsiaLightning Literature: World Lit II -- Latin America, Africa & AsiaExcellence in Literature V: World LitSMARR: Survey of World LiteratureIntroduction to World Literature courseTeaching Company: History of World Literature past threads:World History and corresponding Lit. Help, I need contemporary World Lit. ideas World Lit textbook?World Literature World Literature course? Help! I need a World Literature anthology, high school levelMust reads for World Lit And here's the breakdown of BHP, in case it helps someone else help you come up with some matching Lit: threshold 1: Big Bang threshold 2: stars light up threshold 3: new chemical elements threshold 4: Earth & solar system threshold 5: life on Earth threshold 6: collective learning threshold 7: agriculture threshold 8: modern revolution chapter 1 = The Universe - origin stories - the Big Bang - mysterious hiss from the heavens - gravity - star formation - life cycle of stars - new elements - periodic table chapter 2 = Solar System & Earth - birth of the sun - formation of planets - early astronomers - Earth - tectonic plates chapter 3 = Life - life begins - diversity - adaptation - Origin of Species - extinctions - DNA - tree of life chapter 4 = Humans - human evolution - using tools, foraging - human migration - writing and saving knowledge - agriculture - rise of civilization - creating settlements - first cities and states - how cultures connect - civilizations expand chapter 5 = Modern Revolution and the Future - into the modern era - fuel for the ages - population and energy consumption - climate and atmosphere - trade, fuel, and globalization - inventions - the future Edited July 29, 2020 by Lori D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alicia64 Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 What about something like Micheners Alaska that starts with prehistory and moves forward in that location (Or Sarum can't think of the author) Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk This is a great idea, but have Micheners's books have s#x scenes? Am I weird for asking this question? I'm starting to wonder how long before they can read novels w/ s#x in them. Shogun is great fiction to learn about Feudal Japan.(Again, incredible read but also has the s#x scenes. It might be more appropriate for 17 and 18. Alley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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