Mommyfaithe Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Tell me your favorite 20th century history/ literature resources, curricula, study guides etc. Year 4 TOG is not available.... Anyone ever use Sonlight Core 300?? Ambleside Online is way too much (though I could pick and choose...) Any others?? Free resources?? How do you teach your 4th year in your last istory cycle??? Thanks, Faithe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veronica in VA Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 We are using Sonlight 300 this year and love it. We have used SL almost all through our homeschooling time though so we are sort of biased.:001_smile: My only complaint has been the writing - I don't like how it is organized and I used IEW some also. However, the core just been re-written and it looks like the literary analysis and writing sections have been greatly improved on. Veronica Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in IL Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 The Twentieth Century: A Brief Global History by Richard Goff. I found a syllabus online and there were study questions on that site too. It is a college level text but not too hard. Ds1 really liked this book and ds2 (10th) has read it for fun. For lit, I just added some books that were relavant, like The Jungle, Farienheit 451, The Greatest Generation, etc. that ds would like. Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrison_B Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Some ideas I had: o The Chosen o To Kill a Mockingbird o Night / Diary of Anne Frank / Hiding Place o City of Thieves o All Quiet on the Western Front o The Great Gatsby o Cry, My Beloved Country o Town Called Alice o Old Man and the Sea o Kon - Tiki o Kite Runner o Three Cups of Tea o Life of Pi o 1984 o Alas, Babylon o A Brave New World I was pursuing a 20th Century Global Literature theme because I am planning to do human geography this year. However, my older son heard I was doing Lord of the Rings with my younger son, and he wanted to participate. So at the moment, I don't know what the outcome will be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Marple Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 We used SL 300 this year also. However, we just used the history portion and omitted the literature. The boys have learned a lot and seemed to enjoy it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 (edited) This one has both history and lit. suggestions, plus links to even more great threads on 20th century history/lit: Favorite curriculum for Modern World History? http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?t=80445 Edited April 17, 2009 by Lori D. added info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Florida Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Okay, I was so looking forward to doing that year with my daughter. There were so many wonderful books I just couldn't wait to read and discuss with her. I had already raided our bookshelves and started making lists . . . And then she decided to go to college a year earlier than I had anticipated. Sigh. However, here's the literature list I was busy compiling. The short story selections are drawn from two books I happened to have on my shelves: The Norton Introduction to Fiction (edited by Jerome Beaty) and Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Fiction (edited by James H. Pickering). Short Stories: Irving: Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown, Rappaccinni's Daughter Poe: Cask of Amontillado, Purloined Letter, Fall of the House of Usher Melville: Bartleby the Scrivener Dostoevksi: Grand Inquisitor Tolstoy: How Much Land and/or Ivan Ilych Bierce: Owl Creek Bridge Conrad: Secret Sharer Doyle: Speckled Band Chekov: Lady With the Dog and/or The Darling Anderson: The Egg Joyce: Araby and/or The Dead Kafka: Hunger Artist and/or Metamorphosis Hemingway: A Very Short Story Lawrence: Rocking Horse Winner Porter: The Grave Faulkner: Rose for Emily, Barn Burning and/or Dry September Borges: Garden of Forking Paths Thurber: Catbird Seat Jackson: The Lottery Welty: Why I Live at the P.O. Gordimer: Train from Rhodesia Garcia Marquez: Very Old Man With Enormous Wings Kawabata: Grasshopper and Cricket Longer Works: Moliere: Tartuffe Milton: Paradise Lost – selections Defoe: Robinson Crusoe Swift: Gulliver’s Travels Austen: Pride and Prejudice / Sense and Sensibility / Emma Hugo: Les Miserables or Hunchback of Notre Dame Dickens: Great Expectations Fitzgerald: Great Gatsby Buck: Good Earth Huxley: Brave New World Markandaya: Nectar in a Sieve Huston: Their Eyes Were Watching God Steinbeck: Grapes of Wrath or Mice and Men Williams: Glass Menagerie Potok: The Chosen Orwell: 1984 Salinger: Catcher in the Rye Miller: Crucible Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Fugard: Master Harold and the Boys Oh, and I should mention that we were planning to adapt the Hewitt Modern World History syllabus to use with a text we had on hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommyfaithe Posted April 18, 2009 Author Share Posted April 18, 2009 Thank you all so much!! There is a lot to look at. I was really mulling over using SL 300, but really for the Lit analysis and writing assignments...but if they are crummy...well...I maight as well just do my own thing. I am off to check that thread Lori posted...thanks! And thanks for the booklists... ~~Faithe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veronica in VA Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 Thank you all so much!! There is a lot to look at. I was really mulling over using SL 300, but really for the Lit analysis and writing assignments...but if they are crummy...well...I maight as well just do my own thing. I am off to check that thread Lori posted...thanks! And thanks for the booklists... ~~Faithe I think this was the part Sonlight redid this year. They had the woman who wrote the Sonlight Brit Lit, write the literature and writing part for SL this year. Veronica Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommyfaithe Posted April 18, 2009 Author Share Posted April 18, 2009 I think this was the part Sonlight redid this year. They had the woman who wrote the Sonlight Brit Lit, write the literature and writing part for SL this year. Veronica OH YEAH!!!! I really like the look of this! Thanks, Faithe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
April in CA Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Hi! Just to make sure you had correct info about TOG - they expect to release Yr 4 redesigned, digital edition, by units starting in June. Have you used TOG before? I expect it will be worth the wait! Blessings, April Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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