China history

I did a blog post on China and the resources we used here:

http://lettersfromnebby.wordpress.com/2012/07/15/ancient-china-lesson-plans

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Here are some resources from a thread about a year ago:

http://www.homeschoolshare.com/ancient_china_lapbook.php  (Sarah used this)

And Rachel posted these (her list included things for several ancient cultures):

Books about Asia from Heritage History to browse through to determine time frames :

http://www.heritage-history.com/www/heritage.php?Dir=civ&MenuItem=asian  

ANCIENT CHINA

All Ages:

The Seventy Wonders of China – Jonathan Fenby

The Great Wall – Micheal Yamashita 

    Gr. 4-6:

Eyewitness Books – Ancient China

Ancient China – Judith Simpson

Great Wall – Elizabeth Mann

Made in China: Ideas and Inventions from Ancient China – Suzanne Williams

The Ancient Chinese – Virginia Schomp

Life in Ancient China – Paul Challen – ages 8-14

China: A History to 1949 – Valjean McLenighan

See Inside an Ancient Chinese Town – Penelope Hughes Stanton

Ancient Chinese Art: Art in History – Jane Shuter

Shen of the Sea: Chinese Stories for Children – Arthur Chrisman (Fairy tales and folk tales)

The Ch’itin Purse: A Collection of Ancient Chinese Stories – Linda Fang (10 stoires from 770-221 BC) 

Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng – Xin Xu (gr. 6+ 1100+)

 JAPAN AND SE ASIA 

Gr. 4-6

Illustrated History of Japan – Shigeo Nishmura

Tales from Japan – Helen, William Mc Alpine (16 traditional legends, epics, fairy and folk tales)

Tales of a Korean Grandmother – Frances Carpenter (32 traditional tales from Korea)

Haiku – Patricia Donegan (how to write)

Tea Ceremony – Shozo Sato (Japenese traditoin of sharing tea; how to do it, what it means)

Art of Japan- Shurley Glubok (good intro. To historical periods and types of art) 

Gr. 7-9

A Traveller’s History of Japan – Richard Tames

A Traveller’s History of SE Asia – J.M. Barwise 

   INDIA 

 Gr. 4-6

Ancient India – Virginia Schomp

Buddha – Demi (bio**caution required)

The Jungle Book – R. Kipling

Just So Stories – R. Kipling

Science of Ancient India – Melissa Stewart

CENTRAL AMERICA

Heritage History: http://www.heritage-history.com/www/heritage.php?Dir=civ&MenuItem=hispanic 

All ages:

Cultural Atlas for Young People: Ancient America – Marion Wood 

Gr. 4-6

Overview:

First Book of Central America and Panama – Patricia Markum

Incans, Aztecs and Mayans – John Holzmann (history of three civilizations from a Biblical perspective)

First Book of the Ancient Maya – Barbera Beck

Latin American Folktales – John Bierhorst

MEXICO 

Overview:

Mexico – R. Conrad Stein

History of Mexico – Amy Hunter 

    Gr. 4-6

You Wouldn’t Want to be an Aztec Sacrifice – Fiona Macdonald (pre-columbian Mexico)

The Ancient Aztecs – Liz Sonneborn

Cortes of Mexico – Ronald Syme

By Right of Conquest – G. A. Henty (Aztecs-1519-1521)

Walk the World’s Rim – Betty Baker (1528-1537)

Nacar the White Deer – Elizabeth de Trovino (1876)

Horse Hooves and chicken feet: Mexican folktales – Neil Philip(12 traditional tales, Catholic heritage)

Francis Coronado and the Seven cities of Gold – Ronald Syme (gr. 4-12)

Conquista! – Clyde Bulla (time of Coronado)

SOUTH AMERICA 

Gr. 4-6

Enchantment of the World Series has a book on each country.

First Book of the Incas – Barbera Beck

Machu Pichu – Elizabeth Mann (story of the religious city sacred to the Incas)

You Wouldn’t Want o be an Inca Mummy – Colin Hynson (lighthearted)

Man Who Discovered the Amazon – Ronald Syme ( 1538-1541)

Balboa: Swordsman and Conquistador – Felix Reisenburg

Francisco Pizarro – Sandra Kachurek

Treasure of the Incas – G.A. Henty (1475-1519)

With Cochrane the Dauntless – G.A. Henty (1820)

Out on the Pampas – G.A. Henty ( Argentina 1871 )

Secret of the Andes – Ann Nolan Clark (Inca boy growing up)

Life in Ancient S. America – Hazel Richardson

The Ancient Inca – Patricia Calvert