HISTORY???

When we did Middle Ages/Renaissance/Reformation, we went through Famous Men of the Middle Ages and Famous Men of the Renaissance and Reformation together, and we also read some of the Louise Vernon books together.  I believe we did The Man Who Laid the Egg, The Beggar’s Bible, and Thunderstorm in Church.  We also read David Macaulay’s Castle, and we watched the PBS video he did for the book Cathedral.  The dvd very closely followed the book.

Then, my middle school student read by herself the following books, spread over the year:  The White Stag, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, The Magna Charta, and The Prince and the Pauper.  She is mildly dyslexic, so she and I took turns reading The Magna Charta, we used an audio book for King Arthur, and I counted Prince/Pauper as literature for her as well.  If your 7th grader is a good reader, it should be no problem to read these books by herself.

All of the books I mentioned above can be found in the SCM Free Curriculum Guide on this website, and there is a clickable link on the individual page for each history module that will show all of those books in the SCM Bookfinder, so you’ll have complete information to either look for them at your library or view them on Amazon.

I also wanted to mention that, generally, you will teach each of the modules twice during your child’s home education, so you don’t need to read all of the books listed for a particular module (time period) in one academic year.  Even if you start using SCM later with your child and only encounter a certain module once, you still wouldn’t have to read all of the books.  Just select the amount of reading that seems right for your family, for each student.  We have often done more history reading than anything else….guess why?  Simply because Mom loves history and can’t get enough of it!