Angela,
I realize I don’t think I answered your question regarding Module 1. I haven’t done an Egypt/Africa study; however, I would use the method of consistancy among the authors I mentioned if you can find books by them on this area in history. You could also look through some classical catalogs and get some titles and search those out? Also, doing a search on the Bookfinder will come up with many you can get from your library.
Caroline4kids,
You are so welcome! It blesses me that I could offer you something that may help you out!
Billiejo,
I haven’t gone through module 2 yet; just been on American history. However, I have a rule of thumb to use books written by authors I have found to like their writing style. Those by J. Baldwin, and Alfred Church; Specifically, “A Story of the GOlden Age of Greek Heroes” seems a wonderful intro for background for the HOmer’s accounts, giving children a greater interest. Depending on the ages of your children, if you have older ones the ” Three Greek Children” and “The Story of the Persian war” stand out to me from A. Church; for the younger or as a read-aloud for all of them together, A. Church’s Illiad and Odyssey versions.
I’d choose the book by Nathaniel Hawthorne, as it’s an absolute classic (1852), being if not the first, one of the first writings for children of the Greek myths, over James Baldwin’s “Old Greek Stories”.
I believe many classical methods highly recommend the Famous Men of Greece, as they focus on factual men as opposed to the mythological.
From a geography perspective, “The Peeps at many Lands” Series seems to be a good resource;
for a spine, you may want to get in touch with Lisa at Y.C. and ask her the pros and cons of The Geurber book (Guerber always thought of highly, many here have used it) and the Streams of History. Also, you could ask her about the differences between the three Plutarch’s versions.
For independant reading for the mid-elementary age, I think the “Our Little Cousin…” series is wonderful.
If you have ones from ages 6-9, the “Stories From Plato and Other Classic Writers” would be quite enriching I think.
YOu don’t want to overlap material and waste time in the process by choosing too many books, or get ‘stuck’ in the time period, but cover the material for the ages that you have and light the fire if interest and set the stage for more mature reading later on.
Okay, I know that’s ALOT more than 5! And I’ve read NONE of them! :DI Also, I don’t know what ages you’re talking about. However, I’d be happy to break it down, simplify it a bit more if you could give your children’s ages. That helps put the selections into columns of ‘read now’ and ‘read when we go through this again later’. I make those lists so I don’t forget about them for a later time period.
Maybe someone else could chime in if they’ve been through this time period. Maybe start a new post for this module time period to get more varied feedback?
Do a search on the bookfinder for library books and classical catalog for book choices as well, just as for Module 1.
Rachel (I’m sorry my posts are always so long!)
