Seventh Grade History/Reading/Literature/Writing

Seventh Grade History/Reading/Literature/Writing

Since so many seem to be looking at this post, I am updating it through the end of February. [Books through week 24 are things we've actually used thus far this year.  From that point forward, this is just a working list of things that I will pull to consider using for the rest of the year.]

Books arranged by SOTW III Chapters/Topics:

Week 1 

SOTW Chapter 1, Holy Roman Empire and Riches of Spain

Usborne: 140-41; 144
Haywood: 116-21 and 122-25
Kingfisher: 222-23; 220-21
Read from Philip of Spain, Henry Kamen
Read from DK Annotated Guides: Art regarding Velasquez and Rubens (Murillo, too)
Read National Geographic article "Ancient Mysteries" (re: Valverde's Guide)

Reading:

The Travels of Francisco Pizarro, Lara Bergen
I, Juan de Pareja, Elizabeth de Trevino
Secret of the Andes, Ann Clark 　
The Princess and the Painter, Jane Johnson
Lost Treasure of the Inca, Peter Lourie
　
Literature:

Read from original Don Quixote (Book II)
Began reading Treasure Island, Stevenson, as time allows....

Writing:

Narrate your favorite exploit of Quixote that we’ve read thus far…..


Week 2

SOTW Chapter 2, Protestant Rebellions

Usborne: 134-35
Haywood: 134-37
Age of Kings, Ch. 1
Kingfisher: 228-29; 216 (gunpowder plot pic.)
Herstory, Ruth Ashby: Mary, Queen of Scots
Enchantment of the World: Germany, Jean Blashfield - selections pertinent to time period
The Netherlands: Enchantment of the World, Martin Hintz - selections
Read from Tulipomania,Mike Dash

Reading:

Robinson Crusoe, Jonathan Swift
Usborne Young Readers Gulliver's Travels, Gill Harvey
Gulliver in Lilliput, Margaret Hodges
Usborne Stories from Around the World, "Brave Hendrick" (Holland)
Don Quixote, Margaret Hodges
Amsterdam, Deborah Kent

Literature:

The Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel Defoe (used again, later) - just the intro about the plague coming from the Netherlands

Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
Discussed how Swift used the characters in Gulliver to make political commentary.　


Week 3

SOTW Chapter 3, King James

Usborne: 148-49
Kingfisher: 246-47; 281 (Colony of Virginia pic.)
Continue Ch. 1, Age of Kings
Haywood: 126-129
A History of Britain through Art, Jillian Powell - pertinent portions
Powhatan Indians, Melissa McDaniel

Reading:

Pocahontas, D’Aulaires
James Towne: Struggle for Survival, Marcia Sewall
Stories from the New Testament, Kate Leitch
The Double Life of Pocahontas, Jean Fritz
The Powhatan Indians, Suzanne Williams
The Colony of Virginia, Brooke Coleman

Literature:

Pocahontas, Joseph Bruchac

Writing:

Do you believe that John Smith fabricated at least some of his dealings with Pocahontas? Why or why not?　


Week 4

SOTW Chapter 4, Northwest Passage

Usborne: pertinent part of 150
Kingfisher: nothing
Exploration and Discovery, pgs. 34-37
Portions of Canada the Culture, Bobbie Kalman
The MicMac, Ruth Whitehead
Buried in Ice, Owen Beattie
Jacques Cartier and the Exploration of Canada, Daniel Harmon
Read from Rough and Ready Loggers, A. S. Gintzler

Reading:

Beyond the Sea of Ice: The Voyages of Henry Hudson, Joan Goodman
From DK Children Just Like Me, read "The Coming of Raven," a Canadian Tale
The Broken Blade, William Durbin
Usborne Stories from Around the World, "The Magic Doll" (Native American)
Life in a Longhouse Village, Bobbie Kalman

Literature:

The Falcon Bow, James Houston

Writing:

Used The Broken Blade to fill out a literary elements chart and discussed.　
　
　
Week 5

SOTW Chapter 5, Japan’s Warlords

Usborne: 121; 154-55
Kingfisher: 232-33
Read from G. Foster’s 1620, Year of the Pilgrims book
Japan in the Days of the Samurai, Virginia Schomp

Reading:

The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn, Dorothy Hoobler
Japan the Land, Bobbie Kalman, pages 1-17 and quiz on Samurai
A True Book: Japan, Ann Heinrichs

Literature:

The Samurai’s Tale, Erik Haggard
Dark Frigate, Hawes (on tape)


Week 6

SOTW Chapter 6, New World Colonies

Usborne: nothing
Kingfisher: 248-49; 259
Places in Time, pertinent portions, Elspeth Leacock
From A Child's Eye View of History, read about the Pilgrims
Pilgrims of Plymouth, Susan Goodman
Science in Colonial America, Brendan January
Remember the Ladies, Cheryl Harness  - colonial ladies
1620: Year of the Pilgrims, Foster
Exploration of North America through pg. 25

Reading:

Ox Cart Man, Donald Hall 
The Cabin Faced West, Fritz
Squanto: Friend of the Pilgrims, Clyde Bulla
Finding Providence: The Story of Roger Williams, Avi
Three Young Pilgrims, Cheryl Harness
Margaret Pumphrey’s Pilgrim Stories,  Elva Jean Hall
The First Thanksgiving, J.C. George
The New America, Colonial Times, Betsy and Giulio Maestro
1621, A New Look at Thanksgiving, Grace and Bruchac
William Bradford and Plymouth: A Colony Grows, Susan Whitehurst
On the Mayflower, Kate Waters
Who were the First North Americans? Usborne
Life of the Powhatan, Bobbie Kalman
(Continued into the next week....)

Literature:

The Crucible, Miller (on CD)

Writing:

If you lived in colonial America during the time period in which The Crucible was set, how do you think the rumors and allegations that were made would have affected you? How would you have behaved in the face of such allegations? What if allegations were made against you?　


Week 7

SOTW Chapter 7, Rise of Slave Trade to Americas

Usborne: 150
Kingfisher: 270-73
Read about Africa in Foster’s 1620 book
The Yoruba of West Africa, Calliope
The Middle Passage, Tom Feelings
States of Ethiopia, John Peffer, pertinent portions
The Songhay Empire, David Conrad, pertinent portions
The Strength of these Arms: Life in the Slave Quarters, Raymond Bial

Reading:

In the Hollow of Your Hand: Slave Lullabies, Alice McGill (with songs on CD)
Brer Rabbit, Joel Chandler Harris
How Animals Saved the People, J. J. Reneaux
The Village that Vanished, Ann Grifalconi
When Birds Could Talk and Bats Could Sing, Virginia Hamilton

Literature:

My Name is Not Angelica, Scott O’Dell
Bury My Bones but Keep My Words, Tony Fairman
Read from The Favorite Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris

Writing:

Discuss the Triangle Trade route and how slaves were transported aboard slave ships. Imagine that you were enslaved and transported above one of these ships. How would you persevere under the conditions aboard ship? After reaching the Americas? What would you do to cope with your situation?　


Week 8

SOTW Chapter 8, Persians and the Ottoman Turks(can continue in week 16)

Usborne: 142-43
Turkey, Tamra Orr
Cultures of the World: Turkey, Sean Sheehan
Enchantment of the World: Iran, Joann Milivojevic
Ottoman Empire, Colin Imber
Iran, Miriam Greenblatt
Read from Faces: Turkey

Reading:

One Riddle, One Answer, Lauren Thompson
Mosque, Macaulay
The Librarian of Basra, Jeanette Winter (true story about the modern war)
Iran, Adele Richardson
Iran, Robin S. Doak

Literature:

Read stories from A Treasury of Turkish Folktales for Children, Barbara Walker
Read from Rumi: Bridge to the Soul, Coleman Barks
Discussed how the folktales we read this week compared to tales from other lands that we have read in past.
　
　
Week 8

SOTW Chapter 9, 30 Years’ War

Usborne: nothing
Kingfisher: 215; 250-53
Read from Foster’s 1620 book
Haywood: 138-41
Outrageous Women of the Renaissance, Vicki Leon, re: Christina of Denmark
Great Composers, Piero Ventura (re:  Bach, Handel, Gluck, Haydn, Mozart)
Read from Denmark in Pictures, Lerner Publications
Germany the People, Bobbie Kalman (Kathryn Lane)
National Geographic Countries of the World: Sweden, Charles Phillips
Sweden, Sylvia McNair

Reading:

The Glass Mountain, Diane Wolkstein
Battle of the Beasts, Diz Wallis
Rapunzel, Paul Zelinsky
The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Robert Browning
Read from The World's Best Fairy Tales, Reader's Digest, re: Grimm’s fairy tales
Festivals of the World: Sweden, Monica Rabe
Sweden, Debbie Yanuck

Literature:

Mother Courage and Her Children: A Chronicle of the 30 Years‘ War, Bertoli Brecht


Week 9

SOTW Chapter 10, Ming China and Japan in Isolation

Usborne: 153
Kingfisher: 244-45; 262-63
Foster, 1620
Nature Co. Ancient China pgs 56-57
Haywood Atlas pgs 158-61
Read from Made in China: Ideas and Inventions from Ancient China, Suzanne Williams, pertinent portions
Read from Japan the Culture, Bobbie Kalman, selections
Read from Eyewitness Buddhism, Philip Wilkinson, re: Buddhism in China and Japan
Eyewitness Ancient China, Arthur Cotterell, pertinent portions
Science in Ancient China, Beshore

Reading:

Made in China, Deborah Nash
The Boy of the Three Year Nap, Dianne Snyder
Usborne Stories from Around the World, "The Ivory Wand" (China)
The Paper Dragon, Marguerite Davo
The Children of China, an artist’s journey, Song Nan Zhang
Shipwrecked! Rhoda Blumberg

Literature:

Year of the Dragon, Nigel Suckling

Writing:

Do a book report on Shipwrecked!


Week 10

SOTW Chapter 11, Moghul India

Usborne: 152
Kingfisher: 265
Foster, 1620
Read from Eyewitness India, Manini Chatterjee
Read from The Taj Mahal, Leslie Dutemple
Hindu Festivals, Anita Ganeri
In the Land of the Taj Mahal: The World of the Fabulous Mughals, Ed Rothfarb - read selections

Reading:

Read The Snake Charmer from Stories from Around the World, Usborne
Read The Birth of Krishna from Our Favorite Stories
The Taj Mahal, Christine Moorcroft

Literature:

Read from Indian Myths and Legends, K. E. Sullivan
Read from Folktales from Simla: Stories from the Himalayas, Alice Dracott

Week 11

SOTW Chapter 12, England and Cromwell’s Rebellion

Usborne: 158-59, continuing next week
Kingfisher: 260-61
Daily Life in Ancient and Modern London , Ray Webb (up to 1800)
The Great Fire of London of 1666, Megdalena Alagna
John Winthrop, Oliver Cromwell, and the Land of Promise, Marc Aronson
　
Reading:

Captain Kidd's Cat, Robert Lawson
You Wouldn’t Want to be Sick….. Kathryn Senior 　

Literature:

At the Sign of the Sugared Plum, Mary Hooper

Writing:

Discuss the great fire of London, the plague that swept London, and other events following the time period of the English Civil War.

Week 12

SOTW Chapter 13, The Sun King

Usborne: continued
Kingfisher: 254-55; 264; 284
From Ten Kings, read about Louis XIV
Read from The Palace of Versailles, James Barter
Louis XIV: The Sun King, Cobblestone

Reading:

The King’s Day, Aliki
Read from Favorite Stories: Puss in Boots
Read Perrault stories from The World's Best Fairy Tales
Usborne First Book of France, Louisa Somerville
The Inside-Outside Book of Paris, Roxie Munro

Literature:

The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas

Writing:

How did the reign of Louis influence revolution by the people of France? Give at least three specific examples and discuss.


Week 13

SOTW Chapter 14, Prussia

Usborne: nothing
Kingfisher: 292
Germany: Enchantment of the World, Jim Hargrove, pertinent portions
Maria Theresa: Habsburg Ruler, Calliope
Kings and Queens for God: Maria Theresa of Austria

Reading:

The Hole in the Dike, Norma Green
Little Red Cap, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (Lisbeth Zwerger)
George Handel, Mike Venezia
Introducing Bach, Roland Vernon
The Waters of Life, Barbara Rogasky (Grimm)
The Happy Prince, Stephanie Laslett
The Farewell Symphony, Anna Celenza

Literature:

Tales of the Norse Gods, Barbara Picard

Writing:

Do a report on either Handel or Bach, detailing their lives and their music.　


Week 13

SOTW Chapter 15, North American Conflicts between Settlers/Indians

Kingfisher: 280-81; 302

Nations of the Eastern Great Lakes, Kalman
Read from Famous IndianTribes, William Moyers - through Forest Indians

Reading:

The Iroquois, Virginia Sneve
William Penn, Steven Kroll
Struggle for a Continent: The French and Indian Wars, Betsy Maestro
The French and Indian War, Hollie Laager

Literature:

Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare

Writing:

Choose one tribe of the Iroquois Confederation and detail the lives of that group, or write a report detailing the causes, events, and results of the French and Indian Wars.


Week 14

SOTW Chapter 16, Age of Reason/Ag. Revolution

Usborne: 133; 162-63
Kingfisher: 268-69; 286-87; 294-95
Read about Galileo in Foster’s 1620 book
Haywood pgs 142-145
The Farmer through History, Peter Chrisp

Reading:

Galileo, Leonard Fisher
Growing Seasons, Elsie Splear
Why Doesn’t the Earth Fall Up? Vicki Cobb
Starry Messenger, Peter Sis
Century Farm, Cris Peterson

Literature:

Galileo and the Stargazers, Jim Weiss tape

Writing:

Choose either Newton or Linnaeus and write a report detailing his life and work.　
　
　
Week 15

SOTW Chapter 17, Russia


Usborne: 145
Kingfisher: 276-78
Haywood Atlas pgs 150-53
Eyewitness Russia, pertinent parts
Peter the Great and Tsarist Russia, Miriam Greenblatt - pertinent parts
The Empire of the Czars, Esther Carrion - pertinent parts
Read from Forests of the Vampire, Charles Phillips and Michael Kerrigan

Reading:-

Ten Kings, read about Peter the Great
Peter the Great, Stanley
Baba Yaga, Eric Kimmel
The Sea King’s Daughter, Aaron Shepard
The Language of Birds, Rafe Martin
Russian Folk Tales, James Riordan 　

Literature:

Read from Folktales of the Amur, Dmitri Nagishkin

Writing:

Write a report about Peter the Great and the important contributions he made to the development of Russia.


Week 16

SOTW Chapter 18, Ottoman Turks

Kingfisher 266-67
Read from Eyewitness Islam, Philip Wilkinson
Read from Cultures of the World: Turkey, Sean Sheehan
National Geographic Turkey, Sarah Shields, pertinent parts

Reading:

A Weave of Words, Robert D. San Souci
The Contest, Nonny Hogrogian

Continuing Week 16


SOTW Chapter 19, British Rule in India

Usborne: 156-57; 180
Kingfisher: 298-99
India the People, Bobbie Kalman, pertinent portions
From Kings and Queens for God, Carol Greene, read about Victoria
India, Anita Ganeri, pertinent portions
read from Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British, Lawrence James


Reading:

India, Donna Bailey

Literature:

Read from Just So Stories, Kipling (Moser, illus.)
Jungle Book, Kipling
Gunga Din, Kipling 　

Writing:

What do you think about the British colonialization of India? Use specific examples to make your point. Discuss both good and bad points regarding British rule in India.　


Week 17

SOTW Chapter 20, China and its many Domains

Kingfisher: 283 pic.
Art in China, Craig Clunas (just looked at work from the 1700's)
Vietnam the Land, Bobbie Kalman, excerpts
Taiwan, Azra Moiz, excerpts
Faces:  Taiwan (Cobblestone)
China from Manchu to Mao, John R. Roberson (chapter on Kang-xi)
Tibetans, Judith Kendra, excerpts
Myanmar, Khng, excerpts
Myanmar, Yin, excerpts
Elephants and Golden Thrones, Trish Marx (chapters on Kang-xi and Qianlong)


Reading:

Long is a Dragon, Peggy Goldstein
All the Way to Lhasa, Barbara Berger
The Khan’s Daughter, Laurence Yep
The Wise Washerman, A Folk Tale from Burma, Deborah Froese
The Last Dragon, Susan Nunes
Children of the Dragon, Sherry Garland (re: Vietnam)
Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like, Jay Williams
The Dalai Lama, Demi
Eyes of the Dragon, Margaret Leaf

Literature:

The City of the Dagger, and Other Tales from Burma, H. H. Keely and Christine Price

Writing:

Choose either Vietnam or Tibet and write a report about the origins of these countries and how the people of the country make their living, etc.


Week 18

SOTW Chapter 21 American Patriots; America on brink of War, etc.

Usborne: 161
Kingfisher: 300-01; 303
Haywood Atlas pg 130-33
Places in Time
Herstory:  Women who Changed the World, Gloria Steinham (re: Deborah Samson)
Samuel Adams, Stuart Kallen
Sam and John Adams, Susan and John Lee
The Revolutionary John Adams, Cheryl Harness
The Remarkable Benjamin Franklin, Cheryl Harness
Frontier Kentucky, Powell (chs. 1-8)
African Americans and the Revolutionary War: Journey to Freedom, Judith Harper
The Bill of Rights, Patricia Quiri
George Washington’s Farewell Address

Reading:

Molly Pitcher, Jan Gleiter and Kathleen Thompson
Sam the Minuteman, Nathaniel Benchley
George Washington’s Mother, Jean Fritz
Daniel Boone, Frontier Hero, Elaine Raphael
When Washington Crossed the Delaware, Fiore
Crossing the Delaware, Louise Peacock
George Washington's Breakfast, Jean Fritz
Benjamin Franklin, D'Aulaires
The Windigo’s Return, Douglas Wood
Rip Van Winkle, Irving
George Washington, D'Aulaires
Davy Crockett, Young Pioneer, Laurence Santrey
George Washington Elected, Allison Draper
Betsy Ross, Alexandra Wallner
The Secret Soldier: The Story of Deborah Samson, Ann McGovern

Literature:

Last of the Mohicans, Eliza Gatewood Warren
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Moser, Ed.
The Eve of Revolution, the Colonial Adventures of Benjamin Wilcox, Barbara Burt
Arrow over the Door, Joseph Bruchac

Writing:

Write a report on the life and contributions to U.S. history made by either George Washington or Benjamin Franklin. Make this a longer report, with an outline, and continue it next week.　

Week 19 and 20 and half of 21

SOTW Chapter 22 and 23, American Revolution and New Constitution/New President

Usborne: 172
Kingfisher: 306-07; 316-17
Remember the Ladies, Cheryl Harness
First Facts About American Heroes
The American Flag, Joseph Ferry
Independence Now, Daniel Rosen
Read from 46 Pages, Scott Liell (re:  Thomas Paine's Common Sense)
also read from a version of Common Sense printed from online
George Washington, Cheryl Harness
George-isms, George Washington (Rules of Civility)
African Americans and the Revolutionary War, Judith Harper
If You Lived in Williamsburg in Colonial Days, Barbara Brenner
Read from:  The White House, an illustrated history, Catherine Grace (re: building; 18th century history)
Read from:  The Declaration of Independence, A Museum in a Book, Rod Gragg
Read from:  The Signers, Dennis Fradin
If You Were There When They Signed the Constitution, Elizabeth Levy
Samuel Adams, Stuart Kallen

Reading:

The Boston Tea Party, Allison Draper
The Boston Massacre, Draper
The Boston Tea Party, Dennis Fradin
The Thirteen Colonies, Brenden January
Skippack School, Marguerite de Angeli
A More Perfect Union, Maestro
The Declaration of Independence, Patricia Quiri
Food and Recipes of the 13 Colonies, George Erdosh
Betsy Ross, Alexandra Wallner
Sleds on Boston Common, Borden
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, Jeffrey Thompson, Illus.
Ghosts of Salem and Other Tales, Richard Starbuck
The Secret Soldier, Ann McGovern
Paul Revere, Will Mara
The Windigo's Return, Douglas Wood
Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving
Benjamin Franklin, D'Aulaires
George Washington, D'Aulaires
The Declaration of Independence, Sam Fink
The Revolutionary John Adams, Cheryl Harness
The Arrow Over the Door, Bruchac

Literature:

Night Journeys, Avi
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Last of the Mohicans, Cooper

Writing:

Continue report. If finished before week 21, write a book report on Avi’s Night Journeys.


Week 21

SOTW Chapter 24, Captain Cook, Australian Penal Colony and Aborigines

Usborne: 176; 181
Kingfisher: 88-89 (review); 291; 312-13
Haywood: Atlas
Exploration and Discovery, Simon Adams, re: Cook
Read from:  James Cook, Across the Pacific to Australia, Clint Twist
Read from:  Australia, Antarctica, and the Pacific, Kate Darian-Smith
Read from:  Aboriginal Peoples of Australia, Anne Bartlett

Ten Explorers who Changed the World, Gifford
Read from The World’s Great Explorers: James Cook, Zachary Kent
Read about Cook from Peoples of the Past, DK

Reading:

Where the Forest Meets the Sea, Jeannie Baker
Australia, Shriley Gray
Captain Cook, Rebecca Levene

Writing:

Write about how Captain Cook dealt with the natives of the Pacific that he met on his journeys. Do you agree with all his actions in dealing with native peoples? How was he a product of his time?　


Week 22

SOTW Chapter 25, French Revolution

Usborne: 170
Kingfisher: 318-19
People of the Past, read about French Revolution
Child’s Eye View of History, read about French Revolution
Read from:  Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and the French Revolution, Nancy Plain
Read from:  Helen Williams and the French Revolution, Jane Shuter (primary source)

Reading:

Sightseers: Paris 1789, Kingfisher
Marie Antoinette, Katie Daynes
Read Mozart  titles by:  Ann Rachlin; Catherine Brighton, Julie Downing

Literature:

Tale of Two Cities - movie
The Lacemaker and the Princess, Kimberly Bradley
The Scarlet Pimpernel -  BBC movie (discretion advised)

Writing:

Write a report about the causes and consequences of the French Revolution.


Week 23

SOTW Chapter 26, Catherine the Great of Russia

Usborne: 186
Kingfisher: 310-11
Ten Queens, Meltzer, read about Catherine the Great
Read from People of the Past re: Catherine
Haywood:  Atlas
Read from Eyewitness Russia re: Catherine and peasant life
Read from Forests of the Vampire
Read from Russia in Pictures, Heron Marquez
Read from Cultures of the World: Russia, Oleg Torchinsky

Reading:

First Reports: Russia, Susan Gray
Read "Baba Yaga the Witch" from Usborne Stories from Around the World
Read all the Russian folktales from Best-Loved Folktales of the World
Literature:

Koshka’s Tales, James Mayhew
The Story of Siegfried, James Baldwin

Writing:

Write about the life of Catherine the Great. Was she in touch with the lives of her people? How could she have changed the way she ruled?


Week 23 and 24

SOTW Chapter 27, Industrial Revolution(continue these in week 26-27)

Usborne: 164-65
Kingfisher: 296-97
Haywood: Atlas

Read about the industrial revolution in Britain from:

Child’s Eye View of History
People of the Past
How Children Lived

Read about early themes of the Industrial Revolution from:

The Industrial Revolution, Poggio
Cotton Gin, Meltzer (chs. 1-5)
Great Scientists, Derek Hall (re: James Watt)
Read from New Way Things Work, David Macaulay, re: steam engines
Read from 1000 Inventions and Discoveries, Roger Bridgman, re: inventions of the 1700's
Read from:  Industrial Revolution, John D. Clare (just those spreads about the earlier parts of the revolution)
Read from:  The Industrial Revolution in American History, Anita Louise McCormick (chs. 2-5)

Reading:

Working Cotton, Sherley Williams (later in time, but gives a good idea of how difficult the process is)
A Head Full of Notions, Bowen
Charles Dickens, the Man who had Great Expectations, Diane Stanley
From Submarine to Steamboat, Steven Kroll
Eli Whitney, Alter

Writing:

Imagine that you are living at the time of the Industrial Revolution and are a 13 year old boy from a working class family. What would daily life be like for you at this time? What sort of industry would you like to work in? How would you go about keeping yourself safe? Making working conditions better?



Week 25

SOTW Chapter 28, Qing Dynasty

Kingfisher 304 - 05
Read from Ancient China, Nature Compan, re: Qing Dynasty
Lady White Snake; Legend of the Panda, Song Nan Zhang, et al
Read about Qing personalities from Hoobler’s Chinese Portraits
Read from People’s Republic of China, Kim Dramer
Confucius: The Golden Rule, Russell Freedman
Ancient China, Brian Williams
China: Nations of the WorldContinue China from Manchu to Mao, Roberson
China’s Qing Dynasty, Cobblestone

Reading/Literature:


Ancient China Treasure Chest

Writing:

Write a report concerning daily life in China at the time of the Qing Dynasty.


Week 25

SOTW Chapter 29, Napoleon

Usborne: 171
Kingfisher: 320-21; 328
Haywood Atlas pgs 146-49
Napoleon Bonaparte, Burleigh; Carroll; Cobblestone
The Louisiana Purchase, Magdalena Alagna
Louisiana Purchase, Peter and Connie Roop
Napoleon, Alan Blackwood; Masters
What’s the Deal? Rhoda Blumberg
Napoleon, Bob Carroll
The Battle of Waterloo, David Pietrusza
Napoleon and the Napoleonic Wars, Albert Marrin
Napoleon and Josephine, Hausman
Some Kings and Queens, Unstead
Men who Changed the Map, Best

Reading:

Usborne Famous Lives: Napoleon, Lucy Lethbridge
Usborne Famous Lives: Nelson, Minna Lacey
My Napoleon, Brighton
30 Greatest American Events, Cobblestone (continued)

Literature:

Read from Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Blake
Read from Wordsworth and Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads, Owen, re: The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, Forester

Writing:

How was Napoleon Boneparte important on the world’s stage?


Week 26

SOTW Chapter 30, Haitian Revolt

Kingfisher: 322-23
Read from Cultures of the World: Haiti, Roseline Cheong-Lum
(Festivals of the World?); Preszler; Blashfield
Revolutionaries, Paul Thomas

Reading:

Toussaint L’Ouverture: The Fight for Haiti’s Freedom, Walter Myers
(Also Cobblestone and one by Hoobler)　
　
Literature:

Read Haitian tales from How Animals Saved the People, J.J. Reneaux
Read from The Magic Orange Tree and Other Haitian Folktales, Diane Wolkstein
Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter, Richard Platt (very good!)

Writing:

Write a report on Toussaint L’Ouverture.


Week 26 and 27

SOTW Chapter 31, Expansion of Industrialization(continuing also from week 23-24)

Usborne: 166-67; 160
Kingfisher: 327
McGraw Hill Complete book of US History
Kids at Work, Russell Freedman
A River Ran Wild, Lynne Cherry
The Gate in the Wall, Ellen Howard
Midnight is a Place, Joan Aiken
Thomas Jefferson, Cheryl Harness
Thomas Jefferson: A Picture Book Biography, James Giblin
The American Heritage Book of the Presidents and Famous Americans: Vol. 1-4
First Facts About American Heroes
The Industrial Revolution 1800-1850
American Heritage Jr. Library:
Clipper Ships and Captains
Steamboats on the Mississippi
Erie Canal - H

Reading:

The Bobbin Girl, Emily McCully
The Story of an English Village, John Goodall

Literature:

Oliver Twist, Leighton
Dickens: His Work and His World, Michael Rosen
A Visit to William Blake’s Inn, Nancy Willard

Writing:

Write a report concerning Thomas Jefferson and his innovations and inventions. Take two weeks to write a longer report.　
　
　
Week 28 and 29

SOTW Chapter 32, Expansion of the West

Usborne: 182-83
Kingfisher: 329
McGraw Hill Complete book of US History
Tecumseh, Schraff; Immell; Shorto; Stefoff
These Lands are Ours, Kate Connell (Tecumseh)
Streams to the River…. Scott O’Dell
Swamp Angel, Anne Isaacs
Lewis and Clark: Explorers of the American West, Steven Kroll
From Heroines...., Rebecca Hazell, read about Sacagawea
Audubon, Jennifer Armstrong
John James Audubon, Joseph Kastner
The National Anthem, Patricia Quiri
Incredible Wild West, Caroline Bingham
The Glorious Fourth at Prairietown, Joan Anderson
Don't Know Much About the Pioneers, Kenneth Davis
Joshua’s Westward Journal
How We Crossed the West, Schanzer
Going Along with Lewis and Clark, Fifer
To the Pacific with Lewis and Clark
Rest of Famous Indian Tribes
American Heritage Jr. Library: Thomas Jefferson and His World
First Facts About American Heroes
The Bill of Rights kit

Reading:

The Story of Johnny Appleseed, Aliki
Folks Call me Appleseed John, Andrew Glass
John Chapman, Warrick; Carol Greene
Legend and Truth, Yolen
The Choctaw Nation, Allison Lassieur
Sacajawea: Her True Story, Joyce Milton
The Choctaw, Emilie Lepthien
Sacajawea, Bruchac
Indians of the Plains
Why the North Star Stands Still
The Moon of Falling Leaves, Ziter

Literature:

Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLauchlan
Jim Bridger’s Alarm Clock, Sid Fleischman
Annie Oakley, James Kunstler (with tape)
Echoes of the Elders, by Chief Lelooska, ed. Christine Normandin
Spirit of the Cedar People, same author as above (both have stories told by Chief Lelooska on CD)

Writing:

Imagine that you are on a pioneer wagon train headed West as a 13 year old boy, traveling with your family. Create journal entries of your daily travels as you head into the frontier…. Take two weeks to create this journal.　

Week 30

End of Napoleon; SOTW Ch. 33

The Battle of Waterloo, David Pietrusza
The National Anthem, Patricia Quiri
War of 1812, Bosco; Greenblatt; Sonneborn (primary source)
The First Book of the War of 1812, Morris
Primary Source Accounts of the War of 1812, Bozonelis
Washington Ablaze, The Ware of 1812, Schultz
The Star-Spangled Banner, Peter Spier
The Star-Spangled Banner, Catherine Welch

Reading:

Lafitte the Pirate, Ariane Dewey
The Battle for St. Michael's, Emily McCully

Literature:

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (Vogel)

Writing:

Write about the causes and consequences of the War of 1812.　


Week 30

South America; SOTW Ch. 34

Usborne: 185 cont.
Kingfisher: 326
Bolivar, Carol Greene
Bolivia, Augustin; Klingel; Morrison (Enchantment); Schimmel; Iluhara; Pateman; Cobblestone; Blair; Ng Li-San
Ecuador, Amy Daniels; Lepthien (Enchantment); Milivojevic
Peru, St. John; Jermyn; Croy; Knox; Lepthien; De Capua; Kalman
This Place is High, Vicki Cobb
Welcome to Venezuela
Venezuela, Heinrichs; Cobblestone
Famous Latin American Liberators, B. Bailey
Simon Boliver, South American Liberator, Carol Greeve

Reading:

Amazon Diary, Talbott
The Emerald Lizard, Pleasant Despain
The Pied Piper of Peru, Ann Tompert
Tortillas and Lullabies, Lynn Reiser

Writing:

Write a report about Simon Bolivar and other South American liberators. What was their cause? How did they help/hurt the peoples of South America?


Week 31

Mexico; SOTW ch. 35

Usborne: 185
Kingfisher: 326
The Conquest of Mexico, Stephen Lilley
Famous People of Mexico, Anna Carew-Miller
Look What Came from Mexico, Amy Hunter
Independence and Revolution in Mexico, 1810-1940, Stefoff
Mexico and Central America, Tull
Mexico, De Angelis
Mexico City, Davis

Reading:

My Mexico, Tony Johnston (poems)
The Pinata Maker, George Ancona
The Tree is Older than You Are, Naomi Shihab (poems and stories)
Charro, Ancona
Pinatas and Smiling Skeletons, Harris
Pedro and the Padre, Aardema


Week 31

Slavery Ends; SOTW ch. 36

Usborne: 174
McGraw Hill Complete book of US History
Amistad, Walter Dean Myers
Amistad Rising, Chambers
Herstory, Ruth Ashby (re: Grimkes)
Only Passing Through, Anne Rockwell
America’s Black Founders, Sanders
President of the Underground Railroad, Gwenyth Swain
Great Americans in History, Hacker
The Anti-slavery Movement, Cobblestone
Let it Shine, Pinkney
A Picture Book of Sojuorner Truth, Adler
Rabble Rousers, Harness
A Good Night for Freedom, Barbara Morrow
Two Tickets to Freedom: The True Story of Ellen and William Craft
Fugitive Slaves, Florence Freedman
The Dred Scot Case: Slavery and Citizenship, Herda
The Dred Scott Decision, January
The Compromise of 1850, Cobblestone
Rebels against Slavery, McKissack (re: Jamaican Maroon Revolt)
Sojourner Truth, Bernstein; McLoone; McKissack; Tolan; Taylor-Boyd; Ferris

Reading:

Long Journey Home, Lester
The Talking Eggs, Robert San Souci
Sweet Clara amd the Freedom Quilt, Deborah Hopkinson
Big Jabe, Jerdine Nolen
A Picture of Freedom, Patricia McKissack (Clotee)

Literature:

The Adventures of Huck Finn
Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians, Mark Twain and Lee Nelson

Writing:

Write about the Underground Railroad system and how it aided slaves leading up to the Civil War. Also discuss the Dred Scott decision and the 1850 Compromise in light of ending slavery and the lead up to Civil War.


Week 32

Troubled Africa; SOTW ch. 37

Usborne: 179
Haywood Atlas pgs 162-65 and 166-69
Kingfisher: 308-09; 343
Ashanti to Zulu, Margaret Musgrove
Shaka, Diane Stanley
Zulus, Musgrove
South Africa, Stotko; Brownlie; Heinrichs; Raatma; Noonan; Mace; Spengler
Zulus of Southern Africa, Harriet Ngubane
The Spread of Islam, John Dunn
African Religion, Aloysius Lugira
Monomotapa, Zulu, Basuto: Southern Africa, Kenny Mann
Berbers, Cobblestone
Zenj, Buganda: Eastern Africa, Kenny Mann
Centuries of Greatness, 750-1900: The Western African Kingdoms, Philip Koslow

Reading:

Abiyoyo, Peter Seege
Over the Green Hills, Rachel Isadora
Saba, Jane Kurtz
From Afar to Zulu, Haskins

Literature:

The Defence of Duffer’s Drift, Ed Swinton (Boer Wars)　

Writing:

Choose one African kingdom and write about its creation and the life of the people during this time period, including details of any slavery, important wars, and/or colonialization; or, write about the causes and consequences of the Boer Wars.　


Week 33

American Tragedies; SOTW ch. 38

McGraw Hill Complete Book of US History
The Cherokees, Virginia Sneve
If You Lived with the Cherokee
Indian Wars titles
Nat Turner, Hendrickson; Bisson; Goldman
Eyewitness North American Indians
Trail of Tears, Fradin
George Armstrong Custer, Anderson; Morris
Plains Indian Wars, Marker

Reading:

Ahyoka and the Talking Leaves, Connie Roop
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky, Susan Jeffers
Cherokee Sister, Debbi Dadey
The First Strawberries, Joseph Bruchac
Yonder Mountain, Robert Bushyhead

Literature:

Soft Rain, Cornelia Cornelissen

Writing:

Choose one Native American tribe and follow its fate during the period of Indian removal, providing details of what happened to the tribe as a whole, if it split, where its various parts ended up, what happened to them along the way, etc.


Week 33

China Adrift; SOTW ch. 39

Usborne: 189
Kingfisher: 344-45
Chinese Portraits, HooblerHong Kong, Cobblestone

Reading:

Ruby’s Wish, Shirin Bridges
Spring Pearl, Laurence Yep
The Red Poppy, Irmgard Lucht
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (The Man with the Twisted Lip)

Literature:

Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom, Katherine Peterson (Taiping Rebellion)


Week 34

Mexico and Her Neighbor; SOTW ch. 40

Kingfisher: 342
McGraw Hill Complete Book of US History
James Bowie and His Famous Knife, Garst
Sam Houston, Fritz
The U.S. in the Mexican War, Don Lawson
Hispanic America, Texas and the Mexican War, Collier
Inside the Alamo, Jim Murphy
The Last Stand at the Alamo, Carter
The Fall of Mexico City, George Ochoa
The Mexican-American War, Don Nardo
Empires Lost and Won, Albert Marrin
Texas Rangers, Henry
Davy Crockett: Defender of the Alamo, William Sanford
Also, Alphin; Macdonald; Moriarty; Santrey; Quackenbush
Chanticleer of Wilderness Road, Sueur
Battle of the Alamo, Keith Murphy (Crockett)
US-Mexican War, Bronwyn

Reading:

Susanna of the Alamo, John Jakes

Writing:

Detail the causes and consequences of the Mexican-American War.


Week 35

New Zealand and Pacifica; SOTW ch. 41

An Adventure in New Zealand, Coustau Society
Australia, North; Griffiths; Prosser; Kelly; Gray; Turner; McCollum
Australia and New Zealand Food and Drink, Osborne
Explore Australia and Oceania, Kalman
Destination Australia, Grupper
A Family in Australia, Jackson
Passport to Australia, Pepper
We Live in Australia, Ellis
New Zealand, Yanagi; Armitage; Cobblestone
Take a Trip to New Zealand, Burns
Welcome to Australia, Berendes

Literature:

The Whale Rider Movie
Lands and Peoples Vol. 2

Writing:

Write about the origin of the Maori on New Zealand; life there through European contact; how contact changed the lifestyle of the native peoples through the 1800’s.

　
Week 36

Forty-Niners; SOTW ch. 42

McGraw Hill Complete Book of US History
California Gold Rush, Wade; Ito; Landau; Cobblestone; Quasha; Hartley
Hurry Freedom, Stanley
Gold Fever! Rosalyn Schanzer
Seeds of Hope, Kristina Gregory
Tucket’s Gold, Gary Paulsen
Westward to Home, Patricia Hermes
Gold Rush! James Klein
The Life of a Miner, Bobbie Kalman
Striking it Rich, Stephen Krensky

Reading:

Call of the Wild, London (2 versions)
White Fang

Writing:

Pretend that you are a young man at the time of the California (or other) Gold Rush and want to join the party. Detail where you will choose to go; how you will get there; how much it will cost; what you will do once you arrive; what your expectations are vs. reality once you are there, etc.