Last History Topics for 2013-14 School Year (late Medieval/Beginnings of Age of Exploration)

Picking back up with the spring of 2014, we studied the Age of Exploration for a couple of weeks.  I asked my student to listen to SOTW ch. 31.

Additional reading possibilities (for two weeks):

Adler, David A. A picture book of Christopher Columbus. New York : Holiday House, c1991.

Alper, Ann Fitzpatrick. Forgotten voyager : the story of Amerigo Vespucci. Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, c1991. 

   

Burgan, Michael. Magellan : Ferdinand Magellan and the first trip around the world. Minneapolis, Minn. : Compass Point Books, c2002.

 

D'Aulaire, Ingri. Columbus. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1987, c1955. 

 

   

 

Donaldson-Forbes, Jeff. Amerigo Vespucci. New York : PowerKids Press, 2002.

 

Fritz, Jean. Brendan the Navigator : a history mystery about the discovery of America. New York : Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, c1979. 

 

   

 

Fritz, Jean. Where do you think you're going, Christopher Columbus?. New York : Putnam, c1980.

 

Fritz, Jean. Around the world in a hundred years : from Henry the Navigator to Magellan. New York : Putnam's, c1994. 

 

     We used this book as the basis for our study!

 

 

Gallagher, Jim. Ferdinand Magellan and the first voyage around the world. Philadelphia : Chelsea House, c2000.

 

Gleiter, Jan. Christopher Columbus. Austin : Raintree Steck-Vaughn, c1995.

 

Goodman, Joan E. A long and uncertain journey : the 27,000-mile voyage of Vasco da Gama. New York : Mikaya Press, c2001.

 

Hoogenboom, Lynn. Amerigo Vespucci : a primary source biography. New York : PowerKids Press, 2006.

 

Macdonald, Fiona. Magellan : a voyage around the world. New York : Franklin Watts, 1998.

 

Maestro, Betsy. The discovery of the Americas. New York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, c1991.

 

Mattern, Joanne. The travels of Vasco da Gama. Austin, TX : Steadwell Books, c2001.

 

Sís, Peter. Follow the dream. New York : Knopf, 1991.

 

Snedden, Robert. Explor-a-maze. Brookfield, Conn. : Millbrook Press, 1998.

 

 

           

      

 

Twist, Clint. Magellan and da Gama : to the Far East and beyond. Austin, Tex. : Raintree Steck-Vaughn, c1994.

 

I asked my student to jot down some of the interesting things about each of the four main explorers he was reading about from this time period and then for next week write a short piece comparing some of the things they did or encountered, problems, creative solutions, etc. that were the same for each of them, as well as some things that were unique to each of them (so, two paragraphs, and he can dictate those if needed).  Asked him to compose in complete sentences, please.

Here is a short page on Prince Henry to read:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/h/henry.shtml

Our library doesn't have any children's books that cover him except the Jean Fritz book (Around the World).

Here's also another page with brief info on other explorers of the 1400's that we are not focusing on in our reading (in case you might like to read more on any of them; you can click on most for further bios):

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/1400.shtml

and the early 1500's:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/1500a.shtml

(We are only covering Magellan from this group at this time.  When we look at North America, we will touch more on Balboa, de Vaca, Coronado, Cortes, de Soto, and Ponce de Leon.)

I asked my student to study these exploration terms for a word study and I quizzed him on them (the second week of our study):

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/glossary.shtml

 

 

 

Next, I had my student listen to the next two chapters in SOTW, 32 and 33; the ones about the New World (second one incorporates more explorers, too).

Here is the list of extra reading for JUST week one, so choose what you will to read as I will have an equally lengthy list for the second week of the study!

Ancient Aztec empire [DVD]. Visual Materials. Schlessinger Media, c2004.

Aztecs. New York : Kids Discover, 2013. 

   

Baquedano, Elizabeth. Aztec, Inca & Maya. London ;: Dorling Kindersley, c2000.

 

Bierhorst, John. The monkey's haircut : and other stories told by the Maya. New York : Morrow, c1986.

 

Burleigh, Robert. Chocolate : riches from the rainforest. New York : Harry N. Abrams, c2002.

 

Calvert, Patricia. The ancient Inca. New York : Franklin Watts, c2004.

 

Coulter, Laurie. Ballplayers and bonesetters : one hundred ancient Aztec and Maya jobs you might have adored or abhorred. Toronto ;: Annick Press, c2008. 

 

   

 

Coulter, Laurie. Secrets in stone : all about Maya hieroglyphs. Boston : Little, Brown, c2001.

 

Crandell, Rachel. Hands of the Maya : villagers at work and play. New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2002.

 

de Las Casas, Dianne. Blue frog : the legend of chocolate. Gretna [La.] : Pelican Pub. Co., 2011.

 

Fisher, Leonard Everett. Gods and goddesses of the ancient Maya. New York : Holiday House, 1999.

 

 

Garcia, Guy. Spirit of the Maya : a boy explores his people's mysterious past. New York : Walker, 1995.

 

Gerson, Mary-Joan. People of corn : a Mayan story. Boston : Little, Brown, c1995.

 

Greene, Jacqueline Dembar. The Maya. New York : F. Watts, 1992.

 

Gruber, Beth. Ancient Inca : archaeology unlocks the secrets of the Inca's past. Washington, DC : National Geographic, c2007.

 

Halls, Kelly Milner. Mysteries of the mummy kids. Plain City, Ohio : Darby Creek Pub., c2007.

 

Harris, Nathaniel, 1937-. Ancient maya : archaeology unlocks the secrets to the Maya's past. Washington, DC : National Geographic, c2007.

 

Hynson, Colin. You wouldn't want to be an Inca mummy! : a one-way journey you'd rather not make. New York : Franklin Watts, 2008.

 

 

Kimmel, Eric A. The two mountains : an Aztec legend. New York : Holiday House, c2000.

 

Kirkpatrick, Naida. The Maya. Chicago, Ill. : Heinemann Library, c2003.

 

Kurtz, Jane. Miro in the kingdom of the sun. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1996.

 

Lepthien, Emilie U. Llamas. New York : Children's Press, c1996.

 

Lourie, Peter. Hidden world of the Aztec. Honesdale, Pa. : Boyds Mills Press, c2006.

 

Lourie, Peter. Lost treasure of the Inca. Honesdale, Pa. : Boyds Mills Press, c1999.

 

Macdonald, Fiona. You wouldn't want to be an Aztec sacrifice!. New York : Franklin Watts, 2001.

 

Macdonald, Fiona. The Aztec and Mayan worlds. New York : Rosen Pub., 2009.

 

Maloy, Jackie. The ancient Maya. New York : Children's Press, 2010.

 

Mann, Elizabeth. Machu Picchu. New York : Mikaya Press, c2000.

 

***Mathews, Sally Schofer. The Sad Night : the story of an Aztec victory and a Spanish loss. New York : Clarion Books, c1994.

 

 

 

Matthews, Rupert. You wouldn't want to be a Mayan soothsayer! : fortunes you'd rather not tell. New York : Franklin Watts, 2008.

 

McDermott, Gerald. Musicians of the sun. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1997.

 

Meyer, Carolyn. The mystery of the ancient Maya. New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1995.

 

Montejo, Victor. Popol Vuh : a sacred book of the Maya. Toronto ;: Douglas & McIntyre, c1999.

 

Mora, Pat. The night the moon fell : a Maya myth. Toronto : Douglas & McIntyre ;, c2000.

 

Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw. Quetzal : sacred bird of the Cloud Forest. New York : Morrow Junior Books, c1996.

 

Pitkänen, Matti A. The grandchildren of the Incas. Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, 1991.

 

Press, Petra. The Maya. Minneapolis, Minn. : Compass Point Books, c2002.

 

Rees, Rosemary. The Incas. Des Plaines, Ill. : Heinemann Library, c1999.

 

Reinhard, Johan. Discovering the Inca Ice Maiden : my adventures on Ampato. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, 1998.

 

Sherrow, Victoria. The Maya Indians. New York : Chelsea House Publishers, c1994.

 

Silate, Jennifer. Inca ruins of Machu Picchu. Farmington Hills, MI : KidHaven Press, c2006.

 

Sonneborn, Liz. The ancient Aztecs. New York : Franklin Watts, c2005.

 

Steele, Philip. The Aztec news. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 1997.

 

Stuart, George E. The mysterious Maya. Washington, D. C. : National Geographic Society, c1977.

 

***Tanaka, Shelley. Lost temple of the Aztecs : what it was when the Spaniards invaded Mexico. New York, NY : Hyperion ;, c1998.

  

 

**The Olmecs : America's oldest civilization (1300-400 B.C.). Peterborough, NH : Cobblestone Pub., 2004. 

   

West, David. Mesoamerican myths. New York : Rosen Central, c2006.

 

Wyborny, Sheila. The Aztec empire. San Diego : Blackbirch Press, c2004.

 

[**I asked my student to definitely read The Sad Night.  If it is not available, Lost Temple (Tanaka), could be read, instead.  These cover the Aztec encounter with Cortes.

 

I also asked him to read:  Bergen, Lara. The travels of Francisco Pizarro. Austin : Steadwell Books, c2000, if possible.  This book covers major encounters with the Inca.

 

The Maya had some contact, but were not decimated for gold as the other civilizations were.  Still, the contacts led to decimation of their civilization due to disease which is a theme we will see again and again....

 

After reading about both Cortes and Pizarro, I asked him to do another couple of paragraphs comparing and contrasting their travels and experiences as he did with earlier explorers.  He did a good job with that!

 

I also asked him to read the Cobblestone on the Olmecs.  (If he reads the Tanaka book, it will also cover Tenochtitlan....)]

 

 

Once we took a look at some of the more sophisticated groups of Native Americans found in Central and South America, I turned to a sampling of the many groups that lived in North America proper (amazing that our library actually carries a few books on at least one topic we've covered this year), so choose what you will to read!  I just asked that my student at least read some (look at pictures, etc.) from the books simply entitled The Iroquois, The Cherokee, etc.  Most are 32-48 pages in length, so not too long, and will give a good idea of the structure of that particular group.  Just reading their legends without reading some about their culture will not necessarily help one get a good feel for how they lived (although a lot of the books of myths I suggest do have author notes at beginning and/or end that do help explain the stories in the context of the cultures they are coming out of)....

For the myths, anything by Bruchac is always excellently done, so do try to get those if you can....

Ata, Te. Baby rattlesnake. San Francisco, Calif. : Children's Book Press ;, c1989.  

Bial, Raymond. Longhouses. New York : Children's Press, 2004.

 

Bierhorst, John. The woman who fell from the sky : the Iroquois story of creation. New York : W. Morrow, 1993.

 

Brooks, Barbara. The Seminole. Vero Beach, Fla. : Rourke Publications, c1989.

 

Bruchac, Joseph. Iroquois stories : heroes and heroines, monsters and magic. Trumansburg, N.Y. : Crossing Press, c1985. 

 

   

 

Bruchac, Joseph. The boy who lived with the bears : and other Iroquois stories. New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, c1995.

 

Bruchac, Joseph. The story of the Milky Way : a Cherokee tale. New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 1995.

 

Bruchac, Joseph. The first strawberries : a Cherokee story. New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 1993.

  

Chickasaw. San Diego : Blackbirch Press, c2004.

 

De Capua, Sarah. The Cherokee. New York : Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish, c2006.

 

Doherty, Craig A. The Chickasaw. Vero Beach, Fla. : Rourke Publications, 1994.

 

 

Dolbear, Emily J. The Iroquois. New York : Children's Press, c2011.

 

Esbensen, Barbara Juster. The star maiden : an Ojibway tale. Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., c1988.

 

Esbensen, Barbara Juster. Ladder to the sky : how the gift of healing came to the Ojibway Nation : a legend retold. Boston : Little, Brown, c1989.

 

Fradin, Dennis B. Hiawatha : messenger of peace. New York : M.K. McElderry Books ;, c1992.

 

 

Greene, Jacqueline Dembar. The Chippewa. New York : F. Watts, c1993.

 

Hoyt-Goldsmith, Diane. Lacrosse : the national game of the Iroquois. New York : Holiday House, c1998.

 

Lassieur, Allison. The Choctaw nation. Mankato, Minn. : Bridgestone Books, c2001.

 

Levine, Ellen. If you lived with the Iroquois. New York : Scholastic, c1998.

 

Lund, Bill. The Ojibwa Indians. Mankato, Minn. : Bridgestone Books, c1997.

 

Lunge-Larsen, Lise. The legend of the lady slipper : an Ojibwe tale. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999. 

 

   

 

McCarthy, Cathy. The Ojibwa. Austin : Raintree Steck-Vaughn, c2001.  

 

Newman, Shirlee Petkin. The Creek. New York : Franklin Watts, c1996.

 

Press, Petra. The Iroquois. Minneapolis, Minn. : Compass Point Books, c2001.

 

Press, Petra. The Cherokee. Minneapolis, Minn. : Compass Point Books, c2002.

 

Press, Petra. The Seminole. Minneapolis, Minn. : Compass Point Books, c2002.

 

Roop, Peter. --If you lived with the Cherokee. New York : Scholastic, 1998.

 

Ross, Gayle. How Turtle's back was cracked : a traditional Cherokee tale. New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c1995.

 

San Souci, Robert D. Sootface : an Ojibwa Cinderella story. New York : Delacorte Press, 1994.

 

Sherrow, Victoria. The Iroquois Indians. New York : Chelsea House, c1992.

 

Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk. The Iroquois. New York : Holiday House, c1995.

 

 

Spider spins a story : fourteen legends from Native America. Flagstaff, AZ : Rising Moon, c1997.

 

Stone, Amy. Creek. Milwaukee, WI : Gareth Stevens Pub., c2005.

 

Tingle, Tim. When Turtle grew feathers : a folktale from the Choctaw nation. Atlanta : August House LittleFolk, 2007.

 

Wood, Douglas. The Windigo's return : a North Woods story. New York, N.Y. : Simon & Schuster for Young Readers, 1996.

 

 

 

And then, finally, I had him take a look at books related to native groups in the Western part of the country, as well a some Inuit groups:

Arnold, Caroline. The ancient cliff dwellers of Mesa Verde. New York : Clarion Books, c1992. 

 

   

Bania, Michael. Kumak's fish : a tall tale from the far north. Portland, Or. : Alaska Northwest Books, 2004. 

   

Bell, Hilari. Songs of power. New York : Hyperion, c2000.

 

Bial, Raymond. The Chumash. New York : Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish, c2004.

 

Cunningham, Kevin. The Inuit. New York : Children's Press, c2011.

 

Cunningham, Kevin. The Pueblo. New York : Children's Press, c2011.

 

 

Dabcovich, Lydia. The polar bear son : an Inuit tale. New York : Clarion Books, 1997.

 

Dixon, Ann. How Raven brought light to people. New York : M.K. McElderry Books, c1992.

 

Eder, Jeanne M. Oyawin. The Makah. Austin, Tex. : Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers, c2000.1999.

 

Finley, Carol. Art of the Far North : Inuit sculpture, drawing, and printmaking. Minneapolis, Minn. : Lerner Publications, 1998.

 

Fisher, Leonard Everett. Anasazi. New York, N.Y. : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1997.

 

 

Goodman, Susan E. Stones, bones, and petroglyphs : digging into Southwest archaeology. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1998.

 

Hausman, Gerald. The story of Blue Elk. New York : Clarion Books, c1998.

 

Hoyt-Goldsmith, Diane. Totem pole. New York : Holiday House, c1990.

 

Keegan, Marcia. Pueblo boy : growing up in two worlds. New York : Cobblehill Books, c1991.

 

Larson, Timothy. Anasazi. Austin, TX : Raintree Steck-Vaughn, c2001.

 

Lassieur, Allison. The Inuit. Mankato, Minn. : Bridgestone Books, c2000.

 

 

Lewis, Paul Owen. Storm boy. Hillsboro, Or. : Beyond Words Pub. ;, c1995.

 

Lourie, Peter. The lost world of the Anasazi : exploring the mysteries of the Chaco Canyon. Honesdale, Pa. : Boyds Mills Press, [2007].

 

Lyon, George Ella. Dreamplace. New York : Orchard Books, c1993.

 

McDermott, Gerald. Arrow to the sun : a Pueblo Indian tale. New York : Viking Press, 1974.

 

Meyer, Kathleen Allan. Ishi. New York : Dillon Press, c1980.

 

 

 

Mott, Evelyn Clarke. Dancing rainbows : a Pueblo boy's story. New York : Cobblehill Books/Dutton, c1996.

 

Norman, Howard A. The girl who dreamed only geese : and other tales of the Far North. New York : Harcourt Brace, c1997.

 

Press, Petra. The Pueblo. Minneapolis, Minn. : Compass Point Books, c2001.

 

Preszler, June. Igloos. Mankato, Minn. : Capstone Press, c2005.

 

 

Preszler, June. Pueblos. Mankato, Minn. : Capstone Press, c2005.

 

Rosen, Michael. Crow and Hawk : a traditional Pueblo Indian story. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1995.

 

Rosinsky, Natalie M. The inuit. Minneapolis, Minn. : Compass Point Books, c2005.

 

Ross, Pamela. The Pueblo Indians. Mankato, Minn. : Bridgestone Books, c1999.

 

Steltzer, Ulli. Building an igloo. New York : H. Holt, 1995.

 

Wallace, Mary. The Inuksuk book. Toronto, Ont. : Owl Books ;, c1999.

 

Williams, Colleen Madonna Flood. Homes of the Native Americans. Philadelphia : Mason Crest Publishers, c2003.

 

Williams, Suzanne. Tlingit Indians. Chicago, Ill. : Heinemann Library, c2003.

 

 

Williams, Suzanne. Chinook Indians. Chicago, Ill. : Heinemann Library, c2003.

 

Wisniewski, David. The wave of the Sea-Wolf. New York : Clarion Books, c1994.

 

Wood, Audrey. The rainbow bridge : inspired by a Chumash tale. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1995.

 

Yacowitz, Caryn. Inuit Indians. Chicago. Ill. : Heinemann Library, c2003.

 

Young, Robert. A personal tour of Mesa Verde. Minneapolis : Lerner Publications Co., c1999

 

 

All this reading still really doesn't even touch the groups of the Great Plains and Basin regions, but alas I feared we should move on, so I stopped after this! 

 

We finished up talking about the Aztec, Inca, Maya today (mostly, although I still had some little things I wanted to give him related to those cultures: little T/F quiz and vocab cards; and a more general matching activity for pottery types), and started talking a little about the groups living in the eastern half of North America. 

 

He was given a crossword puzzle he could work on related to the Aztec, Inca, Maya (and I also gave him a little geography puzzle book and guide to keep last week, related to the Aztec and Mexico, in general).  I also gave him a little folded report form to write some things for me about the Maya.  I told him we'd attach it to his timeline after he finished (we'll attach the vocab/quiz cards, too, for something different and interactive he can use again if he wants)....

 

 

 

And, I couldn't resist so I ended up giving him some more Native American titles regarding various groups of the great plains, just in case he had time to read any of those:

Ancona, George. Powwow. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1993.

 

Apache. San Diego : Blackbirch Press, c2002. 

   

Bial, Raymond. The Crow. New York : Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, c2006.

 

Bunting, Eve. Moonstick : the seasons of the Sioux. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1997.

 

Cunningham, Kevin. The Sioux. New York : Children's Press, c2011.

 

 

Cunningham, Kevin. The Comanche. New York : Children's Press, c2011.

 

Ditchfield, Christin. The Blackfoot. New York : Children's Press, c2005.

 

Eagle Walking Turtle. Full moon stories : thirteen Native American legends. New York : Hyperion Books for Children, 1997.

 

Friedman, Mark. The Apache. New York : Children's Press, c2011.

 

Goble, Paul. The lost children : the boys who were neglected. New York : Bradbury Press ;, c1993.

 

Goble, Paul. Star Boy. Scarsdale, N.Y. : Bradbury Press, c1983.

 

Goble, Paul. The legend of the White Buffalo Woman. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, c1998.

 

 

King, David C. The Ojibwe. New York : Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, c2007.

 

Left Hand Bull, Jacqueline. Lakota hoop dancer. New York : Dutton Children's Books, c1999.

 

Lunge-Larsen, Lise. The legend of the lady slipper : an Ojibwe tale. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

 

Nelson, S. D. Gift horse : a Lakota story. New York : Harry N. Abrams, c1999.

 

Press, Petra. The Sioux. Minneapolis, Minn. : Compass Point Books, c2001.

 

Press, Petra. The Apache. Minneapolis, Minn. : Compass Point Books, c2002.

 

Rodanas, Kristina. Dance of the sacred circle : a native American tale. Boston : Little, Brown, c1994.

 

Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk. The Sioux. New York : Holiday House, c1993.

 

Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk. The Apaches. New York : Holiday House, c1997.

  

Spider spins a story : fourteen legends from Native America. Flagstaff, AZ : Rising Moon, c1997.

 

Van Laan, Nancy. Rainbow crow : a Lenape tale. New York : Knopf, 1989.

 

 

I hated to pass those up when it's the only topic all year our library has had much on, lol....

 

 

By this time, we were into May and getting ready to finish up for the year, so I asked my student to listen to the next two chapters of SOTW, regarding the Reformation and Renaissance.

Additional reading:

Crisis of faith : the reformation. Peterborough, N.H. : Cobblestone Publishing Co., 2012.

Howarth, Sarah. Renaissance people. Brookfield, Conn. : Millbrook Press, c1992.

 

 

January, Brendan. Science in the Renaissance. New York : Franklin Watts, c1999.

 

León, Vicki. Outrageous women of the Renaissance. New York : John Wiley, c1999.

 

Maier, Paul L. Martin Luther : a man who changed the world. St. Louis : Concordia Pub. House, c2004.

 

 

Martin Luther. Peterborough, NH : Cobblestone Pub., 1999.

 

Morley, Jacqueline. A Renaissance town. New York : P. Bedrick Books, 1996.

 

Morrison, Taylor. Antonio's apprenticeship : painting a fresco in Renaissance Italy. New York : Holiday House, 1996.

 

 

Prum, Deborah Mazzotta. Rats, bulls and flying machines : a history of the Renaissance and

Reformation. Charlottesville, VA : Core Knowledge Foundation, c1999.

 

Waldman, Nomi J. The Italian Renaissance. San Diego : Kidhaven Press, 2004.

 

Wood, Tim. The Renaissance. New York : Viking, 1993. 

 

 

 

And that is where we ended the year.  We picked back up with more review of the Renaissance and Reformation periods at the beginning of the 2014-15 school year (more on that later)....

 

Regena 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Catching up on the Rest of Medieval History for 2013-14 School Year

Wow, didn't realize that I failed to post anything more about the rest of our history last year!  We had SUCH a winter and missed so many days that it got a little disjointed.  I wish to goodness that I could remember to take some pictures of the timeline this student started in our Ancients study which he has added to each year.  I am told that it travels round and round his room at home.  I will at least try to take some pictures of this year's addition to it!  We use the SOTW timeline "cards," cutting them out and adding a little color, then add in stickers I find from Dover that go with our studies, little pics I print out from online, and scrap booking mini-books as we go along....

So, we actually covered just a little more before Christmas, to wit:

Ch. 22 in SOTW, which is on Marco Polo.
I had some scrapbooking elements (little pockets with cards for vocab) that we used several times during our study of the Middle Ages and I had him working on some of these at this time.

 Additional reading:

Demi. The empty pot. New York : H. Holt, c1990. 




Gilchrist, Cherry. Stories from the Silk Road. New York, N.Y. : Barefoot Books, 1999. 

 

Gunderson, Jessica. Stranger on the silk road : a story of ancient China. Minneapolis, Minn. : Picture Window Books, c2009.

 

Heyer, Marilee. The weaving of a dream : a Chinese folktale. New York, N.Y. : Viking Kestrel, 1986.

 

Lee, Jeanne M. Bitter dumplings. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

 

Louie, Ai-Ling. Yeh-Shen : a Cinderella story from China. New York : Philomel Books, c1982.

 

Macdonald, Fiona. Marco Polo : a journey through China. New York : Franklin Watts, 1998. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Major, John S. The silk route : 7,000 miles of history. [New York] : Harper Collins, 1995.

 

McCully, Emily Arnold. Beautiful warrior : the legend of the Nun's kung fu. New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 1998. 

 

Music travels the Silk Road. Peterborough, NH : Cobblestone Pub., 2007. 

 

 

 

 

Sinnott, Susan. China. Minneapolis, Minn. : Compass Point Books, 2001.

 

The silk road. Peterborough, NH : Cobblestone Pub., 2002.

 

Yep, Laurence. The dragon prince : a Chinese Beauty & the beast tale. New York : Harper Collins, 1997.

 

Yolen, Jane. The emperor and the kite. New York, NY : Philomel Books, 1988.

 

 

 

After Christmas, at our first meeting in mid-January, my student told me that he didn't really remember reading about Marco Polo, but did recall the silk road, so I had him listen to SOTW ch. 22 again, and asked his mother to pick up another book or two on Marco Polo.

We also kept moving forward with chapter 23 in SOTW, which is on early Russians.  Here are some more books about Russia:

Afanasév, A. N. Russian folk tales. Boulder [Colo.] : Shambhala ;, 1980.

Arnold, Helen. Russia. Austin, Tex. : Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1996.

 

Butson, Thomas G. Ivan the Terrible. New York : Chelsea House, 1987.

 

    

 

Crouch, Marcus. Ivan. Oxford ;: Oxford University Press, 1989.

 

Ginsburg, Mirra. Clay boy. New York : Greenwillow Books, c1997.

 

Ginsburg, Mirra. The king who tried to fry an egg on his head : based on a Russian tale. New York : Macmillan ;, c1994.

 

Gray, Susan Heinrichs. Russia. Minneapolis, Minn. : Compass Point Books, c2002.

 

Harvey, Miles. Look what came from Russia. New York : Franklin Watts, c1999.

 

Haviland, Virginia. Favorite fairy tales told in Russia. Boston : Little, Brown, 1961. 

 

   

 

Hoffman, Mary. Clever Katya : a fairy tale from Old Russia. Brooklyn, N.Y. : Barefoot Books, c1998.

 

Johnson, Paul Brett. A perfect pork stew. New York : Orchard Books, 1998.

 

Marshak, S. The Month-Brothers : a Slavic tale. New York : Wm. Morrow, 1983.

 

Mayer, Marianna. Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave. New York : Morrow Junior Books, c1994.

 

McCaughrean, Geraldine. Grandma Chickenlegs. Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, c2000. 

 

   

 

Murrell, Kathleen Berton. Russia. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.

 

Nagishkin, Dmitriĭ. Folktales of the Amur : stories from the Russian Far East. New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1980. 

 

    I LOVE this book!!!!

 

Reyher, Rebecca. My mother is the most beautiful woman in the world : a Russian folktale. New York : Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard, c1945.

 

    I ADORED this book as a child!!!!

  

 

Riordan, James. Russian folk-tales. Oxford ;: Oxford University Press, c2000.

 

Robbins, Ruth. Baboushka and the three kings. Berkeley, Calif. : Parnassus Press, 1960.

 

Scott, Sally. The three wonderful beggars. New York : Greenwillow books, c1987.

 

Shepard, Aaron. The sea king's daughter : a Russian legend. New York, N.Y. : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1997.

 

Tolstoy, Aleksey Nikolayevich. The gigantic turnip. Brooklyn, N.Y. : Barefoot Books, 1998.

 

Winthrop, Elizabeth. The little humpbacked horse : a Russian tale. New York : Clarion Books, c1997.

 

Yolen, Jane. The Firebird. New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2002.   ....

 

 

 

By this time we were already into the beginning of February, because of missing due to bad roads.  I had him next read SOTW ch. 24, regarding the Ottoman Empire.

For additional reading:

Bowden, Rob. Istanbul. New York, NY : Chelsea House, c2007.

Constantinople ; city on the Golden Horn. New York : American Heritage Pub. Co. :, 1969.

 

Demi. The hungry coat : a tale from Turkey. New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2004.

 

 

 

DePaola, Tomie. The legend of the persian carpet. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1993.

 

Hickox, Rebecca. The golden sandal : a Middle Eastern Cinderella story. New York : Holiday House, 1998.

 

Johnson-Davies, Denys. Goha the wise fool. New York : Philomel Books, 2005.

 

Mandell, Muriel. A donkey reads. New York : Star Bright Books, c2011.

 

Shah, Idries. Fatima the Spinner and the tent. Boston : Hoopoe Books, 2006.

 

Shollar, Leah. A thread of kindness : a Tzedaka story. Brooklyn, N.Y. : Hachai Pub., c2000.

 

Singh, Rina. Nearly nonsense : Hoja tales from Turkey. Toronto : Tundra Books, c2011.

  

Turkey : bridging the past and present. Peterborough, NH : Cobblestone Pub., 2010.

  

Turkish groove [compact disc]. New York, NY : p2006. 1 sound disc :

 

Walker, Barbara K. A treasury of Turkish folktales for children. Hamden, Conn. : Linnet Books, c1988. 

 

 

 

Even though this child is very bright and a strong reader, he IS young and continues to like story books, so I always mix in plenty with good illustrations to encourage him to read as much as possible about a variety of topics/cultures!

 

 

Next, we turned to the subject of the Black Death.  Here is some reading related to that:

 

Avi. Crispin : the cross of lead. New York : Hyperion Books For Children, 2002. (my younger son really enjoyed the descriptions of what life was like for commoners at this time....)

 

 

    

Biel, Timothy L. Black death. San Diego, Calif. : Lucent Books, c1989.

 

Day, James. The Black Death. New York : Bookwright Press, 1989.

 

Langley, Andrew. Medieval life. New York : Knopf, 1996.

 

Peters, Stephanie True. The Black Death. New York : Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish, 2005.

 

Shuter, Jane. The Middle Ages. Chicago, Ill. : Heinemann Library, c2007. 

 

   

 

Wroble, Lisa A. Kids in the Middle Ages. New York : Rosen Pub. Group's PowerKids Press, 1997.   

 

Unbelievable, but my library no longer has the dozens of books regarding this time period that they used to carry!  I guess no history topics are studied any more - even ones that used to be most popular....

 

There are some general medieval books thrown in to this list, too, because of the dearth of materials available, and children might like to look for any info specifically on the black death in those.

 

Here's an interactive map that shows you how the plague spread over time each time you click the right arrow:

 

http://wadsworth.cengage.com/history_d/templates/student_resources/0534600069_spielvogel/InteractiveMaps/swfs/map11_1.html

 

Listen to or read the next chapter in SOTW, which covers this time period.

 

 

 

By the time we missed some more due to weather, it was the end of February and my student listened to chapter 26 in SOTW before we could meet again, so I then gave him some books to go along with that chapter, as well as some to go with chapter 27 (related topic):

Black arrow [DVD]. Visual Materials. Digiview Productions, c2005. (Hopefully follows the book well - this is a cartoon version)

 

 OR, here is a more serious presentation, although also WD....

 

Czarnota, Lorna. Medieval tales that kids can read & tell. Little Rock : August House, c2000. (Don't know if there's anything new here)

   

Demi. Joan of Arc. Tarrytown, NY : Marshall Cavendish Children, c2011. 

 

   

Hodges, Margaret. Joan of Arc : the lily maid. New York : Holiday House, c1999. (Recommending several of these.  If he chooses shorter versions, I would like him to make sure to read any author's notes at beginning or end.  I have been encouraging this all year to try to get him to read more of the history of these things, rather than just a story, but not sure if I'm having much luck with it....)

   

Joan of Arc : defender of France. Peterborough, NH : Cobblestone Pub., 2008.  (Should probably include info on the 100 Years' War, too)

   

Lace, William W. The Wars of the Roses. San Diego, CA : Lucent Books, c1996. 

   

Lace, William W. The Hundred Years War. San Diego, Calif. : Lucent Books, c1994. (He may find this and the one above boring to read cover to cover, but perhaps looking at some of the pictures and reading excerpts will help give him a feel for these time periods)

   

Macdonald, Fiona. Women in medieval times. Chicago : Peter Bedrick Books, c2000.  (More general info on the state of women's affairs during this time period, since we tend to focus on the men more....)

 

   

Macdonald, Fiona. You wouldn't want to be Joan of Arc! : a mission you might want to miss. New York : Franklin Watts, c2010. 

   

Mayer, Marianna. The adventures of Tom Thumb. New York : SeaStar Books, c2001. (A fairytale from this time period - I try to encourage him to read any author's notes at beginning or end of these shorter books regarding the history of where the stories come from, etc.  Don't know if this one has any such notes....)

   

Platt, Richard. In the beginning-- : the nearly complete history of almost everything. London ;: Dorling Kindersley, 1995. (May contain info on the 100 Years' War)

   

Poole, Josephine. Joan of Arc. New York : Knopf, c1998. 

   

Stanley, Diane. Joan of Arc. New York : Morrow Junior Books, 1998. 

   

Williams, Marcia. Bravo, Mr. William Shakespeare!. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, c2000. (Read Richard III and if Henry V is in there, read it, too)

Here's a little more on the Hundred Years' War time period, since our library has so little available now:

http://www.ducksters.com/history/middle_ages/hundred_years_war.php

War of the Roses:

http://www.ducksters.com/history/middle_ages/wars_of_the_roses.php

Since they do have an animated version of The Black Arrow I thought my student could watch and perhaps enjoy that (the book is hard to read and long - difficult syntax, too).  If it follows the book appropriately, then it does detail the time period during the War of the Roses to give a feel for what it was like for people caught up in it....
 

Next time we met, we covered both chapters 28 and 30, because I was not sure how much reading would be available for those two topics at my library, which has been getting rid of books like crazy the last ten years.  Then I planned to do, perhaps, at least a couple of weeks on medieval African nations (ch. 29), and then turn to the new world (ch. 31, 32) and stop for a short time to do more regarding various Native American groups before moving forward again.  My student had been asking about Native American groups during the year and seemed interested in studying more about them (so hopefully we'll be able to find some books left in our library!)

 

Sooooo, next time ended up being into March, as we were STILL missing due to all the snow! 

 

Additional reading for chs. 28 and 30:

 

Burch, Joann Johansen. Isabella of Castile : Queen on horseback. New York : F. Watts, 1991.

 

Gallagher, Aileen. Prince Henry, the navigator : pioneer of modern exploration. New York : Rosen Pub. Group, 2003.

 

 

Mann, Kenny. Isabel, Ferdinand and fifteenth-century Spain. New York : Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish, c2002.

 

If the student can just read portions of these to get a flavor of the times, that would be great!

 

And, since none of the above are really "fun" books and this is all our library now has to offer, additional reading for ch. 30, regarding India under the Moghuls:

 

Godden, Rumer. Premlata and the Festival of Lights. New York : Greenwillow Books, 1997.

 

Rothfarb, Ed. In the land of the Taj Mahal : the world of the fabulous Mughals. New York : H. Holt, 1998

 

  This book really does cover the Mughal rulers very well....

 

By the end of March, we were finally ready to read SOTW ch. 29 regarding African Kingdoms.

Additional books regarding Africa:

Aardema, Verna. Traveling to Tondo : a tale of the Nkundo of Zaire. New York : Knopf, 1991.

African kingdoms. New York, NY : Kids Discover, 2010.

Angelou, Maya. Kofi and his magic. New York : Clarkson Potter, c1996.

Badoe, Adwoa. The pot of wisdom : Ananse stories. Toronto ;: Douglas & McIntyre, c2001.

Brook, Larry. Daily life in ancient and modern Timbuktu. Minneapolis : Runestone Press, 1999.

Bryan, Ashley. Ashley Bryan's African tales, uh-huh. New York, N.Y. : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1998

Burns, Khephra. Mansa Musa : the lion of Mali. San Diego : Harcourt Brace & Co., 2001.



Corrigan, Jim. Ethiopia. Philadelphia : Mason Crest Publishers, c2005.

Daly, Niki. Pretty Salma : a Little Red Riding Hood story from Africa. New York : Clarion Books, 26 x 27 cm.

Day, Nancy Raines. The lion's whiskers : an Ethiopian folktale. New York : Scholastic, c1995.



Diakité, Baba Wagué. The magic gourd. New York : Scholastic Press, 2003.

Diakité, Baba Wagué. The hatseller and the monkeys : a West African folktale. New York : Scholastic Press, c1999.

Ethiopia. Peterborough, NH : Cobblestone Pub., 2009.

Haskins, James. Count your way through South Africa. Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, c2007.

Heinrichs, Ann. South Africa. New York : Children's Press, c1997.

Hermes, Jules. The children of Morocco. Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, c1995.

Lottridge, Celia Barker. The name of the tree : a bantu folktale. New York : M.K. McElderry Books, c1990.




MacDonald, Joan Vos. Tanzania. Philadelphia : Mason Crest Publishers, c2005.

Mann, Kenny. Ghana, Mali, Songhay : the Western Sudan. Parsippany, N.J. : Dillon Press, c1996.

Martin, Francesca. Clever Tortoise : a traditional African tale. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, c2000.

Medearis, Angela Shelf. Seven spools of thread : a Kwanzaa story. Morton Grove, Ill. : Albert Whitman, c2000.

Medearis, Angela Shelf. Too much talk. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 1995.

Morocco. Peterborough, NH : Cobblestone Pub., 2001.

Musgrove, Margaret. The spider weaver : a legend of kente cloth. New York : Blue Sky Press, c2001.

Peffer-Engels, John. The Benin Kingdom of West Africa. New York : PowerKids Press, 1996.

Poisson, Barbara Aoki. Ghana. Philadelphia : Mason Crest Publishers, c2005.

Prentzas, G. S. It's cool to learn about countries. Democratic Republic of the Congo. Ann Arbor, Mich. : Cherry Lake Pub., c2013.

Rumford, James. Traveling man : the journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2001.



Shah, Idries. Fatima the Spinner and the tent. Boston : Hoopoe Books, 2006.

Sheehan, Sean. Angola. New York : M. Cavendish, 1999.

Sonneborn, Liz. The Ancient Kushites. J939.78 So59a

St. John, Lauren. The elephant's tale. New York : Dial Books for Young Readers ;, 2010, c2009.

Tales from Africa. New York : Kingfisher, 2000.

Wisniewski, David. Sundiata : lion king of Mali. New York : Clarion Books, 1992.




Here are some BBC history pages on these cultures:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/worldhistory/benin_bronze/  (click on link on the bottom left for quiz)

The Quest for the Magic Calabash (with Anansi):

http://www.pbs.org/wonders/Kids/kids.htm

I asked my student to do the geographic regions tutorial on this page (top row, right):

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/African_Geography.htm

...then play the game about geographic regions which is listed right under the tutorial....

I also asked him to do the bodies of water tutorial (right column, next to last), then take the quiz on it, too (last item on right).

I had him do some map labeling related to these when we met again.

I also asked him to read this little bit about the Sahara, which includes 5 short pages (through Taureg):

http://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/africa/exhibit/sahara/index.html

This post is long enough, so I will break down the end of the year into another one!

Regena

Grammar for a new year!

I've been casting about for grammar exercises I can send home with my student this year and I think I've found a free, online workbook with online exercises that will work well.  Here is the link for it:

http://grammar-teacher.com/free-grammar-book/

Let me know what you think of it!  I find it simpler to use than K.I.S.S. grammar....

Regena

Oh!  I just found these additional online grammar quizzes to try, too:

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/grammar/