Fourth Grade History
and Literature
Modern World
I re-did modern history to include lots of links for topics for those who do not live near a good library....
This is based around the SOTW IV spreads. If you need more details on the history books
I use as spines, I can provide authors, etc. for those. With this time period, a lot of our reading
doesn’t really mirror the history subject under study (as it does with earlier
time periods). Instead, we are reading
from authors’ whose writings were basically contemporaneous with the time
period we’re studying in history.
For extra U.S. geography work,
do one page each day of the state section of Complete Book of Presidents and
States, starting with Alabama on page 141.
There are various reviews and quizzes at the end of this section, as
well.
Week 1
SOTW Ch. 1, Britain’s Empire: Victoria/ Sepoy Mutiny
History:
Read about Victorian England from Barnes and Noble World;
Complete Book of World History; How Children Lived; A Child’s Eye View of
History.
Read about India under the East India Company from Haywood’s
Historical Atlas (19th Century).
Literature:
Read from Tom Brown’s School Days, Hughes
At Her Majesty’s Request (very good)
Wolves of Willoughby Chase (good)
Watched video of A Little Princess, WB Family Entertainment (very
good)
Watched “Kim”, adapted from Rudyard Kipling’s book (Public
Media Video w/ Peter O’Toole)
Student reading:
Florence Nightingale, Lucy Lethbridge (Usborne Famous Lives)
Bullseye Step Into Classics: A Little Princess (Frances
Hodgson Burnett)
A Drummer Boy’s Battle: Florence Nightingale, Dave and Neta
Jackson
SOTW Ch. 2, West Against East: Japan Re-Opens/
Crimean War
History:
Read from Haywood’s Atlas regarding both Japan and Russia.
Read from Complete World and Usborne’s Last 500 Years re:
Japan.
Read excerpts from The Crimean War, Deborah Bachrach.
Read from Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun, Rhoda
Blumberg.
Lit:
Read from Russian Fairy Tales, Marie Ponsot (good)
Student reading:
Salt: A Russian Folktale, Jane Langton
The Month-Brothers: A Slavic Tale, Samuel Marshak
The Magic Goldfish: A Russian Folktale, Aleksandr Pushkin
Week 2
SOTW Ch. 3, British Invasions: Great Game/ Wandering
through Africa
History:
Haywood Atlas re: Africa
Read more on African Explorers and the scramble for Africa
from: Complete World; Last 500 Years;
Barnes and Noble World; Exploration and Discovery, Simon Adams.
Read more about areas in Africa Livingstone explored using
Mozambique, R. S. James.
Read from Zimbabwe, Enchantment of the World, Barbara and
Stillman Rogers.
Read from Botswana, Enchantment of the World, Jason Laure’.
Read from Faces re: life in the Kalahari, among the San.
Student reading:
Read from Exploring Africa, Hazel Martell and Gerald Wood
(re: Stanley, Livingstone, Caillie, Barth, Richardson, Burton, Speke, Grant,
etc.)
Buried in Ice: The Mystery of a Lost Arctic Expedition, Owen
Beattie, et al
SOTW Ch. 4, Resurrection and Rebellion: Italy/
Taiping Rebellion
History:
Read about Italian unification from Barnes and Noble World.
Read about the Taiping Rebellion in Complete World History
and Last 500 Years.
Lit.:
Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom, Paterson (I would hold off
on this until the teen years in doing it again - or pre-read, at least)
The Life and Times of Giuseppi Verdi, Jim Whiting
Week 3
Civil War, SOTW
Ch. 5
https://www.dkfindout.com/us/history/american-civil-war/ (numerous pages re: dif topics)
History:
Read from Barnes and Noble World; Complete World; Last 500
Years.
Read the Civil War section from The U.S. at War, June
English and Thomas Jones (Scholastic).
Read Shattered Dreams: The Story of Mary Todd Lincoln, David
R. Collins.
Watched: “Gods and Generals”, two part movie.
Read The Boys’ War, Jim Murphy (very good).
Looked through: Civil War Days, John Bowen.
Listened to part of eyewitness account by Frank Haskell of
The Battle of Gettysburg.
Used: Haywood’s Historical Atlas.
Read from Petersburg, Bruce Brager (Seiges that Changed the
World series)
Read from Brown Paper School U.S. Kids’ History: Book of the
American Civil War, Howard Egger-Bovet, et al.
Read from The Civil War: Ulysses S. Grant, David King
Read from The Civil War: Abraham Lincoln, Deborah Kops
Lit.:
Rifles for Watie, Harold Keith (Wonderful!)
The Yearling, film version
Student Reading:
Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln, Fritz
The Red Badge of Courage (Great Illus. Classics)
Little Women, Bullseye Step into Classics (adapted by Monica
Kulling)
Abraham Lincoln, D’Aulaires
The Value of Respect: The Story of Abraham Lincoln, Ann
Donegan Johnson
Yankee Blue or Rebel Gray? The Civil War Adventures of Sam
Shaw, Kate Connell
Mr. Lincoln’s Whiskers, Burke Davis
Week 4
Continuing Civil War readings from last week…….
Lit:
The Civil War, Marc Frey (pop-up, interactive book)
Student reading:
Bull Run, Paul Fleischman (Wonderful!)
He also read parts of Frey’s Civil War (above) on his own
The Journal of James Edmond Pease: A Civil War Union
Soldier, Virginia, 1863, Jim Murphy (My Name is America series) (My son really liked this book!)
Story of the Civil War Coloring
Book
Complete Book of Presidents and
States: page 41, re: Lincoln – and 71 (his wife)
Watch History Channel America,
The Story of Us
Week 5
SOTW Ch. 6, Two Tries for Freedom: Paraguay/ Canada
History:
Read from Last 500 Years; Barnes and Noble World; Complete
World re: struggles of all South America during the 1800’s.
Read from Cultures of the World: Paraguay, Leslie Jermyn.
Read from Paraguay in Pictures, Lerner Publications.
Read from The History of Nations: Canada, Nick Treanor,
editor.
Read from Canada, Star of the North, Shelley Sateren.
Read Canada: Globetrotters’ Club, Janice Hamilton.
Lit.:
The Call of the Wild, London (wonderful, of course…..)
Anne of Green Gables
Student reading:
The Last Safe House, Barbara Greenwood (re: underground
railroad into Canada)
Complete Book of Presidents:
page 42, re: Johnson
Begin Bite Size Geography,
reading a page or two each time. Look up
the continent you are reading about on your globe!
SOTW Ch. 7, Two Empires, Three Republics/Kingdom:
2&3/ Second Reich
History:
Read from encyclopedia regarding Napoleon III and Bismarck……
Student reading:
Complete Book of Presidents:
page 43, re: Grant
Continue
Bite Size Geography….
Week 6
SOTW Ch. 8, Becoming Modern: Rails, Zones and Bulbs/
Japan’s Meiji Restoration
History:
Read: Across America on an Emigrant Train, Jim Murphy (re:
Robert Louis Stevenson - good, but mature theme so you may want to pre-read).
Railroad Fever, Monica Halpern
Women of the Old West, Judith Alter
Read from Full Steam Ahead: The Race to Build a Continental
Railroad, Rhoda Blumberg.
Recapped historical period with readings from Complete World
and Last 500 Years.
Lit.:
The Sea Maidens of Japan, Lili Bell (simple)
Student reading:
A Picture Book of Thomas Alva Edison, David Adler
The Journey of Sean Sullivan, William Durbin (Dear America
series) (he liked this one, too…..)
Buffalo Bill, D’Aulaires
Play Wizard of Menlo Park game;
do Thomas Alva Edison wordsearches
A Girl Named Helen Keller
Complete Book of Presidents:
page 44, re: Hayes
Continue Bite Size Geography….
Week 7
SOTW Ch. 9, Two more Empires, 2 Rebellions: Dutch
East Indies/ Sick Man of Europe
History:
Haywood’s Atlas re: Ottoman Empire.
Listened to part of Krakatoa, Simon Winchester, on tape.
Read from Bulgaria in Pictures about the land and its people
up through independence in the late 1800’s from the Ottomans (Margaret J.
Goldstein).
Lit.:
Read two more Jack London short stories: Brown Wolf and That
Spot
White Fang, London
Student reading:
The 21 Balloons, William Pene Du Bois (very good)
Secret of the Andes, Ann Nolan Clark
Selections from a Child’s Garden
of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson (Dandelion Library) [From your set you have
at home that I got you to replace mine and Kendale’s….]
Complete
Book of Presidents: page 45, re: Garfield
Continue
Bite Size Geography….
SOTW Ch. 10, Canal to East and Very Dry Desert: War
of Pacific/ Suez Canal
History:
Read about the Pacific War from Bolivia in Pictures, Lerner
Publications.
Student reading:
Complete Book of Presidents:
page 46, re: Arthur
Continue
Bite Size Geography….
Week 8
SOTW Ch. 11, Far Parts of the World: Iron Outlaw/
Carving up Africa
History:
Read more about Australia from Complete World..
Read This Our Dark Country, The American Settlers of
Liberia, Catherine Reef.
Watched: Wonders of the African World: Black Kingdoms of the
Nile and The Swahili Coast, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; PBS film.
Read from Building the Suez Canal, S. C. Burchell (Horizon
Magazine).
Lit.:
The Shadows of the Ghadames, Joelle Stolz (good)
Student Reading:
Captains Courageous, Rudyard Kipling (Great Illus. Classics)
Complete Book of Presidents:
page 47, re: Cleveland
Continue Bite Size Geography….
SOTW Ch. 12, Unhappy Unions: Ireland’s Troubles/
Boers and British
History:
Read more on Ireland from Complete World.
Read Feed the Children First, Irish Memories of the Great
Hunger, editor Mary E. Lyons.
Read from Black Potatoes, Susan Bartoletti.
Lit.:
Nory Ryan’s Song, Patricia Reilly Giff (book on tape -
wonderful!)
Maggie’s Door, Giff
(book on tape - also good - sequel)
Student reading:
Complete Book of Presidents:
page 48, re: Harrison
Continue Bite Size Geography….
Week 9
SOTW Ch. 13, Old Fashioned Emperor and Red Sultan:
Brazil’s Rep/Abdul Hamid the Red
History:
Read from Faces: Armenia, Cobblestone.
Read from Armenia: Enchantment of the World, Martin Hintz
and from Cultures of the World, Armenia, and Sakina Dhilawala.
Listened to selection of Armenian music from “Armenia,
Armenia”, a Monitor Music of the World CD.
Read from Countries of the World, Brazil, Leslie Jermyn.
Student reading:
So Say the Little Monkeys, Nancy Van Laan (Brazilian
folklore)
Complete Book of Presidents:
page 49, re: McKinley
Continue Bite Size Geography….
SOTW Ch. 14, Two Czars and 2 Emperors: Next to last
Czar of Russia/ Ethiopia and Italy
Student reading:
The Lion’s Whiskers and Other Ethiopian Tales, Brent
Ashabranner, et al
Week 10
SOTW Ch. 15, Small Countries w/ Large Invaders:
Korea/ Spanish-American War
History:
Read more about the Spanish-American War from The U.S. at
War (Scholastic).
Read more about the war, Presidents, acquisition of
countries and related matters (General Dewey, et al) from The Young Reader’s
Companion to American History, John Garraty.
Read more on Roosevelt from Teddy Roosevelt, Rough Rider,
Louis Sabin and from Carry a Big Stick: The Uncommon Heroism of Theodore
Roosevelt (life portion only), George Grant.
Read Under the Royal Palms, A Childhood in Cuba, Alma Flor
Ada.
Lit.:
Typhoon, Joseph Conrad (Reader’s Digest Best Loved Books for
Young Readers)
Tales of a Korean Grandmother, Frances Carpenter (good)
Student reading:
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell (DK
Eyewitness Classics)
Korean Children’s Favorite Stories, Kim So-un
Complete Book of Presidents:
page 50, re: Roosevelt – and 72 (wife)
Complete Bite Size Geography if
you haven’t already. Review all 7
continents.
Week 11
SOTW Ch. 16, Expansion of the U.S.
History:
Read from Haywood’s Atlas; Last 500 Years; Barnes and Noble
World; Complete World.
Read You Wouldn’t Want to be an American Pioneer, A
Wilderness You’d Rather not Tame, Jacqueline Morley.
Mr. Marleys’ Main Street Confectionery, a History of Sweets
and Treats, John J. Loeper.
Daily Life in a Covered Wagon, Paul Erickson
Kids’ Discover: Wright Brothers.
Galloping Gertrude: By Motorcar in 1908, John J. Loeper.
If You Lived at the Time of the Great San Francisco
Earthquake, Ellen Levine
Student reading:
My Name is America: The Journal of Otto Peltonen, A Finnish
Immigrant, William Durbin
Complete Book of Presidents:
page 51, re: Taft
Start using U. S. Presidents
Flash Cards to review the Presidents from Lincoln onward that you have been
reading about this year….
Week 12
SOTW Ch. 17, Boxer Rebellion in China /
Russo-Japanese War
SOTW Ch. 18, Europe and countries East/ Persia/
Balkans
History:
Read from Last 500 Years; Complete World; Historical Atlas.
Read more on the Empress Cixi from Herstory: Women Who
Changed the World, editor Ruth Ashby, et al.
Read about the Russo-Japanese War battles from The Battle
100: The Stories Behind History’s Most Influential Battles, Michael Lee
Lanning.
Re: the Balkans, read pertinent portions of 19th
century histories from:
Czech Republic, Joann Milivojevic
Slovenia, Tamra Orr
Croatia, Martin Hintz
Life in War Torn Bosnia, Diane Yancey
Nations in Transition: Bulgaria, Steven Otfinoski
Student reading:
Sweet and Sour, Carol Kendall, et al
Continue reviewing Presidents
Flashcards….
Week 13
SOTW Ch. 19, China, Vietnam, and France
History:
Read more about this time period from Cultures of the World:
Vietnam, Audrey Seah.
Lit.:
Caddie Woodlawn, Carol Brink (good)
Ties that Bind, Ties that Break, Lensey Namioka
Rachel’s Journal, Marissa Moss (good)
In the Face of Danger, Jean Nixon
Student reading:
The Young Collector’s Illustrated Classics: Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Aesop’s Fables, Illustrated Junior Library, Fritz Kredel,
illustrator
Week 14
SOTW Ch. 20, Mexican Revolution / World War I
History:
Read more about WWI from Haywood’s Historical Atlas of the
20th Century; Complete World; Last 500 Years; Barnes and Noble
World; U.S. at War (Scholastic).
Read A Soldier’s Life, Andrew Robertshaw.
Pioneers of Science: Louis Pasteur, Nina Morgan
Clara Barton, Kathleen Deady
Read about WWI, the Treaty of Versailles, and Wilson’s 14
Points from A Young Reader’s Companion.
Read from American Women of Medicine, Russell Roberts, re:
Elizabeth Blackwell and Clara Barton and the Red Cross.
Listened to Clara Barton: founder of the American Red Cross,
Christin Ditchfield.
Lit.:
Poem: The Women who
went to the Field, Clara Barton
Student reading:
Elizabeth Blackwell, The First Woman Doctor, Francene Sabin
Louis Pasteur, Carol Greene (Rookie Biography)
Usborne Famous Lives:
Winston Churchill, Katie Daynes
In Flander’s Field, John McCrae (poem)
Complete Book of Presidents:
page 52, re: Wilson
Continue with Presidential
Flashcards….
War: What Kids Should Know
World War I and II Posters and
Stickers (just look at those for WWI)
Week 15
SOTW Ch. 21, Russian Revolution / End of World War I
History:
Read more on the Russian Revolution from Haywood’s 20th
Century Atlas; Complete World; Barnes and Noble World; Last 500 Years.
Lit.:
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame (good)
The Singing Tree, Kate Seredy (great)
Student reading:
The Great Migration, Jacob Lawrence
Ghost Canoe, Will Hobbs
Escape from the Ice, Shackleton and the Endurance, Connie
and Peter Roop
Titanic, Mark Dubowski
Titanic, Victoria Sherrow
Antarctic Adventure, Meredith Hooper
Complete Book of Presidents:
page 53, re: Harding – cont. w/ pres. Flashcards….
Week 16
SOTW Ch. 22, Easter Uprising in Ireland / Home Rule
for India
History:
Read more on above topics from Complete World and Barnes and
Noble World.
Read Places and People: The Indian Subcontinent, Anita
Ganeri.
Read The Panama Canal, Scott Ingram.
Lit.:
Daughter of the Mountains, Louise Rankin (terrific!)
Student reading:
Gandhi, Demi
Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon
Complete Book of Presidents: page
54, re: Coolidge – cont. w/ pres. Flashcards….
Week 17
SOTW Ch. 23, Peace of Versailles/ Rise of Stalin
SOTW Ch. 24, New King in Egypt / Rise of Fascism in
Europe
History:
Read more on Fascism from Last 500 Years; Barnes and Noble
World; Complete World.
Read from The Truth About History re: “The Real Reason why
the Lusitania Sank”; “The Comical Farce of the Russian Revolution”; “Typhoid
Mary: The Cook with the Touch of Death”; “Scott of the Antarctic Should have
Lived”; and “In the Deadly Care of Florence Nightingale”.
Lit.:
Thornton Burgess: The
Adventures of Grandfather Frog (always great!)
Student reading:
You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? Jean Fritz
Anderson’s Fairy Tales, Illustrator: Arthur Szyk
(Illustrated Junior Library)
The Day of Ahmed’s Secret
Week 18
SOTW Ch. 25, Chinese Revolution and the Long March
History:
Read more from B&N World; Last 500 Years; Complete World.
Read China’s Long March, Fritz.
Lit.:
The House of Sixty Fathers, Meindert Dejong (good)
Student reading:
Homesick, Jean Fritz (autobiographical)
Welcome to China
Week 19
SOTW Ch. 26, U.S. Stock Market Crash and Great
Depression
History:
Read more from Last 500 Years; B&N World; Complete
World.
Read Chapter 6 in Making of America.
Read from The Great Depression, R. G. Grant.
Lit.:
The Amazing Thinking Machine, Dennis Haseley
Esperanza Rising, Pam Munoz Ryan (good)
Student reading:
Bud, not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis
Flying Ace: The Story of Amelia Earhart, Angela Bull
Complete Book of Presidents:
page 55, re: Hoover – cont. w/ Pres. Flashcards….
Nat Geo. Kids: Amelia Earhart
Week 20
SOTW Ch. 27, Spanish Civil War / Rise of Hitler
Lit.:
My Friend, the Enemy, J. B. Cheaney (very good)
Student reading:
Toro! Toro! Michael Morpugo
Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie
(Dandelion) [From your book set that
used to be Kendale’s and mine]
Week 21
SOTW Ch. 28, WWII / Holocaust
History:
Read from Complete World; Last 500 Years; B&N World; 20th
Century Atlas.
Read Jesse Owens, Champion Athlete, Rick Rennert.
https://kids.kiddle.co/Dutch_resistance
Lit.:
Number the Stars, Lois Lowry (good)
Student reading:
Anne Frank: A Life in Hiding, Johanna Hurwitz
Usborne Famous Lives: Adolf Hitler, Katie Daynes
Twenty and Ten, Claire Bishop
Complete Book of Presidents: page
56, re: Roosevelt
Continue with Presidential
Flashcards….
Week 22
Continuing with WWII
History:
Life in the Hitler Youth, Jennifer Keeley
Hiding from the Nazis, David Adler
Auschwitz, the Story of a Nazi Death Camp, Clive Lawton
Hiroshima, the Story of the First Atom Bomb, Clive Lawton
Read from Nazi Germany: The Face of Tyranny, Ted Gottfried.
Lit.:
Anne Frank, Josephine Poole
Student reading:
Hiroshima, Laurence Yep
Mieko and the Fifth Treasure, Eleanor Coerr
Hitler’s Daughter, Jackie French (he liked this)
Revisit War Sticker book for
WWII stickers….
The Flag with Fifty-six Stars
The Story of Anne Frank
Children’s War packet – got this
at Churchill War Rooms in London
Week 23
SOTW Ch. 29, End of WWII
History:
Read from Historical Atlas.
Read The United Nations, Ann Armbruster.
Watched parts of “Jehovah’s Witnesses Stand Firm against
Nazi Assault” and “Purple Triangles” (JW’s had to wear these; like the Jewish
stars).
Read about WWII soldier from A Soldier’s Life, Andrew
Robertshaw.
Lit.:
Rhymes and Verses, Collected Poems for Young People, Walter
de la Mare
Student reading:
World War II Heroes, Ten True Tales, Allan Zullo (good)
The Gadget, Paul Zindel
Complete Book of Presidents:
page 57, re: Truman – cont. flashcards….
Week 24
SOTW Ch. 30, Partitioning of India / Palestine
History:
Read from Last 500 Years; Complete World; B&N World;
Historical Atlas.
Read from People at Odds: India and Pakistan, Heather
Wagner.
Read from People at Odds: Israel and the Arab World, Heather
Wagner.
Lit.:
Habibi, Naomi Shihab Nye (Palestinian-Americans who move
back to Israel in about 1970’s)
Charlotte’s
Web
Student reading:
Neela, Victory Song, Chitra Divakaruni
Memories of Survival, Esther Krinitz, et al
Shin’s Tricycle, Tatsuharu Kodama (this is a “simple”
picture book about the very complex subject of the bombing of Hiroshima - it’s
hard for me to read it; you should pre-read)
Complete
Book of Presidents: page 59, re: Kennedy – and 73 (Jacqui)
Continue
with Flashcards….
Week 25
SOTW Ch. 31, Suez Canal/Crisis / Berlin
Wall/Airlift/Iron Curtain
History:
Read from New Perspectives: The Berlin Wall, R. G. Grant.
Read from Historical Atlas.
Read Suez Canal, Modern Wonders of the World, Valerie
Bodden.
Lit.:
Peter Rabbit Stories, Thornton Burgess
The Classic Treasury of Children’s Poetry, Egan, editor
Student reading:
Pinocchio (Dandelion)
Alice in Wonderland (Dandelion)
[Both from your set you have at home]
Complete Book of Presidents:
page 60, re: Johnson
Cont. flashcards….
Week 26
SOTW Ch. 32, Africa after WWII / Communist China
History:
Read from Enchantment of the World: Swaziland.
Read Witness to History: Apartheid in South Africa, David
Downing.
Lit.:
Warriors, Warthogs, and Wisdom, Growing up in Africa, Lyall
Watson (excellent)
Journey to Jo’burg, Beverley Naidoo (good)
Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope, Beverly
Naidoo
Student reading:
Heidi (Dandelion) [From set you
have at home….]
Rookie Biography: Nelson Mandela, Karima Grant
Nelson Mandela and the Quest for Freedom, Brian Feinberg
Week 27
SOTW Ch. 33, Korean and Vietnam Wars
History:
Looked through info.
in The U.S. at War (Scholastic).
Read The Korean War, Carter Smith.
Read We the People: The Korean War, Andrew Santella.
Student reading:
Reader’s Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers: Great Cases of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle
Spies and Spying, Mike Potter (any
other books on spying – I might have sent you something from London…. MI6, Alan
Turing, etc.)
Complete Book of Presidents:
page 61, re: Nixon
Cont. flashcards….
Week 28
SOTW Ch. 34, Argentina under Peron / Freedom for
Belgian Congo
History:
Read from Lives of Extraordinary Women, Kathleen Krull, re: Eva
Peron.
Read about Eva Peron from Herstory, Ruth Ashby and Deborah
Ohrn.
Read A Walk through a Rain Forest, David and Mark Jenike
(Life in the Ituri Forest of Zaire - very good!)
Lit.:
Tuck-me-in-Tales, Margaret MacDonald, read stories from
Chile and Argentina
The Barefoot Book of Fairytales, Malachy Doyle, read story
from Argentina
Traveling to Tondo, a tale of the Nkundo of Zaire, Verna
Aardema
Rickie and Henri, Alan Marks (Jane Goodall Society)
Monkey for Sale, Janna Stanley
Monkey Business, Shirley Climo, read select stories from the
Congo region, and others….
Student reading:
The Amelia Bedelia Treasury, Peggy Parish
Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbit
Week 29
SOTW Ch. 35, Space Race/Cold War/ Cuban Missile
Crisis
History:
Read On the Front Line: Spying and the Cold War, Michael
Burgan.
Read The Cuban Missile Crisis, Fred Cook.
Read Cuba: After the Revolution, Bernard Wolf (good).
Lit.:
The Fire-eaters, David Almond (Cuban Missile Crisis, sorta…. Weird book….)
Student reading:
Horrible Harry Goes to the Moon, Suzy Kline
The Incredible Journey, Sheila Burnford
Footprints on the Moon, Alexandra Siy
I want to be an Astronaut, Maze Productions
Week 30
SOTW Ch. 36, Kennedy Assassination / Civil Rights
Movement
History:
Read more from: Last 500 Years; B&N World.
Read Chapter 7 of The Making of America.
Read Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Teresa Gelsi
Read If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King, Ellen
Levine.
Read From: The Assassination of MLK, Jr., Jacqueline Ching
(re: Ray and conspiracy theories; aftermath for movement).
Lit.:
Remember: The Journey to School Integration, Toni Morrison
Linda Brown, You are Not Alone, Joyce Carol Thomas
Student reading:
DK, Free at Last! The Story of Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Angela Bull
Great African Americans: Martin Luther King, Jr., Man of
Peace, Patricia and Fredrick McKissack
Rosa Parks, Muriel Dubois
A Mouse called Wolf, Dick King-Smith
Meet Martin Luther King, Jr., James T. Dekay
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., David A. Adler
Week 31
SOTW Ch. 37, Wars re: Israel / Vietnam War
History:
Read more from Last 500 Years; B&N World; Complete World;
Historical Atlas; continued Making of America, Ch. 7.
Read about the Vietnam War from The U.S. at War
(Scholastic).
Read African Americans in the Vietnam War, Diane Canwell and
Jon Sutherland.
Read Places and People, Southeast Asia, Anita Ganeri.
Read Voices From the Past, Vietnam War, Kathlyn and Martin
Gay.
Read from Israel, An Illustrated History, Daniel Schroeter.
Lit.:
Water Buffalo Days, Huynh Quang Nhuong
Student reading:
Patrol, an American Soldier in Vietnam, Walter Dean Myers
The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam, Huynh Quang
Nhuong
Complete Book of Presidents:
page 62, re: Ford
Cont. flashcards….
Week 32
SOTW Ch. 38, End of Cold War Conflicts / Rise of
Terrorism
History:
Read Ch. 8, Making of America.
Read from Enchantment of the World, Afghanistan, re: its
attempted takeover by Russia and events since.
Read Chapter on Brezhnev Era from The Rise and fall of the
Soviet Union, John Matthews.
Read Hamas: Palestinian Terrorists, Maxine Rosaler (good).
Lit.:
The Breadwinner, Deborah Ellis (good)
Parvana’s Journey, Deborah Ellis (both are excellent; hard
to read; sad)
Student reading:
Afghanistan, Bob Italia
Afghanistan, Many Cultures, One World, Barbara Knox
Complete Book of Presidents:
page 63, re: Carter
Cont. flashcards….
Week 33
SOTW Ch. 39, India / Iraq
History:
Read from Cultures of the World: Iraq, Susan Hassig, et al
re: independence in 1932; military coups; Iran-Iraq War; Gulf Wars; terrorism
and government.
Read Indira Gandhi, Trevor Fishlock.
Student reading:
Great Illustrated Classics: The War of the Worlds, H. G.
Wells
Week 34
SOTW Ch. 40, Nuclear Power / Chernobyl / Three Mile
Island / Reagan
History:
Read Ronald Reagan: From Silver Screen to Oval Office, Time
for Kids, editor Denise Patrick.
Read The Picture Life of Ronald Reagan, Don Lawson.
Read The Chernobyl Catastrophe, Graham Rickard.
Read from Last 500 Years; B&N World; Complete World;
Historical Atlas.
Student reading:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain, Reader’s Digest
Best-loved Books for Young Readers
Complete Book of Presidents:
page 64, re: Reagan
Cont. flashcards
Week 35
SOTW Ch. 41, Cultural Revolution in China / End of
Communism in Russia
History:
Read more on Afghani people and culture from Enchantment of
the World: Afghanistan.
Red Land, Yellow River, Ange Zhang (great - very powerful)
Read from Historical Atlas re: end of communism, etc.
Student reading:
Swiss Family Robinson, Illustrated Junior Library
Complete Book of Presidents:
page 65, re: Bush, Sr. – page 78 match pres to their wars….
Cont. flashcards….
Week 36
SOTW Ch. 42, End of 20th Century and
issues
I just can’t stand all the
gushing stuff on Obama, sorry….
https://kids.kiddle.co/Space_Exploration_Technologies_Corporation
History:
Read from B&N World; Complete World; Last 500 Years re:
end of 20th century and issues: computer tech, satellites,
International Space Station, UN policing of the world, Saddam Hussein, first
Gulf War, etc.
Read: Persian Gulf War, Kathlyn and Martin Gay.
Read Meltdown: A Race against Nuclear Disaster at Three Mile
Island, A Reporter’s Story, Wilborn Hampton (includes section on Chernobyl).
Student reading:
Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents: Ronald Reagan, Mike
Venezia
Complete Book of Presidents:
page 66-67, re: Clinton and Bush (don’t have any more….) – page 81: pres and
important events…. Cont. flashcards….
Regena
