Fourth Grade History and Literature
Modern World
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).
Lit.:
Read from Tom Brown’s School Days, Hughes
At Her Majesty’s Request
Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Watched video of A Little Princess, WB Family Entertainment
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
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 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
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)
Shattered Dreams: The Story of Mary Todd Lincoln, David R. Collins
Watched “Gods and Generals”, two part movie
The Boys’ War, Jim Murphy
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
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
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)
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
Student reading:
The Last Safe House, Barbara Greenwood (re: underground railroad into Canada)
SOTW Ch. 7, Two Empires, Three Republics/Kingdom: 2&3/ Second Reich
History:
Read from encyclopedia regarding Napoleon III and Bismarck as our library had no books on either of them……
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)
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
Secret of the Andes, Ann Nolan Clark
Selections from a Child’s Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson (Dandelion Library)
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
Week 8
SOTW Ch. 11, Far Parts of the World: Iron Outlaw/ Carving up Africa
History:
Read more about Australia from Complete World
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
Student Reading:
Captains Courageous, Rudyard Kipling (Great Illus. Classics)
SOTW Ch. 12, Unhappy Unions: Ireland’s Troubles/ Boers and British
History:
Read more on Ireland from Complete World
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
Maggie’s Door, Giff - book on tape
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, 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)
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
Under the Royal Palms, A Childhood in Cuba, Alma Flor Ada
Lit.:
Typhoon, Joseph Conrad (Reader’s Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers)
Student reading:
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell (DK Eyewitness Classics)
Korean Children’s Favorite Stories, Kim So-un
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.
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
Week 12
SOTW Ch. 17, Boxer Rebellion in China / Russo-Japanese WarSOTW 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’sMost 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
Lit.:
Tales of a Korean Grandmother, Frances Carpenter
Student reading:
Sweet and Sour, Carol Kendall, et al
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
Ties that Bind, Ties that Break, Lensey Namioka
Rachel’s Journal, Marissa Moss
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).
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: Winsto Churchill, Katie Daynes
In Flander’s Field, John McCrae (poem)
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
The Singing Tree, Kate Seredy
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
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
Places and People: The Indian Subcontinent, Anita Ganeri
The Panama Canal, Scott Ingram
Lit.:
Daughter of the Mountains, Louise Rankin
Student reading:
Gandhi, Demi
Week 17
SOTW Ch. 23, Peace of Versailles/ Rise of StalinSOTW 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.
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
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
China’s Long March, Fritz
Lit.:
The House of Sixty Fathers, Meindert Dejong
Student reading:
Homesick, Jean Fritz (autobiographical)
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.
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
Student reading:
Bud, not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis
Flying Ace: The Story of Amelia Earhart, Angela Bull
Week 20
SOTW Ch. 27, Spanish Civil War / Rise of Hitler
Lit.:
My Friend, the Enemy, J. B. Cheaney
Student reading:
Toro! Toro! Michael Morpugo
Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie (Dandelion)
Week 21
SOTW Ch. 28, WWII / Holocaust
History:
Read from Complete World; Last 500 Years; B&N World; 20th Century Atlas.
Jesse Owens, Champion Athlete, Rick Rennert
Lit.:
Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
Student reading:
Anne Frank: A Life in Hiding, Johanna Hurwitz
Usborne Famous Lives: Adolf Hitler, Katie Daynes
Twenty and Ten, Claire Bishop
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
Week 23
SOTW Ch. 29, End of WWII
History:
Read from Historical Atlas
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
The Gadget, Paul Zindel
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)
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)
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
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)
Week 26
SOTW Ch. 32, Africa After WWII / Communist China
History:
Read from Enchantment of the World: Swaziland
Witness to History: Apartheid in South Africa, David Downing
Lit.:
Warriors, Warthogs, and Wisdom, Growing up in Africa, Lyall Watson
Journey to Jo’burg, Beverley Naidoo
Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope, Beverly Naidoo
Student reading:
Heidi (Dandelion)
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).
The Korean War, Carter Smith.
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
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
A Walk through a Rain Forest, David and Mark Jenike (Life in the Ituri Forest of Zaire)
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:
On the Front Line: Spying and the Cold War, Michael Burgan
The Cuban Missile Crisis, Fred Cook
Cuba: After the Revolution, Bernard Wolf
Lit.:
The Fire-eaters, David Almond (Cuban Missile Crisis, sorta…..)
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
Chapter 7 of The Making of America
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Teresa Gelsi
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)
African Americans in the Vietnam War, Diane Canwell and Jon Sutherland
Places and People, Southeast Asia, Anita Ganeri
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
Week 32
SOTW Ch. 38, End of Cold War Conflicts / Rise of Terrorism
History:
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
Hamas: Palestinian Terrorists, Maxine Rosaler
Lit.:
The Breadwinner, Deborah Ellis
Parvana’s Journey, Deborah Ellis
Student reading:
Afghanistan, Bob Italia
Afghanistan, Many Cultures, One World, Barbara Knox
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.
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:
Ronald Reagan: From Silver Screen to Oval Office, Time for Kids, editor Denise Patrick
The Picture Life of Ronald Reagan, Don Lawson
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
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
Read from Historical Atlas re: end of communism, etc.
Student reading:
Swiss Family Robinson, Illustrated Junior Library
Week 36
SOTW Ch. 42, End of 20th Century and issues
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.
Persian Gulf War, Kathlyn and Martin Gay
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
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